Similarities

In the primordial advent of the eons

Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu melt into the residual of the present day trinity

And out of Eden's greenhouse sprouts the Bodhi tree

Baal points in shame to the sacrificial alter of Abraham

While Noah's flood, a cover of Gilgamesh a Sumerian, tops the charts for forty days.

At this event, Xipe Totec, wearing Jacobs coat in all its gory splendor,

Passes Osiris' reed basket, down the Nile, to the infant prodigy Moses

Here, on Mt. Sinai, the napalm of Prometheus sets a bush ablaze

Xilonen, the hairy one, of beheaded corn, is served on the platter of John the Baptist

Durga, astride a lion, sees in the mirror of metaphor, mother Mary and her son

While Ra, Horus, Attis, Mithra and Jesus partake in parthenogenesis

In the empty pot of the Taoists they turn holy water into the wine of Bacchus

While from the ashes of the Phoenix, Christ raises in the fire of the holy spirit

Here the king of the woods fights his final battle under the golden bough