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164 pages of results. 511. As the Cross of the Cardinal Points [Books]
... between Assuan and Abu Hammed forms a vast loop, running south-westward, north-westward and then gradually north-eastward, it flows northward in Middle and Lower Egypt. In the art and religious symbolism of the ancient civilization, it was assumed that the course of the Nile was from south to north. "The river (Nile) flows north every day ... . Notes. 1. Edouard Naville, The Old Egyptian Faith (translation by C. Campbell. London, 1909, p.60). 2. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, pp.100.101. 3. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. V, p.125. 4. Robert Deep ...
512. Monuments of the British Neolithic by Miles Russell [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , and claims that these early monuments have sadly been compartmentalised. For example, barrows are visualised by one and all as burial places, enclosures and henges as places where religious ritual took place, and mines, or shafts in the ground, are simply seen as industrial. He suggests jettisoning these preconceived notions and looking at the monuments in ... notably during the third millennium BC. It could be argued that the control' of the heavens was entirely in the mind, a perceived idea associated with the fundamentals of religion. The idea was to gain access to, influence over, and, in the long term, control the violent activities of the sky gods. As such, ...
513. The Hittite Raid [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Ed., 133-34. HERBERT A. STORCK is an independent lecturer and writer in matters concerning the Ancient Near East. He has earned a BSC degree in Psychology and Religious Studies and is pursuing advanced courses in Ancient Near East studies. In spite of his growing formal education he considers himself essentially a self-taught spokesman and critic on the Ancient ... 20] Nebuchadnezzar I's reign was a time of cultural[2l] and spiritual renaissance and has been described as a "turning point"[22] in terms of religion. He appears to have appointed his daughter as entu priestess at Ur, where a stele of his was found. [23] He is even felt to have ...
514. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations [Journals] [Aeon]
... aim of rendering them terrifying no longer. In other words, these philosophers were engaged in describing the origins of the world and all that it contains in terms other than religious ones. Where previously the gods had created the Earth and wrought destruction, it was now shown that thunder, lightning, earthquakes, and eclipses had natural causes. ... is the Bronze-Iron Age boundary, new cultures emerged that were uniform and coherent. He then set about outlining the common features that emerged all over the world. First, religion: Where, previously, sacrifice was prevalent in theocentric religions, the new religions (Zoroastrianism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, etc.) were homocentric; ...
... may have come over the isthmus and founded Annu. They bring the worship of Anu. [11] The Divine dynasty of Set is founded, and we can imagine religious strifes between the partizans of the new northern cult and the southern moon-worshippers. These people might have come either from North Babylonia, or other swarms of the same race ... of a Moon-god, and it becomes necessary to inquire if such an idea occurred to other early peoples. Professor Sayce [8 ] tells us- "Accorcling to the official religion of Chaldaea, the Sun-god, was the offspring of the Moon-god," and he adds, " Such a belief could have arisen only where the Moon-god was the ...
516. Our Universe: Unlocking its Mysteries [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... theater of the gods. The Polar Configuration: This can only mean that the axis of Earth was directed along a line running through the collinear system. When the earliest religious texts and mythical sources are permitted to speak for themselves, this is precisely the arrangement they describe. What the ancients were seeing when they depicted the Sun as three ... was the "Golden Age", "Age of Perfect Virtue", or "Garden of Eden", depicted in one way or another in all diverse myths and religions. Another common theme in the myths of many distantly separated cultures is of a Doomsday that brought the Golden Age to an end. Could it be that a disturbance ...
517. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 18:1-8) Christ evoked a truth disclosure using an image which dramatically contrasted with rather than depicted the Judge of all the Earth. Can we not therefore see the religious intent of the Old Testament as providing a disclosure of God, not scaled-down pictures of Him? It is altogether too simplistic to assert that "God" of the ... " bird, has been associated with Venus,* Va-i-nau(s ). The Benu bird, represented with a human head, was the human migrant element in Egyptian religion, the human "soul", of which it was the visible symbol. I conclude Venus was "The Migrant" or "The Visitor", regardless of ...
518. Vox POPVLI [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Deep," AEON III:3 (October 1993), pp. 68-70. [8 ] See, for instance, M. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (London 1958/1996), pp. 367 ff., but also pp. 231-233. [9 ] Although called a pillar, or column, it ... , America B>C > (N . Y., 1978), p. 68. [23] F. Boll, "Kronos-Helios," Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 19 (1916-1919), pp. 343 ff., although this work should be read in toto. [24] See D. cardona, "Intimations of ...
519. Ancient Calendars [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... calendars. The third aspect is the supposed light thrown on catastrophic theories by ancient calendars. It is suggested that calendars were needed for four purposes, roughly: agricultural, religious, administrative and historical. The agricultural requirement' is often alluded to but rarely examined. Gallant speaks vaguely of the days that pass before the next operation in the ... the idea it is intended to explain? Neolithic man's conception of time appears to have been basically cyclic, then [2 ]. It is well known that early European religions were often based on Sun or Moon worship. (There are also fertility cults - which have a seasonal basis, and a lunar link through menstruation, - and ...
520. 1990 ISIS Fellowship Lecture Meeting [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... earthquake, as at the end of the Middle Minoan period. An island subject to repeated earthquakes, yes, well, the people would have good cause to be highly religious - but Professor Warren did not need to spell this out for his audience. The preferred archaeological date for the eruption of Thera (conventional chronology) was given by ... , as yet unidentified, volcano elsewhere. Professor Warren began his talk by outlining the nature of Minoan civilisation, a culture of considerable artistic achievement and one highly devoted to religion. He told of the destruction of Middle Minoan Crete by earthquake and of the rise of Late Minoan IA. Archaeologists date the eruption of Thera to the middle of ...
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