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Serapis - a genetically engineered Hybrid?


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reply posted on 1-11-2008 @ 12:40 PM by Byrd


Originally posted by seagrass
Byrd can you explain to me the dating of the Mithraic cults in the link I posted. Sounds like it could be very old if based on the astrological alignments he mentions. Are they older than Apis in that situation? I have a hard time with timelines.


The Mithraic religion is younger than the Apis bulls.

The astrological signs are Roman in origin (and Greek). The Sumerians and everyone else saw the same stars we do today, but they grouped them differently and had different constellations. For example, the Egyptians saw the hippopotamus goddess with a measuring stick standing in the stars near the North Pole.

So we have:
oldest Apis bull references/mummies: 2nd Egyptian dynasty, about 3000 BC
en.wikipedia.org...(Egyptian_mythology)

oldest Serapis references/statues: 300 BC
en.wikipedia.org...

Oldest Mithras references: about 10 AD
en.wikipedia.org...

I'm finding something I didn't know... that the bull apparently was NOT worshipped. There's no temples to bulls, no special sanctuary rooms to bulls, etc. They worshipped goddesses, yes, but not bulls (who may have been a "power animal" or a "special sacrifice animal") :
en.wikipedia.org...

www.mlahanas.de...



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reply posted on 1-11-2008 @ 01:05 PM by seagrass


Thank you for all that Byrd. Gives me a great starting point for more exploring.



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reply posted on 25-11-2008 @ 02:37 PM by seagrass


From the royal tombs of UR
The top scene is heraldic in nature, depicting a nearly nude, bearded male figure (probably semidivine) holding two rearing human-headed bulls,

The combination of human and animal features in some of the plaques' figures represents a Mesopotamian belief in power over the physical world by combination of various species' physical attributes.

Check out the link for some other beauties from the Sumerians.
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reply posted on 16-6-2009 @ 03:01 AM by reugen


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"Problem is, when that old con man Von Daniken wrote that, Mayan had not been translated. When Hancock repeated the falsehood, Mayan had been translated. Hancock never bothered to find out that the Mayans described what the carving shows. It ain't no spaceman."

So, Harte, since the Mayan have been translated, what does the carving show ?



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