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From: scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K)
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Subject: Re: Human Sacrifice II
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 16:48:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 16:48:24 1985
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>      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