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Single Idea 15659
[filed under theme 29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism
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Full Idea
They purify themselves by staining themselves with other blood, as if one were to step into mud to wash off mud. But a man would be thought mad if any of his fellow-men should perceive him acting thus.
Gist of Idea
Purifying yourself with blood is as crazy as using mud to wash off mud
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B005), quoted by Origen - Against Celsus 7.62
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.25
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[early Greek religion, centred on Zeus and others]:
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1742
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Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions
[Thales, by Diog. Laertius]
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15659
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Purifying yourself with blood is as crazy as using mud to wash off mud
[Heraclitus]
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1522
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It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods
[Empedocles]
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12097
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There are as many eternal unmovable substances as there are movements of the stars
[Aristotle]
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22729
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The concepts of gods arose from observing the soul, and the cosmos
[Aristotle, by Sext.Empiricus]
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9287
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Bruno said that ancient Egyptian magic was the true religion
[Bruno, by Yates]
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14827
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The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves
[Nietzsche]
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7208
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Paganism is a form of thanking and affirming life?
[Nietzsche]
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14864
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The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things
[Nietzsche]
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7348
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The Jews sharply distinguish human and divine, but the Greeks pull them closer together
[Johnson,P]
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20666
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Most polytheist recognise one supreme power or law, behind the various gods
[Harari]
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20667
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Polytheism is open-minded, and rarely persecutes opponents
[Harari]
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20665
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Mythologies are usual contracts with the gods, exchanging devotion for control of nature
[Harari]
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