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51 pages of results. 451. The Area of Origin [Books]
... in Art. London, 1895. 6. Annual Report of Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 1896, pp.955, 6. 7. The Migration of Symbols1 translation by Sir George Birdwood, London, 1894, pp.73 et seq. 8. Canaan, p.340. 9. Elliot Smith, The Religion of the Dragon, pp. 173 et seq. ...
452. Introduction (In the Beginning: God) [Books]
... .. brimstone and fire .. . out of heaven'; but the Book of Revelation contains several full-length pictures of the cosmic bombardment. Again, the Book of Genesis contains merely an obscure and oblique reference to the chaos-causing monster in the expression tohu-wa-bohu, while the Book of Revelation fills many a wide canvas with portraits of the great dragon, or serpent, and his angels'. While the Books of Genesis and Revelation are closely related and strictly complementary with regard to their material, they appear very dissimilar in their external aspect. The mythological passages of the Book of Genesis are written in a severe and measured style; and are shorn and clipped of everything that might ...
453. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Appendix 3. An error like this is hardly what is expected to be found in the alleged definitive refutation of Velikovsky. The psychological aspects of the continuing "Velikovsky Affair" deserve more attention. And how does Sagan's scholarship stack up in other areas? Consider the following. N. J. Mackintosh, in his review of Sagan's The Dragons of Eden [35], wonders if Pliny really "supposed the ostrich to be the result of a cross between a giraffe and a gnat" as Sagan states. In the Bostock and Riley translation of Pliny's Natural History [36], the name "ostrich" in Latin, struthiocamelus is described as coming from the Greek signifying ...
454. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a readable, well-illustrated and comprehensive overview which will provide a useful key to the student. Certainly such condensation highlights a proposition of particular interest to Velikovskians - stated by the editors in their general introduction thus: - "Certain mythological paradigms (mythologems) and symbols such as those of the flood, the theft of fire, the monster/dragon in its cave, the ladder from earth to heaven, appear to have a very widespread and potent significance for mankind." \cdrom\pubs\journals\review\v0404\087books.htm ...
455. The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
... with your thesis? Talbott: We see Inanna as a dove or partridge, a virtually universal symbol of the soul or of life. Then, in a single turn of the page, we encounter the goddess as a fierce, roaring lion, while on the next page she becomes the "dog-star." She is also a fiery dragon attacking the land. She is represented by the diadem and vestment of kings. One of her most common symbols is the so-called "gate post with streamers." Her acknowledged celestial forms include a star with streamers radiating in every direction, the rosette, the whorl, and a whorl-like symbol called "the hair-star." She can ...
456. Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Work by Jane Francis and James Basinger, including mapping of in situ stumps, has indicated that the ancient forests were dense and tall. The area was generally swampy, with little sunlight reaching the floor of the woods. There were herds of Coryphodons, hippopotamus-like creatures with huge snouts and canine teeth, varanid lizards related to the Komodo dragon, big constrictor snakes, and salamanders up to 4 feet long. On the elevated stream levees grew hardwood trees such as kadsura (now found only in China and Japan), ancestral hickories, birches, elms, sycamores and maples [40]. Another major plant was the swamp cypress, Glyptostrobus, which also still grows today ...
457. Northwest Indian Myths of Catastrophe [Articles]
... land of volcanoes. A theme that is not usually associated with American Indians stands out in many of these stories and that is the presence of a larger species of human. Many folklorists have translated this concept as "giant" but I don't use the word because it brings to mind all of the European folklore about giants, maidens and dragons. The Indian words used to describe these people more accurately translate as "the tall ones" and I suspect these are people who were around 7 to 8 feet tall-unusual but not really out of the range of possibility for our species. These tall ones were curious about people our size but most tribes reported that they did some wonderful ...
458. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... of monsters and "thunderbirds" in ancient Indian lore, Deloria tends to believe that Native peoples may have been around at the time of the dinosaurs. This is certainly an exciting possibility, but I was not convinced by any of his examples. Indeed, I would interpret the traditions otherwise. The "thunderbird", like the flying dragon, is a global motif and would seem to represent a celestial phenomenon, one with catastrophic overtones, no less. Elsewhere the attempt is made to reconstruct patterns of migration by reference to the following tradition: "The river of life, for us, heads in the north." Such traditions, however, are hardly confined to ...
459. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Origin of Megalithic Cultures [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , it had been standing on its tip, hardly a metre deep in the soil. Venus, the hot newcomer to the Solar System, stood in the sky, threatening, looking like a comet with a tail, or hair, or a beard. This catastrophic celestial appearance has been described, since antiquity, as a snake or dragon, a motive that can be found in the mythologies of all peoples, as described sufficiently by Velikovsky. The parallel stone alignments of Carnac, which have so far been resistant to explanation, have sometimes been compared with snakes. The slight but noticeable undulations of the eleven rows of stones were deliberate, and it was more difficult to ...
460. Planetary Observations of the T'ang Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... In non-T'ang observation 6, according to the Byzantine source Adonis, Mars could not be seen between July 798 and July 799 [46]. Were the two events related ? In 797, annals record floods in Rome [47]. For the year 797, the English Renaissance historian Holinshed records, there was seene in the aire firie dragons flieing, which betokened (as was thought) two grievous plagues that followed' [48]. In 797 and after, in Byzantium the annals record darkness lasting 17 days [49]. In 798 in Ireland, the annals record a nix Magna (a great snow) with many deaths following [50]. On June ...
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