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33 pages of results. 151. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - II [Journals] [Kronos]
... men; those of intermediate size, solitary women; and the largest, mothers with their children. Among the most frequent decorative motifs on their walls were paintings, reliefs, and engravings of human breasts and navels - the latter, presumably, symbolizing pregancy. Weapons of war seem to have been absent for centuries.(77) Both folklore accounts and suggestive archaeological evidence like the above have, since the 18th century, led a distinguished minority of scholars to posit a period of prehistoric or protohistoric "matriarchy" - which we are here calling matricentricity. Among these scholars were Lewis Morgan, Johann Bachofen, and Erich Fromm.(78) Yet, as is the case ...
152. The New Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... as for deriving meaning from it. In short, myth would be the best vehicle available for receiving and recording events too overwhelming and unprecedented for the rational and sequential responses that are appropriate for more customary times. The question of why it was that history gives us no formal records of the catastrophes Velikovsky describes, instead of only myths, folklore, and tales of religious origins, is really not that puzzling. Events of the proportions Velikovsky describes could simply not be reported with objectivity and rationality. The brain could not function in that manner under such circumstances. Those who experienced the events were so inundated that they could only experience what was happening receptively and globally. Myth, ...
153. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... "lifted", and spent the night careering through the skies. On returning to earth, though they came to the house last left, they were too stupefied to recognize either the house or its inmates. Even in daylight some were carried in the Effin eddy from one island to another. During early spring when, according to the folklore connected with the Gaelic calendar, the forces of evil and good are struggling for supremacy, there are three days called "The Eddy winds of the storm month". Campbell writes regarding these: The appearance of spring is now to be seen, but the bad weather is not yet past. The worst weather comes back occasionally, ...
154. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... "lifted", and spent the night careering through the skies. On returning to earth, though they came to the house last left, they were too stupefied to recognize either the house or its inmates. Even in daylight some were carried in the Effin eddy from one island to another. During early spring when, according to the folklore connected with the Gaelic calendar, the forces of evil and good are struggling for supremacy, there are three days called "The Eddy winds of the storm month". Campbell writes regarding these: The appearance of spring is now to be seen, but the bad weather is not yet past. The worst weather comes back occasionally, ...
155. AD Ages in Chaos: A Russian Point of View [Journals] [SIS Review]
... know what Sakha is? The Turkish folk of Sakha or Yakuts had been moving from Mongolia to today's homeland around the Lena River for 400 years, officially from 1000 AD until about 1500 AD. In the 19th century, Sakha nationalism appeared which was strongly against the Russians. Only in the 19th century did any scientists start to collect Sakhan folklore and Sakha literature started to develop. Sakha was part of Russia from the year 1630. Today the Sakhan autonomous republic covers about one fifth of the full Russian territory, the biggest republic in the Russian federation. The Sakhan population of Russia was about 400,000 at the end of the Soviet era; today it may be about ...
156. The Sacred Circuit [Books]
... was made to sip the water three times, and then the water was sprinkled round me and round the fireplace. The cure was a successful one. A little cold water is sometimes beneficial to an infant's disordered stomach. In the writer's opinion, the old-world ceremony was appropriate for one who was to be concerned with the scientific study of folklore in his maturer years. In a sense, it was an initiation ceremony, for I was often reminded of it by the three female relatives who performed the rite, half believing in its efficacy perhaps, believing in it more firmly than they cared to confess. Top spinning, where it was a magical ceremony, as it still ...
157. Anomalistics - a New Field of Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... it can be localized only with regard to its practitioners, most of whom come or came from the social sciences. Ufology is, if anything, an even more polymathic enterprise than futuristics. It involves astronomy, physics, chemistry, oceanography, and meteorology within the physical sciences; zoology, physiology, and medicine within the life sciences; folklore and psychology within the social sciences; history and philosophy within the humanities; and ethics and theology within religious studies. All things considered, the disciplinary typology of anomalies seems to be, despite its occasional drawbacks, the least troublesome one. It is, consequently, the one which we shall use throughout the remainder of this paper. ...
158. Thoth Vol IV, No 10: June 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... goddess in her threatening aspect; 7) winding or unwinding of intestines; 8) intricate windings of a rope or thread, or an elaborate "knot" which only the hero can undo; and 9) a "riddle" or "paradox" which only the hero can solve- this being the most abstract form in initiation rites, folklore, and later analogies,. In all of these forms we see key sequences in the hero's confrontation with the chaos powers. Though the images are quite diverse and often complex, the root explanation provided by the Saturn model is surprisingly simple. The explanation begins with the planetary alignment of the polar configuration- the juxtaposition of Mars, Venus ...
159. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... Races (N . Y., 1931/1964), pp. 39-40. [4 ] M. Lurker, Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons (London, 1987), p. 18. [5 ] Ibid., p. 341. [6 ] Chr. Blinkenberg, The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore: A Study in Comparative Archaeology (1911), p. 19. [7 ] M. Lurker, op. cit., p. 99. [8 ] Chr. Blinkenberg, op. cit., pp. 21ff. [9 ] Ibid., p. 20. [10] Ibid., p ...
160. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... term for a field of investigation which I would prefer to call bradyology, meaning "the study of slow-moving objects") is, if anything, an even more polymathic enterprise than futuristics. It involves astronomy, physics, chemistry, oceanography, and meteorology within the physical sciences; zoology, physiology, and medicine within the life sciences; folklore and psychology within the social sciences; history and philosophy within the humanities; and ethics and theology within religious studies. All things considered, the disciplinary typology of anomalies seems to be, despite its occasional drawbacks, the least troublesome one. It is, consequently, the one which we shall use throughout the remainder of this paper. ...
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