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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Jesus is supposed to have changed water to wine.   
      
   trueman  in the post   
   Pagan  Origins of Trinity and Christianity.   
   on alt.religion.islam  stated that   
   Osiris and Dionysus/Bacchus are also said to have   
   changed water to wine at a marriage ceremony.   
      
   I have also read years ago that some Hindu mystics   
   (or avatars?) are said to have changed water into   
   wine.  (And I have asked on alt.religion.hindu for   
   more details including names.)   
      
   I claim that what all these figures really did   
   is to change FROM DRINKING water to DRINKING wine,   
   probably at full moon.   I base that on my   
   personal experience, in that I have learned to   
   abstain from alcohol 1.0 to 9.0 days before full moon.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night   
   You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)