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The composition date of Padma Purana is unknown. Estimates vary between the 4th and 15th century CE.[13] Some parts of the text may be from the 750 to 1000 CE period.[14] The extant manuscripts and ones widely studied, states Wilson, is very likely to have been written or revised well after the 14th century, probably in the 15th or 16th century, because it describes later era major temple sites of south India and sites in the Vijayanagara Empire.[4] No portion of the versions of the Padma Purana available in the 19th century, wrote Wilson, is “probably older than the 12th-century”.[4] Asoke Chatterjee, in 1963, suggested that the text may have existed between the 3rd and 4th century CE, but the text was rewritten and greatly expanded over the centuries and through the second half of the 17th century.[...]

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Wilson 1864, pp. 29–35.

Vanita 2005, p. 144.
^ Doniger 2010, p. 473.
^ K P Gietz 1992, pp. 287 with notes 1572-1574, 290 with note 1586.

There are 18 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas),^[8] with over 400,000 verses.^[2] The first versions of various Puranas were likely to have been composed between 3rd and 10th century CE.^[9] The Puranas do not enjoy the authority of a scripture in Hinduism,^[8] but are considered as Smritis.^[10]

^[8] Cornelia Dimmitt (2015), Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas, Temple University Press, ISBN 978-8120839724, page xii, 4

^[2]Bailey 2001, pp. 437–439.

^[9] Collins, Charles Dillard (1988). The Iconography and Ritual of Śiva at Elephanta. SUNY Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-88706-773-0. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.

^[10]Bailey 2001, p. 503.

Diana was often considered an aspect of a triple goddess, known as Diana triformis: Diana, Luna, and Hecate. According to historian C.M. Green, “these were neither different goddesses nor an amalgamation of different goddesses. They were Diana…Diana as huntress, Diana as the moon, Diana of the underworld.”^[5]

^[5] Green, C. M. C. (2007). Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia. New York: Cambridge University Press.

sometimes military men/political rulers were talked about as divine beings. More than that, they were sometimes *treated* as divine beings: given temples, with priests, who would perform sacrifices in their honor, in the presence of statues of them. Does that make the person a god?

Best known are the divine honors paid to rulers of the Roman Empire, starting with Julius Caesar. We have an inscription dedicated to him in 49 BCE (five years before he was assassinated) discovered in the city of Ephesus, which says this about him: Descendant of Ares and Aphrodite https://ehrmanblog.org/the-god-julius-caesar/ Ο Έρμαν κάνει ένα μεταφραστικό λάθος

padma purana https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365420.html

R https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofre00mirc referenced by Walter veith

Quran 24:35 Quran 19:7 Q37:130 Q37:123 My God is yhwh

Islam arrastro con practicas paganas haciendo uso de ellas

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All seeing eye https://web.archive.org/web/20051031150627/http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/p/pontormo/3/04emmaus.html Pontormo executed the canvas for the Carthusian monastery at Galluzzo where he worked between 1523 and 1527. The eye of God, painted above Christ’s head, is a later addition.

Hubal (en árabe: هبل‎) es una de las principales divinidades preislámicas adorada fundamentalmente en la Kaaba, La Meca.

Hubal como antiguo dios lunar de medio oriente está asociado con el dios semita Baal y con Adonis o Tammuz, los dioses de la primavera, la fertilidad, la agricultura y la abundancia. Los orígenes del culto a Hubal son inciertos, pero su nombre se encuentra en inscripciones nabateas en el norte de Arabia (en todo el territorio de la actual Siria e Irak).

http://ilmfruits.com/2006/five-categories-of-everything/

https://creation.com/hugh-ross-church-fathers

https://creation.com/early-church-fathers-and-creation

Augustine City of God Book xii https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120112.htm

Chapter 10.— Of the Falseness of the History Which Allots Many Thousand Years to the World’s Past.

Let us, then, omit the conjectures of men who know not what they say, when they speak of the nature and origin of the human race. For some hold the same opinion regarding men that they hold regarding the world itself, that they have always been. Thus Apuleius says when he is describing our race, Individually they are mortal, but collectively, and as a race, they are immortal. And when they are asked, how, if the human race has always been, they vindicate the truth of their history, which narrates who were the inventors, and what they invented, and who first instituted the liberal studies and the other arts, and who first inhabited this or that region, and this or that island? They reply, that most, if not all lands, were so desolated at intervals by fire and flood, that men were greatly reduced in numbers, and from these, again, the population was restored to its former numbers, and that thus there was at intervals a new beginning made, and though those things which had been interrupted and checked by the severe devastations were only renewed, yet they seemed to be originated then; but that man could not exist at all save as produced by man. But they say what they think, not what they know.

They are deceived, too, by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though, reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6000 years have yet passed. And, not to spend many words in exposing the baselessness of these documents, in which so many thousands of years are accounted for, nor in proving that their authorities are totally inadequate, let me cite only that letter which Alexander the Great wrote to his mother Olympias, giving her the narrative he had from an Egyptian priest, which he had extracted from their sacred archives, and which gave an account of kingdoms mentioned also by the Greek historians. In this letter of Alexander’s a term of upwards of 5000 years is assigned to the kingdom of Assyria; while in the Greek history only 1300 years are reckoned from the reign of Bel himself, whom both Greek and Egyptian agree in counting the first king of Assyria. Then to the empire of the Persians and Macedonians this Egyptian assigned more than 8000 years, counting to the time of Alexander, to whom he was speaking; while among the Greeks, 485 years are assigned to the Macedonians down to the death of Alexander, and to the Persians 233 years, reckoning to the termination of his conquests. Thus these give a much smaller number of years than the Egyptians; and indeed, though multiplied three times, the Greek chronology would still be shorter. For the Egyptians are said to have formerly reckoned only four months to their year; so that one year, according to the fuller and truer computation now in use among them as well as among ourselves, would comprehend three of their old years. But not even thus, as I said, does the Greek history correspond with the Egyptian in its chronology. And therefore the former must receive the greater credit, because it does not exceed the true account of the duration of the world as it is given by our documents, which are truly sacred. Further, if this letter of Alexander, which has become so famous, differs widely in this matter of chronology from the probable credible account, how much less can we believe these documents which, though full of fabulous and fictitious antiquities, they would fain oppose to the authority of our well-known and divine books, which predicted that the whole world would believe them, and which the whole world accordingly has believed; which proved, too, that it had truly narrated past events by its prediction of future events, which have so exactly come to pass!

Chapter 11.— Of Those Who Suppose that This World Indeed is Not Eternal, But that Either There are Numberless Worlds, or that One and the Same World is Perpetually Resolved into Its Elements, and Renewed at the Conclusion of Fixed Cycles.

There are some, again, who, though they do not suppose that this world is eternal, are of opinion either that this is not the only world, but that there are numberless worlds or that indeed it is the only one, but that it dies, and is born again at fixed intervals, and this times without number; but they must acknowledge that the human race existed before there were other men to beget them. For they cannot suppose that, if the whole world perish, some men would be left alive in the world, as they might survive in floods and conflagrations, which those other speculators suppose to be partial, and from which they can therefore reasonably argue that a few then survived whose posterity would renew the population; but as they believe that the world itself is renewed out of its own material, so they must believe that out of its elements the human race was produced, and then that the progeny of mortals sprang like that of other animals from their parents.

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Muhammad was unable to distinguish between the Christian belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Arab Pagan belief in idols as offspring of God, i.e., Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat, (these were idols worshipped around Mecca as daughters of the supreme God – or Allah). Muhammad misunderstood that Christians in no way consider Jesus – the Son of God, in the same way the Arab Pagans understood their idols. https://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/son2.htm

Al-ʻUzzā (Arabic: العزى al-ʻUzzā [al ʕuzzaː] or Old Arabic, [al ʕuzzeː]) was one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times and she was worshipped by the pre-Islamic Arabs along with al-Lāt and Manāt. A stone cube at Nakhla (near Mecca) was held sacred as part of her cult. She is mentioned in Qur’an 53:19 as being one of the goddesses who people worshipped.

al-‘Uzzá
Goddess of might and protection
2nd century AD relief from Hatra depicting the goddess al-Lat flanked by two female figures, possibly goddesses al-Uzza and Manat
Major cult center	Petra
Symbol	Three trees
Region	Arabia (Arabian Peninsula)
Personal information
Siblings	Al-Lat, Manāt

R Muhammad used the pre-Islamic calendar and made it one of the important features of his religion as if God himself invented this calendar. It is yet another example of the arbitrary pre-Islamic norms and values that Muhammad included in his religion. https://abdullahsameer.medium.com/the-pagan-islamic-calendar-b7fb71d9f6f4

RR Tom Holland and Patricia Crone, both revisionist scholars of early Islamic history, suggest that Islam might not have originated in Mecca, but rather someplace to the north, possibly in the Levant. Building on this suggestion, but taking it a step further, Paul Ellis suggests that Islam originated in or near Jerusalem. One of the main pieces of evidence for this theory is his claim that the hills referred to as Safa and Marwa in the Qur’an are actually hills in Jerusalem. According to Ellis, Marwa is Mount Moriah and Safa is Mount Scopus. Ellis notes that Josephus referred to Mount Scopus as “‘Sapha,’ which is phonetically identical to ‘Safa.’”^[11]

^[11]https://www.academia.edu/76385952/Jerusalem_City_of_Islam_by_Paul_D_dA_Ellis