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Outside of the mad class struggle stuff.īible translations that are promoted by Western religious establishments portray Abel as a "shepherd" (or similar expressions, like "keeper of sheep," etc.). This guy is a little crazy but he is fighting for something that at this point is recognized as the "truth" by the current respected mythologists of the world. I highlighted some particularly interesting parts. Here is a commentary that I particularly enjoy, as it is accessible to those that do not make a life of studying the mythos of mankind.
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Let me also point out that I do not believe the ancient religions had any better purpose in the end all, just that the mythology of those who did not have a long standing and overwhelmingly complex cultural schema to found their legends on, is more believable from a common sense prospective. I feel it has yet to really hit people as to how different, and may I say more in touch with the human spirit, were the "original", oldest myths which were born from the psyche, rather than an organized secular institution with clear agendas (suppress and control and let the ones at the top prosper). One of the most interesting stories which modern thinkers have realized must have been significantly changed when incorporated into the narrow confines of post egyptian ancient jewish perceptions, is the Story of Cain and Abel.Īlthough the story I will provide a perspective upon has been well known amongst scholars since the late middle ages, and has an established and far reaching folk tradition in far more ancient cultures throughout Asia and Africa, and is likely familiar to any of you who has studied modern psychology, philosophy, or theology Judaism itself, a religion based on stern morality and absolute obedience to God based on a chosen bloodline, is also a hodgepodge religion having been born somewhere in the melting pot that was classical Egypt. Modern scholarship concerning mythology and psychology and the access of globalization have bombarded the world of mythos with such a substantial amount of information, that many once marginalized stories have been recognized as being the likely original telling of the tales.Ĭhristianity in particular, because it was truly born in such a center of world religions (Rome), took stories from everywhere and then formed them into the Christian Mythos as we know it today.