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93 pages of results. 91. Kicking The Sacred Cow: Questioning The Unquestionable And Thinking The Impermissible (Book review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 6 Home | Issue Contents Kicking The Sacred Cow: Questioning The Unquestionable And Thinking The Impermissible James P. Hogan (Baen, Riverdale, NY 2004) Critiqued by Frederic Jueneman James P. Hogan is a well-known engaging and knowledgeable author of science fiction who, on occasion, ventures boldly into the killing fields of unforgiving reality. This is one of those missions into the trenches, which might otherwise be characterized as an exercise in futility. He is yet another voice in the wilderness who might still be heard, but unfortunately by only the precious few who have had little power or control over unfolding events that have shaped the intellectual, ...
92. Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation (Part II) [Journals] [Aeon]
... These first and foremost gods manifested themselves in the shape of various bizarre and literally wonder-full manifestations spread over an unspecified span of time. At one particular stage, the actors in this cosmic opera were lined up above Earth's north polar region, hence the term Polar Configuration. During this particular phase, the gods were three in number (a sacred numeral to both Olmec and Maya) and are known today by their English planetary names of Saturn, Venus, and Mars. These bodies were in a rough line and in that order, with Mars being the closest to Earth's north pole. During this dawn of civilization, Saturn was probably a brown dwarf star. [4 ] ...
93. The World Ages, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... above came together; for such a mighty crash would have arisen if Earth were being hurled to ruin, and Heaven from on high were hurling her down."(4 ) Analogous traditions of four expired ages persist on the shores of the Bengal Sea and in the highland of Tibetthe present age is the fifth.(5 ) The sacred Hindu book, Bhagavata Purana tells of four ages and of pralayas or cataclysms in which, in various epochs, mankind was nearly destroyed; the fifth age is that of the present. The world ages are called Kalpas or Yugas. Each world age met its destruction in catastrophes of conflagration, flood, and hurricane. Ezour Vedam and ...
94. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... Notice here that an underlying logic is at work, running from the specific to the general, from the archetype to the symbol. Quetzalcoatl died at the critical calendar moment, both the end and the beginning of the time-reckoning system, mythically the end of one world age and the beginning of another. In the calendar system and in the sacred rites, the cyclical principle established by the life and death of Quetzalcoatl is both repeated and generalized: as above, so below; as before, so again. Hence, kings will die on the day One Reed, the day that Quetzalcoatl's heart-soul departed to become the planet Venus. What, then, is the significance of the ...
95. Jerusalem -- City of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... in this. For the ancient peoples traditionally looked to the rocky summits as the homes of their deities .. .. Jerusalem had long been considered a holy city, not only because it dominated the lofty spine of Canaan, but because the site culminated in a summit like table of rock called Moriah, which had been revered as most sacred by the people of both the city and the region. Here Canaanites had come to honour their principal gods .. .. But David also knew from the oral tradition of his own people that Jerusalem had figured heavily in the lives and travels of the Hebrew Patriarchs. As the towering shrine of the holy rock upon which Abraham prepared ...
96. Holy Dreamtime [Books] [de Grazia books]
... powers of memory. An alternative, less radical, would be to sing with eyes closed, or blindfolded. The audience is settled around as an organized community, king and queen, nobles, council of state, the citizens and retainers, and the Hero, Odysseus. The dancers continue their movements, acting out the scenes of the sacred play. Those who have competed in sports rest, their aggressiveness dissipated, their minds relaxed to receive now a flow of aesthetic communication. The singer carries the melody; it is sung in long, measured lines. His lyre was originally a gift of Mercury and Apollo, and is a beautiful instrument; its strings are attuned to ...
97. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... "I am the fiery Eye of Horus, who went forth terrible, Lady of slaughter...I am indeed she who shoots." (159) And as we have documented at great length elsewhere, the Eye of Ra is described in terms otherwise consistent with a comet-like phenomenon: "I raised up the hair from the Sacred Eye at the time of its wrath." (160) As was the case with the Greek Athena, the Egyptian eye-goddess was identified with a star: As Hathor, the Queen of Heaven, the Eye of Ra is to be identified with the planet Venus. (161) An intriguing parallel to the warring Eye of Ra ...
98. The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... becomes an absurdity in actual practice. Of course the answer to mainstream dogmatism isn't to recklessly embrace every exotic idea, but to give well-researched and well-reasoned ideas appropriate consideration, even if these ideas are highly novel. By all means, give the benefit of the doubt to traditional theory, but there is no virtue in regarding traditional theory as sacred dogma. AEON: What about your own field of inquiry? Talbott: Well, first of all it's necessary that our working hypotheses be stated as clearly as possible. I think much more needs to be done to clarify a general thesis based on historical research, and much, much more needs to be done to gain a critical ...
99. The Great Father [Books]
... by slow development, say these theorists, could a race rise above the ludicrous magic, totems, and fetishes of the savage. It is interesting that the advocates of the various evolutionary theories, in their fascination with present-day primitive cultures, almost never concern themselves with the oldest religious texts and symbols which have come down to us. The sacred hymns and eulogies of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, reveal a tradition of a "great god" reaching back into prehistoric times. Moreover, a comparison of early and later sources, rather than suggesting a development, actually indicates the disintegration of a once-unified idea into magic, astrology, totemism, and other elements with which the evolutionists associate ...
... to his sandals, to illustrate him as the swift Messenger of the Gods. His right hand always grasps his inseparable accompaniment, the caduceus, the "potent wand", its power signified by entwined serpents, and he is usually shown in the act of alighting from Olympus, so that one foot touches the hill-top heights as were accordingly sacred to him in Greece, like Mount Lyceum and Mount Cyllene, in the act of conveying a message from the deities. Such was the conventional aspect of Hermes, as delighted the soul of Praxiteles and other famed sculptors, of the ageless divinity. But there were other aspects of him. He was represented as a tall, bearded ...
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