Ancient Wisdom

Ancient Wisdom

Many dozen virgin births,
Many suffering Christs.
A thousand teachers of the light
Led us through our darkest nights.

The Avatars who led the way
All share a similar fate
They lived; they taught and showed the way
Then died because of hate.

There's Hermes, Balder, Adonis,
Krishna, Bacchus and Horus too.
There's Attis, Mithras and Deva Tat,
Tammuz the Syrian to name but a few.

The spiritual gods of yesteryear
All died for our salvation.
Then Christianity came along
Demanding literal interpretation.

Ancient wisdom must not be forgot
As the foundation of our knowledge
From whence today's religion came
This fact we must acknowledge.

April ‘08
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From the study of comparative religion we are learning that today's religion has eons of pre-Christian history from the Vedic wisdom of India to the Norse myths of Scandinavia. Pagan myths are not fairy tales; they were the spiritual religion of the ancients. It was not until the present day Christianity was developed that there was persistence that the myths became literal.