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- From: millerl@jeremiah.wharton.upenn.edu (Loren J. Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.mythology
- Subject: Re: The creation of Eve
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- Date: 25 Jul 92 15:35:43 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.183846.15647@nmsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul24.183846.15647@nmsu.edu> sindiogi@dewey.NMSU.Edu (INDIOGINE) writes:
- >Question: the creation of Eve in Genesis chapter 2 (?) involves one of
- >Adam's ribs. I read somewhere (? I do not remember where) that the story
- >Question: does anyone know about residuals of the ancestral cult of the
- >Mother Goddess in the Bible?
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- I don't know the answers to these questions.
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- >Question: in the book of Genesis Jacob erects a pillar stome and pours
- >oil over it. Would this be a Menhir? Is it correlated with the phallic
- >cult like the Lingam in India? Why would Jacob pour oil on it?
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- The common procedure for sacrifice is to pour scented oils and spices
- over whatever is being consecrated. Jacob was consecrating the pillar
- stone as the basis of a cairn of witness, a sacred object or emissary
- of the divine to witness an oath or agreement. By performing the
- sacrifice of oil on the stone, he summoned a witnessing power into the
- cairn which was able to give force to his agreement with his father in
- law Laban. I don't think it has much to do with phallic cults, mostly
- because they covered up or surrounded the pillar with other stones to
- form a cairn.
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- Loren Miller <MILLERL@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu>
- All our patients here are suffering from severe over-acting. When
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