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217 pages of results. 421. "Heaven and Earth": Catastrophism in Hamlet [Journals] [Kronos]
... but specific illustrations of the parallels between the stories of Oedipus, Hamlet, and Saturn-Kronos, and their reflection in myth and religion, will be presented later. For the moment, we need only keep Cardona's warning in mind that ... is what it stands for. But it is a disruption that leads to a healthier condition than before, as mythology knows. An old world age sickens and perishes, but is subsequently replaced by a younger, healthier new age ... No. 4, Summer-1978, pages 3 to 18. Francis Fergusson, in his study of the ritual and mythic basis of drama, The Idea of a Theatre, (32) argues that Hamlet consists of five dramatic divisions ...
422. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... need to wall themselves up in a fortified ivory tower? Do they sense that their foundations are crumbling? The myths of science New Scientist 8.8 .98, pp. 20-21, 25.4 .98, p ... 4, The Sunday Times 16.8 .98, p. 18 This item should perhaps come under the mythology section as Beowulf was the Anglo-Saxon dragon-slaying hero figure found universally in myth. Charred remains of a Viking longboat discovered ... the north Kent coast have led a local archaeologist to boost the area's claim to historical fame by suggesting that the tale of Beowulf, a Scandinavian epic, was based on a real character and he points to places in north Kent ...
423. Aeon Volume III, Number 3: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume 3, Number 3 (Oct 1993) Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Symposium on Myth and Science Edited by: Ev Cochrane, Dwardu Cardona, Jan Sammer Frederic Jueneman, Lewis M. Greenberg Volume ... as the polar Sun. PAGE 49 Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel Ev Cochrane continues with his analysis of the mythology surrounding the Vedic war-god. PAGE 71 Velikovsky and Racial Memory Duane Vorhees explores the background of Velikovsky's theory of racial ... . PAGE 86 Astronomical Dating and Calendrics Gunnar Heinsohn presents more evidence in support of his reconstruction of ancient history. PAGE 92 Book Review Darwin on Trial, by Philip E. Johnson. Reviewed by Frederic Jueneman PAGE 102 Aeon Volume ...
424. A Conversation with Barry Fell [Journals] [Horus]
... being considered seriously now by a number of marine biologists. Editor: Well, my point is that the source myths of people, their creation myths -their own origin myths almost always begin with or include some kind of catastrophic event ... of the mechanism. But what the actual occurrence of globally effective catastrophes would have done to the mind, to mythology, and all the rest of it has such tremendous explanatory power that it's wrong in doctrinal, Lyellian, uniformitarian ... There are no longer any arguments as to whether catastrophes of a celestial nature could have been the source of these mythical notions. But at the time he brought his books out there was a hue and cry very much the same ...
425. The Hamon-Gabriel-Mars Connection (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... . 29-32. 20. G. de Santillana and H. von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (Boston, 1969), p. 177 (emphasis added). 21. ... is a far cry from the seasoned knowledge required to properly understand both Velikovsky's method and the principles involved in comparative mythology. In the matter we have been pursuing, Forrest confesses that, at the time he penned his first volume ... " . . . the battle against Velikovsky might have been over in a year had the assault come from knowledgeable mythologists rather than pompous astronomers. ''(12) I might add here that Velikovsky would still have been condemned ...
426. 'Worlds in Collision' and the Prince of Denmark [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , determines the sorts of things we do as man-we make war on ourselves, we make religions, we make myths and legends. It is Dr Velikovsky's belief that one of the major impulses behind these universally recurrent natural human activities ... original in superficial detail but is similar in general action, themes and substructure to many literary works and tales and mythologies of other and earlier ages. It is the unconscious recognition of the prototype by the great narrative artist which repeatedly ... The Golden Bough, and it is from these two roots - social psychology and cultural anthropology - that archetypal and mythic criticism have grown, in such landmark works as Maud Bodkin's Archetypal Patterns in Poetry, Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism ...
427. The SIS Silver Jubilee Event, September 1999 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... his earliest interest in Velikovsky's work was concerned with the latter's ideas about Saturn having been the Sun' of early myth, an idea that has not been pursued very much on this side of the Atlantic since Harold's initial article The ... by Dwardu Cardona outlining what he himself called the bizarre' theory of the Saturnian configuration as constructed over decades of mythological research. Before his audience had time to fully muster their incredulity, Wal Thornhill masterfully gave them some solid astronomical ... to keep their doubts in abeyance as he outlined recent challenges to the even more incredible modern ideas of cosmology and presented us with the alternative theory of an electric universe. In many ways this not only makes more sense of today's ...
428. Comments: on the First Issue [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... 1 ). In my opinion Velikovsky's greatest contribution to catastrophism is his demonstration of the value of human records, myths and traditions in questions of the past of the Earth and the solar system - for example of the value of ... persistent traditions of bituminous materials falling from the sky. Velikovsky was the first to consider problems in geology and mythology together to develop valid models. He concluded from the human record that some of the Earth's petroleum deposits are of recent ... 4 ). V. only has updated and popularised the use of these records for the substantiation of catastrophes in mythical times. In his geological volume, Earth in Upheaval, he has brought together much evidence for the past occurrence ...
429. HORUScope [Journals] [Horus]
... that many vignettes of history can be read as "contact" evidence. Some have suggested that even the great myths about the battle of the planetary gods represent a distorted story of an ancient space war. But the combined testimony ... ?" by C. E. Bowen. Venus figures as the most prominent planet in Mexican and Central American mythology. The importance of the relative positions of Venus and Earth in their affairs may indicate an earlier preoccupation with the ... of much fundamental mythology and cosmology may lie here. The concept that natural cataclysms are the source of the corresponding mythical tales has so much explanatory power - especially for the behavioral scientist- that something almost certainly must be wrong with ...
430. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... above as dissociative is the distinction, which goes back at least to Sumerian times, between religion (expressed in myth and manifest in ritual) and science (applied as technology and practiced as engineering). During the past century ... of our past as one of historic progress and prehistoric evolution has become incompatible with the picture, provided by the mythologies of every continent, of a human past divisible into the principal periods- a relatively changeless Golden Age, followed by ... to distort human behavior, would leave the behavior of animals- particularly higher animals- unaffected. Building, therefore, on mythical evidence (to be detailed and explained below) as well as on data from comparative psychology, I infer that ...
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