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The Black Company, by Glen Cook – This is a story of an elite mercenary unit in a fantasy land ruled by an evil wizard and his enigmatic wife. It’s told from the point of view of the group’s historian, … Continue reading →

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99 Problems, But a Clone Force Ain’t One

Two television shows and one movie this time, all with SPOILERS. Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults – When we visited the Museum of Death in Hollywood, an employee there quite enthusiastically told Beth about Heaven’s Gate, and how they … Continue reading →

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The Appearance of Time

When I heard of the concept of Chronos in Orphism from a Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby episode, I thought it would be something worth looking into. The association of Kronos, the father of the most prominent Olympian gods, with time, … Continue reading →

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Quran So Far Away

I’ve now read through the Quran, mostly using this translation. I know it’s really only considered authentic in Arabic, but I can’t read that language. Discussing Islam can be kind of awkward, especially because the amount of Islamophobia in the … Continue reading →

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Oh, What a Jubilee There Will Be

I had started reading the Book of Jubilees some years ago, but I don’t think I ever finished, so I returned to it recently. It’s a pseudepigraphic work, attributed to Moses based on dictation straight from God, but it’s generally … Continue reading →

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Comic Confusion

My general formula for deciding what comics to read consists of seeing what looks interesting on the shelves at the library. The problem is that a lot of what I see there is a follow-up to something else, and even … Continue reading →

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Reaching Across the Aisle

The Acts of Simon Magus in the First Century AD: A Search in Secret Egypt, by Glendenning Cram – I read a review copy of this after the author commented on my blog post on Simon Magus, and announced that … Continue reading →

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Splitting the Adam

There are quite a few things I don’t really get about the Adam and Eve story, but one that I thought of recently involves the notion of being fruitful and multiplying. Actually, this isn’t part of the same story, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Etymology, Gnosticism, Judaism, Language, Relationships, Religion | Tagged adam and eve, angels, authority, bible, creationism, death, garden of eden, genesis, marriage, mortality, nephilim, omnipotence, reproduction, sex, tower of babel, tree of knowledge, tree of life |

Save Our Souls

There’s a saying that I’m sure you’ve come across on occasion: “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” It’s often misattributed to C.S. Lewis, but I don’t think he ever actually said anything of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animism, Christianity, Egyptian, Gnosticism, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged afterlife, asphodel, bible, daniel, ghosts, hades, heaven, heaven is for real, hell, jesus, odysseus, resurrection, shades, sheol, souls, spirit, tantalus, tartarus |

Modern-Day Marcionism

I’ve read a few times about the Marcionites, an early Christian sect that had significant influence but was declared heretical. It has some ideas in common with Christian Gnosticism, but lacks the emphasis on secret teachings. Instead, Marcion held that … Continue reading →

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