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

301. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. Rock of Ages [Books]

... meant strong, mighty.3So that all-mighty and all-holy would be equivalent and so we obtain the highest possible sanction for " Might is right." Sanskrit for strong and coupled with warm4so that here we have the central rocks, the central fire, and the central Holiness and Might all together. These heavens-Rocks must be also those mentioned by Homer and Euripides, which guard the entrance of the Pontos or heavens-River, or Universe-ocean. Through them the good ship Argo came forth.5 And it will presently be seen that they are also Dual Rocks, like the Dual Pillars of which we have already had ample evidence. The Japanese parallel to this mythic heavens-slop the Argo is the ...

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302. The Sacred Circuit [Books]

... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents SECTION V The Sacred Circuit The Dancing and Revolving Sun - Winter Solstice Ceremony - Quarter days - The Course of Nature - Left-hand circuit - Birds that fly sun-wise - Highland, Irish, Gaulish, Buddhist and Homeric customs - English mistletoe dance - Dancing Greeks - Hindu customs - Ocean flowing from left to right around the world -Circulating dwelling houses - Masonic spiral staircase - Hindu priests' circuit - Evil Eye customs - Top spinning - Serpent spirals - Left-hand circuit as Ceremony of Riddance - Egyptian example - Hindu movements explained - The Wishing Maidens - Borneo expulsion ceremony - Spiral on wand-Pig calls ...

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303. The Domination of Astronomy Over Other Disciplines ... [Journals] [Kronos]

... we can admit how little we know about nature as a whole- or we can restrict our areas of knowledgeability to fit our capacities, and thus continue to appear knowledgeable. Most scholars choose the course that is more self-flattering: since we cannot be experts on the panorama of nature, we instead become experts on solar prominences, or on Homeric epic, or on Bristlecone pines, or on Mayan sculpture, just so that there remains at least something on which we can be experts. This surrender to a short term temptation has become a long term tragedy. For departmentalized science' is pseudo-science: instead of being geared for discovery, it is programmed to self-destruction- for it ...

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304. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]

... the Phaeton myth was one of a series of cosmic disturbances which caused periodic catastrophes on Earth [3 ]. The origins of myth and legend are far from certain and may not be the same in every case. It remains possible that some stories may, to some extent, have a factual basis. Indeed, from locations described by Homer, archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld have found extensive evidence of pre-classical civilisations [4 , 5]. In most ancient traditions, catastrophes were associated with divine displeasure. In Genesis, as we have seen, God caused Noah's Flood because of the increasingly wicked behaviour of humankind. Similarly, in Greek mythology, Zeus regularly ...

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305. Forum [Journals] [Aeon]

... the colors blue and green. Only red, brown, orange, and yellow were used. Also, at a much later time, Xenophanes described rainbows as having only three colors: red, purple, and yellow. Aristotle, too, mentioned tri-colored rainbows. Democritus seemed to know only black, white, red, and yellow. Homer speaks of the wine-dark sea. Primitive Indo-European does not have words for all the colors. Some have suggested that the human eye has only developed full color vision in the last 2000 years- which, to me, appears highly unlikely. It seems more probable that the effect was the same as what one sees in a darkroom illuminated ...

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306. The Catastrophic Substructure of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]

... a new or errant course, the parallels are suggestive, as if the appearance of what seemed to be a giant serpent in the sky marked the apparent end of celestial stability. This also accords well with Cleopatra's role as Eve to Antony's as Adam, which Davidson also establishes. She is also Circe, as described in Chapman's translation of Homer, holding out a cup full of sensual pleasure which transforms men into beasts- or stable planets into unstable bodies- and we are told her poison is associated with sweetness. Not surprisingly, Chapman's translation describes Circe disguising her "harmefull venoms" with honey as well as with other nourishing food and drink.36 We might think of ...

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307. The Sacred Circuit [Books]

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308. On Dragons and Red Dwarves [Journals] [Aeon]

... From: Aeon III:6 (Dec 1994) Home | Issue Contents On Dragons and Red Dwarves Ev Cochrane For countless millennia the campfire served as meeting place and center stage alike as bards entertained their audiences with thrilling tales of dashing heroes. During this period every tribal community had, as it were, its own Homer who, reciting from an iron-clad memory, related the trials and tribulations of the favorite hero, replete with dragon-combats and the rescue of maidens in distress. Held in the highest esteem, these ancient bards were deemed to be mortal repositories of sacred knowledge and hence their tales constitute an enduring record of mankind's earliest thoughts and concerns. The ultimate appearance of ...

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309. Plato (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]

... , devoted himself seriously to his muse and, more especially, if he had written his epic on the theme with which he had become acquainted during his Egyptian tour instead of concerning himself with the solution of the political intrigues and troubles which he found rife on his return, I do not doubt but he would have become as famous as Homer, or Hesiod, or any other poet." [21d] "And what might the subject of that epic have been, Critias?" asked Amynander. -" It was to have told of the greatest exploit," he replied, " which the Athenians ever achieved and which ought to be the most renowned; but ...

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310. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas [Journals] [Kronos]

... viewed and treated, until finally what we know as human nature emerged, replete with a variety of sublimations, that is, the continuous and partly controlled discharge of the never-to-be forgotten experiences and fears of disaster.(26) . . . the survivors of catastrophe came out of a state of disastrous shock to reassemble the new civilization of Homeric Greece. Those survivors behaved in ways that were full of contradictions and madness. And it is perhaps quite important, to the history of the Western mind, that the crazed survivors and their ideas and behaviour have been taught to schoolboys for 2600 years as a model for manly behaviour.(27) Stecchini's "The Inconstant Heavens" ...

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