You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

It's great to be with you today. It's a wonderful day. I'm glad that you've decided to join us for today's episode. I'm going to just jump right in

today. In our previous episode, we saw that in the ancient Near East, the bulk of religious

texts in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Canaan, and even the Bible, when read in the

Theo-historic historical context of the ancient Near East, attest that God and his wife are the parents of a

divine family. In fact, the backdrop of the vast majority of ancient Near Eastern religious texts

are built upon the theological scaffolding of a divine family. Nearly all of the major figures in the ancient Near East,

be it Atum, Osiris, Isis, Horus, or Hathor in ancient Egypt, as well as the earthly Pharaoh

himself, or On, Kyi, Nil, Marduk, Nenurtha, or Nihirsaug in ancient Mesopotamia,

as well as the earthly King Naram Sim himself, or El, Asher, Abol, Anot, or Yam among the Canaanites are members of a divine family.

It's not possible to fully comprehend the vast majority of the religious texts in the ancient Near East without recognizing how the figures in those texts are directly tied to the larger fabric of a divine family.

Nearly every religious text in the ancient Near East attests to the doctrine of a divine family. And the divine family constitutes the core construct

of the religious traditions we find in ancient Greece, in Rome, in China, Japan, Mesoamerica,

Scandinavia, among others. This makes the doctrine of a divine family a pretty substantial stubborn bit.

It's my contention that the prevalence of the doctrine of a divine family, which we can trace

all the way back to the world's earliest known religious text, the Keshe Temple hem,

constitutes a pure teaching that was taught in the beginning and which forms a central tenet of the ancient tradition.

In our last episode, we saw textual evidence that spoke of God's wife giving birth to both gods and human beings,

indicating that we human beings are the children of divine parents and part of

a divine family. In today's episode, we're going to take a look at some of the myths that are told

around the world that attest, like we saw in our last episode, that we human beings, you and me,

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