"Several important religions and religious movements
originated in Greater Iran, that is, among speakers of various Iranian
languages and hence with an Iranian cultural background. Moreover, Iranians
played a significant role in the development and transmission of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_religions
These include:
- Zoroastrianism (and Zurvanism or "Zurvanite
Zoroastrianism") a monist dualism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian
- Mandaeism a gnostic monotheism that observed "Knowledge
of Life". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism
- Manichaeism may
have been influenced by Mandaeism but actually Mandaeism and Manichaeism seem
to be independent – to some degree opposing – developments out of the
mainstream Sabian religious community.
- Sabians a monotheistic Abrahamic religious group mentioned
three times in the Quran: "the Jews, the Sabians, and the
Christians.". Their identity is still a matter of discussion and
investigation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabians
- Sufism has monotheism as its practical aspect, believed in
a direct perception of spiritual truth (God), through mystic practices based on
divine love. .... A great influence was
exercised by Sufism upon the ethical writings of Jews in the Middle Ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism
Greco-Roman mysteries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries
- Dionysian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysian_Mysteries
- Orphism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphic_Mysteries
- Sabazios http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabazius
- Cybele http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybele
- Isis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
- Mithraic mysteries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism
Mithra - whose rituals formed the template for early
Christinaity (e.g. the birthday of Mithras was on December 25.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra
Mithraism - Dress Rehearsal for Christianity http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/Mithraism.html
MITHRAS = CHRISTIANITY? http://jdstone.org/cr/files/mithraschristianity.html
Mithraism and Early Christianity http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/mithraism.html
Did Christianity Steal From Mithraism? http://www.comereason.org/cmp_rlgn/cmp070.asp
and so on... ...
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Analyzing the data
How do we proceed if we want to make sense from this mass of
data? One way is to examine the iconography for stylistic and technical aspects. The
artist and restorer Alexander Zhabinsky discovered many parallels
in art. By arranging works of art in terms of increasing complexity in the representation
Zhabinsky found that art history, as outlined by Winckelmann, fits onto a wavy
line, which he called a "sine wave". His discovery is called
Zhabinsky's Sinusoid. This discovery, it later turned out, could be applied not
only to dating works of art, but also literature and science. Overall, the Sinusoid
illustrates the artificiality of the traditional chronology. Note that the Sinusoid is within the Chronotron school of thought, which fits alongside New Chronology Fomenko Novosky and Project Civilization, as the 3 main Russian methodologies.
The whole of his book is available online in Russian, but some
pages are in English:
http://newarthistory.eu/eng/index.html
http://newarthistory.eu/eng/index.html?raising_falls.html
For some "testing" of the idea see the following *Russian*
pages:
http://chronology.org.ru/newwiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE
http://imperia.lirik.ru/index.php/content/view/10/7/
Edited by shokdee - 30-Jul-2011 at 06:53