I have seen interviews with Adams, and his speculations are indeed fascinating. As an heterodox Christian, I tend to indulge in such syncretism (no church to excommunicate me, I reckon). I think there's very much something to this. I've probably posted elsewhere about the (to me) strange parallels between Abrahamic faiths and the Hellenic faiths, in places: the seeming syncretism, as you note, of Christ and Apollo (Sol Invictus), the sabbath on a Sunday, and the various solar imagery around the Logos; the historical association, recognized even in ancient times, of Kronos with YHVH (the sabbath on Saturday, among other aspects, etc.), and even perhaps distantly in Islam.
And I suspect you are right about the myths ascribing "bad behaviors" to the gods (didn't Sallustius warn about this? Incidentally, similar to a note picked up in the Orthodox tract "The River of Fire" by Kalomiros, where he cautions about projecting human passions on God.) I suspect that it is in the myths, in their concrete imagery, and not philosophy or theology, that we get our clearest manifestation of the divine idiosyncrasies...but if taken literally these things can hinder spiritual development or worse.
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Date: 2023-02-24 11:20 pm (UTC)And I suspect you are right about the myths ascribing "bad behaviors" to the gods (didn't Sallustius warn about this? Incidentally, similar to a note picked up in the Orthodox tract "The River of Fire" by Kalomiros, where he cautions about projecting human passions on God.) I suspect that it is in the myths, in their concrete imagery, and not philosophy or theology, that we get our clearest manifestation of the divine idiosyncrasies...but if taken literally these things can hinder spiritual development or worse.