appeared to be taking little notice of their cries of anguish. They obviously all needed him to be there whenever they wanted him but he he had little time for hysterics and was showing them there was a time and a place for everything This could be considered phlegm – a stoical approach to situations which needed to be weighed up in context. We see Jesus in a completely different light when there are woman around. Much against popular tradition of male/female segregation, Jesus delights in bringing them right into the heart of things without disguising his delight. He is very modern in terms of our concepts today and this would have upset a very great many in the male executive traditional role. It is this aspect of his strange behaviour that made him very attractive to the female population who feature very conspicuously in their demands for his intervention. It is not surprising that Pilate´s wife was closer to him that her husband. Jesus was loosening hypocritical public mores and this was well illustrated in the saving of the woman´s life by questioning the past sins of those present. She was probably not the Magdalene supposedly having married him. The early church scribes may have wanted to destroy the concept of issues of the marriage and may well have chosen to create this harlot link and harness public opinion against it.
Pagan origins of Christian rituals ?
In old testament days, mountain worship had been translated as places of isolation and divine contact. It was believed that initiates were closer to heaven and somehow the air gave them a great sense of communication with nature and a mind as crisp and full of joy as could be had. Life down in the valley could sometimes lower those energy levels to