Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

351. The Historical Evidence (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]

... with the planet Mars so distorted it that it took on the clear shape (page 264) of lions, jackals, dogs, pigs, fish" [and] "He [Velikovsky] points to certain concordant stories, directly or vaguely connected with celestial events, that refer to a witch, a mouse, a scorpion or a dragon... His explanation: divers comets upon close approach to the Earth, were tidally or electrically distorted and gave the form of a witch, a scorpion, or a dragon, clearly interpretable as the same animal to culturally isolated peoples of very different backgrounds. No attempt is made to show that such a clear form-for example, ...

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352. In Search of the Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]

... flying on broomsticks as derivative of comets; the same phenomena have lately been attributed to hallucinations, e.g . the use of plant drugs and poisons in archetypal witches' brew- hemlock, mandrake, nightshade, etc. The enigma of the construction of so-called megalithic observatories is sky oriented, [43] yet the path of the dragon invokes earth fields and subterranean magnetic lines (a contradiction), prehistoric surveyor-priests, ley lines, and an enigmatic energy that has since disappeared. And the Nations were Driven Asunder Velikovsky claimed he learned of Claude Schaeffer only after he had written Ages in Chaos. [44] Schaeffer, the French archaeologist and director of excavations at ancient ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 9 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/cat-anc/vol0802/097ex.htm

353. Night of the Gods: The Axis and the Universe-Tree [Books]

... , is mentioned as an offering by one Tu Kwanglo in A.D . 652. There is another record, of our 8th century, that the famous princess Yang put up a "hundred-lamps tree" eighty feet in height on a high mountain on New-year's night. In the poetry of the same Chinese Tang dynasty is mentioned "The dragon holding in its mouth the fire tree whereon a thousand lamps are shining," which is obviously a cosmic image for the universe-tree, the celestial dragon, and the host of the night heavens. In quoting these facts, as I am glad to do, from Prof. Schlegel, the able professor of Chinese at Leiden University, ...

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354. Chapter 7-9 (Hamlet's Mill)

... very same thing as the Mesopotamian priest did when mounting to the top of his seven-storied pyramid, the ziqqurat, representing the planetary spheres [n16 Nine skies, instead of seven, within the sphere of fixed stars, result from the habit of including among the planets the (invisible) "head" and "tail" of the "Dragon," which is to say the lunar nodes, conjunctions or oppositions in the vicinity of which cause the eclipses of Sun and Moon; the revolution of these "draconitic points" is c. 18 ½ years. This notion, upheld in medieval Islamic astrology, is Indian, but apparently not of Indian origin, as will come ...

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355. The Earth's Annular System by Isaac Newton Vail (1912) [Books]

... 25 cents. 7. "Ophir's Golden Wedge," (A Polar Puzzle). 40 pages. Price, 25 cents. 8. " Waters Above the Firmament." (Souvenir reprint of the author's first lecture on the Annular Theory and first published in 1874, mailed free to all Annular-Canopy Students). "The Great Red Dragon," 2d edition. Manuscript, about 150 pages; to be published when there is suificient demand. The Dragon of all mythologies is here shown to have been the arth-canopy personified. These works can be had by addressing the ANNULAR WORLD COMPANY, 411 Kensington Place, Pasadena, Cal. University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 405 ...

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356. Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole [Books]

... regions occupied by the Pretas. These are the most multiform, the most ill-looking, ill-feeling, ill-smelling, and ill-acting ghouls that a . 148 THE EARLIEST COSMOLOGIES luxuriant Oriental imagination has ever been able to create. From that abode it would be a positive relief to betake ourselves to the submarine metropolis and royal city of the Nagas, or Dragons. Of these there are five orders or races, and their supreme kings are among the most powerful of beings. They have under the Great Sea palaces as splendid as that mentioned as in the heaven of King Sakra. Two of these Dragon Kings, Nanda and Upananda, are said to be the largest of all sentient beings, ...

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357. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]

... object of the severest censure and blasting imprecation. The very name of the serpent is mutilated on the monuments, and everywhere: we find sun worship built on the ruins of serpent worship, showing that this deceiver of the whole earth became inseparably linked with the spirit of evil at a very early period. Figure 5. Typical Serpents and Dragons of Art and Archeology Now, it is very plain that this deceiver, this serpent of the skies, as a false feature was presenting the "tree of knowledge" to the human race. I say that the departing vapor sky that had made an Eden world, and as a protecting canopy, was a life-giving preserving power, ...

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358. Ancient Oriental Seals in the Collection of Mr Edward T. Newell [Books]

... . Beiträge zur Geschichte der vorderasiatischen Steinschneidekunst (Heidelberg, 1925). HEIDENREICH, ROBERT. Zur Deutung einiger archaischer Siegelbilder, in OLZ XXIX (1926) 625-27. HERZFELD, ERNST. Paikuli: monument and inscription of the early history of the Sasanian empire (2 vols., Berlin, 1924). HEUZEY, LÉON. Les deux dragons sacrés de Babylone et leur prototype chaldéen, in RA VI (1904-7) 95-104. HEUZEY, LÉON. Une étoffe chaldéenne (le kaunakès) in R.Ar., 3. sér., IX (1887) 257-72, HEUZEY, LÉON. La masse d'armes et le chapiteau assyrien, in R.Ar., 3 ...

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359. KA [Books]

... discuss Apollo in detail, there is another occupant of the cauldron to consider, Dionysus. There is a story that the god Zeus fought a battle in the sky against a monster, Typhon. Typhon cut the sinews of Zeus's hands and feet and took him to Corycus in Cilicia. He hid the sinews in a cave, with the dragon Delphyne on guard. Vide Homeric Hymn to Apollo', 39; korakos' means a leathern quiver. Corycus was the site of the sanctuary of the Hittite weather god, and the incident illustrates the Oriental background of early Greece. Hesiod says that Typhon married Echidna, a monster half nymph and half snake. The episode seems to ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 8 - 19 Jun 2005 - URL: /online/pubs/books/crosthwaite/ka_1.htm

360. Chapter22

... appointed him as a sevenfold terror to mortals. . . his roaring is (like that of) a flood-storm, his mouth is fire, his breath is death!" [n5 Tabl. 3.136f., 109-11, Heidel trans., p. 35.]. Even if it is taken for granted that fights with dragons or ogres were a popular subject once upon a time, some dry data on this "monster" would do no harm. He "is invariably called a god in the texts" [n6 Langdon, Semitic Mythology (1931), p. 253. See also F. Hommel, Ethnologie und Geographie des Alten Orients (1926 ...

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