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The problem is that the Spanish language is very hard for me to read. I thought you were native-speaking Italian? Color me surprised by this, because a) it's an old saw among Anglophones that 'its easy to understand Spanish, if you speak Italian' and b) I read French, and Spanish is fairly intellig...

Shabby elegance? Who is the Artist, and Date for this image? https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/10255086_783661601657126_2127333565820367929_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=vJw-L78VDQoAX-JoE15&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfCzhzZZ86liPEFb84xkM3...

Proper gnostics proved that YHWH and his henchmen acted maliciously in Genesis 3 due to his envy for Adam. Judaizers like Ireneus exonerated YHWH (identifying him with The Father) and illogically charged the serpent (then identified absurdly with Satan, Beliar, Baalzaphon, Lucifer, and what not) wi...

Harmotes gives raise to Harmozel, one of the four illuminating angels in NHC texts like the Gospel of the Egyptians. If so, that's another 'Egyptian' god the 'Jews' adapted. Armozel (or Harmozel) as a Jewish Angel would likely appear in Egypt after 250 BC among syncretistic Sethians. These "Eg...

Interesting and timely to my subject. Final Report. p.229 Jan 22, 1932 : Letter to M.I.R. from Clark Hopkins Suddenly ,... "there was the boat scene, several people holding up their arms, the upper part of a man below. I took away the dirt to the left and saw a man on a bed, another carrying a ...

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/10/falcon-shrine-discovery-contains-previously-unknown-ancient-rituals/144921 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/720806 The Meroeotic god Sebiumeker is suggested. The significance of the cult for the individual falcons relates to the sun god Re-Harakhty ...

Theft, looting: probably melted down for the Au content.

Animals.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-cultura ... 73111.html

Al Barakeh Project:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/w ... dans-bread

Link Lois N. Magner in his A History of Medicine [1992] explained that within Egyptian mythology, the enema was invented by the god Thoth, often represented with the head of an ibis. In fact, many believe that enemas were discovered through observation of the venerated bird using its curved beak to...

How does Philo Judaeus distinguish the Samaritans in Egypt? It would appear Samaritans of Delos were called "Israelites", c.250-160 BC. So they may have been called (or conflated with) "Hebrews" also. This calls into question the term 'Samaritan' -- what it meant, in different co...