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327 pages of results. 291. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... Rise of Blood Sacrifice Gunnar Heinsohn The first stage of civilization appeared in the Bronze Age with temple-centered urban settlements. It is not known why priest-kings were suddenly accepted as hierarchically superior rulers entitled to provisions by their fellows who thereby turned themselves into mankind's first commoners. Sophisticated blood rituals became the most prominent activities of the first permanent lords. The origin of these sacred procedures remained equally enigmatic. Though well documented, the textual and archaeological sources which point to catastrophic preconditions for the emergence of a sacrificial elite, are only rarely taken into consideration by students of religion. This paper tries to show the essential correctness of Mesopotamian myths, which claim the first "cult places" and their ...
292. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." [1 ] The passage describing Jacob's ladder appears as if out of thin air, with little regard for context or a commonsense understanding of the natural world. It is as if the story's original background had been lost to the redactors of the Old Testament. Whatever the circumstances behind the decision to include the story in its present minimalist form, it is evident that the tradition of Jacob's ladder was deemed too important to be omitted entirely. That the Biblical account of Jacob's ladder contains ideas of great antiquity and popularity has long been ...
293. Cosmology And PsychologyY [Journals] [Kronos]
... and the labyrinthine recesses of the human mind - the Cosmos Within - lie two of Mankind's most profound psychological and emotional creations - Myth and Religion. Together, they have served man's basic need to bridge the known and the unknown, the finite and the immeasurable, the tangible and the intangible. Yet, for all their significance, the origin of myth and religion remains tantalizingly elusive and continues to provide one of the most intriguing problems in the study of man.(1 ) Despite the varied and monumental attempts to discover their true source, no single hypothesis has been universally accepted, for the simple reason that scholars have been unable to free themselves from uniformitarian dogmas which look ...
294. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... disappeared, as all vapor scenes must eventually have done. These two interesting characters abundantly illustrate how words derived from the same source in the polar heavens, primitively showing different features and afterward applied to terrestrial objects, became a cause of confusion in the translator's mind. We know they were not wolf-nursed, then have to admit that Romulus was originally a lighted feature operating on high. Centuries passed, Rome was built and named after the celestial Romulus whose vapor walls, sun-nourished, transferred their history and that of the brothers to the human city. It was perfectly natural that men in after times mistook the light- nursed Romulus and Remus to be wolf-nursed. As now seen the fossil ...
295. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... of astronomical phenomena, I am able to descry both strengths and weaknesses in the Saturn theory. Thus, for instance, having read excerpts from Dwardu Cardona's autobiographical essay, [11] as well as other papers on the subject, I couldn't help drawing certain conclusions from the following points: Cardona cited a tradition that speaks of mankind having originated in Earth's north polar region. [12] Lynn Rose identified the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia (a highland region- ground-zero of a three-plate split) as a candidate for the mythic World Mountain. [13] According to the "out-of-Africa" model (which I'm not entirely fond of), Homo sapiens sapiens did originate in the ...
296. The Ring About The Earth at 2300 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... latter, based on the appearance of new religions in cultures all over the Earth at that time, reflecting an extraordinary happening; this would not have occurred in the case of a volcanic eruption. The religions have, of course, disappeared but their residual mythology remains. There is general agreement that the significant mythological literature in the Middle East originated in the last centuries of the third millennium BC. Kirk [2 ] addresses the mythology of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and that of the Akkadians who conquered them at 2340 BC: Most of the surviving myths in Sumerian were written down, on the tablets we possess, as early as about 1700 BC, but can ...
297. Velikovsky and his Critics by Shane Mage [Books]
... in its essentials in the books Worlds in Collision (1950), Ages in Chaos (1952), and Earth in Upheaval (1955), has four main tenets: Geological and biological evolution took place, not with slow uniformity but discontinuously forced by a number of brief catastrophes each causing extermination of numerous well adapted life forrns, the origination of new species through massive violently induced mutations and drastic tectonic and hydrographic changes on the surface of the earth. Our solar system assumed its present basic form thousands, not billions, of years ago, non gravitational (electrical and magnetic) forces are central to its workings, and its history involves not quasi-eternal stability but repeated disruptions and ...
298. Sean Mewhinney's Critique Based On Bombastic Subterfuge, Evasion And Denial [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... papers in full and have made photocopies which I will sell (for the same price which I paid to get them, ten dollars. Send a check or money order made out to Charles Ginenthal and send it to this journal requesting "Minds"). In this way Mewhinney's papers will reach as many Velikovskians as possible who desire an original copy of his work. ICE CORES OR CRYSTALLINE SPHERES One of the most important methods of hypocrisy aimed at discrediting his theory was to seek clear-cut evidence that the Earth has always been in its present orbit and that the tilt of its rotational axis as well as the axis' placement has not changed significantly if at all, in recent ...
299. Fragments of Myths of Culture Heroes [Books]
... of Man' (cf. next chapter). The above fragment simply tells of the achievements of a tribe of deluge survivors who developed part of the mountain refuge to which they had escaped from the cataclysm. For some reason or other-probably because the word used in the Hebrew text, eden (which, admittedly, is not of Hebrew origin), is almost certainly cognate with Sumerian edinu, the Paradise of Genesis ii. 8 was supposed to have been situated somewhere in Mesopotamia. The non-Semitic word edinu means a desert, or wilderness (cf. the German word, Oede, which is derived from the same root), and referred, originally, only to an ...
300. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... ] Fig. 2. Spiraling Venus, lower right; Mars is the dark sphere (Courtesy of David Talbott) Not to give the entire game away, but still alert the reader for things to look for, I feel I must give some explanation now as to what I think really happened. So, again very briefly, the origin of this story is posited to have occurred at the time of the Saturnian configuration, when Saturn, Venus and Mars were aligned above Earth's north polar region. Because of what the ancestors of the ancient Egyptians witnessed in the sky, it is these three planets that became immortalized as the deities Osiris, Isis, and their son Horus ...
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