anthropogony การใช้
- Commonly presented as a part of the myth of the dismembered Dionysus Zagreus, is an Orphic anthropogony, that is an Orphic account of the origin of human beings.
- The 2nd century AD biographer and essayist Plutarch, does make a connection between the " sparagmos " and the punishment of the Titans, but makes no mention of the anthropogony, or Orpheus, or Orphism.
- Anthropogony derives from the word'anthropo'again and-gony ( ????? ), meaning'the causing of, the birth of', both in a literal and metaphorical sense, referring to what caused by human born or / and conceived / created.
- Plato, in presenting a succession of stages whereby, because of excessive liberty, men degenerate from reverence for the law, to lawlessness, describes the last stage where " men display and reproduce the character of the Titans of story ", a passage, often taken as a referring to the anthropogony, however, whether men are supposed by Plato to " display and reproduce " this lawless character because of their Titanic heritage, or by simple imitation, is unclear.
- The most sober and enlightening text about the Xenu myth is probably the article on Wikipedia ( English version ) and, even if brief, Andreas Gr黱schloss's piece on Scientology in Lewis ( 2000 : 266 268 ) . " Rothstein describes the phenomenon within a belief system inspired by science fiction, and notes that the " myth about Xenu, . . . in the shape of a science fiction-inspired anthropogony, " explains " the basic Scientological claims about the human condition ."
- The only ancient source to explicitly connect the " sparagmos " and the anthropogony is the 6th century AD Neoplatonist Olympiodorus, who writes that, according to Orpheus, after the Titans had dismembered and eaten Dionysus, " Zeus, angered by the deed, blasts them with his thunderbolts, and from the sublimate of the vapors that rise from them comes the matter from which men are created . " Olympiodorus goes on to conclude that, because the Titans had eaten his flesh, we their descendants, are a part of Dionysus.