The Greeks who Worship the Ancient Gods
"Ancient religion embraces every feature of the natural world. The original deities are earth and sky. Sky comes down to earth and copulates and produces all the known features of the world, and also all the gods. So the gods are not external to the world - they are made by the world, they are internal to the world. There are gods of woods, there are gods of rivers, and there are gods of trees.
You never know when you might stumble across a god. All gods were in play, no gods were banned. Greek myths are just stories about the gods, they are not sacred texts in any way - there was no such thing as a Greek bible.
When Christianity came in it claimed it was unique - that there was one God, and all the other gods were false gods, and therefore had to be banished"
You never know when you might stumble across a god. All gods were in play, no gods were banned. Greek myths are just stories about the gods, they are not sacred texts in any way - there was no such thing as a Greek bible.
When Christianity came in it claimed it was unique - that there was one God, and all the other gods were false gods, and therefore had to be banished"
"The whole point of it is that you keep the gods sweet - you scratch their back, they will scratch yours," says Peter Jones, co-founder of Friends of Classics.
"You establish a quid pro quo relationship... It is simply an acknowledgement of the gods, in the hope that the gods will help you," he says. "Values and virtues are entirely meaningless in ancient terms."
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"You establish a quid pro quo relationship... It is simply an acknowledgement of the gods, in the hope that the gods will help you," he says. "Values and virtues are entirely meaningless in ancient terms."
For full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22972610