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51 pages of results. 311. Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Aeon]
... . (41) Of Sechemet-Spd.t , it was said that she once rose to heaven as a fiery serpent. (42) Although such language is wholly foreign to the traditions surrounding Sirius, it finds remarkable parallels in the mythology surrounding the planet Venus. (43) The planet-goddess Inanna, for example, appears as a fire-breathing dragon in the Exaltation to Inanna: "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land...Raining the fanned fire down upon the nation..." (44) In striking contrast to the planet Venus, Sirius does not play a significant role in ancient myth or religion. In Greece, for example, Sirius ...
... Moslem), Africa, South America, and Central and North America. The similarities of detail are striking: "Acted upon by magnetism or electricity. . . in the tail of the comet" [91:45], the latter appeared in the sky and was described for posterity as a bear, a snake, "the dragon, the serpent, the wolf, the dog, the Evil One" [91:132, 429]; "all the winged beasts breathing fire~are simply a recollection of the comet" [91:1 i9] --cf. pp. 78 and 305 in Worlds in Collision. "This is the event that lies ...
... vicinity and all that can be said is that it provided good grazing ground. Can the motive have been, or does it seem too altruistic, that the settlers, led Presumably by their Druids, selected the site because here they found a vast assortment of sacred stones, like Cadmus when he traditionally built Cadmeian Thebes, slew a "dragon" and - sowed its teeth"? Undoubtedly this area was intensely sacred in their eyes when they built so enormous a system of sacred edifices within the area. Avebury, moreover, stands for something different in our eyes, in retracing the past, It indicates in no uncertain manner that in this Britain of ours, so frequently ...
314. Thoth Vol I, No. 1: January 25, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Identification of this ancient "sun" with the planet Saturn in early astronomies. A radiant city or temple of heaven, providing the prototype for the sacred habitation on earth. Global memories of a star-goddess with long-flowing hair. An angry goddess raging across the sky with wildly disheveled hair, threatening to destroy the world. A flaming serpent or dragon disturbing the celestial motions or attacking the land. An ancestral warrior or hero, born from the womb of the star-goddess to vanquish the chaos-serpent or dragon. Is it even possible that such diverse motifs could have a unified explanation? Well, one fact remains uncontested after many years of publishing on this subject. The hypothesized planetary configuration does ...
315. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... stability and rest and a virtual pivot of creation. This cosmic centre' was of inestimable value in the ancient world view. One creation myth after the other asserts that the polar centre is the place from where the world was first created, that the creating deity hailed from there, and that this was where the gods were pitted against dragons, engaged in sex and communicated with our ancestors. The polar centre quite literally forms the heart of mythology. If this was all we could give the theory short shrift as an exaggerated speculation based on the ideology of Aristotle's Unmoved Mover'. But there is much more. A chorus of countless traditions coming from all continents unanimously state ...
316. Trisms and Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ) These authorities agreed that this comet wreaked great havoc and devastation before its denouement via Zeus' thunderbolts. Figure 45 Citing sources which claimed that Venus, at that time, resembled a comet, Velikovsky identified Typhon as Venus' cometary tail, suggesting that legends depicting a god of light (like Zeus) in mortal conflict with a cosmic dragon or serpent were observers' interpretations of the electrical interactions and repulsions between Venus' tail and its planetary body. (14) It is noteworthy that, in Worlds in Collision, because of the volume of mythical material describing the battles of Zeus versus Typhon, Velikovsky admitted that he was uncertain whether or not Zeus (the planet Jupiter ...
317. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... being identified with the red planet very early on. The same conclusion is suggested by Heracles' identification with the Latin god Mars. [41] In Vedic tradition, it is Indra who most nearly parallels the Greek hero. Like Heracles, Indra is renowned for his support of heaven. Both heroes were celebrated for ridding Earth of great dragons. Both were accorded a fiery disposition. That the Vedic Indra offers a striking parallel to the Norse Thor has long been acknowledged. [42] As Indra represents the Vedic thundergod par excellence, so, too, does Thor perform the same function for the Norse. Given the acknowledged parallels between Indra and Heracles and Thor, it ...
318. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... he speaks of natural forces at the crossing from Egypt: "Here there is no Nature in the Greek, the Chinese or the modern Occidental sense. What is shown us of Nature is stamped by History."[21] And the history is stamped by wonder, he says, which produces cosmic exaggerations. "The defeated Egyptian dragon' grows into a symbol as vast as the world in the drama of rescue which serves as prelude to the revelation..." From what unconscious source did Buber conjure up the Egyptian dragon'? It can be none other than Typhon, the great monster whom Zeus struck down with thunderbolts at the time of Exodus, and ...
319. The Creation of Man (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... let us therefore throw the stones behind us, thus breaking the spell which has been cast over our fellows! The appearance of other survivors was no doubt regarded as a triumph of the method employed. Sometimes, of course, these meetings may have resulted in bloody conflict. The Greek myth of Cadmus relates that after the conquest of a dragon (the Tertiary cataclysm, though much obscured), which had killed all his companions, he gathered its teeth' (meteoritic material from the mouth' of the dragon, the open sickle of the satellite) and flung them broadcast over the land (literally: the ploughed land; the earth which was torn and furrowed by cosmic ...
320. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... of thunder in China is not, in the writer's opinion, convincing. It will be shown that in China the spiral as the "thunder roll" had a deeper significance than an isolated native text may reveal. China derived not a few beliefs connected with the spiral and thunder from India, as Dr Visser has shown in his The Dragon in China and Japan. As plausible as the Amon-horn-spiral theory is another which might be urged that the "thunder spiral" was first suggested in India by the peacock, which in Sanskrit literature is associated with thunder and rain. Professor Monier Williams16 wrote in this connexion: The Indian peacock is very restless at the approach of the rains ...
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