My wife and I recently had a collection of translations published, LOVE'S ALCHEMY: POEMS FROM THE SUFI TRADITION. The book contains about 170 translations, ...
...from my recent trip to Turkey: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/phaeded216/my_photos Olympos (in ancient Lycia/Pamphylia) is under the folder "Chimera"...
David, Where is your book available? And I wish you would have included a CD in the book like I suggested! The music and singing of the songs adds a...
Actually, I see no reason why the pirates, being of Iranian extraction, could not have worshipped Mithras in the ordinary Zoroastrian way, and that Plutarch...
Harran was the home of the "Sabians", too, in the later Roman Empire and the early Islamic Empire. They worshipped the planets, claimed Hermes Trismegistus as...
Here are some observations on Sabian Harran from a forthcoming review of mine. As I recall Talon's article seemed reasonably sound, but its importance should...
Talon's article is mostly about Damascius the philosopher, and how he probably got his outline of the Babylonian Creation story from the _Chaldaean Oracles_....
I have to agree with Bradley's source that minimizes the Sabian cult. There's about as much evidence for Mithras-worshipping pirates as there is for...
Dear all The other night there was a celebration of Beltain at the reconstructed Butser Iron age village in Hampshire UK. I have put up two folders of pictures...
The difference is that Harran is an older-than-usual Mesopotamian city, and planet worship was a traditional generalized Meso. activity. I don't know much...
Lester, Your point is taken...but if they they found Nabonidus stelae in the Harran "Great Mosque" then why couldn't they find even later artifacts? Per my...
... ************************************* I don't know why the excavations didn't continue. What was done was just the beginning of a major expedition that...
Lester, Interesting that you should mention Edessa's Bardaisan (whose hybrid occult philosophy featured the planets) - I wonder if he isn't responsible for...
Dear John, ... Again, what's surprising that people in the city of the Moon-god would revere the other planets? I see nothing implausible about the story that...
1. Everyone in antiquity worshipped the planets: Zeus/Jupiter, Hermes/Mercury, etc. 2. The Mandaeans are probably the group the Koran means to identify by the ...
Hi, FYi there is an interesting description of Mehr Izad (Yazata Mithra) in 'The Yaresan, a sociological, historical and religio-historical study of a kurdish...
... Indeed. But Mesopotamians associated their deities with stars and planets rather strongly from early on. That's why the determinative for deity in ...
Nabarz, Here's an Achaemenid relief of perhaps just such a ritual, showing both a bull and a sheep: http://daskyleion.tripod.com/ The interesting thing about...
Whoa! Did ya notice those sad expressions on that bull & the Ram/(sheep)? *Ang-EL* ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
Lester, "The bowls all come from excavations in Nippur, early 20th century. Archaeological technique was not highly developed in those days, so they didn't...
"Maximalism" is a word I've usually read from "minimalist" biblical scholars (also called the Copenhagen School). It seems to be a sort of slur or parody of...
Even the words of Jesus in Q that seem to be reinterpretation of an older strata of sayings in Thomas? But this isn't Mithras related. But if Lemche is right,...
... say "YES!" He is interested in evangelical apologetics. This explains a peculiar ideological stance that Yamauchi took in his PERSIA AND THE BIBLE. He...
now this is only vaguely mithraic, perhaps relating to ideas available to mithraists along the rhine and danube, but our motley crew have been looking at the...
This is not exactly Mithraic, but it ought to interest some of us anyway. Lester Ness ... From: <owner-bmr-l@...> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 22:17 ...
... Archaeological technique was not highly developed in those days, so they didn't keep detailed records of exactly where they were found, just Sasanian ...
Incantation bowls are a specifically Jewish practice--their presence in Mandaean and Manichaean culture is no doubt derived from those religions' filiation...
... Thomas used Q, not vice versa. Even my most radically anti-christian NT scholar friend assures me of this; also that Thomas is secondary to the Canonical...
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