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153 pages of results. 741. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... , the Persian king is shown defeating monsters. A Greek equivalent would be Herakles or Theseus. Winged bulls with human heads are found at Persepolis, where Xerxes erected a gateway. The message is ambiguous: the king is the human representative of the divine bull in the sky, wings being added to indicate that the creature concerned is a celestial one. The Apis bull was cherished and worshipped. The king or his servants could also kill the bull if it was seen as a threat. Columns at Persepolis not only have bulls on top, but also have human heads as capitals. The top of the column represents the home of the gods in the sky; the column ...
... or tandem comets. This peculiarity recalls the myth of Phaeton, to which Plato refers in connection with the destruction of Atlantis, as the "declination of heavenly bodies," causing a vast conflagration and flood on the earth, and as recurring at long intervals of time. The story of Phaeton is undoubtedly the account of a very remarkable celestial event, which left behind it certain terrestrial effects. He drove the steeds of his father's chariot (i .e ., two wheels, or a tandem) too near the earth, and almost set it on fire. Zeus, espying the danger to creation, killed him with a flash of lightning and cast him into the ...
743. Snapshots of the Gods? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... left by the repelled lines of force appears cruciform. This configuration is a variation of the trism. Here two forces seem to oppose each other, their interaction inspiring myth. At the end of the opus, a cruciform peace' between the opposites appears, as some attractive force like gravity balances the magnetic forces. This could be the celestial cross appearing at Jesus' crucifixion and repeated in medieval annals. 2. Not Your Garden Variety - the Spatter' Fig. 11 Spatters Fig. 12 Rhodes plate Certain floral and astral patterns appear in ancient art world wide, either as little asterisks, or evolving into stranger looking blossoms that art historians classify as dot rosettes, rosettes ...
744. Pandemonium [Books] [de Grazia books]
... young. The first detonation of dynamite occurred in 1881 [4 ]. Primeval sounds were entirely of nature, apart from the pathetic imitations of sounds made by humans. If the paradigm of this book is correct about Pangea, the prequantavolutionary, pre-human period of late times, the world was peaceful and orderly, with overcast skies and little celestial or terrestrial turbulence. Man's ears were not made for explosions any more than his eyes were made to stare at the sun. A tiger's roar, an elephant's trumpeting, squeaks, whines, growls, yells, the splashing of waters, the snapping of twigs, the slumping of old trees - this in our theory was the pre-holocene ...
745. The Cairns Of Kintraw [Journals] [Kronos]
... . As it stands, the kist would have been buried beneath the cairn's periphery and the phenomenon that Thom indicated with his alignment could not have been observed from beneath the structure of the cairn. Once again, this ably illustrates the fortuity of such sight lines, i.e ., given enough stones and a mountainous horizon, some celestial occurrences are apt to line up with something. Meanwhile, the lunar line to Dubh Beinn that was introduced in Thom's second diagram is now shown as running from the fallen menhir, S2. Again fortuitously, the fallen menhir does seem to be oriented in the direction of Thom's alignment. We say fortuitously because this "orientation" is ...
... size and quantity of meteoric contacts with the earth. The relationship between the two is practically negligible, because, whilst a comet entering the sun and causing sunspots may have dispersed part of its substance in the form of a meteor swarm, it is by no means certain that the direction taken by a swarm will bring them along the earth's celestial path, whereas a swarm that traverses it may have no relationship to sunspots coinciding with it. Once the principle is established that comets are worlds undergoing decimation, are expulsions from other systems, that they contain all the ingredients of our planet, that they build up our earth and other worlds, and that they must render their last ...
747. The Rape of Helen [Books] [de Grazia books]
... an atmospheric conflagration. These, to Homer and his audiences, would be the gods in battle, the effects of "a divine-kindled fire of stones" (Iliad) and other superhuman operations. The "Fall of a City" is a legendary symbol in various cultures for a disaster, that is, the disruption and end of a celestial order. It is likely that the Fall of Troy was such a catastrophe, in which human agency played less of a role than the divine. THE INDESTRUCTIBLE LADY HELEN Some of the Trojan story is reported in the Odyssey, by Demodocus no less, and by Odysseus from Hades. There and elsewhere the post-war adventures of the Achaean ...
748. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ' (i .e . the sun), is perhaps a masculine for he apaista (shortened in Stesichorus: Fragment 97 to aista), the goddess who removes from sight, ' namely Athene, the original inventor of all mechanical arts [12]. Graves, like most authors upon whom we depend, did not ascribe real celestial behavior to the gods and demigods, planetary or otherwise. When a celestial reference is forced upon Athena, the Sun or Moon or other bodies are called upon. This has resulted in the Sun, workaday Helios, being elevated to a divine status such as he never achieved in the minds of the ancients. If the minds of ...
... to increase the elasticity of the lolling head. It is a safe assertion to make that nowhere else in the world are there derelict idols to compare in age with those of Cornwall. The sanctity of such stones, whether as round temples, dolmens, cromlechs, single menhirs or idols, was attributable to the belief that they were of celestial origin, as in fact they were. The composition of various conglomerate rocks is known, but the how and wherefore of their conglomeration is not so often made plain. Granite, for instance, is an intrusive substance of igneous origin largely composed of felspar, quartz, silica, and mica; sandstone and limestone are composed of highly ...
750. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a seemingly outrageous idea. He claimed that _planets_, moving on quite different courses than observed today, formerly disturbed the motions of the Earth and caused great destruction to ancient nations. These extraordinary events, Velikovsky claimed, are recorded in ancient chronicles, myths and rites around the world, sources that are simply incomprehensible in terms of celestial motions today. Velikovsky contended that the planet Venus, just a few thousand years ago, possessed a spectacular, comet-like "tail" , and its orbit intersected that of the Earth. .Though Velikovsky's interest in the subject began with a reading of biblical accounts of the Exodus period, the plagues of Egypt, and the spectacles of ...
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