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27 pages of results. 181. A Cosmic Debate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... have these models been allowed to persist? Is history but an obsessed recapitulation of disastrous experiences? Is it but a shell-shocked capering? Call the roll of the ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Crete, Cyprus, the Aegean, Greece, the Etruscans, the Romans, the Megalithic pre-historic humans of Europe, the Olmecs and Mayans, the Peruvians, the North American Indians, China, India, Iran, and so forth. Wherever one ventures equipped with the revolutionary theory, old historical evidence is reshaped and new theories emerge. Matters large and matters small become involved. How did the ballgames of many cultures come to be invented and why were they religious? ...
182. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , in fact, that the world might end during a solar eclipse. In the eclipse tables contained within the Dresden Codex, an eclipse is symbolized by the figure of a dragon descending from the glyph of the sun." On the relationship of the "eclipse" -dragon to Venus, Cochrane gives us the verdict of the eminent Mayan scholar, Sir Eric Thompson: The head of the monster is hidden by a large glyph of the planet Venus. One is instantly reminded of the Aztec belief that during eclipses the monsters called Tzitzimime or Tzontemoc (head down) plunged earthwards from the sky. These monsters include Tlauizcalpanteculti, the god of Venus as morning star. It ...
183. Thoth Vol I, No. 23: August 17, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... "It has been clear to all serious students of Mesoamerican culture," writes David Kelley, "that there was an intimate relationship between astronomical knowledge, the calendar, and religious beliefs and rituals." Or, as Anthony Aveni puts it, ". .. Quite unlike our modern astronomy, the raison d'être of Mesoamerican, particularly Mayan astronomy, was ritualistic and divinatory in nature." But what were the roots of the religious motive, placing such an emphasis on astronomy? The intense interest Venus is noted by Burr Cartwright Brundage- The true role of the planet Venus in the development of the Mesoamerican cultures is not understood. It might not be far wrong to look ...
184. Thoth Vol I, No. 19: July 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... her twilight shadow of doomsday," writes the noted student of world mythology, Barbara Walker. But the interconnected comet glyphs attached to the chaos monsters range far beyond these instances. A symbolic counterpart of this streaming "hair" is the enigmatic, but frequently depicted beard of the Mesoamerican serpent- dragon. The Aztec Plumed Serpent, the Mayan Great Bearded Dragon and numerous counterparts of these celestial monsters are distinguished by flowing beards that are every bit as preposterous, on the face of it, as their streaming "manes". The reader will recall the celestial beard or bearded star in our short list of comet symbols, as a logical extension of the "long-haired star" ...
185. Thoth Vol I, No. 7: March 23, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... on earth, a prototype of kings arose in heaven, and it was this "best of kings" who had founded the original paradise. For the Egyptians it was the creator-king Ra, for the Sumerians it was the high god An, from whom kingship descended. Similarly, the Hindu Brahma, the Chinese Huang-ti, Mexican Quetzalcoatl, Mayan Itzam Na and numerous counterparts among other nations, all preside over the Golden Age, while establishing the ideals and principles of kingship. In Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, China, Greece, Italy, northern Europe, pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America- in fact, wherever the institution of kingship arose- the royal genealogies lead backwards to this exemplary ...
186. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... or ages. The beginning of the briefest of these cycles was geared to an event computed by the astronomers actually to have taken place in the sky. The event was a conjunction of all the planets in the constellation we call Aries at midnight of February 17 - 18, 3102 B. C. (coincidentally not very far from the Mayan creation cycle, which began on August 12, 3113 B. C.)." [19] Now, according to the Surya Siddhanta, the yuga ends when all planets return in conjunction to the same positions which they had assumed at the beginning of the era, which is said to last 4,320,000 years ...
187. Comets in Perspective: What the Comet Halley probes tell us [Journals] [Horus]
... and controlled the destiny of Earth -an intelligent celestial being with its attention directed at humankind and a message for its prophets to interpret. Seeing the comet rise above the ruins of an ancient temple, one could only wonder if, in some ancient age, an earlier appearance comet Halley announced to its astral prophets the disaster that was to befall Mayan civilization. In the following article, astronomer F. Glenn Graham summarizes some of the scientific findings regarding this mysterious, recurrent visitor from the depths of space. -Ed. Introduction There it was! Comet Halley appeared as a fuzzball in my 6-inch f/12 reflector on that magic April 19 comet party. Wayne B. stepped up ...
188. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... spinner is also to be discovered in Meso-America and Egypt. Hence if Aphrodite is connected with spinning in Greece and the Near East, then Aphrodite is to be connected with the Moon, for the Moon and spinning are generally associated. An article and photograph of the National Geographic Magazine (Dec. 1975) describe .. .. The Mayan moon goddess Ixchel, patroness of fertility, weaving, and medicine. Wife of the sun, she consorted with other gods, just as the moon crosses paths with the stars and planets. In this 4 3/4-inch figurine from Jaina Island, off Yucatan, the moon goddess takes a grinning rabbit for her partner. The grinning ...
189. Tiahuanaco and the Delug [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , the Maya Coxcox, the Colombian Bochica, the Algonkin'S Nanabozu, the Crows' Coyote, the Greek Deukabon and Pyrrha, the Chinese Noah Kuen, and the Polynesian Tangaloa. It is evident there was a world-wide deluge 12,000 years ago. Global doomsdays are conspicuous in the Hopi Indian legends, the Finnish Kalevala epic, the Mayan Chilam Balam and Popol Vuh, and in the Aztec calendar, the last of which predicts that our present civilization will be destroyed by "nahuatl olin" or "earth movement," that is, devastation by earthquake. Due to Aztec cyclic theory this will become the fifth doomsday after the "death of the Jaguars," " ...
190. Interviewing Immanuel Velikovsky: An Introduction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... different time periods in the 18th dynasty or the 19th dynasty, some even in the 20th dynasty. The other question would be, What kind of catastrophe was it? Was it a local catastrophe or did it occur in other places to the east or to the west? To the west, say, it affected the American Indians or Mayans; when you go to the east, you are in India or in China and you find the very same events differently described- so it is not just the transfer of ideas by word of mouth. It is differently described, but, actually, it is the same picture of global catastrophes: when the day is too long or ...
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