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Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition podcast. I'm your host, Jack Logan. Great to have all of you listening in today. In our last episode, we established that both the ancient Egyptians and ancient

Mesopotamians

unequivocally claimed that their religious traditions were revealed to human beings by a

supreme being. In the ancient Egyptian record, we find hundreds and hundreds of references

inscribed inside the tombs, on temple walls, on steles, as well as written on

important papyri like the Book of the Dead and the Torin Pyrrhus, claiming the God Thoth

revealed every single aspect of ancient Egyptian temple worship and the accompanying funerary

rights to human beings. And I haven't exposed to you a lot of those references yet,

but they'll play an important role in reconstructing the ancient tradition in the near future.

They're definitely in the pipeline. We also read a fascinating account in the epic of Gilgamesh,

where Unappish Tim, the Mesopotamian Noah, recounts to King Gilgamesh,

quote, a matter most secret, a mystery of gods, in which before he and his wife entered the

ark, the chief god of the Sumerian pantheon, and Lil, appeared in the ark and beckoned

Unapish Tim and his wife to join him on the boat.

And there, the god Anil revealed a mystery and performed a sacred right, the outcome of which

Unappish Tim and his wife received eternal life. And in both cases, the religious tradition was

revealed by a supreme being. And in both cases, the supreme being either revealed the religious tradition was revealed by a supreme being. In both cases, the supreme

being either revealed the religious tradition in a temple setting or the religious tradition

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