/lit/ - Literature

>>16410827
>Orpheus
>influences
The only influence on Orpheus was Apollo.
OK, I would say Egypt is Egypt and was neither eastern or western but just 'Egypt' it is a region if not a whole world in of itself. It's only eastern thanks to Islam which is 7th century not first.
And if we go the secular path then if you the Chaldeans/Akkadians eastern you have to call the Latin/Etruscan and Greek culture and myth eastern since Hesiod supposedly just imitated the Akkadian Theogony. How the Etruscan and Latin mythos also copied them is another whoops, because their mythos is also similar to the Akkadian/Assyrian/Chaldean. Or perhaps, unlike Jewish religious ethnocentrism, the gods Inspired the same truth to most people. Differences arise because, again, the gods inspire they don't compose the text word for word, likewise there are degrees to Noetic reach. What use are signs he can't read, or that the people can't grasp? There they receive as much as they can hold, or emphasizes the strengths of the culture communing. This is also why perennialism (and universalism) is untenable.

What we westerners can gain is tools of still practiced theurgy. While this might require lots of study to find legit still breathing ancient traditions/chains, there are no other options to acquire genuine initiation. Even if all the living traditions are corrupted in some portion of their teachings, practice is usually kept pure like gold like the words of the hymns themselves.
An alternative is zoroastrianism but they are often antagonistic towards outsiders. And some have pseudo-gnostic interpretations of the two opposites arches (peras and apeiron).
You can even go for catholicism by superimposing Platonism. Since some variations of the sacraments are Orphico mithric imitations.
Unless Hermes himself has taught you rites, which is super extra ordinarily unlikely, the bodily mind easily fools itself. Even if it has been millennia.

>>14951410
>None of God's creations are necessary creations.
>Because this undermines God's absolute freedom and omnipotence.
>Therefore god freely, independently, willingly, without need to do so, creates every soul, chooses for it to be EX NIHILO.
No God who chooses to create the life he knows will hate him, for an eternity in torment, is the Good.

Homer
Aesop's Fables
Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae
Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Anthology of Classical Myth
Collected Writings on the Gods and the World (Thomas Taylor Series)
West's Orphic Poems
In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
Guy Wyndham-Jones' "Music of Philosophy Series"