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217 pages of results. 831. The Sybil and Dr Stecchini [Journals] [SIS Review]
... VA 122] that the "pressing warning" Kugler wished to convey with his paper - and to the widest possible audience - is that ancient traditions in the form of myths and legends, however fantastic, contain at least a grain of truth, and that this is as often as not astronomical in character. So much is clear from ... him a worldwide reputation. From the beginning he had announced that the first two volumes, which dealt with observational data, would be followed by a third volume dealing with mythology and cosmological concepts. This third volume was never published, and one must understand that the booklet of 1927 on the myth of Phaeton, in a real, if ...
832. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... on Saturday 15th November at the Institute of Archaeology, Gordon Square, London WC1 (Lecture theatre G6). Admission is free. New Books The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion by Ev Cochrane (ISBN 0-9656229-0-8) looks at the role of this planet in history and its links to mythical figures such as Heracles, Perseus, Odysseus ... Samson, Nergal, Indra, thor and Cuchulainn. It is available from the author at 601 Hayward, Ames, IA 50014, United States of America at a cost (inc. postage) of $20 (USA), $25 (outside USA). Origins: Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth by James E. Strickling ( ...
833. Planets in the Bible: I -- The Cosmology of Job [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Saturn and the "sweet influences" (or manna?) of Venus, if Jupiter were prominent in the night sky - and by the testimony of ancient science and myth, Jupiter was very prominent indeed. CATASTROPHE FROM THE SKY: AMOS 900 years after the assumed time of Job, the prophet Amos harked back to "Orion" ... Tikulti-Ninurta II (c .890 BC) raindrops are depicted stored in skins" (22). He parallels further examples from Turkish folklore and Indic, Teutonic and Peruvian mythology. THE PLANETS IN JOB After the vivid catastrophic imagery of Job 9:5-8, the passage goes on to speak of a God ". .. Which alone ...
834. NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... may be protecting the meaning of the "abstract" symbols as secrets of the religion. These suggestive associates and alignments dervere more careful study and position surveys. Cosmology - Myth or science?Hannes Alfven, (Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (ISSN 0093-3813), vol. ... ). The contents of the poem, however, refer to rather advanced astronomical concepts that can not be accounted for as later revisions. They may be related with the mythology of the Egg-World. Data on the constellation's synchronous ascensions and crossing by the equinoxial and heavenly tropics might result from an ancient search at some Stonehenge-like observatories. In full ...
835. The Atlantis Researches by Paul Dunbavin (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the period shortly before Menes, namely at around 3000 BC. There are references to a flood in the Book of the Dead papyri and he goes on to relate various myths of Creek Indians, the Vikings, the Pawnees, Australian Aborigines, Polynesians and South American tribes. He actually moves some material Mandelkehr dates at 2300 BC back to ... , but Dunbavin suggests two flood traditions had been combined by Confucian period historians. The legendary Yao and Shu belong to the 3200 BC event, he claims, and these mythical characters resemble Heracles, or Maui of the Polynesians. A third flood tradition could be associated with the 1628 BC dendro-glitch and this involved a clash between two suns fighting ...
836. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Prehistoric Europe". He began by pointing out that Atlantis featured frequently in catastrophist literature and explaining that he would be trying to clear up a few misconceptions about the Atlantis myth by reviewing some of the most popular theories about its origin. Practically everything we know about Atlantis comes from two of Plato's shorter Socratic dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. ... and other Celtic peoples of western Europe have strong parallels with the Atlantis story. According to Strabo, the Iberian Turdetanians claimed an antiquity of 6,000 years. Irish mythology populates the Atlantic with whole lists of fabulous islands, and such places are often linked with tales of the rapid destruction of cities and islands in the sea whose inhabitants ...
837. Aeon Volume V, Number 5: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume V, Number 5 Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Journal of Myth, Science and Ancient History AEON, 601 Hayward, Ames, IA 50014, USA North American Web Site: http://www.ames.net/AEON/ UK Web Site: http://www.knowledge. ... assemble the "big picture." Ev Cochrane, the author of Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion, 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. Dwardu Cardona has been a free-lance writer since 1968. He ...
838. The Mystery Of The Pleiades [Journals] [Kronos]
... , they [Patten et al.] use a good deal of Biblical material... [but] pay scant attention to the testimony of other ancient peoples in myth and astronomical records. Their catastrophic model holds Mars to be responsible for all major catastrophes except the second half of the Flood catastrophe... This completely fails to ... the 1959 edition of Encyclopaedia Brittannica, Vol. 13, p. 76. 20. See, for instance, J. Morgenstern, "The Divine Triad in Biblical Mythology," in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. LXIV, (1945), p. 17. 21. M. Sieff, op. cit. ...
839. Zetetic Scholar Nos. 3 & 4 April 1979 [Articles]
... battle the sun and moon stood still for about a whole day.9 Velikovsky discovered that a similar account of physical phenomena, although variously told, is found in the myths and legends of peoples all over the world. For example, in Mexico a prolonged night is recorded.10 By comparing different accounts of the same natural events it ... is the mural decoration. In appearance the hieroglyphs are composite and new signs abound whose reading differs from that of earlier inscriptions. In content the religious texts provide information about mythological events which was previously kept on documents hidden in temple libraries. The temples of Ramesses III and the 21st dynasty belong to the tradition of the New Kingdom builders, ...
840. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the Americas; but Marie and Richard Andress, folklorist and geographer respectively, found forty-six in the New World, almost twice as many accounts. But Bellamy estimated 500 deluge myths coming from 250 peoples or tribes. The probability is high that every culture can recite the story of a universal flood which practically nobody survived.[2 ] The ... of the day." If I may refashion the theory of Vail, in the light of what I have written elsewhere, I should suggest that (a ) self-conscious myth-making mankind was born beneath a high canopy of rings and clouds, without a visible Sun; (b ) deluges began and a visible Uranian Sun and the present Sun ...
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