i want to know mythological truth
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Who Is Behind All Evil?  \n\nIn this series: \nAre Evil Forces at Work? \nSatan—Myth or Sinister Reality? \n\nRelated topics: \nDoes the Devil Make Us Sick? \nHas Evil Won? \nWho Really Rules the World? \n   \n\nSatan—Myth or Sinister Reality?\nTHE origin of evil has intrigued thinkers from earliest times. A Dictionary of the Bible, by James Hastings, states: "At the dawn of human consciousness man found himself confronted by forces which he was unable to control, and which exercised a baleful or destructive influence." The same reference work also says: "Early mankind instinctively sought for causes, and interpreted the forces and other manifestations of nature as personal."\n\nAccording to historians, belief in demon gods and evil spirits can be traced back to the earliest history of Mesopotamia. The ancient Babylonians believed that the underworld, or "land of no return," was presided over by Nergal, a violent divinity known as "the one who burns." They also feared demons, whom they tried to appease by means of magic incantations. In Egyptian mythology, Set was the god of evil, "represented as having the features of a fantastic beast with a thin, curved snout, straight, square-cut ears and a stiff forked tail."— Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology.\n\nAlthough the Greeks and the Romans had benevolent and malevolent divinities, they had no predominant evil god. Their philosophers taught the existence of two opposing principles. For Empedocles, they were Love and Discord. For Plato, the world had two "Souls," one causing good and the other evil. As Georges Minois states in his book Le Diable (The Devil), "classical [Greco-Roman] pagan religion knew of no Devil."\n\nIn Iran, Zoroastrianism taught that the supreme divinity Ahura Mazda, or Ormazd, created Angra Mainyu, or Ahriman, who chose to do evil and thus became the Destructive Spirit, or Destroyer.\n\nIn Judaism, there was a simple presentation of Satan as God's Adversary who brought about sin. But after many centuries, that became tainted with pagan ideas. The Encyclopaedia Judaica states: "A great change had taken place . . . by the last centuries B.C.E. In this period the [Jewish] religion . . . took on many traits of a dualistic system in which God and the forces of good and truth were opposed in heaven and on earth by powerful forces of evil and deceit. This seems to have been under the influence of Persian religion." The Concise Jewish Encyclopedia declares: "Protection against d[emons] was afforded by observance of the commandments and by the use of amulets."\n\n The Babylonians believed in Nergal (far left), a violent divinity; Plato (left) believed in the existence of two opposing "Souls" \nApostate Christian TheologyEven as Judaism adopted non-Biblical concepts concerning Satan and the demons, apostate Christians elaborated on unscriptural ideas. The Anchor Bible Dictionary states: "One of the more extreme of ancient theological ideas is that God redeemed his people by paying Satan for their release." This idea was propounded by Irenaeus (second century C.E.). It was further developed by Origen (third century C.E.), who claimed that "the devil had acquired a legal claim on men" and who regarded "the death of Christ . . . as a ransom paid to the devil."— History of Dogma, by Adolf Harnack.\n\nTo quote The Catholic Encyclopedia, "for about a thousand years [the idea that the ransom was paid to the Devil] played a conspicuous part in the history of theology," and it remained a part of church belief. Other Church Fathers, including Augustine (fourth-fifth centuries C.E.), adopted the idea that the ransom was paid to Satan. Finally, by the 12th century C.E., Catholic theologians Anselm and Abelard came to the conclusion that Christ's sacrifice was offered not to Satan but to God.\n   \nIrenaeus, Origen, and Augustin
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Sounds interesting. Most cyrptids are probably legends but I think a few are real creatures. Would be very intersted in exploring which were which.
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www.bored.com\nhttp://www.mythologic.net/end.html\nwww.popcap.com
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The Greek Creation Myth
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Stranger, the problem as I see it is that you do not understand the concept of myth.  You have no fundamental knowledge of what myth is trying to achieve.  So, let me educate you.  Let me give you a little something from Joseph Campbell, who is perhaps the world's foremost scholar of mythology. Among his many books are The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks Of God, Myths To Live By, and Historical Atlas Of World Mythology.  The question and quote are taken from an interview given by Joseph Campbell in the 1980s.\n\n\n"Question - What does myth do for us? Why is it so important?\n\nAnswer, by Joseph Campbell - It puts you in touch with a plane of reference that goes past your mind and into your very being, into your very gut. The ultimate mystery of being and non-being transcends all categories of knowledge and thought. Yet that which transcends all talk is the very essence of your own being, so you're resting on it and you know it. The function of mythological symbols is to give you a sense of "Aha! Yes. I know what it is, it's myself." This is what it's all about, and then you feel a kind of centering, centering, centering all the time. And whatever you do can be discussed in relationship to this ground of truth. Though to talk about it as truth is a little bit deceptive because when we think of truth we think of something that can be conceptualized. It goes past that."\n\n\nDoes this help you to understand that there is MORE than the literal, in mythology?  In fact, myth challenges us to look past the imagery in order to find the deeper meaning.\n\nGood luck on our journey.
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mythological figure created by people to avoid facing facts
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Do you understand that this is the SCIENCE section? Where we deal in facts?\n\nDo you understand that you are discussing MYTHOLOGY/FANTASY? That this is has no factual basis?\n\nTry posting this over in the RELIGION or PHILOSOPHy or ARTS secton. You will get a better reposnse.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Ancient_Egyptian_Gods\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Ancient+Egyptian+Gods&btnG=Search+Images\n\nThis one you might like better\nhttp://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html
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As far as I know they only had myths that were first passed on as oral traditions and then later written down. Specific temples might have had writings pertaining to the god who the temple belonged to but I can't see too much of that surviving to present day.
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Look at it from all perspectives, not just the Holy blood holy Grail side of it. Get Holy Blood Holy Grail. Based on the Dead Sea Scrolls. \n\nThis website has a weath of information of the other perspective, disproving that it isnt true.(against the Di Vincicode and The Dead Sea Scrolls)
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I hope these sites help you\n\nhttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/myth.htm\n\nhttp://www.temple.edu/classics/oedipus.html
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http://www.myths.com/pub/myths/myth.html\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/omw/omw17.htm\nhttp://www.fortunecity.com/campus/middleschool/732/ca.html\nhttp://search.1millionpapers.com/cgi-bin/query?mss=1millionpapers&q=Central+American&source=overturehttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/\nhttp://www.messagenet.com/myths/
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yes ,just investigate how many cultures(all of them)have reptiles at the legends of their\nbeginnings.\nMayan.Olmec,aboriginee,African,Egyptian.Babylonian Amazonian and the Bible´s serpents.Chinese and English dragons\n\nand on top of that check in how many countries are stories with entrances to the subteranean worlds ,which also have legends of people being eaten by reptilian races .\nIn England,India;Mexico,France,Africa,America (many in NewYork,Nevada,Arizona)All of these countries  have cave entrances(many are blocked up)where there are stories of people going in and never coming back.\n\njust to many coincidental stories with the same content from all over the globe.\n\nthe other thing is that all royal families have rumors of satanism,and all are related ,and many people related to them reapear with different names, but in positions of power ,such as dictators ,and presidents,\n\ninbreeding to preserve the blood lines has been no secret over the centuries ,and people even reproduced, with their mother or sisters ,as not to leave their precious bloodline.\n\n43 presidents of the united states are traced back to the same source in France.\ntoo much of a coincidence.\nthe people in power in Mexico have been in power since Cortez,and can be directly traced back to the romans Salinus.\n\nHitler was an iligitimate son of a rothchild,so was Kissinger ,and both clintons into the same family via rockefeller.\n\nand by coincidence all belonged to satanic cults on both sides of the ocean ,that were started by Alistor Crowley  ,another coincidence.\n\ncheck ancient Indian(India)religious writings that talk directly about serpant people that were flying and fighting with energy rays Ananuki\n\nin prebabylonian days were the lemurians ,who founded the city of Mu and Ur.the oldest surviving ruins of past civilisations.\n\nthe list goes on and this is just the surface
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I think you're referring to Norse mythology, which was sort of a religion.  Here's a link to give you a good bit of info.
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You should rent the movie "Stargate" if you haven't already.  They have an interesting point about the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian.  Anyway, I think you are going in the right direction.  I think Chritianity stemmed from Osirus and Isis.  Also remember that one pharoah who caused a ruckus by claiming there was only one god, instead of multiple gods.  He was one of the first monotheists.  Wasn't he Amun-Ra?  Start your religion. Good luck.
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nice quote from our pal trent reznor. good news though. it already is considered mythology by intellectual circles. go to any of your good universities and you will find classes- Christian Mythology 101!
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Are you reading the mythology about the Minotaur or whatever? MYTHOLOGY!!!!!!!! No it is not possible???? Listen to MEG ^there.