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Burning bones and sacrifices to gods

nico.carlton

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I was reading the Illiad and Odyssey and they make frequent notices to the reader that they burned bones and killed there food in honor of the gods.

Do you think this is an allegory, or is this just a good way to win favor with the gods/show respect/send them energy? I think it is the latter.
 
Those books are allegories. The animals represent different powers of the soul. In Egypt that had the Apis bulls that where mummified upon death and buried in the chambers below the temple. Because the animals where totems of the Gods. And the powers they symbolically represent.
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  I was reading the Illiad and Odyssey and they make frequent notices to the reader that they burned bones and killed there food in honor of the gods.

Do you think this is an allegory, or is this just a good way to win favor with the gods/show respect/send them energy? I think it is the latter.

 
I had been wondering about that myself. Lol. Now I have my answer, it
seems. Fascinating concept, this...I shall have to read through the
Iliad and Odyssey more thoroughly. ^ Hail Father Satan always! Hail
Lord Andras!

On 2/6/13, Forums Contributor < wrote:
Those books are allegories. The animals represent different powers of the
soul. In Egypt that had the Apis bulls that where mummified upon death and
buried in the chambers below the temple. Because the animals where totems of
the Gods. And the powers they symbolically represent.



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Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 8:41:40 PM
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I was reading the Illiad and Odyssey and they make frequent notices to the
reader that they burned bones and killed there food in honor of the gods.

Do you think this is an allegory, or is this just a good way to win favor
with the gods/show respect/send them energy? I think it is the latter.
 
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Ok, yes, I see - the christians have altered the writings drastically than, so much so as to fool me into thinking people made actual animal sacrifices and related to the gods, because they have worded it very cleverly as such.

I really like the classical greek literature, at the end of the day, even if they have been altered, because they show the great connection all gentiles had with our gods.

At Sparta, in the Odyssey, the King Neleus or Menelaus, i forget which one exactly, calls Poseidon God, and says that no man can live with out God.

Lucifer Forever
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I had been wondering about that myself. Lol. Now I have my answer, it
seems. Fascinating concept, this...I shall have to read through the
Iliad and Odyssey more thoroughly. ^ Hail Father Satan always! Hail
Lord Andras!

On 2/6/13, Forums Contributor wrote:
Those books are allegories. The animals represent different powers of the
soul. In Egypt that had the Apis bulls that where mummified upon death and
buried in the chambers below the temple. Because the animals where totems of
the Gods. And the powers they symbolically represent.



________________________________
From: nico.carlton
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 8:41:40 PM
Subject: Burning bones and sacrifices to gods



I was reading the Illiad and Odyssey and they make frequent notices to the
reader that they burned bones and killed there food in honor of the gods.

Do you think this is an allegory, or is this just a good way to win favor
with the gods/show respect/send them energy? I think it is the latter.
 

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