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164 pages of results. 701. Aeon Volume VI, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the symbolism of the double axe, its relation to the cosmic twins, and the association of both to the so-called thunderbolts of the gods. page 59. Puritanism, Misogyny, and Female Sexuality, by E. J. Bond An analysis of the long-upheld subordination of women, stemming from their innate sexuality, as preached by Judeo-Christian religions down through the ages. Page 73 Homer in the Baltic by Felice Vinci A new theory which claims that the geography of Homer's epic poetry fits better in the Baltic and North Atlantic than it does on the Mainland of Greece and the Aegean Sea. This leads to the additional conclusion that the early Greek legends originated in Nordic lands, ...
702. More Myths, Monuments, and Mnemonics: A solstice visit to Machu Picchu [Journals] [Horus]
... imagine. The Inca Empire was a renewed form of a culture which stretched back into the centuries and had covered a major portion of South America. Concentrated now in Peru, the once powerful dominance of the Inca is reflected in the preservation of Quechua, the Inca language, in a majority of the population. The astronomical focus of Inca religious and civil organization is well known and there are probably few places where concern with preserving the memory of these ancient practices is as visible. The Inca King was himself the divine descendant of the Sun and his entire empire - from the symbolic organization of his court, to the geographic organization of the kingdom itself reflected this passion for the ...
703. Sir Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... had previously noted the axis at Stonehenge pointed in the same direction. NE is roughly the sunrise on midsummer day, more pertinently the sunrise in June as a generality. Lockyer was convinced the stars were used to fix calendar dates but the majority of scholars did not believe him. Indeed, Egyptologists have consistently ignored the stellar features in Egyptian religion and they treated Lockyer as a figure of fun. He thought the Egyptians used stars and the positions of clusters of stars, or constellations, as forewarnings noted by priests .. . in order to pinpoint accurately the rising of the sun at specific times in the year (at the solstices for example). The priests were able ...
704. The God-Kings and the Titans: The New World Ascendancy in Ancient Times by James Bailey [Journals] [Kronos]
... late sixth and the early first millennia B. C. there was a worldwide culture ruled by a South-West Asian aristocracy and based on the metallurgy of copper. This period, in turn, is divisible into three subperiods of about two millennia each: during the first of these (the sixth and fifth millennia), copper was unalloyed, religion was earth-centered, and power was focused in Mesopotamia; during the second (the fourth and third millennia), copper yielded to bronze, religion became heliocentric, and power diffused to India and the Mediterranean; and during the third (the second and first millennia), the old thalassocracy, having been displaced in Eurasia by iron-smelting upstarts ...
705. The Scientific Mafia [Journals] [Pensee]
... the Exodus as taking place amid a series of extraordinary natural disasters; and especially when Velikovsky found an Egyptian document which seemed to refer to the same events, he began to wonder whether the disasters might not have been real. Natural Catastrophism Ten years later Worlds in Collision presented his evidence, accumulated from testimony, tradition, legend, and religions the world over, for the story of the birth of Venus as a planet after a period in which earth, sea and sky were convulsed. The next few years saw the publication of his Earth in Upheaval, which assembles geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence for the same theory; and of Ages in Chaos, Velikovsky's revised ...
... habits of the peoples who favoured certain persisting designs, that we should first endeavour to understand an ancient art before undertaking to analyse it on purely aesthetic grounds that we should begin with the sources of inspiration rather than with the skill displayed in execution. In this connexion, it cannot be overlooked that all the great ancient arts were rooted in religious and magico-religious beliefs. The art movements of ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonia, for instance, were inspired and promoted by the priests, and cannot be understood without reference to the religious systems of those pioneer civilizations. Even battle-scenes had their religious bearing, for victory was given by the gods. The arts of lesser peoples may not, ...
... habits of the peoples who favoured certain persisting designs, that we should first endeavour to understand an ancient art before undertaking to analyse it on purely aesthetic grounds that we should begin with the sources of inspiration rather than with the skill displayed in execution. In this connexion, it cannot be overlooked that all the great ancient arts were rooted in religious and magico-religious beliefs. The art movements of ancient Egypt and ancient Babylonia, for instance, were inspired and promoted by the priests, and cannot be understood without reference to the religious systems of those pioneer civilizations. Even battle-scenes had their religious bearing, for victory was given by the gods. The arts of lesser peoples may not, ...
708. Jung's Archetypes. Ch.1 Of Racial Memory (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... work of mythologists who have "always helped themselves out with solar, lunar, meteorological, vegetal, and other ideas of the kind" and "absolutely refused" to see that the mythological images and contents reflect deep, ingrained psychic phenomena. And "what is true of primitive lore is true in even higher degree of the ruling world religions. They contain a revealed knowledge that was originally hidden." (I would have said "a hidden knowledge that was originally revealed.") Symbols employed in the religions are representations of hidden contents. "Dogma takes the place of the collective unconscious by formulating its contents on a grand scale"; but "the Catholic way ...
709. Pyramids of Tucume, The quest for Peru's forgotten city, by Thor Heyerdahl, Daniel H. Sandweiss and Alfredo Narvaez [Journals] [SIS Review]
... from below. Centred around a huge natural pyramid rising out of the wide flat plain were built 26 major pyramids and a myriad of smaller structures, starting around 1000 years ago by people of the Lambayeque culture and growing under waves of conquest by the Chimu and eventually the Incas. The area was extensively irrigated and fertile and obviously an important religious centre. Only after the Spanish conquest did the complex rapidly fall into ruins and the whole coastal area of Peru become arid, leaving only a wealth of ruins to speak of better times. The opening chapter by Heyerdahl is not surprisingly about the maritime heritage of Peru's north coast. There is plenty of evidence that the earliest peoples of ...
710. The Shrine of Baal-Zephon [Journals] [Aeon]
... the desert, and sacrifice unto Yahweh Elohim." (6 ) This request to journey three days' distance into the wilderness in order to pay homage to their tribal god would not, of itself, have been unusual. This form of ritual, known to us today as a pilgrimage, has its roots in deepest antiquity. Such religious expeditions to sacred places were practiced by various ancient races which included not only the Israelites (or Jews) but the Egyptians themselves. (7 ) The Pharaoh of Egypt would have been quite familiar with the rite and would not, under normal circumstances, have seen anything strange in Moses' request. Since the Israelites formed a foreign ...
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