American Mythology

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
“Thomas Moore”

The Bible has often been viewed as a book filled with many secrets and contradictions. It has been called the bestselling book of all time, though the term itself comes from the Greek word “Biblia” with means a collection of books. The Bible is filled with numerous references to Astrology which was widely accepted as truth in Biblical times. Yet, many Christians today believe Astrology to be Satanic since being made heresy by the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th Century. The Bible candidly claims to have been given to man by the inspiration of God, but was developed gradually over many centuries as a result of cultural interaction and exchange among many different societies.The notion that the Bible did not evolve haphazardly, like most other holy writings of the same period is the greatest mistake of religious authorities in the western world. If believers in religious scripture were more willing to listen and learn, they would have discovered that the mythology of the Bible is based around Astrology, Astronomy and other offshoots from it’s original sources.

“There Shall Be Signs In the Sun, Moon, and the Stars” Luke 21:25

Astrology and astronomy are historically one and the same discipline and were only gradually recognized as separate in western 17th century philosophy (the "Age of Reason"). Astronomy is the study of objects (such as stars, planets, comets, galaxies and phenomena beyond the Earth's atmosphere, while Astrology uses the apparent positions of celestial objects as the basis for psychology, prediction of future events, and other esoteric knowledge and is typically defined as a form of divination. The origins of the two can be found in Mesopotamia. Both are considered the oldest known sciences in the history of man and believed to be the foundation of what every great civilization has based the myths and legends of their religious beliefs. The Sumerians only practiced a basic form of astronomy, but they would have an important influence on the sophisticated astronomy of the Babylonians.

Astral theology, which gave planetary gods an important role in Mesopotamian mythology and religion, began with the Sumerians. Ancient Babylonian astronomers thought that everything in astronomy had some purpose and that most of these related to religion and omens. The ancients would make up stories and myths about the stars (Gods) in relation to their movements. Many of these stories told by the ancients often filled a basic human emotional need by creating a sense of identity belonging and morality as well as explanation of origin and of purpose. As civilizations developed, most notably Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Maya, Greece, India, China, and the Islamic world, astronomical observatories were assembled, and ideas on the nature of the universe began to be explored. Mesopotamian astronomers worked out a 12 month calendar based on the cycles of the moon and divided the year into two seasons which where Summer and Winter and later Spring and Fall. By 2,000 BC, the Egyptians and Mesopotamians marked the seasons by the constellations we now call Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. However, the marking of seasons by constellations may go back to 5,000 BC.