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Translatability of Divine Names in Ancient Civilizations

No.17511 View View Original Report
The question why so many distinct forms of spirituality and intellectual life may be named and understood as “philosophy”, should perhaps be answered by involving the so-called “principle of translatability”, discussed by Jan Assmann in respect to Egyptian and Near Eastern religions. The conviction that God or the gods are universal led to the semantic dimension that makes names translatable. This means that every nation has essentially the same gods. Therefore the basic structure of the spiritual path leading to first principles everywhere must be analogous, though different in style and details. According to Aristotle (De philosoph., fr.8), wisdom (sophia) covers any ingenious invention and conception (all of which ultimately are gifts, sent down by the gods); therefore to do any thing well, skillfully, according to the divine paradigms and models, is to follow the way of “wisdom” which finally leads to the highest metaphysical goals, to the noetic realm where Wisdom itself, the graceful goddess, dwells. No wonder that every nation loves wisdom and has certain “lovers of wisdom”, be they goldsmiths, artists, healers, singers, priests, or magicians. The practice of translating and interpreting foreign divine names is found already established in the Sumerian and Akkadian glossaries dated from the third millennium B.C. In ancient Mesopotamia one can find countless lists of gods in two or three languages. For example, the explanatory list Anu sha Ameli gives not only the Sumerian and Akkadian names of the gods, but also the functional definitions of every deity, i.e. those attributes which serve as the main criteria for equation and translation. In the Kassite period (about 1730-1155 B.C.) such explanatory lists are expanded to include the divine names in Amorite, Hurrite, Elamite and Kassite languages. This theological interpretation, aimed at making explicit the underlying “meaning” of divine names, is based on universal metaphysics (covered by the mythical images, qualities, symbols) and international law. According to Jan Assmann: “The names, iconographies, and rites – in short, the cultures – differ, but the gods are the same. This concept of religion as the common background of cultural diversity and the principle of cultural translatability eventually led to the late Hellenistic mentality for which the names of the gods mattered little in view of the overwhelming natural evidence of their existence”. This kind of comparative hermeneutics is not explicitly developed in the early pharaonic Egypt due to its closed and self-sufficient character, but Egyptian metaphysics are even more overwhelmingly based upon evident reality and can serve as a firm theological ground for such practices as flourished especially in Hellenistic times. In the Coffin Texts of the Middle Kingdom (2040-1650 B.C.) it is unequivocally stated: all names are those of one God (CT 4.10). God is both transcendent and immanent. In his immanent aspect of the creative theophany, God is “million” (or infinity, heh) into which he has transformed himself. Therefore the intelligible solar Deity is hehu whose limits are not known, scarab (kheper) whose body is not known, for he is like the boundless Light (Leiden stela V.70). The One who transforms himself into the totality of manifestations (kheperu), divine forces (sekhemu), all of the gods (neteru) and levels of being, nonetheless remains intact in his transcendence. All gods are comprised in the One, “the One Alone who created what is, the illustrious bau of gods and humans” (Pap. Berlin 3030.8-9).
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Red Horse

No.17855 View View Original Report
Meaning of trump: alteration of "triumph", to trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something, often in a highly public way.
Picrel: Left is trumpetto, Right is triumphator, both with painted faces. Speaking in the Roman sense.
What mean?
Is there schizo meaning?
Is this mf something like the Second Horseman representing Civil War?

No.17857 View View Original Report
I have died about 6 times in my lifetime. First time was 2016. I lost the only girl I ever loved in a pathetic online relationship and for years thought she had killed herself. Second time was 2018. I discovered my sex addiction, and how trapped it made me feel in a disgusting flesh prison of pleasure and fleeting ghosts. Third time was in 2020, discovering a tumor in the back of my soul. I didn't want to believe it, nobody does. But I know it for a fact and it gives me the reason and obligation as an American citizen to die in the most painful and drawn out way possible. Nobody else would oblige sadly, including myself. The fourth time was in this year, thinking maybe August or September, I got a gun from my garage to finally do it after arguing with my mom on the current state of the monarchy leaving me futureless and destitute, derelict and desperate. I went to the tunnel, but wanted to call the only king I serve, semi-boyfriend, His Majesty, possibly God Himself. He talked me out of it somehow, but I was brought to a mental hospital. This was where my fifth death happened, realizing there was no way for me to die with the least amount of harm caused unto others. I will be stuck this way forever, and nobody will let me die because I fulfill them. I think I'm finally dead for real this time, His Majesty's becoming an antisemite and I'm too dumb and Jewish around him to tell him that I am in fact Jewish and that it scares me. And I can't interact with anyone without him needing me and reminding me how much I really do love him. How amazing and unique and smart and a breath of fresh air he is to me. I just wish I was submissive enough to turn my brain off and let cognitive dissonance be, but I can't under all this racket. Hypocritical cock sucking father who is a goofball sometimes and has his moments. God will save me from being a faggot, because the smiling face on the video a faggot no more. So many faces, face after face after face.

No.17847 View View Original Report
Do you believe that Stan Meyer was assassinated?
For those who don't know, he created a fuel cell in the 90's that could utilise water to power his ICE sandrail.
On a meeting with his investors, he suddenly ran outside, shouted that he had been poisoned and died after that.
As an avid automotive autist, I suppose that it might as well be functional, considering that larger automotive companies (Toyota with their Mirai and Yaris H2) did succeed with using hydrogen as a fuel source.

No.17843 View View Original Report
I'm tortured every day in my dreams, life, and psyche by 1 if not many demons who are mostly people I used to know irl
I think it's because I angered this groomer glowey by hindering their succubus fag training process on one of their subjects by turning her into a normal person for a time but this was quickly reverted and after this I was goy beamed worse than ever before, I would legit have wet dreams at least 2 times a week and I was and am still doing nofap (this has been going on for 2 years) in my dreams the girl I thought I loved (who was the one I almost saved from getting groomed) would watch me from a distance in every one of my dreams and then do something like leave or ignore me to mentally harm me, today I'm doing hardly any better, mostly because this groomer whore jew demon is tormenting me through controlling Mexicans in loud ass cars to annoy me as much as possible when I go for walks or when I'm sleeping, I've tested this out and for an unexplainable reason these Mexicans niggers and wiggers will only be as loud as possible when I'm doing something peaceful
My dreams are mostly the same and I feel as though everything I try doesn't change my dreams, after resisting a random but powerful sinful urge that was probably goy beamed into my head I'm feeling better and that I hopefully become immune to this
I'm sure the glowie groomer fag HERself will see this as they spy on everything I do and if they don't hide this post from everyone else on this board then I hope you have advice or encouragement

Pigeons are committing suicide

No.17807 View View Original Report
I was in the car with my dad and then suddenly a pigeon dives towards the car with the purpose of getting crushed by the wheels but failed, the same thing happened but i was taking a taxi, the pigeon went towards the wheels but the car managed to dodge it. Why the fuck are they doing that?
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