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51 pages of results. 341. Thoth Vol I, No. 21: August 11, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... comets will be clearly seen in the following chronicle of the year 1000, cited by Proctor- The heavens having opened, a kind of burning torch fell upon the earth, leaving behind a long train of light similar to a flash of lightning...as this opening in the heavens closed, imperceptibly there became visible the figure of a dragon, whose feet were blue, and whose head seemed continually to increase. Even the world-famous dragon finds its way into the story, when the calendar calls for it! But let us not forget the distinction between the symbol and the thing symbolized. Every break in the natural order was a reminder (symbol) of what world mythology ...
342. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... , when these associations are obscure or not readily apparent, the Hero is nevertheless associated with lightning in a direct way. "From these consider-ations it becomes very plain that Vahagn is a fire and lightning god, born out of the stalk in the heavenly (? ) sea, with the special mission among other ben-eficent missions, to slay dragons." [52] Vahagn is the Armenian version of the dragon slayers Thraetaona and Indra. Some of the most ancient and central of these Heroes are identified with the planet Mars, and it is strongly suspected that the complex of the mythical Hero as a whole may originally refer to the forms and movements of the red planet. ...
343. Thoth Vol I, No. 20: August 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... frequently employed cometary glyphs! Yet in more than forty years since Velikovsky's _Worlds in Collision_, no mainstream scholar has even acknowledged this stunning fact. Of course, no comet admitted by modern science has ever justified the lines of Shakespeare previously cited, or the Aztec image of a comet-like "weapon" in the form of a fiery dragon. But our appreciation for the symbolism changes dramatically once we entertain a new possibility- that in earlier times mankind experienced a far more spectacular and devastating comet than ever experienced in more recent times, a cometary archetype that could fully account for the later symbols. It was said of the great fire serpent Xiuhcoatl that it spewed forth comets. ...
344. Thoth Vol I, No. 3: February 18, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , orbs, heads of the chaos monster. They are the first reason for the sanctity of the number seven in ancient symbolism. CHAOS MONSTER Here we meet the darker, more menacing powers, possessing an often-hidden link to aspects of the mother goddess or warrior-hero type. Of these darker creatures none is more prominent than the cosmic serpent or dragon, a monster that descends on the world to preside over the twilight of the gods, and whose ultimate defeat signals the birth of a new age or, symbolically, a new year. Babylonian Tiamat. Egyptian dragon of Apep. Greek Typhon. But within every culture, endless variations will be found: hundreds of monsters repeating the ...
345. IN THE BEGINNING [Books]
... built in seven stories. The step-pyramid of Saqqara, the oldest building in Egypt, is usually regarded as six-stepped, but as the foot of the pyramid has, I believe, never been excavated, a seventh step may well be buried in the sand. Note 97 - The expression rat' for what' is usually, addressed as dragon' or serpent' in cosmogonic myths perhaps not a dragon as it may appear at first sight. In many eastern mythologies the rift widened as a personification of the demon of the waters, and hence of the deluge and its causer. In connection with this it is certainly worthy of note that in the Chinese zodiac the constellation of ...
346. Thoth Vol V, No 4: Mar 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , 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 ...
347. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... with animals and occasionally with phallic shapes or as snakes, ultimately achieving the storied fame of the brazen serpent's rod of Moses [43]. Snakes appear everywhere in early human symbolism [44]. Like the rod, the cometary analogy - the writhing form slithering through the sky - is too obvious to be missed. The earliest Chinese Dragon was serpentlike but with feet. Until recently it was taught in Christian schools that the serpent of the Garden of Eden lost its feet when condemned by the Lord to crawl on its belly. Snakes accompany the carved idols of the first Period of Tiahuanacu [45]. In South Africa Bushman drawings carry snakes without precise heads or tails ...
348. Ancient Myths And Legends Of The African Bantu People [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... human form), the Yoruha of Nigeria myth (the primordial couple being fashioned from mud) and the Amarava myth (eggs hatching into a yellow, frog-like people). 3. KANYA AND OANANUA AND THE MANTIS When Kanya slays Oananua, the Mantis reappears, a battle takes place as in the battle between Marduk and Tiamat, the dragon,(10) Vishnu and the Serpent,(11) and Isis and Seth.(12) When a ball of fire tore the pillar of cloud and pelted the pillar with thunderbolts, the imagination of the people saw in this planet-god Jupiter-Marduk rushing to save the Earth by killing the serpent monster Typhon-Tiamat.(13) The ...
349. A Critical Re-appraisal of the Book of Genesis, Part Two [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... at all tenable and, if not, what is the real meaning of tehom', and consequently what place does it occupy in the Genesis story of Creation? [15] Assyriologists and almost all of the modern Biblical critics, he says, still take for granted that tehom' is identical with tiamat', the name of the dragon of darkness which the god Marduk slew in bitter conflict before the creation of the world [15]. But, he goes on to say, "the positiveness with which this assumption is put forward, and the stubbornness with which it is maintained, are based on no intrinsic or philologically well-founded facts; since, besides the similarity ...
350. Night of the Gods: Axis Myths [Books]
... Order? Law, To do). However much these incidents and names have got muddled, they indicate the Eartb' as an island in the Universe-Ocean. Its inhabitants the Phaiękos were of the blood of Ouranos. We have the island turning up later in Japano-Buddhic myth when an Apsaras appears in the clouds over the spot inhabited by a dragon. An island suddenly rises up out of the sea, she descends upon it and there espouses the dragon who is thus becalmed.8 "According to Babylonian thought, the Earth came forth from the waters, and rested on the waters."9 The island Hawaiki, the only land then known, perhaps, is clearly put ...
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