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165 pages of results. 361. Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Saturn, were identified at that time with gods, called by their names, and were supposed to exhibit their traits. Plato further argued that the planets and stars were huge, and he insisted that the gods were among the planets and not upon Olympus [6 ]. The modern practice of arbitrarily labeling new objects of the sky from Greek mythology has obscured the sacredness of the ancient belief in the union of astral bodies with divine personages. If any distinction between the planet and god were required, it would relate, as Taylor put it, to "the planet Jupiter, who being a mundane divinity, according to the theology of the Greeks, is a procession from ...
362. Confessions of a Cenoist [Journals] [Aeon]
... mot juste, we rejected "senefaction" because simply "making old" misses the many ways in which society packages antiquity. The crudeness of "seniorize" offended Mullen's palette, but he liked "inolden," a simple Anglo-Saxon word that suggests "investing with age." Finally, we settled on "paleoize," from the Greek paleo, which connotes both "old" and "early." Aside from this fortuitous balance of meaning, "paleoize" has the added cachet of issuing from an ancient language. Paleoizers flourish in many sciences. Astronomers, geologists, and archaeologists toss around numbers nearly as large as the US federal budget. Number inflation has become ...
363. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... important deity."(6 ) Further, it could be said that in other respects Cardona himself has amply demonstrated the dangers of taking mythological birth descriptions too literally as can be deduced from his "Child of Saturn" series, where he maintains that the description of the birth of Pallas Athene from the head of Zeus, a popular Greek legend, should not be interpreted as any kind of evidence of the progeny of Venus from the planet Jupiter.(7 ) Cardona is surely correct when he writes: "To most mythologists, the Greek Ares is just as prominent in mythology as is the Roman Mars."(8 ) What does not appear to be so ...
364. Ambrosia, Part 1 Venus Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... from the wind, the honey-lash hath verily sprung. This, clothed in amrite (ambrosia), all the creatures revering, acclaim in their hearts."(50) The Egyptian Book of the Dead speaks of "the divine clouds and the great dew" that bring the earth into contact with the heavens.(51) The Greeks called the heavenly bread ambrosia. It is described by the Greek poets in identical terms with manna; it had the taste of honey and a fragrance. This heavenly bread has given classical scholars many headaches. Greek authors from Homer and Hesiod down through the ages continually referred to ambrosia as the heavenly food which in its fluid state is ...
365. The Love Affair as the Mask of Tragedy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Issue Contents CHAPTER THREE The Love Affair as the Mask of Tragedy The song is sung. The play is over. Now the question is, "What does it represent?" It represents, I think, and I must take the rest of this book to explain myself, a shocked spell amidst conditions of horrifying natural disaster. The Greeks experienced it, suppressed its memories, remembered it subconsciously, and converted it ultimately into the symbolic form of a comedy. The Greeks assumed the Love Affair took place in the sky nor could it have any other location. The gods move swiftly from place to place, the Sun is one of the actors, some of the brilliant ...
366. Peoples of the Sea by Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... they were thought to have initiated a "dark age" of about 500 years, when civilization was virtually extinguished. Velikovsky, however, presents evidence that Ramses III lived 800 years later; that the events in question took place in the first part of the fourth century before the present era; and that the Peoples of the Sea were Greek mercenaries and the Pereset were Persians. Peoples of the Sea A Reconstruction of Ancient History - A Continuation of the Ages in Chaos Series © 1977 Immanuel Velikovsky Full Text Not Available Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Introduction PART I Chapter I: TWELFTH OR FOURTH CENTURY? 3 The Scheme of Things (3 ). Greek Letters on Tiles of Ramses III ...
367. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... style as found in Yugoslavia, but also Hittite art, and the distinctive architectural form of the gates, with their links with the Etruscans. The lion gate in particular showed links with Assyria in the art form of the lions, and Minoan Crete in the representation of surrounding pillars, yet though Minoan-type figures seemed a direct forerunner of Classical Greek art and the Assyrian and other links denoted a first millennium date, the Mycenaean civilisation was assigned a much earlier date due to its links with Egypt at the time of Akhenaten. Mycenae had so obviously been a great and powerful culture on a par with other first millennium BC cultures. To place it earlier was an anachronism. Where ...
... cuneiform inscriptions were read by Dr. Frederick W. Geers. Contributions were made by Professor Arno Poebel, Dr. Ignace J. Gelb, Dr. Arnold Walther, and Dr. S. N. Kramer. An Old Persian inscription was read by Dr. George G. Cameron. Professor Martin Sprengling plans to publish the Aramaic, Greek, and Pahlavi inscriptions in the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. Dr. T. George Allen carefully edited and saw through the press this publication, as he has my previous ones, for which I again wish to thank him sincerely. He was also kind enough to read and comment on the Egyptian seals. Mr. ...
... survive from other directions. India has legends of invading monsters with hair and beard of "red lightning", doubtless the early Aryan conquerors. In the Canary Isles the semi-mummified remains of red-haired giants have been discovered. The Egyptians preserved records of their early god-kings, men of immense height and girth, and this applies also to the early Greeks. Herodotus, for instance, mentions the discovery of the skeleton of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, which measured seven cubits or over twelve feet in length. If we cross the Atlantic, as we should do in these matters, the Mexican traditions tell of the primeval home of the Toltecs, their original home in a country they ...
370. Aster and Disaster: The Fallen World [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. XI No. 3 (Summer 1986) Home | Issue Contents Aster and Disaster: The Fallen World Roger W. Wescott AN ETYMOLOGICAL EXCURSUS The word "etymology" is of Classic Greek origin and may be literally translated as "true meaning". The Greeks, like most other ancient peoples, believed that when a word changed meaning over time (as most words do), the earliest known meaning was the most reliable meaning - if not, indeed, the only valid meaning. This attitude toward usage, though less wide-spread than it used to be, is still prevalent among purists, who tend to decry all semantic change. Among descriptive ...
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