Originally posted by Darfius
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Hislop's account of the "rise and progress" of the "Babylonian Mystery Religion" is dressed up in the garb of tradition, in that ancient authors are quoted or cited or otherwise used for various details of this or that - but the substance of the account, and the inter-relation of the data relied on, is not ancient, but is of Hislop's confecting, with several dollops of help from Jones.
Hislop's order of BMR-receiving peoples is:
Nimrod & Semiramis (& Tammuz, who is alleged to be a re-incarnated Nimrod) (c. 2182/1 BC)
Egyptians
Greeks
Attalus III of Pergamum (before 133 BC)
Romans (45 BC for some aspects of the alleged BMR)
Church in Rome
And to a large number of other cultures, without indication of when or how, including (in no particular order):
Cyprus
American Indians
Druids
Scotland
Tahiti
India
Siam
Japan
Tibet
China
Anglo-Saxon England
France
Etruria
Those are the ones I can remember off-hand. There are probably others. I don't recall any mention of the Gnostics or Masons in TTB; or of the Canaanites.
1 Timothy 4.7 seems appropriate: "But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness..." Nimrod is the Big Bad of the Story - Semiramis doubles as Evil Chancellor, & Dragon to Nimrod's Big Bad.
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