(urth) An Old mystery ...

[Son of Witz]

>I think you mean Easter, and I'm not especially impressed with the
>correspondences between, well, ANYTHING and astrology, because
>astrology is so deliberately ambivalent that it quite literally can
>correspond to anything.  That's kind of its purpose.

*smacks forehead*
I meant AstroNOMICAL correspondences.
I'm talking about the ACTUAL movements of the sun here.




>> So how do you feel about your myth being 'flattened' into a mere mechanistic universe with ignorant inhabitants who must anthropomorphize their life sustaining solar body as a Diety?
>>
>> Some Catholics say the sun does that because Christ did that.
>> but surely there were Astronomers charting this out before Jesus.
>>
>
>It is not every day I have the chance to quote Susan Cooper in an
>enlightening manner, so I will do so now.  "But not before God."  If
>Christians are right about Christ, then His incarnation and sacrifice
>were part of a plan forged outside of time itself, so the echoes of it
>in nature (solar occurrences, the turning of the seasons, butterflies,
>parthogenesis) predate not the Plan, but only its Occurrence.
>


yeah, that's cool.