God & the Stargate

[Koala]

Just thought of another reason. Based on the story line from the movie, the goa'uld were "kicked out" of Egypt before the rise of Christianity and other major religions. Since the goa'uld live "a long time" and would have been established as Egyptian gods, this would not necessarily fail where other episodes show humans of later periods (such as "Demons") but does get a bit weak there. Then again, so does the presence of those humans on the other planets (unless they were taken in ha'taks but there should have been some reference in Jackson's research to the UFOs).

Just a thought. I'll admit there are a couple holes there tho.

 

[Rowan]

Egyptian gods

Good thoughts thought, Koala and well worth discussing.

 

[Dave]

I think that Rowan has a point about TV being produced for the mainstream American Judeo-Christian population.

And whoever said about Hindus being up in arms if they ever used one of their gods in fictional TV was spot on, didn't this actually happen?

I've been helping my daughter do some homework on Egypt, and I think that there are some reasons why they can use Egyptian gods and why they work better in the story.

Firstly, because the Egyptian civilisation lasted such a long time, their religion changed slowly over the centuries. It began as a pagan, Sun and animal worshipping religion, but it moved steadily to one where these gods with animal heads were merely symbols, their real god was on a different plane which could be visited in the afterlife.

Secondly, they also had living God-Kings in the Pharohs. This idea of a living god fits in neatly with with the Goa'uld idea in a way that the other religions mentioned here do not.

Thirdly, as far as I am aware, there is no one today practising this religion.

 

[Rowan]

Egyptian Religeons

Originally posted by Dave
Thirdly, as far as I am aware, there is no one today practising this religion. [/B]

Not as such, no. At least not that I'm aware of. But there are many moder day pagans who use the Egyptian pantheon of gods as their spiritual archtypes, as the Asatru use the Norse [a practing religeon to this day] and some Wiccans relate to the Celtic.

 

[imported_TheDoc]

Re: Meeting 'God'

Originally posted by Rowan
Careful, Nemesis. Maybe God is a Furling.

Being of a 'non-christian' path myself, I do agree that the primary dermographics for the show are aimed at the Judeo-Christian sociological market and for that main reason they, the show, will stear clear on the most part. :smilej:

it's the good old "don't bite the hand that feeds you" principle, or in other words, don't upset the audience that's responsible for your quotes (or the companies that buy the commercial time!).

but if we leave the sensible bit aside for a while, I'd say that I'm so very, very tired of the ever-present panic of being "politically incorrect" or steppin' on somebody's toes. this will eventually kill of all creativity, no matter what field of art is concerned.

life itself is *not* politically correct. none of *us* is, even if we try. I just somehow don't see why I, as a wiccan (of jewish heritage) must endure show after show where my beliefs are shown as some kind of mental illness or something to be ridiculed, while, on the other hand the "established" religions are treated like raw eggs. coz there's one thing that should not be forgotten: it's all about *believing*, not about *knowing*.

as a jewish author once wrote:

"imagine, here we are, worshipping, starting wars over who's right and who's not, and then we die and might find out to our eternal suprise that we were wrong all the way and heaven is actually populated by dog-headed egyptian gods!"

ha!

the doc :blpaw: