Now, this is interesting. You may've encountered the loopy anti-Islamic claim that Allah is really an idol - a Middle Eastern moon-god - perhaps via Jack Chick. I was perusing an extensive lay
refutation of the claim, and discovered that (amongst other things) it relies on one of the great traps which everyone from qualified scholars to Neo-Pagan
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Exactly! But tell that to Jan Assmann, whose "cosmotheism" strikes me as just one more permutation of this approach.
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I meant to mention in the posting that the "moon god" furphy relies on insisting a figure is a god, when it's unclear whether it's a god, a priest, a king, or someone else - this is the same shenanigans in The Double Goddess, in which the author states outright she'll be calling figures goddesses, queens, or priests as the mood takes her.
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