Title: Murder of the innocents
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Blog Entry: Herod the Great and Jesus
Like Astyages, Herod the Great attempted to kill the Messiah king whom the Hebrew scriptures foretold would one day rule the people of Israel. Unlike Astyages, Herod was ignorant concerning the new born king’s identity and ordered the wholesale slaughter of all the boys up to two years of age in and around the vicinity of Bethlehem, from where, according to the prophet Micah (5:2–5), the Messiah would come.
Kamsa and Krishna
The reign of the demon-king Kamsa is similarly threatened after he learns that the eighth child (Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu) born to Devaki, will destroy him. Kamsa imprisons both Devaki and her husband, slaughtering all the children born to them, all except Balarama, Krishna’s brother who is transfered to another womb, and Krishna himself, who is smuggled to safety and hidden among the cow herders of Brindaban. Kronos and Zeus
Also Kronos was warned by Ouranos and Gaia that he would be dethroned by one of his own children, and so he ate them. When Rhea, his wife, gave birth to her youngest child Zeus, she hid him in a cave, where he was attended to by the Nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, and suckled by a the she-goat Amalthea (indicating the Triple-goddess). Rhea substituted Zeus with a stone dressed in baby clothes, which Kronos unwittingly gobbled up instead. when Zeus reached manhood, Kronos was given a potion causing him to vomit up, first the stone, and then the rest of his children, who finally, after a ten year battle, defeated their tyrannical father.
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