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27 pages of results. 121. Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion, by Ev Cochrane [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the monster and inexplicably, for most explanations of myth, emerging bald, as well as enfeebled or sometimes in his death throes. Jonah and the whale is a biblical example. A drastic change of size is an essential element in the story, with the shape-shifting hero able to enter or exit the monster in a dwarf-like form. Mayan myth has stories of a dragon slaying dwarf; Precolumbian American mythology has a club wielding red dwarf who resides on the world mountain under the primal sun; Hanuman of India and even the Egyptian Bes all have the characteristics of the shrunken hero god. The birth of the hero can be seen as another version of the same event, ...
122. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the third catalogue in the archaeological series dealing with portable' sized objects. These objects provide evidence for ancient advanced technology, pre-Columbian contacts with the New World and New World cultures much earlier than 12,000 years ago. Inca Origins - by G. R. Kearsley. US$39.95 This is a sequel to the author's Mayan Genesis and presents more evidence that South America, as well as Mesoamerica, had contacts with Asia and Australia as long ago as 5,000 years. Lavishly illustrated, the visual evidence presented is almost overwhelming. ...
123. James P. Hogan's Cradle Of Saturn (Book Review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Iceland, Greenland, and India; from the islands of Polynesia to the steppes of Siberia; and places as far apart as Japan and Mexico, China and Peru. The accounts of shrieking hurricanes scouring the Earth and tides piling into mountains read the same in the Persian Avesta, the Indian Vedas, and the CRADLE OF SATURN Ginenthal 3 Mayan Troano as in Exodus, and were similarly narrated by the Maori, the Indonesian, the Laplander, and the Choctaw. And finally, the titanic electrical discharges between the comet's head and parts of its deformed, writhing tail became clashes of celestial deities depicted virtually identically whether as the Biblical Lord battling Rahab, Zeus and Typhon of the ...
124. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... occur which could be mistaken for an eclipse but which did result in catastrophe. The reason eclipses were important to the early astronomers was that they gave the fixed points for full and new moon, which in the absence of optical instruments, was not obvious. In this connection it has always seemed to me that the grotesque art of the Mayan and Aztec civilisations could only be explained by assuming that the entire populace, both rulers me ruled, must have been stark raving bonkers. We know that they were also very fine mathematicians, but that is neither here nor there. Of course we have seen something like that in Europe this century, but in the case of the ...
125. The Original Star of Dawn [Articles]
... ? Could it perhaps be that, at some remote time in the past, Mars was somehow an inner, rather than an outer, planet, as Lynn Rose had earlier suggested? Or did the appellation Morning Star once have an entirely different connotation, one derived from some other peculiarity that had nothing to do with heliacal risings? In Mayan lore, Morning Star received the name sastal ek, which means "Bright Star," an appellation that, as we have seen, was also reserved by the Pawnee for Venus as Evening Star. And, in fact, it is the consensus among Mayanists that the Morning Star of these people was the planet Venus. In a ...
126. The Crescent II [Books]
... camest forth from the midst of its leaves in the town of Chmun (Hermopolis magna) and didst lighten the earth, which was still wrapped in darkness." (3 ) Parallels to the Egyptian cosmic lotus, as the home of the great god, will be found in all sections of the world, including the Americas. The Mayans knew the flower as "the form of the moisture of heaven, the substance of heaven, the yellow blossom of heaven." (4 ) Looking back to the creation a Mayan text recalls, "Then it was that the flower sprang up, wide open .. . Thereupon the heart of the flower came forth to set ...
127. Human Sacrifice - Then and Now [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... closely associated with human sacrifice. Jaguar warriors capture victims for sacrifice, jaguars are associated with ritual head hunting, jaguars and eagles eat human hearts and even today men dress as jaguars to spill each others' blood on a mountain to pray for rain. The jaguar is associated with rain and lightning and darkness and the night sky. A Mayan myth declares that the world will end when jaguars rise up from their underworld kingdom and devour the Sun and Moon. Once again sacrifice becomes inextricably linked with the cosmos. Two interesting points arise along the way. Green jade, a sacred stone associated with blood letting rituals, is thought to be congealed lightning and jaguar masks often have ...
128. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Gordon Williams, 11 Camellia Court, 280 Grey Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand. According to Professor Haraldur Sigurdson (reported in The Daily Telegraph, 10th May), a massive eruption of Mexico's El Chichon volcano in 1259 produced 10 times more debris than Krakatoa in 1883. He claims that it probably accounted for the fall of the Mayan civilisation and covered the world sulphuric acid aerosols, obscuring sunlight and damaging the ozone layer. Sigurdson claims that this led to cooling of the climate in the Middle Ages and to the Little Ice Age that lasted intermittently into the 19th century. \cdrom\pubs\journals\workshop\w1993no1\01news.htm ...
129. Ishtar, Isis, Baal and the Aten [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , which is all but inconceivable (e .g . they would most probably have recorded visibilities' rather than the invisibilities' which they actually recorded). The Ninsianna record describes only a minor expansion of the solar system, which resulted in an increase of about 5 days in the length of the year (which both the Egyptian and Mayan records confirm). As this alone suffices to explain the observed phenomena, no major disruptions of orbits being called for, the mention of Velikovsky's quaint astronomical theory' by Dr Clube is essentially an irrelevance, not actually being needed to explain the observed phenomena. As to what triggered the expansion is still anybody's guess but it could well ...
130. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... other agents being reponsible for cosmic damage at a later time (after the last planetary encounter identified by Velikovsky), but in my view it is more likely that the agents he wrote of were also responsible for the later damage. According to Velikovsky the Maya were terrified by the close approach of Venus every 52 years. However, the Mayan civilisation collapsed in the 1st millenium AD, not in the 2nd millenium BC. Could it be that the climate change that caused the collapse of various Meso and South American civilisations occurred at the time of close approaches of Venus? It would be interesting to know how deep into the charged sheath of Venus the Earth would have to plunge ...
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