The Native Americans “Native Americans are considered an ancient civilization, as archaeological and genetic evidence shows that people have inhabited the Americas for at least 20,000 years, with their ancestors migrating across the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia, establishing diverse cultures across North and South America before European contact. Early arrival: The first Native…
Month: September 2024
The Primordial Deities of Ancient Greek Mythology
Ancient Greek scholars disagree about when and how some some of the Ancient Greek deities came into being, but most agree that Chaos was there before anything else existed. To the Ancient Greeks, the word “chaos” was more significant than it is for most people today. For the Ancient Greeks Chaos was a God. In…
Ancient Pagan Holidays Celebrated Today–Some of Them Are Celebrated as Christian
When I was a child, kids would come to school with sprigs of mistletoe that they had harvested from trees. Even when I was very young, I would allow the mistletoe-holder to kiss me on the cheek–if he held his woodsy treasure over my head. Since mistletoe could be spotted on the bare limbs of…
Sun, Moon, and Star Worship: Influence on Christianity
“He who judges the first century by the nineteenth will fall into countless errors. He who thinks that the Christianity of the fourth century was identical with that of the New-Testament period, will go widely astray. He who does not look carefully into the history of religions before the time of Christ, and into the pagan…
Paganism: Its Influence on Christianity
“He who judges the first century by the nineteenth will fall into countless errors. He who thinks that the Christianity of the fourth century was identical with that of the New-Testament period, will go widely astray. He who does not look carefully into the history of religions before the time of Christ, and into the…
The Number 7 and Its Symbolic Significance in the Bible
Several numbers seem to be symbolically signicant in the Bible. The number 12 is echoed in several places, and there were 12 Disciples. The number 12 appears in the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible in several ways, including: 12 stars In Revelation 12:1, a woman in heaven is depicted with a crown of…
The Story of the Creation of the World from the Lion Illustrated Bible for Children
Image Credit: Amazon “From ancient times, people have looked at the immensity of the world around them and wondered how it all began. The first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis, begins with ancient stories of creation that seek to give an answer. “In the beginning, God created the universe. “At that time,…
The Story of the Creation of the World from The Complete Illustrated Children’s Bible
Image Credit: Amazon Image Credit: Amazon God Makes the World Genesis 1 – 2 Image Credit: Amazon Image Credit: Amazon
The Chaldean Story of the Creation of the World
Image Credit: Britannica CHAPTER I—ANCIENT CHALDÆA ‘The Creation, the Deluge, the history of the gods—The country, its cities its inhabitants, its early dynasties. “In the time when nothing which was called heaven existed above, and when nothing below had as yet received the name of earth,* Apsu, the Ocean, who first was their father, and…
Who Were the Chaldeans? Where Is Chaldea? Were the Magi Chaldean?
“Chaldea[1] (/kælˈdiːə/) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia.[2] Semitic-speaking, it Chaldea[1] (/kælˈdiːə/) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which…