The Pagan Bible: Hidden Myths Behind the Scriptures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798272877079)

The Pagan Bible: Hidden Myths Behind the Scriptures
By Shera Long

Unearth the forgotten origins of the world's most sacred book.

Before prophets, temples, and commandments, there were stories whispered by firelight-of creation and flood, of gods and goddesses, of light born from darkness. The Pagan Bible reveals the ancient myths that shaped scripture long before religion divided them. Drawing upon archaeology, comparative mythology, and sacred texts from Sumer, Egypt, Babylon, and Canaan, Shera Long traces the hidden ancestry of faith itself.

Inside this illuminating work, you will discover:
- The Creation Story - how Genesis mirrors Sumerian and Egyptian cosmogonies where divine speech and sacred breath gave birth to the world.
- The Garden of Eden - the echo of older paradise myths and goddess groves where serpent, tree, and woman were symbols of wisdom, not sin.
- The Serpent - once a healer and initiator, turned into a warning of knowledge forbidden.
- The Great Flood - a global memory of destruction and renewal that united myth and history.
- The Tower of Babel - humanity's longing to bridge heaven and earth through sacred architecture.
- The Sun Kings and the Divine Feminine - the veiled legacy of solar monarchs and goddesses whose light and compassion still shape faith.
- Moses and Egypt, the Ark, the Cross, and beyond - how the symbols of empire, temple, and redemption are transformations of far older mysteries.

The Pagan Bible is both revelation and remembrance-a journey through the hidden lineage of the sacred. It unveils how every religion, beneath its surface, carries the same eternal pattern of death and rebirth, exile and return, darkness and divine light.

To read this book is to rediscover the world's first scripture-the living myth of humanity itself.