Category Archives: Ancient sites

Time Lines III… Stuart France

* … “And everywhere literalism rears its convoluted head.” “I’m not sure I know what you mean.” “I mean, I don’t think these people regarded those so called entities as we do.” “Superstitiously?” “Just because one creates a form to … Continue reading

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Time Lines II… Stuart France

* … “In later Assyrian Mythology, Anzu becomes Pazuzu.” “Am I missing something, here?” “Pazuzu is a ‘wind demon’ responsible for bringing plague and pestilence, and whatever else we may think about the notions of a demon, in that region … Continue reading

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Time Lines… Stuart France

* “And what have we here?” says Wen in that provocative way of hers which means she is up to something. “Anzu and Ninurta.” “Nope, not doing it for me.” “Anzu, Guardian of the Threshold, who stole the Tablets of … Continue reading

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Game of Bones… Stuart France

* With what gusto the horizons of our world expand. Our enthusiasm grasps at each new enigma like a child its toy. Perhaps one day the most solemn problems of the past will appear as mere playthings to us… Continue … Continue reading

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Of Sophists and Soporifics… Stuart France

* With the advent of the Peripatetic Philosophers and their schools, where students could learn to aspire, to all that is good in life, and the roaring success of these ventures, came, inevitably, another sort of instruction, one based solely … Continue reading

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Passions 4 God… Stuart France

* True-hearted and importunate… * * Oriental and ecstatic… * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Into the All… Stuart France

* One, is All… Two, the realisation that One is All… Three, the balance of it… Four, the establishment of it… Five, its central essence… Continue reading at Stuart France

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The Importance of Being… Stuart France

* We must hazard that religiosity be a product of normality. Man stands closest to Truth when he is most assured of his eternal destiny. When he contemplates things in this disinterested way he finds death ludicrous and absurd. How … Continue reading

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Amnesia II… Stuart France

* Spontaneous Internal Combustion. You may have heard of the phenomenon? It can now be regarded as the final death-knell for the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Continue reading at Stuart France

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Scribes II… Stuart France

* … “When in doubt,” smiles Wen, producing a battered copy of Longmans from the murky depths of her shoulder bag, and, rather too conspicuously, for my liking, clearing her throat… Sure enough, this unwarranted live event has now started … Continue reading

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