Tag: Genesis
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Noah and the Cycle of Flood and Conflagration
Flood myths were found all over the ancient world, but there’s no concrete evidence to suggest any of them ever represented a factual event. Many historical catastrophes have been proposed as the root of the myths, these include; a tsunami that might have followed the volcanic eruption of Thera in 1600 BCE; the sea level…
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The Garden of Eden
The story of the original fall and the Garden of Eden is an easy myth to understand once one realises that a serpent (or dragon) in a tree is a scene that has parallels elsewhere in ancient mythology. The tree has been an important mythological metaphor for the world axis in many religious traditions. The…
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Ancient Cosmology
The first key to understanding ancient religion is realizing that the ancients had a vastly different view of the universe to ourselves. The earliest civilizations believed in a flat earth which was either a circle or a square, depending on the tradition. Above the earth, the heavens / sky was seen as being a dome.…
World Axis 