Interviews with Acharya S by Acharya S & D.M. Murdock

Author:Acharya S & D.M. Murdock [S, Acharya]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Publisher: Stellar House Publishing
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

The Sons of the Sun God

Interview by Joan d'Arc

( PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader , vol. 1; 2010)

JOAN D'ARC : A "mythicist" is someone who perceives biblical characters as being mythical and the origin of myths as being based in nature worship and "astrotheology." How did you come to be a mythicist and astrotheologist? Does this necessarily mean you’re an atheist?

ACHARYA S : I began reading about myths—especially the Greek myths—when I was a small child. After that time, I had a growing curiosity about mythology and religion, which has evolved into a longstanding passion. By young adulthood, I knew a significant amount about the religions and myths of many cultures around the world. But I myself did not really have a religion.

I was born into a mild Protestant sect and attended a Congregational Church, but I rejected it all as boring from about the age of seven onward, and I emancipated myself at 12. I went to Greece when I was 14, and the rest, as they say, is history…and archaeology…and mythology…

With all that strong background in mythology for so many years, I was prepared for when I had the epiphany of the mythical nature of Jesus. I don't mean the vague sense of rejection of the miracles that many people likely experience, leading them to become "evemerists," or those who believe Christ was a real man to whose mundane biography his ardent followers attached many fables and fairytales. A mythicist is someone who perceives the gospel tale as a whole to be mythical, with no historical core to the onion when the mythological layers have been peeled. This contention is not to say, however, that there are no historical characters in the New Testament. Herod and Pilate appear firmly rooted in the historical record, for example. But the gospel story itself is like Gulliver's Travels , a historical novel that is placed in England but that nonetheless remains fictional.

When it comes to the Greek and Roman gods, practically everyone is a mythicist, believing these characters, such as Zeus and Hercules, not ever to have been "real people" but to represent in large part natural phenomena, such as storms, thunderbolts, wind, the sea, the sun and so on. All told, the religion and mythology of old were very concerned with not only the afterlife and underworld but also the here and now of this world, which they likewise perceived as sacred.

The cosmic part of this nature worship is called "astrotheology," specifically the reverence for and worship of the sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations and so on.

"I have no interest in being categorized in either the theist or atheist camp, and I have no desire to create either theists or atheists with my writing. What you do with your own mind is up to you, so long as it doesn't spill out onto others in a negative fashion."

Being convinced of the mythical nature of many gods, godmen and heroes of old, and being fascinated by the astrotheological origin of many myths and traditions, does not necessarily make or require one to become an atheist.

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