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217 pages of results. 451. Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art [Journals] [Aeon]
... II:3 (1990), pp. 25-28. 68. See here D. Talbott, The Saturn Myth (New York, 1980); D. Cardona, "Intimations of an Alien Sky," AEON II ... metaphor having little basis in reality. In deference to the currently prevailing opinion which would downplay the importance of ancient mythological traditions, we seek a more "objective" source of evidence with which to explore the nature of the ancient ... "Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero," AEON I:5 (1988), pp. 38-65; "The Mythical History of the Comet Venus," AEON II:4 (1991), pp. 29-48; E. ...
452. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... massive columns of blue light would reach, like giant fluorescent tubes, from the surface up into space. What myths would be told by inhabitants of Io to record such celestial glories? On Earth the planet's magnetosphere actually defends it ... 1500 BC until the 6th century AD when the dam collapsed. Will any of today's dams last 2000 years? Mythic Masada Jewish Chronicle 24.12.99 The classic tale of the 900 Jewish Zealots holding out for 3 years ... TV, April 00 A review of relatively recent recorded history soon makes it obvious that incidents and characters rapidly become mythologised in popular folklore into that which they never were. There is a tendency for villains to become heroes, and ...
453. Thoth Vol I, No. 5: March 14, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... .................. Michael Armstrong THE MYTH OF THE GOLDEN AGE................. ... teleport.com) In this and several submissions to follow, I will offer some background notes on a few mythological themes that are integral to the historical argument of the Saturn theory- Golden Age/Ancestral Paradise Universal Monarch/King ... conflict of any kind. Northern Europeans once celebrated this earliest age as the "Peace of Frodi," a mythical Danish king. Throughout this peaceful epoch no man injured another and a magical mill ground out peace and plenty for ...
... The Chronicler's Tale 12 II. The Figure in Finland 26 III. The Iranian Parallel 36 IV. History, Myth and Reality 43 Intermezzo: A Guide for the Perplexed 56 V. The Unfolding in India 76 VI. Amlodhi's ... comment is useful, although not his line of psychological speculation: "It is impossible to try to derive Finnish mythology from the Greek, or conversely. Yet it is also impossible not to notice that Kullervo, who is the ... Child and the Strong Servant in one, shows himself at last to be Hermes and Dionysos. He appears as Hermes in the making of musical instruments tied up with the destruction of cattle. . . He shows himself as Dionysos ...
... have been placed on archaeological finds and with what he regards as an unwarranted relegation of Scripture to the level of myth and legend as a starting premise for such interpretations. This volume, as was also true of the previous volume ... Antiquities, 1956. S-DGRBM Smith, W., (ed), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1849-50. S-CRS Seele, K. C., The Coregency of Rameses II with Seti I. No ... of men were mingled with those of the gods, and in many other ways the stories reflected a legendary or mythical origin. On the other hand, there were many detailed references to the city of Troy which suggested that Homer ...
456. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - I [Journals] [Kronos]
... permissive censorious accepting demanding abundant parsimonious unitive divisive (18) To the extent that they exhibit consensus, the world's myths of origin directly or indirectly depict an aureal order that differed sharply from the historic order in various ways: l ... Religion and Ethics, James Hastings, editor, 13 volumes, Scribners, New York, 1908-26) MAR (Mythology of All Races, Louis H. Gray, editor, 13 volumes, Cooper Square Publishers, New York, ... Horace called it tempus aureum - "the golden time".(2 ) The Egyptians too thought of this mythic stage as a period, which they referred to as "the first time" or "the times of Ra ...
457. ...more Myths Monuments and Mnemonics: A Visit To Easter Island [Journals] [Horus]
... From: Horus Vol. 1 No. 2 (Summer 1985) Home | Issue Contents .. .more Myths Monuments and Mnemonics: A Visit To Easter Island By David Griffard The pristine beauty of Easter Island, sparsely populated ... in human memory of this remote island-cosmos. Together, the record unfolds a dream-like saga, a mixture of the mythical and the real which, like the dream of an individual, often contains clues to memories long forgotten. Though ... and other traditions that were preserved, link the basic beliefs of people on Easter Island to a general mainstream of mythico-religious ideas shared by other ancient cultures. This common area of human mental life has not been explained to everyone's satisfaction ...
458. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... flood is stated to be the result of the sun meeting the Moon and throwing mud at it. Pacific Island myths claim that the islands were fished up out of the sea for the benefit of the survivors of the flood. ... by permission. This novel proposal, which derives trom observations of a child's plastic toy, satisfies the historical and mythological evidence and explains both the supposed geomagnetic reversals and the apparent simultaneity of other phenomena. The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies ... his father's course and so burnt up things on the Earth and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt, is a mythical version of the truth that there is at long intervals a variation in the course of the heavenly bodies and a ...
459. The Mesoamerican Record [Journals] [Pensee]
... 4: (Fall 1974) "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered IX" Home | Issue Contents The Mesoamerican Record William Mullen MYTH AND THE SCIENCE OF CATASTROPHISM Dr. Mullen is Assistant Professor of Classics, Boston University. Ever since the appearance ... evidence in the light of catastrophism would be fruitful. We have in fact been brought to the verge of the mythological aspect of the record, and before passing on to that I would like to look briefly at what the great ... stone sculptures themselves seem to be representing. The Olmecs have been called the "people of the Jaguar" because that animal, chosen as the most ferocious known to them and thus the best symbol of a terrifying force which is ...
460. Mythscape Video Series [Journals] [Aeon]
... , presiding over the lost "Golden Age." This video is based on his 1980 book, The Saturn Myth. Talbott's story is one of discovery and disappointment, extraordinary insight and confrontation with conventional science. The questions raised ... were the builders of the first civilizations so fearful of the distant planets? Why do the universal themes of world mythology speak so vividly of things neither seen nor heard today? The answers presented in the MYTHSCAPE series, illustrated with ... From: Aeon IV:5 (Nov 1996) Home | Issue Contents Mythscape Video Series REMEMBERING THE END OF THE WORLD VIEW IT ON YOUR OWN HOME SCREEN Produced by: Kronia Communications Inc. Distributed by: Palemesa Ltd ...
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