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44 pages of results. 391. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... genuine record of a real ancient Greek visitation therefore; and, if it owes its name to some ancient Roman general it only shows that he, no less than Gideon and Kluitman was indulging his fancy in baseless speculation. Although common enough in the late Middle Ages when it was thought that the names Golden Chersonese, Atlantis and other such Homeric and later Greek references were to genuinely known Countries, such speculations are nowadays recognised as being totally fruitless. Locations have been sought all over the world for Atlantis, but it is not likely that an undersea Herculaneum or Pompei will be found. Even if it were, its existence would give no proof that a catastrophe such as a ...
392. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... these treasures he offered the Mother; but the Mother wanted none of it. When finally he saw she could not be gained he went to Walhallagra (the isle of Walcheren). There resided a viscountess whose name was Kate; but commonly she was called Kalip because her lower lip protruded like a masthead (Kalip is called Calypso by Homer). With her he stayed for years much to the vexation of all who knew." (5 ) The O.L .B . has numerous passages of this strength. Toponymy . The Flemish author Hubert Lampo wrote an essay (8 ) on Ch. J. de Grave's "République des Champs Élysées" in which ...
393. Notes (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... he quoted it in his book, De Civitate Dei (xvii, 8), and thus saved it for us. The passage reads: `Thus we read in Varro's Book "Of the Race of the Roman People ", Castor, saith he, relates that in that bright star of Venus, which Plautus calls Hesperugo, and Homer Hesperus, befell a most monstrous change, both of colour, magnitude, figure, and motion: the like never was before nor since; and this, says Adrastus of Cyzicus, and Dion of Naples, two famous astronomers, befell in the reign of Ogyges', of whom a deluge myth is told. Elsewhere Saint Augustine ...
... cones, a horse's mane, torch-shaped, sword-shaped, spear-shaped, bearded and "horrorproducing." The various gases sometimes combine to give a comet the appearance of a human head with rough, unkempt hair and beard, whence must have arisen the imagery of the satyrs, the boon companions of Dionysus, with their bristling hair and beards. Homer speaks of the " flaming hair "of a comet which shakes down disease, pestilence and war, and Juvenal, of the blazing star which menaced the Parthian King, as having "bloody hairs, all over rough and shaggy like a bushy head of hair." In 1728 the French were terrified of a comet described by a ...
395. Ninsianna And Ramesside Star Observations [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... have been timed to coincide with the disappearance of Venus than with its re-appearance, or even with a date when re-appearance was sufficiently overdue to give cause for alarm (e .g . after 70 days of disappearance if the analogy with the behaviour of Sirius was recognised, as further discussed below). It is probably also worth noting that Homer, both in the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY, repeatedly associates organised games with funeral rites; the well known foundation of the Olympic Games, for instance, could well be related to the suspected demise of Orion, Sirius or Venus, maybe all of them. As the present writer is no authority on classical literature, it is hoped ...
... reporting loss of life and damage. The White Star liner, the Arabic, was struck by a tidal wave in mid-ocean in three gigantic waves which almost carried that great ship of 16,786 tons on her beam ends. She took three minutes to right herself jn that anxious time. Crowds in New York met the Arabic, the Homeric, the Giuseppe Verdi and other vessels, where dozens of injured placed in ambulances lent the streets much the appearance of receiving wounded after a battle. What could have originated that hurricane? On the Monday night, August25, a violent earthquake was reported Reykjavik, Iceland, at 11.30 p.m ., which only lasted ...
397. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the signal fire is described as a beard of flame, reminding one of Thor's red beard. He was a god of the thunderbolt, wore a belt of strength, had goats to draw his chariot through the sky, and wore a horned helmet. The Oresteia has many references to the net of doom in which Agamemnon was caught. Homer describes the net which trapped Ares and Aphrodite as being extremely fine and strong. Artemis, so similar to her brother Apollo, bore the epithet Dictynna (Greek diktys, a net). Apollo was devoutly worshipped by the Hyperboreans, which suggests the Aurora Borealis. There may be a link here with the trident, a lightning symbol ...
398. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the city of Odysseus. Archeologists are looking for a Mycenaean city from the 13th century BC but have so far found artifacts only from the proto-Geometric and Geometric periods, and no city. The report ends on a typically skeptical note: "Peter M. Warren of the University of Bristol maintains that establishing a connection between any archaeological finding and Homeric mythology [sic] is extremely difficult, if not impossible, and that the real value of such excavations derives from what they reveal about ancient cultures." With attitudes like that it makes it certain that if they did find anything they would still reject the connection - if only because their faulty chronology did not permit it. Pot ...
... Britain. Gibbon, E.: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Giraldus Cambrensis: History. Grate, George: Hist. of Greece. Guest, Lady Charlotte: Notes on the Mabinogion. Hansen, Thos.: The Beautiful Island of Mull. Heraldic Visitation of Wales MS. Herodotus: History. Hesiod: Theogony. Homer:The Iliad; The Odyssey; Hymns to Apollo. Hutchins, Rev. John: Hist. and Antiq. of Dorset. Huxley, Thos.: In the Nineteenth Cent. Review. Illustrated London News, The. Isaiah, Book of. Jordanis: De Rebus Geticis. Josephua: Antiq. of the Jews; Wars ...
... region. Fingal, illustrious warrior, conqueror, and hunter, able in one stride to reach Arran Island from Mull, resembles Orion, the mythical hunter of great strength and size, who was supposed to pursue the Pleiades with his club of bronze, and was placed by Hermes among the constellations, where Sirius near by is described by Homer as the dog of Orion, as Ben Chuachan was the dog of Fingal. Mull was the main seat of Fingal's kingdom. In the poems of the Gaelic mystical poet Ossian, or one using his name and drawn doubtless from early legends, there exists an eternal conflict between Fingal and Loda, the spirit of evil, like the ...
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