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217 pages of results. 861. The Blazing Star, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... 311-312. 33. Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia, I, 120. 34. Ibid., p. 43. 35. Holmberg, Siberian Mythology, p. 432; Alexander, North American Mythology, p. 9. ...
862. The Holy Grail: Source of the Ancient Science and Spirituality of the Circling Cosmos by Lee Perry [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , where it is often considered as a vessel and is associated with the lost Golden Age of many cultures. Quests for some version of the Grail take place in many myths and are not limited to Christianity in the Middle Ages. It would seem that the Grail' is part of the universal imagery of a lost cosmos and in that ... calendric periodicity but of a time when the skies were chaotic and associated with catastrophe on Earth? The author does not, in this treatise at least, consider the general mythological history of the Grail, where it is often considered as a vessel and is associated with the lost Golden Age of many cultures. Quests for some version of the ...
863. Akhnaten, Aten, and Venus Reconsidered [Journals] [Pensee]
... T. Rundle Clark discusses the phoenix as a Middle Kingdom symbol for Venus which, as the Benu Bird, "continues to be he who created himself. '" Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt (New York, 1960), 246. Compare this concept with the legendary birth of Athena, who was engendered fully adult by her ... origin, with its non-Hellenic suffix -na . . . " E. O. James, op. cit., 146; also see F. Guirand, "Greek Mythology," in The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (London, 1960), 117. 11. I. Velikovsky, Ibid., 170ff; E. Neumann, ...
864. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... which the Department is the custodian. PYGMY KITABU by Jean-Pierre Hallet, with Alex Pelle, Souvenir Press, 1973: £4 .00 Applies a Velikovskian interpretation to catastrophic myths of the Éfé Pygmies of the Ituri Forest (Zaïre). THE WORSHIP OF THE SKY-GOD by E. O. James. Athlone Press, 1963: £3 ... e.g . blood coagulability, cardiac function, reaction speed. (Trans. from Russian.) THE REBEL LANDS: An investigation into the origins of Early Mesopotamian mythology by J. V. Kinnier Wilson and Herman Vanstiphout. Cambridge U. P.: approx. £10. A further study of early religion in the Near ...
865. The Sacred Mythological Centres of Ireland by Jack Roberts [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1997:2 (Apr 1998) Home | Issue Contents The Sacred Mythological Centres of Ireland by Jack Roberts (Bandia Press, Limerick, Ireland, 1996) Reviewed by Phillip Clapham At £4 .95 this little booklet represents value for money and is full of line drawings and illustrations. These ... festivals (at Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasa and Samhain), great gatherings of the Irish which involved religious ceremonies (Christianised), music, tales, poetry, and mythic stories. People hiked up holy mountains, visited island sanctuaries on sacred loughs, or gathered by the side of rivers (an idea absorbed into Christianity). We ...
866. The End of a World (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... the luxuriant tropical lowlands and among the fertile temperate foothills of the Andes, had probably forgotten all about the actual existence of Tiahuanaco and regarded it as little more than a myth'. They probably never attempted the ascent of the mighty, snow-topped, ice-embattled, mountain wall, whose highest peaks at that time6 towered to some 27 000 feet ... bombardment, earthquake throes, and volcanic paroxysms. This was the beginning of the great Age of Darkness, Chamak Pacha, when the Sun was lost, of which the mythology of the Urus tells, and of which they say that it happened after the rise, and the loss, of Tiahuanaco. In spite of the violence of the ...
867. The Inconstant Heavens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... astronomy and often took the form of orreries, they influenced the interpretation of the cosmological revolution brought about by Copernicus, Bruno, and Galileo. The recent book, The Myth of Metaphor (New Haven, 1962), by the philosopher Colin Murray Turbayne, who explicitly appeals to the arguments of Berkeley and Hume, examines the pervading influence ... truth in his book, The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods (Cambridge, 1959), where he acknowledged that Newton was deeply involved in controversies about the significance of ancient mythology (pp.85-128). Newton championed euhemerism, the theory that myths were based upon the lives of historical personages, for by this doctrine he hoped to discredit ...
868. Predicting the Past (advert) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Advertisement FRESH OFF THE PRESS: Vol. III of the Osiris Series Sponsored by Cosmos & Chronos, Series Ed. D. Cardona Predicting the Past: An Exploration of Myth, Science and Prehistory by Roger Williams Wescott Is the present condition of the world the result of aeons of peaceful evolution? Or has Earth been shaped by wrenching catastrophes ... treering data show steep environmental downturns within historical times and that these events seem to be tied to celestial phenomena. The present work is a summation of Roger Wescott's thoughts regarding mythology, human prehistory, and catastrophism. Not only are the ideas presented in this work incendiary; they are also educative. Beyond its considerable value for enlightenment, entertainment ...
869. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... an atmospheric scientist with NASA. Man the scavenger Scientific American October 1992, pp. 70-76 Man the Hunter, as Elaine Morgan has pointed out, is a very suspect myth proposed by a male dominated anthropological circle. A very careful survey of the habits and types of prey of both typical hunters and scavengers on African game reserves has been ... this period record 20 years of extremely wet weather? Even earlier in North America 4 dogs were carefully buried in special graves over 8000 years ago and the dog entered Mesoamerican mythology as Xolotl, the evil and dangerous Evening Star, companion of the Sun, to whom twins were sacrificed. There is more to our popular pet than meets the ...
870. Aeon Volume II, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume 2, Number 2 (1990) Texts Home | Aeon Home AEON A Symposium on Myth and Science Volume II, Number 2 Copyright (c ) 1990 and Published by: The Kronia Group, 9805 S.W . Whitford Lane Beaverton, OR 97005. USA IN THIS ISSUE.Viva Lamarck A longstanding evolutionist ... . PAGE 82 The Reconstruction of Cosmic History Dwardu Cardona takes a critical look at some competing cosmic scenarios, arguing that only the polar configuration answers to the details of the mythical record. PAGE 108 Aeon Volume II, Number 2 CONTRIBUTORS Dwardu Cardona, former Senior Editor of the journal KRONOS, has also written for various other publications. Ev ...
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