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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: April 18, 2018 01:41PM
Viracocha = Elohim, Kon Tiki = Jesus ... ?

https://www.ancient.eu/Viracocha/

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: April 18, 2018 02:36PM
Re: Viracocha = Elohim, Kon Tiki = Jesus ... ?

Um...

Yes, ideas about a "creator god" were common among human societies.

No, they weren't the "same god."

The stories about them are completely different (other than, usually, them being a "creator," and less often being the main god among many gods).

That lots of human cultures had "creator god" ideas speaks to our evolved propensity to assign "causality." That they're almost all VERY different speaks to our human ability for imagination. Nothing in the "creator god" stories implies or supports the oft-made claim that all humans "sense" the one-true-god (whichever one is claimed to be the one-true-god) in any way.

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Posted by: slskipper ( )
Date: April 18, 2018 08:38PM
Re: Viracocha = Elohim, Kon Tiki = Jesus ... ?

(1) Check out Joseph Campbell (and a host of others)

(2) Look out for the all caps here: IT WOULD BE EXACTLY AS CORRECT TO SAY THAT ELOHIM IS A STAND-IN FOR VIRACOCHA AND JESUS WAS BASED ON THE REAL SAVIOR, WHOSE NAME IS KON-TIKI. THAT'S THE WAY EQUALS SIGNS WORK. THEY GO BOTH WAYS.

Really, folks. It is not required by the laws of the Universe that everything ends up pointing the way to Jesus. No, really. The folks who wrote the Jesus stories patterned their narrative after time-honored, standardized themes and tropes that folks have been using for millennia to describe really remarkable guys.

Planck's constant is universal. The superiority of Jesus over all other savior guys is not.

Should I go on?

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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: April 18, 2018 08:52PM
Interesting

Actually I was trying to find out how LD$, Inc. tries to sell their history and their concept of god the avatar of god to in South America -- indiginous or not.

They probably aren't pushing this stuff nowadays.

"Christ In America"
http://www.lds-mormon.com/christ_i.shtml



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/18/2018 08:54PM by anybody.

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Posted by: Elyse ( )
Date: April 19, 2018 01:10PM
Re: Viracocha = Elohim, Kon Tiki = Jesus ... ?

Amerigo Vespucci had nothing to do with the naming of America.

America was actually named after the snake god Ameru

AMERUCA, was what the natives called their country when asked by the Spaniards.

Ameru is also known as Quetzalcoatl or Veracocca, the Feathered Sepent(s) in different parts of the country.

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