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... of fine physique, prominent nose, high cheekbones, and massive chin. Among his relics are flints, pebbles, perforated shells, charms and amulets, the last-named proving a belief in a future existence, a Celtic and Egyptian doctrine. Shells were worked into gorgets and were used for personal adornment. This people manufactured tools of bone and horn, and used flint hooks for fishing, thus presupposing that they possessed boats or canoes. Their work reveals high artistic skill, including bracelets of ivory, statuettes, and carvings in low relief. The flint Implements they employed consisted simply of long flakes able to serve as knives and some broader flakes, rounded and bevelled at one end ...
62. Mons Veneris [Journals] [Aeon]
... supported by the fact that it is exceedingly common to find the crescent of Sin depicted enclosing the disc of Shamash in a recumbent fashion (see figure five). (62) This latter image, needless to say, presents numerous difficulties from an astronomical standpoint as the sun does not currently move so as to appear to rest within the horns of the lunar crescent. Shamash and Sin are also mentioned together in various astronomical texts. A common expression in ancient omens was enuma Samas ina tarbas Sin izziz- "when Samas stands in the halo of the moon." (63) As Jastrow rightly observes, "since this phenomenon can only occur at night, Samas cannot ...
63. The Myth of the Goddess, Evolution of an image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... more like the Cretan double axe and a fish goddess could just as well be a disillusioned owl. It is when the authors cannot resist fast-forwarding into later Egyptian or Greek examples that their Neolithic interpretations seem most inadequate. By the time the book turns to the megalithic cultures the goddess is seen associated with the tree of life, bulls' horns and sky worship. The last is still viewed only in terms of Moon cycles and the regular rhythms of the heavens associated with vegetation cycles on Earth. Already the images of the goddess are becoming far too complex to be explained in the simple terms of an earth mother so the authors have to resort to considering the metaphysical thought processes ...
64. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... mobiliary materials documents the presence of other forms of symbolic marking, including non-lunar notations, and these were apparently used in their own specialised contexts."(71) One sign in particular appears to have been understood commonly and transmitted across generations. Said to represent an ibex head, the figure "is extremely schematic and consists merely of two horns, two ears, and a muzzle. Exactly the same image. . .occurs as a regular motif or sign in Late Ice Age engravings as far away as Spain."(72) From its appearance in various contexts, including engraved seasonal compositions similar to those painted in caves, Marshack believes it to be associated with Spring ...
... marks he Depth, 13.5 feet. called a "burning altar;"Thus assertion he also fortified with authorities and with illustrations of a similar sign from different countries. (See fig, 101.) The third series of marks represented an animal, name and character unknown, with a head or tusks with two large branching horns or ears, a straight back, a stiff but drooping tail, four legs, and two rows of the remarkable dots seven in one, six in the other placed over the back of the animal. (See figs. 99 and 100,) Fig. 57. Fig. 58. Fig. 59. CONICAL SPINDLE WHORL ...
66. The Bedrock of Myth [Articles]
... Maruts have been separated into mutually isolated individuals. The crescent of each stands upright on his head instead of constituting his pair of arms. By this time, the original form had been forgotten, although scattered metaphors in the Rgveda enable one to reconstruct it now. Figure 9 below represents schematically the frontal aspect of the seven pairs of cow's horns set upon an altar at Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia. Dated at 6000 BC, this relic provides physical evidence that the concentricity of the seven pairs of horns or crescents was still known 8000 years ago. It justifies the retrospective reconstruction based on features of the Maruts. It further helps in finding a tentative date for when men either saw ...
67. The Pyramid Age [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to have historified religio-myth associated with the 12th Dynasty Labyrinth and its parallels in the early palaces on Crete during the Middle Bronze period. The argument could then be made that Herodotus began Egyptian history in the Middle Kingdom and half a millennium after Dynasty 4 and the Pyramid age. Amun Re rose to prominence in the Middle Kingdom associated with ram's horns (horns that spiralled): see also Eric Crew's review of The Goddess of the Stones, Workshop 1991:2 , p. 13. Cup and ring carvings on megalithic age stones, the spiral as a symbol, horns and rosettes etc became favourite motifs in diverse lands. Emmet, on p. 16, actually mentions the ...
68. Odin [Journals] [Kronos]
... with time derived from the planet's slow movement along its orbit. That is a mere coincidence.(27) Nor can it be said that the name Kronos derived from "chronos". If anything, the opposite is true. The name Kronos could more easily have been derived from "krunos" - i.e ., "horns" - or even "corona"; the former in memory of Saturn's bull effigy,(28) with its ring(s ) in horn-like crescent, the latter as a reminder of the entire coronal ring(s ) which once surrounded the Saturnian sun. In Hebrew, or more properly Chaldean, "qeren" means both ...
69. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... , this was the original World Mountain, between the two peaks of which the ancient sun-god resided. (102) But it was also the bull of heaven. (103) Thus it is that Akkadian art depicting the rising of Shamash represents the god emerging from between the twin-peaks of a mountain or, alternately, from between the crescentine horns of a bull. (104) The "sun" with pillar engraved on one of the prehistoric stone slabs preserved in the Hindu temple of Mahadeo at Chandeswar, India. (105) If we now allow these universal pictographs to be our guide to ancient traditions surrounding the Milky Way, it becomes possible to make sense of several ...
70. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Exodus story in its present form as evidence that the Israelites were monotheists at that time. It is obvious, even to one who knows nothing of Hebrew history and literature, that a great many of the Old Testament stories have been extensively edited in order to conform with monotheism, and disguise the original protagonists. Moses himself was represented with horns until the Middle Ages, showing him to have been the universally venerated horned god. His serpent rod identifies him with the snake goddess of Crete and Greece, and his ability to strike water from the desert rock shows that originally he was one with the Great Goddess, who is represented as the source of rivers and fountains. ELIZABETH ...
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