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217 pages of results. 631. Myths of the Great Fire (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 10 Myths of the Great Fire Less universal than the deluge myths, though not less striking, the reports of a Great Fire which swept over the Earth as it of the great cosmic catastrophe which also caused the eat Flood ... this pair had no fire, but the Indians who lived in the Moon had plenty. From them a Shoshonian Snake Indian was able to secure a firebrand. In Hindu mythology we find the belief that the creation is destroyed at the end of each Kalpa, or day of Brahmâ, by fire issuing from the mouth of the serpent Sesha ...
632. Thoth Vol II, No. 3: February 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . John Lubbock- VELIKOVSKY'S COMET VENUS (14) By David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) [EDITOR'S NOTE: This concludes Talbott's series of articles on the myth of the comet Venus in Mesoamerican thought.] THE MYTH OF THE GREAT COMET In these brief articles we have asked whether Immanuel Velikovsky's comet Venus finds support among Mesoamerican ... DID "determine" the fate of the king's celestial prototype; see earlier discussion of the Saturn theory.) A compelling logic will thus be seen in Venus' definitive mythical role- in regulating the cosmic cycles, ordaining festivals pointing backward to the age of the gods, sending the kingdom's strongest men to war, and sending the victims of ...
633. The Capture Of Luna (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... From: The Atlantis Myth by H. S. Bellamy CD Home | Contents Title Page | Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Ch. 10 | Ch. 11 | Ch ... ' does not, of course, refer to the planet Venus, but to the `brightest planet' then visible in the heavens-Luna. Similar references are found in the mythology of many nations. When the planet was captured its gravitation exerted a tremendous pull upon the waters of the oceans. Already at the numerous pre-capture conjunctions the oceans of ...
634. Plato's Atlantis and Prehistoric Europe [Articles]
... catastrophe, Velikovskian or otherwise, which is something I'll leave open for discussion at the end. What I will try and do is to trace the origin of the Atlantis myth as transmitted to us by Plato, in an attempt to take us back at least one stage towards its ultimate source. I'll try and clear up a few misconceptions ... his place about the supposed antiquity of the Greeks, the priest kindly explained to Solon why he thought it was that the Greeks were a young race with only the poorest mythological memory of the past, and how the Egyptians themselves had managed to survive with their records intact from the earliest times. The passage again will be familiar to readers ...
635. "Let There Be Light" - A Criticism [Journals] [Kronos]
... be Light" (KRONOS,Vol. III, No. 3),1 found a problem with the author's conception of the role collective amnesia played in forming Creation myths. Explaining that mankind repressed painful memories of destruction and fear of god brought about by Saturn exploding as a nova, Cardona states: "Primitive man could not live ... argue in favor of creatio ex nihilo. But this argument has now also been invalidated by numerous other scholars.) 3. G. H. Luquet, "Oceanic Mythology," in the New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, (London, 1972), p. 466. 4. Exceptions, of course, exist - primarily among ...
636. Capture Flood Myths (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 26 Capture Flood Myths Capture Flood myths are of necessity rather rare. While the powers of the dying Tertiary satellite, whose cataclysm caused the Great Flood, were slowly waning and the girdle-tide was flowing off more or less gradually ... It need hardly be stressed that most capture flood myths must come from inland and highland dwellers, for the coastal inhabitants had very little chance indeed of escaping. In Greek mythology we find several references to floods which gain in meaning if we regard them as capture flood myths. There is, above all, the Ogygian Flood. During the ...
637. Donnelly (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... From: The Atlantis Myth by H. S. Bellamy CD Home | Contents Title Page | Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Ch. 10 | Ch. 11 | Ch ... in size), whose inhabitants, the Meropes, were builders of large cities. Unfortunately this story contains so much material which does not allow a rational explanation by the mythological system employed in this book that I am forced to agree with the general opinion of commentators from antiquity onwards, who pronounced it as being largely a product of fancy ...
638. Aeon Volume IV, Number 6: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume IV, Number 6 Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Journal of Myth and Science Publisher: Ev Cochrane Editor: Dwardu Cardona Associate Editor: Lewis M. Greenberg & Lynn E. Rose Contributing Editor: Frederic Jueneman Consulting Editor: David N. Talbott Science News Reporter: Tania ta Maria Volume IV, Number ... catastrophic effects which the slowing down of terrestrial rotation would have on the Earth's hydrosphere. PAGE 31 The Saturn Thesis (Part 3) In continuing to stress the coherence of mythological motifs as they pertain to the unfolding Saturnian scenario, David Talbott explains the appearance of the Radiant Ve-nus, and its displacement from the primeval Saturnian center, through recently ...
639. The Green: Mythological Booklist [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1998:2 (Dec 1998) Home | Issue Contents The Green: Mythological Booklist http://www.servtech.com/~greenman/mythBooklist.html This is a reading/source list for a variety of mythological subjects. The sources cited have been collected from a variety of sources including ... made to Usenet newsgroups like alt.mythology. The criteria for inclusion on this list is simple - the work needs only to have some mythological content. Some sources listed are more anthropological or archaeological in nature, but it is sometimes difficult to draw lines around where mythology ends and some other topic picks up. As the list grows, ...
640. The Eye Goddess [Journals] [Aeon]
... One, O Devourer, O Scorching One..." [19] The mythology surrounding the two goddesses also shares important themes in common. One of the best-attested myths involving Hathor finds that goddess abandoning Egypt for Nubia whereupon she goes on a rampage of destruction in the form of a raging eye. It is only through the magical ... , Serpent Uraeus, who guides the people, O Lady of Fire, O Searing One, O Devourer, O Scorching One..." [19] The mythology surrounding the two goddesses also shares important themes in common. One of the best-attested myths involving Hathor finds that goddess abandoning Egypt for Nubia whereupon she goes on a rampage ...
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