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41. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... -- VIII The Cosmic Mountain To the images of the enclosed sun and enclosed sun-cross ancient myths add the cosmic mountain- a column of light rising along the world axis and visually appearing to hold aloft the great god's home ... and supporting the sky at its northern Pole. In fact, many writers now affirm that the Olympus of Greek mythology was simply the north polar World-mountain' of the Asiatic nations." (137) But the point is only ... acknowledged today, and most treatments of the subject still ask the Macedonian mount to explain its own mythical image. Western Semitic Mount Zion, the site of the ancient Hebrew temple, is a small hill in Jerusalem, between the ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 9167  -  15 Nov 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/saturn/ch-08.htm
... nauseam, ruled alone and in darkness. Whether we turn to the pages of Genesis or to the ancient Egyptian myths of creation, the message is always the same; whether we seek the first appearance of the Hebrew Elohim or ... was constructed on the basis of the mytho-historical record rather than from astrophysical considerations. Note that, other than its mythological content, the mytho-historical record also incorporates the worldwide astronomical beliefs of our ancient forefathers and that these beliefs coincide with ... the planets Saturn, Venus, Mars and Earth, all sharing the same axis of rotation. According to the mytho-historical record, this seemingly outrageous arrangement of planets existed in prehistoric times before it fell apart in a series of catastrophic ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 9108  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v2000n1/066dem.htm
... and explains the data in a consistent way, while removing countless anomalies that have frustrated previous efforts to place ancient myths and symbols in a comprehensible light. It is particularly noteworthy that none of the common Venusian themes, when examined ... planet Mars is the warrior-hero, whose birth from the Venus goddess is one of most frequently encountered themes of world mythology. Prior to the birth of Mars, the reddish planet was seen inside of Venus, giving rise to the ... From: Aeon II:4 (1991) Home | Issue Contents The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I)David Talbott INTRODUCTION Taking the mythically-based model of the polar configuration as a reference,(1 ) ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 9093  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0204/029myth.htm
... significance. Not unlike the Egyptian Pyramid Texts, the Vedic hymns generally present only the barest outlines of a particular myth, the details of the myth, presumably, being thoroughly familiar to the audience. Moreover, although it forms ... From: Aeon II:4 (1991) Home | Issue Contents Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology Ev Cochrane In an earlier monograph devoted to Heracles we outlined a comprehensive theory of the mythology of the hero. ... same material in India, outside the Vedic literature." (76) Dumezil's recognition of Indra and Vahagn as mythical homologues has generally gained acceptance. Lincoln summarized the current status of debate as follows: "The first point which ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 9034  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0204/049indra.htm
... ) Home | Issue Contents The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg Dwardu Cardona See note * below The Ovum Mundi The myths of creation are multifarious, but one consistent motif connected with this primordial event concerns the universal, celestial, or ... (20) Thus Ea was known as the Lord of Eridu, (21) a sacred city that was mythologically identified with the constellation Eridanus, Argo, or Vela, (22) which all border on each other, ... . The "mighty penis" in the sky of which Allegro speaks, meanwhile, is actually mentioned in the mytho-historical record as having been as visible as the "seed" of the creator. It was that Saturnian appendage that ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 9008  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0305/052egg.htm
46. VELIKOVSKY AND OEDIPUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... Eventually, however, I was led to the conclusion that Velikovsky was mistaken concerning the historical personages behind the Oedipus myth. Indeed, it was while pursuing research inspired by Velikovsky's novel ideas with regard to the recent history of the ... events. This is more than a little ironic, of course, since it was Velikovsky who first claimed that mythology could be viewed as a reflection of planetary upheaval. THE CONSTRAINTS OF TIME A major stumbling block in the way ... 14th century BCE by Egyptologists. The little that we know about Akhnaton, according to Velikovsky, closely approximates the mythical career of Oedipus; the more obscure circumstances attending the fall of Akhnaton and his family, in turn, can ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 8911  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0106/014oedip.htm
... and in darkness. Whether we turn to the pages of Genesis in the Old Testament or to the ancient Egyptian myths of creation, the message is always the same; whether we seek the first appearance of the Hebrew Elohim or ... of the mytho-historical record rather than through astrophysical considerations. I will only say in passing that, other than its mythological content, the mytho-historical record also incorporates the world-wide astronomical beliefs of our ancient forefathers, and that these beliefs coincide ... Saturn. I will make no apologies here for the fact that this theory was constructed on the basis of the mytho-historical record rather than through astrophysical considerations. I will only say in passing that, other than its mythological content, ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 8907  -  03 Jan 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0601/047dem.htm
... he acknowledge a connection between Saturn and Vela X-when he noted that, in one Greek-written version of the Mesopotamian Deluge myth, the god Ea is rendered Kronos, which is Greek for Saturn. He then lamented that "Most of ... an ancient star list. Not so with the original Saturn whose various names and motifs continued to permeate all of mythology and religious beliefs down to the present. Vela X turned out to be one of many false messiahs with which ... theorized further about it, he could not, in the end, abide by it. Not only was the mytho-historical data weak, but so was the astronomical evidence. For a while he held on to the idea of a ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 8892  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0103/109road.htm
... which is quite an Egyptian conception. He pursued his enemy and seized him. This is of course all celestial myth; and there is a further curious parallel to the Egyptian allegory in the legend that the corpse of Ch'ih Yeo ... . "The living stone which is inhabited by a divine soul meets us wherever we turn in studying the Asiatic mythologies of a period when `all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones," writes Capt. Conder. 83 The ... a sheepskin coat, because Kronos was tricked into swallowing the stone-Priscian's abadir -wrapped up in one, instead of making a meal of Zeus himself, is of the amusing and amazing style of philology. The Phoenician beth-ul is doubtless the ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 8881  -  29 Sep 2002  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/night/vol-1/night-02.htm
50. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... This aspect of his thesis was not particularly new, for Donnelly, Horbiger and Bellamy before him had similarly interpreted myth in a catastrophist sense. However, there have been surprisingly few critics of the interpretation. I can think of ... Velikovsky had adduced his catastrophe ideas. The past is catastrophic, he declared, because man's collective memory in the mythology of many nations tells us this is so. This aspect of his thesis was not particularly new, for Donnelly ... ], iii). many of the traditions cited by Velikovsky as support for a comet-like Venus clearly relate to mythical events associated with the planet Saturn. What, then, remains of Velikovsky's novel theory? In my opinion, ...
Terms matched: 6  -  Score: 8878  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v1992/35forum.htm
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