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39 pages of results. 201. Apollo of the Wolf, the Mouse and the Serpent [Journals] [Kronos]
... also have represented a planetary phenomenon. In Jane Harrison's Themis, there is a discussion of "shafts" or arrows. She states that when the word "shafts" appears in Greek literature or art, it always occurs in the plural and refers to the weapons of a deity. "Shafts" seems to represent lightning and its accompanying thunder and the thunderbolt. Harrison adds that the thunderbolt is the manifestation of "shafts" most often depicted in art.(34) In Greek, the words for "shafts" and "thunderbolts" are practically the same, both stemming from a root meaning "to smash".(35) According to Harrison - "Neither ...
202. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... out to be a key, for we are reminded that the goddess Inanna, the Sumerian star of terrifying glory, was also transformed into a world threatening dragon. "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land... Raining the fanned fire down upon the nation...With a roaring storm you roar; with Thunder you continually thunder". The Hindus remembered the Face of Glory, called _Kirttimukha_, said to have been born from the EYE OF SHIVA. It was lion-headed and its "mane, disheveled, spread far and wide into space". Authorities have recognized the Face of Glory as the "terrible aspect" of the Supreme ...
203. Cuchulain -- Comet or Meteor? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... a long-drawn-out cry from every corner and angle of it. For there used to cry from it alike goblins and sprites, spirits of the glen and demons of the air, before him and above him and around him, wherever he went, prophesying the shedding of the blood of warriors and champions. Very large meteors may be accompanied by thunderous sounds like "a series of detonations," caused by the shock waves of their passage.[6 ] After that his distortion came upon him and he became horrible, many-shaped, strange and unrecognizable. His haunches shook about him. . . . His feet and his shins and his knees came to the back; his heels ...
204. F. X. Kugler -- Almost a Catastrophist [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with all of these certain meteoric phenomena are completely in accord. Meteors have been observed again and again, not only in the modern era, but also long ago in antiquity, which resemble the sun in respect of size and brilliance, and cross the sky at great speed in various directions, not rarely exploding, to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning, sometimes setting fire to terrestrial settlements and fields with their glowing debris. That, according to the popular and poetic conception, such an unexpected apparition should bring the stars into confusion, can be readily understood. In the appearance of this meteorite, Kugler finds the only similarity between the two legends, since his examination of ...
205. Ancient Near Eastern Chronology: To Revise or not to Revise? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... destroyed at the end of the LB period (but weren't necessarily destroyed at the same time- and some of them display evidence of two or more destructions). If earthquake was responsible and then the bible should have preserved something due to the proximity of the event to Saul and David. In I Sam 7:10 the Lord "thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them .. ." . In I Sam 13:3 Jonathan, the eldest son of Saul smote a Philistine garrison at Geba and in retaliation the Philistines gathered together a great army and pitched their camp at Michmash east of beth-Aven, ". .. and ...
206. Planets in the Bible: I -- The Cosmology of Job [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the pantheon, from early in the human record, but only as a minor figure. This Ayish of before the Exodus is a prominent body, on a par with Kimah (Venus) and Kesil (Saturn). Here one would expect Jupiter, a figure of great importance in the early pantheons - displacer of Saturn, terrible Thunderer and Bringer of Lightning and Rain (perhaps through precipitating the Flood disaster?). The four major moons of Jupiter, discovered (or rediscovered) by Galileo, would be as striking a complement to the planet as the bands of Saturn and the "sweet influences" (or manna?) of Venus, if Jupiter were prominent ...
207. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... make it appear to fail this last test. THUNDERSTONES & LIGHTNING I refer to the series of articles entitled "Electricity in Astronomy" by Eric Crew and would like to congratulate him on the lucid presentation of his ideas in what is a most interesting subject. In the third paper in this series, Mr Crew postulates that the noise of thunder does not simply result from the force with which the lightning channel expands due to its rapid increase in temperature, but that the primary agency may be the tremendous radial force which the column of positive ions in the channel exerts on its immediate environment, the more mobile electrons having drained from the channel. That thermal ionisation is a secondary ...
... ]. The prayer to be said while grinding is as follows: I call upon thee, great and holy One, founder of the whole world we live in, who sufferest wrong at the hands of thy own son, thee whom Helios bound with iron chains, so that All should not come to confusion. Man-Woman, father of thunder and lightning, thou who rulest also those below the earth. [There follow more rites of protection, then the formula of dismissal]: Go, Lord of the World, First Father, return to your own place, so that the All remain well guarded. Be merciful, O Lord [n16 4.308ff., ...
... night, in the Odyssey (20.103-19, Rouse trans.), which precedes the decisive confrontation. Odysseus has landed in Ithaca and is hiding under Athena's magic spell which protects him from recognition. Just as in Snorri, everybody sleeps. Odysseus prays to Zeus to send him an encouraging sign before the great ordeal. Straightaway he thundered from shining Olympus, from on high from the place of the clouds; and goodly Odysseus was glad. Moreover, a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where stood the mills of the shepherd of the people. At these handmills twelve women in all plied their ...
210. Snapshots of the Gods? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... wedge appears elsewhere. In fig. 26 Thor's hammer is actually a wedge underneath his beard. As the shaking of their goat skin aegis released the thunderbolts of Zeus and Athena, so the shaking of Thor's beard released his wedge-shaped hammer. Moreover, in ancient Greek ritual, rain makers used figure-8 (hyperboloid) shaped shields to bring down thunder and lightning [10]. Surprisingly, in many cultures the horse (recall the wedge-like shape of his muzzle) is associated with thunder too. In sum, families of triangles may be related to electromagnetic phenomena. Fig. 28 Magnetic fields Fig. 29 Character on Hebraic bowl Fig 30 Odin, Thor and Freyr Fig. 28 ...
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