Before the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script the only direct reference to the judgment, outside the literature of the Abrahamic religions, was, as far as I know, that of Plato (Gorgias 523-524) who wrote that initially the gods were judging humans alive.
In popular legends, from cultures...
Shepherds > Bulls > Judges -> Angels -> gods -> God !!
The motifs composing the universal mono-myth.
Part One, Shepherds
In the epics of Homer ΠοιμήνShepherd means leader, person in charge of a group of people who may be warriors, civilians or the...
O only One, You who were in the sky when there was no land and no mountains.
You Shepherd Lord, One only, Maker of everything there is !
The striking passages (as they are called by W. Budge) which are cited below come from Egyptian texts and they consist just a sample of a collection of...
For those not aware of the achievements of the science of genetics, the reading of the page BBC News - Neanderthal genes 'survive in us' is a must.
Only sub-Saharan populations are genuine members of the race of the Homo sapiens sapiens. All the rest are contaminated with the genome of the...
Soul is the incorporeal entity that leaves the body upon death continuing to live itself and should not be confused with the notions of spirit, mind or vital spark.
Any living creature embodies the spark of life and its spirit is reflected in its eyes. Spirit and vital spark, although...
A study on the history of the concept of the Great Mother cannot but eventually persuade the researcher that what he is dealing with is the history of the Great Mother herself.
Joseph Campbell, in the West, wrote that the myths are the product of an immemorial imagination and Yaroslavsky, in the...