Julian


Righty then - because your insane illogical Hebrew creation myth makes so much more sense than Heliopolitan Cosmogony and the Egytian Ennead.


Still think the Greek one's better.
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_16.html

In the beginning there was an empty darkness. The only thing in this void was Nyx, a bird with black wings. With the wind she laid a golden egg and for ages she sat upon this egg. Finally life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros, the god of love. One half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the sky Uranus and the Earth he named Gaia. Then Eros made them fall in love.


Uranus and Gaia had many children together and eventually they had grandchildren. Some of their children become afraid of the power of their children. Kronus, in an effort to protect himself, swallowed his children when they were still infants. However, his wife Rhea hid their youngest child. She gave him a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he swallowed, thinking it was his son.

Once the child, Zeus, had reached manhood his mother instructed him on how to trick his father to give up his brothers and sisters. Once this was accomplished the children fought a mighty war against their father. After much fighting the younger generation won. With Zeus as their leader, they began to furnish Gaia with life and Uranus with stars.

Soon the Earth lacked only two things: man and animals. Zeus summoned his sons Prometheus (fore-thought) and Epimetheus (after-thought). He told them to go to Earth and create men and animals and give them each a gift.

Prometheus set to work forming men in the image of the gods and Epimetheus worked on the animals. As Epimetheus worked he gave each animal he created one of the gifts. After Epimetheus had completed his work Prometheus finally finished making men. However when he went to see what gift to give man Epimetheus shamefacedly informed him that he had foolishly used all the gifts.

Distressed, Prometheus decided he had to give man fire, even though gods were the only ones meant to have access to it. As the sun god rode out into the world the next morning Prometheus took some of the fire and brought it back to man. He taught his creation how to take care of it and then left them.

When Zeus discovered Prometheus' deed he became furious. He ordered his son to be chained to a mountain and for a vulture to peck out his liver every day till eternity. Then he began to devise a punishment for mankind. Another of his sons created a woman of great beauty, Pandora. Each of the gods gave her a gift. Zeus' present was curiosity and a box which he ordered her never to open. Then he presented her to Epimetheus as a wife.

Pandora's life with Epimetheus was happy except for her intense longing to open the box. She was convinced that because the gods and goddesses had showered so many glorious gifts upon her that this one would also be wonderful. One day when Epimetheus was gone she opened the box.

Out of the box flew all of the horrors which plague the world today - pain, sickness, envy, greed. Upon hearing Pandora's screams Epimetheus rushed home and fastened the lid shut, but all of the evils had already escaped.

3/28/2006 5:58:04 AM

moonbiter

Okay, pop quiz.

Why are you, Beautiful Feet, one of the few people in the world to believe this?

Because it's _ _ _ _ _.

Hint: The answer rhymes with \"daisy\" and starts with a \"C.\"

3/28/2006 7:00:58 AM

Aesmael

See, that's far more interesting and therefore more true.

I always thought christianity too barren to be very interesting, though I admit I never studied it in any depth.

3/28/2006 7:24:23 AM

Eri

I think s/he's been watching too much Stargate: SG-1

3/28/2006 11:52:52 AM

Hadanelith

Mentions Greeks...check.
Mentions Egyptians...check.
Tries to tie both of these religions in some way to a religion that didn't exist for 100's of years later...check.
Absolutly bat-shit insane...check.

3/28/2006 12:32:40 PM

g-21-lto

Does anyone else find the statement \"Among some of the pagans I have encountered, Isis is a real, unseen personality\" to be ... er ... strange? Why would you need to mention that a person whose religion is based in one or more ancient mythologies would consider an ancient Egyptian goddess to be real?

\"Many of these gods had rituals and rites that were extremely demonic.\"

A fair point, though the word \"demonic\" could be replaced with the word \"violent\" and you would be conveying the same meaning with less of a tinfoil-hat vibe.

3/28/2006 2:10:39 PM

Papabear

Perhaps you could use those beautiful feet to take a long, relaxing hike during which you could actually see the *real* world. Or, maybe you could just take a long, relaxing hike on a short pier.

3/28/2006 4:50:39 PM

TDR

maybe my education was lacking, but as a youth I never learned about these myths in classes. I had to learn about them all by myself.

and am I the only one finding that name weirdly disturbing?

3/28/2006 5:15:31 PM

Papabear

I think the name is amusing. Imagine, a foot fetish Fundie.

3/28/2006 5:21:04 PM

Tak, the Hideous New Girl

>>I once heard a pastor say that evil comes because it is invited.

I think that's vampires.

3/28/2006 6:09:09 PM

The Last Conformist

\"and am I the only one finding that name weirdly disturbing?\"

No, you're not.

@g-21-lto: She's not saying the \"pagans\" think Isis is real, she's saying *she* thinks Isis is real.

3/28/2006 7:30:39 PM

Nekhbet

Hey Bitch, what you got against my sister?

3/28/2006 7:38:30 PM

glyptodon

\"Among some of the pagans I have encountered, Isis is a real, unseen personality.\"

Like Jesus is for you?

3/29/2006 9:11:08 AM

Darwin's Lil Girl

Beautiful Feet, find another way to ignore your foot fetishes.

2/5/2008 11:00:39 PM

Gjervan

@TDR: Here in Norway [insert jokes about our results in PISA here] we had about Greek mythology as a warm-up to Greek philosophy in our Religion classes. And if what your classes, Beautiful Feet, were anything like ours, Greek Mythology itself is not as clean as your Greek myth classes. I mean, enough incest, violence and egocentric deities to compete with the Abrahamtic religions.

2/9/2008 8:06:01 PM

Jake Steel

I think this is very much a sign of the end times: calling up the old "gods" or evil spirits that ruled regions of the world long ago.

Cthulhu is coming!

Many of these gods had rituals and rites that were extremely demonic.

*snorts* As if you would know anything about demonology.

I once heard a pastor say that evil comes because it is invited.

Not necessarily history should make that more than clear.

When the former "gods" of Egypt are called up again, I believe things are going to get real nasty. Those were some horrid demons. Among some of the pagans I have encountered, Isis is a real, unseen personality.

Repeat after me "Yu-Gi-Oh is just a cartoon".

2/9/2008 10:31:58 PM

LadyJafaria

Oh come on. You had the opportunity to pick an actually scary Egyptian god and you pick Isis? Isis was the nicest of the batch! Set, Sekhmet, Anubis, THOSE are some names that might lend you more credibility (and even Anubis is good, it's just that death gods frighten people) and you go and pick Isis.

That's like talking about how horrible the Greek gods are and skipping over Zeus, Hades, and Ares to pick Athena. And even Athena did some sketchier things than Isis.

Until you stop making the Mummy series look accurate by comparison, shut up about ancient Egypt.

8/20/2009 8:33:27 PM

Ri Jayden

"When the former "gods" of Egypt are called up again, I believe things are going to get real nasty. Those were some horrid demons. Among some of the pagans I have encountered, Isis is a real, unseen personality."
The Egyptian Gods are NOT demons. You are right to say Isis is real; the others are too, although Set is the one your Fundie ass should not mess with. Ever.
Signed,
One Pissed Off Kemetic Pagan.

10/16/2010 3:49:00 PM

Elia

I'll bet those ebil Egyptians and Greeks back in ancient times thought your god was a demon, too. How abut that, hmm?

10/16/2010 7:01:34 PM

Swede

I think this is very much a sign of the end times: calling up the old "gods" or evil spirits that ruled regions of the world long ago.
Who has called up the old gods of Greece or Egypt?
What about the Aesir gods, the gods of the Native Americans, the Native Australians and New Zealanders? What's so special about Greek and Egyptian gods?

Your Greek myth classes where clean? The Greek myths are just as bloody as the Christian and Jewish myths.

10/17/2010 9:49:10 AM