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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bromios King <bromiosking@...>
wrote:
> It wasn't until much later that the gods came to be represented in
> human form and believed in as personifications. 1,700 years of
> Christian worship make us conceive "God" as a man.
that is clear. I won't sustain this with Indo-Iranian gods but with
the gods of the Greek mithology. There are of course a lot of gods
and godess which are represented as having human form but there are
too a lot of other godess , nymphes and other creatures which have
the status of gods but their are not at all humanoids.
Just to remember, even Chronos and Gea, the Time and the Earth are
initialy not represented as humans. Later, as the humanoid Titans and
Gods are born , as last "typus" of childred, then we got a humanoid
representation of the primordialy couple which was Gea and Chronos.
Apparently the last borns, the humanoids, the titans and gods have
been somehow brought to the humanoid aspect maybe tring to explain
their way to act trough some aspects of human's way to act. And even
at this stage of "development" we stil know about off-springs of
these humanoid gods and godess which have not been humanoid at all,
having forms and features which usualy we will clasify
as "monstruous".
By myself , I was very intrigued in the Greek mithology about the one
curious being, the one who kept the chain of the destiny, the one
called Moira. So far I know, just her name is mentioned in the Greek
stories but never something about her origin, and if this one was a
humanoid or not; it was said, none could influence her and her work.
Even Zeus could not do anything against her work.
Alex