Part 1: El and Baal, the Shepherd and the
Hunter
1. From a town existing 6000 B.C.
3. The snake, the egg and the sun-bird
5. An Egyptian tale about “the two brothers”
7. The pantherskin & Lycourgos
13. A common prehistoric religion
14. The same prehistoric religion in Egypt
Baal coming to Rome
16. Tell Halaf: a North Syrian temple
17. Further aspects of the cult of the hunter:
carnival, chaos-time, bonfire
The Uraeus-snake
20. Eshmun and the snake-symbol
Resheph. The god with a
lions face
Eros and Pothos
Born by incest
An old holy weapon
carried by El Cronos of Byblos
Other Woodcutters and
the axe of Resheph
Lebanon as the Garden of
God & the Woodcutter
22. Harran: the god of the left hand
27. The vision of ultimate reality
28. God the Highest and God the King
Melqart
The Hanno expedition
The shepherd and the seven sisters
The shepherd and the three girls
The child exposed to the river or the wilderness
3. Petra and the two tablets inscribed with the
world order
Ruth
Phoinicica
Xenophon: Efesiaca
Apollonios of Tyre
The woman liberated from a demon
The woman liberated from herself or a tower
The struggles of the blessed in Estrangement
The visions of Zechariah
Conclusions
Jakin & Boaz
12. The old God and the young Hero
17. Running in the circle of the sun
The first to sail the sea
Abraham, four kings, five kings and king Sedeq
Gnosticism
A Nordic Yoga master
An interpretation of the Golden Horns
Indian myth. Indra
Visnu
Rudra
29. A
Near Eastern parallel to the atman-brahman motif
30.
The bringer of the water of life