-Caveat Lector-
Encoded in all Indo-European mythologies is an apocalyptic battle between
opposing divine armies. In India (Mahabharata) and Rome (Sabine War), the
battle is semi-euhemerized into legendary history. The Greek version pits
the Olympians against the Titans; the Irish counterpart is the Second Battle
of Mag Tuiredh (Moytura) between the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fomoire.
Perhaps the most "apocalyptic" version, in the sense in which that term is
used now, is the Norse Ragnarök, with the Æsir fighting against assorted
jötunn (giants), traitors (Loki), and monsters (the Fenris wolf and the
Midgard Serpent, both Loki's offspring), in a conflict that ushers in the
destruction of the world by fire and ice and the birth of a new world with a
new generation of gods. The clearest sense of conspiracy is found among the
perennially paranoid Iranians, with their stark division of celestial beings
into good and bad, white and black, light and darkness, truth and lie; the
Zarathustran reform depersonalized many of the old Iranian deities, turned
them into demons, and aligned them squarely with Ahriman, the prototype of
the Christian "Devil" and archfoe of the champion of Light, Ormazd
(Ahura-Mazda). One wonders just what might be found by a really thorough
archaeological examination of the region around the Caspian Sea now believed
to be the Indo-European homeland...or perhaps *under* the Caspian Sea...
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> From: Das GOAT [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> -Caveat Lector-
<snip>
> Important to keep in mind, however, that it is, as I say, only ONE of
> those
> hypotheses,
> and it should be taken for granted that it will NOT be accorded any
> "privileged" status
> alongside OTHER hypotheses, which, please note, may ALSO be of a
> "theological" or
> philosophical nature -- for example, Indo-Iranian Dualism (a major source
> for
> what later
> turned up in the Old Testament, according to scholars) and its offshoot,
> Gnosticism, (which played a major role in shaping several "orthodox"
> beliefs
> in early Christianity),
> or Western Pythagorean-Platonism and Neoplatonism (one basis for
> "Hermeticism")
> and its Eastern equivalent in Kabbalah -- or even the "mythologies" (more
> accurately "religions") of the Sumerians, non-Israelite Semites,
> Indo-Europeans -- who, by the way, ALSO refer to something like an
> Arch-Conspirator and a cosmic Coup d'Etat -- e.g., in the Greek story of
> Prometheus and in the Babylonian account of "Creation."
<snip>
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