Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!magic!nvc!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2g!scott From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Human Sacrifice II Message-ID: <694@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 16:48:24 EST Article-I.D.: hou2g.694 Posted: Tue Nov 5 16:48:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 06:24:47 EST References: <451@imsvax.UUCP> Organization: A Rent-Controlled Gothic Mansion Lines: 20 > As you might have guessed, for ritualistic cannibalism to have been part > of these rituals, a little bit more than fear must have been involved. Consider > Hesiods's "Theogeny" and the story about Kronos (Saturn) eating his own > and Rhea's offspring as they were born. Another fairy-tale? We Velikovskians > don't think so. You've read the story of Venus fissioning off from Jupiter in > Worlds in Collision (the myth of Aphrodite, Venus, being born from the head of > Zeus). There appears to have been more than one instance of this happening. > The story in Theogeny appears to indicate that several smaller bodies, at one > time, were blasted off of Jupiter or one of the other large planets, and > absorbed by Saturn. Thus, the story in Theogeny represents an interpretation > of events actually witnessed by men, and the ritualistic cannibalism in the > rites of Moloch appears to be immitative. Sorry, Ted. If memory serves, it was Athena, not Aphrodite who "sprang full-grown from the head of Zeus". And since there is no equivalent to Rhea in the heavens, why is "Kronos" eating someone elses' children? SJBerry