Kekrops Established Zeus-Religion in Athens
Rote regurgitation, not skeptiosity, is what rules in many fields today. Let me give you a real life example of skeptiosity meeting regurgitation head on. Recently, my wife and a friend and I attended a lecture in Washington, DC, sponsored by an archeological society. The speaker, a well-known authority on the history of the Parthenon sculptures, presented a number of slides pertaining to her theme including one which depicted Kekrops as on this page.
During the question period, a college student asked the lecturer why the Greek artist depicted this man as a serpent from the waist down. An excellent question. With skeptiosity, there’s an intuition that there’s something here we don’t understand that is well worth understanding. If you have read Athena and Eden, you know Kekrops is the king who established Zeus-religion in Athens, and that he is depicted as half-man/half-serpent because he represents the serpent’s man. Skeptiosity clears a befogged intellect, and enables the truth-seeker to follow the straightforward path of inexorable logic.
But what was the lecturer’s reply to this student’s skeptiosity? She said, “He’s part serpent because there were a lot of snakes on the Akropolis back then, and there still are.” Adopting this kind of thinking, we should expect to find half-men/half-rats depicted somewhere in Greek art as well because there were rats on the Akropolis back then, too. What an explicit slur upon the mentality of the ancient Greek artists, by the way! The lecturer had not properly digested this material herself. Rather than regurgitate, she should have said simply, “That’s a good question. I don’t know the answer. Any thoughts from the audience?”
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