An idiot

[michaleen]

Over the past week or so, I was thinking about the Revelation of St John the Divine and the phrase, "King of Kings", wondering whether Cyrus II The Great, first king of the Achaemenid Empire, bore that title. The Achaemenids had been on the periphery of my interests for some time in an unrelated context and, when Cyrus was mentioned, this question

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[lilchiva]

I think you have a much higher opinion of me than is reasonable. It's totally appreciated. But, at the same time. I don't recognize this Mistress of the Mysterious as myself. There are loads of people who are significantly more excellent in that department. Also, I am notoriously poor communicator. And, this is weird because a main portion of my scholarship on this goes back to the old study group and Neo-trads. I thought everyone knew this stuff but me. Like, I looked deeply here because I thought I needed to catch up.

And, yeah. Cyrus as a general messiah is a very common and accepted popular view. Cyrus vs. Nebuchadnezzar are, for many, the template of John The Revelator 's gig.There is a ton of documentation about how the mushroom trip of TBR draws from Daniel and Ezra (and other Cyrus relevant documents) for mythologizing Christian eschatology There are a bunch of Assyrian "Aramaic" Christians and Messianic Jews who hold this as a thing. (They have been here the longest, so I tend to place emphasis on their perspective.) And

[michaleen]

I actually do have a vague memory of you telling me about Cyrus and Revelation. It wasn't just my high regard for you and your command of an appalling number of curious and rare subjects. My first thought was, didn't Chiva try to tell me this some years ago

[michaleen]

"John the Revelator", is peculiarly awesome. Thanks for that.

And thanks for your final replies in our discussion, last year. I'm not even sure that I read them, at the time. When I returned to them, it seemed clear that they would have made a lot less sense to me back then. I made a somewhat feeble attempt at a response, but there's no need to continue that discussion, if it's gone too stale.

Having you in my life makes me happy. You've been missed.