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  • Morya on Yahweh as a Mamo in the Prayag Letter

    Morya on Yahweh as a Mamo in the Prayag Letter

    The term Prayāg (or Prayaga) is an ancient term for the city of Allāhābād. In January 1, 1881, an early branch of the parent or original Theosophical Society was formed in Allahabad. G.N. Chakravarti was a notable member of this lodge, who represented Brahmanism at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago. So, the Prayag Letter is…

  • The Construction of Monotheism: Dever, Stavrakopoulou, LePage, Blavatsky and Others

    The Construction of Monotheism: Dever, Stavrakopoulou, LePage, Blavatsky and Others

    Prof. William G. Dever (Archaeologist, Anthropologist,University of Arizona) says the Torah is a “Minority Report” “To understand Paul, we have to realize that in antiquity, all monotheists were polytheists by our modern definition. Everyone (…) acknowledged the existence of everybody else’s gods. Back then, not only were you born into cultic obligations to the gods of…

  • Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries

    Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries

    In Samuel Fales Dunlap’s work The Origin of Ancient Names of Countries, Cities, Individuals, and Gods (Cambridge, 1856), he argued that the proper names of countries, cities, individuals, and gods, drawn from regions including Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and Judaea, are generally compound words incorporating the names of ancient sun-gods. This reveals…