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217 pages of results. 461. Saturn's Children [Books] [de Grazia books]
... virile member. The perennial connections among astronomy, geology, sex and religion were reinforced (not only in Greek myth but everywhere)[12]. Humans developing from hominids very much like themselves, employed the most obvious and ... in the legends of every ancient people. It was the dominating star of its age and most of the basic mythology of the world is traceable to its varying aspects, behavior, and fate. After leaving its infinitely complex imprint ... the beginning of the archaic day. ' Saturn dominated the night and competed with the sunlight during the day. Mythical records are unanimous in saying that Saturn, during his reign, stood in the north.... The ...
462. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... reported from the forests of Kenya also sounds like a chalicothere, with large claws and a horse-like face. The myth of the megalithic yard New Scientist 4.12.93, Inside Science no. 67, p. 4 ... such as it being one-eyed, having a mouth in its belly and devouring the head of victims, seem distinctly mythological. Macmillan's illustrated encyclopaedia of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, p. 261 Chalicotheres were huge browsing creatures, related to ... endeavours, there is absolutely no evidence for all the stories about the area's association with early Christianity. The whole mythos appears to be a retrojection from later centuries. The four directions National Geographic December 1993, p. 22 People ...
463. Sagan's Folly Part 1 [Journals] [Kronos]
... been validated as fact." However, as opposed to Velikovsky's view that the worldwide distribution of common elements in myths and legends is explainable only on the basis of common observation and experience of global catastrophes, Sagan expresses his own ... arsenal of criticism and is invoked early (pp. 10-12) in an attempt to discredit the totality of Velikovsky's mythological, theological, and iconic concordances (though these constitute only a portion of the large aggregate of concordances and evidence ... writing of the firmament'. . . . How far [this] tradition was based on experience, on mythical thought, or on pure superstition is a complex question today left hovering in mid-air, though it demands elucidation just ...
464. Firmament & Chaos by John Ackerman (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. Following a study of space probe planetary data and also the Rig Veda and Hindu myths he developed his own interpretation of the myths and Solar System history, which he dubs the Velikovsky/Angiras scenario ... publications that have clearly involved a lot of work and they present much interesting and useful information on planetary anomalies and mythology. However the lack of critical analysis is a consistent problem: time and again, proposals are simply presented and ... reader is asked to accept them as obvious. When it comes to the specific, complex and extraordinary series of events that are claimed to have happened in the Solar System in the Velikovsky/Angiras scenario', ultimately either you ...
465. Aeon Volume V, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume V, Number 2 Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Journal of Myth, Science and Ancient History AEON, 601 Hayward, Ames, IA 50014, USA North American Web Site: http:/ ... author of Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion, has also published numerous articles on comparative mythology and archaeoastronomy. He previously served as an Associate Editor of KRONOS and is currently the publisher of AEON. Alban ... a graduate of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy where he received a license as Deck Officer and commission in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He served for a number of years as navigator aboard merchant vessels, ...
466. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... the "Saturnist" group seems to have approached mythology in a systematic cross-cultural comparison to see if "prototypical" myths can be found. I've been interested in trying to find out if there are any significant similarities in different religious ... of questions than other catastrophist approaches, including Velikovsky's, was that the "Saturnist" group seems to have approached mythology in a systematic cross-cultural comparison to see if "prototypical" myths can be found. I've been interested in trying ... Theil, from Bodelshausen, Germany, writes: I am becoming interested in some of the perspectives catastrophism offers on mythical traditions and have started to explore the KRONIA website. I found Dwardu Cardona's articles interesting and enjoyed their non-dogmatic style ...
467. Relation Between the Perpetual Calendar Based on the 128 Years Cycle and the Central American Calendar [Journals] [SIS Review]
... place of no shadows: this strongly suggests that the original site' could have been the world-mountain and that the myth retains within it memories of peculiar lighting effects emanating from that mountain'. Third, the tilting is said to ... a fact that it can be used as such; it is most unlikely that this is a fortuitous coincidence. Mythological/Historical Evidence for Earth Tilting?Re-reading parts of Hamlet's Mill for the umpteenth time, my eye latched onto ... flesh. Enc. Brit. says of Lycaon that in Greek mythology he was the son of Pelasgius, the mythical first king of Arcadia. He, or his fifty impious sons, entertained Zeus and set before him a dish ...
468. Day Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... basic reason for this, I think, has been a failure to distinguish between the star name itself and any myth or myths which may accompany it. Amid all the changes attending man's thoughts and actions through the ages, one ... change, as William Gibbon has documented: "Star lore has often been neglected as a legitimate contribution to comparative mythology in general, and to the study of tribal associations and migrations in particular. The basic reason for this, ... example, is unknown, being apparently unique to that culture. But it likely reflects some aspect of that planet's mythical persona as understood by the Maya. Once again, however, such factors will never explain why Venus was compared ...
469. The Sphinx. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... .2 Some students, however, wished to see in the destruction of the monster an original part of the myth and to regard everything else as an addition or a later elaboration.3 Whichever is true, it appears indisputable ... the incident with the Sphinx is merely mythological. A psychoanalyst would be inclined to interpret the Sphinx story, the overcoming of a female monster, as the self-deliverance of a son from the tyranny of an overpowering mother. 0. ... iconographique, p 176. 8 Edouard Naville, "La Destruction des hommes par les dieux. D'apr6s une inscription mythologique du tombeau de Séti I, à, Thèbes," Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, IV ( ...
470. Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995) [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used ... be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as ... has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the ...
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