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Ion, the Patriarchal Blessing and the Father of a Nation
Ion by Euripides. Scene: Temple of Apollo at Delphi Enter Hermes (Lines 5-20) “I have come here to Delphi where Phoebus Apollo sits at earths mid-center, gives his prophecies to men, and passes judgement on what is happening now and what will come. For in the famous city of the Greeks called after Pallas Athena…
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The Prophetic Powers of Cassandra and Jesus
Princess Cassandra is mentioned in Homer’s Iliad as Trojan King Priam’s most beautiful daughter. She was gifted from Apollo the divine power of foresight after serving as his priestess at the temple. She could see the future and she was afflicted by nightmarish visions of the destruction of Troy by the Achaeans. The people of…
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Cain and Abel, fraternal strife from hunter gatherers to farmers and shepherds
The story of Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve represents the transition from a hunter gatherer group to a farming and herding society. From the end of the last ice age tens of thousands of years ago, the hunter gatherer lifestyle could not be sustained since the megafauna went extinct. Genesis 4:1…
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Pre-Adamites, extinct proto-human species, homo erectus
After creating the plants, animals and all living things on the fifth day, God creates human beings on the sixth day from Genesis 1:24-31. These unnamed people were created before Adam and Eve. The Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve was created after God had rested on the seventh day in Genesis 2. Genesis 1:26…
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Sons of God, Daughters of Men, and Nephilim – The beginning of Ancient religions
The Paleolithic Adam and Eve Story contains the essential elements that mythologies around the ancient world share such as the acts of creation, a primordial garden, a talking snake, the fruitful trees, an act of betrayal or overthrow of God’s reign by people and the final curse to punish and warn them. The Sumerian, Egyptian,…