Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

271. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]

... ten. The duodecimal seems to be a third, got from the four (4 x 3 = 12) and not from the eight (= 4 x 2)] and in this chariot two eminent four-horned black young Devas, leaning on their clubs, who say: The god who sustains the Universe, who carries the bow of horn, this god is Bhagavai our Master, and it is to conduct thee to his abode that the are here, thou hast mastered the honour of dwelling in the sojourn of Vishnu, that supreme sojourn of so difficult access. Take thy place in that Spot around which march (leaving It do their right) the moon and the ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 29 Sep 2002 - URL: /online/pubs/books/night/vol-1/night-11.htm

272. From the Coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem to the Great Extremity to which the Jews were reduced [Books]

... the "Citadel," by king David; he was the father of that Solomon who built this temple at the first; but it is by us called the "Upper Market-place." But the other hill, which was called "Acra," and sustains the lower city, is of the shape of a moon when she is horned; over against this there was a third hill, but naturally lower than Acra, and parted formerly from the other by a broad valley. However, in those times when the Asamoneans reigned, they filled up that valley with earth, and had a mind to join the city to the temple. They then took off part of ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 31 Jan 2001 - URL: /online/pubs/books/josephus/war-5.htm

273. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]

... Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey The Australian Aboriginal story of the Rainbow Serpent has all the hallmarks of creation myths around the world, together with a fair smattering of characteristics which fit the Polar Configuration' extremely well. The huge serpent created the landscape and inaugurated a Golden Age which was later shattered by catastrophe. It was brightly coloured, with horns, and slithered north to a huge mountain which towered into the sky. It swallowed two brothers who eventually escaped from its belly as birds when others cut it open. In its anger it caused catastrophe on Earth, tearing the mountain apart and hurling lethal rocks all over Earth while thundering and flickering its red tongue like lightning. It ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v1998n2/41monit.htm

274. The Timna Test [Journals] [Aeon]

... lines to indicate their larger size. These men seem to be wearing some sort of helmet, carry long, hilted, straight-bladed swords, and wear tasseled kilts. This part of the engraving, contrary to the chariot array, is populated by various animals: we have here ibexes, some ostriches, dogs and several representations of the straight horned oryx...In the lowest part of the picture, next to the third chariot from the right, appears a horse with a rider (? ) on its back..." [11] These are the locals, as much a part of the background as the native animals themselves, watching the spectacle of an ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0505/079timna.htm

275. The Exodus Problem and its Ramifications Vol I

... the Old Testament, 1958. H-FA Hoyle, F., Frontiers of Astronomy, 1955. H-H Herodotus, Histories, Translated by DeSelincourt. H-I Homer, The Iliad. Penguin Books. H-P Harden, D., The Phoenicians, 1963. H-PC Hutchinson, R. W., Prehistoric Crete. Pelican Books, 1962. H-RPIB Horn, S. H., Records of the Past Illuminate the Bible, 1963. HRS-CE Hayes, W. C., Rowton, M. B., and Stubbings, F. H., Chronology of Egypt. J-AA Josephus, F., Against Apion. Supplement to J-AJ. J-AJ Josephus, F., Antiquities ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 19 Jun 2005 - URL: /online/no-text/exodus/index.htm

276. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]

... time was thrown out by colleagues and the problem remains. Heinsohn suggests that the alternative way to solve it is to move Early Bronze Mesopotamia forward in time. Other material styles reached a peak in the Old Akkadian culture, only to disappear and reappear later with the Old Assyrians. Among later material was a seal depicting a bull with its horns in an unusual position, supposedly never seen before by the experts. We were, however, shown a picture of this seal and invited to compare it with a very similar picture of a bull on Narmer's palette, supposedly from 3000 BC. Dayton had also pointed out many such resemblances between the 1st Dynasty and the Hyksos. Conventional ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/w1991no1/01news.htm

277. Ch 3-4 (Hamlet's Mill)

... turns out that "ruler of Aries" was the established title of supreme power in Iran, [n1 Persia "belongs" to Aries according to Paulus Alexandrinus. See Boll's Sphaera, pp. 296f., where it is stated that this was the oldest scheme. It is still to be found in the Apocalypse. Moses' ram's horns stand for the same world-age.] 45 and it may have meant as much or as little as "Holy Roman Emperor" in the West. What counts is that Rome is a place on earth, whose prestige is connected with a certain. historical period, whereas Aries is a zone of heaven, or rather, since heaven ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 28 Nov 2007 - URL: /online/no-text/hamlets-mill/santillana3.html

278. Evidence of Careenings of the Globe [Books]

... has given weighty reasons for his belief that the globe has been, at some remote period, most violently assailed by a mighty flood from the southeast. Tearing up and bearing away the looser materials of the southern hemisphere, it has brought a great body of them to the northern, and impressed upon the capes of Good Hope, of Horn, and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and other promontories, the marks of its overwhelming force." There is geological evidence that mountains have been cut off and carried away during the cataclysms of the deluges. Miles of telltale slanting rocks exist in normal formations which appear to have been cleanly cut off. A fairly level plain ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 29 May 2005 - URL: /online/pubs/books/cataclysms/p1ch1.htm

279. Mammoth Update: A Reply to Ellenberger (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]

... noticed, it is conceivable that the presence of carcasses of other animals would not have been noticed or even reported if they had. Pfizenmayer tells more about the bias in favor of mammoth and rhinoceros. The professional hunters . . . send perhaps a mammoth or rhinoceros skull to the dealers, or that of a bison if it has large horns; but they do not bother with the skull of smaller animals, because they argue that the smaller the skull the less the proceeds of its sale! An exiled student told me, in Verkhoyansk on my way back from Kolymsk, that an ivory hunter had found the carcass of a horse four years before, sticking half out of ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0704/062forum.htm

280. The Opening of The Mouth Ritual - Part II [Journals] [Aeon]

... (re)birth, and genesis," all germane to the Martian hero as delineated in the Saturn model and the topic explored in the present paper. Grouped with this sign is the longer hooked-top V symbol of Aries. According to Liungman, the heart sign is related to both these symbols and that Aries, the ram with its horns, was "prominent and important in the mytho-logy of antiquity." The form of these V-shaped figures and the bifurcated column is obvious. Also, that Aries is the astrological sign for "fire," and that the so-called "ruler of Aries" is none other than the planet Mars, is further evidence for the conjectured relationship ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 8 - 12 Apr 2007 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0605/103opening.htm