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217 pages of results. 251. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... destruction. The ancient orphic rites of Greece commemorated their remote Uranian origins when they began with the chanting of the myth of the cracking of the cosmic egg. That the world was an egg that had to be broken to begin ... theory [77]. It seems proper to repeat that despite the recent surge of interest in it, Meso-American mythology is almost untouched by comparison with the great labors that have gone into Near Eastern and Classical European study over many ... and then grow new ones (presumably the phases of the Moon). The presence of the sea-cow in this mythical song and dance cycle points, however, to a possible Venusian origin (around 3400 B.P ); ...
252. Prelude to Creation [Journals] [Aeon]
... self-castration seems to indicate is a detachment of that axis. This castration motif is one that recurs often enough in myth- although, to be sure, some of it refers to a much later, but similar, event. ... his own father, the reason behind which will be explored in a later paper, is not unique to Greek mythology. But this unity of father and son makes it evident that the emasculation of Ouranos by Kronos was in actuality ... better understand what I am about to describe, a brief synopsis of Earth's primordial astronomical condition as reconstructed from the mytho-historical record is hereby presented. According to this record, which is supported by Earth sciences, recent astronomical discoveries, ...
253. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , Comets and Gods', the authors dabble in the Velikovskian field of tracing cometary disasters in ancient history and myth, with the familiar adjustments to chronological schemes [6 ]. Winter' largely reverses this organisation, with roughly ... a kid' (Capricorn?), my heifer' (Taurus?), and so on. Mackey's Mythological Astronomy [see note 25] notes that two small stars in Cancer are called ASELLI, i.e . ... Asses', and suggests that Samson's firebrands and ass's jawbone are the relentless Sun's rays when he was in that constellation at midsummer About 3,000 years ago'. If we wanted to include a meteor shower, the swarm ...
254. Thoth Vol I, No. 7: March 23, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ................ .. Michael Armstrong THE MYTH OF THE UNIVERSAL MONARCH................. ... - EDITORIAL SECTION By Michael Armstrong (mikamar@e-z.net) In keeping with our present dual focus on mythology and the physics of the electrical universe, the following paragraphs should be of interest to our readers. They are ... uncertain location! Where *was* the ancient paradise? Where did the gods and goddesses and heroes of the mythical epoch actually live? Beyond the north wind? Atop the world's highest mountain? In the land of the rising ...
255. The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
... seems worthy in its own right to house a universal goddess? The best that can be offered conventionally is the myth of Aphrodite's birth from the "sea." And what more could the standard analysis add to give any sense ... An In-Depth Interview with David Talbott- (concluded)AEON: In our last discussion you were explaining the various mythological motifs associated with the displaced Radiant Venus and Mars. You mentioned that one item that this celestial apparition resembled was ... most familiar form is the Medusa, and whose head was repeatedly placed in the center of shields. Given the mythical equations we are suggesting, such facts take on considerable significance. (The radiating streamers were the shield of the ...
256. Velikovsky's Martian Catastrophes [Journals] [Aeon]
... prominent in mythology as is the Roman Mars. In fact, if one had to judge by the number of myths attributed to each of these two deities, one will have to conclude that the Greek Ares was much more prominent ... sure, it is; but let it be stated, right at the start, that Velikovsky's knowledge of Martian mythology proves somewhat suspect. This is evident when he states that: "There does not exist, at least in ... half of Worlds in Collision? Circumstantial as it may be, is not this evidence valid? Is not the mytho-historical record, for one thing, as valid as the historical annals in this respect? To be sure, it ...
257. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... January 1996 for a debate organised by ISIS on David Rohl's book A Test of Time: The Bible - from Myth to History. Speakers were Rupert Chapman (Executive Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund), Bob Porter, Aidan ... Bill Napier: cometary disasters, cosmic dust and ecological disasters in historical times David Pankenier: natural catastrophes in Chinese mythology and tradition Benny Peiser: the stratigraphy of Bronze Age catastrophes Irving Wolfe: the Kultursturz' at the Bronze Age ... Middle East, focussing on the site of Hazor. Phillip Clapham suggests a radical solution to the identity of the mythical substance shamir and I have included a brief review of current debate on Einstein's relativity theory. This issue also features ...
258. The "Herculean Labor" Of Cecilia Gaposchkin. File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... had deliberately omitted Herodotus's version. Fourth case. Payne-Gaposchkin wrote: "Or we may take the references to the myth of Phaėthon, which our author also identifies with the invading comet, ' Venus. "The earliest writer, ... III.5 to which I referred in my footnote: "Hot winds and volcanic agency were attributed by Greek mythology to Typhon, cast down from heaven by Zeus and buried' in hot or volcanic regions .. . and ... belief that Phaėthon changed into the Morning Star. (See "Phaėthon" in Roscher's Lexikon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie, Col. 2182.) W. H. Roscher, the greatest authority on the subject, refers to ...
259. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is essential reading, its interdisciplinary research presenting a picture of an electric universe within which the catastrophic events described in myth can be explained. Thornhill covers an amazing range of phenomena from plasma physics to mythical symbols and presents convincing electrical ... about but have been unable to obtain a copy of Talbott's earlier book. This presentation is an analysis of universal mythological themes and depicts aspects of the physical model of the ancient Solar System which Talbott has concluded must have been that ... by early man. Beginning with the Golden Age', Talbott reconstructs the catastrophic events which followed, as he infers them from the behaviour of the planetary gods depicted in myth. These events were at the inception of civilisation and ...
260. Theomachy in the Theater: on the Fringes of the Collective Amnesia [Journals] [Kronos]
... his heroes were already animated by the Titanism of the superman. The violent action of his stories inspired by Nordic myths or the Homeric(11) poems, or by the supernatural world of Milton, seems to evolve in an ... of all-powerful primeval monsters. This archetypal legacy was incidentally observed by the eminent psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. "Ancient mythological beings are now curiosities in museums. But the archetypes they expressed have not lost their power to affect men's minds ... Copyright © June, 1975 by John V. Myers and Lewis M. Greenberg Prologue No one who critically examines mythic texts with Velikovskian eyes can fail to be impressed by the tenacity with which clues to the true nature of a ...
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