Gordon actually takes the story of Milo as being in the backgorund of the transitus, as perhaps you know. I don't know whether or not Eleusinain initaties did...
This orignianted as a private e-mail, but I thought the anwer might be of general interst. It comes into English through Latin as imaginatin--although the...
... No, I hadn't heard that. ... Ah! "A dozen or so" sounds more possible. (But I hope the bull's legs were tied -- they have a mean kick.) For those who...
Bradley, Thanks for clearing up my mistake - I had confused "Epoptai" with "Ephebe"; re. your clarification: "I don't know whether or not Eleusinain initaties...
I posted on this subject last week but for some reason it didn't get through. My point was that the Sanskrit word for "class" (three of the four states which...
Peter Clark
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May 2, 2004 1:52 pm
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Hi, I saw this in a old copy of 'Wizard and whips the worlds first pagan comic'. it was a UK publication (1995), its pretty funny. It also has a joke ... ...
... Iamblichus' De Anima Text, Translation, and Commentary ISBN 90 04 12510 8 John F. Finamore and John M. Dillon Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus...
If you ahd followed the link I provided you would have seen the information on this book, and the even more useful De Mysteriis. I beleive Finnamore is at...
In his novel Enemy of God, Bernard Cornwell makes the assertion that Mithras was born in a cave to a mortal woman, grew to be a healer and teacher, and had...
I wonder if you are aware that Auger is the name of the roman speciaist in reading divination from the livers of sacrificed animals? I am unfmailar with this...
Josh, There is a archive for this list you can search that contains lengthy discussions about the Mithra-Xtian connection; Hopefully your innocent question...
Hi, Bernard Cornwell's three books (winter king trilogy) is about king Arthur(who in the book is a Mithras initiate) do make excellent reading, they are works...
Gordon argues strongly for the rejection of femininity in the rock birth, but I wonder. petra is of course feminine in gender, and I don't know why Mithras...
... Irrelevant - this is a scholarly title, not cult language (AFAIK). ... of the maternal earth from divine insemination Burkert (and this is hardly his area...
Aion, I congratulate you on helping to perpetuate a sensible, well-argued discussion based on evidence. Are you famialir with ps.Plut. De Fluviis? This...
Hi, I guess in favour of no virgin mother idea there is also the following: "In the old, old times there was a king (The guardian of the throne of wisdom) who...
Musings from a friend RE Malkhos' musings on phantatikon: "The writer draws too close a connection between _phantastikon_ and _okhe^ma_. His generalization,...
... One misleading term and one incorrect statement. Several of the theogonies have Saturn imprisoned by "the strongest fetter, Sleep", and exiled to the...
... Yet there are precedents for rock births that do _not_ involve somebody jacking off; Sun Wu Kung, for instance, was born of an egg-shaped rock that had...
Bradley, Re. ps.Plut. De Fluviis This is another late text and describes an act not paralleled in the Mithraic corpus. BTW: The Armenian scholar James Russell...
Aiieeeeeee! You've exposed my terrible habit of oversimplifiny in e-mail! lshaw60956@... wrote: Musings from a friend RE Malkhos' musings on phantatikon:...
I also disagree vehemently with any 'Amenian' theory. However, don't overlook that I said the de fluviis might contian refernce to secret theological doctrines...
At 05:50 AM 4/29/2004, you wrote: Snipped ... In my own limited reading, the heart chakra, as seen from a Mithraic or Magian perspective, has two very...
Hi Barry, "In my own limited reading, the heart chakra, as seen from a Mithraic or Magian perspective, has two very interesting qualities. ,snip>" By Mithraic...
At 05:05 AM 4/29/2004, you wrote: Ssnipped ... Oh! Were you there? ... The Mithraic Tableaus in their original form (accretion eliminated) were _entirely_...
As far as "tedious" goes: this embarrassing, and I daresay indulgent, war of words, is the definition of tedium. I cannot speak for the rest of the list...
Hi, Peter! Am also sending this to the list. Since I am not, alas, a computer geek (sigghhh!), maybe the other moderators, who are, can help out here. It may...
J. T. Sibley
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May 6, 2004 4:11 am
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... "It is not necessary to _be_ Caesar in order to understand Caesar", as Mommsen said. In this case I doubt that the statement is correct -- the scholars of...
Thank you for this letter, Dick. It is sage. ... The works of Cosmas Indicopleustes and the novel by St. John of Damascus on the life of Barlaam and Ioasaph,...
This is what one might expect, but I find that the Greeks were in fact terribly unintersted in foreign philosophy. Every Greek description of Indian Philosophy...
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