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A few quick comments. Peter Kirby really does need to invest in some asbestos underpants after asserting that claims about solar discussion in Tertullian and Augustine are unsourced when the very word before his extract is the cited source, which he then proceeds to link, the Catholic Encyclopedia a...

Another question is what is a day and what happens to define the cycle of a day? Does the sun die and resurrect, or go to sleep, or go to the underworld, or continue on a path or what? Did people know the world was round and knew without putting it in words that the sun was orbiting? They knew that...

Neil, unfortunately your question here (quote below) implying that Dionysus is not a solar deity is as ignorant as the comment of the early Christian apologist Arnobius in his idiotic Seven Books Against the Heathen 3.33. This comment from Arnobius rejecting the equation of Dionysus (Bacchus) and th...

Dionysus was not originally a fucking solar divinity. Nor Adonis, nor Osiris and the rest. I find your use of profanity to be highly offensive Mr Huller, leaving aside any imaginative thoughts regarding what Zeus might think and do to you. You have a right to your opinions, stupid, insulting and fa...

MrMacSon, Are any of these dying and resurrecting gods solar gods in the Greek and Roman mythologies? I don't think so. The myths that I recall have the sun god riding his chariot through Ocean on the underside of the world and returning again, or similar -- not dying and returning from death to li...

As Peter has requested, I return to respond to his questions from http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31047#p31047 The lively responses in this thread present an abundant array of questions, and I encourage readers to carefully read my replies, especially my discussion with GakuseiDon, ra...

WTF ... FUCKING STARS AND HEAVENLY BODIES. ...same fucking night sky... same fucking conclusions about the heavens? NO, FUCKING, NO Can Mimi or Robert be certain that 'astrotheology' was consistent and universal in ancient history? NO, FUCKING, NO.. modern 'astrotheology.' NO, FUCKING, NO... throw ...

how can you tell what came into Egyptian religion via copying the legends of ancient African cultures, and what came into Egyptian religion via astrotheology (i.e. looking into the skies)? It is important to get away from the idea of “copying” understood as a conscious and deliberate transfer of id...

temporal patterns are deeply embedded in all life, as seen in patterns such as the diurnal variation in chemistry of the blood. I know what you mean. You told me all this once before. I let it pass Some science on this claim is at Diurnal variations in blood chemical items in Sprague-Dawley rats. h...

So let me get this straight Neil. Your hostility to astrology means that you reject the scientific observation that orbital cycles are embedded in our DNA. You might like to read The Cosmic Clocks by Michel Gauquelin which proves this claim. Evolution is about adaptation to a niche. When the niche h...