The Elephantine in the Room
eFireTemple.com Everyone knows the phrase. The elephant in the room — the enormous, obvious thing that nobody wants to talk about. The truth that sits in plain sight while the entire room pretends it is not there. In the study of where the world's religions actually came from, the elephant has a name. Elephantine. The island nobody mentions Elephantine is an island in the Nile River in southern Egypt. During the fifth century BCE, a Jewish military community lived there under Persian rule.
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eFireTemple.com Everyone knows the phrase. The elephant in the room — the enormous, obvious thing that nobody wants to talk about. The truth that sits in plain sight while the entire room pretends it is not there. In the study of where the world's religions actually came from, the elephant has a name. Elephantine. The island nobody mentions Elephantine is an island in the Nile River in southern Egypt. During the fifth century BCE, a Jewish military community lived there under Persian rule. They left behind hundreds of papyrus documents — contracts, letters, petitions, legal records — that survived in the dry Egyptian climate for over 2,400 years. These documents have been known to scholars since the early 1900s. They are published. They are translated. They are cited in academic journals and discussed in graduate seminars around the world.
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Yasna · Avesta · Quran