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114 pages of results. 171. Prelunar Culture (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... were great civilizations in the world a long time before Atlantis-that is to say, a culture centre in the Atlantic-could have existed, as, for instance, the civilization of Tiahuanaco72 Atlantiswas only one of the great rallying-points of man which rose after a much earlier, and rather different, terrestrial convulsion. There seems to be a tendency in certain circles to regard life in Atlantis as having been saturated with `mysteries' and magic'. The Atlanteans are said to have been able to peer more deeply into the spiritual sense of creation and to master its material side more evidently. But I think it is safe to assume that, generally speaking, the mental processes and physical reactions ...
172. Skara Brae: A Time Capsule of Catastrophism? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Bronze Age, and adds further support to Mandelkehr's thesis. The evidence also reinforces another aspect of Mandelkehr's thesis, i.e . the proposed link between the archaeological destructions and an astronomical disturbance. Orkney "Mainland" [1 ] is exceptionally rich in prehistoric remains, including the prodigious passage-grave of Maes Howe and one of the largest stone circles in Britain, the Ring of Brodgar; but possibly the most interesting site on the island is the cluster of drystone walled Neolithic dwellings known as Skara Brae, close to the sea on the Bay of Skaill. This settlement comprised a complex of eight interlinked houses of an architectural sophistication almost unmatched in prehistoric Western Europe, and the dramatic ...
173. Homer in the Baltic [Journals] [Aeon]
... from some occasional convergences, although the names are familiar. This, however, tends to be more misleading than otherwise in solving the problem. A possible key to finally penetrating this puzzling world is provided by Plutarch (46 - 120 ad). In his De Facie Quae in Orbe Lunae Apparet (The Face that Appears in the Moon Circle), he makes the surprising statement that the island of Ogygia, where Calypso held Ulysses before allowing him to return to Ithaca, is located in the North Atlantic Ocean "five days' sail from Britain." Plutarch's indications lead us to identify Ogygia with one of the Faroe Islands, where we also come across an island with ...
174. Saturnists Play Marbles [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... - Mars of the Pawnee in Nebraska. And incidentally, theirs is the only Indian culture of North America I know of that practiced human sacrifice - but not anywhere near on the scale of the Aztecs - and only when Mars rose in the East. Funny thing is that there are polar configuration pictographs and petroglyphs all over the place - circle within a circle within a circle with radiating spokes (the radiant Venus) as well as spirals and crescents, so Saturn was presumably depicted in this, but I don't know of any evidence that the planet itself was worshipped by itself. Ev Adds: Typically the ancient sun-god in American Indian legends is to be identified with Saturn. ...
175. Plato And The Catastrophist Tradition [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the Same by her own rotation from West to East at an angular velocity equal and opposite to the Same, "the period of the single and most intelligent revolution" (39C).(9 ) A fourth motion is present in the planetary system described by Timaeus. The inner planets, Venus and Mercury, move "in circles revolving so as in point of speed to run their race with the Sun, but possessing the power contrary to his; whereby the Sun and the star of Hermes and the Morning Star alike overtake and are overtaken by one another" (38D). The nature of this "contrary power" is not specified by Timaeus, but ...
176. Canopy Skies of Ancient Man by Isaac Vail [Books]
... the harmonious dance of polar features, and the music of the polar sphere. The 50 Danaides who married and slaughtered the sons of Egypt were only a part of the beauty forms that danced about the pole. It seems reasonable that these harmony features were called "Dancers" because as the daughters of Danaus they graced the grand cotillion that circled about the polar spindle. In this place of Dancers, in a brazen tower, Aorisius walled up his daughter Danae; and among the Hebrews this same supernal spot was the seat of Dan the "Judge", and I see no reason why the Dancers did not get their name from the same celestial presentation. Certain it is ...
177. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Journals] [Aeon]
... of hiding the stars, have been transparent enough to reveal Saturn's axial spin? And would warmth, with only a feeble heavenly light, have really been sufficient to sustain life? III The adaptation of Juergens' conjectural theory to the Saturnian scenario obviously merited a deeper study. Even so, I decided to bounce the idea off my growing circle of colleagues. In May of 1978 I wrote a lengthy paper under a title borrowed from Vardis Fisher-"Darkness and the Deep" -and sent it to a selected few for comment. Needless to say, Juergens was delighted to discover that his conjecture had not fallen on deaf ears. More than that, he dove headlong ...
178. The Kaaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... place in prayer five times each day.(5 ) During the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca which every Muslim must attempt once in his life, thousands of Muslims perform the prescribed tawaf - an anticlock-wise circumambulation enacted en masse seven times around the Kaaba - three times at a brisk pace, and four times slowly. During this frenzied circling, individuals vie in trying to kiss or touch the Black and/or Yamani Stone. A certificate given to every hajji, bearing depictions of the holy sites, was, and perhaps still is, looked upon "almost as a passport to heaven".(6 ) As Muhammad Abdul-Rauf, Director of the Islamic Center in Washington ...
179. The AAAS Symposium on Velikovsky [Books]
... . They have read into science the virtues of justice, of fairness, of lack of prejudice, of desire for the truth, of taking a man and his ideas on their merits alone regardless of his prestige or qualifications or status. They have described the scientific scene through spectacles made in Utopia. "Thus philosophers such as the Vienna Circle have examined science as a logical and purely empirical process. Sociologists [such as Robert K. Merton] have posited norms' of the scientific ethos, contending that science is characterized by organized skepticism, ' the acceptance of idea's on their merits, and the disinterested pursuit of truth. Historians animated by the idea of progress of which ...
180. Chaldean Account of Genesis [Books]
... is the Law of Evolution given such sweep and swing. It reminds one of the ceaseless undertone of the deep sea, and seems to view our Earth in all its changes "from the birth of time to the crack of doom." It follows man in his triple evolution, physical, mental, and spiritual, throughout the perfect circle of his boundless life. Darwinism had reached its limits and a rebound. Man is indeed evolved from lower forms. But which man? the physical? the psychical? the intellectual? or the spiritual? The Secret Doctrine points where the lines of evolution and involution meet; where matter and spirit clasp hands; and where the rising ...
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