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327 pages of results. 221. The Cosmic Double Helix [Journals] [Aeon]
... dictionary will reveal that the caduceus was the magical staff of the Greek Hermes, the Roman Mercury, the divine messenger. It is usually depicted as a vertical staff entwined by two serpents. So far, so good. Needless to say, the caduceus has a mythological foundation, but it still lacks an obvious point of reference and its origins remain shrouded in mystery. The conundrum is really quite easy to formulate: If the symbol of Hermes' staff lacks a concrete meaning, then why should it be so significant? What does it represent? What is the prototype of the caduceus? Comparative mythology and symbolism provide incontrovertible evidence that the caduceus symbolised a cosmological phenomenon, a ...
222. Temple, Crown, Vase, Eye, and Circular Serpent [Books]
... created "earth" when he notes "the cosmic dimensions of the temple. It fills the whole world." (10) The Sumerians celebrated the god's shrine as the "pure place, earth of An" (that is, Saturn's Earth). (11) Throughout the previous sections I have contended that Saturn's dwelling produced the original myth of the lost paradise. That the great god's house enclosed the cosmic land of fertility and abundance is the straightforward declaration of the Sumerian temple hymns. (Though some of the lines in the following quotes are broken, one cannot fail to discern the consistent theme): House, Mountain, like herbs and plants beautifully blooming . ...
... , or is shown not to exist, or when found, does not accord with the prediction. On the other hand, its approximation of truth increases with each new discovery that confirms the prediction. Kenneth J. Hsu, The Great Dying, (NY 1986), p. 14 It has been said that the reception of an original contribution to knowledge may be divided into three phases: during the first, it is ridiculed as not true, impossible or useless; during the second, people say there may be something in it but it would never be of any practical use; and in the third and final phase, when the discovery has received general recognition, ...
224. Facing Many Problems, Part 2 Epilogue (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... in their places for billions of years; we claim that they have been travelling along their present orbits for only a few thousand years. We maintain also that one planet- Venus- was form erly a comet and that it joined the family of planets within the memory of mankind, thus offering an explanation of how one of the planets originated. We conjectured that the comet Venus originated in the planet Jupiter; then we found that smaller comets were born in contacts between Venus and Mars, thus offering an explanation of the principle of the origin of the comets of the solar system. That these comets are only a few thousand years old explains why, despite dissipation of the ...
... and Prometheus 317 Epilogue: The Lost Treasure 326 Conclusion 344 Appendices 351 Bibliography 453 Index 485 page v Preface AS THE SENIOR, if least deserving, of the authors, I shall open the narrative. Over many years I have searched for the point where myth and science join. It was clear to me for a long time that the origins of science had their deep roots in a particular myth, that of invariance. The Greeks, as early as the 7th century B.C ., spoke of the quest of their first sages as the Problem of the One and the Many, sometimes describing the wild fecundity of nature as the way in which the Many could be ...
... Home | Contents Part Three: Volcanic Powers And Limitations III - Volcanoes and their Craters CRATERS are tell-tale objects in a volcanic mountain, but geologists never see beyond the ends of their noses. Every volcano, large or small, starts with a crater, or, let us say, a crateral cup on its summit. This, the original crater, is invariably far greater in circumference than succeeding craters which sometimes are superimposed on a portion of the original crater and sometimes open up on a lower flank of the mountain. Again, it is no uncommon matter to find volcanoes of size and in fairly continuous states of eruption, like Vesuvius and Etna, possessing not only what ...
227. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... that the terrestrial symbol (the wheel) has influenced the artistic rendering of the celestial object (the Sun). This explanation, however, would appear to be ruled out by the fact that many of these pictographs predate the appearance of wheels. (106) Whatever their explanation, it seems clear that if we are to discover the original significance of Surya's wheel these pictographs offer a promising lead. Figure One Figure Two Given the fact that such pictographs are difficult to reconcile with the appearance of the current Sun, the possibility presents itself that some other celestial phenomenon served as their point of reference. Indeed, upon analysis of these prehistoric images we arrived at the conclusion that ...
228. The Celestial Whirlpool Lake [Books]
... jade,"2 while the Pole star round which the "Bushel" (" Great Bear") revolves is the "Pivot of the sky". This pivot, which is supposed to be of sacred jade, revolves constantly "carrying round with it all the other heavenly bodies". That this concept was not necessarily of Chinese Origin is made manifest Chinese Stellar Swastika called Pa-Kni (eight chiefs). Fig. 32. Chinese Stellar Swastika, called Pa-Kui (eight chiefs), it includes stars of Phoenix and Pisces. According to the Mongols, the stars are "Eight Devils" who protect robbers. This evil stellar swastika was opposed to the North, In ...
229. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two [Journals] [Aeon]
... : Aeon I:3 (1988) Home | Issue Contents Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two Ev Cochrane In "Venus in Ancient Myth and Language," Part I, we presented a survey of the ancient mythology of the planet Venus. The central hypothesis was that this planet's myths and symbols might serve to illuminate the original significance of the vocabulary surrounding the Latin goddess Venus. Of particular interest was a hypothetical relationship between Venus and words signifying a "band" or "bond" of some sort. The Latin vinculum, signifying "band", "cord", or "noose" was cited as an example of this phenomenon, vinculum being derived ...
230. The shaping of the earth's topography [Books]
... could be quoted to support the hypothesis that meteoritic impact was probably the dominant cause in the shaping of the Earth's topography, but the present author does not believe that this is the right way to solve the question. He is convinced that the only way to do so is to look for larger and larger structures of possible or probable meteoritic origin, which doubtless were the cause of terrific cosmic catastrophes. The largest known feature for which meteoritic origin is envisaged at present is the arc of the west coast of Hudson Bay, with a diameter of about 450 km. It has been shown, in Part II of this book, that if this feature is of meteoritic origin a ...
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