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217 pages of results. 221. Plato And The Catastrophist Tradition [Journals] [Kronos]
... and as the essential purport of that "mixture of untruth and truth" (Rep. 337A) known as myth and which plays a vital role in nearly all the dialogues. Thus, as truth is to be apprehended by ... of Time, the revolutions of the planets are the subdivisions by which Time is measured, and the terms of mythology are the scientific language in which the ancients formulated the "geography," the "history," and above ... the meaning of the heavens. It should be immediately apparent that this approach to mythology poses a severe twofold challenge to the Velikovskian use of myth. If the mythic catastrophes can be plausibly interpreted as description of the Precession, the ...
222. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... not the north as we know it today. (We do not, for instance, come across any Saturn myths from Mesoamerica, while Amazonian traditions speak of a perpetual day rather than a perpetual night.) In the Book ... star surrounded by a ring. [49] This celestial ring or enclosure, which is spoken of in the mythologies of various ancient nations, refers to the band that was seen to surround the planet Saturn during the Golden Age ... ), pp. 49 ff. [75] D. Cardona, "The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-Historical record," AEON IV:4 (April 1996), p. 24. [76] Ibid. ...
223. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... belonged together, a conclusion supported by the fact that analogous traditions surround warrior-heroes elsewhere. These common patterns in ancient myth, in turn, we would explain as resulting from the common observation of extraordinary astronomical events. Perhaps the most ... swelling" to gargantuan proportions is also consistent with this identification, the swelling of the Martian hero constituting an archetypal mythological theme. [22] The fact that Heracles himself was identified with the red planet in Hellenistic times is also ... period, Hera herself was also identified with the planet Venus. [62] Is it possible that the various mythical relations between Heracles and Hera reflect some sort of interaction between the planets Mars and Venus? Mythic traditions offer a ...
224. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... are only rarely taken into consideration by students of religion. This paper tries to show the essential correctness of Mesopotamian myths, which claim the first "cult places" and their priestly personnel to have emerged as institutions for "beclouded ... of the ritual is vaguely perceived as a "power not of this world." (11) Students of mythology even concede "supernatural objects" (12) or threat of chaos. (13) Are these supernatural causes ... : "We still hate our victims, if you will, but we no longer worship them. This diminished mythical transfiguration certainly accounts for the readability of persecution in our world and the unreadability of myth stricto sensu. We can ...
225. Myth, Mandala, and the Collective Unconscious [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. I No. 1 (Spring 1975) Home | Issue Contents Myth, Mandala, and the Collective Unconscious David Griffard In a comparative analysis of Greek with Phoenician, Babylonian, and other Indo-European mythologies ... Littleton describes various parallels to a general theme, the kingship-of-heaven. "In each instance a single pattern of events is present: an existing generation of gods was preceded by two (and in some cases three) earlier generations of ... , Typhon, before the kingdom is secured. (2 ) According to Velikovsky's theory of cosmic catastrophism, such mythical motifs are records of cosmic violence and change occurring in ancient times whose original meaning has been lost. Properly interpreted ...
226. Aeon Volume VI, Number 5: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 5 Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Journal of Myth, Science and Ancient History Special Plasma Issue AEON, 601 Hayward, Ames, IA 50014, USA www.aeonJournal.com ... has renewed his interest in the philosophy of science, especially as it relates to the electrical interpretation of astronomy and mythology. Dwardu Cardona has been a free-lance writer since 1968. He has, since then, acted as a Contributing ... for KRONOS and, later, as Senior Editor for the same periodical and is currently the Editor of AEON. He was a Founding Father of the Canadian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (now defunct). He has also acted as ...
227. Homer in the Baltic [Journals] [Aeon]
... the northern features of their architecture and their own physical traits fit in perfectly with the parallels between Homeric and Norse myths, which not only possess extremely archaic features, but are of an undeniably seafaring nature. This is hard to ... of the "climatic optimum." Then they rebuilt their original world, where the Trojan War and many other mythological events had taken place, in the Mediterranean; through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats ... "Veneti" were allies of the Trojans). What is more, the place-names Tanttala and Sipilä- the mythical King Tantalus, famous for his torment, was buried on Mount Sipylus- indicate that this matter is not limited ...
228. Child of Saturn (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... :4 (Summer 1978), p. 38. 16. D. N. Talbott, The Saturn Myth (N . Y., 1980), pp. 172 ff. 17. Ibid., pp. ... . After all, the Greeks never identified Athene as Venus either. That particular identification rests its case on comparative mythology. It is, therefore, through a similar process that we must evaluate Velikovsky's identification of Vishnu and Shiva as ... a state of existence which mankind remembers with longing and which has been traced by mythologists in general to that so-called mythical time known as the Golden Age.(4 ) This Golden Age, even according to Velikovsky, was the ...
229. The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... a mystery no more and man's primitive environment becomes, in a sense, a matter of history. The Eden myth is a myth no longer. The Golden Age becomes an actual period in the history of the Earth. With ... CD-Rom Home Canopy Skies of Ancient Man Celestial Records of the Orient Eden's Flaming Sword A Glance at Compartive Mythology Golden Age Canopy The Heavens and Earth of Prehistoric Man The Misread Record or The Deluge and its Cause Mythic Mountains The ... of Truth The Ring of Truth Isaac Veil Part One THE EARTH AS AN ANNULAR-CANOPY PLANET Moreover our own planet was most probably enveloped in a great shell of cloudy atmosphere. J. NORMAN LOCKYER INTRODUCTION The Annular-Canopy Theory of Isaac N ...
230. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... a European and a Jew with a thick guttural accent, presenting a hodge-podge of permissible scientific ideas mixed with impermissible myth and religion, and threatening to resurrect the entire pre-1800 pre-scientific past of religion and folklore which America had just destroyed ... , Journalists and Scientists as Misrepresenters 7. Cometary Venus 8. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology 9. Asimov in Absurdity 10. Pompous Asimov 11. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky 12. A Rage ... German dive-bombers in Europe brought destruction screaming straight down from the heavens, and then, in an imitation of the mythical feats of a Marduk or Venus, waves of cataclysmic destruction in the form of armies and tanks and bayonets coursed ...
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