Star and Moon worshipers should be obvious.
The Sun worshipers are obscured somewhat by the cross iconography, but quickly become evident in
imagery of halos![]()
and the coinciding of major holidays with the solar cycle. Along with themes of life, death and rebirth, darkness and light, around the winter solstice and summer equinox, rounded off with sunrise services.
Incidentally, they all consider themselves "above" the worshipers of Earthbound entities, such as Land and Sea, or Thunder and Lightning, or Love and War.
[ + ] Tallest_Skil
[ - ] Tallest_Skil 3 points 3.6 yearsSep 18, 2021 16:25:19 ago (+3/-0)
[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons [op] 2 points 3.6 yearsSep 18, 2021 16:39:41 ago (+2/-0)*
The term doesn't refer to them supporting each other, but to the fact that they share the same origins and lore, and essentially worship the same concept of a God in the heavens... albeit with strong disagreements on details and how exactly one ought to do so.
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[ - ] Her0n 0 points 3.6 yearsSep 18, 2021 23:55:54 ago (+0/-0)
Congrats on falling for it
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[ + ] Paradoxical003
[ - ] Paradoxical003 0 points 3.6 yearsSep 18, 2021 19:35:20 ago (+2/-2)
In addition, tales of resurrected gods, priests with great magical powers imparting divine wisdom, and the inspiration for the modern concept of the afterlife all came from Egyptian Pagans.
Christianity ripped off the story of prometheus and pandoras box with their story of the garden of Eden, as well as the biblical stories of monsters.
It ripped off the flood, the tower, and the story of the underdog vs the invincible foe off of Mesopotamian pagans.
It's just the jews ripping off bits and pieces from all the different pagan religions they came across, this was their practice of sycreticism.
Not to say that they did not put their own spin on it, or that they did not merge it with their own mythologies, but the jews were originally polytheists before becoming monotheistic, and the Christians followed suit.
Look into biblical archeology.
Books like a history of God by Karen Armstrong, and the revelation thst come from looking into the true story of where the tales in the Bible came from.