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.

Glad to have you with me and welcome to all of our new listeners.

Glad to have you along with us today too.

Today's episode is titled The Cosmic Wall, The Compass and the Firmament.

So let's just jump right in. For the past two episodes, we've been discussing another very important stubborn bit. And by stubborn bit, I'm referring to those

theological tenets that stubbornly persist across the world in different time periods and in

different hemispheres that we can trace all the way back to the dawn of human history.

I want to start by taking a brief second to set up for our new listeners,

where today's stubborn bit fits in the overarching theology that the ancients taught,

which we've been reconstructing piece by piece on the program. If you're new to the program,

know that this theology is fully supported by an incredible amount of

textual evidence found in the world's oldest written records. And the back catalog of the

podcast is loaded with that evidence. So if you're interested in learning more about the

theology the ancients taught, which we refer to on this program as the ancient

tradition, then be sure to check out the back catalog, because that's where you're going to find

all of that textual evidence. And I guarantee that you're going to learn something new,

and you may even learn something that will truly enrich your life. To briefly recount where we are in the theology,

the ancients tell us that upon conquering the dragon,

the beloved son of the high god,

be he called Marduk, Ninerta, Osiris, Baal, Christ,

or by some other name,

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