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.

Well, it's great to have you listening in today. If you're new to the program, welcome. This is a pretty unique podcast. We like to travel all over the world and dig around in the world's oldest religious texts.

We're checking out the ancient myths and symbols and rituals and architecture. And the main reason that we're doing this is because

we're trying to decipher the theology and the cosmology that the ancients we're trying to

teach. And what we've shown to this point of the program is that the ancients, regardless

of whether or not we're talking about the ancient Egyptians or

Mesopotamians or Indo-Europeans or pretty much any other ancient people taught a single

cosmology. I know that sounds remarkable, but ancient peoples all over the globe taught

the same thing about how our universe began and how the cosmos are actually

structured. Some of you may be familiar with a comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell.

He was pretty famous in the 70s and 80s. He gained a lot of notoriety for his book,

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, where he

presented evidence that a single myth, a monomyth, which he called mankind's one great story,

ran like a thread through all of the world's myths. Now, we've demonstrated some of this too on our program.

Campbell notes that the cosmological parity between myths is pretty darn profound.

On page 30, he wrote, quote,

The cosmogonic cycle is presented with astonishing consistency in the sacred writings of all

the continents. Personally, I'm a pretty curious person, so I wanted to know what the ancients

taught. I wanted to know what they had to say about what the

cosmos were like before the universe began and what they had to say about how our universe began.

And I really wanted to know what they had to say about how the cosmos are structured.

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