I am sick. Or, rather, my throat is sick. The rest of me is fine. I feel like I could run a mile (I can’t really) if it weren’t for the hacking cough every few minutes. I bought a book recently. It’s a book on Mythology from DK, and encompasses all kinds of heroes and gods and such. Quite a few stories (Gilgamesh, etc…) had stories of a great flood in them. Which got me thinking…Why doesn’t the book have the Torah/Bible stories in there? Without even questioning their validity, aren’t they just as mythological as Odin or Raven the Trickster god? Because nowhere in the book do they even mention whether or not the stories are real, and nowhere to they mention Christianity w/out the phrase “Before Slovakia was taken over by Christianity, they had a rich mythological heritage” or some such flapdoodle.No, it’s a great book. But it does confuse me so.
Tags: Bible, Books, DK, Gods, Heroes, LIES!, Myth, Odin, Raven, Sick, Stories
February 20, 2008 at 2:23 pm |
Good evening, betheturtle:
I have just seen that nearly a month ago you left a message on my blog thanking me for mentioning your site. It was a page, and as I wanted to change it into a post, I put it on draft status and forgot about it.
I also have the flu, and as soon as I can see more clearly, I will put that post up and also find out what site that is that you say I mentioned.
February 21, 2008 at 3:51 am |
I put the post up, but one of the links does not work, and I think that it is the one to your site. Was yours a little study of the battle of Issus? If so, could you let me have the link again? I have been looking online but could not find the site. There is lots of information about that battle, but yours was a clear presentation.
February 21, 2008 at 4:04 am |
I found the site. It is the one that I remembered. I fixed the link, but there does not seem to be a connection between that site and yours here. Would you like me to put in another link?
Sorry about all these messages. I did not mean to spam your place. You can delete them.
February 23, 2008 at 10:38 am |
dude. I think I borrowed the same book you mentioned from the library. =___= I just wanted the “definition” of mythology they had in the front, for my project.
…get well soon?
February 23, 2008 at 11:13 am |
it’s a smallish DK book with built-in side bookmarks. it is first listed by area and then type. is that it?
im already better!