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72 pages of results. 391. Venus and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... year" on those occasions; the inference from the holiday is that the proto-planet, still behaving as a comet and undergoing continuous electrical transaction, was due to arrive in the vicinity of Earth but prayerfully would design not to destroy the world. It is significant, as one of numerous details in the Venus mosaic, that the American Pawnee Indians until a century ago celebrated a Venus festival on each occasion of the reappearance of Venus, sacrificing a virgin to the star. But many another celebration of Venus could be cited. Granted that history and legend impart an aura of youth to the planet Venus, one can search for and find confirmation of youthfulness in the present state and ...
392. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... notably 776 BC, the traditional year for the foundation of the Olympic Games; 620 BC, the year King Josiah celebrated his Great Passover festival and changed the calendar, 517 BC, the 70th year after the fall of Jerusalem; 465 BC, the year Xerxes suffered a mandate of heaven' death; 259 BC, the year the Indian King, Aasoka, became a Buddhist; 1 AD, the year of the birth of Christ; 105 AD when, according to Dion Cassiodorus, happened a most terrible earthquake' and 365 AD when the greatest part of the Roman Empire was shaken by a violent and destructive earthquake and people thought that the World was sinking. A ...
393. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the Dresden Codex. 520 days equals 3 ecliptic cycles. (Ex.: 9 Ix = 14040+ 520 = 14560 = 4 Eb.) I hope this answers Prof. Thiers' question. The 260-day count refers to 9 x 28.8888. See Prof. Spinden's Maya Art and Civilization (The Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills, Colorado, 1957), p. 309. MICHAEL READE comments: According to J. Eric S. Thompson (Commentary on the Dresden Codex, American Philosophical Society Memoirs Vol. 93, Philadelphia, 1973, p. 88) this bird was ". .. identified by Stempell as an eagle but by Seler ( ...
394. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... completely heretical nature. Much of it could be justified and one chapter is subtitled: The Case for Taking Velikovsky Seriously'. Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds – by M. A. Hall. US $15.95 A survey of the reports of the avian equivalent of Bigfoot, which may throw light on North American Indian Legends – or vice versa. Devil in the Mountain: A Search for the Origin of the Andes – by S. Lamb. US $26.95 Why and how did the Andes rise so quickly, so recently? This is a high altitude travelogue in search of the answer. The Greenland Ice-caps The academic powers that be ...
395. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Review]
... solar energy technology; man's internal "navigation system"; the neutron bomb; and miniaturisation. Recommended to all with time and inclination to keep abreast of progress. Of particular interest is the issue for December 1977, devoted to The Astronomy of the Ancients. The writers of this issue examine the astronomical "Medicine Wheels" of the Plains Indians; apparent supernova records in early American petroglyphs; the earliest astronomical instruments (shadow-clocks, astrolabes, sundials from both hemispheres); the enigmatic legends, ancient and modern, concerning Sirius; the astronomical features of Stonehenge; the (suggested) terrestrial origins of the celestial Gorgon myth, and the possible celestial origins of the supposedly terrestrial Atlantis ...
396. Spectres [Books] [de Grazia books]
... into caves during earthquakes (for the sky brings worse terrors); the kingdoms are overthrown, then the survivors attack each other; the survivors are stunned, maddened, functionally blinded. The preventatives are difficult, if not impossible: that all should worship faithfully and properly, and obey divine commandments. Now here is a legend of the Indians of the Badlands of South Dakota. It tells of how the Badlands came into being, laying it onto violations of the will of the Great Spirit who had granted plenty but had decreed peace, and there was no peace. Warriors prepared for battle: At last all were assembled and the day had come for the advance. And ...
397. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... circle around the Earth, the basic postulate of Newton's Principia; and did not Halley read in Pliny about comets returning on their orbits? Then why does modern science disregard the persistent reports of events witnessed and recorded in many languages in the writings of the ancients and also transmitted from generation to generation by communities unable to write, by American Indians, by the people of Lapland, the Voguls of Siberia, the aborigines of tropical Africa, the Tahitians in the South Pacific? Why is theomachy the central theme of all cosmogonical myths? Should not a thinking man pause and wonder why the ancients in both hemispheres worshipped planetary gods; why temples were erected to them, and some ...
398. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... There is evidence that Old European Linear markings somehow either influenced, or provided a basis for, Indus Valley signs, (the precise mechanism remaining uncertain at this moment in time). Despite the time gap over a thousand years from the demise of Indus valley script until the time that the Asokan inscriptions of classical India, Richard Salomon (Indian Epigraphy, OUP, 1998) does not dismiss the strong possibility that there was a systematic connection between Indus valley script and the historical scripts of India. This being so, we can now begin to follow a link to Southeast Asia. (Incidentally, the thousand year time gap' mentioned by Salomon may provide grounds for investigation into ...
399. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ) the origin of the tradition was lost in antiquity." Ptolemy in the Tetrabiblos (1-19) devotes a chapter (Peri Hypsomata) to an explanation which Fagan here considers naive for, although it assigns reasons for the exaltation sign, it does not attempt to explain the reason for the actual degree. The great avatars and heroes of Indian mythology were traditionally born when the luminaries and planets were in their exaltations (vide Sri Krishna-Kalaprashika, Sloka 19-22, and Rama (Ramayana)) which fact gave rise to the opinion that the exaltations represented the horoscope of a very exalted personage. This theory had to be abandoned, since, under the present cosmic system, Mercury can ...
400. Fire and Ash [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , Hesiod's Greek account, the Eddas of Scandinavia, Ovid's Roman account of Phaeton, the meso-American Toltecs' Codex Chimalpopoca, the Persians' Zend-Avesta, the Hindus' myth of Ravana and Sita, and the legends of the Tupi, Aztecs, Tacullies, Ute, Peruvian, Yurucares, Mbocobi, Botocudos, Ojibway, Wayandot, and Dog-Rib Indians, that is from one end of the Americas to the other, and across both continents. He quotes the Gothic Surt of the flaming sword, "He shall give up the universe a prey to the flames," and also the Algonquins, whose god "will stamp his foot upon the ground, and flames will burst forth ...
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