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145 pages of results. 181. Saturn: In Myth and Religion [Journals] [Kronos]
... . But different aspects of him - orb, rings, and axis - were also assigned individual names. Besides all this, to some he was male, to others female. In time he became both.(6 ) Saturn's history was one of periodic disruptions.(7 ) Following every such event, he seems to have reappeared ... names by different races. But different aspects of him - orb, rings, and axis - were also assigned individual names. Besides all this, to some he was male, to others female. In time he became both.(6 ) Saturn's history was one of periodic disruptions.(7 ) Following every such event, he ...
... and a livelier imagination. The classical example is the marvellous Babylonian myth of Marduk's fight with the dragon-monster Tiãmat, as related on the tablets of Assurbanipal's library. Originally that female monster seems to have been a very trustworthy being, so much so that even the tables of destiny', according to which the Earth and the heavens were ruled ... to proper nouns. It is therefore to be valued as a mythological person. Bohu is primarily the complement of Tohu, just as Apsu in the Babylonian myth is the male counterpart of Ti amat. It, too, is a cosmic monster of the primeval days, Behemot, the chief of the ways of god, ' or, ...
183. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Jacob [Books]
... , Esau hastened cityward in great fear of his victim's followers. Tired and exhausted he arrived at home to find Jacob busy preparing a dish of lentils. Numerous male and female slaves were in Isaac's household. Nevertheless Jacob was so simple and modest in his demeanor that, if he came home late from the Bet ha-Midrash, he would disturb ... slaying Nimrod, Esau hastened cityward in great fear of his victim's followers. Tired and exhausted he arrived at home to find Jacob busy preparing a dish of lentils. Numerous male and female slaves were in Isaac's household. Nevertheless Jacob was so simple and modest in his demeanor that, if he came home late from the Bet ha-Midrash, he ...
184. The Pleiades in Aboriginal Mythology [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the Pleiades returned to the east and asked the Sun to melt the ice.(2 ) In Aboriginal mythology there are many stories of the Pleiades: they are given female attributes and are known as seven sisters. In this there is a pronounced similarity to legends from all over the world: "Those stars are only apparently six ( ... other sisters came to her rescue, but not before she had a female child which had long hair [my emphasis] - a phenomenal growth of hair which vacillated between normal and long, coinciding with Thowra's goings and comings. Thowra eventually became the moon."(14) Another version of the story tells how Thowra hid to observe ...
185. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the house and was, apparently, left empty. However, beneath the floor were the bodies of a decapitated dog, a teenage girl, and an adult male and female. On investigation, the two adults were found to be mummies which had been temporarily submerged in a peat bog to preserve them. The male had been preserved for ... part of the house and was, apparently, left empty. However, beneath the floor were the bodies of a decapitated dog, a teenage girl, and an adult male and female. On investigation, the two adults were found to be mummies which had been temporarily submerged in a peat bog to preserve them. The male had been ...
186. The Fall of Imperial Egypt [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the same valley as her husband. The honour of having her own tomb in the Valley of the Kings was a distinction previously accorded to "only one other royalty of female sex, namely Hatshepsowe [Hatshepsut]".(21) Besides having her own tomb, the actual contents of the sepulchre proved to be "even more intriguing ... and Lower Egypt; we do not like the kings of Asia... '" (14) The priests of Amon, the tutelary god of Egypt, were normally chosen from the royal family; and it is evident that the priest Horemheb must have carried in his veins the blood of the royal house of Tanis. This suggests ...
187. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... ] This preoccupation was due to the beliefs of the Egyptian elite who, from the earliest recorded times, seemed far more concerned with their sur-vival into the afterlife than their normal day-to-day existence. In Egypt today, one can marvel at count-less temples filled with a multitude of gods, pyram-ids of millions of stones, and cemeteries of millions of ... Horus and the breast of Isis are offered. Oddly, the former contains milk while the latter is empty, says Roth. [93] That the container of the male Horus held the milk is definitely odd. Nevertheless, it can be explained through the Saturn model. Mythological texts often refer to the breast of the supreme god, ...
188. Were All Dinosaurs Reptiles? [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the mud. If these animals were mammals, as I suppose, the period of gravidity, because of the additional weight, must have been most disastrous for the female. Only the monstrous sea-mammals of that age escaped total destruction, and their descendents live until today: these are the whales. They reach over one-hundred feet in length ... Ziz, and Behemot are not the only monsters; there are many others, and marvellous ones, like reem, a giant animal, of which only one couple, male and female, is in existence .. .. The act of copulation occurs but once in seventy years between them . . . The act of copulation results in ...
189. "Let There be Light" [Journals] [Kronos]
... Egyptians in these words: "Nothing existed except a boundless primeval mass of water which was shrouded in darkness and which contained within itself the germs or beginnings, male and female, of everything which was to be in the future world. The divine primeval spirit which formed an essential part of the primeval matter felt within itself the desire to ... the ancient Egyptians in these words: "Nothing existed except a boundless primeval mass of water which was shrouded in darkness and which contained within itself the germs or beginnings, male and female, of everything which was to be in the future world. The divine primeval spirit which formed an essential part of the primeval matter felt within itself the ...
190. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - I [Journals] [Kronos]
... 12. Sleep was uncommon (probably for the similar reason that it was not needed as a means of recovering from the stresses of vigilance). 13. Longevity was normal (again because lethal and senilizing stresses were rare). 14. Sedentarism was usual, because resource failure rarely if ever necessitated collective migrations. 15. Sexual behavior ... for affectional exclusivity. 16. Social organization was uncoercive. To the extent that it had a focus, that focus, among all higher vertebrates, was probably matricentric. Male supremacism, having no useful functions, probably did not occur. 17. Artifacts (like clothing), institutions (like marriage), and ideologies (like religion ...
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