At the crossroads of ancient trade routes, religions cross-pollinated

Romans were already in charge of the area in 6th century BCE, having had wrested it from various Mithraic kingdoms circa 80 BCE, and Mithraics were Persian offshoots likely exiled from Magist Persia. Both Judaism and Christianity can't be traced to a single religious predecessor because both are amalgams of many.

Lest we forget that Greeks had already been through there prior to the Mithraics, so they're in this mix too...and Greek mythology was quite separate from Rome's until Rome got the better of them and concocted parallels, generating GrecoRoman this and that. I don't recall where I read this, but archeological excavations around the Israel town of Ashkelon (now bombed to smithereens), a conclusion was arrived at that Philistines were actually Greeks.

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♲ DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍 - 2024-07-21 03:52:29 GMT

TIL that the Yahweh, the god of the bible, prior to taking on wholly monotheistic attributes in the 6th century BCE, was part of the Canaanite pantheon of gods, worshipped by this minor Bronze Age tribe in the northwest Arabian Desert.At some point, the worship of Yahweh was borrowed by the Israelites and Judahites, who eventually adopted the deity as their own, and still later as their only, god.

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