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217 pages of results. 711. Thoth Vol IV, No 10: June 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... responds: Well, I thought I'd take a little time to respond, since I've already stuck my neck out by claiming that, when it comes to the landscape of myths and symbols, all roads lead to the polar configuration. Amy, you're right about the ancient labyrinth and its connection to superstitions regarding entrails and fate. And yes ... much more to the ancient imagery of this celestial "stronghold" or "prison". The cavernous "bowels" of the divine habitation, the Gordian Knot, the mythic "cavern" of the hero's initiation or re-birth, and the labyrinth all mean the same thing. Moreover, only a few of the experts have discerned the essential ...
712. Year Two Thousand and One [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... to the financial support obtained in the wake of the highly successful September seminar, the accomplished linguist Rens van der Sluijs is now working full time on the development of our mythological data base. This is a comprehensive, non-selective, region-by-region compendium of gods, their attributes and symbols, and listings of astronomical traditions, general folklore, and superstitions ... This raw data base is supplemented by a listing of broadly-distributed or global mythical and symbolic motifs abstracted from the data base and currently totaling more than 500 themes. We expect the list to reach perhaps 1000. Of course the files will continue to evolve over the coming years, and eventually we expect to have many additional authorities contributing to this ...
713. Thoth [Journals] [Thoth]
... email discussion list and will be serializing them for you within a few days. They cover an overview of Dave Talbotts method of comparative analysis of the *written* ancient myths and their companion written astronomical observations. These records are chiefly from Egypt, Sumaria, Babylonia, India, China and Mesoamerica. These ancient cultures wrote of events and ... that bear striking similarities in theme and sequence. This body of primary myths are a conundrum for archaeologists and mythologists and do not fit the current anthropoligial interpretive frameworks of archetype and religious psychology, hence they have become obscured or ignored by the more popular efforts of scholars such as Carl Jung and Joseph Cambell and many others who work almost exclusively ...
714. Aeon Volume IV, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume IV, Number 2 Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Journal on Myth and Science Publisher: Ev Cochrane Editor: Dwardu Cardona Associate Editor: Lewis M. Greenberg Contributing Editor: Frederic Jueneman Consulting Editor: David N. Talbott Volume IV, Number 2 ISSN 1066-5145 AEON, 601 Hayward, Ames, IA 50014 ... the nature of various meteorites, believed to have originated from Mars, and undertakes to shed some light concerning their transport to Earth. Page 57 A General Introduction to Amazon Mythology in the Greco-Roman World In this introductory essay by Tammy Joe Eckhart, we catch a tantalizing glimpse of the fabled Amazon nation, a subject concerning which a lot more ...
715. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... else. I encourage Cardona to continue writing about the events of the Creation, to demonstrate the impact it had on the world, to glean what he can from world myth. But be careful: Greek and Mayan myths have no oral tradition to carry the original intentions of the authors. These writings are therefore mincemeat for anyone to read ... percent of Oral Tradition from Moses included in Aggadah (Talmudic legend) is very minimal. Aggadists in every era freely used, reformed, and built on gentile legends and mythology, using them as a vessel for moral teachings. Despite all that, I understand that the above relates to the onset of a paradisiacal epoch. How long did ...
716. Science's Unscientific Reception of Velikovsky [Articles]
... indicate that the physical basis of the Titus-Bode rule may actually tend to support the possibility of the type of events described by Velikovsky. There are a number of other scientific myths that were at sometime used as "facts" to refute Velikovsky. For example, it was once said that Jupiter cannot emit radio noise, that there is no ... % accurate. However, let us consider ana1ysis of the data by a future scientist who lives in a time when events of the last 150 years are thought of as mythology. There will be discussion of a World War that the ancients described, but it will be discounted because petroleum resources are negligible and no one can imagine enough ever ...
717. Earth-Venus Contacts in the Late 3rd Millennium BC? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... was good in her heart. She came (back) drunken [12], without having perceived mankind." [13] Discussion The first notable feature of this myth is that the deity operates in the terrestrial sphere. Hathor destroys mankind in the desert, i.e . on Earth, and yet she was known to the ... I have suggested on a number of occasions, the Venus deity visited catastrophe on Earth prior to 1500 BC then the matter of ascribing a date of composition to the relevant mythological texts becomes a crucial issue. But the dating of texts can be a very difficult proposition. In an earlier article I have identified one Sumerian text [" Nin-me-sar-ra ...
718. The Saturn Myth: A Tentative Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon I:4 (Jul 1988) Home | Issue Contents The Saturn Myth: A Tentative Physical Model Robert Driscoll 1. Introduction The Saturn myth may be daunting to many because it seems to defy the basic "laws" of physics (1 ) . However, the literature of modern catastrophism now includes components which may ... at upper altitudes, equatorward from the polar sink-zones at lower altitudes. Coriolis forces diverted each flow globally, eastward at high altitudes, westward at low; but where extant mythology includes a prevailing north wind in the Saturn myth, the northeast global wind velocity was compounded with a continentally-generated surface wind velocity from the west, the two velocities combining ...
719. Culture Heroes (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 30 Culture Heroes The cosmic powers exert their influence indiscriminately. The Capture Flood surged over the tropical and subtropical belts and submerged the populous city as well as the lonely hut of the hunter or shepherd, the palace of the ... there can be no doubt that Egypt saved a great deal of the lost Atlantean culture. Plato, through Solon, derived his knowledge of Atlantis from Egyptian sources. Greek mythology mentions a great number of culture heroes, Prometheus, Palamedes, Cecrops, and others. The Peruvians say that their culture was given them by Chon (or Chontisi ...
720. Homer in the Baltic (Omero nel Baltico) by Felice Vinci (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... took place in the Baltic and the North Atlantic. Furthermore, it is asserted that the Achaeans (Homer's Greeks) originated along the shores of the Baltic and took their myths and legends (already fully developed) southwards when they settled around the Aegean. The book begins by quoting Professor Moses Finlay, the British classicist, who spoke of ... . He even sired the Celts. British names and characters found in Arthurian tradition also occur in Greek myth, e.g . Lot (or Ludd), the mythical king of Orkney who was linked to the story of two dragons entwined around each other and battling in the sky on May Day. The same character occurs in the ...
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