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51 pages of results. 381. Typhon and the Comet of the Exodus: Rockenbach's Lost Source [Journals] [Aeon]
... them used indiscriminately by classical and modern writers alike. [31] Hesiod, who referred to him as a "mighty god," described Typhon, or Typhoeus, as a monster who "might have come to rule over the gods and mortal man." [32] "On his shoulders grew a hundred snaky heads, strange dragon heads with black tongues darting out. His eyes flashed fire beneath the brows upon those heads, and fire blazed out from every head when he looked round." [33] Others described him somewhat differently, but always in horrifying monstrous form: "From the thighs downward he was nothing but coiled serpents, and his arms which ...
382. Cosmic Catastrophism [Journals] [Aeon]
... same names is simplistic and totally unjustified. Not only does Velikovsky regard references to some deities in myth as literal descriptions of planets by the same names, he also adopts a literalistic interpretation of much mythological descriptive imagery. If different peoples believed that their planet-gods had the form of wolves, scorpions, mice, dogs, pigs, fish, dragons, or other creatures, then such figures must have been seen in the sky. The atmosphere of the planet Mars became so distorted by its close approach to earth that it took on these various shapes. (62) But even if Mars had approached near enough for such distortions to be seen by the naked eye, it is ...
383. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Balor, with his one burning eye, could be a description of a comet but the image of the solitary eye is associated too often with major gods who are part of the giant Saturn image to be coincidence. Finally, the collapsing castle of Vortigern, associated as it is with the waters of a celestial lake, the two fighting dragons and a final conflagration, fits the creation and demise of the Saturnian image but is a little difficult to associate with a comet. I found an interesting parallel between the castle being built during the day and disappearing at night, and the story of Penelope unpicking each night the embroidery she had done during the day while awaiting the return ...
384. The Hero's Garment [Journals] [Aeon]
... is particularly strong. The coexistence of feline and avian forms of the warrior god is manifest in the manifold composite animals, exhibiting features of both. The Chinese thunder dogs, for instance, are also birds. "The dogs are mentioned as a kind of badger living in the mountains, or as birds or plants...or dragons'." [77] This, together with a wealth of additional material, really binds the thunder bird and the thunder dogs in a unified being, a being who is quite clearly identified as the planet Mars and the mythical Hero. All this goes to prove that there really is a consistent archetypal pattern at work in the ...
385. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... wondered what had led James to touch on such a fringe subject and noted that in his previous book the six catastrophes considered for the collapse of the Bronze Age did not include cometary impacts. The mythological evidence all pointed to world wide events. James did discuss the theory of diffusion but came out against it, which left such things as dragon mythology best explained by a passing comet and extraterrestrial causes for Bronze Age catastrophes. The discussion strayed to theories such as that of Hancock where, if Plato's dates were taken literally, then Atlantis was part of the ancient, highly developed civilisation which was wiped out. The pyramids could be much older than accepted if Egyptian society was started ...
386. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the history of the planet Venus is known, and that may well be from its beginnings, the ankh has been a sacred symbol and one appropriated for the planet Aphrodite-Venus. Athena is not without bearded associations. Male, bearded serpents were to be found on a pediment of the archaic Athenian Acropolis. These would have been representations of the dragon who was Typhon, and also a part of Athena as cometary Venus. The larger question to be dealt with later on, is whether Athena had a double, a male duplicity, a god of prominence. The Dictionnaire des Antiquités is more confident than Pauly-Wissowa of the lunar identity of the goddesses Aphrodite and Venus. It recognizes the ...
387. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... inspired? In our surveys of archaic gods and monsters, we discover that the points of cross-cultural agreement defy every attempt to trivialize them- not because the ancient images are scientifically impressive, but because the same outlandish images recur from one culture to another. Consider, for example, the chaos monsters of the archaic cultures- such serpents or dragons as the Babylonian Tiamat, the Egyptian Apep, or the Greek Typhon- said to have attacked and devastated the world. Neither these enemies of cosmic order, nor the gods they opposed, nor the far-famed "thunderbolts" displayed in these encounters trace to anything experienced in our time. The gods not only vanquish cosmic serpents and winged ...
388. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Mars was within 500,000 miles of Earth, and as close as 100,000 miles at perigee- well within the lunar orbit. The Angel-of-the-Lord motif, comparable in certain ways to the cosmic motifs of the Greek Ares, the Phoenician Baal, and the Roman Mars (to say nothing of the Maya Quetzalcoatl or the Chinese celestial dragon). The vertical orientation of the Angel of the Lord from Jerusalem, already above a range of hills. I have no doubt this was a cosmic holocaust, and right on schedule; both of these questions have long been resolved. I do wonder whether this particular incident of the October case is the same one viewed by Homer ...
389. Ice Fields of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... few years, not millions of years. The legends are definite but seemingly too rich. The northern peoples talk of terrible ice falls and winters, far beyond historical experience, and perhaps long before history as we gauge it. In Old Norse, the language of the Edda epics, snow is called eitrornir, "white pus of the dragon." Martin Sieff writes: "Saturn is the solar system's treasury of snow'... The Greeks associated the planet Saturn (Kronos) with snow and hail, which were thought to be the planet-god's weapons; Nonnos told of the "shining victory of Zeus at war and the hailstorm-snowstorm conflict of Kronos..." ...
390. The Creation of the Earth -- the First Account [Books]
... '. He drinketh up a river', says a mythological echo in Job xl. 23 of Behemoth, he can draw up (Jordan) into his mouth. ' The Apocalypse refers to the same myth with the words: (Rev. xii. 16) And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. ' For Bohu-mot, or Behemoth, is a mythological personification of the land, and opposed to Thil-mot, the personification of the water. That is also why the Sohar, the Holy Book of the Jewish Kabbalists, says: Behema lieth upon a thousand mountains', meaning he is the master of ...
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