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  • Thursday, May 17 17 May, 2012
    The copper shell of a nineteenth-century wooden ship has been found in the Gulf of Mexico by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The wreck, which sits under 4,000 feet of water, was first noticed during a sonar survey conducted by an oil company. A closer look with a remotely operated vehicle spotted a […]
  • Wednesday, May 16 16 May, 2012
    A team of French archaeologists has unearthed an 11,000-year-old farming village on the island of Cyprus. The evidence, including bones and burned seeds, suggests that the Early Neolithic farmers came from the Middle East soon after the rise of agriculture, bringing plants, dogs, and cats with them. They supplemented their diets with wild boar that […]
  • Tuesday, May 15 15 May, 2012
    Engravings at the French rock shelter site of Abri Castanet have been dated to 37,000 years ago, making them at least as old as the paintings of the Grotte Chauvet. The Abri Castanet engravings were carved in the limestone ceiling of the shelter, which was probably used by reindeer hunters. “But unlike the Chauvet paintings and […]
  • Monday, May 14 14 May, 2012
    A Polish oil company worker has discovered a World War II-era Kittyhawk P-40 crashed in Egypt’s Western Desert. The Royal Air Force pilot of the plane is thought to have survived the June 1942 crash because his parachute had been used to make a shelter. No human remains have been found. The Egyptian military has removed […]
  • Friday, May 11 11 May, 2012
    At the site of Xultún in northern Guatemala, a team from Boston University has uncovered the oldest-known astronomical tables of the Maya, which were incised and painted on the walls of a room in a 1,200-year-old residential building. The room, thought to have been a working space for scribes, had been built with a stone […]

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History of Manicheism

See: Mani and Authorship of the Canonical Gospels
Its founder, Mani, lived in the third century CE. His religion spread over the continents from the Atlantic to the Chinese Sea.

One of the principal characters of this Faith and Church is Jesus Chrest, in which regard it is noteworthy that:
a. The central character of the New Testament gospels is also Jesus Chrest (and not ‘Christ’); and
b. There is no contemporaneous, 3rd-century evidence for any ‘Jesus Christ’ or Christian Church; therefore
c. Manicheism predates the Roman Church by half a century and Christianity by at least as much time.

Manicheism existed for more than a millennium.

Krestonia

Krestonia is in western Thrace, between the Strymon and the Axios; see N. G. L. Hammond, A History of Macedonia, vol. i: Historical Geography and Prehistory (1972), 179f., with Maps 14 and 17. Not far west of it, beyond the Axios, is the Macedonian town of
Europe or Europos; see Hammond, op. cit., 167f.

Pythagoras in Judea

The Druze religion has its roots in Ismailism, founded the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt in the tenth century, blending Islamic monotheism with Greek philosophy and Hindu influences. Since about 1050 the community has been closed to outsiders.
They often choose to live on mountains such as Mount Carmel or Mount Hermon
Scholars think that the Druze believe in reincarnation, immediately, that not a breath is lost between death and rebirth
scholars have guessed from what little is known about them that their beliefs reflect an eclectic bag of influences, including Gnostic Christianity, Platonism, Ismailist and Shiite thought, Judaic mysticism, and Hindu mythology, with a dash of Zoroastrianism.
At the top of their list is Jethro, the father-in-law and mentor of Moses.
Also high on their list are: Adam, Abraham, Ismael, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, John the Baptist (or Al-Khidr, the ‘Green One’), Jesus, Muhammad, Salaman and Al-Hakim bin-Amr Allah.