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Re: Covenant / Oriental minor similarities
Posted By: Peronthious <peronthious@yahoo.com>	Date: 2/15/06 7:07 p.m.
In Response To: Covenant / Oriental minor similarities (Walshicus) I would suspect that the "Prophet of Truth/Regret/Mercy/etc." is just an adopted name or a title, and individual prophets were promoted to that rank, either as an honor or in the belief that they were reincarnations. : I've been doing a lot of research for my dissertation of late, which is what : you'd expect of a student really. The subject of the paper [and 10,000 : words is a quite lot of paper...] is 'The evolution of Chinese foreign : policy over the last three hundred years', and as such I've had my nose : stuck in to a variety of old texts, trying to use my rudimentary Mandarin : skills to mine for facts. : Now, Chinese emperors would typically change their names upon ascension to : the throne, and new date eras would be declared soon after. Thus, the man : born Yinzhen became Yongzheng who founded the era of Harmonious Justice, : and Hongli became Qianlong of the era of Heavenly Opulence. Now, the : Covenant naming scheme employed by the Prophets struck me as very similar : - I doubt Truth was born to that name, for instance... so perhaps it might : be worthwhile for people to look to Chinese history and mythology as we've : done in the past for Norse and Christian mythologies. I suppose it's not : quite as accessible as those two, but as I say it's worth a try.

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Covenant / Oriental minor similarities	Walshicus	2/15/06 4:32 p.m.
Re: Covenant / Oriental minor similarities	Peronthious	2/15/06 7:07 p.m.
Re: Covenant / Oriental minor similarities	Nogard	2/15/06 9:06 p.m.