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To: MJ who wrote (10258)	11/1/2007 8:24:06 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"she believed that the soul exists before entering the mother." Sounds a bit like a Buddhist way of thinking.... Cycle-of-Life... transmigration of souls.... (Shinto, too, I think, and some American Indian cultures.) I'm thinking that the ancient world was always more 'connected' then we tend to think these days... ideas flowed from culture to culture, across great expanses of time and great distances. (For example, the stories of the 'Great Flood' which appeared in ancient Babylonian cultures [Gilgamesh saga, etc.] some thousand years or more before the Old Testament was compiled, and also in the Indian traditions... the Persian [Zoroastrian] stories of Ahura-Mazda, son of the the Sun God, who taught that mankind could gain eternal salvation through good works, and who was 'born in a manger' where three wise men brought gifts to mark the occasion....) I read about an interesting find some time back, of a small town in inner China where many of the names on a local cemetery were of Jewish origins... as well as many of the names on local streets. Apparently a great long while back some Jewish traders or travelers settled there.. and managed to keep many of their traditions and cultural distinctness alive for hundreds of years amongst a 'sea' of Chinese... until just about a century or so ago. Fairly remarkable.