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• Ancient Egypt c. 2,000 BCE

  Two calendars, Solar calendar of 365 ¼ days and one of 365 days

   

  Rameses II ( date dispute ~ 1,400 – 1,100 BCE), said to have fixed the Cardinal Signs of Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn: the key point was the Star Sirius, about 12 degrees of Cancer,

   

  The Equinox point had shifted, the ancients knew, from Taurus to Aries around 2,000 BCE. This was the point in history where Egypt and Greek history began to intermingle – and by the 4th century BCE it is known as the Ptolemaic Period, because of the ruling dynasty of the Ptolemies, under which the Egyptian ideas intertwined with Greek ideas – which influenced Rome and the Paganistic multivalve religious programs.

   

  Egypt, Phoenicians, Orphics, Hesiod, Homer, Hellenistic Traditions.

   

  (Hesiod ) Was the First – Women, Pandora story a Thessalian import?

   

  Corinthian, Titanomachy.  5th century predate Hesoid.

   

  Titan, Iapetos (Adam?)

   

  Pythagoras (6 century BCE)

   

Calendar Corrections for Sourcing.

 Salon-de-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France

Sunday, December 24, 1503 (extrapolated Gregorian calendar)

Julian calendar | Thursday, December 14, 1503

Julian day number | 2270386

Jewish calendar| 6 Tevet, 5264 (until sunset)

Islamic calendar | 5 Rajab, 909 (until sunset)

Time in 1503: Non Liturgical

358th day

51st week

sunrise | 7:24 am LMT

sunset | 4:20 pm LMT

duration of daylight | 8 hours 55 minutes

Phase of the Moon:

waning crescent moon

Christianity:

First Five Books of Old Testament: Adam and Eve are separated from God, and God gives no forgiveness or redemption. His only contracts (Covenant) to his people are to follow basic moral and ethical laws. These main laws, the 10 Commandments are non-negotiable, are to be followed if one is to be under an organ of communal participation.

Later Books of Old Testament (Prophecy): God will send himself to redeem his creation, in human flesh.

New Testament: (New Covenant), God sends himself as human flesh under the name Jesus Christ, to forgive the sins from Adam to all humans. Humans now have the choice to return to paradise and remain forever with God, their creator. Christianity is adopted as an official religion by Constantine, a competitive and winning Roman Leader, and in 325 ADE, in Nicea, Anatolia (today’s modern Turkey) the religion is codified and selective Biblical literature is discussed and voted upon by bishops all around the known Christian world , in which 27 books will make up the New Testament, founding Christianity proper. Most Apocrypha, except for John of Patmos’s book is thrown out. There are four Gospels, allegedly written by direct Apostles to God, and 13 Pauline Letters,  and other works attributed to Paul (originally Saul) of Tarsus. The Roman Catholic Church relies heavily on tradition, the four gospels, and to some passages from the Acts, while Protestantism relies mainly on the 13 Pauline Letters and relies less on the four Gospels. 8 of the 10 Commandments are thrown out by Jesus’ comments upon questioning. In curt paraphrase: Love God before all others, and love thy neighbor as thyself. Probably the second expression by Jesus, ‘love thy neighbor as oneself,’ is the most difficult to achieve by any person.

Catholicism, one must be committed to a community, in involvement and sacrifice (sacraments), that is proscribed by directors of the Roman Catholic Church. One can forge their destiny by completing the requirements laid out by the Church officials. While Predestination is evident in theological discussion, it has less importance than immediate community responsibilities.

Protestantism, one must only believe in salvation and interpret the Bible themselves, through attaining a substantive education or being mentored by a doctor of religion (a pastor or a minister). Religion is very individualistic and predestined. God knows the past, the present and the future and your destiny; however, as a practitioner one does not know anything of their future – all one can have is hope and believes in Jesus Christ, and to a lesser extent act within the community laws and bonds.

Orthodox Christianity imbues saints, angels, and other important religious persons, as a tradition reflected in some less doctrinal substrate and elevates women as saints to a higher position within the Church devotional hierarchy.  Orthodox Christianity relies more on traditions not found within the Holy Bible, but heavily recorded and practiced as comparable to common local law. Jesus, as God,  is still the extreme deity, however, the emphasis on Mother Mary is quite equitable. Orthodox Christianity has been heavily influenced by cross-cultural intermixing. Therefore, it emphasizes the less stress related doctrinal arguments, and seeks co-habitation rather than separation. This allowed the Eastern Roman Empire under Christianity to survive for another 1,000 years and more before it was conquered by the Ottomans and lost its headquarters.

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Language Expressions

Why does religion exist? 

Everybody needs something to believe in – Miley Cyrus

We all want to believe in something, greater than ourselves. -- Miley Cyrus.

Cyrus, Miley, Hanna Montana 2, Written by Antonio Armato and Tim James (Burbank, CA: Disney Music Company, 2007), in  “Bigger Than Us,” track 8.