Hi!
I often follow the discussion on this list. I passed on one of the messages re
old cultures predating Jesus to a fried and colleague of mine, Greta Pennington
Rana. Greta asked me to forward her reply to the list.
Sangeeta Pandey
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> Anyone interested in religions that predate almost anybody should
> read two old editions.One is Fraser's,The Golden Bough, can't think of
> a place and publisher but any big good reference library should have
> it.The other is "Man and His Destiny in the Great Religions"(this
> definitely predates gender fairness and is I think Manchester
> University Press 1960/61 SGF Brandon. I also often wondered whatever
> happened to the Ancient Greeks, The Ancient Mesopotamians (Iraq where
> Abraham set off from on his great journey across the desert, and
> Ancient Egypt, the Indus Valley Civilisation and the Ancient
> Dravidians.I think you'll find some of all of them in The Golden
> Bough(which incidentally refers to mistletoe which brings you to the
> ancient Celts ,Norsemen and a plethora of ancients who predated
> Jesus--not to mention Buddha and the pre Buddhist pre _Hindu animist
> faiths.Somehwre there I think we might even be able to pinpoint the
> real fall of woman , which is nothing to do with a fruit (not an
> apple) in the mythical Garden of Eden -- a story that post-dates a
> fair amount of the Old Testament rather than pre-dating it.
>
> Greta
>
