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93 pages of results. 51. Night of the Gods: The Pillar-Axis as Tower [Books]
... would really be a firmer argument-though not one leading to the same conclusion, to say that the round towers are only found near ancient burying-places. For there is no a priori reason why a church should have a burial-ground attached to it, while it is, on the other hand, almost natural that a burial-ground should come to have a sacred place for the performance of the rites of ancestor worship. Petrie too stated this particular conclusion of his much more dogmatically when he made the bigger assertion) that the towers "only held the places of accessories to the principal churches in Ireland"3 , on the contrary, suggest that it was all "the other way up. ...
52. The Genesis of Religion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... state of mind of the "religious man" through the ages.(He uses the term as, for instance, H.D . Lasswell uses the term "political man," as the "pure" or obsessed type of actor in history.) Where we employ the term "supernatural," Eliade uses the term "sacred." "For religious man," he writes, "the world always presents a supernatural valence, that is, it reveals a modality of the sacred." Every bit of the cosmos has its sacrality. "In a distant past" (but why not include today?) "all of man's organs and physiological experiences ...
53. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... it may find the place it deserves in scientific annals? Congratulations again. Keep up the good work. J. JOSEPHINE LEAMER Denver, Colorado New Year Resolution Sir, In SISR III:4 , p. 91, an excerpt was reprinted from Everyday Life of the Maya by Ralph Whitlock, which tells us the following about the Mayan sacred year: "The second calendar was concerned with the Tzolkin and was regarded as sacred. It consists of 20 months' of 13 days. The total of days was thus 260, a figure which bears no relationship to any natural calendar. How or why it originated is a mystery." Although the possibility that in very ancient ...
... the line, the parent, many believe, of all others, including runes, and long predecessor of the Cadmeian alphabet. By their policy of monopolizing all knowledge of the sciences these Druids were able to dominate the ancient world from an early period and to be the real sovereign power in Celtica. It was the Druids who set up sacred stones as cromlechs or dolmens, as menhirs, as megalithic round temples, and as idols of their deities. With few exceptions, be it noted, these stones were unhewn, because their belief was that the mason's tool defiled them, and they erected their temples in places which were holy in their eyes. Cromlechs and dolmens are ...
55. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... nor, for that matter, has Hamlet's Mill had any discernible impact upon subsequent studies of ancient myth. (20) Archaeoastronomy In recent years interest in traditions surrounding the planets has experienced a resurgence due to the emergence of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy as serious fields of research. (21) Scholars in these respective fields comb the architectural structures, sacred writings, and iconography of ancient cultures in both the New World and Old for some reference to celestial goings-on. Here, too, more than one of these researchers has stumbled across data supportive of Velikovsky's general thesis of planetary catastrophism, although the far-reaching ramifications of such discordant data are typically (mis)interpreted in a more conventional manner ...
56. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... , add that, in the general tradition, these starry companions were much more as well, and we will take up the mythical forms in our discussion of the outflow and the chaos hordes.) CROWN OF GLORY AEON: How about some other examples concerning what this radiance looked like to the ancients? Talbott: In numerous myths and sacred drawings we see the Radiant Venus presented in the form of a rayed crown. Of course a crown is not really meaningful unless there is someone to wear it, and the rule is: while the goddess is the radiance or crown, it is the warrior-hero who wears the crown, or wins the crown (goddess) in contests ...
57. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... earliest times, that told at length the story of the Egyptian bondage, of the liberation and of the wandering of the children of Israel in the wilderness."[2 ] It has numerous lyric passages still, also word and sound play, and formulas and fixed numbers to help remember its verses. V. Cassuto points out various sacred literary harmonies through the text: the play upon threes, sevens, and seventies, for example; the repetition of words for emphasis; the use of expressions of salvation and deliverance in the 3rd episode of Moses in Midian, and so forth [3 ]. THE LIMITS OF DISTORTION There was a major difference, however, between ...
58. Sacral vs. Secular Man [Books] [de Grazia books]
... impossibility, the fault of the external world? Or is there some inherent contradiction of the mechanisms of human nature? Let us set up a model of religious citizen (not a leader) and inquire whether he should be happy, and, if not, why not. We call him "sacral man." not because he is sacred, but because he believes a great many phenomena and actions are sacred. He sacralizes. A thorough moral defense of religion from the standpoint of its expression through sacral man has not appealed to modern writers. Such old and religiously circumscribed works as Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress will hardly do for these days, when the field instruments of sociology, ...
59. On Dragons and Red Dwarves [Journals] [Aeon]
... of dashing heroes. During this period every tribal community had, as it were, its own Homer who, reciting from an iron-clad memory, related the trials and tribulations of the favorite hero, replete with dragon-combats and the rescue of maidens in distress. Held in the highest esteem, these ancient bards were deemed to be mortal repositories of sacred knowledge and hence their tales constitute an enduring record of mankind's earliest thoughts and concerns. The ultimate appearance of advanced civilizations had a profound influence upon the medium, if not the message, of ancient myth. With the development of writing and other graphic systems capable of preserving sacred traditions, storytellers gradually ceased to form such a vital function ...
60. Night of the Gods: Axis Myths [Books]
... , which must reluctantly be left for future investigation is " the isle of Elektra daughter of Atlas" where the Argo was beached in order that her crew might be initiated.5This island is explained as SamoThrake, the mysteries being those of the Kabeiroi, patrons of mariners. But it was also nigh to the heavens-river Eridanos,6 was sacred, and was the chiefest of isles. The Argonauts also visited the island of Kirkź, and in describing their visit to Korkura (Corcyra) Apollonius 7 gave us its oldest name of Drepanā, and the legend of the origin of that name, which was that beneath it lay the drepanā or sickle with which Kronos mutilated his sire ...
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