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70 pages of results. 561. Night of the Gods: Axis Myths [Books]
... whence he is seen to be a pestle-god (and as such has his double in Japan 3), and was thus the patron saint of millers, and said by insufficient mythologists to be an actual personification of the pilum, while Picumnus was made a personification of the picusbird, the pie, quod est absurdum. Pilumnus deserves contrasting with Columnus. The pilum of course was both a javelin and a pestle, whence confusion in sacred words; Pilumnoe poploe in the hymns of the Salii (Festus) is a good instance of this; and Mount Pilatus and the superstitions connected with it must be put in the same category. Piliat-chuchi seems to be a supreme heavens-god of the ...
562. The Inconstant Sun [Journals] [Kronos]
... same time that spots large enough to be seen with the naked eye are around. Clouds are no good- they block out the Sun altogether. So what you need is haze in the atmosphere, or a dust storm, especially effective at sunrise or sunset when the Sun is low on the horizon and its radiation passes through a longer column of air than at noon. These conditions occur much more frequently in the heart of a continent or, with prevailing winds from west to east, on the eastern edge of a continent where the winds are coming off the land rather than the sea. So England and western Europe are distinctly bad places for catching a naked eye glimpse ...
563. Sirius and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... called it the abacus theory', which I could accept, but that has not caught on. I once suggested the name northernism', since Earth's north pole points at Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter but that has not caught on either [9 ]. I would now like to propose the name god-kebob' for this overcrowded column of deities but the defenders of the theory probably won't like that any more than northernism'. It is risky to name your opponents' theories. Remember that Fred Hoyle (whom I grudgingly admire, even though he detests me) nicknamed his opponents' theory the Big Bang', presumably to ridicule it into oblivion, but the ...
564. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... Grand Chaco ascribe the rush of a whirlwind to the passage of a spirit and they fling sticks at it to frighten it away. . . Of the Bedouins of Eastern Africa it is said that "no whirlwind ever sweeps across the path without being pursued by a dozen savages with drawn creases, who stab into the centre of the dusty column in order to drive away the evil spirit that is believed to be riding on the blast." "A blast from Hell" is how an early Christian scribe in Ireland referred to the wind which carried Cuchullin back to his native land in the night-time when he was seen riding in his chariot across the sky. Keats had heard ...
565. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... occur in the Holy Land. It overtook him at Khuzistan, in Persia, on his journey to King Artachshashta. (51) At Raccia, in Mesopotamia, there stood, as late as the twelfth century, the synagogue founded by Ezra when he was journeying from Babylonia to Palestine. (52) At his grave, over which columns of fire are often seen to hover at night, (53) a miracle once happened. A shepherd fell asleep by the side of it. Ezra appeared to him and bade him tell the Jews that they were to transport his bier to another spot. If the master of the new place refused assent, he was to be ...
566. The Sothic Dating of the Twelfth and Eighteenth Dynasties [Journals] [Kronos]
... eleven months in the table of correspondence with no adjustment for the epagomenal days. This doubt might be justified to some degree if the list of months against those of the civil year was that of a fixed or Sothic year, always beginning on the day of the heliacal rising of Sothis. We now know, however, that the first column lists the months of the original lunar year. Properly it begins with the month of wp rnpt, the last month of the year and the one in which the rising of Sothis, prt Spdt, must be kept so that the lunar year remains in correct relation to the natural year. From the date of the Sothic rising was ...
567. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... period".(169) The volcanoes turned out to be Thera and Vesuvius. Jastrow's Science Digest article will be analyzed in a future issue of KRONOS. As will be shown, his alternative does not survive close scrutiny. TIME The unsigned review in Time ran 170 words which, including a picture of Sagan, occupied two-thirds of a column.(170) The review observes that Sagan is not always successful, as when he tries to relate the psychology of the Big Bang to the experience of birth. However, "he is unassailable on subjects of pure science". Over 40 percent of the text deals with Velikovsky, on whom the review ends: "Sagan ...
568. More Problems with Sothic Dating [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the 4th century BC as Geminus claims Eudoxus said! Accordingly, Geminus provides information contradicting the use of the Censorinus calendar during the 4th century BC. Now consider the papyrus fragment with the 19 or 20 Hathyr dates on the calendar of Eudoxus mentioned by Dicks. Although no reference is given, this obviously refers to P.Paris 1, column XXII. Dicks, being wedded to Sothic dating assumptions, treats 19 and 20 Hathyr as the dates of the winter solstice at the time the fragment was written by a Hellenistic writer but we are not bound to follow this construction [13]. It seems more straightforward to assume the author was referring back to actual 4th century BC ...
569. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... desert had been wrought. Two sparks issued from the Cherubim that shaded the Ark, and these killed all the serpents and scorpions that crossed the path of the Israelites, and furthermore burned all thorns that threatened to injure the wanderers on their march through the desert. The smoke rising from these scorched thorns, moreover, rose straight as a column, and shed a fragrance that perfumed all the world, so that the nations exclaimed: "Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?" [330] Apart from this Ark, which was kept in the Tabernacle, they had ...
570. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology [Books]
... B. Forrest, op. cit., p. 22. 7. A. Aveni, Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (Austin, 1980), p. 27. Earthquakes were associated with comets in the Old World as well. See the discussion in W. Gundel, "Kometen," RE (Stuttgart, 1894-1980), columns 1143-1149. 8. D. Carrasco, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire (Chicago, 1982), p. 77. 9. A. Aveni, op. cit., p. 27. 10. W. Lamb, op. cit., p. 237. 11. E. Hunt, The Transformation of ...
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