Posted on 05/14/2011 6:34:26 PM PDT by bronxville
That is right there were some special cases generally reserved for some sort of impiety or direct insult of a God.
But the two you mention must not have been the typical “shade” either since they apparently were corporeal enough to have thirst and push a big rock.
Maybe it was the Eye of Horus.
Prometheus brought civilization to mankind by stealing fire from the Gods. Zeus was going to wipe us out until Prometheus stepped in. Zeus, the highest Greek God, was definitely not kindly disposed to mankind. At BEST he could be rendered indifferent to man’s fate.
While certain Gods were more man-friendly Zeus was all over the park.
Rome was the necessary precondition for Christianity in many ways. Its religious tolerance made it easy for the initial steps to Christianity to be taken. Its unification of Europe made it easy for the new faith to spread rapidly through the Empire. Penetrating to the center of the civilized world made it acceptable all over the West.
Socrates was also a precursor of Christianity and his moral philosophy is as Christian as one can get without being an actual follower of Christ.
“Maybe it was the Eye of Horus.”
I wasn’t going to go there...a whole other bag of worms. :)
“The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera’s orchard in the west, where either a single tree or a grove of immortality-giving golden apples grew. The apples were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to her as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally plucked from it themselves. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hesperides
The UN, Robert Schultz, et al have the whole thing covered. People actually believe that this was/is all real, the earth is pulsatingly alive and we are destroying it, paving the way for overpopulation, it will soon be illegal to pick flowers from ones own garden or walk on an autumn leaf.
Some people truly believe, and in astonishingly growing numbers, that Christianity just copied the Pagan religion which was the main reason I posted the thread.
Yep, I stand corrected. That’s what I get for PWS (posting while sleepy).
Go in May, as early as possible but after Pascha. The weather is magnificent, the water is warming up and there are no tourists. And there are flowers, bb, wild flowers everywhere. No matter where you are, the air carries their perfume. My wife calls our part, the Peloponnesus, "God's garden" that time of year.
aye, but Athens was a disappointment for me, it’s like an Asian city and has monuments yes, but is kind of scruffy. The countryside and the sea-side, is a whole different thing — they are gorgeous in the Pelopponese, yes.
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