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217 pages of results. 751. Matters Arising [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... their opinions and we have compiled from them the following response. The conventional identification for Apollo is that of a sun god. Robert Graves, a notable authority on Greek myths, observed that Apollo was identified with "the immortal Sun"(1 ) He made the proviso that the Sun had a very minor role in early Greek myths ... ?In WORKSHOP 2:4 (April 1980) we published a letter from R. A. Herring on the subject of the identity of the god Apollo in Greek mythology. Mr Herring had visited many of the important Greek sites and had been struck by the fact that most of them owed their prominence to the cults of Athena and ...
752. The Riddle of the Earth [Books]
... THE RIDDLE OF THE EARTH CHAPTER III VOLCANIC SYSTEMS CLIMAX OF ERUPTION SUDDEN FROM the very earliest days volcanic mountains became the objects of intense religious devotion, as conveyed in such myths as those of Mt. Atlas, Prometheus, and Mt. Culhuacan (of the Aztecs), and any one who reads the Book of Exodus with care will ... little-understood sacred device, the tau. * Geo. F. Chalmers, F.R .A .S .: "The Story of the Comets." ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY AND COMETS 118. As the religious beliefs of the ancients have a very direct bearing on this investigation, it is not out of place to draw attention here to ...
753. The Rites Of Moloch [Journals] [Kronos]
... manner he cut off the head of a daughter of his own; so that all the gods were dismayed at the disposition of Kronos."(68) This Phoenician myth, as it was finally preserved by Eusebius Pamphili, contains a second episode wherein it is stated that: " . . . on the occurrence of a pestilence and ... Testament, in its original version, does not treat of "Moloch" but, rather, of "the Moloch" - that is, "the King". Mythology knows of two great planetary deities who were acknowledged as kings by the ancients who venerated them: Saturn, who was the first king of gods and men, and ...
754. Fingerprints of The Gods [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... , and then re-created and the process began again. This belief can be explained sociologically in that in the world societies rise, reign and die in very cyclical patterns and myths concerning old kingdoms may have developed into this belief. > 5) Debunks the existence of pre-Columbian maps which > give reasonably accurate plottings the currently > submerged Antarctica coastline ... Nile flooding, the Tigris and Euphrates flooded. No one is pointing out that the annual nile floods prove Egyptian creation myths. The biblical flood flows out of the same mythical element that Lord Marduk and Tiamat did, yet the epic battles of the Sumerians against the sea are not taken seriously as fact. From: Winston Small, small ...
755. Aristotle And Amnesia. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... the accounts of such catastrophes, accounts that Aristotle and his admirers were soon to reclassify as "mythical" or "unscientific" or "nonhistorical". One function of myth in Plato was to communicate a truth that could not readily be communicated in any other way: "myth" was not a dirty word to Plato. Another function ... collective unconscious. Plato, in fact, had preserved and endorsed many of the accounts of such catastrophes, accounts that Aristotle and his admirers were soon to reclassify as "mythical" or "unscientific" or "nonhistorical". One function of myth in Plato was to communicate a truth that could not readily be communicated in any other way ...
756. Vishnu Born Of Shiva [Journals] [Kronos]
... worlds, lies in my right side. Vis[h ]nu, the protector, dwells in my left."(14) Thus, any interpretation of this myth which sees in it a reflection of Venus' supposed ejection from Jupiter will also have to embrace the belief that Saturn, here personified by Brahma,(15) ... the offspring of Vishnu - the idea of the Saturnian deity being the father and/or child of himself can be accepted simply because the belief is not unique to Hindu mythology The Greeks were no different when they presented Kronos/Saturn as the son of Uranus/Saturn.(20) Osiris/Saturn was also believed to have been ...
757. AEON Back Issues [Journals] [Aeon]
... :6 (May 1997) Home | Issue Contents Aeon All Back Issues Now Available $15.00 per issue Vol.I : No.1 Reconstructing the Saturn Myth * Venus in Ancient Myth and Language * Apollo and the Planet Mars * The Electro-Gravitic Theory of Celestial Motion * Solar System Studies * The Road to Saturn. Vol ... Final Years * Fracture Zones in Polar Ice Cores * The Surface of Venus * A Velikovsky Potpourri * A Personal Memoir * Venus and the Jubilees * Towards a Science of Mythology: Velikovsky's Contribution. Vol.III: No.2 Astral Kingship * Velikovsky's Dreamwork * Is the Universe Finite? * Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art * ...
758. Bibliography (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... and Bill Napier. (1982). The Cosmic Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth History. New York: Universe. Cohen, Daniel. (1965). Myths of the Space Age. New York: Dodd Mead. Cohen, I. Bernard. (1952). "Orthodoxy and Scientific Progress." Proceedings of the ... The Structural Study of Myth." Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books.. (1975). The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, I. New York: Harper Colophon". Levine, Hal. (1950). "Dr. Velikovsky Reiterates New Theories Here: 300 Hear Him Blame ...
759. The Palaetiology of Fear and Memory [Books]
... such disasters occurred in the period of the dawn of civilization seems to be highly probable. We may cite here not only the striking documentation published by Immanuel Velikovsky from religious myths and secular histories of the earliest times, but also the researches of the Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars such as Giordano Bruno and Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger, surveys of Claude Schaeffer on ... forgetting of ills and a rest from sorrow. The Theogony was composed after -729, that is, during or after an era of troubled skies; but it was a mythical work "reporting" on events that had occurred hundreds and thousands of years before. A functional psychology rests in the quoted passage. "Remembering" was no mere ...
760. The Saturn Myth: Contents [Books]
... early civilization can be seen as conscious efforts to re-enact or commemorate Saturn's organization of his "celestial" kingdom. A fascinating look at ancient history and cosmology, The Saturn Myth is a provocative book that might well change the way you think about man's history and the history of the universe. David N. Talbott is the founder and former ... illuminating some of the dark corners of primordial society. Dust Cover: Intrigued by Velikovsky's claim that Saturn was once the pre-eminent planetary god, David Talbott resolved to examine its mythical character. "I wanted to know,", he wrote, "if ancient sources had a coherent story to tell about the planet .. . I had ...
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