You're listening to the ancient tradition.

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Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition.

I'm your host, Jack Logan.

If you're a new listener, we welcome you to the program.

Glad to have you listening in. If you're a regular listener, of course, to the program. Glad to have you listening in.

If you're a regular listener, of course, we're glad to have you back.

Today's episode is the incomprehensible brooding wind. It's going to take a bit for me to set the stage for this episode, but stick with me because there's some really great stuff towards the end.

For our new listeners, the objective of this podcast, the ancient tradition,

is to dig around in the ancient record and to dig through the world's oldest religious texts

and myths, legends, liturgies, artifacts, symbols,

to see if we can't reconstruct the theology of the original

religious tradition imparted to human beings in the very beginning.

The religious tradition that the ancients universally claim was taught directly to human

beings by God.

In this podcast, we refer to this primordial religious tradition

as the ancient tradition. In the past two episodes, episode number 11 and number 12, the mysterious

primordial waters and the word that changed the universe, we established that the creation

played a very, very important role in the overarching

theology taught in the ancient tradition. And of course, this raises a question, why? You know,

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