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Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

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

It's good to be back with all of you. It's been a couple of weeks. It's been a couple of fun weeks, but it is good to be back. Today's episode is titled Symbols of the Sacred Center, the Circumpunked, and the Bindu.

In our last episode, I mentioned that in this episode that we're going to try and tackle why it was that Peter in Matthew chapter 14 needed Christ's assistance to walk on the water to conquer the dragon.

But I've decided that I'm not going to do that in this episode because there's just so, so much

in the ancient record that we still need to cover before an explanation of that's going to make

any theological sense. So I'm going to hold off on that. And before I actually jump into the core of today's

topic, I actually want to share a couple of neat things that I read while I was out traveling,

things that are directly connected to our discussions on the foundation stone. So I'm going to do that

first. So while I was out, I read David Leeming's book, The World of Myth.

I've mentioned Dr. Leaming a couple of times on the program,

because he's my go-to source for world myths.

Dr. Leaming was trained at Princeton University in NYU,

and he's written a lot of books on mythology,

in particular comparative mythology.

If you're interested in learning more about Dr. Leaming, he's listed on our

companion website, the ancient tradition.com, under scholars.

In episode 37, Petra, the Lit of Hell, I mentioned an interesting passage in the Zohar,

which is a group of books on Judaic mysticism that are dated to about 1240 AD,

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