On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:56 AM, llundrub wrote:
A friend who is a transpersonal psychologist claims that the
biblical Satan is actually female. I'm not sure where she got that
from, but it may Talmudic.
--I think the word Satan in used once in referencable scripture in
the Torah and refers to a judicial proceeding. You sent me the
article about the Yamas - the original religion of bull
worshippers. This seems more likely.
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Some have said that Set-Shaitan and Shiva are all cognate forms of
deity from a previous epoch which became taboo as the Sky gods and
later the Death-Resurrection mythos came to the fore. Shaitan/Satan
would therefore represent a current in Sumerian religion before it
was "demonized" by the Sky worshipping monotheists. In another sense
the enemies god is always "Satan" and that relates also to the Hebrew
meaning of Satan, "an adversary".
I remember years ago when I first got out of college I had a job
working with a firm and my boss was a born again Christian from some
Texas Christian college. He had the nasty habit of popping into my
office to see what I was doing. One day, I was paging through the new
Vedanta catalogue and he pops into my office. I placed some papers on
top of catalogue. He removed the papers to reveal a line-drawing of
Shiva: holding a trident and draped in snakes. He let out an audible
gasp and instinctively stepped back like he'd seen something terrible.
I week later I was let go. What a blessing that was. It was then I
realized that some people saw Shiva as Satan. It was really
interesting that to my Christian friend, Gnosis and Awakening were
Satan.
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