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89 pages of results. 421. Society News. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of fired brick, most of which could be post conquest, but Comalcalco is unusual in having at least 30,000 fired bricks in its construction. Many of these bore designs which had been impressed on them while wet but were not meant to be seen once part of the construction. These were unlike any Mayan inscriptions but did resemble Roman tally marks. There are also many other unusual aspects of Comalcalco compared to other Mayan sites, including it being the only site to use drainpipes. Comalcalco appears to have been begun around 450 AD, with the late brick phase around 1000 AD. It does not, however, have any definite Latin inscriptions or a true arch. ...
422. Ancient Calendars [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... at some date in the past. Similarly, the statement that a day is the 360th part of a year' need not imply an accurate solar measure. The fact is that before the development of decimal fractions (c .1600 AD - Simon Stevin) it was convenient to work with a standard denominator with plenty of factors. The Romans used 12 unciae (hence inches/ounces) since 12 has 4 factors to ten's 2, even though their whole number system was based entirely on the fingers (digits - 5's and 10's). The Babylonians chose 60, but divided the full circle into 360 degrees, so that each would approximate one day's solar motion. The ...
423. The Encyclopedia Mythica [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Digest 1997:2 (Feb 1998) Home | Issue Contents The Encyclopedia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/An on-line Encyclopaedia of mythology featuring articles and illustrations. Includes Chinese, Etruscan, Egyptian, Greek, Haitian, Japanese, Latvian, Mayan, Native, American, Norse, Persian, Polynesian, Roman, Welsh and others. There's also a pronunciation guide and list of ancient feast days. ...
424. The Sun Ages, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... Symbols of the successive suns are painted on the pre-Columbian literary documents of Mexico.(5 ) "Cinco soles que son edades," or "five suns that are epochs," wrote Gómara in his description of the conquest of Mexico.(6 ) An analogy to this sentence of Gómara may be found in Lucius Ampelius, a Roman author, who, in his book Liber memoralis, wrote:(7 ) "Soles fuere quinque" (There were five suns): It is the same belief that Gómara found in the New World. The Mexican Annals of Cuauhtitlan, written in Nahua-Indian (circa 1570) and based on ancient sources, contains the tradition of ...
425. The Comet Of Typhon, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... discover what were the manuscript sources of Abraham Rockenbach that led him to the same conclusion at which we have arrived, namely, that the Typhon comet appeared in the time of the Exodus, is a task not yet accomplished. Servius says that more information about the calamities caused by this comet is to be found in the writings of the Roman astrologer Campester and in the works of the Egyptian astrologer Petosiris.(10) It is possible that copies of works of some authors containing citations from the writings of these ancient astrologers, preserved in the libraries of Europe, were Rockenbach's manuscript sources. Campester, as quoted by Lydus, was certain that should the comet Typhon again meet ...
426. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... "How did souls rise to the stars?...Among the ancient Egyptians the firmament was conceived as being so close to the mountains of the earth that it was possible to climb up to it with the aid of a ladder. Although the stars had been relegated to an infinite distance in space, the ladder still survived in Roman paganism as an amulet and as a symbol. Many people continued to place in tombs a small bronze ladder which recalled the naive beliefs of distant ages; and in the mysteries of Mithra a ladder of seven steps, made of seven different metals, still symbolized the passage of a soul across the planetary spheres." (63) ...
427. Obituary: Rt. Rev. Dr Jules C.E. Riotte (1901-2000) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... studied at universities in Leipzig, Halle (Germany) and Wroc-Law (Poland). During World War II he was active in the resistance movement against the Nazis and he was briefly interned in a concentration camp. After the War he moved to Britain and worked for the BBC as a translator of German and Slavic languages. He became a Roman Catholic priest and moved to Canada, where he served in many different parishes and missions. He was also a research associate at the Dept. of Entomology at the Royal Ontario Museum and he eventually published over 100 papers in the field. In 1975 Fr. Riotte moved to Hawaii, where he eventually retired as a pastor in 1996 ...
428. Worship Of The Morning Star, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... a generation ago.(63) Quetzal-cohuatl "was called the god of winds" and of "flames of fire";(64) the Greek Athene, too, was not only the planet, but also the goddess of storm and fire. The planet Venus was Lux Divina, the Divine Light, in the worship of the Roman imperial colonies.(65) In Babylonia, Venus was pictured as a six-pointed star which is also the shape of David's shield- or as a pentagram- a five-pointed star (seal of Solomon)- and sometimes as a cross; as a cross it was pictured in Mexico, too. The attributes and deeds of the Morning ...
429. The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... them. Poseidon stands bond for Ares. All this suggests the unspeakable horror of natural disasters brought by these planetary gods upon Earth and humanity. That Aphrodite was always a great goddess of the Moon is maintained, again with reservations, for she may also have had her name assigned to other sky-bodies, especially planet Venus which the Greeks and Romans, following the Orientals, came to call Aphrodite. We tell of how the Moon-Aphrodite received in Homeric times the wanton, irresponsible, and imperturbable character by which later ages came to know her. Aphrodite is tied to Helen of Troy, and Helen to the Hellenes or Greeks. The Trojan wars evolve psychically into campaigns to recapture the ...
430. Fenris-Wolf, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... it is said that he is a "prowling wolf circling this land."4 In the Chinese Chart of Soochow, in which it is related on the authority of more ancient sources that "Once Venus suddenly ran into the Wolf-Star," Wolf-Star apparently means Mars.5 Wolf or Lupus Martius was the animal symbol for Mars of the Roman religion.6 It gave rise to the legend about Romulus, son of Mars, who was fed by a she-wolf. According to the tradition, the conception of Romulus took place during a prolonged eclipse. The Slavic Vukadlak, who followed the clouds and devoured the sun or the moon, had the shape of a wolf.7 ...
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