Pankaj and I started watching a documentary last night - Zeitgeist (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/). It's an indy film in three parts. The first part is called "The Greatest Story Ever Told" - it is based on a couple of books by Acharya S (the pen name of D. M. Murdock, if that means anything to anyone, but I've never heard of her).
Anyway, the first part discusses a theory that the Jesus story was not unique, but a retelling of a long line of similar mythologies stemming from pagan astrology. Ancient civilizations around the world had a common dependence on astrology to guide the rhythm of their lives. As cultures settled down and became agrarian, moving farther away from their common hunter/gatherer roots, the movement of the stars and planets, especially the Sun, in the sky allowed famers to develop a calendar - seasons, months, daylight hours, solstices, eclipes, and other phenomena were mapped by cultures around the plant - the Mayans, Incans, Isrealites, Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians, to name a few.
Anyway, it went through a list of these common myths and argued that the story of Jesus was not a historical account, but a retelling of this overarching astrological understanding of the stars. All the similar stories of savior figures are supposedly retellings of the story of the Sun's movements through the sky - the sun is born in the east, rises, and then wanes until it "dies" under the Southern Cross constellation at the winter solstice (the shortest day of the year). For example, the reason that Jesus was born on December 25th is because that is the date of the solstice, the day on which there is the least amount of daylight.
Ok, so Part 2 and 3 are, I believe, part 9/11 conspiracy and part conspiracy theory about the Federal Reserve Bank. I will comment more on these after watching the rest of the movie.
G'night!
Anyway, the first part discusses a theory that the Jesus story was not unique, but a retelling of a long line of similar mythologies stemming from pagan astrology. Ancient civilizations around the world had a common dependence on astrology to guide the rhythm of their lives. As cultures settled down and became agrarian, moving farther away from their common hunter/gatherer roots, the movement of the stars and planets, especially the Sun, in the sky allowed famers to develop a calendar - seasons, months, daylight hours, solstices, eclipes, and other phenomena were mapped by cultures around the plant - the Mayans, Incans, Isrealites, Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Chinese, Japanese, and Indians, to name a few.
Anyway, it went through a list of these common myths and argued that the story of Jesus was not a historical account, but a retelling of this overarching astrological understanding of the stars. All the similar stories of savior figures are supposedly retellings of the story of the Sun's movements through the sky - the sun is born in the east, rises, and then wanes until it "dies" under the Southern Cross constellation at the winter solstice (the shortest day of the year). For example, the reason that Jesus was born on December 25th is because that is the date of the solstice, the day on which there is the least amount of daylight.
Ok, so Part 2 and 3 are, I believe, part 9/11 conspiracy and part conspiracy theory about the Federal Reserve Bank. I will comment more on these after watching the rest of the movie.
G'night!
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