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217 pages of results. 601. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Enzymes, Principles of Enzymology for Technological Applications and Controversy: Catastrophism and Evolution - The Ongoing Debate. He has been a member of SIS Council since 1986. Summary Flood myths are found throughout the world. As late as the 17th century, one particular flood myth (that involving Noah) was regarded as the literal truth by almost everyone ... catastrophes were associated with divine displeasure. In Genesis, as we have seen, God caused Noah's Flood because of the increasingly wicked behaviour of humankind. Similarly, in Greek mythology, Zeus regularly killed people with thunderbolts, as in the Phaeton myth, whilst Poseidon was inclined to cause great storms or floods when annoyed [2 , 5] ...
602. Volcanism And Catastrophic Mythology [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... | Issue Contents Volcanism And Catastrophic Mythology Jill Abery Do the origins of catastrophic mythology lie in a core of local catastrophe embroidered and perpetuated over lengthy time periods? The universal myth of a world-wide flood is often considered in terms of occasional overflow of river systems or even the annual inundation of the Nile. Similarly the activities of the god of ... From: SIS Workshop Vol 6 No 2 (Aug 1985) Home | Issue Contents Volcanism And Catastrophic Mythology Jill Abery Do the origins of catastrophic mythology lie in a core of local catastrophe embroidered and perpetuated over lengthy time periods? The universal myth of a world-wide flood is often considered in terms of occasional overflow of river systems or even ...
603. Dragon-Slayers (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 7 Dragon-Slayers One of the most striking features, common to every dragon myth, is the fact that none of these monsters may continue its ravages with impunity for any length of time. Every dragon has George. And the ... mere ties of language. One of the most striking is that which describes the fight of a sun god with a terrible monster of dragon or serpent form. In Indian mythology the god Trita who conquers the dragon Ahi; the Iranians tell of the battle of Thraçtaona with the arch-serpent Azhi, or hi Dahaka. In Armenian folk ore a ...
604. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . 1) challenged this prevailing gradualistic paradigm, his first book, Worlds in Collision, appearing in 1950. Taking at face value the stories of celestial battles in ancient myths from around the world, Velikovsky suggested that, on several occasions in historical times, other planets of the solar system had wandered into the vicinity of the Earth, ... first to challenge the gradualistic paradigm in the twentieth century, but previous attempts had made little impact. In contrast, the powerful new synthesis proposed by Velikovsky, linking together mythology, astronomy, ancient history and chronology, caught the imagination of many. Nevertheless, it was highly controversial, and dismissed out of hand by most orthodox academics, ...
605. The Unworkable Polar Saturn [Journals] [Aeon]
... Home | Issue Contents The Unworkable Polar Saturn Roger Ashton 1. Saturn at the North Celestial Pole As if a rational process of thinking accounted for the content of folklore and myth, efforts to trace it all back to an identifiable origin, starting particularly with de Santillana's and von Dechend's Hamlet's Mill, have tended to uncover origins in a celestial ... as centipedes which sunlight or even room light kill, and also nocturnal flowering plants. The ecological adjustments of these forms of life long antedate human evolution, let alone human mythical tradition, in all of which there is no place for the bizarre situation of the model. Outlandish though it has transpired to be, this model is essentially what ...
606. Book Review - Mythologies [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... have distorted their reconstructions. The contributors to Mythologies draw on sociology, on history- "the religious policies of Augustus"-on linguistics, on literary criticism- "myth in twentieth-century English literature"-, and on other disciplines; there are no narrow disciplinary constraints. Many of the articles tackle broad methodological or theoretical issues, often ... From: SIS Internet Digest 1996:2 (Feb 1997) Home | Issue Contents Newsgroup: alt.mythology Subject: Book Review - Mythologies From: Danny Yee, danny@cs.su.oz.au Date: 11 Feb 1996 22:16:29 GMT Series: Mythologies. Titles: Greek and Egyptian Mythologies ISBN ...
... degree of reliability historically to be expected if these writings are what they claim to be. This is the direction taken by scholars generally in evaluating Scripture as a compilation of myths and legends. The other is to recognize that there is something fundamentally in error with the traditional views relative to the chronology of Egypt, and hence with the chronologies ... Dictionary. S-DCA Seyffert, O., Dictionary of Classical 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. 19 of Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Sci ...
608. Pallas Athene, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Pallas Athene In every country of the ancient world we can trace cosmological myths of the birth of the planet Venus. If we look for the god or goddess who represents the planet Venus, we must inquire which among the gods or goddesses did ... exist from the beginning, but was born into the family. The mythologies of all peoples concern themselves with the birth only of Venus, not with that of Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn. Jupiter is described as heir to Saturn, but his birth is not a mythological subject. Horus of the Egyptians and Vishnu, born of Shiva ...
609. The Birth and Death of Memory [Books] [de Grazia books]
... from sorrows. The word "muse" by itself has a meaning of happiness. And that the Muses will achieve this by transforming events through art and song, through myth. The memory of disasters is doctored "by Zeus" ultimately to brainwash humanity and to present the new order of heaven as proper, lawful, and beautiful. ... Genealogy of the Gods. The Theogony was composed after 730 B.C ., that is, during or after the era of troubled skies; but it was a mythical work, "reporting" on events that had occurred hundreds and thousands of year before. "The ordered pantheon of Hesiod ended in supplanting the anarchic society of the ...
610. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Dark Ages in Ancient History: Part I, Egypt," 75 American Journal of Archaeology, 1-26. Bellamy, H. S. (1936), Moons, Myths and Man, Faber & Faber, London. (1943), Built before the Flood, Faber & Faber, London. (1948), The Atlantis Myth ... . Faber & Faber, London. Bender, Barbara (1975), Farming in Prehistory, John Baker, London. Benedict, R. (1935), Zuni Mythology, Contributions to Anthropology No. 21, Columbia University, New York. Bentley, John (1825), A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy, from the ...
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