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164 pages of results. 601. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a long period, the oldest dating from the late Bronze Age and the most recent from the 13th century AD. In southern France one researcher claims to have found prehistoric religious cave paintings on the summit of a mountain, associated with a naturally sculpted face'. Although she insists ochre pigments from the walls have been scientifically assessed, other ... Mythical mountains National Geographic April 96, p. 58, Traveller Winter 96/97, pp. 18-21 In western Tibet lies the mountain Kailas, sacred to four Asian religions. Its west facing slope, covered in snow and ice, has the appearance of a perfect glistening white pyramid with steps to the summit. It is associated with ...
... he thought it a terrible thing for him to be such a slave to the madness of Caius, as to slay so many ten thousand men, only because of their religious disposition towards God, and after that to pass his life in expectation of punishment; Petronius, I say, thought it much better to send to Caius, and ... , entirely of the same character with himself, to be his partners. These men persuaded Fulvia, a woman of great dignity, and one that had embraced the Jewish religion, to send purple and gold to the temple at Jerusalem; and when they had gotten them, they employed them for their own uses, and spent the money ...
603. The Empire Strikes Back [Books] [de Grazia books]
... false argument. Dogmatic statements and accusations. Setting up and knocking down "strawmen." Dishonest rejoinders. Defamation and discrediting abuse. Promotion of antagonistic critics. Appeal to religious feelings. Guilt by association. Treating work by association with other ridiculed or denounced books. Use of fallacious statistical method to decide whether a genius or crank wrote book ... for heresy are innumerable, while, without severe sanctions, the hysterical historical pitch of the word is absent. Whereas V. called himself a heretic both in respect to religion and to science, he chose to stress science as the offending authority. In his day, in Western Europe and America, the idea of heresy hardly held meaning ...
604. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... AEON and its predecessors, as also David Talbott's The Saturn Myth, and seeing that the Configuration seems to be the basic cosmic ink blot to which all of the world's religious beliefs are Rorschach-type responses, some questions have come to mind. Since the Configuration appeared above the north pole, was anything seen above the south pole? At the ... shifts having taken place, the poles at that time may have been located in a different locality. The city of Jerusalem is of great importance to the western world's major religions. The vicinity of Jerusalem has for long been referred to as the Holy Land. Temples for worshipping what were actually Saturnian deities were built so that the worshippers faced ...
605. Monitor. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... from utilitarian objects such as the ankh being a loop on which to anchor a rope. However, it is pointed out that that some cultures perform kite flying as a religious ritual. Of Delphi and Troy New Scientist 1.9 .01, pp. 40-42, 17.11.01, p. 16 Pilgrims came from far ... of Amun, the main god of Thebes, then devoted himself to worshipping Aten, a sun god. It was very important for us to know the transition from polytheistic religion to a more or less monotheistic Aten', Mr van Walsem said. His colleague, Egyptologist Maarten Raven, of National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, said the ...
606. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Its central icon is that of a young man killing a bull. David Ulansey of Boston University has come to the conclusion that it is an astronomical code with strong religious implications'. He thinks, however, this is due to the growth of astrology at this period in response to a climate of philosophical fatalism. He disagrees with ... equated with the Greek hero Perseus, both gods originating in Cicilia. Ulansey goes on to compare Mithraism with Christianity and points out the abundance of cosmic references in the latter religion. Eureka for Morphic Resonance sources: Evening Standard (London) 6.2 .90 and 10.4 .90 Reporter Angus McGill gave Rupert Sheldrake and his ...
607. Psychoceramics [Journals] [Aeon]
... , the British Empire had just endured and lost a costly revolution with the American colonies, and was fearful of similar social changes on its home ground, so philosophical and religious polemics were inaugurated to condemn radical reformist ideas on human and social progress and in so doing forestall any detrimental changes in their then current system of government. In this ... and continuous evolution and change, carrying on the tradition of deliberate and unhurried medieval patience. By the middle of the 19th century the mindset of Europe was that "Neither religion nor philosophy could place limits on the natural universe in time and space. The triumph of the scientific revolution was the triumph of the infinite universe." (27 ...
608. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... used a unique script. Study of ancient remains in Thailand indicates that complex societies existed as early as 1000BC, before Indian migration to the area brought its own architectural and religious influence. Large cities showed evidence of iron and bronze technology, ceramics crafting and long distance trade, with complex irrigation and water management systems. The Pacific Earthwatch Magazine ... and have plenty of spare time to pursue it, whereas primitive agriculture was hard work and led to population growth, stratified societies, slavery, mass warfare and authoritarian state religions. Is this behaviour really culturally superior? Europe National Geographic Sept 97, geographica, July 97, geographica, Science Frontiers No. 115, Jan-Feb 97, p ...
609. The Primordial Light? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 30, 3 & 4. Jastrow commented: ". . . its satellite, so to speak, and alter ego". - M. Jastrow: Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylon and Assyria (New York and London, 1911), p. 223. 59. From privately circulated study by R. M. ... 33-5. 67. Thorkild Jacobsen: Before Philosophy (Harmondsworth, 1963), pp. 145f 68. ANET, p. 515. 69. M. Jastrow: Religion of Babylon and Assyria (1898). 70. Idem., op. cit. note 58, p. 234. 71. D. Cardona, in ...
... regard to the astronomical aspect of Devil or Satan worship, which became afterwards for at least two thousand years the soul of religion, and has to this day survived as religious inspiration in China, India, Morocco, and in great regions called pagan from Africa to the Coral Islands of the Pacific, there is another thing to say as ... the Golspie Stone. Sixthly . . . in regard to the astronomical aspect of Devil or Satan worship, which became afterwards for at least two thousand years the soul of religion, and has to this day survived as religious inspiration in China, India, Morocco, and in great regions called pagan from Africa to the Coral Islands of the ...
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