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... disguises which they assume. But the most common form of the Lingham of the Hindus, and its equivalent amongst other nations, particularly in early times, was a simple erect stone, often in its rough state, sometimes cylindrical, and sornetimes enriched with sculpture.7 The unequivocal manner in which the Phallus or Priapus was represented among the Romans is well known to the student, and need not be explained here. It has been claimed, upon an imposing array of evidence, that the question of the respective pre-eminence of the generative and productive, or, as they are figuratively designated, the male and female powers of nature, led to the establishment of rival forms of ...
202. The Rare and Roasted Phoenix: A View of Claude Levi-Strauss [Journals] [Kronos]
... in contemporary intellectual circles may be one significant factor in the prevailing deafness to the theses of Immanuel Velikovsky. For Levi-Strauss, the function of myth is in essence logical: the formation and transformation of patterns of binary opposition, the particular terms of which are arbitrary. His models are linguistic, specifically the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jakobson. To these structural linguists whether we call a bird a bird, or Vogel, or ucello, or pajaro, or oiscau, is unimportant. What is germane is a function of "alteration or opposition" between elements which "in spite of having no meaning of their own, participate in meaning".(3 ) ...
203. The Genie Of The Pivot [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. X No. 1 (Fall 1984) Home | Issue Contents The Genie Of The Pivot Roger Ashton Copyright (c ) 1984 by Roger Ashton ABSTRACT: Investigation of the links between gods and planets suggests a connection between Saturn and the Celestial Pole. This can be inferred from Greek and Roman myths. The same can be repeatedly extracted from materials included in the later compendia of Hindu myths. Sufficient evidence of this sort can be amassed to warrant serious consideration of the proposition that Saturn at the Celestial Pole was the central theme of myth many millennia ago. The correctness of this reconstruction of myth depends upon the total context of mythical metaphors, symbols ...
204. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... one form or another, is the new view. X-rayed Moon New Scientist 10.11.90, p. 22 An X-ray satellite has picked up an X-ray image of the far side of the Moon 25 times stronger than expected. Astronomers have concluded that they are a result of the Moon passing through the solar wind. Dust exonerates Roman astronomers Observer, 21.10.90 (acknowledgment: Birgit Liesching) Sirius, the Dog Star, is white today and appears to have been white in the 2nd century BC, yet Roman sources describe it as red. As there is no known astronomical process which can change a star from red to white in so short a ...
205. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... far too many. It is not that aggregated tribes of 500,000 or even more have never moved long distances; they have. The Cimbri and Teutons migrated in this number over a period of years at the end of the second century B.C . from the North Sea region to southern France and Italy; after seriously threatening Roman power, they were annihilated by the Roman legions of Marius. NUMBERS LEAVING EGYPT The number of persons in Exodus has been estimated variously from 2000 to 6,000,000 [3 ]. The great range of figures adds confusion to the theory of Exodus. We should at least estimate, if we cannot know, how many ...
206. The Great Wave by David Hacket Fischer [Journals] [SIS Review]
... dendrochronology charts (see Baillie). In 1316, torrential rain continued to fall and famine persisted. A cluster of wars broke out between 1290 and 1340. The Pope, unpopular because of despotism, fled to Avignon in 1305. In England the nobility despatched Edward II, Denmark fell into anarchy, Sweden had civil war and the Holy Roman Empire disappeared. In the 1340s came Black Death. Plague is thought to have taken the lives of 25-40% of the European population. A similar thing happened in the Islamic world, which was subsequently annexed by the Ottoman Turks. The 100 Years War, 1337-1453, reduced whole regions of France to anarchy and despair. The 14th ...
207. Worlds In Collision. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... Sahagun: He related that the Mexican sources called Venus "the star that smoked," and in another place he explained that "the star that smokes" was the Mexican expression for a comet.(3 ) In Brasseur I came across a quotation from Varro, a classical author, thought to have been the most learned of the Romans, who, on the authority of earlier mathematicians, wrote that Venus changed its form and course in the days of Ogyges, famous for the flood that carries his name. In my reconstruction of ancient history I had already synchronized Ogyges, the builder of Egyptian Thebes, with the Amalekite pharaoh Agag, a contemporary of Joshua.( ...
208. Saturn's Children [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . The perennial connections among astronomy, geology, sex and religion were reinforced (not only in Greek myth but everywhere)[12]. Humans developing from hominids very much like themselves, employed the most obvious and personally salient analogies. The mountain of sexualized religious myths rose like a new volcano. Saturn the god was identified by the Romans with the planet Saturn. As sun and king of gods, Saturn's names were many. Besides those listed by D. Talbott above (p . 179), one might mention as Saturnian Elohim (Hebrews), Odin (norse), Baal (Near East),and Tiamat-Apsu (Assyrian). Many identities are lost or ...
209. Disarranged Months, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... 4 and the Chinese.5 In religious traditions, literature, and astrological works, seven days and ni ne days compete as the measure of the month's quarter. In the time of the Homeric epics, the nine-day week became prevalent in the Greek world. The seven-day week and the nine-day week are both found in Homer.6 The Romans, too, retained the recollection of a time when the week had been of nine days' duratio n.7 The change from a seven-day phase to a nine-day phase is found in the traditions of the peoples of Rumania, Lithuania, and Sardinia, and among the Celts of Europe, the Mongols of Asia, and the tribes ...
210. The History of Britain Revealed by M. J. Harper (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... own creation myths with particular reference to the British and the history of the English language. His style is humorously acerbic with a no-holds-barred attitude towards bastions of academic orthodoxy whom he regards as brainwashed almost from their cradles. The author sets out the accepted version of the history of Britain (unknown Stonehenge people followed by Celtic speakers, then conquering Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans); and then asks us to consider the anomalies involved if just one, the Anglo-Saxons, had left their langu-age as universal and supreme. No other European country had its language changed by one of its invading groups. Only when invaders basically replace the native population, as English speakers did in N ...
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