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Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 22:03
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)


> Stone Gordensen replied: > > Even I would agree to this purely historical perspective were equal
unbiased
> > time and fervor given to all other religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. > > ALL other religions? Even Zoroastrianism? What about the Cult of the > Giant Sheep in the Sky? :)
As I just mentioned in a previous e-mail, I'd teach about the ones that matter for the subject at hand. If we're learning about Persian history, or about the disintegration of the Roman Empire, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, et reliqua would be worth discussing. And I'd love to have a class where Divoves [1] was mentioned. [1] I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out who Divoves is...