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... the last ice period, and the Eden earth blooms again. Biblical and legendary man dwells naked in a warm and genial world. The human family, the world over, for unknown time look up to a watery hearen and give it a name signifying that condition. The Hebrews called this heaven Shamayim, "there waters"; the Greeks called it Ouranos, " water heaven "; the Hindus called it Varuna, " water heaven "; the Latins called it Cnelum, and this, too, was a watery heaven, for it passed away. So did the heaven of the ancient Egyptians, Japanese, Scandinavians and Mexicans. But the Last Earth Canopy must fall ...
532. Aster and Disaster: Toward a Catastrophist Mode of Mythological Interpretation [Journals] [Kronos]
... . mythography (illustration of myths in visual art) 1850 12 myth (rhyming with "kith") 1865(9 ) As the 18th century English form "mythos" suggests, however, none of the words in the above sequence are native to English - or for that matter, to French or Latin. All are of Homeric Greek origin. And at this point we move from lexicology (in its narrower sense, which restricts it to the history of words within one language) to etymology (which relates the vocabulary of later languages to that of earlier, presumably ancestral, languages). By Classical times, the word muthos - pronounced mythos by the Athenians, ...
533. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... CHAPTER SIX The Uranians The Hindu history of Super-Uranus can be told now, the Greek history later. In the beginning, there was Vritra, a covering and restraint upon the Earth, and later on Vritra had as allies the Vritryas, who were demons of heavenly turbulence. Heaven, who was Varuna, lived with Earth in a common house. Varuna was an enemy of Vritra, his heavenly antagonistic principle. Varuna and Earth gave birth to Indra. At first Indra could not be seen. He was concealed. He was fed soma until he grew so great that he finally blew heaven and earth apart forever, filling the atmosphere with his brilliant self. Indra, ...
534. The Genie Of The Pivot [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. X No. 1 (Fall 1984) Home | Issue Contents The Genie Of The Pivot Roger Ashton Copyright (c ) 1984 by Roger Ashton ABSTRACT: Investigation of the links between gods and planets suggests a connection between Saturn and the Celestial Pole. This can be inferred from Greek and Roman myths. The same can be repeatedly extracted from materials included in the later compendia of Hindu myths. Sufficient evidence of this sort can be amassed to warrant serious consideration of the proposition that Saturn at the Celestial Pole was the central theme of myth many millennia ago. The correctness of this reconstruction of myth depends upon the total context of mythical metaphors, symbols ...
535. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... can never be certain, in view of the wide extent of my reading in early years, whether what I took for a new creation might not be an effect of cryptomnesia. "Empedocles of Acragas (Girgenti),1 born about 495 B.C ., is one of the grandest and most remarkable figures in the history of Greek civilization. The activities of his many-sided personality pursued the most varied directions. He was an investigator and a thinker, a prophet and a magician, a politician, a philanthropist and a physician with a knowledge of natural science. He was said to have freed the town of Selinunte from malaria, and his contemporaries revered him as a ...
536. The Beginning of Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... /Time has long been contested by philologists. Arthur Cook, commenting on the Philadelphians' identification of Janus with Kronos/Saturnus, states that "The confusion of Ianus [the same as Janus] with Kronos no doubt presupposes the usual blunder Kronos = Chronos, which from the fifth century B.C . onwards queered the course of Greek theology." (7 ) The identification of Janus as Kronos, however, is not due to confusion anymore than the equation of Kronos with Chronos is due to a blunder. As William Heidel had earlier noted: It is not for naught that Pherecydes identified Cronus [the same as Kronos] with Chronos (Time), whose ...
537. The Origin of Velikovsky's Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the world. Where information is sufficient to allow planetary identifications, the god so enclosed turns out to be Saturn. Hence, in the great systems of astral mythology the sun-like "great father" - whether it is the Babylonian Ninurta or Tammuz, their Egyptian counterparts Ra, Atum or Osiris, the Phoenician El, Hindu Vishnu, Greek Kronos, or Mexican Quetzalcoatl - always rests within the fold of a giant serpent or dragon. Often, the serpentine creature appears with its tail in its mouth, as in the case of the famous Greek Ouroboros. Velikovsky devotes a good deal of attention to the Babylonian serpent-dragon Tiamat; but - in the original Babylonian scheme the " ...
538. The Celestial Dynamics of "Worlds in Collision" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... but Velikovsky questions this. As to whether Venus may be involved in some way, it's not clear how it would be involved, if it is included in the Decree; but I think that is the question Velikovsky raises. Dr Eva Danelius: The Canopus Decree is written in three scripts and two languages: hieroglyphic and demotic Egyptian and Greek. According to Velikovsky - and I think he is right - it was the Egyptologists who decided, when the Decree was discovered in 1866, that the hieroglyphic text was the original. But the Decree was composed by an assembly of Egyptian original priests in Ptolemaic times, two centuries BC, and at that time the official language was ...
539. The Song of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER TWO The Song of Love Here then is this song of love. It is presented fifth-hand: My literal verse is based upon a number of translations of what is ultimately a tenth century A.D . manuscript in Greek (the earliest extant-as written down in the seventh-century B.C . and reedited in the next century) of Homer's Odyssey, which reports what was sung by a blind harpist, Demodocus, in a time and place that have been debatable questions for over two thousand years. Alcinous the King announced the event: Now, all and one of ...
... their great multitude not readily subject to their governors, even in prosperity, they at this time were more than usually angry, both against one another and against their leader, because of the distress they were in, and the calamities they then endured. Such a sedition overtook them, as we have not the like example either among the Greeks or the Barbarians, by which they were in danger of being all destroyed, but were notwithstanding saved by Moses, who would not remember that he had been almost stoned to death by them. Nor did God neglect to prevent their ruin; but, notwithstanding the indignities they had offered their legislator and the laws, and disobedience to ...
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