Emperor Julian's Christmyth Message

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Emperor Julian's Christmyth Message

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Well he may have called it his "Galilaeanmas Message" :)

FULL TEXT: http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/J ... Kronia.htm

COMMENCES:

  • "It is the season of the Kronia, [1] during which the
    god allows us to make merry. But, my dear friend,
    as I have no talent for amusing or entertaining I
    must methinks take pains not to talk mere nonsense."

    • "But, Caesar, can there be anyone so dull and
      stupid as to take pains over jesting? I always
      thought that such pleasantries were a relaxation of
      the mind and a relief from pains and cares."
    "Yes, and no doubt your view is correct, but that
    is not how the matter strikes me. For by nature I
    have no turn for raillery, or parody, or raising a
    laugh. But since I must obey the ordinance of the
    god of the festival, should you like me to relate to
    you by way of entertainment a myth in which there
    is perhaps much worth hearing?"
    • "I shall listen with great pleasure, for I too am not
      one to despise myths, and I am far from rejecting
      those that have the right tendency; indeed I am of
      the same opinion as you and your admired, or rather
      the universally admired, Plato. He also often
      conveyed a serious lesson in his myths."

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Did Julian convey a serious message in his myth?




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A "cobbler of fables" [Augustine]; "Leucius is the disciple of the devil" [Decretum Gelasianum]; and his books "should be utterly swept away and burned" [Pope Leo I]; they are the "source and mother of all heresy" [Photius]
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