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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by cess11 on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:49PM (#39868840)
Dionysian mysteries were popular in large portions of the Mediterranean at the time. Very little of what you mentioned was unique to dionysian practices and beliefs, so you'd need to have more than the immediate likeness as evidence.

What do you mean by "the Church would actively integrate local cultural iconography into the bible to make it's spread more palpable", can you give some examples of such iconography?

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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by Workaccount2 on Friday March 29, 2024 @06:06PM (#39869499)
My goal here isn't construct some theory I cooked up, my goal is to make you aware of scholarly research that links what is assumed to be old psychedelic driven religion with providing many of the inputs to what became christian lore.
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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by cess11 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:29AM (#39872363)
OK then, maybe name some monographies and articles?
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