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[wyoming cowboy]

The true Gods of all Greeks, Hellenes sit on Mt. Olympus not in Mt Sinai or Jerusalem or wherever the christian catholic/orthodox priests tell us he lives.

"The Greeks made their gods in their own image. That had not entered the mind of man before. Until then, gods had no semblance of reality. They were unlike all living things. In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman. Or a rigid figure, a woman with a cat's head suggesting inflexible, in human cruelty. Or a monstrous mysterious sphinx, aloof from all that lives. In Mesopotamia, bas-reliefs of bestial shapes unlike any beast ever known, men with birds' heads and lions with bulls' heads and both with eagles' wings, creations of artists who were intent upon producing something never seen except in their own minds, the very consummation of unreality. These and their like were what the pre-Greek world worshipped. One need only place beside them in imagination any Greek statue of a god, so normal and natural with all its beauty, to perceive what a new idea had come into the world. With its coming the universe became rational. Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek."

Christianity took upon itself to take Greek ideas add oppression and fear and impose them back on the Greeks, in order to subdue them, much like the Spaniards imposed christianity on the Incas of Peru and the Americans imposed christianity on the native Americans. In my opinion Greeks need to revert back to their roots and worship the Gods of Olympus.

[supporttheunderdog]

Mythology is the organization of myths belonging to a culture. Myths are time-honored stories about gods and heroes. They often explanation the essential aspects of life by explaining things like how the Earth was created, why people have to die, or why the year is split into seasons. The myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans have had a huge influence on culture, the arts, and the literature of Western societies and still are part of Western heritage.

I’m telling you, the Greek mythology is one completely messed up, incestuous, brutal, crazy family with tons of drama as well.

http://tyandor.com/religion/greek-mythology/

Says a lot about the Greeks if they made the gods in their image.

[Bananiot]

Fact: The Greeks gave up their beautiful mythology for the Jewish mythology. No self respect at all!

[GreekIslandGirl]

Maybe the Jewish mythology derived from the Greek mythology. For example, the jealousy of the Olympian gods is well known from many Tragedies. This was paraphrased in the Old Testament when the Jewish God insists he is a jealous god and no one must believe in any of the other gods. Pandora as Eve. The golden apple in the Garden of Hesperides. etc

Everything is "hidden" in Orthodoxy (Mysteries). One has to search for themselves. And understandably these myths, these pointers to a way of life, had to be hidden with the number of Romans, and others, intent on killing "Pagans" and burning down their libraries.

The split from the oppressive Roman Catholic faith couldn't have come sooner ...

[kurupetos]

Fact: The Greeks gave up their beautiful mythology for the Jewish mythology. No self respect at all!

Greek/Roman polytheism, Biblical religions, and Evolution describe the same facts.

[wyoming cowboy]

Maybe the Jewish mythology derived from the Greek mythology. For example, the jealousy of the Olympian gods is well known from many Tragedies. This was paraphrased in the Old Testament when the Jewish God insists he is a jealous god and no one must believe in any of the other gods. Pandora as Eve. The golden apple in the Garden of Hesperides. etc

Everything is "hidden" in Orthodoxy (Mysteries). One has to search for themselves. And understandably these myths, these pointers to a way of life, had to be hidden with the number of Romans, and others, intent on killing "Pagans" and burning down their libraries.

The split from the oppressive Roman Catholic faith couldn't have come sooner ...

Maybe the Jewish mythology derived from the Greek mythology. For example, the jealousy of the Olympian gods is well known from many Tragedies. This was paraphrased in the Old Testament when the Jewish God insists he is a jealous god and no one must believe in any of the other gods. Pandora as Eve. The golden apple in the Garden of Hesperides. etc

Zoologists have also discovered that the same type of monkeys on different islands invent the same type of tools for gathering food simultaneously, maybe certain environments create the same results.


Everything is "hidden" in Orthodoxy (Mysteries). One has to search for themselves. And understandably these myths, these pointers to a way of life, had to be hidden with the number of Romans, and others, intent on killing "Pagans" and burning down their libraries.

Buddhism has mysteries as well, so did the Ancient Greeks, with a theological connection anyone could experience a mystical event, Other then the importance of Christ in christiannity why would a mystical event in christianity be more significant then a mystical/mysterious event occuring to a buddhist or an Ancient Greek

[SKI-preo]

Lamne re! religion is the opium of the people. Is this your god:

[wyoming cowboy]

nai........ if its made into souvla

[GreekIslandGirl]

(That Mouflon has a soul. Man - always back to food and ritual slaughter )

Back to topic - I'm not into point-scoring over religions.

I agree there are many similarities among religions - probably independently arrived at or through greater communication in our history than we have recorded evidence for.

These similarities only go to prove what Carl Jung described as the 'collective unconscious'; which for me is one of the greatest explanations, attempting to unify genetics and culture.

[supporttheunderdog]

In my view god(s) cannot be god(s) if they are made in man's image or imgaination. The gods as propounded by man were often a means to explain "the meaning of Life. the Universe and Everything" which man otherwise had no explantion for, as well as used to give some sort of divine authority to Rulers who claimed they ruled in the name of god (or the gods), and who (in some societies) were tretaed as Gods (or semi-gods). If there is a god (or are gods) (and I am Agnostic on that point) then Isuspect that whatever it/they may be it is certainly far beyond our comprehension but I think almost certainly does not correspond to to the gods created by man.

It follows however that there is no benefit in turning from one (probable) erroneous interpretation of one god to a similarly likely groundless set of beleifs about the alleged Greek gods.

This says a lot for the gods of men's creation: