Sea Monsters, Sea Serpents & Leviathans

The Ancient Tradition

Jack Logan

God, Religion, Comparative Religion, Ancient Religion, True Religion, Religion & Spirituality, History

2.4 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Brace yourself! For the ancient chronicles tell us that before the creation unfolded, a colossal leviathan, so hideous and unimaginably sinister that it induced terror in all who contemplated it, prowled the depths of the primordial waters. But there’s a twist that defies reason- they describe this sea monster as “glistening”, a creature adorned with an otherworldly radiance akin to the lustrous gleam of yellow gold. A grotesque monster that shines like gold? Join us i...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the ancient tradition.
0:11.8	A Wonk Media production.
0:15.4	Music provided by Joseph McDade.
0:18.2	Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan. Welcome to the program. I'm Jack Logan. I'm happy to be back and I'm happy to have you back and welcome to all of our new listeners. So glad to have you with us too. Today we're going to have a lot of fun because we're going to talk about monsters.
0:39.9	Sea monsters in particular, the mammoth, hideous monster that lurks in the filthy sludge
0:47.3	in the bottom of the ocean.
0:50.8	So this sea creature is really important in the ancient tradition. So don't count this episode out
0:56.7	if you aren't interested in sea dragons or sea serpents because all of this stuff is relevant
1:01.8	to a full understanding of the ancient tradition. And if you hang on until the end, you're going to
1:07.3	learn about a remarkable connection between this sea creature and the clothing
1:12.3	worn by the high priest in the ancient Hebrew tradition. It's pretty fascinating stuff.
1:20.1	For the past couple of episodes, we've been talking about the creation. And I've mentioned this many
1:26.8	times, but the ancients placed extraordinary importance on the creation. And I've mentioned this many times, but the ancients placed extraordinary
1:29.0	importance on the creation, because it was through the narrative of the creation that the
1:34.5	ancients taught important spiritual doctrines. So if we want to understand the theology of the ancient
1:40.7	tradition, then we have to understand what they taught in their creation
1:44.6	stories, or we're going to miss a lot of great stuff. To this point in the podcast, we've
1:50.1	established with a lot of help from the research that was done by Marinus van der Sloos on the ancient
1:55.9	creation stories, that the ancients have a pretty uniform account of the creation. In fact, we can trace
2:03.0	most of the motifs, which I call here the pillars of creation, back to the very dawn of civilization,
2:11.8	which is, of course, exactly what we'd expect if the ancient tradition were revealed in the very
2:17.2	beginning. So so far, we've established two pillars of creation if the ancient tradition were revealed in the very beginning.
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