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[Interesting point here at conflict with EJ. What are his sources?]

"He is armed with thunder and lightning, and the shaking of his aegis
(q.v.) produces storm and tempest: a number of epithets of Zeus, in the
Homeric poems, describe him as the thunderer, the gatherer of clouds and
the like. By Hera he had two sons, Ares and Hephaestus, and one
daughter, Hebe." 

This would be in coparison to the God of the Jews Christians and
Semites. In this view completely monotheistic, and that is monotheistic
from
the start. If there are mention of other gods, they usually belong to a
class of demons (Juenger makes reference to this in the Prognosen, p.10,
Noch fuer Augustin...). Which became worshiped by those who went astray.

In comparision with the greek myths, the Christian God is an all
powerful deity who has only one "Adversary". That is Satan. (Just an
aside, I believe
Junger talks about the qualities of evil i.e. Satan somewhere in the
_Stahlungen_. He uses Satan's two names and describes their
manifestaions [these two qualities] in terms of Lucifer and Satan.)
Where as the Greeks have the gods, the giants and the titans as
adversaries to Zeus. Varying view points give the Christian God all
power, while others say
he battles ala "Starwars" with the chance of losing to the "dark side."
Theology.  In the end though, the theologians give God all power. There
are just a few differing points here and there.

Furthermore, the christians then attribute the development of a pantheon
to God. That is he has a son, begot of woman. (What's to prevent the son
from reproducing?) Here we of course have a cross over with Zeus and the
other gods, who through various affairs then had children with their
mortal concubines. These offspring are known as the demigods. The "son
of God" is Jesus, Who has the qualities of a demigod. He has power
beyond normal human faculties, but is also mortal i.e. he dies on the
cross. This of course differs with the two other Monotheistic Religions
who do not ascribe this capability of reproduction to God, the Muslims
and the Jews. So in this instance there is a crossover. Some questions
raised would be: are such influences of Greek/Roman origin? Did they
come from a cult of Mitheras as some Scholars believe? As you all
probably know most of what is left of the Roman Catholic Church took
over a lot of Pagan celebrations in order to convert people, did they
also make exceptions in their theology?

Any comments?


A short comparisson for the members. Please add to it, as it is quite
inadequate.

Abdalbarr.