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164 pages of results. 431. A New Theory of Celtic Festivals [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the harvest and not to thank for it. ' These festivals were not gentle rustic celebrations. Anne Ross writes: Each part of the year was preceded by a great religious festival commemorating some cult legend. The festival was accompanied by feasting and merrymaking, by fairs and marketing, games and sport, and by solemn religious observances and, ... 119-120 5. Anne Ross, Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts, Batsford, London, p. 151. 6. John Rhys, On the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic Heathendom (The Hibbert Lectures 1886, Williams and Norgate, London, 1888), p. 419. 7. Powell, op. cit ...
432. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... somersaults, lengthwise, over charging bulls by athletes in Minoan Crete might have been possible if there had been reduced gravity. I would further speculate on one aspect of the religious reason for the performance of the Olympic Games, the bull somersaults, and other religious activities of the ancients. Jueneman states that the 29th Olympiad in 664 BC recorded ... even when it offends some individual philosophies. Our Society need not be considered a "crank organisation" merely because it continues to allow freedom of expression to those of all religions (and those who have none). George Hollaseter, Wallasey Weighty Speculations Dear Sir, Frederick B. Jueneman has speculated with an emphasis on ancient Olympic Games, ...
433. The Spiral and Birth [Books]
... gives a number of instances of this widespread belief.13 In the Hindu sacred work Bharatapana,14 the navel is connected with the breath of life and ascetics in their religious breathing exercises were supposed to realize this, as the following passage shows clearly: Drawing the vital breath from the navel into his heart let the Solitary cause it to ... fimbul-winter and the great emigration from the north with an earthquake and a damage to the world mill which makes the starry heavens revolve.31 There are traces in ancient Persian religion of a belief in a prolonged and terrible winter which caused Yima to build, on Ahura's suggestion, " the Vara . . . to shelter mankind and animals" ...
434. The Spiral and Birth [Books]
... gives a number of instances of this widespread belief.13 In the Hindu sacred work Bharatapana,14 the navel is connected with the breath of life and ascetics in their religious breathing exercises were supposed to realize this, as the following passage shows clearly: Drawing the vital breath from the navel into his heart let the Solitary cause it to ... fimbul-winter and the great emigration from the north with an earthquake and a damage to the world mill which makes the starry heavens revolve.31 There are traces in ancient Persian religion of a belief in a prolonged and terrible winter which caused Yima to build, on Ahura's suggestion, " the Vara . . . to shelter mankind and animals" ...
435. Freud and Velikovsky Part I [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... ambivalent longing and distress over dreams of Rome. When he finally managed the tour of Rome he shielded his mind from the sin-penalty it signified by regular- we might say religious- pilgrimages to the church of Peter Chained, where the horned Moses of Michelangelo thrilled him with its questioning brows. The place he really desired to visit was the ... and against His anointed. The father of psychoanalysis was happily occupied in the summer of 1938 with the final portion of his last book, The Man Moses and the Monotheist Religion, already well advertised in the world press. His Amsterdam publisher issued it in August, and before the author arranged his euthanasia in September the next year, he ...
436. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . She was not just the Morning Star. Such deities, in contrast to mythological anthropomorphized planets, as Zeus, Kronos, Horus [17], and Inanna comprised religious complexes every bit as subtle and abstract as the Christian Trinity. To reduce such deities to mere planets is a grave disservice to quite sophisticated pagan religions [18] ... Velikovsky and pressed most recently by Cardona, that the planets had always been deities' [14] is wrong. This is a big lie' that drastically oversimplifies ancient religion. According to A. B. Cook, Zeus and Kronos were originally general sky gods whose nature underwent a long evolution with their names becoming associated with planets at ...
437. Greek History Begins in the Sixth Century B.C. [Journals] [Aeon]
... recorded for the first time by ancient historians and chronographs. The archaeological framework still is entirely based upon these decisive dates. Since chronography plays a fundamental role for national and religious identity almost every scientific attempt to separate the reliable from the implausible tradition, and correspondingly, to reject mythical accounts and dates has always been treated with hostility by the ... Nilsson, op. cit. (1920), p. 364. 72. Ludwig Weniger, Olympische Studien, Wann wurde die erste Olympiade gefeirt?, Archiv fr Religionswissenschaft, 20/1920-21, p. 77. 73. See K.J . Beloch, Griechische Geschichte (Strasburg, 1913), p. 253, where ...
438. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... evolutionary theory, natural selection and adaptation, all of which appear to be founded more on 19th century natural theology rather than pure science. He shows how and why Lyell's religious belief in uniformitarian gradualism supplanted catastrophism by the middle of the 19th century and how, during the last 20 years, a prolonged scientific revolution has once again brought catastrophism ... claimed there was one supreme deity, held to be the axial "Pole" Star. "According to Jewish and Muslim Cosmology," wrote the eminent authority on Semitic religions, A.J . Wensinck, "the divine throne is exactly above the seventh heaven, consequently it is the pole of the Universe." (An echo ...
439. Epilogue: Questions And Answers (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... to some extent by its deliberate omission in the choice of objects for the funeral chambers. Besides a natural fondness for shiny copper and bronze in preference to iron, a religious tabu may have played a role in the slow progress of iron. A tabu against using iron for certain purposes is known to have existed in Palestine- the stones of ... Delta, how can this difference be harmonized? 2. The art- architecture, sculpture, painting; the language-literary works, orthography and epigraphy (writing); and also religion: do not all of them in the Nineteenth Dynasty (of Seti and Ramses II) show closeness and affinity to the art, language, and religion of the ...
440. The Queen of Sheba (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... of Arabia, but we are not justified in limiting the land of Punt to the African coast alone.... The land to which their [the Egyptian] religious texts ascribe an almost legendary character, lay upon both shores of the southern end of the Red Sea." The Way from Thebes to Jerusalem The shortest route from ... ). 86. The Odyssey, XIII, 272; XIV, 288ff. 87. V. Bérard, "Le Nom des Pléniciens", Revue de lhistoire des religions, 93 (1926), 187ff.; G. Contenau, La Civilisation phénicienne (Paris, 1926), p. 356; Syria, Revue dart oriental ...
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