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43 pages of results. 241. Child of Saturn (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... , the deity quoted as compared to a bull is Prajapati. Prajapati is an epithet of Brahma,(3 ) or the Creator, and Brahma, as already indicated, was Saturn. Like Prajapati, the Saturnian deity of other nations was also compared to a bull. Hislop considered that Kronos, the Greek Saturn, signified "the horned one".(4 ) This is not merely a modern interpretation, for Sanchoniathon also saw the name Kronos as meaning "to put forth horns".(5 ) In Egypt, Osiris was venerated as a bull god(6 ) and Velikovsky actually identified Osiris as the Egyptian Saturn.(7 ) In fact, to ...
242. The Saturn Thesis: Questions and Answers [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Having decided to investigate the image- rather than ending the inquiry because of the image's astronomical "impossibility"- I began to collate both the abstract pictographs and the mythical forms of the crescent. By "mythical forms" of the crescent I mean the different ways in which the mythmakers viewed or interpreted the celestial object- as the horns of a bull, or a ship moving in the sky, or as a number of other things as well. By doing nothing more than noting the actual contexts of the symbolism, I found myself confronting an idea so different from our moon as to eliminate even the possibility of a relationship with that body. To the ancient chroniclers ...
... the guardian of the Bridge between heaven and earth, the "Whitest of the Aesir," but his role, his freedom of action, is severely limited. He has many gifts- he can hear grass grow, he can see a hundred miles away-but these powers seem to 156 remain ineffectual. He owns the Gjallarhorn, the great battle horn of the gods; he is the only one able to sound it, but he'll blow it only once, when he summons the gods and heroes to Asgard to their last fight. Nordic speculation down to Richard Wagner has dwelt with gloomy satisfaction on Ragnarok [n13 For the etymology of ragnarok, see Cleasby- Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English ...
244. Imaginary Worlds: The Debate Heats Up [Journals] [Aeon]
... years before Harrison's invention of the chronometer, which solved the problem of determining longitude- for underestimating the width of the Pacific and omitting the Kamchatka Peninsula. However, there is no analysis of how this remarkable map, which includes the whole western seaboard of America as far as Alaska, was completed only 30 years after Magellan first rounded Cape Horn. There is also no mention at all of Mercator's equally remarkable world map of 1538. One is reminded of Mewhinney's own comment: "And so I came to appreciate just how much mental effort Hapgood had expended in ignoring evidence that was right under his nose, when it contradicted one of his convoluted hypotheses." Of course, ...
245. The Original Star of Dawn [Articles]
... to find Ares, who was Mars, in Eos's bed. And, from our point of view, that is exactly where the planet Mars had been removed to, resting on the inside periphery, and in the middle, of the band-in-recumbent-crescent, that is Dawn's bed. The recumbent crescent would also have appeared as a pair of golden horns and, in fact, it was this aspect of the configuration that made the Egyptians, as well as other ancient nations, refer to Saturn as the Bull of Heaven. And this leads to yet another Hebrew word for "dawn," and that is boqer, a word derived from baqar, which means "to plow, ...
246. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1178 a group of monks near Canterbury saw what J. B. Hartung (1976 Meteoritics, 11, 187) interpreted as a giant meteor hitting the Moon. Gervase says'... five or more men who were sitting there facing the Moon. Now there was a bright new Moon, and as usual in that phase its horns were tilted towards the east; and suddenly the upper horn split in two. From the midpoint of this division a flaming torch sprang up, spewing out, over a considerable distance, fire, hot coals, and sparks... ' Hartung's identification of the impact' site with the young crater Giordano Bruno is highly evocative. ...
... out into space. These detached ice-blocks, feeling the resistance of the interplanetary medium infinitely more than the still remaining bulk of the satellite, dropped behind it, and thus a sort of `tail' developed which seemed to follow the satellite. Speeding towards the sun, the waning phase of the disintegrating satellite looked-to the willing eye-like the huge horned head of a `bull'; or like a flying `bird', followed by a long tail; or like a scimitar'. Speeding away from the sun the crescent phase looked like the sharp-fanged, wide-gaping jaws of a `dragon', or a `wolf'; or like a `sickle'. When only ...
... Horus in Northern and Horus in Southern Egypt, and Horus of the south was the elder of the two. The Hawk-god of Edfû, Harhouditi, the southern Horus, had for servants a number of individuals called Masniu or Masnitiu=blacksmiths. The Hawk-god of the Delta, the northern Horus, Harsiisit, had for his entourage the Shesu Horn. Now Maspero has recently pointed out [13] that the southern Horus may have been imported, not from Arabia Felix or Somali-land, but from Central Africa! and in a most interesting paper has called attention to some customs still extant among the castes of blacksmiths in Central Africa, which, have suggested to him that the followers ...
249. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations [Journals] [Aeon]
... Atlantis. Plato, he then informed his listeners, was fascinated by catastrophic concepts, whereas Aristotle tried to overcome them. The preponderance of data contained in myth, he concurred, point to celestial events having taken place. In these myths, he went on, there is generally a physical description of supernatural causes: a snake-like creature with horns appears before the flood; Hindu mythology describes a fish with a single large horn. Other myths note the aspect of the Moon and seasonal indicators. Having studied various myths, Masse came to the conclusion that the Deluge commenced on or about May 28, 2807 BC when the Sun was darkened for several days, hurricane-force winds swept the ...
250. As the Cross of the Cardinal Points [Books]
... a cluster of lotus flowers and the Northern Hapi had on his a bunch of papyrus. There was a royal crown of the North and one of the South, and both were combined to signify that the Pharaoh ruled the "Two Lands". One of the earliest symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt was the double-headed cow, with four horns representing the four, cardinal points (figure 11). The wind that in Egypt blew with the regularity of "trades "also directed attention to the North and South. During the hot season the southerly Winds,- the blistering Khamàseen and dusty whirling Samoom- cause the thermometer to rise so high that even the natives find the ...
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