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1. The Crescent [Books]
... of the Universal Monarch. In the human domain, one of every eighty-six births involves twins. But among the gods, the abnormal is the rule. The great father is either born of or raised by twins, while also giving birth to twins. And the great god himself commonly appears in dual form. Prevailing astronomical explanations of the celestial twins identify them as a circle of day and night, or as the evening and morning star, or as the sun and moon. The constellation Gemini became the zodiacal representative of the celestial twins, though it is almost universally agreed that the mythical pair existed long before the naming of such star groups. Who Were the Dioscuri? ...
2. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon VI:6 (Dec 2001) Home | Issue Contents The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs Introduction It has become a habit among mythologists and students of religion to systematically ignore oddities and irregularities in ancient testimony, stressing only what is deemed sound and intelligible from a modern point of view. A prime example of this unspoken principle, which has in fact been attested since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, is the explanation given to anomalous superstitions in lightninglore. No one will deny the central place lightning and thunder storms occupy in the everyday experience of the godly realm. As a matter of fact, the concept of the storm god ...
3. The Crescent II [Books]
... sky upon the arms of Shu and Tefnut. (56) The symbolism of the outstretched arms meets every test of the Saturnian crescent. The arms take the form of a crescent enclosing the central sun. They are inseparable from the cosmic womb; they constitute the two peaks of the world mountain; and they are identified directly with the celestial twins. THE CRESCENT-WINGS The same crescent which appeared to the ancients as upraised arms also received mythical interpretations as the extended wings of the great god or goddess. Ancient Sumerian myths recall a monstrous bird called Imdugud hovering over the primeval waters, its wings outstretched. Imdugud (the Akkadian winged dragon Zu) was a form of Ningirsu or ...
4. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Saturn. Meanwhile, the belief that Hevel (Abel) and Cain were of a celestial origin we find in both Jewish and gentile sources. [74] This does imply that they originally personified celestial phenomena. It is also found stated that Cain and Abel were twins. [75] This would place them in the realm of the celestial twins, concerning which the mythology of various races have a lot to say. As Marinus van der Sluijs opined, the motif seems to have derived from two extensions which appear to have been particularly conspicuous in the Saturnian apparition. These extensions were interpreted as arms, wings, or the two blades of an axe- and even celestial ...
5. The Archangels [Journals] [Kronos]
... Consistency of planetary identification dictates that he should have. Meanwhile, despite the fact that he was well aware of the evidence presented above, just as he was of Velikovsky's identifications, O'Gheoghan still favored Venus as the sole agent of the Sodomitic destruction. Gabriel's role as Mars was discounted. What reasoning led O'Gheoghan to this conclusion? 4. Celestial Twins Before answering that last question, it is necessary to backtrack a little. Velikovsky's identification of the archangel Michael as the planet Venus was based on the traditional role that Michael is made to play in the events of the Exodus.(22) But, without wishing to go into too much detail, Michael is not there made ...
6. Janus: Corrigenda et Addenda [Journals] [Aeon]
... twin character" of Janus was bound to lead Cook to the twin gods known as the Dioskouroi, or Dioscuri, who have long been identified by the ancients themselves as the two halves of the sky, "one above, the other below the earth." (48) The Dioscuri, however, are only one pair of such celestial twins, a motif that is encountered right around the world. (49) What Cook also noticed is that these twins were often represented as having been of two different colors, one black, the other white, (50) which distinction seems to accord well with the day- and night-time appearance of the sky. It is ...
7. The Hero's Garment [Journals] [Aeon]
... pp. 164 ff. [3 ] Father B. Cobo, Inca Religion and Customs (1990), p. 32. [4 ] R. Barber, A Companion to World Mythology (1979), p. 130. [5 ] Ibid. [6 ] See my previous paper, "The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins," AEON VI:2 (December 2001), pp. 68 ff. [7 ] V. del Chamberlain, When Stars Came Down to Earth: Cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North America (1982), p. 25. [8 ] M. H. Ananikian, "Armenian Mythology," ...
8. Aeon Volume VI, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... Velikovsky, plus those works of his which were planned but never completed and, in some instances, not even ever written. .. Page 34 The Garden of Venus, by Ev Cochrane An essay which zeroes in on the cosmic events that lie behind the fertility cults associated with the goddess and planet Venus. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins by Marinus van der Sluijs A study of the symbolism of the double axe, its relation to the cosmic twins, and the association of both to the so-called thunderbolts of the gods. page 59. Puritanism, Misogyny, and Female Sexuality, by E. J. Bond An analysis of the long-upheld subordination of women, stemming ...
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