Zeitgeistmovie.com
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Disregard this inaccurate "documentary"This is not very well researched, and pontificates itself rather than proving itself. It relies heavily on suspenseful music and the air of a documentary more than actual information. For instance towards the begining when they're talking about the constellations, they say "The term Zodiac relates to the fact the constellations were ANTHROPMORPHIZED, or personified, as figures or animals." I suppose I should be impressed with this weighty knowledge. Only it's hollow and inaccurate. Anthropomophism is giving human characteristics to non-human things. Scorpions and lions and scales are not all that human.50% Voted for by Weydon, cosmosis.
So, whatever, right? I kind of rolled my eyes at this "revelation" that we all already knew, only now the narrator applied the wrong word to the common knowledge. But what came next was even worse. It gives outrageously general information on the histories and importance of astrological information. It insists upon the Sun's importance in all of this, which is of course true. But it wasn't THE most important aspect. It overlooks the part that everyone also had a MOON sign, which was more important to an individual. Everyone in a month shares a Sun sign, but only a few people in a week share a moon sign, which vary from year to year as well. The moon was of every bit of importance as the sun in astrology, although it is overlooked in newspapers today. The Sun, while worshiped in the Greek culture and Greek Zodiac, was an OBJECT carried by Apollo--a SON of Zeus, KING of the greek gods. How is the sun the most important aspect here again?
This next part is where I dismissed the whole thing as useless: Horus was the god of Light and Set was the god of Dark, and every morning Horus would defeat Set, and every night Set would defeat Horus sending him into the underworld. ....REALLY? Were the makers of this translating the heiroglyphics themselves and hoping they got it right? Egyptian mythology changed a bit overtime, but that was never the case.
Horus was the the god of the sky, Set was the god of the desert. They had fought a number of times, sometimes just in races and stuff. Horus managed to slice off one of Set's testicles (ouch!) which is why the desert is infertile, and Set managed to injure one Horus' eyes. The Sky's eyes are the Sun and the Moon. The Moon is the eye that was injured, which is why it is so weak.
Or perhaps the documentary got confused with early Egyptian mythology, where Ra would ride a sun boat into the underworld each night--and SET would DEFEND Ra and the sun by battling off Apep. Who's Apep, you ask? Why, the god of DARKNESS. But I thought Set was the god of darkness?? No, not unless your citing Zeitgeist as your authority on ancient deities.
I can't even imagine why they would bother including information they knew nothing about. -
:)I love it when i get to proove that the bible is fiction....Voted for by Crazyhead.
but this.... this allows me to proove that it is plagurized as well...
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Parts II and IIII just took the past three hours to study this film...Voted for by scarlet screams.
Other than the two mistakes mentioned above, I found one more in part I. When the documentary compares Noah with the Flood of Gilgamesh, they claim that in both stories a dove is sent to find land. This is not true in the Gilgamesh version-a raven, not a dove is sent.
I found this movie to be interesting, but like much of religion, it's popularity is based on pure ignorant belief. It seems neither side will ever get anywhere.
I personally found parts II and III of this movie to be much more interesting however.
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