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51 pages of results. 321. El-Arish Revisited [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the days of the Exodus",(33) but he conjectured that the Sea of Passage was Lake Serbon (actually a lagoon on the Mediterranean coast, east of the Delta). There, he wrote, "on the bottom of the sea where the spellbound Israelites saw the upheaval of nature" lies the comet, or dragon, Typhon. "In the same pit of the sea lie the pharaoh and his hosts."(34) But if Pi-hahiroth was on the way from Memphis to Pi-Soped, it was nowhere near Lake Serbon, since Pi-Soped has been identified with Saft-el-Hennah in the Wadi Tumilat from inscriptions found there.(35) CONCLUSIONS In the ...
322. On the Circularization of the Orbit of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... circulation pattern, as indicated in Fig. 4. The outer parts of the atmosphere were streaming backwards because of friction forces from the gas of the interplanetary cloud. Near the central axis, the gas returned forward in a large whirl, attracted by Venus' gravitation. This whirl probably looked like a tornado funnel and is probably the "dragon" of the myths- "a writhing, bright, elongated thing".(20) Fig 4. When Venus passed through the gas cloud, it's "extended atmosphere"- actually a system of circulating gas and dust- was pressed backwards into the rear part of the Roche lobe. The dotted contour in the figure is ...
323. The Road to Iron: 8th and 7th Century Metallurgy and the Decline of Egyptian Power [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... identify Seth as the Venus-comet whose tail, entangled with the head amid electrical discharges, was interpreted as the satanic force attacking and being defeated by the light god.32 In later mythologies Satan is regarded as being chained by iron. Echoes of this symbolism may be found in the Book of Revelation, where Satan is depicted as a cosmic dragon whose (cometary) tail covers one-third of the stars in the sky- a most valuable piece of historical and astronomical data (Revelation 12:3 )- and who is chained (with iron, presumably) after the coming of Jesus Christ as morning star (Revelation 22:16) in a bottomless pit (10:13 ...
324. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... desecrated, and I order thee to follow me." So it happened. When the heathen came with music and song to give honor to the idol, it emitted no sound, but a storm broke loose and overturned it. (111) On still another occasion Nebuchadnezzar tried to persuade Daniel to worship an idol, this time a dragon that devoured all who approached it, and therefore was adored as a god by the Babylonians. Daniel had straw mixed with nails fed to him, and the dragon ate and perished almost immediately. (112) All this did not prevent Daniel from keeping the welfare of the king in mind continually. Hence it was that when Nebuchadnezzar ...
325. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... at a distance of not more than three miles from the sanctuary at Shiloh, (129) and won over the grandson of Moses (130) to officiate as priest before his idol. The sanctuary which Micah erected harbored various idols. He had three images of boys, and three of calves, one lion, an eagle, a dragon, and a dove. When a man came who wanted a wife, he was directed to appeal to the dove. If riches were his desire, he worshipped the eagle. For daughters both, to the calves; to the lion for strength, and to the dragon for long life. Sacrifices and incense alike were offered to ...
326. 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 ...
327. Appendices (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... clay' of the image is an echo of the fact that part of the satellite's material was loess and other earthy stuff, and that the iron is a reference to the hail of ores which came down at one time. There are traces in Semitic mythology to that effect; the `image of terrible form' is called a `dragon' or `serpent' in some myths: and `iron ore' is termed nechoshet in Hebrew, which means, literally, `serpent's dirt', or `droppings'. The Book of the Secrets of Enoch adds, with reference to the `phenomenon of the cut-out key-stone': (Secr. En. xxix. ...
328. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... been considered frightening events. The theory however that the ancients developed a long-term interest in predicting such events because of the fear they generated has always seemed to me rather weak. After all, eclipses rarely recur at the same location, and even if they do, experience shows that one does survive! Besides that, the references are to dragons swallowing the Sun not exactly an authentic description of the Moon covering the Sun. Dragons are more obviously associated with comets, and though no such effect is observed with average comets, there is no reason why a large one coming between the Earth and the Sun should not have produced some noticeable obscuration. So, if there existed a ...
329. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... probably of the 8th century B.C . The story of Atlantis may be contemporary with the Saturnian flood. We note that the Atlantic Ocean was called the Sea of Kronos. Atlantis would then have sunk in the flooding of the continental shelves by the Noachian Deluge. In a prescient line, Bellamy thinks: "Genesis I is a dragon myth without a dragon, a deluge myth without a deluge."[7 ] This would be the initial deluges of the first, Uranian period of Chaos. The Greek myths of Ouranos and Okeanos were concerned with universal deluges of the earliest catastrophes, involving the breakup of the Super-Uranus partner of the Sun. Diluvians are of several ...
330. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... polar column, causing it to appear to bow outward away from the Sun. Occasional vagaries of the solar wind, as it is itself disturbed by magnetic filaments of solar flux interacting with the magnetosphere of the dumbbell-shaped binary, would cause the column to writhe in serpentine fashion, each in some measure demonstrating a manifestation of the respective archer and dragon of legend. However, it should be stressed that the bow of the archer is a characteristic of the yet-to-be-discussed rings, while the polar column itself, during a period when it appears to be severed, is indicative of a broken arrow- the cosmic symbol of a broken promise. The erratic flow of massive induced electric currents between ...
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