User:Jeremygbyrne/Cosmology

Notes toward SRL's Cosmology

Divine disputes in Levant mythologies

Note El vs Ba'al, Enlil vs Enki, Gods vs Titans

Origins of Yahweh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadad

Note Ba'al's defeat of Lotan, many-headed seadragon

Note Naasseners and other ophite sects believed the Serpent of Genesis was trying to bring knowledge to mankind about the deceiving demiurge of Genesis.

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Fascinating history of Jerusalem, whose modern form owes much to Eschatalogical thought:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem

Allenby took Jerusalem for the Brits in 1917. Was this the real reason for WWI?

11-Sep-01 was the 79th anniversary of the League of Nations approval of the British exclusion of Transjordan from the provisions dealing with Jewish settlements.

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Armenia as the Caucasian homeland, origin of the waker serpent-thought.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarians

Very early Anatolian civilisation (9000BC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

Enki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki

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Quicksilver screens motif:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_of_harmful_sensation

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SRL is an Anti-Neal Stephenson

"Stephenson says Asherai is a virus-spreading cult; he sees quicksilver as a metaphor for commerce and writes 10,000 page cosmogenies of capitalism."