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661. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... be that his sense of closer communion and harmony with nature had the opposite effect. Chris Boyles shows further evidence of accepting the uniformitarian premise when he states that "Cosmogonic myths... clearly demonstrate that the oldest gods stood for the big, immediate realities: fire, earth, sky and water...." This is ... R. Harvey, Houston, Texas, U.S .A . Accepting Which Premise?Dear Sir, Chris Boyles makes some good points in his article "Velikovsky's Mythology: Accepting the Premise" (SISW 6:1 , p.11) when he observes that ordinary everyday events were highly mysterious to primitive man in the sense ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 725  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/vol0602/37letts.htm
662. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... credentials? Velikovsky once remarked that "Science is not licensed." Stephen Jay Gould recently remarked: "It is important that we as working scientists combat [the] myths of our profession as something superior and apart. The myths may serve us well in the short and narrow as rationale for a lobbying strategy- give us the funding ... the burning petroleum fires of Kirkuk Baba'." This idea was resuscitated in 1979 by J.V . Kinnier Wilson who sought to explain just about all of Mesopotamian mythology on a near-identical basis. According to Wilson, most, if not all, of the Mesopotamian deities originated as embodiments of natural phenomena associated with gas escapes and explosive ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 720  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0204/107disc.htm
663. Folklore and Mythology Electronic Textstled [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... (Apr 1999) Home | Issue Contents Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html Dozens of online myths and fables from across the globe, including: Aging and Death in Folklore; Air Castles; Animal Brides; Master Builder Legends, & Death of the Seven Dwarfs ... From: SIS Internet Digest 1999:1 (Apr 1999) Home | Issue Contents Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html Dozens of online myths and fables from across the globe, including: Aging and Death in Folklore; Air Castles; Animal Brides; Master ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 719  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/i-digest/1999-1/08folk.htm
664. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Period (Early Iron Age) in Switzerland [2 ]. A cylinder seal from Mesopotamia depicts a goddess, also with raised wings, standing on the twin-peaked mountain of myth from which the god Shamash rises. She is flanked by the god Ea and an archer guarding a lion [3 ]. A votive pin from Luristan at the ... does not appear to be any evidence of myths arising about this time, which puts me in mind of a piece I wrote some years ago ( 'Volcanism and Catastrophic Mythology', SISW Vol. 6:2 , pp. 7-10) in which I was forced to conclude that geological catastrophes, however locally severe, do not even ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 719  -  26 Mar 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v2002n2/61letters.htm
665. How are Myths and Legends Spread Between Cultures [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1996:2 (Feb 1997) Home | Issue Contents Newsgroups: sci.anthropology How are Myths and Legends Spread Between Cultures From: Katherine petrie, kapetrie@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu Date: 30 Nov 1995 21:11:06 GMT heinrich@tyrell.net wrote: > 1 ... and Culture, which is his collection of his writings. There are several papers worth reading: "The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths", "The Growth of Indian Mythologies", and his introduction to James Teit's Traditions of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia are a few. > 2. Prior to the development of modern mass > ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 717  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/i-digest/1996-2/10how.htm
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 14 Ark Myths By far the greater number of deluge myths relate that the hero escaped the general destruction by taking to a vessel and sailing to safety. The universality of this trait is really striking and surely indicates a high ... appealed to our imagination; when we were young, at Sunday school it was a favourite text; and when we grew up and doubted, for lack of a plain mythological explanation, many of the obscure statements of the Bible, it remained one of the chief passages which we felt might be based upon fact. And, indeed, ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 717  -  26 Mar 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/bellamy/moons/14-ark.htm
... understand. Spinoza- VELIKOVSKY'S COMET VENUS (10) By David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) [EDITOR'S NOTE: This continues Talbott's series of articles on the myth of the comet Venus.] DEMONS OF DARKNESS Let us now consider the role of darkness in the myths of the Great Comet. Throughout Mesoamerica, the arrival of ... the gods. Natives of pre-Columbian Mexico retired to their own dwellings and covered themselves. At night the chaos-demons were out, and children could be turned into mice (a mythical form of the swarming celestial debris with cometary tails, the "children" of the comet- goddess). And while the people slept, it was the priest ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 717  -  19 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/thoth/thoth1-26.htm
668. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ten times weaker. . in order to shift the axis by one half of a radian." Classic Sourcebook O'Flaherty, W. D. (translator): HINDU MYTHS: a sourcebook translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics, 1975 AT 80p, this anthology is an absolute bargain which should be in the personal library of all members ... clarified butter" and ambrosia (the two types of Manna discussed by Reade?). There are also suggestions of perfume and wine - the latter having parallels in other mythologies (e .g . the Egyptian myth of Hathor/Venus and the destruction of mankind): perhaps Mr Reade might investigate possible fermentation processes. Finally, poisonous ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 716  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v0103/24books.htm
669. Metals, Salt and Oil [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in ancient Mesoamerica "yellow was the color of gold, the teocuilatl or excrement of the gods."[18] The dragons that are the substance of most ancient myths and of children's fairy tales today tortured and enriched both the Earth and the minds of men. Cores drilled from Antarctic sediments of pleistocene age contained iridium and gold in ... but a Purple Dragon's spittle turns into balls of crystal; glass is regarded as solidified dragon's breath." (The tektite allusion is plain). "The dragons of mythology are often described (among the Teutons, for example) as guardians of hoards and givers of wealth." The dragons are wise in metallurgy [15]. ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 714  -  29 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/degrazia/lately/ch10.htm
... John Stuart Mill- VELIKOVSKY'S COMET VENUS (13) By David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) [EDITOR'S NOTE: This continues Talbott's series of articles on the myth of the comet Venus.] SWEEPING AWAY THE NIGHT Discerning the relationship of archetype and symbol is particularly crucial when the symbol, in its familiar associations in daily life ... of day. The holder of the household broom, therefore, fills the symbolic role of the goddess. And though broom and celestial conflagration may not seem compatible, the mythical memory does place them side by side. A hymn to the "broom" -goddess celebrates Cihuacoatl- plumed with eagle feathers, with the crest of eagles, painted ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 714  -  19 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/thoth/thoth2-02.htm
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