Tag: Egypt

  • Sunday Prayer

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    The Angel (A god who renounced his faith) You asked me what I would like to be in your eyes, I said: God. For a time I granted you favours and punished you. Were you fleeing my grief, when you failed to tell me That you had a cuckold Lord bestowing gifts upon you all…

  • Visit British Museum Website to Play 5000 Year Old Senet Game

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    From Egypt New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC Board games were very popular among all levels of society, especially the game of senet, or ‘passing’. The game was first played in the Predynastic period, and a form of it is still played in Egypt today. Senet could be played with highly decorated sets, plain sets or simply…

  • Similarity between Christianity and Upanishads

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    When the gnostics were labeled as heretics and their writings banned from Christian texts instead of incorporated into them, Christianity lost its own form of mysticism.  In yestereday’s post Vipin Tyagi at the Speaking Tree blog highlights the similarties between some of the gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi and Hinduism. By: Vipin Tyagi A fascinating spiritual aspect…