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51 pages of results. 161. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... of numerous instances of unconscious correspondence that will have to be confronted. But when it comes to the archaic juxtapositions of the myths, the underlying integrity is obvious: the goddess-womb has rays and these received a mythical interpretation as teeth. You will see this most clearly in the image of the hero housed within the mouth of a serpent, dragon, or chaos monster. Of course, mouth, eye and womb, as noted by Walker and others, are overlapping symbols of the goddess- and the serpentine character of the goddess was universal. So why shouldn't the female organ have teeth? In the myth of Deucalion, dragon's teeth are sown in the ground to become a ...
162. The Eye Goddess [Journals] [Aeon]
... a striking analogue to Inanna's star (as depicted in Fig. 3). [15] Inanna, like Hathor, was likened to a cow in the early literature, one hymn invoking her as "the great cow among the gods of heaven and earth." [16] As Inanna inspired terror in the form of a fire-spewing dragon [17] , so too did Hathor in the form of the uraeus serpent (see title page illustration). Thus, a hymn at Philae invokes Hathor as "the Great One shining on the brow of her father, the glorious one who causes fear of her father." [18] Other hymns describe the goddess as ...
163. The Crescent II [Books]
... ) And the Book of the Dead locates the throne in the same ship: "I shall advance to my throne which is in the boat of Re. I shall not be molested, and I shall not suffer shipwreck from my throne which is in the boat of Re, the mighty one." (79) The Serpent (Dragon) -Ship. G.E . Smith writes: "The custom of employing the name dragon' in reference to a boat is found in places as far apart as Scandinavia and China .. . In India the Makara, the prototype of the dragon, was sometimes represented as a boat which was looked upon as a fish-avatar ...
164. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 450 BC and was a mixture of descendants of several different peoples who had been deported to Babylon. MYTHOLOGY River Pishon found New Scientist, 29.5 .93, p. 48 Regarding the ancient river found beneath the Arabian desert, a correspondent suggests that it was the mythical River Pishon of the Sumerians' Eden - Dilmun. Ancient Dragon Daily Mail, 14.9 .93, p. 8 Proof of the antiquity of the dragon image has been found in the form of an image in cave paintings dating back to 8000 BC. Planetary symbolism J.Br.Astron.Assoc.,103.3 , 1993 In a letter Howard Jones considers Sagan's statement that ...
165. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of shewing the power of the sun in drying up the water of the Nile. This ancient mode of speaking is adopted by the poets of the Hebrews; who frequently mention the power of the sun in drying up the water of the great deep. The arm of the L-ur-d is frequently represented in smiting and in slaying the serpents and dragons; which are but the symbols of rivers; the waters of which, being dryed up by the heat of the sun, caused it to be said that their symbols (the dragons or serpents) were slain by the arm of the L-ur-d, i.e . the father of heaven, which is a proper, and very ...
166. KA [Books]
... the Torch", just as the Persian king's viceroy was the rod of Set. The Akkadian Shamash', the sun goddess, Ugaritic Shapash', is often called The Torch of the Gods'. The Greek tripod cauldron, lebes- lebetos, is, I suggest, el bet, the house of el. Similarly, the dragon that Herakles killed on his journey to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides had a Semitic name, Ladon, El Adon, Lord El. And while on the subject of the sky, the Phoenicians, the red people', wore feather headdresses; cf. Quetzalcoatl. Terebinthos, a Greek word with pre-Greek undertones like asaminthos, ...
167. Thoth Vol I, No. 15: June 7, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... 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 the wandering in the desert, what led to his startling conclusions was a thorough cross-referencing with global myths of disaster- stories in which the agent of catastrophe takes the form of a great comet or flaming dragon, a body consistently identified with the _planet_ Venus. Velikovsky also argued that the planet Mars, in the eighth and seventh centuries before the present era, moved on an erratic course, disrupting the Earth. Celestial upheavals caused by the unstable movements of Mars, according to Velikovsky, are the true reason why Mars appears in ...
168. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... idea along with the contradictory apotheosis of Athena as the ideal castrating female of psychoanalytic theory. Hephaestus has a resemblance to the Etruscan smith-god and death-demon, Tuchulcha, who dispatches people with a giant hammer. Tuchulcha is assisted by a winged demon with snakes [5 ], So that the composite suggests a god-monster like Typhon, a devastating winged dragon who, like Seth and Lucifer is sent crashing into the underground, there to fulfill his destiny. The Love Affair lends support to the quadrilateral relationship: Hephaestus/Tuchulcha: Greeks/Etruscans. There one hears Demodocus singing that the cherished home-island of Hephaestus was Lemnos. Also, he has Ares speaking disrespectfully of Hephaestus having left to ...
169. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... It is Indra who is said to have created the lightnings of heaven. [26] The Divine Warrior's devastating thunderbolt is the subject of countless hymns in the Rig Veda. The following hymn is typical in this regard: "I will declare the manly deeds of Indra, the first that he achieved, the Thunder-wielder. He slew the Dragon, then disclosed the waters, and cleft the channels of the mountain torrents. He slew the Dragon lying on the mountain; his heavenly bolt of thunder Tvastr fashioned." [27] This association of the thundergod with the slaying of a giant serpent threatening to destroy the world forms a recurring and apparently universal motif. The Norse ...
... These gases are identified by their colour and by their action, red predominating but white, yellow, pink, blue, bluish green, and violet all being present. The gases forming the tail reveal their character when approaching the sun. Some assume remarkable contortions which give the comet the appearance of a vast fabulous monster, such as a dragon or a fiery serpent, breathing fire and lashing wildly its tail in agony as it plunges onward to its predestined fate. The effect of the sun's magnetic rays upon the wanderer through the expanse of heaven is evidenced in constant changes in shape and size. It twists and contorts itself, arches its back, sometimes throws its tail above ...
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