http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/07/how-earthy-is-your-religion.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/07/how-earthy-is-your-religion.html#comment-2391 Copper Asetemhat Stewart Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:12:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2008/07/how-earthy-is-your-religion.html#comment-2391 Though the inflection is different from "earthy," the seed of that tension seems visible in the contrast between Enkidu and Gilgamesh a very long time ago; part of it is notions of control, of course, but part also seems to be about (a perception of) less mediation. We frequently find this, also, in Christian and Jewish ideas about the past. Though the inflection is different from “earthy,” the seed of that tension seems visible in the contrast between Enkidu and Gilgamesh a very long time ago; part of it is notions of control, of course, but part also seems to be about (a perception of) less mediation. We frequently find this, also, in Christian and Jewish ideas about the past.

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