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217 pages of results. 731. Chapter XXIX: the Mythology of Isis and Osiris [Books]
... a setting star, as the horns and disk mark a rising one. We get the antithesis between Osiris and Isis. We gather, then, that the wonderful old-world myth of Isis and Osiris is astronomical from beginning to end, although Osiris in this case is not the sun, but the moon. But I have not yet finished ... Chapter XXIX The Mythology of Isis and Osiris A LONG parenthesis has been necessary in order to inquire fully into the yearly festivals of the Egyptian priests, the relation of the feasts to the rising of stars, and the difficulties which arose from the fact that a true year was not in use till quite late. It is now time ...
732. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... Belief that Life was in sky - Sky as source of wind and water - Water as source of Energy - The Whirlpool enclosing embryo - Whirlpools in ancient religion - Zuni myth - Birth of Aphrodite Whirlpool Dragons - Whirlpool as "gate" of Dragon's palace – Dragons lake whirl-pool - Sumerian Sea-serpent goddess - Whirlwind lord Typhon and Echidna -Fairies, ... whirlpool were regarded as manifestations of the same life-giving force, which was symbolized by the imitative spiral in religious art. As will be shown, the whirlpool has in Scandinavian mythology the same significance as it has in Hindu mythology, it was regarded as a manifestation of the source of natural energy of life and magic. In Scotland the whirlpool ...
... are so alike that their legends reflect the commonality of human hopes and fears. 4. Coincidence; purely by chance all cultures created the same (Venus) legend or myth. Sagan chose diffusion and coincidence while Velikovsky, of course, chose common-observation. Sagan states, "Velikovsky is clearly opting for the common-observation hypothesis, but he seems ... me to be a large number of critical and undemonstrated assumptions in Velikovsky's argument. Let me mention just a few of them. There is the very interesting idea that any mythological references by any people to any god that also corresponds to a celestial body represents in fact a direct observation of that celestial body. "43 This is a complete ...
734. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... Belief that Life was in sky - Sky as source of wind and water - Water as source of Energy - The Whirlpool enclosing embryo - Whirlpools in ancient religion - Zuni myth - Birth of Aphrodite Whirlpool Dragons - Whirlpool as "gate" of Dragon's palace – Dragons lake whirl-pool - Sumerian Sea-serpent goddess - Whirlwind lord Typhon and Echidna -Fairies, ... whirlpool were regarded as manifestations of the same life-giving force, which was symbolized by the imitative spiral in religious art. As will be shown, the whirlpool has in Scandinavian mythology the same significance as it has in Hindu mythology, it was regarded as a manifestation of the source of natural energy of life and magic. In Scotland the whirlpool ...
735. Thoth Vol III, No. 10: July 30, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of projection, just as local mountains and rivers acquired their sacred names from mythical powers, inviting horrendous later confusion between archetype and symbol. The original planetary SOURCE of the myths is a much different matter, and the extraordinary discipline of the Babylonians was crucial to our ability to connect the mythical archetypes to the roles of named planets. TED ... order. But maintaining planetary identifications certainly did require such disciplines. Insofar as nations did not preserve the link of god and planet, their imagination was permitted to attach any mythical name whatever to planets and stars in later times- in the same way that, still later, we attached mythical names to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto as these planets ...
736. Aeon Volume VI, Number 6: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 6 Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Journal of Myth, Science and Ancient History PO Box 1092, Ames, IA 50014, USA www.aeonJournal.com www.maverickscience.com Editorial Address: 145 W. 20th. Ave, Vancouver, B.C . Canada V5Y 2C4 Publisher ... Myth and Religion, and, more recently, The Many Faces of Venus: The planet Venus in Ancient Myth and Religion. He 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. Ken Moss studied psychology and anthropology at the University of British ...
737. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Articles]
... it reminds us what is at stake when the relation between science and action is not examined in the light of the more archaic structures of the mind which are expressed in myth. If the Indeterminacy Principle drives us to turn to the mind, and not to the scientific world-views derived from it, for our authority in action, then we ... registrations preserved on cuneiform tablets to fragments of folklore relayed by modern anthropologists from tribes approaching extinction. The overwhelming mass of these accounts are essentially conditioned by what we call "mythical thinking". As stated earlier, it seems characteristic of this kind of thinking to charge all phenomena with spiritual meaning and to find the symbols of catastrophic experience indispensable ...
738. The Tertiary Satellite immediately before its Cataclysmic Breakdown (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 3 The Tertiary Satellite immediately before its Cataclysmic Breakdown We shall now enter upon our task of examiningthe cosmological myths in the light of the teachings of Hoerbiger's Theory. As we have seen, Hoerbiger maintained that universal cataclysms have been ... change places in myths), the passage immediately acquires meaning. That celestial body was an overwhelming and exceedingly bright phenomenon, much more impressive than the Sun. In the mythological matter preserved in the Book of Daniel we find the following passage (viii. 5): An he goat [used metaphorically for the Tertiary satellite] came from ...
739. Internet Sacred Text Archive [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... , Judaism, Mormonism, Bahai'i, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Esoteric, Tarot, Age of Reason. Includes: Australian Legendary Tales collected by K. Langloh Parker; Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines By W.E . Thomas; Polynesian Mythology by Sir George Grey; Legends of Maui by W.D . Westervelt; Myths ... Legends of the Bantu by Alice Werner; Legends of Babylonia and Egypt by Leonard W. King; Tales of the North American Indians; The Myths of Mexico and Peru By Lewis Spence; Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians by Amy Lowell; Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin; The Bhagavad-Gita ...
740. Northwest Indian Myths of Catastrophe [Articles]
... Northwest Indian Myths of Catastrophe Vine Deloria I'd like to thank Richard Heinberg, the previous speaker, for proving that Western Civilization is composed of schizoid, paranoid, psychopathic killers! (Laughter) That saved me half an hour in my speech right there. Let's accept that premise and then we can talk about the wisdom of the gentle ... that immense tidal waves of catastrophic nature deposited all kinds of animal skeletons all over the world. Orthodoxy, however, insists that the animals "migrated" across dozens of mythical land bridges in order to leave their fossils on different continents. Thus orthodoxy has innumerable Ice Ages-the mechanics of which they cannot explain- in order to raise and lower ...
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