Don't have a cow! Golden Calf II

by cameo-d 33 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    You might want to read YAHWEH AND THE GODS AND GODDESSES OF CANAAN by John Day and THE EARLY HISTORY OF GOD by Mark Smith for scholarly discussions on early worship of Yahweh in Israel.

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Thanks for the book suggestion Leolia.

    I found this interesting tidbit...seems the bull does go a ways back.

    This is from the Pyramid Texts (first discovered in 1881).

    They are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the time of the Old Kingdom.

    The oldest version consists of 228 spells and comes from the Pyramid of Unas, the last King of the 5th Dynasty.

    The cannibal hymn

    Utterances 273 and 274 are sometimes known as the "cannibal hymn", because it describes the king hunting and eating parts of the gods: [2]

    A god who lives on his fathers,
    who feeds on his mothers...
    Unas is the bull of heaven
    Who rages in his heart,
    Who lives on the being of every god,
    Who eats their entrails
    When they come, their bodies full of magic
    From the Isle of Flame...

    The cannibal hymn later reappeared in the Coffin Texts as Spell 573. It was dropped by the time the Book of the Dead was being copied.

    Wonder if this bull goes all the way back to the Canaanites, as implied by your book title?

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Is it strange that this bull would emerge in prehistoric Native American culture? Do you think it could be the same bull that came from Egypt?

    Acheologists suggest the emergence of the Anasazi peoples to be around 12th century B.C. The word "Anasazi" translates to "enemy ancestors" ("ancient ones" "ancient enemy"). They lived in the area of Arizona and Utah.

    Photo by Rupestrian Cyberservices, courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

    Serpents wearing a horned or plumed cap appear in numerous rock art sites and have been likened to the Mesoamerican deity, Quetzalcoatl.

    http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/hueco/images/EP1-C2-plumed-serpent.html

    Also, here is a rock etching of the "eye of horus" from this early American civilization.

    http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/hueco/images/jor-mask2.html

    Evidence shows they were cainabaalstic, too.

  • GentlyFeral
    GentlyFeral

    Leolaia recommends:

    • YAHWEH AND THE GODS AND GODDESSES OF CANAAN by John Day
    • THE EARLY HISTORY OF GOD by Mark Smith

    Thanks, Leolaia – these are both on my booklist now.

    gently feral

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