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164 pages of results. 471. The Area of Origin [Books]
... a symbol of fire, a symbol of lightning, a thunderbolt, a symbol of water, an astronomical symbol, a symbol of the four castes of India, a religious or military standard or flag, a bird in flight, a representation of the argonaut or octopus, a cross (as in the French terms croix gammee and " ... of Symbols1 translation by Sir George Birdwood, London, 1894, pp.73 et seq. 8. Canaan, p.340. 9. Elliot Smith, The Religion of the Dragon, pp. 173 et seq. ...
472. Concepts of Collective Memory [Articles]
... the effect that there were disasters of a cosmic nature, they leave no question about the clarity of the idea that these things happened. There are all sorts of symbolic religious and ritualistic expressions which embody these ideas that in a sense, so far as the collective is concerned, are fully conscious and there to be observed and examined. ... . After the survivors have recalled the catastrophes, those who seem able to write it down, the succeeding generations idealize what happened, and this is what we get in religions, and what Warner Sizemore chiefly was talking about, the religions in which we idealize the religious figurehead in order to explain what happens and we end up denigrating ourselves ...
473. In Defense Of The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... A. Hislop, The Two Babylons (London, 1972), pp. 193-194. [45] A. B. Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, Vol. II, Part I (N .Y ., 1965), P. 335. [46] P. Grimal, "Rome: Gods ... . [31] P. J. James, op. cit., p. 96. [32] F. Boll, "Kronos-Helios," Archiv für Religionwissenschaft, XIX (1916-1919), pp. 343 ff. [33] See here the evidence presented in D. Cardona, ref. #14, pp. ...
474. The Riddle of the Earth [Books]
... which I shall proceed to outline. THE RIDDLE OF THE EARTH CHAPTER III VOLCANIC SYSTEMS CLIMAX OF ERUPTION SUDDEN FROM the very earliest days volcanic mountains became the objects of intense religious devotion, as conveyed in such myths as those of Mt. Atlas, Prometheus, and Mt. Culhuacan (of the Aztecs), and any one who reads ... which, until its meaning is recognised as relating to a comet, appears visionary, fantastic, and strange. Yet long ago the Phoenicians, as the vestiges of their religion passed down by Sanchoniathon show, recognised the comet as the hand of God and as the visible representation whereby He manifested Himself, and so they used this device. ...
475. The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I) [Journals] [Aeon]
... of Rakahanga in the Pacific, natives remembered the ancestor Tangaroatui-mata and his sister Ina-mata-porari. Williams tells us that mati means the "eye." Robert W. Williamson, Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia (New York, 1977), Vol. I, p. 200. When the Sumerian goddess Ninhursag says she will no longer ... . von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill(Boston, 1969), pp. 244-5. See Hermann Jacobi, "Indian Ages of the World," in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (New York, 1928), Vol. I, p. 201. At the beginning of the present world age, all of the planets are ...
476. From Creation to the Death of Isaac [Books]
... he should leave this his son in a safe and secure condition; which accordingly he obtained by the will of God: who being desirous to make an experiment of Abraham's religious disposition towards himself, appeared to him, and enumerated all the blessings he had bestowed on him; how he had made him superior to his enemies; and that ... by war, nor by any other severe way, by which death usually comes upon men, but so that he will receive thy soul with prayers and holy offices of religion, and will place thee near to himself, and thou wilt there be to me a succorer and supporter in my old age; on which account I principally brought ...
477. Catastrophe, Collective Trauma, and the Origin of Civilization [Articles]
... numbers of human beings are experiencing now as a result of technological and economic change. Traditional modes of work, patterns of subsistence and nutrition, social and family relationships, religious ideas and practices, and common values are all vulnerable to the ravages of "progress." SUMMING UP SO FAR In history, effects become causes: wars beget ... , the style of homes they lived in, their habits of work, the way men and women related to each other, their form of government, and even their religion." In "developed" (i .e ., highly civilized) cultures, patterns of reaction are somewhat different. In many instances, impacts are minimized ...
478. Maimonides And Spinoza, The Exegetes, Part 2 Mars Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... the day was longer than usual, but asserted that the sun and moon stood still, or ceased from their motion." The deduction made is: "Partly through religious motives, partly through preconceived opinions, they conceived of and related the occurrence as something quite different from what really happened." "It is necessary to know the ... Rambam, also Maimonides (1135-1204), in his The Guide for the Perplexed,1 expressed the opinion that a belief in the Creation is a fundamental principle of Jewish religion, "but we do not consider it a principle of our faith that the Universe will again be reduced to nothing"; "it depends on His will, ...
479. Our Rock Who Art in Heaven [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... time ago, they besieged this planet. At least one of those gods, the Bible's "Most High," dogs us to this day - in the form of religious literalists. The god itself is much more benign: Its scattered ashes sail languidly by us now - the stuff of tantalizing, not threatening, meteor showers. Mythology ... of the war-god Skanda and his twin demon offspring. For the reader who is interested in classical and mythological texts, a gold mine lies herein. A fascinating blend of religion, mythology, astrology, astronomy, and etymology. Journey through the heavens - and land squarely back on Earth. Be prepared to jettison any traditional views of the ...
480. Time, Electricity and Quantavolution [Books] [de Grazia books]
... years before them, affirm that the bodies of the Solar System and the stars changed their behavior and their motions. These men were cognizant of, and disciplined by, religious systems that were sky-obsessed, and which moved continually between celestial behavior and mundane behavior, in supreme efforts to let happen on Earth what happened in Heaven, and vice ... it and stressing evolution, by consigning manifestations of it whenever possible to times beyond mind, by framing scientific principles in prejudicial terms, by associating quantavolution with disreputable or outmoded religions and scientific beliefs and by unconscious editing of the evidence. To our view quantavolution affords an instrument for scientific inquiry as useful as and perhaps superior to that allowed us ...
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