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51 pages of results. 141. Thoth [Journals] [Thoth]
... "Remembering" is an encounter with cosmic disaster, when planets appeared gigantic in our sky. According to author David Talbott and his colleagues, the planets inspired mythical themes now incomprehensible to science: a lost Golden Age, when humankind lived in the shadow of the planetary gods; a "mother goddess" with long-flowing hair; the fiery dragon threatening to destroy the world; a celestial hero who "subdued" the dragon, and titanic wars of the gods. In one overview, this documentary suggests an entirely new interpretation of planetary history, while illuminating the mythical, ritual, and symbolic roots of civilization. Thousands of viewers have agreed - this film opens windows never before ...
142. Open Forum, chaired by David Fairbairn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and Chinese pyramid building and Aztec pyramid building and megalithic European mound building and mound building everywhere, begins at the same time, then the pyramid has an immense significance, then it's a truly astonishing phenomenon that everybody in the world would have had the same idea at the same time. All these cultures have stories about these temples and cosmic dragons and fiery serpent in the sky that has to be appeased by blood sacrifice in order to prevent a repetition of some cataclysm. That's one thing the Aztecs actually told the Spaniards that if they did not perform this ritual the Earth would be plunged in darkness and they would die in some terrible cataclysm, and there would be a repetition ...
143. Our Universe: Unlocking its Mysteries [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... and the stars within them are formed by the electromagnetic z-pinch effect. If they can be formed in this way, Scott ventures that it is a minor extrapolation to hypothesize that these same stars are also powered by this mechanism. The Ancients Said Venus Had "Flowing Hair": Might the flowing hair of Venus, or the "fiery dragon" (as that planet is depicted in many ancient myths and drawings) actually have been the glowing ions of twisting Birkeland currents (or "stringy things" as mainstream astronomers call them)? Pictographs showing ladder formations and tales of a "Ladder to Heaven" or "Jacob's Ladder" might well be based on sightings of Birkeland ...
144. Canopy Skies of Ancient Man by Isaac Vail [Books]
... view the fact that Apollo was the polar revealer and oracle or word- god, as all polar solar heroes must be, let us look into the history of the contemporaneous polar suns of other peoples. The Egyptian Horus is one of theses since he was the child of the sun, Osiris, and the Egyptian serpent- killer, or "dragon slayer", just as Apollo was of the Greeks. It comes in as testimony very strong that children of the sun are strikingly polar. See Kirke, Esculapius, and others. That Horus was a polar god of Egypt is shown by the frequent allusion to him as the "Word" in the "Book of the Dead ...
145. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... natural for primitive man to look upon the amorphous cluster of stars in the Milky Way and see a winding body of water. And thus it is that modern scholars investigating these traditions have seldom paused to consider how unlikely it was that aboriginal peoples from around the world told very similar and peculiar stories about a great river in the sky. Dragon Numerous cultures have interpreted the band of heaven as a serpent or dragon. The natives of the Nyassaland in Africa hold that the celestial band of stars is a great python. (12) The Maya compared the Milky Way to a Fer-de-lance. (13) As we have just seen, the Akkadians called it Hid tsirra, " ...
... untended, without shelter from wind and rain, existing on grass and roots and wild herbs, shunned by the meanest of his subjects, until the day of atonement arrived when he blessed the "Most High", whereupon the chastened monarch was reinstated on his throne. The Chaldeans, who, as we are told in Bet and the Dragon, could threaten Cyrus, the conqueror of Babylon, with the destruction of his dynasty and himself, were exactly like the Ethiopian priests. Nor upon consideration is it surprising, for, after all, the Ethiopians as Cushites, whose priests were Chaldeans, according to the genealogy of Genesis vii, were the founders of Babylon. Yet ...
147. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... very existence of human sacrifice archaeologically. However, the killed vassals did not allow scholars to establish meaningful relations with the scenes shown on the seals because they could not be identified as deities. The slaughtered vassals must have belonged to a different category of blood ritual. Celestial combat from a Mesopotamian seal impression showing Ninurta in pursuit of the serpent dragon Mushusshu The subject moved from the hands of narrow specialists to students of religion. They discovered a worldwide "combat myth of gods and heroes who encounter and defeat dragons, monsters, demons, and giants." (6 ) During such duels, deities were trying to exterminate each other. Thus, many of the ritualistic scenes could ...
148. The Great Terror [Journals] [Kronos]
... has been fully described in Ages in Chaos(24) though, some additional aspects possibly contributing to the loathing in which they were held have yet to be considered. The hieroglyphic inscription on the black granite shrine of el-Arish, discussed rather thoroughly by Velikovsky in Ages in Chaos, reads among other things: "Then the children of the dragon Apop, the evildoers [of Usheru] and of the red country came upon the road of At Nebes, invading Egypt at nightfall . . . They [the gods] are the rescuers of Ra from Apop."(25) A nightfall during which the sun was deemed to be in danger must have been an extraordinary event ...
149. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to entertain the possibility of such a star-crossed' marriage in the first place. Briefly, the most damning evidence against Velikovsky's reconstruction is as follows: i). many of the traditions cited in Worlds in Collision as support for a catastrophe in the mid-second millennium almost certainly pre-date that time (i .e ., the myth of the dragon combat, certain cataclysmic traditions involving Inanna [5 ], etc), ii). the relative dearth of evidence supporting a Mars event' in the mid-first millennium BC [6 ], iii). many of the traditions cited by Velikovsky as support for a comet-like Venus clearly relate to mythical events associated with the planet Saturn. ...
150. The River of Ocean [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , what significance did the central dot play? As for Osiris, mythologists have long recognised that in him the circle of the serpent was completed' [42]. This god was lauded as he who was round as the circle that encircles Hauenaba' [43]. As M. Howie stated: Osiris was thus the serpent (dragon) that, lying in the ocean, encircled the world' [44]. Of course, Howie was as mistaken as other mythologists in identifying the encircled object as the world' when, in effect, the myths themselves signify nothing of the sort. Mackenzie also saw Osiris as the water-confining serpent' [45]. In ...
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