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"The day" that you are talking about is mid-19th-century. A lot of things that they believed 150 years ago did not turn out to be right. No swastikas are found in any other branch of Indo-European. It originated among the Dene-Yenisei group of the northern steppes spanning from Siberia to the...

Ironically, the swastika was never an Indo-European symbol at all; India borrowed it from Tibetans. Lugh and Lieu are just variant spellings of the same thing. Odin has nothing to do with the sun whatsoever. Hesus does not exist; it is just one of those names invented by confabulators of the...

No, it starts with a zeta; they never wrote iota with bars above and below. No, what we have is palatalized "d" shifting to "z" in Greek (Sanskrit is Dyaus). It was never an "i" sound. "Assyria" was, and still is, a district in northern Iraq. Iraq =/= Israel, check out a map. Yes I do...

The Gathas condemn the worship of ALL the pagan deities from before, without naming any of them individually. Comparing the translation with the original, I find that the Gatha did not actually contain mathra or anything like it. It contained twice the phrase "highest of the high" which in...

Sigh... since I am the go-to guy here for linguistics: the first letter in "Zeus" is not iota which was a single vertical stroke, sometimes with a hook at top or bottom but never with a horizontal stroke either above or below (the tiny horizontals above and below in Roman "I", called the...

Who and what were the 5 Patriarchs? Early Christianity had a huge variety of splinter sects, many of them teaching ideologies that modern Christians would hardly think of as "Christian" at all, but most of the "Gnostic" sects were quite small, a teacher and a handful of disciples, and this was...

OK, that makes sense. Not very akin, no. Pagan deities like Mithra were precisely what Zoroaster told everybody to avoid. The idea that Zoroaster's mother was a virgin was invented in the 20th century by the notorious confabulator Acharya S. This is another example of late confabulation...

1,7,9: this is why I think you are nuts. Other people besides Iranians have been thinking about God, and the nature of the human soul, the heavens above, and what happens after we die, for as long as there have been humans. They did not need Iranians to teach them how. The Abrahamic...

The "stories" are what the religions are all about. They incorporate a few ideas from Iran, but not ones that were particularly important. Noeruz WAS the observance of the vernal equinox. Except for Libya, none of these were taken by Achaemenids either. I found assertions that there were...

You think monotheists don't have folk-lore? I can only find in Makkay in Hungarian, which I don't read. "Turanian" is the name used by the Persians for NON-Iranian ENEMIES (later it becomes interpreted as "Turks"). Now read through that site: one of the most noteworthy aspects of Roman...

The reign of Merneptah is a plausible date for the Exodus. The first mention of "Israel" is on a stela (pillar monument) of Merneptah, most of which concerns his recent victory over Libya, describing the course of the campaign and how many prisoners and valuables "His majesty of Horus, the...

No! It was Colonel Mustard with a candlestick, in the ballroom

I would think the short text is a literal translation, and the longer text a paraphrase to bring out the meaning: "black" vs. "white" wasn't really a major divide back then, but "Arab" vs. "non-Arab" is not the most relevant way of saying "the group that thinks its better vs. the group that...

You think Antiochus Epiphanes was only king because of his 1/32 Persian ancestry? Yeah, yeah, his great-great-great-grandfather had married a Persian woman, but nobody else in the family had, so obviously that wasn't very important. *I* am not the one doing the suppressing. Uh... apparently...

The disciples were supposed to travel in pairs for safety and companionship. There were two pairs of brothers, Simon Peter and Andrew, and James and John the sons of Zebedee, or perhaps three, if Thomas was the younger twin and Thaddeus his older-by-minutes brother, although they might have...

Who and what were the 12 disciples? The gospels are rather vague and confusing, given that this was evidently supposed to be an important group. Part of the problem is that many Jews shared the same few names: about three-quarters of the population in 1st century Judea had either one of six...

Jesus never called himself a prophet, and said No when asked if he was. So calling him a "false" prophet is unfair.

There are no records whatsoever of any criminal trial of any date from the Roman period. None. Paper does not survive very well, except under extraordinary circumstances (such as being sealed in jars in the desert, in the Dead Sea Scrolls case). People have a very exaggerated notion of what...

I'm going to try to put together some stories on the Schism with the East, but it can't really start with 1054. It is indeed necessary to go back to the apostles and their successors. The main dispute in 1054, even bigger than the one over the phrasing of the Creed, was about the "menu" for...

You would owe the Egyptians.