Are Judaism and Christianity henotheistic?
The Roman Catholic Church is also monotheistic.
Henotheism involves the exclusive worship of one god while acknowledging the possible existence of other gods, which is different from the strictly monotheistic beliefs of both Judaism and the Roman Catholic Church.
Therefore, neither Judaism nor the Roman Catholic Church can be categorized as henotheistic.
The Roman Catholic Church does similarly in acknowledging historical or cultural references to other gods but does not accept their divinity.
Mount Zaphon
In the Greco-Roman period, Mount Zaphon became known as Mount Casius.
The Roman emperor Hadrian is known to have visited Mount Casius to make offerings, highlighting the mountain's continued religious importance into later periods.
Both the Ugaritic texts and later Greco-Roman sources indicate the existence of temples and shrines on the mountain where ritual activities took place.
Under Hellenistic and Roman rule, the identification of Baal Zaphon with Zeus Kasios transformed the cultic activities at the mountain.
Greeks and Romans built their own temples on Mount Zaphon, and the god was now honored as Zeus, ruler of all gods.
This syncretism allowed local traditions to be maintained while also aligning with the broader religious culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Its association with Baal, its influence on Biblical writers, and its adoption into Greco-Roman religious practice highlight its significance as a site of both spiritual power and cultural convergence.
Flood Stories from Around the World
Roman:Jupiter, angered at the evil ways of humanity, resolved to destroy it.
2/16/2002: New Roman myth from Frazer's Golden Bough.
The Story of History Education
The authority of the Roman Church and other religious institutions helped ensure that this version of history was passed down for generations, forming the basis for what many students learned about the origins of the world and humanity.
1 Million Souls Lost: The Dark Crusade Against the Cathars
The Roman Catholic Church regarded these views as a severe threat.
Earth’s history spanned approximately 6,000 years
Galileo was placed under investigation by the Roman Catholic Inquisition because of his support for the heliocentric theory, which contradicted the church's teaching of a geocentric universe.
The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
361.) The Romans, even, in later times, worshipped the sun at Emesa, under the name of Elagabalus, "typified in the form of a black conical stone, which it was believed had fallen from heaven." The conical stone was the emblem of Bel.
The highly civilized Romans made gods out of their dead emperors.
Where two names are given to a deity in the above list, the first name is that bestowed by the Greeks, the last that given by the Romans.
We have seen Chronos identified with the Atlantic, called by the Romans the "Chronian Sea." He was known to the Romans under the name of Saturn, and ruled over "a great Saturnian continent" in the Western Ocean.
The Roman Saturnalia was a remembrance of the Atlantean colonization.
We find a reminiscence of it in the Roman "Carnival."
Artificial Deformation of the Skull
The Greek and Roman writers had mentioned this practice, but it was long totally forgotten by the civilized world, until it was discovered, as an unheard-of wonder, to be the usage among the Carib Islanders, and several Indian tribes in North America.
The Bronze Age in Europe
This age continued down to what we call the Historical Period, and embraces our present civilization; its more ancient remains are mixed with coins of the Gauls, Greeks, and Romans.
The Bronze Age cannot be attributed to the Roman civilization.
21) that bronze weapons have never been found associated with Roman coins or pottery, or other remains of the Roman Period; that bronze articles have been found in the greatest abundance in countries like Ireland and Denmark, which were never invaded by Roman armies; and that the character of the ornamentation of the works of bronze is not Roman in character, and that the Roman bronze contained a large proportion of lead, which is never the case in that of the Bronze Age.
383.) He says, "It seems surprising that the nearest neighbors of the Phœnicians--the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and the Romans--should have manufactured plumbiferous bronzes, while the Phœnicians carried to the people of the North only pure bronzes without the alloy of lead.
And as this commerce could not, as we have seen, have been carried on by the Romans, Greeks, Etruscans, or Phœnicians, because their civilizations flourished during the Iron Age, to which this age of bronze was anterior, where then are we to look for a great maritime and commercial people, who carried vast quantities of copper, tin, and bronze (unalloyed by the lead of the south of Europe) to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, England, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy?
Ancient Galley, From A Roman Coin.
If the bronze implements of Europe had been derived from the Phœnicians, Greeks, Etruscans, or Romans, the nearer we approached the site of those nations the greater should be the number of bronze weapons we would find; but the reverse is the case.
What race was there, other than the people of Atlantis, that existed before the Iron Age-before the Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Phœnician--that was civilized, that worked in metals, that carried on a commerce with all parts of Europe?
Archangel Michael Testimony
He saw a tall angel, about 3 meters in height, with large wings, Roman-style armor, and a golden chest plate.
The angel resembled a Roman centurion and radiated blue and white light.
The Origin of Our Alphabet
The "first Hermes," here referred to (afterward called Mercury by the Romans), was a son of Zeus and Maia, a daughter of Atlas.
The Romans converted the g into c; and then, finding the necessity for a g Sign, made one by adding a tail-piece to the c (C, G).
The Romans added the y.
In the archaic Phœnician the sign for t is and ; the oldest Greek form is or and the later Greeks gave it to the Romans , and modified this into ; the old Hebrew gave it as and ; the Moab stone as ; this became in time and .
[paragraph continues]; we turn to the Ethiopian q (khua), and we find it , as qua, ; while the Phœnician comes still nearer the supposed Maya form in ; the Moab stone was ; the Himyaritic Arabian form became ; the Greek form was , which graduated into the Roman Q.
The hieratic Egyptian figure for g was ; in the earlier Greek form the left limb of the figure was shortened, thus, ; the later Greeks reversed it, and wrote it ; the Romans, changed this into and it finally became C.
The first contains a curious figure, precisely like our r laid on its back , There is, apparently, no r in the Maya alphabet; and the Roman r grew out of the later Phœnician r formed thus, ; it would appear that the earliest Phœnician alphabet did not contain the letter r.
The archaic Phœnician form of l was , or ; the archaic Hebrew was and ; the hieratic Egyptian was ; the Greek form was --the Roman L.
The Question of Complexion
I have seen among them as comely European-like faces of both sexes as on your side of the sea; and truly an Italian complexion hath not much more of the white, and the noses of several of them have as much of the Roman.
He groups the Assyrians, Phœnicians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Andalusians, Bretons, dark Welshmen, and people of the Caucasus into one body, and designates them as "dark whites." The Himyarite Arabs, as I have shown, derived their name originally from their red color, and they were constantly depicted on the Egyptian monuments as red or light
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
They had, both in Peru and Mexico, a system of posts, by means of which news was transmitted hundreds of miles in a day, precisely like those known among the Persians in the time of Herodotus, and subsequently among the Romans.
To this day the Brahman of India "churns" his sacred fire out of a board by boring into it with a stick; the Romans renewed their sacred fire in the same way; and in Sweden even now a "need-fire is kindled in this manner when cholera or other pestilence is about." (Tylor's "Anthropology," p.
The Romans under Numa had precisely the same custom.
The Indian prays to the spirits of his forefathers; the Chinese religion is largely "ancestor-worship;" and the rites paid to the dead ancestors, or lares, held the Roman family together." ("Anthropology," p.
178.) Says Prudentius, the Roman bard, "there were as many temples of gods as sepulchres."
The same custom prevailed among the Romans--the cypress was dedicated to Pluto, and the palm to Victory.
Among the Romans, the Chinese, the Abyssinians, and the Indians of Canada the singular custom prevails of lifting the bride over the door-step of her husband's home.
"The bride-cake which so invariably accompanies a wedding among ourselves, and which must always be cut by the bride, may be traced back to the old Roman form of marriage by 'conferreatio,' or eating together.
Among many American tribes, notably in Brazil, the husband captured the wife by main force, as the men of Benjamin carried off the daughters of Shiloh at the feast, and as the Romans captured the Sabine women.
Civilization an Inheritance
Wherever the Romans came in contact with Gauls, or Britons, or German tribes, they found them armed with weapons of iron.
The Scots, according to Tacitus, used chariots and iron swords in the battle of the Grampians--"enormes gladii sine mucrone." The Celts of Gaul are stated by Diodorus Siculus to have used iron-headed spears and coats-of-mail, and the Gauls who encountered the Roman arms in B.C.
The difference between the civilization of the Romans under Julius Cæsar and
The Roman civilization was simply a development and perfection of the civilization possessed by all the European populations; it was drawn from the common fountain of Atlantis.
Some Consideration of the Deluge Legends
"A little after 11 o'clock A.M., soon after high-mass in the Roman Catholic cathedral, and while divine service was still going on in the Anglican and Wesleyan chapels, all the indications of an approaching thunder-storm suddenly showed themselves; the atmosphere, which just previously had been cool and pleasant--slight showers falling since early morning--became at once nearly stifling hot; the rumbling of distant thunder was heard, and the light-blue and fleecy white of the sky turned into a heavy and lowering black.
The Deluge Legends of America
The last thing a people forgets is the name of their god; we retain to this day, in the names of the days of the week, the designations of four Scandinavian gods and one Roman deity.
The Story of Atlantis
From the time of the Greeks and the Romans onwards volumes have been written about every people who in their turn have filled the stage of history.
But the hundreds of thousands of years which elapsed from the time when the earliest Aryans left their home on the shores of the central Asian Sea to the time of the Greeks and Romans, bore witness to the rise and fall of innumerable civilizations.
It is only with the rise of the last family shoots of this Keltic stock, viz., the Greek and Roman peoples, that we come upon historic times.
The Gauls possessed traditions of Atlantis which were collected by the Roman historian, Timagenes, who lived in the first century, b.c. Three distinct peoples apparently dwelt in Gaul.
No such system of water supply has ever been attempted in Greek, Roman or modern times—indeed it is very doubtful whether our ablest engineers, even at the expenditure of untold wealth, could produce such a result.
The Oera Linda Book
He therefore wrote in the middle of the last century before Christ, and knew of the conquest of Gaul by the Romans.
Of the Gauls we read on page 84 that they were called the “Missionaries of Sydon.” And on page 124 “that the Gauls are Druids.” The Gauls, then, were Druids, and the name Galli, used for the whole nation, was really only the name of an order of priesthood brought from the East, just as among the Romans the Galli were priests of Cybele.
The story of Ulysses was not brought here for the first time by the Romans.
In fact, we find here the prototype of the Roman Vestal Virgins.
If we find among the Frisians a belief in a Godhead [xx]and ideas of religion entirely different from the Mythology of other nations, we are the more surprised to find in some points the closest connection with the Greek and Roman Mythology, and even with the origin of two deities of the highest rank, Min-erva and Neptune.
In later times we find her on the Roman votive stones in Walcheren, under the name of Nehallenia, worshipped as a goddess of navigation; and Pallas is worshipped by the Athenians as the protecting goddess of shipbuilding and navigation.
The name Batavi is of Roman origin.
The Romans gave it to the inhabitants of the banks of the Waal, which river bears the name Patabus in the “Tabula Pentingeriana.” The name Batavi does not appear earlier than Tacitus and Pliny, and is interpolated in Cæsar’s “Bello Gallico,” iv.
Pomponius Festus, de verborum Significatione, we find “Min-erva dicta quod bene moneat.” See Preller, Roman Mythology, p.
These people and the Romans are constantly struggling for the supremacy over the Mediterranean Sea.
The Romans, moreover, live at enmity with the Phœnicians; and their priests, who wish to assume the sole government of the world, cannot bear the sight of the Gauls.
Andromedans 11th Ylo Pt. 2/2. Gitmo. History is a Lie. Religious Warning
They reference two incidents involving wealthy individuals and a pedophile ring, as well as the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski in Switzerland, which did receive some media coverage.
Birthright series (#2 part 2) Robert Nelson
It is explained that the Roman Empire, specifically Emperor Justinian, sought to standardize Christianity into a coherent doctrine, leading to the creation of the Bible as we know it.
Channeled Atlantis: Steiner, Tesla & Cayce
LaFlem traced the evolution of Atlantis' story through various periods, including Greek, Roman, and Dark Ages folklore.
Atlantis / Earth College Channeling
He described how some beings siphon Earth's energy for their own purposes, likening the situation to the Roman Coliseum, where powerful entities control humanity from behind the scenes.
Did Jesus believe about the ELOHIM and YAHWEH stories?
Constantine, the Roman emperor, adopted the cross as a Christian symbol, blending it with pre-existing religious imagery.
The Earth Experiment
Debbie reflects on the cyclical nature of civilizations, citing examples like Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Roman Empire.
The Sea Peoples and the Philistines
Shekelesh: Linked to pre-Roman Cilicia or possibly Sicily.
Likely linked to pre-Roman Cilicia in southern Anatolia [coordinates n="36.8006" e="34.6400" z="6"] or possibly Sicily [coordinates n="37.6000" e="14.0154" z="6"].
Changing Consiousness
The Roman Church, in particular, destroyed alternative spiritual practices, labeling them heretical.
Elementals
Elementals derive from ancient Greek and Roman ideas of the four classical elements, which were thought to constitute all matter.
The Phoenicians
Despite a brief resurgence of Phoenician influence in the west through Carthage, the Phoenician city-states in the Levant were absorbed into the Roman Empire by the 1st century BC.