/lit/ - Literature

>>16020425
>pic related is literally Platonism through and through, thousands of years before Plotinus

>>15813887
The Egyptians had multiple slightly varied and competing myths, each with truth in them. Literally translated analogies like Atum "masturbating" with his "hand" into his own "mouth" does indeed sound absurd, and I would regard this myth as "culturally antiquated" even if it is true and can even be used to perfectly tell of the Christian Father's causing the Son and the Spirit. (I'm not Christian.)
The way you know how to read each of these myths is through the Tradition of "Platonism" that extends as far back literarily to 5000 year old hieroglyphs all the way up to Damascius, Simplicius, and Olympiodorus. And after them it reverses and we need the Ancients to filter out the Christian in the Christian Platonists. (the trinity makes perfect sense in Platonism, even christ does, but the Bible as a whole doesn't, nor does Orthodoxy or Catholicism, yet.)
That God would deny revelation to mankind in favor of a little tribe for 1500 years has to be rejected, on principle.