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- About Middle Eastern religions and people, written by L.K.F. 2019:
- Lauri K. Friberg, Mon Dec 23 19:19:21 2019 (Edited on the Christmas Eve the 24th
- of December 2019 at 5:40PM-7:18PM. This text is Creative Commons and copyright
- by Lauri Friberg 2019):
- This is a short essay I wrote about Middle Eastern religions (Zoroastrianism,
- Hinduism, Paganism (yes - Paganism originated in the Middle East, believe it
- or not), Christianity (birth of Christ), Judaism and Islam (an Abrahamic
- religion with its roots in the Arabic world, has some of its own rituals,
- beliefs and traditions and some are common with Judaism and Christianity).
- I wrote the essay about Christmastime ("Yuletide", "jultid", "joulun aika"),
- on the 23rd and 24th of December 2019. Judaism is also mentioned as the
- religion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and of the folk (the people) and of the
- Jews (also known as the Hebrews).
- THE ASTROLOGY IN "ZOROASTRIANISM":
- Interestingly enough there is astrology in Zoroastrianism, as supposedly is or
- at least was in Hinduism. Zoroastrians had a god, called "Tishtrya" that is
- the Northern Star - "Tish"="Taivas" and "Trya" is "Tyr" (one-handed
- Scandinavian-Germanic god), and "Tir" (Persian name for "arrow", the "archer
- in the sky", the sky-star-god). It would be "Taivaannuoli" in Finnish, and the
- equivalent for it in Finnic Paganry and Shamanism is "Taivaannaula" ("the Nail
- of the Sky"), aka "Pohjantähti" ("The Northern Star"). Zoroastrianism competed
- with Vedaism that became Hinduism later.
- THE THREE WISE MEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE, THE
- BIRTH OF JESUS - THE INTERSECTION OF THE RELIGIONS "ZOROASTRIANISM",
- "JUDAISM", AND "CHRISTIANITY":
- I had a Christian book that claimed that the Three Wise Men who came to
- Bethelehem to behold the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth were Zoroastrian
- astrologers -Zoroastrian mages, that competed with the religion "Judaism" that
- still exists to these days, especially in Israel, the nation-state of the
- Jewish folk/people.
- WHO WAS *THE* "JESUS CHRIST" OF NAZARETH?
- Jesus was an Aramaic Jewish person who was a teacher to Jewish and non-Jewish
- (Pagan, Hellenic, etc.) people; he was born about 3 B.C. - 1 A.D. and he died
- about 30-33 A.D. Jesus was 30 years of age when he died under shady
- circumstances. He was also a Prophet, according to the New Testament and
- according to some Islam's writings, perhaps the Koran or some such. I am not
- that interested in Islamic writings - one can Google Islamic writings or not,
- they are not a very interesting nor important topics in my humble opinion,
- although some of the Islamic (Muslim) texts make a lot of sense, like the one
- that one should not fast (one should eat and drink) if one is travelling
- (wandering).
- WHO ARE THE JEWS (ALSO KNOWN AS THE HEBREWS) AND WHO WERE AND ARE THE SEMITES?
- The Jews are a people - a folk - who have a Jewish nation-state called
- "Israel" in the Middle East, West Asia. The Jews are also known as the
- Hebrews. They are a Western Aramaic branch of the Bedouins of the Middle East.
- Some Jews came from Ur (Uruk, Iraq) of Caldea (Kaldea), and some from Egypt.
- There are lots of historical and mythical stories about the wanderings of the
- Jews who are considered mainly a religion, but also a people who may speak
- various languages, but have regained Hebrew as their main mother tongue in
- Israel. The Jews were not the only "Semitic" people since there were the
- Sacae, the Saxons, the Persians, the Aramaics, the Canaanites (who are
- considered Hamitic in the Jewish and Christian Bible), the Amhari, the
- Ethiopians, the Arabs, etc. etc. Also the land called Syria is known in Arabic
- as Al-Sham ("The Land of 'Shem'").
- ABOUT THE RELIGION CALLED "ISLAM" AND ITS VARIOUS SECTS:
- Islam is on the other hand a religion that has spread all over the world, as
- has Christianity, and there are a lot of sects in Islam. The main ones being:
- "Sunna" and "Shia". There is also something called Sufism, and then there is
- Alawite Islam, and Sunna (Islam) and Shia (Islam) also are dispersed into
- various cults and sects, of which Salafism (a part of Sunni Islam) is one, and
- Wahhabism can also be considered a part of Salafism. Some Islamic writings
- make a lot of sense, like what I read in a flea market Islamic book: "One
- should not fast if one is wandering." Islam is a collection of very big
- religions with various pieces of texts, writings, and the so-called oral
- traditions also known as the Hadiths, etc. Google is your friend, or if you
- are really interested (I am not very interested, I have studied Islam since my
- childhood from 1990's and I know quite a lot about it for a Christian
- Westerner) you can go foraging the flea markets and second-hand book shops
- (antiquaries, also known as "divari" and "antikvariaatti" in Finnish) and the
- public book libraries.
- WHO ARE THE ARABS?
- The Arabs are various folks and people who speak Arabic as their mother
- tongue, and most Arabs are (Sunni) Muslims, although some may be Christians,
- Jews, etc. The land called Saudi Arabia used to inhabit Bedouins, but became
- the de facto land of the Arabs, when they struck a deal with some Western
- countries about their oil fields.
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