Hammer and Vajra

Hammer and Vajra

Christmas Angels, Greek Goddess, Muses, and Valkyrie. https://www.tgoop.com/hammerandvajra/3837

The Shepards seeing the Angels to herald Christ's Birth is the same vein of tradition as Hesiod's Theogony.

This is intentional. The Angels tell the coming of a Messiah and ultimately Gospel, while the Goddess and Muses show/tell the Cosmology and Cosmogony of the Greek religion.

In many ways, the Germanic Valkyrie (Old English wælcyrge) being Disr repersnt something similar directly thought they are not the ones telling the Lore but heralding victory or change.

Luke 2:8-15

"8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

Hesiod's Theogony translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
[1914]

"And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me -- the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis:

(ll. 26-28) `Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things.' "

These connections are apparent. The New Testament was mostly written in a form of Greek called Koine, and the Christians of the time would have known of these beliefs. Even the Hebrews would have and often had a view of the Angels as lesser deities or aspects of the divine, which they derived first from Mesopotamia then Zoroastrian Persian. Just as the Old Testament tapped into or directly borrowed from other Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Cannanite, and Caucasian myths, so too did the New Testament continue these influences as well as adding its contemporaries.

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The Shepards seeing the Angels to herald Christ's Birth is the same vein of tradition as Hesiod's Theogony.

This is intentional. The Angels tell the coming of a Messiah and ultimately Gospel, while the Goddess and Muses show/tell the Cosmology and Cosmogony of the Greek religion.

In many ways, the Germanic Valkyrie (Old English wælcyrge) being Disr repersnt something similar directly thought they are not the ones telling the Lore but heralding victory or change.

Luke 2:8-15

"8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”

13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”

Hesiod's Theogony translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
[1914]

"And one day they taught Hesiod glorious song while he was shepherding his lambs under holy Helicon, and this word first the goddesses said to me -- the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis:

(ll. 26-28) `Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things.' "

These connections are apparent. The New Testament was mostly written in a form of Greek called Koine, and the Christians of the time would have known of these beliefs. Even the Hebrews would have and often had a view of the Angels as lesser deities or aspects of the divine, which they derived first from Mesopotamia then Zoroastrian Persian. Just as the Old Testament tapped into or directly borrowed from other Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Cannanite, and Caucasian myths, so too did the New Testament continue these influences as well as adding its contemporaries.

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