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1. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... that these sacred executions were, indeed, common in the Ancient Near East. (1 ) This position, however, is not all that new. It was already put forward in the beginning of the controversy when the practice of blood ritual was clearly recognized and openly discussed. (2 ) Early Bronze Age seal impressions depicting scenes of human sacrifice Archaeological layout showing the remains of mass human sacrifice discovered in the Royal Cemetery of Ur Two years after Menant's article of 1887, the very same glyptic evidence was interpreted quite differently. The slaught-ering men depicted on the seals were no longer identified as priests, i.e . as sacred executioners (the most concise definition of priests ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 460  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0405/083blood.htm
2. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) At the conclusion of his "reign," and with great ceremony, the assistants to the officiating priest laid the mock king on the sacrificial stone. Then the priest, with a crude stone knife, tore his heart from his body. (190) Removal of the heart was, in fact, the most common form of human sacrifice throughout Mesoamerica, a recurring pattern recalling a celestial power's own "sacrifice" in the age of the gods. Interestingly, the officiating priests at the Templo Mayor bore the name quequetzalcoa, after Quetzalcoatl himself (191)- suggesting that priest and sacrificial victim were, in their respective capacities, representing one and the same cosmic power ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 249  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0305/005comet.htm
... all the new religion of the invisible Yahweh (Abraham, Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, the prophets) and the general population who, for long, continued to insist on worshipping the old gods and performing the old rituals. Thus evolved the laws of the Torah (the Pentateuch), with its endless ritual ordinances, including those forbidding human sacrifice especially the "passing through the fire" to Moloch. Thus the repeated injunctions of the prophets to abandon the old gods and remain faithful to the Law of Moses, accompanied by their railing against the female sexuality, termed "whoredom," associated with the old religion, injunctions that did not succeed until the return from the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 196  -  09 Jan 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0602/073purit.htm
... mouth." [8 ] As we learned in Part I of this treatise, this is true (for animal sacrifice) but at the time, being only familiar with the Egyptian ritual, I had originally thought the reference must have been mistaken. Thus, the present three-part article was conceived with these questions in mind: Why would human sacrifice ever be linked to an "opening of the mouth" and what could the Egyptian Opening of the Mouth ritual possibly have to do with bloody Mesoamerican sacrifice? Using David Talbott's successful methodology, the answers to these questions can be elicited from ancient images. Just as P'a chi' means to open the mouth and to manifest, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 194  -  12 May 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0606/021opening.htm
5. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... Morning Star married the Evening Star." [46] The hieros gamos involving Mars and Venus was periodically reenacted during various sacred rites. On rare occasions, or in the face of some perceived threat (i .e ., upon the appearance of a comet, an epidemic, or some other portent), the Pawnee offered a human sacrifice to the Morning Star, usually in the years when Mars appeared as a star of the dawn. [47] Here a band of warriors would aid a man impersonating the Morning Star in raiding a neighboring campsite and kidnapping a young woman of choice. Along the way there was much singing and dancing, during which the heroic ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 176  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0503/049star.htm
6. Human Sacrifice In Egypt [Journals] [Aeon]
... Human Sacrifice In Egypt Tania ta Maria Recent discoveries in Egypt have confirmed what has long been suspected, that mass human sacrifice was carried out in early dynastic times, just as had been practiced in Sumer and the Shang dynasty of China, although not to the same extent. They did so for the same reason: to make sure that those who had served the king in life would continue to serve him in his afterlife. In the Abydos tombs within the funerary enclosure of king Aha, who is believed to have reigned around 2950 B, C., the remains of six persons have been brought to light. Judging by the possessions found interred with her body, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 162  -  12 May 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0606/033human.htm
... into the month of the lamb'. He was identified as an Elean with equal name who had won the race in the stade of the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C ." (43) Coroibos, as we have seen, is clearly identified as a Greek hero who is believed to have abolished the ritual cult of human sacrifice that were replaced henceforth by animal sacrifice. He, therefore, belongs to the well known group of heros who, as mythology tells us frequently, abolished human sacrifice. Interesting enough, a large number of these heros are connected with accounts about the octaeteris period- the eight-year cycle: -Theseus killed the Minotauros who demanded human sacrifice ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 151  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0203/061greek.htm
... of the planetary gods with their personnel of priests, and not yet directly to the ruler as in the purely oriental despotic reign of the Persians from Darius I. What was the origin of the authority of the temples, an authority which was only challenged just before the middle of the first millennium BCE? The reasons for sacrifice, including human sacrifice, to Inanna are not well understood. Riddles: The founders of the advanced culture, known today as the "Sumerians," were unknown to even the most learned scholars of antiquity. For them the Egyptian civilization was older than that of southern Mesopotamia, whose people were called Kasdim, Kaldu, or Chaldaeans by the Hebrews ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 121  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0102/017sumer.htm
... Tree growing from the stingray-spine bloodletter. Here is the ultimate symbol of rebirth from sacrifice." [39] Figure 19. Dancing Maya Lord dressed as First Father Hun-Nal-Ye. In Maya ritual, the gods sustain the people with corn, the basic substance of life, and the people return the favour by sustaining the gods through bloodletting and human sacrifice. "When their ancestors were clothed in this costume, the ancient Maya...regarded them as being of one essence and transcendent of gender, Totl-Me'iletik, Father-Mothers, ' as the Zinacan-tecos say it. To the Tzutuhil, the stump of the generative tree at the center of the world is Ti Tie Ti Tixel, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 108  -  04 Feb 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0603/051maya.htm
... historical age. History, in Heinsohn's view, although not Velikovsky's, commenced at or near this date due to the catastrophe in question and its aftermath. The Mesopotamian cult of Inanna, the goddess of the planet Venus, has its origin, according to Heinsohn, in these catastrophes. Temples were built to her throughout the land, and human sacrifice was offered to her in an effort to placate the heavenly body it represented.(43) That temples were erected to the Venerian goddess throughout Mesopotamia is well known, even though this goddess was not unaminously called Inanna. What I would like to know is what ancient reference Heinsohn has in mind when he claims that human sacrifice ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 83  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0106/072srgon.htm
11. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... remark in the papers of Alice C. Fletcher, an American anthropologist who [has also] studied Skidi Pawnee ceremonialism in the 1890s, perhaps explains the ambiguity." (48) And Fletcher's remark? "We are told that there are two morning stars, brothers, the elder is red, and it is he to whom the human sacrifice is made; the younger is white, he is kind and does not share in these [sacrificial] rites." (49) All of which is enough to indicate that the mytho-historical record contains more than one Morning Star per any given society. The Pawnee, apparently, knew of three (or more): Evening ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 57  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0401/005morn.htm
12. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... [34] The chants to Thor in preparation for war recall the fact that similar chants were associated with the planet Mars by other primitive cultures. In North America, the Skidi Pawnee worshipped the planet Mars as "Morning Star," a warrior-god who played a central role in their creation myth. A notorious rite saw the Pawnee offer human sacrifices to the Morning Star. As the Pawnee warriors set out to capture a human victim for the sacrifice, they sang various songs recounting the deeds of the planet Mars, deeds which they were striving to emulate. One song sought to instill in the warriors a furor befitting the warrior-planet: "I became ferocious: I became like ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 52  -  25 Mar 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0604/047heracles.htm
13. The Last Supper [Journals] [Aeon]
... instances, but we need not mention them here- the point is made. The paschal lamb is the main course served during the Passover festival. Jewish literature offers various explanations for the eating of the paschal lamb. [41] But, among other nations, lambs and kids often served as victims which were substituted in later times for human sacrifices offered to Saturn. Thus, for instance, Marvin Harris detected a "line of development which led from human sacrifice to animal sacrifice to the wafer and the wine of the Eucharist..." [42] Since Passover, as a New Year festival, must also have been connected with Saturn, the eating of the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 45  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0502/83last.htm
14. The Lord Of Light [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Sakaia "was celebrated in both Persia and Babylonia in connection with the acronychal rising of Sirius, the Dog Star' [and] since Sirius in Babylonian astrology was sometimes regarded as a manifestation of the planet Saturn and its god, it is possible that the Sakaia in very early times was connected with Saturn, the god who demanded human sacrifice." (89) A problem may exist with Rosenberg's assumption that the Sakaia was in any way connected with Sirius. It is difficult, if not impossible, to see what religious or astronomical role Sirius could play in either the river-bereft country of Persia or the land of Mesopotamia whose riverine overflows were completely unpredictable and independent of ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 41  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0304/005lord.htm
15. The Death of Heracles [Journals] [Aeon]
... with the planet Mars. An intriguing parallel to the Greek tradition of Heracles' immolation upon Mt. Oeta comes from Mesoamerica. There a dwarf-god by the name of Nanahuatl offers himself as a martyr in order to resuscitate the missing sun: It is said that in the absence of the sun all mankind lingered in darkness. Nothing but a human sacrifice could hasten his arrival. Then Metztli...led forth one Nanahuatl, the leprous, and building a pyre, the victim threw himself in its midst. (105) Nanahuatl, whose name signifies "pustule or ulcer," was the patron god of people afflicted with diseases of the skin. (106) Of ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 41  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0205/055death.htm
16. On Mars and Pestilence [Journals] [Aeon]
... the sun, to sacrifice hunchbacks and other grotesquely deformed victims. (170) This scapegoat-like rite appears to find its aetiology in the myth surrounding the god Nanahuatl, who offered himself as a martyr in order to resuscitate the missing sun: It is said that in the absence of the sun all mankind lingered in darkness. Nothing but a human sacrifice could hasten his arrival. Then Metztli...led forth one Nanahuatl, the leprous, and building a pyre, the victim threw himself in its midst. Straight-away Metztli followed his example, and as she disappeared in the bright flames the sun rose over the horizon. (171) Nanahuatl, whose name signifies "pustule ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 40  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0304/059mars.htm
17. Venus and the Jubilee [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon III:1 (Nov 1992) Home | Issue Contents Venus and the Jubilee Bernard Newgrosh In Worlds in Collision, Dr. Velikovsky described the fifty-two year period of Venus observed in pre-Columbian Mexico. Every fifty-second year they watched in trepidation for the return of Venus, they offered human sacrifices, and when Venus had passed safely without cataclysm they ushered in the new cycle with bonfires. (1 ) He compared this fifty-two year cycle with the fifty year "jubilee" of the Israelites, a cycle in which the land was left fallow for a second consecutive year as an "atonement"- an atonement which is emphasized by its proclamation on the Day of ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 35  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0301/111venus.htm
... Earthlings have long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Well before modern science fiction speculated about advanced civilizations upon Mars and the dire threat of invasion by little green men, the red planet was regarded as a malevolent agent of war, pestilence, and apocalyptic disaster. In an attempt to appease the capricious planet-god, various ancient cultures offered it human sacrifices. What is there about this distant speck of light in the night sky that could have inspired such bizarre conceptions culminating in ritual murder? And how do we account for the fact that virtually identical beliefs about it are to be found around the globe, in the New World as well as the Old? It is questions such ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 28  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0504/87mars.htm
19. Aeon Volume VI, Number 6: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... 87 The Book Shelf Book reviews by Frederic Jueneman and Amy Acheson. Page 115 1421: The Year China Discovered America , reviewed by Frederic Jueneman Kicking The Sacred Cow , reviewed by Frederic Jueneman Catalogue Of Discordant Redshift Associations , reviewed by Amy Acheson In Memoriam Nancy Kelly Owen Amelia (Amy) Acheson News Flashes By Tania ta Maria Solar Neon Human Sacrifice In Egypt The Da Vinci Code Contributors Ev Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion, and, more recently, The Many Faces of Venus: The planet Venus in Ancient Myth and Religion. He has also published numerous articles on comparative mythology and archaeoastronomy. He previously served as an ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 27  -  12 May 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0606/index.htm
... Earthlings have long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Well before modern science fiction speculated about advanced civilizations upon Mars and the dire threat of invasion by little green men, the red planet was regarded as a malevolent agent of war, pestilence, and apocalyptic disaster. In an attempt to appease the capricious planet-god, various ancient cultures offered it human sacrifices. What is there about this distant speck of light in the night sky that could have inspired such bizarre conceptions culminating in ritual murder? And how do we account for the fact that virtually identical beliefs about it are to be found around the globe, in the New World as well as the Old? It is questions such ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 26  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0502/68mars.htm
21. The Electric Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... 45 years. Okay- so you say it could have been much longer. Unless I am mistaken, however, I doubt that you would be thinking in hundreds, let alone thousands, of years. And yet, Saturn's linear formation left such an indelible wound on the human psyche- leading to the birth of religion, complete with human sacrifice, the scars of which remain with us till the present- that it is difficult to believe this was the result of a short transient event. Would 45 years- at best a person's life-time- or even a hundred, account for the universal mass of mythological material we have at our disposal concerning the event in question? ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 26  -  03 Jan 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0601/033elec.htm
... So accurately did they keep the record of the days when it appeared and disappeared that they never made a mistake." (54) It would be difficult to cite an aspect of Mesoamerican culture devoid of the planet's influence. Temples were constructed and aligned with the purpose of gaining the optimum view of the planet; various rituals, including human sacrifices and the practice of war, were timed to correspond to important aspects of the planet's orbit; even the calendar was designed to take into account the planet's movements. Everywhere the sacred iconography associated with Venus abounds. The omnipresent influence of Venus upon Mesoamerican culture invites comparison with Old World cultures, particularly that of Babylon. And, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 17  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0302/051suns.htm
... survive physically must also survive psychologically. Under conditions of chaos, hopelessness and despair are the greatest threats to psychological survival. The Snohomish tribe fought against despair by shouting at the sky. Other tribes and nations tried (and still try) their own kinds of communication with the heavens. Sometimes a prayer or a chanting was used, sometimes human sacrifice. Rules and rituals were established. The Bible is a complete source book on our efforts to control the sky by controlling ourselves. In his Mesopotamian reconstruction Heinsohn demonstrates that textbook chronology has been decisively influenced by Biblical dates for Abraham. In effect, therefore, a defence of the accepted chronology is a defence of the Bible in ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 16  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0106/049fund.htm

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