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8 pages of results. 21. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... with ancient conceptions of the Milky Way. In ancient China, as with the red star in Navaho tradition, the advent of Mars portended "bane, grief, war, and murder." (134) Significantly, Mars was specifically associated with the Southern quarter of heaven, that quarter especially linked to fire and red: "The red planet presides in the south...and over fire. It is for this reason that it was the home of fire...As the essence of fire, Mars...is also considered to be the spirit of the Red Sovereign Tchi-p'iao-nou; that is to say of the red destroyer of meteors, ' name ...
22. Cosmic Catastrophism [Journals] [Aeon]
... it as a divinity (Venus, Ishtar, etc.), carefully observing its movements. (12) For the six hundred years between c. 1400 and 800 B.C ., the solar system was spared from further cataclysms. But, in the eighth century B.C ., Venus collided with Mars, knocking the red planet out of its long-established orbit. Mars approached earth a number of times (776, 747, 717 or 702, and 687 B.C .) , creating further catastrophes that supposedly destroyed Mycenaean citadels in Greece as well as the Assyrian army that was besieging Jerusalem. As a result of these contacts, both Mars and Earth ...
23. Thoth Vol III, No. 2: Jan 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... [Ed note: this article was originally printed in AEON: Vol IV No 2, pg. 57-73.] The Ancient Testimony An entirely different explanation for the presence of Martian meteorites upon Earth emerges upon consideration of ancient literature. As I have documented elsewhere, the planet Mars was worshipped by most ancient peoples. It follows that the red planet was the subject of much attention by ancient skywatchers, who regarded it as an malevolent force to be feared and propitiated. Indeed, Mars was associated with spectacular disasters of one form or another, not the least of which was a great flood of water descending from the sky. Following Velikovsky's lead-but also modifying and elaborating upon his ...
24. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... fade with the passage of the Martian seasons. The thin atmosphere, as far as was known, couldn't support terrestrial life, even though it possibly contained some water and carbon dioxide as visualized with our telescopes in the frozen whitish polar caps. When Mariner 4 made its fly-by in July of 1965 for a tantalizing first close-up look at the red planet, its photographic results were awaited with anticipation and considerable excitement. Due to dust loading of the Martian atmosphere, however, the returned pictures turned out to be rather fuzzy, leaving far too many lingering questions unanswered. Later in 1971, Mariner 9 made its orbital surveys, sending back curious photos of pyramid-like formations in the Martian ...
25. The Poem of Erra [Journals] [Aeon]
... and an association with the same natural phenomena: war, pestilence, fire, etc. (33) Neither scholar, however, considered the possibility that Erra might bear a relationship to the planet Mars, though Nergal's identification with Mars is well-known. This is hardly to be wondered at as most scholars consider the identification of Nergal with the red planet to be entirely arbitrary in nature, a product of Oriental astrological speculation. It has been our purpose in this series of essays, however, to show that the cult of Nergal cannot be understood apart from his identification with Mars, the planetary aspect of the god actually determining the god's distinctive characteristics. (34) That Erra-like ...
26. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... with the planet Mars, the latter famed as the "warrior planet" throughout the ancient Near East and around the globe. Dumuzi's capacity for "swelling" to gargantuan proportions is also consistent with this identification, the swelling of the Martian hero constituting an archetypal mythological theme. [22] The fact that Heracles himself was identified with the red planet in Hellenistic times is also relevant here. The Germanic Heracles Like so many traditions surrounding Heracles, that describing the hero's transvestism seems especially incongruous and makes so little sense as it stands that commentators have found themselves at a loss to explain its significance. Indeed, some scholars have gone so far as to question the authenticity of the ...
27. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... Sun? Such questions formed the backdrop of David Talbott's The Saturn Myth, itself a landmark contribution to comparative mythology. (2 ) One could pose equally provocative questions about the other planets. Why is it that the planet Mars was represented as a warrior equipped with sword and/or club by peoples the world over? Why was the red planet consistently associated with images of the World Pillar, the latter object being envisaged as the upholder of the ancient heavens? (3 ) Why were the greatest of ancient goddesses- Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Anat, Aphrodite, etc.- invoked by the epithet Queen of Heaven and specifically identified with the planet Venus ...
28. The Spring Of Ares [Journals] [Kronos]
... Dechend, finding a consistent, if inexplicable, relationship between Saturn and the north celestial center, stated their puzzlement by posing the question: "What has Saturn, the far-out planet, to do with the Pole?"(23) It appears that Mars also played a role in this configuration. In fact, research indicates that the red planet was positioned between the Earth and Saturn while sharing their common rotational axis. Because of the fiery debris which flowed between the planets, the Earthly observer was presented with the picture of a towering pillar spanning the heavens between Earth's northern horizon and Mars. It was this visible pillar which led to the symbol of a celestial tree or ...
29. The Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ', Science, Vol. 278, 19 Dec. 1997, p. 2070. 43. Ev Cochrane, Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion, 1997. See http://www.aeonJournal.com . It will be argued that many of the greatest mythical themes reflect ancient man's obsession with the red planet. Indeed, we will attempt to show that Mars' prominence in ancient consciousness is directly attributable to the peculiar behaviour of the red planet, which only recently participated in a series of spectacular cataclysms involving the Earth and various neighbouring bodies. If our thesis has any validity, it follows that the orthodox version of the recent history ...
30. Samson Revealed [Journals] [Aeon]
... stand up in court. Their entire case rests upon a couple of motifs shared in common between Samson and various heroes. Both Samson and the Japanese Susanowo, for example, participate in an episode involving the bringing down of palatial beams. Yet at no time do the authors offer any convincing evidence that Susanowo is to be identified with the red planet, as one might otherwise expect to be necessary in order to make their case. Just how the authors would understand the archetypal Martian hero is not obvious. The following passage is as specific as the authors get in this regard: "Here is the story of the Japanese Samson, Susanowo, whose name means Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male. No ...
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