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145 pages of results. 291. The Repeopling of the Earth [Books]
... situated some thirty nautical miles northwest of the Mortlock Group which forms part of the Caroline Archipelago, tell that the first' woman in existence (that is, the only female survivor from a cataclysm) had children from a sort of duplicate son who had been created out of a rib taken from the side of her actual son. The ... avoid a tragic solution like that tried by Cain all killing had been tabooed immediately after the landing of the ark (cf. Genesis ix. 5c-6a). But one male had to be eliminated nevertheless obviously the lone stag, who moreover claimed most rights. So Ham .. . talked to his two brethren and, as the Jewish ...
292. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Ballgame of the Sky Gods in Mesoamerican Mythology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the ballgame legends of the Maya, Aztecs and Toltecs have been interpreted in similar manner. Yet the classical scholar Lewis Farnell stressed as early as 1919 [11] that normal events and regular occurrences would have hardly been incorporated in myths: What is normal in nature and society rarely excites the myth-making imagination, which is more likely to be ... , Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 1973; N.M . Hellmuth, Human Sacrifice in Maya Ballgame Scenes on Early Classic Cylindrical Tripods from the Tiquisate Region, Guatemale. Culver City 1986. 52. Ibid., p. 22 53. See German translation of Mendieta's account of this ballgame episode by Krickeberg 1968, p. ...
293. A Chronology for the Middle Kingdom and Israel's Egyptian Bondage [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . With this system as her basis, Bell writes concerning the inscription of year 10: "When the river remains high, as in that year, long after its normal time, the fields will not be ready for planting in the normal (November) season and the crops may not have time to mature before the next flood . ... also point out that Moses' "father" Amram and his brothers give rise to the clans of the Amramites, Izrahites, etc., who numbered 8,600 males within a year of the Exodus (Num. 3:27-8), a sure indication that Amram and his brothers flourished considerably earlier than Moses. It would seem ...
... god a he-goat. That would not be bad, either, if he is right, since Capella, alpha Aurigae, "capricious" all over, whether male or female, has the name "asar bardagi = Fight of the Aesir" (Reuter, p. 279). Of Auriga-Erichthonios we shall hear more in the future. ... not followed up the meaning. The locomotive engineers and airplane pilots of today who coined the term "joy stick" might have guessed. For the Sanskrit Pramantha is the male fire stick, or churn stick, which serves to make fire. And Pramantha has turned into the Greeks' Prometheus, a personage to whom it will be necessary ...
... has long been understood as being connected with the planet Venus, since the Babylonians considered the morning star as male, reflecting Istar's warlike aspect, and the evening star as female, reflecting her aspect as love-goddess."47 James goes on to cite Stephen R. Langdon, one of the great authorities on the history and religion of ancient ... similar or foreign names. This dichotomy of her two contrasting roles has long been understood as being connected with the planet Venus, since the Babylonians considered the morning star as male, reflecting Istar's warlike aspect, and the evening star as female, reflecting her aspect as love-goddess."47 James goes on to cite Stephen R. Langdon, ...
296. Velikovsky's Dreamwork [Journals] [Aeon]
... ' or sympathico-adrenal division." Velikovsky was, of course, not antipathetic to the notion of psychological causes for physical occurrences, and he was willing to concede that the normal signs of fear are probably connected with the flight-or-fight syndrome; he even dismissed out of hand the notion that anyone could lack this natural defensive mechanism. But he noted ... It was as though thinking and experiencing were one and the same thing. He appeared to be blind, at all events with one eye, and I handed him a male glass urinal (which we had to buy or had bought in town). So I was a sick-nurse and had to give him the urinal because he was blind ...
... as being to marry the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, add the granddaughter of Hyrcanus, by which wife he became the father of three male and two female children. He had also married before this another wife, out of a lower family of his own nation, whose name was Doris, by whom he had his ... of him, as being to marry the daughter of Alexander, the son of Aristobulus, add the granddaughter of Hyrcanus, by which wife he became the father of three male and two female children. He had also married before this another wife, out of a lower family of his own nation, whose name was Doris, by whom ...
... showed that Europe and not Asia was the seat of the Aryans and turned his eyes towards Scandinavia. The Caucasus theory is today an anachronism. A few years ago a female torso, skilfully carved from a large, hard, reddish-brown rock, was excavated from an ancient gravel pit in the Kelvin Valley. Mr. Ludovic Mann, President ... his wife Dwyvack, who escaped in an open vessel, and from whom the Isle was repopulated. Their ark was named Nwydd Nay Neivion, and took with it a male and female of all living things. It bears a close resemblance to the Noachian account, but it places the venue of the event in Britain. The Erse, ...
299. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... It is to be expected that the verses involved are considered as some of the most confusing and esoteric of the Old Testament. So much was surmised by me from the normal open lines of the Bible. Three months later and five thousand miles distant, a microfilm copy of Sellin's work at the New York Public Library was consulted [85 ... 20,000 of which probably a full 10,000 were warriors. This figure of 10,000 is one out of sixty of the figure of 600,000 males of battle age carried, as "planned hope" and "lost vision," in Exodus and the Book of Numbers. The Bible mentions that the Israelites did ...
300. The Founding of Rome [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and cultural homogenizing began, catalyzed by the disorganizing effects of a turbulent nature. His daughter Elia mothered Romulus (and one fantasizes that his godmother was Roma who led the female party which burned the Trojan ships to prevent further wanderings). The heavens were producing some of the disasters, and the planet Mars was connected with them to the ... natural and continual foe of the new Latins; that the Romans were a simple farm folk who took well to fighting; and that in the VIII Century natural conditions were normal. We understand better why the exasperating gap between Aeneas and Romulus was created: the need to integrate chronology of diverse cultures by basing it upon what was believed to ...
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