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93 pages of results. 151. More Myths, Monuments, and Mnemonics: A solstice visit to Machu Picchu [Journals] [Horus]
... heavens which has survived, though a distant echo, into the present. About 80 miles from Cuzco, the fabled "Lost City" of Machu Picchu sits atop an 8000 ft. steepwalled peak. A neighboring peak to the north, Huayna Picchu, also was topped with temple construction and was apparently an integral part of this mysterious, sacred citadel. Machu Picchu is said to have been a sanctuary where the sacred "Chosen Women" or "Virgins of the Sun" performed religious duties and important ceremonies connected with the annual cycles in their astronomical calendar. Here there are two structures in particular which have attracted the attention of archaeoastronomers. One is the famous Intihuatana, the ...
152. Plato's Atlantis and Prehistoric Europe [Articles]
... . 9 Hot and cold springs The central hill in the city was supplied with hot and cold fountains from underground streams. V: Hot springs are commonly associated with volcanic areas. J: And also exist in many non-volcanic areas. 10 Flora The island grew whatever fragrant things there now are in the earth... all these that sacred island brought forth fair and wondrous and in infinite abundance. ' V: Admittedly not much like the relatively barren modern Crete. J: Even hard-core Thera supporters admit this description doesn't fit. 11 Fauna There was a great number of elephants in the island', and enough food for all sorts of animals from lakes and marshes and ...
153. Indra and Brhaspati (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... even "Brhaspati-Priest"). It does mean "he whose purohita (priest, preceptor, chaplain) is Brhaspati". The very sources cited by Ashton inform us that Brhaspati was the purohita of all the Vedic gods. See also Grhyasutras (Rules of Vedic Domestic Ceremonies), Part II, translated by H. Oldenberg in the Sacred Books of the East (SBE), Vol. XXX, Prasna II, Patala 7, Section 17: "May the three times eleven gods, the thirty-three, the gracious ones, whose Purohita is Brihaspati .. . "( 1 ) Brhaspati, being the purohita of the gods, was also the purohita of Indra- ...
154. The Crescent [Books]
... point covers five primary images of the Saturnian configuration: the enclosed sun , the sun-cross , the enclosed sun-cross , the enclosed sun and pillar , and the enclosed sun-cross and pillar . I have contended that these symbols realistically depict Saturn's actual appearance to the terrestrial observers. Of course, one faces a special difficult in attempting to prove that the sacred signs denoted a visible apparition. One can show that a coherent, global symbolism developed around the cosmic image ; but how can one really prove that this configuration was more than the invention of an ancient cult- perhaps the extraordinary product of an advanced race whose abstract unification of discordant cosmic powers gained world-wide distribution? There is a specific ...
155. From the Great Extremity to which the Jews were reduced to the taking of Jerusalem by Titus [Books]
... did of his own accord go out of this city before it was taken, and did undergo a voluntary captivity with his family, that the sanctuary might not be delivered up to the enemy, and that he might not see the house of God set on fire; on which account he is celebrated among all the Jews, in their sacred memorials, and his memory is become immortal, and will be conveyed fresh down to our posterity through all ages. This, John, is an excellent example in such a time of danger, and I dare venture to promise that the Romans shall still forgive thee. And take notice that I, who make this exhortation to thee ...
... THE DEAD. It may seem to lie outside the subject if I note here the Mexican legend of Aztlan and Mt. Culhuacan, although more than once I have touched on the former connection between ancient Britain and the remarkable antiquities of Central America. The fact is that Ben Mhor, with its terraces and its huge cave, recalls the sacred Mt. Culhuacan of the Mexican Aztecs. In their traditions it lay on a smallish island in the "Old Red Land", called Tlapallan, where dwelt their ancestors far across the sea, and from whence they set out in a far distant time on a long and terrible journey, which eventually took the survivors to Mexico and ...
157. VELIKOVSKY AND OEDIPUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... any named character in an Attic tragedy who was not actually in some way an object of worship: a god or hero or at least the possessor of some taboo tomb or oracle or ritual.(23) Oedipus himself would appear to fit this description, being a leading character in Greek epic tradition and the possessor of at least five sacred tombs, the best known being that in Attica on the Areopagus in the precincts of the Semnai, and that in Boeotian Eteonos in the temple of Demeter.(24) Pausanias also records the interesting fact that at Kolonos Oedipus shared a heroon with Adrastus.(25) We will have reason to return to Adrastus, a leading ...
158. Abraham and Phallicism [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Legend records that Sodom's destruction took place on the third day following Abraham's circumcision [16], and this would surely indicate a relationship between circumcision and Sodom's demise, as both Cardona and Newgrosh point out. Circumcision is one religious, phallic practice which has survived until today, but there is at least one other. Models of the sacred lingam of one of the Hindu trinity, Siva, receive tribute in temples [17]. The Lingayat members of the Saiva Hindu sect wear the symbol [18]. Millions of Hindus associate the cobra with the sacred lingam, and worship it in the hope of fertility [19]. The Drama of Abraham and Lot The ...
159. Tiryns [Journals] [Pensee]
... with Mycenae, it is regarded as a center of Mycenaean culture. On an acropolis, foundations of a palace were discovered. Together with Mycenaean ware and mixed with it, geometric ware of the eighth and seventh centuries and archaic ware of the sixth century were found, among them many little flasks in which libations had been brought to the sacred place. According to Schliemann, Tiryns was destroyed simultaneously with Mycenae and the palace was burned down. But his collaborator, Dörpfeld, who agreed with him as to the time the palace had been built, disagreed as to when it had been destroyed, and their opinions differed by six hundred years (1 ). From Greek literature ...
160. The Temple in Jerusalem (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... .29 Specimens of the skill of David's craftsmen must also be found in this exhibit, for I KINGS 7:51 . .. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord. The sacred objects wrought by the ancient master Bezaleel, son of Uri,30 may also have been reproduced here. An,exhaustive indentification of objects pictured in the Karnak temple and of those described in the Books of Kings and Chronicles is a matter for prolonged study and should preferably be done with the help of molds from the bas-reliefs at Karnak ...
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