Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

291. SERVANT OF THE SUN GOD [Journals] [Aeon]

... is in his conical cap. Nether god, god of the below (the region beneath the land of the gods). Personification of the world mountain, axle of the turning world wheel. Personification of the world pillar; or centrepost of the temple or palace. God who raises heaven in the beginning. Heaven-sustaininggiant. Male serpent or dragon of the deep. God or hero who is a sword, dagger, spear, arrow, mace, hammer, axe (handle), harpoon. God or hero identified with a rod, stake, staff, sceptre, or wand (often thrust into the ground, or supporting the dwelling of the gods). God or ...

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292. Notices [Journals] [Kronos]

... , the untenable aspects of conventional chronology, and recent evidence supporting the revised chronology rounds out this latest issue of the SIS Review. Future articles scheduled to appear are: "Senmut and Typhon," "Worlds in Collision and the Birth of Monotheism," "The Evidence of Radiocarbon Dates for Cultural Change," and "Leviathan - Dragon in the Sky". Subscription and Associate Membership cost (which includes the SIS Review) is $14.00 for overseas surface mail and $17.00 for overseas airmail. Readers of KRONOS are encouraged to write to R. M. Amelan, 6 Jersey House, Cotton Lane, Manchester 20- ENGLAND- for subscription ...

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293. The Cosmology Of Tawantinsuyu [Journals] [Kronos]

... Haucha - they charged with pestilence and slaughter and famine, and lightning and thunder; and they said that he held a club and bows and arrows to hurt and punish men for their evils. Besides the Coricancha the anonymous chronicler mentions a Temple of Viracocha, a Temple of the Planet Jupiter, and one which we may call a "Dragon Temple". "The Temple of the Sun", the writer tells us, was later converted into the Church of Santo Domingo but according to Martin de Morua and other writers, the Church of Santo Domingo is the former Coricancha. Thus the "Temple of the Sun" and the Coricancha are one and the same temple. ...

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294. Exodus [Journals] [SIS Review]

... is possible the Exodus took place before dynasty XII, as the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom seem to actually refer to phenomena that parallel features of the Exodus. The Cannibal Hymn of Unas, for example, refers to the slaughtering of the FIRST BORN (eldest) sons of Whose Name is Hidden. This was the pseudonym of the dragon Apepi [11], the great comet of myth. The eldest was also known as the First Born God, the epithet of Horus, son of Osiris. In hymn 393 of the Pyramid Texts the sky is overcast, the stars are darkened, the celestial expanses shake (or explode) and the bones of the earth tremble ...

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295. The End of the Beginning. Ch. 5 (Beyond Velikovsky)

... 419]; the archaeology and history of the Middle East ~ 156, 157, 265, 295, 298, 386, 387, 422, 437, 442- 44, 446, 447] and of Mesoamerica [266]; Atlantis [131]; myth and the origin of religion [81]; the origin of the Chinese dragon as an actual picture in the heavens [397]: "a writhing, bright, elongated thing . . . irregular in outline; . . . apparently on fire. . . . This thing, the dragon, seemed to be driving off the terrible flaming globe and so to be benevolent as ~vell as powerful." ...

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296. Mons Veneris [Journals] [Aeon]

... kur or kur-suba, "the pure shining mountain." In The Exaltation of Inanna, for example, Inanna is compared to a "flood descending from its mountain [kur]." (19) A related passage states that the mountain flood (kur-a-ma-ru) lies at her feet. (20) Inanna is elsewhere described as a dragon raining fire or venom across the mountain/land: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land [kur-ra]." (21) (Fig. 3) Ishtar rising over the twin-peaked mountain. The kur also figures in various epithets celebrating Inanna's supreme status: Nin-kur-kur-a- "Lady of all the lands." ...

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297. Collisions and Upheavals [Journals] [Pensee]

... of darkness persisting for several days. On the edge of the darkness, the peoples of Iran witnessed a threefold night and a threefold day. Chinese sources speak of a holocaust during which the sun did not set for many days and the land was aflame. Peoples and nations everywhere, uprooted by disaster, wandered from their homelands. CELESTIAL DRAGON Led by Moses, the Israelites fled the devastation which brought Egypt's Middle Kingdom to an end. As they rushed toward the Sea of Passage, the glistening comet, in form like a dragon's head, shone through the tempest of dust and smoke. The night sky glowed brightly as the comet's head and its writhing, serpentine tail exchanged ...

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298. New Fashions in Catastrophism [Books] [de Grazia books]

... "bearded," "blazing star" symbolizing comets. Stonehenge, Avebury Circle and similar monuments were astronomical instruments. Central American legends (and cultures) were contemporaneous with those of the Old World. The intercalary "five evil days" were cursed because they coincided with a world disaster and the ending of an age. The serpent, dragon, winged-globe, caduceus, and other ancient symbols are traceable to cometary catastrophes. Religious festival are dated by cometary catastrophes. Cometary conflagrations are the origin of coal deposits. The ancients had a true 360 day year. The planet Venus underwent great changes in color, diameter, figure, and orbit in the time of Ogyges. Quetzalcoatl ...

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299. APPENDICES (Hamlet's Mill)

... to Inanna's [Le., Ishtar's] garden in Uruk. Inanna tended the tree carefully and lovingly, hoping to have made of its wood a throne and bed for herself. After ten years had passed and the tree had matured, Inanna, to her chagrin, found herself unable to realize her hopes. For in the meantime a dragon had set up its nest at the base of the tree, the Zu-bird had placed his young in its crown, and in its midst the demoness Lilith had built her house. But Gilgamesh, informed of Inanna's distress, rushed to her aid. Making light of his weighty armor, the giant slew the dragon with his huge bronze ...

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300. Kadmos: The Primeval King [Journals] [Kronos]

... knelt down and settled, for it was on that spot that the seeress had ordered him to build his palace. Having reached the prospective site of Thebes, Kadmos prepared to sacrifice the cow to his protecting goddess Athena. Seeking water for the sacrifice, Kadmos approached a nearby spring, the Areia, where he was confronted by a giant dragon which he slew, thus securing the foundation site of Thebes. This feat, which became a favorite subject of Greek artists, earned Kadmos everlasting fame. Eventually Kadmos would build his celebrated palace, the Kadmeia, over this very spring.(18) While, at first glance, it would appear foolhardy to try and extract much ...

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