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131. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) The ensuing celestial crisis, frequently interpreted as the great god's death, disappearance, or imprisonment by the forces of chaos, was truly a Dark Age. Peoples the world over prayed for a time when the sun-god would reappear and deliver them from the terrible darkness. A universal mythical motive attributed this primeval period of darkness to a giant dragon having devoured the sun. It is this very image, of course, which figures so prominently in pre-astronomical understandings of a solar eclipse, as well as in visions of the apocalypse and end of the world. Hindu mythology, in fact, attributes just such a period of darkness to the dragon-like Danavas: "The Danava's bind, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0101/02venus.htm
132. The Ching Hsing [Journals] [Horus]
... large; 2. its form resembles a half-Moon; 3. it appears during the New Moon; 4.it "assists" the Moon's brightness; 5. it is rare, though many descriptions of it appear in Chinese literature; 6. it is favorable; the Chinese considered it similar to such positive omens and phoenixes, certain dragons, perfectly calm seas, and miraculous clearings of waters as muddy as the Yellow River. Conceivably, one can interpret characteristics 1 through 5 as support for Kuhnert's idea that the Ching Hsing is caused by Earthshine on the face of the New Moon. Yet Schaeffer himself has doubts. He wonders why the word ching, meaning a bright ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/horus/v0102/horus23.htm
... Similarly, many (or even most) of the Labours of Hercules took place in northern and western Europe. He even sired the Celts. British names and characters found in Arthurian tradition also occur in Greek myth, e.g . Lot (or Ludd), the mythical king of Orkney who was linked to the story of two dragons entwined around each other and battling in the sky on May Day. The same character occurs in the Greek myth as Ladon/Latone the serpent/dragon who entwined himself around the Apple Tree in the Garden of the Hesperides. Why were the Greeks so heavily influenced by the peoples of Northern Europe? Almost certainly not because they remembered ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  26 Mar 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v2002n1/43homer.htm
134. The Thunderbolt in Myth and Symbol [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... , upward-spiraling, serpentine form and two powerful mythical motifs- the "chain of arrows" and the "ladder of heaven." Gathered around these motifs in texts and art are numerous other themes, including: backbone of the sky, tower of heaven, flared skirt of the mother goddess, pyramid or steps of ascent, bound serpent or dragon, severed limbs of the serpent or dragon, and more. In the course of assimilating this material, it became clear to me that a simple evolutionary sequence explained the full range of symbolic connections, if one allows for the three-dimensional perspective of an observer on earth. At the heart of this evolutionary sequence is the "chain of ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/i-digest/2001-1/19thund.htm
135. Cosmos & Chronos Symposium report [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Mewhinney would often quote an ambiguous statement about the maps in isolation from as many as five supportive statements that accompanied Mewhinney's quotes. Saturday morning, Nancy Owen tried- with some success- to teach us how to read Mayan calendars. She passed out copies of 5 pages from the Dresden Codex. The fifth page was a picture- a dragon across the top, hanging down on the left, breathing fire. The signs for Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter were spread across the top. Beneath the dragon was a Medusa-headed women pouring liquid from an urn. In the liquid were the numbers of a date. The Medusa-headed image was standing on top of a bird with ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/i-digest/1999-2/18cosmos.htm
136. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... (in the sky). In legend, shamir was a wondrous possession of Solomon, legendary king of Israel. Velikovsky visualised shamir as something quite distinct. He quoted rabbis Rashi and Maimonides who apparently claimed it was a living creature - a worm. This interpretation should not be scoffed at, as in Germanic myth the worm = the dragon serpent. Osiris, the giant, was also a great serpent, otherwise known as Apepi. The sons of Apepi were meteorites, a fact that can be gleaned from the el-Arish inscription used by Velikovsky as an Egyptian account of the Exodus. Velikovsky was unimpressed with the Germanic connection (see also Martin Seiff in SIS Workshop 3: ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v1996n1/27sham.htm
137. Carl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson [Journals] [Aeon]
... off from UFOs but also became one of the more outspoken critics of the genre. "One way to avoid being perceived as a crank is to attack those whose views are even more outlandish." [16] Nevertheless, such thoughts surfaced throughout the rest of his career, perhaps beginning with his first serious effort, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dragons of Eden, a compendium of ideas about dreams, evolution, and myths, a book in which he comes perilously close to espousing Velikovsky's collective amnesia by speculating that ancestral memory may be biologically reposited in the genetic code of our DNA; [17] and, of course, culminating with his 1985 novel Contact, that was posthumously ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0505/114sagan.htm
138. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... of Leo; The moon's two-horned figure of mourning changed; Capricorn pushed back the young Taurus' neck; But Taurus robbed Capricorn of his day of homecoming. 520 And Orion pushed away Libra, so that she was no longer present Virgo exchanged the twins' fate with the ram (Aries); The pleiades shone no more; the Dragon denied (= shunned) the belt; The Fish hid opposite the Lion's belt; Cancer did not stand fast, for he feared Orion; 525 [Kugler's conjecture] Scorpio set to on the tall of the most terrible Lion And the Dog (Canis Maior) set as a result of the flame of the sun; But Aquarius ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0204/003kuglr.htm
139. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... some people went to America and founded the Mayan civilisation and others to Egypt - hence the similarities between Meso-American and middle Eastern pyramids and burials. There was discussion about diffusion versus similar reactions to global events. Benny commented that from a Velikovskian point of view similar features could easily be explained by people around the globe witnessing similar events - the dragon for instance. Velikovsky argues that everywhere you have dragons but there are no dragons in the animal kingdom. Most cometary astronomers accept now that the dragon is a symbol of a comet. In the early 20th century people claimed Meso-America was founded by Chinese because of the similarities of their dragons. David Fairbairn said he found the idea that ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v1996n2/48soc.htm
... Conversely, there is no documented instance of "primitives" inventing a central episode of myth. The duty of the storyteller is to repeat the story as it was told by his predecessors. In myth, the event itself is filtered through the subjective interpretation or projection of those experiencing it. Event and interpretation are the story. No living dragon ever flew about in the sky. But it is preposterous to assume that the global myth of the dragon was unrelated to anything actually experienced by man. Early man did not-could not-fabricate the events inspiring the interpretation. Honoring the story by repeating it in words reflected the same fundamental impulse as all other forms of imitation and alignment in ancient ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 24  -  29 Mar 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/articles/talks/portland/talbott.htm
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