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89 pages of results. 361. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... : 1 (1895), p. 11. See also Keith, Iranian Mythology (Boston, 1917), pp. 264-265. 51. Keith, op cit., p. 35. 52. Macdonell, op cit., p. 57. 53. Ibid., p. 62. 54. Dumezil, Archaic Roman Religion (Chicago, 1970), Vol. 1, pp. 207-209. 55. Macdonell, op cit., p. 57. 56. See E. Cochrane, "Apollo and the Planet Mars," AEON I:1 (1988), pp. 57-58. 57. G. Dumezil, The Destiny of ...
362. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... we may see the polar opening in which sun- nurtured forms sprang forth to become mythic personages in. song and legend, and we can see in the fossil thought the unmistakable movement of canopy vapors. Sun nursed Romulus could not have built a city if he were not sunlit vapors forced into form around the pole and he thus becomes the Roman Apollo. Remus, who leaped the wall and perished, must have been some part of the sun-lit vapors that passed over the polar wall and disappeared, as all vapor scenes must eventually have done. These two interesting characters abundantly illustrate how words derived from the same source in the polar heavens, primitively showing different features and afterward applied ...
... may be that I found these numbers so enlightening because I am not accustomed to seeing this kind of precision applied to such everyday matters as the number of wrong statements made by somebody. I feel much more at home when mathematics is employed for mensuration, for instance. So I was delighted with Stecchini: "the value of the ancient Roman foot had not been estimated much more precisely than 296 mm. . . . But, using the archaeological reports available today, I have determined that the exact value of the Roman foot can be computed as 295.954 mm., and hundreds of tests with different types of data have confirmed this figure.. ." [ ...
364. On Saturn And The Flood [Journals] [Kronos]
... "the sea of Kronos"(20)- indicating that it came to be only after the Deluge. The memory of these stupendous events survived for millennia and vestiges of the cult of Saturn persist even till today. One of these memorials is the feast of light, celebrated in mid-winter: Hannukah or Christmas, both stemming from the Roman Saturnalia. These are all festivals of light, of seven days' duration, and they commemorate the dazzling light in which the world was bathed for the seven days preceding the Deluge; in their original form these festivals were a remembrance and a symbolic re-enactment of the Age of Saturn. It was said that in that age there had ...
... in later times, when the Alexander head was added. Excavators at Nippur found in a wooden box collections of semiprecious cut stones of the Kassite period, apparently assembled for recutting about a thousand years later.[3 ] Another example of upward migration is a late Sumero-Akkadian cylinder seal found by the Anatolian Expedition of the Oriental Institute in the Roman layer at the Alisar mound. Probably the piece had come to light during the digging of a foundation trench or a refuse pit and had been kept by the ancient finder as a curio. On the other hand, a typical Sassanian seal had migrated downward into the Phrygian layer at Alisar, either as the result of leveling activities or ...
366. Much Ado about Tippe Top (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... If the observation is correct, "that the quaders of the wall of the temple area .. . of Baalbek have the same form as the quaders of the Temple"(16) in Jerusalem - "namely, of the surviving western (outer) wall" - this part should be dated accordingly, i.e . to Roman times. Thus went another "proof" for the identification of Baalbek with Biblical Dan.... Eva Danelius Jerusalem, Israel Postscript The foregoing was ready to be mailed when it became known that Dr. A. Biran, the excavator of Tel Dan, was to read a paper, "The Temenos at Dan", ...
367. Metallurgy and Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... and bronze in preference to iron, a religious tabu may have played a role in the slow progress of iron. A tabu against using iron for certain purposes is known to have existed in Palestine- the stones of the Israelite altar must have been shaped without the use of iron (37); a similar tabu was observed in Greek and Roman cults (38), it was and still is widespread (39). In Egypt iron was called "bones of Seth," and played a role in religious beliefs and superstitions. Tiny symbolic instruments, which served for "opening the mouth" of the deceased and which were made of bia, the heavenly metal, the ...
368. Site Stratification: is it a Sound Methodology? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... brick building near the Ziggurat dated to a Kurigalzu who supposedly lived in the 14th century BC. This made it approximately 1,000 years earlier than the oldest arch standing completely above ground that was then known. While it is still almost a truism among students of architectural history that the use of the arch and the vault began with the Romans', finds like those of Woolley and others have led to the conclusion that the arch was used 3,000 years before Roman times - with some disagreement over whether credit for its invention should go to the Sumerians or the Egyptians. [18] However, there are a number of incongruities in the evidence pertaining to the use ...
... Marius Fontane, Histoire Universelle, Les Egyptcs, Paris, 1882, p. 154. The following is particularly timely: "While at Abydos I explored the mountain cliffs to the westward in the hope of finding early tombs in them. In this, however, I was disappointed, as I came acroas only a few tombs of the Roman period." Professor A. H. Sayce in letter from Egypt in The Academy, London, Feb. 2, 1SS4, . 176 THE EARLIEST COSMOLOGIES by Shades invisible to the voyager only because he was as yet in the body. The king of the island was a huge serpent, thirty cubits long, and possessed of ...
... and should spoil the temple, and forbid the sacrifices to be offered for three years' time. And indeed it so came to pass, that our nation suffered these things under Antiochus Epiphanes, according to Daniel's vision, and what he wrote many years before they came to pass. In the very same manner Daniel also wrote concerning the Roman government, and that our country should be made desolate by them. All these things did this man leave in writing, as God had showed them to him, insomuch that such as read his prophecies, and see how they have been fulfilled, would wonder at the honor wherewith God honored Daniel; and may thence discover how the ...
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