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... show the infrangible tenacity of certain kinds of transmitted material, fragments of a sort official memory is prone to dismiss or neglect. In the Gospel of Mark 111.17, the "twins" James and John, the sons of Zebedee, are given by Jesus the name of Boanerges, which the Evangelist explains as meaning "Sons of Thunder." [n1 Kai epetheken autois onoma Boanerges, ho estin hyioi brontes]. This was long overlooked but eventually became the title of a work by a distinguished scholar, too soon forgotten, Rendel Harris. Here the Thunder Twins were shown to exist in cultures as different as Greece, Scandinavia and Peru. They call to mind ...
42. Brhaspati [Journals] [Kronos]
... hath propped earth's ends . . . [is] Brhaspati".(8 ) Likewise, just as he "Who . . . drove the kine forth from the cave of Vala . . . He . . . is Indra",(9 ) so also he who "destroyed obstructive Vala.... [and] thundering drave forth the cattle" is Brhaspati.(10) This thundering is also one of such frequently repeated epithets of Indra as expressed by "Crusher of forts . . . Indra, the Thunderer".(11) Virtually identical epithets of Brhaspati are expressed in "Slaying his enemies, breaks down their castles . . . Brhaspati ...
43. The Bible Through a King James Filter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... "hail" or "hailstones" 30 times in the King James Version, and in each case the context implies meteorites rather than hail. Further, "these stones fell mingled with fire' (Exodus 9:24) .. .and... their fall was accompanied by loud noises' ( kolot ), rendered as thunderings', a translation which is only figurative and not literally correct, because the word for thunder' is raam which is not used here." (6 ) So far we have only taken examples of words whose meanings have been blurred and distorted in translation. Another common practice is to take some literary licence to put across more ...
44. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
... such people, and it was an unreliable place, whence came all sorts of dangers and unpleasantness. Stars were not always as secure as they might be, they fell from their places without warning; at times they are thrown about in a perfect fusillade, especially when, as we say, the earth was passing through the Leonids; thunder pealed up there and lightning flashed; driving rain and stinging hail poured down on man and beast and plant. But hail and rain were not the only missiles that fell. Sometimes it was fire, which at times split and blasted all in its way, and at times left a stone' lying where it had struck. It ...
45. KA [Books]
... Acestes caught fire and marked its path with flames until it was burnt up and disappeared. It was like those stars which often come loose in the sky and cross it, drawing their tresses after them in their flight. Vergil, Aeneid V:522ff.. Homer, Iliad VIII:133 ff.: Zeus saves the Trojans by thundering and sending a terrible shining bolt. He sends it to earth in front of Diomedes' horses. There rises a great flame of burning sulphur. Iliad XIV:412 ff.: Telamonian Ajax picks up a stone and throws it at Hector, making him spin round like a top. He falls, just as an oak tree ...
46. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... .3 8 On an ancient Mesopotamian cylinder seal, a star is placed on top of the lightning symbol.3 9 Whatever celestial body that star may have represented originally, we can hardly doubt that it was a star or a planet that was associated with lightning here. The connection is made in the Americas. The Caribs have a thunder god Sawaku who is associated with a star: .. . sometimes he is spoken of as a star, and sometimes as a bird, who blows the lightning through a great reed.4 0 The North-American Pawnee creation myth features a figure called Lightning who travelled through the sky and put the stars in their places: Mankind had ...
... . What, after all, is a volcanic eruption? What are its symptoms and what are the causes of one of the most awe-inspiring, if fascinating, demonstrations of nature? An eruption usually begins with repeated loud detonations from the interior of the mountain varying from sounds like the rattle of myriads of machine guns to the deep and ominous thunder of hidden batteries compared to which the heaviest guns are mere bagatelles. Smoke, flame, and lightning emerge from the orifice, and then, if the eruption be of major character, rocks, stones, ashes, and dust are belched out of the crater and hurled high in the heavens, the rocks often projected considerable distances, ...
48. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... Vajra Countless passages in the Rig Veda have reference to the vajra's awesome power. With its aid Indra subdued the dragon: "Thou, Maghavan [Indra], rentest with thy bolt the Dragon who lay against the waterfloods of heaven." (129) A similar passage is the following: "Loud roared the mighty Hero's bolt of thunder, when he, the Friend of man, burnt up the monster." (130) Like the wheel of Surya, Indra's weapon early on became identified with many a terrestrial wheel. Indeed such symbolism played a prominent role in early Indian ritual. Here Sparreboom observes: The chariot was used during Indra's vrtrahatya (cf. RV ...
49. KA [Books]
... At the funeral pyre of Misenus, they look away as they hold the torch, in the approved manner. VIII:389: Venus wheedles a suit of armour from Vulcan: "He suddenly felt the well-known flame, and the familiar glow entered his marrow and coursed through his trembling bones just like a flash of fiery lightning from a thunder cloud." Pausanias I:14:4 : Epimenides of Cnossus went into a cave to sleep, and slept for forty years. He then wrote poems and purified cities, including Athens. IX:25:9 : The anger of the Kabeiroi cannot be removed. Remnants of Xerxes's army who entered their shrine in Boeotia Q-CD ...
50. The Sibylline Oracles [Books]
... ut mysterium iniquitatis exerceat. 69 Chrys. Hom. IV. on ii. Thess. 70 See above, p. 16. Note.- The sign $ is used in the translation to indicate passages where the text is specially obscure or corrupt. THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES BOOK III 1-7, 8-45 : A Prologue. heavenly blessed One, thundering from on high, who enthroned dost hold the Cherubim in thy hand, give me rest a little space, who have uttered words of very truth: for my heart is weary within me. But why is this, that my heart again is shaken, and 5 my spirit, smitten with a scourge, is driven to proclaim ...
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