April 13, 2013
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Patterns of Beliefs
¹Persian and Palestine Religion
Few historians agree on the origins of Christianity in the first century or its triumph in the fourth century. It was under the kind rule of Persia that the Hebrews restored their kingdom and wrote their bible. The later books of the Old Testament are practically Persian literature not to mention Babylon, Egypt, and Greece. The Persians came from the Hindu-Persian branch of the Aryan family, from the region of Asia Minor; until they moved to the Mesopotamian plain. Their holy book, the Zend Avesta or Law Commentaries dictated their way of life – Manicheanism – through priests andAnimism (the animation of nature spirits). Nature religion developed into ethical religions. The Hebrew was hardly civilized when they wandered over the desert from Mesopotamia to the confines of Syria. There is no historical trace of any body of Hebrews in Egypt. The Christian church seems to have borrowed rites and doctrines from the Roman Mithraism. ²
Central America
The Mayan scare or “end of the world” has passed the world by without incident. There was a review of the Indian tribe and the space – alien connection” – still in debate. The Mayans were reviewed by historians without mention of their beliefs – beyond the issue at hand. What about their religions? Were they similar to other cultures on the planet till evolving? Hard facts are hard to obtain but the mind of mankind was still a slave before their better. Geographical isolation of their country preserves many a culture from evolutionary change. Their war-calendar was based on the cycle of Venus. Maya was the treasurer’s name in Egypt under King Tut. This fact alone questions the pilgrimage of the pre-Columbian Indians over Alaska from Asia.. Their culture remains at five to ten thousand years old at the close of the ice-age. Their temples remain in Tcotihuacan, Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Mitla, and the pyramids of Cholula and Cuernavaca. They are unique and differ greatly from Egyptian pyramids with radically different hieroglyphics. The Mayans were the first branch of the North, Central and South American Indian race to become civilized. The Mayans were no older than the first century BC. with their cities evolving from the fifth to thirteenth centuries. Their head priests (Kukulcan) were right up there with the Kings. The Mayan, Toltec and Aztec Indians with their primitive early religions bear considerable resemblance in a common body of beliefs – Animism. Thanks to the Spaniards, the Aztec Indian evolved their religion to Christian. If Christian is the new way of indifference to all worldly beliefs being questioned, what will now become of mankind? ²
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Ancient Summary
This sums up tens of thousands of years of one of the most curious and fascinating excursions of the human mind. This study also brings us to a higher threshold of religious development which we now focus on. Ergonomics shows the progress of the human mind was gradual, natural and slow. There is no leap forward caused by “commandments’ amidst thunder and lightning”, or sacred truth scratch by “finger-of -fire” on the minds of any one prophet. No interference from a superhuman power. Any impulse or revelation from the universe has yet to be received. This diplomatic vagueness runs unbroken through the ages. The priests who wrote the sacred books have to show that their order and ceremonies were instituted at the very beginning of civilization. The action of their gods must be seen throughout being human nature. The mass of the people (one-fourth of the human race) are kept in isolated superstition. They believe their shadow or shade survives death and their world is full of spirits. The days of its profound, prehistoric ignorance is known as “Animism “- or the animation of nature. Primitive Buddha had no more religion than Kong-fu-tse. Later, the Greek philosophers Aristotle, student of Plato; student of Socrates, dealt with this to the degree of authority. Ethical & natural religions evolved independently. Nature spirits are not interested in mankind’s social conduct. All events recorded became authentic, genuine and undeniable history. The mystery of the Crete language remains undecipherable.to this day. Crete (one of the three intelligent cultures established after the ice-age) became home to the first true Greek civilization in the second millenium before the birth of Christ. ³
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Sources:
¹ British Fantasy Pics
² “The World’s Great Religions” by J. McCabe, 1926.
³ “The Pocket Essential of Ancient Greece ” by M. Paine, 2002
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