Snake Cults Dominated Early Arabia

[surada]

World’s oldest ritual discovered. Worshipped the python 70,000 years ago - Apollon

A new archaeological find in Botswana shows that our ancestors in Africa engaged in ritual practice 70,000 years ago — 30,000 years earlier than the oldest finds in Europe. This sensational discovery strengthens Africa’s position as the cradle of modern man.

www.apollon.uio.no

Great article.. Thanks.

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The python is one of the San’s most important animals. According to their creation myth, mankind descended from the python and the ancient, arid streambeds around the hills are said to have been created by the python as it circled the hills in its ceaseless search for water.

The python cave
Sheila Coulson’s find shows that people from the area had a specific ritual location associated with the python. The ritual was held in a little cave on the northern side of the Tsodilo Hills. The cave itself is so secluded and access to it is so difficult that it was not even discovered by archaeologists until the 1990s. The first archaeologists at the site noticed two paintings on one side of the cave and a rock with a large number of indentations in it on the other side.

When Coulson entered the cave this summer with her three master’s students, it struck them that the mysterious rock resembled the head of a huge python. On the six meter long by two meter tall rock, they found three-to-four hundred indentations that could only have been man-made.

“You could see the mouth and eyes of the snake. It looked like a real python. The play of sunlight over the indentations gave them the appearance of snake skin. At night, the firelight gave one the feeling that the snake was actually moving.” said Sheila Coulson to the University of Oslo’s research magazine Apollon.

 

[rylah]

The snake symbol is found world wide and is very old.. What makes you think I don't understand it?

So you're impressed with Jordan Peterson? LOLOL

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What makes me think you don't understand the concept of collective archetypes,
is your focus on 'how old' is a finding, rather how common. With the idiotic presumption,
that the earliest text must be the original source from which everyone else have once copied.

And your further childish ad hominems when bringing up Prof. Jordan Peterson,
don't suggest even minimal understanding of the concept.

Instead of attacking the person,
try addressing the material.

 

[surada]

What makes me think you don't understand the concept of collective archetypes,
is your focus on 'how old' is a finding, rather how common. With the idiotic presumption,
that the earliest text must be the original source from which everyone else have once copied.

And your further childish ad hominems when bringing up Prof. Jordan Peterson,
don't suggest even minimal understanding of the concept.

Instead of attacking the person,
try addressing the material.

Like the Code of Hammurabi or the clay tablets from Sumer or Dilmun or Ras Shamra?

 

[rylah]

Like the Code of Hammurabi or the clay tablets from Sumer or Dilmun or Ras Shamra?

Indeed them, more so, these were the very recipients,
did you expect prophecy existed outside historic context?

 

[rylah]

Genesis was written after the Babylonian exile. The Snake cults date to a thousand years earlier.

Genesis isn't history even if you want to say is the beginning of the Adamic line of the Jews.

According to whom, Finkelstein and Bin-Nun,
who claim writing on pottery prior to Babylonian exile,
is somehow the proof literacy WAS NOT a common thing?

Because in every thread you're trying to prove this negative,
each time you end up actually pointing to the very historicity of Genesis.

 

[rylah]

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monotheism is like smoking cigarettes - giving everything else up - for a bad habit.

moses has some real issues - needs being put on a couch to straighten things - like judaism - out.

Maybe you're projecting Islam and Christianity,
highly questionable if monotheism at all.
Giving everything up - is the opposite.

And maybe indeed, the world needs a Mosheh Rabbenu,
to straighten some real issues, as did all our prophets at historic crossroads.

 

[rylah]

BTW surada, I've asked earlier, but you went crickets,

if already discussing cults dominating early Arabia...
wasn't it supposed to be cleaned of idol worship,
when was the Mercury altar rebuilt at Ka'abah?

 

[surada]

BTW surada, I've tried to ask earlier, but strangely you went crickets,

if already discussing cults dominating early Arabia...
what about the cults and idols in Ka'abah?

Wasn't it supposed to be cleaned of idol worship?
When was the Mercury altar re-built?

The story goes that Muhammed destroyed all the idols except a statue? to the Virgin Mary.

I don't know anything about the Mercury altar.

 

[surada]

According to whom, Finkelstein and Bin-Nun,
who claim writing on pottery prior to Babylonian exile,
is somehow the proof literacy WAS NOT a common thing?

Because in every thread you're trying to prove this negative,
each time you end up actually pointing to the very historicity of Genesis.

The historicity of Genesis? Are you kidding?

 

[rylah]

The historicity of Genesis? Are you kidding?

I know you can't compute an argument
you were taught lead to one conclusion,
was the very argument for the opposite.

See, you say, "Genesis not historic",
"here is Hammurbi code"...

Yeah exactly, only you say, a document is "not historic",
because it clearly traces its context with another historic document - ain't that genius?

 

[surada]

I know you can't compute an argument
you were taught lead to one conclusion,
was the very argument for the opposite.

See, you say, "Genesis not historic",
"here is Hammurbi code"...

Yeah exactly, only you say, a document is "not historic",
because it clearly traces its context with another historic document - ain't that genius?

Do you take Adam and Eve or Noah's Flood literally?

 

[rylah]

The story goes that Muhammed destroyed all the idols except a statue? to the Virgin Mary.

I don't know anything about the Mercury altar.

That's why you keep ignoring the direct references
when I ask about the specific stone pile altar at Ka'abah?
Or do you pretend not to know how Mercury was worshiped in Arabia?

 

[rylah]

"Dominated early Arabia",
and snake worship in today's Islamic Arabia?

Is this the 'virgin statue' left by Muhammed,
or was it later rebuilt at the Ka'abah?

 

[surada]

That's why you keep ignoring the direct references
when I ask about the specific stone pile altar at Ka'abah?
Or do you pretend not to know how Mercury was worshiped in Arabia?

Pre Islamic? The Hebrews worshipped the Canaanite pantheon before they were monotheistic.

 

[surada]

"Dominated" early Arabia,

and what about today's Islam?

What about it?

 

[rylah]

Pre Islamic? The Hebrews worshipped the Canaanite pantheon before they were monotheistic.

The question is about the worship
of the pre-Islamic pantheon TODAY at the Ka'abah?

Namely the worship ceremony at the Mercury altars at Ka'abah,
did Muhammed sanction them, or were they rebuilt later by Muslims?

 

[surada]

The question is about the worship
of the pre-Islamic pantheon TODAY at the Ka'abah?

Namely the worship ceremony at the Mercury altars at Ka'abah,
did Muhammed sanction them, or were they rebuilt later by Muslims?

Muhammed destroyed all the idols.

 

[rylah]

Muhammed destroyed all the idols.

Except the obelisks and Mercury altars at the Ka'abah?
Maybe Muhammed wasn't much monotheist.

Interesting how snake worship is still
at the core of Islamic pilgrimage.

 

[surada]

Except the obelisks and Mercury altars at the Ka'abah?
Maybe Muhammed wasn't much monotheist.

Interesting how snake worship is still
at the core of Islamic pilgrimage.

You poor thing.. You can't feel good unless you are demeaning the neighbors.

Snake worship existed in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley.

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