Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

241. The Age of Purple Darkness [Journals] [Aeon]

... will be used in lieu of a bar; other diacritics had to be sacrificed. The Age of Purple Darkness Roger Ashton Scientific Problems The Purple Darkness is a phase of mythical history with which a longer paper will deal in more detail.To be analyzed are the astrophysical, geophysical, biological, and other implications of the darkness with which myth maintains that creation began. The present essay is, in effect, a preview that surveys a few aspects of larger problems with as much independent treatment as seems possible. The total context forms, like knowledge, an indivisible whole, so that only parenthetically can the interlinked commencement and end of the Age of Saturn be given isolated scrutiny ...

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242. Hans Schindler Bellamy info wanted [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... From: SIS Internet Digest 2002:1 (Sep 2002) Home | Issue Contents Hans Schindler Bellamy info wanted Posted by Ian Tresman 29 September 2001 I'm trying to find out more information on H.S . Bellamy, who wrote Moons, Myths, and Man, Publ. 1936. The British Library catalogue (blpc.bl.uk/) lists 11 publications. [1 ] The Atlantis Myth. [With maps.], pp. 168. Faber & Faber: London, 1948. 8o. [2 ] The Book of Revelation is History, pp. 204. Faber & Faber: London, 1942. 8o. [3 ] Built before ...

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243. The Date Of The Loss Of Atlantis (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]

... From: The Atlantis Myth by H. S. Bellamy CD Home | Contents Title Page | Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Ch. 10 | Ch. 11 | Ch. 12 | Ch. 13 | Ch. 14 | Ch. 15 | Ch. 16 | Ch. 17 | Ch. 18 | Conclusion | Notes | Bibliography | Index | The Date Of The Loss Of Atlantis Before we continue there are two problems to be investigated: the year when Atlantis was lost, and the meaning of ...

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244. Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification [Journals] [Aeon]

... difficult problems facing the researcher in comparative mythology concerns the planetary identifications of the ancient gods. This problem is especially critical to those scholars investigating the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky, whose book Worlds in Collision was premised upon the finding that the ancient gods were identified with the various planets, certainly one of Velikovsky's most seminal contributions to the study of myth. Velikovsky's thesis is supported by the fact that the oldest symbols of the gods in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica are stars. (1 ) That the ancient gods were celestial objects seems obvious; what is not obvious, however, is which gods represent which celestial objects. Velikovsky himself relied extensively upon the testimony of ancient Greeks ...

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245. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]

... ] the earth, [4 ] a prehistoric tribe of Amazons, [5 ] the unconscious, [6 ] etc. Yet none of these theories has gained general acceptance, primarily because none can account for more than a select handful of the goddess' various functions and attributes, much less explain the myriad of peculiar details attending her myth and cult. In our opinion, it is the goddess' identification with the planet Venus- attested in numerous cultures from the ancient Near East, but also among aboriginal peoples of the New World- which offers the elusive common denominator necessary to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the goddess' mythical attributes. In this series of essays, ...

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246. Child of Saturn (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]

... 10) Philo Byblius, basing his report on that of Sanchoniathon and quoted by Eusebius of Caesarea, was definitely one of those who stated that Athene was the daughter of Kronos.(11) As far as the Greeks were concerned, Kronos (or Cronus) was the god of the planet Saturn. While, other than the Pelasgian myth, these sources may be said to be later than Hesiod, it must also be borne in mind that, from a Velikovskian point of view, the Greeks themselves were a very late people. By this is meant that the Greeks settled the land that was to become Hellas (Greece) well after the alleged ejection of Venus from ...

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247. The Celestial Whirlpool Lake [Books]

... Home | Issue Contents SECTION III The Celestial Whirlpool Lake Winds as carriers of good and evil-Chinese "fung-shui" doctrine - Seasons and Cardinal points -Revolving "Great Bear" constellation - The Chinese "Bushel " - Scandinavian "World Mill" - The Revolving Heavens - " World Mill" and Whirlpool - Northern Stars in Pyramid Age Early Egyptian stellar myths solarised -Northern Stars in "Sun-boat " - Sirius as "Year Star " - " Great Bear" as Set who felled Osiris - Pole Star as Babylonian god - Biblical reference - Aryo Indians and Pole Star-" Great Bear" as source of Magic -Magicians as early scientists - Polynesian "mana " - Magical ceremonies Wind and Water ...

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248. The Celestial Whirlpool Lake [Books]

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249. The Catastrophic Substructure of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]

... may indicate a form of continuity of idea between the actual times of the catastrophes and Shakespeare's day. In general, Davidson's essay, like Lee's, seems almost to have been written about Velikovsky's theories, so often and so consistently do his observations apply. I hazard the guess that this is primarily so because the background which Davidson delineates- myth, icon, religious parallel- is only one step removed in literality from the events which gave rise to it. Thus, when I apply his discoveries to my approach, I feel I am simply carrying his materials back to their true source. Cleopatra, says Davidson, is given traditional sets of qualities which relate her, among ...

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250. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]

... From: SIS Review Vol 1 No 2 (Spring 1976) Home | Issue Contents Forum Cenomanian Sync I would like to comment on Ian Grant's article entitled "Myth and Method" and to pursue a little further one very important point he raised. In his discourse on the problem of the denotation of cosmogonic agents in mythology, Grant detailed the different types of metamorphic processes which have corrupted ancient myths and legends. Certainly, these processes have been at work and the complexity of the problem in interpreting such texts is, to say the least, staggering. Yet in spite of this, Velikovsky is criticised for not only choosing his sources but for also choosing what they should ...

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