Historical analysis uncovers the foundations of scientific inquiry and philosophical monotheism in early Greek thought, highlighting ancient mythology's influence on modern civilization.
INTRODUCTION Greek mythology can be considered the "book of books"—the most significant thing ever written in the history of humanity and civilization. It constitutes the beginning of every science: physics, mathematics, philosophy, astronomy-cosmology, theology, as well as the study and therapy of the soul and human nature. Psychology ! It was also the beginning of religion, arising from the search for answers to questions about how and why the world was created, and what laws govern it. From this perspective, MONOTHEISM is a scientific and philosophical pursuit of the Greeks, who were the only ones possessing the intellectual background to formulate such a theory, founded by Xenophanes of Colophon, who lived a large part of his life in Elea and Catania of Magna Graecia ( south Italy today). Inadvertently, mainly during the years when Christianity prevailed, a distortion and piece of misinformation was spread, claiming that MONOTHEISM is a Jewish religious invention. However, the Jews never believed that only one God exists—not even today in fully scale. They believed that many gods exist and that each nation could have one or more for themselves. They, however, made a covenant with the one they considered the most powerful, who promised them the "Promised Land," and decided to serve him. From this perspective, in science, this is called ENOTHEISM (Ena=One), not MONOTHEISM.
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