It would be fair at this point to ask, "Why worry about ancient myths and symbols? How can they be related to what is happening today?" Before making up your mind, consider the following things.

Many college students join fraternities or sororities whose rituals and symbols are based on those ancient myths. The university education system itself is similar to that of ancient Greece. We train our children to think like the Greeks thought.

Much of the architecture and symbology in Washington, DC mimics that of ancient Greece and Rome. Our political leaders are surrounded by it every day.

The music from our national anthem comes from the song "To Anacreon In Heaven", which is an ode to gods and goddesses such as Apollo, Bacchus, Jove, and Venus. Is this song representing events and things we venerate the most (such as our flag) perhaps an insult to the one true God?

Many of the practices of modern Christianity are similar to those of the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. Is this a coincidence, or were the Greek mysteries adopted in whole or in part by early Christianity as the new religion spread through the ancient world and then later was handed down to us?

On the evening of the millenium, George Herbert Walker Bush was in Egypt to participate in a ceremony to place a gold capstone atop the Great Pyramid. Apparently he felt that celebration of his "New World Order" was more appropriate to be done with the Pharoahs than with the American people.

September 11 was celebrated as the "Day of Queens" in ancient Egypt to venerate the female queens Hapshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra, who were considered to be goddesses. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities, who arranged the aforementioned capstone ceremony for the world's elites, has refused to answer questions about the Day of Queens ceremony and how it might be related to the events of September 11, 2001. Could the fate of the WTC twin towers on that day be somehow related to that of the twin obelisks in Queen Hapshepsut's mortuary temple?

The myths and rituals of the ancients, especially the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, are all around us. We will next look at how President George W. Bush led us in celebration of some of these ancient rituals in the aftermath of the attacks of 9 11.