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Monthly Archives: December 2015
Our Cosmic New Year’s Mythology and Rituals
Modern Christmas is family-oriented and religiously solemn, while New Year’s is more festive and we tend to spend it with friends rather than relatives. But it has become so festive that we have largely forgotten how serious a matter New … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Akitu festival, creation myth, holidays, Israelite New Year, Janus, Lupercalia, Mircea Eliade, New Year, Osiris
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Christmas Mythology I: Why We Celebrate Christ’s Birth, and How and Why We Came to Observe it on December 25
There is so much mythology behind Christmas and Winter Solstice holidays generally that it is hard to decide where to focus one’s attention, but for this Christmas season I’ve decided to write about the holiday’s ancient origins. Specifically, I’ll discuss the mythology … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Adam, baptism, Christ, Epiphany, holidays, Jewish War, John the Baptist, Magi, mythology, Nativity, Origen, Sol Invictus
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My Lecture at Theosophical Society on Esoteric Christianity and the Garden of Eden Story Now Available on YouTube and the Society’s Website
The video of my October 29 lecture at the Theosophical Society in America about Esoteric Christianity and the Garden of Eden Story (including my PowerPoint slides) is now up on YouTube, as well as on the Society’s Website. It is … Continue reading