Path: shell.portal.com!shell.portal.com!not-for-mail From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.meditation,alt.consciousness.mysticism,alt.consciousness,talk.religion.newage,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.religion,talk.religion.misc Subject: Son Behind the Sun/Heliopolis, etc. (Was Re: On "I suppose" [was Running into ...] Date: 30 Apr 1996 12:08:27 -0700 Organization: Portal Communications (shell) Lines: 36 Sender: tyagi@shell.portal.com Message-ID: <4m5ofb$lgs@jobe.shell.portal.com> References: <4lo9e4$o2m@nntpa.cb.att.com> <4lofi6$263@news.jhu.edu> <4lqruv$elt@news.jhu.edu> <4m2qjj$kgj@news.jhu.edu> Reply-To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) NNTP-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com Xref: shell.portal.com alt.meditation:24759 alt.consciousness.mysticism:5879 alt.consciousness:26255 talk.religion.newage:50894 alt.magick.tyagi:7875 alt.magick:72474 alt.religion:2219 talk.religion.misc:216154 kaliyuga 49960430 "J.D." : |>|The sun has no shadow. |>How do you know? Joe Harkness : |In order for the sun to have a shadow, you'd have to |have a brighter celestial body positioned behind it! precisely the notion behind some Egyptian (or pseudo-Egyptian) cosmologies, the Great City of Heliopolis the visible sol, a mere gateway to the Perfect World beyond, which is much more glorious, more exalted, etc., etc., than the ordinary sol. commentary? some equate Christ with the Sol (6/666/Tiphareth) the Son behind the Sun tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com nagasiva -------- "Wicce" (feminine) and "wicca" (masculine) is Anglo Saxon, not Celtic. It meant "bender," "sorcerer," "changer," with a neutral-to-negative coloration, *not* "wise." The Anglo Saxon word for "wise" was "wys" or "wyz", as in "wizard," meaning "wise one." Oh, and "wiccan" was originally the plural, not the adjectival form. ibonewits@icu.com (Isaac Bonewits): alt.religion.druid ------------------------------------------------------ -- Ensure my response - CC public replies to email http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/magi.html (emailed replies may be posted) http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html