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51 pages of results. 361. Catastrophes in the period 5th cent. BC to 14th cent. AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... included strange things - e.g . a dream about Satan falling out of the sky in the form of a great stone which threatened to crush him. The story that St Patrick banished serpents from Ireland has often been ridiculed. Snakes were not part of the fauna. However Patrick did banish (the worship) of serpents (and dragons) = comets (and their meteoric parts). Christianity replaced paganism after he died. He is thought to have dictated The Confessions when he was elderly and they may have been edited after his death. This is pertinent in view of the opening lines, ' .. . and the Lord brought over us the wrath of his ...
362. Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art [Journals] [Aeon]
... said as much. For example, a survey of ancient traditions reveals the following recurring motives: (1 ) in ancient times different "suns" dominated the visible heavens; (2 ) the world was once plunged into darkness and brought to the brink of destruction when the sun was eclipsed as a result of being swallowed by a giant dragon; (3 ) on one occasion, it is said, the planet Venus took on a comet-like appearance. (2 ) Such traditions, in the rare event that they are encountered and subjected to analysis, are notoriously difficult to interpret, and, in any case, are typically explained away as poetic metaphor having little basis in ...
363. The Polar Sun [Books]
... planet Saturn. (15) The apparent equivalence of Saturn and the "sun" goes back to Sumerian times, as is evident in the dual aspect of the creator god Ninurta. Langdon deems Ninurta both the sun and Saturn: ". .. the sun-god Ninurta .. . in the original Sumerian Epic of Creation, defeated the dragon of chaos and founded cities .. . In Sumero-Babylonian religion he is the War-god and planet Saturn." (16) It is not difficult to see why Ninurta, or Ningirsu, though identified with the planet Saturn in the astronomical texts, came to be confused with the solar orb. "Ningirsu, coming from Eridu, rose ...
364. Chapter VII: The Earth [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... they demonstrate, however, that there is geologic evidence which can be interpreted in terms of catastrophism, and that some reputable workers actually interpret the data in this manner. It should be remembered that Velikovsky does not claim that the earth lived in peaceful co-existence with the other planets for billions of years, and that then, suddenly, the Dragon Planet Venus and the Red Planet Mars ended this primordial detente a few thousand years ago. Velikovsky does not speculate about the exact age of the earth. He does suggest however, that geologic evidence indicates that there have been catastrophes throughout its existence. The agents causing the most recent destructions can be identified because people were present to observe ...
365. On Mars and Pestilence [Journals] [Aeon]
... information has proceeded at a faster pace than has analysis. This is nowhere more apparent than in comparative analyses of ancient traditions surrounding the planets. One wants to know, for example, what to make of the fact that the ancient Mesoamerican skywatchers- like their Babylonian counterparts- represented the planet Venus as a great warrior or as a fire-breathing dragon. (61) Or why the Babylonians together with several other advanced cultures described the planet Saturn as a "Sun." (62) Such puzzles of planetary lore, difficult to understand according to the central tenets of modern astronomy, could be multiplied by the hundreds. From a methodological standpoint, it is possible to investigate archaeoastronomy ...
366. Paradise -- The Lost Frontier: Early Voyages to the Forbidden Isles [Journals] [Aeon]
... Paradise in the New World. Legends of Paradise Among early maritime peoples, the prescribed route to the Earthly Paradise was by sea. Burial in a miniature boat, or coffin, reflected ancient customs in which the deceased were cast adrift in dugout canoes. Vikings carried the tradition to an extreme by launching the bodies of fallen chieftains in flaming dragon boats. In more civilized societies, where guilds and businesses brought order to the daily lives of mortals, ethereal entrepreneurs catered to the needs of the Spirit World. Charon held the franchise in Greece as the conveyor of souls to the realm of the dead. In order to facilitate passage across the river Styx, it was common for ...
367. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... disruption of the former planet. In keeping with Nonnus' statement that Zeus discharged a comet towards Typhon, Radlof supposed that the former planet Phaethon' splintered to pieces after collision with a comet – and this is the second component of his theory: Perhaps this displacement happened as the result of a collision with what used to be called a dragon star or a comet .. .[ 5 ] Unperturbed by Nonnus' late date, Radlof then complained that Nonnus ought to have given more attention to the comet than he actually did: The moving power of that enormous water mountain that rose from the sea and moved forth over the earth is obviously Jupiter's comet, and it is ...
368. Thoth Vol III, No. 14: Nov 1, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... coronal heat, nebulous filaments, pulsars, galactic jets, quantized redshifts .. . each has its separate and ill-fitting conventional excuse. But all can be explained as aspects of the single phenomenon of plasma. The Saturn Theory extracts a coherent intelligibility from the recurring plots, characters, and forms of globally-dispersed stories, artifacts, and symbols. Dragons, cosmic thunderbolts, radiant goddesses, lightning-scarred warriors, sacred enclosures, world mountains, revolving crescents, universal floods .. . each has failed to conform with commonplace interpretations. But all fit into a logical unity of the polar configuration. Both the Saturn Theory and the Electric Universe are exciting ideas. But together they establish a viewpoint ...
369. Thoth Vol III, No. 11: Aug 25, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a golden age; 2) The role of the king as the source of natural abundance (the duty to restore the golden age, or a semblance thereof); 3) The king's symbolic marriage to a mother goddess, identified as the eye-heart-soul of the central luminary; 4) The goddess in her terrible aspect as flaming serpent or dragon, raging in the sky; 5) The role of the king as the warrior-son, born in the eye- heart-soul of the central luminary; 6) The role of the warrior-son in defeating or pacifying the raging serpent-dragon; 7) Assimilation of kingship rites to memories of sweeping cosmic catastrophe, involving the death or ordeal of a ...
370. Velikovsky's Legacy [Articles]
... ) And it was during this spectacular set of events that Venus took on a comet-like appearance, sporting a tail that literally spanned the visible heavens. Thus it is that, in various accounts of world-ending catastrophe, the Venus-goddess is specifically compared to an eye and/or said to assume the form of a comet-like "eye" or "dragon" when embarking upon her destructive war-dance. These ancient traditions of a dragon-formed goddess spewing fire across the heavens, or of a witch-like star whose disheveled hair threatened to blot out the light of the sun, traditions which only recently appeared wholly impossible, imaginary, or lost in the mists of antiquity, now appear as archetypal, ubiquitous ...
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