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93 pages of results. 161. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... associated with the circumscribing Venus comet throughout the ancient world. (37) Is it possible that there is a philological relation between Latin vincio and Venus? As Talbott demonstrated in The Saturn Myth, the band-like enclosure of the ancient sun-god was commemorated with countless mythical images, some of the more common of which interpreted the band as the god's sacred dwelling, temple, or paradisaic field. The Elysian Fields associated with the Latin god Saturn are a prime example of the latter motive. The archaic Icelandic words vin and vangr are of interest here. Throughout the northern Scandinavian countries one finds these words employed both as prefixes and suffixes in names of sacred fields, farms, and sanctuaries ...
162. Pyramids of Tucume, The quest for Peru's forgotten city, by Thor Heyerdahl, Daniel H. Sandweiss and Alfredo Narvaez [Journals] [SIS Review]
... accompanied by sacrificed weaving women of high status, possibly a reaction to the times of disorder caused by the arrival of the Spaniards. Ear spools indicate that he was a longears' as Incan nobility was known. Among the burial items was a magnificent green feather cloak. One excavated building is of particular interest. Called the Temple of the Sacred Stone, it was a small U-shaped structure enclosing an upright rock. Its original construction appears to be from the earliest times of the site and it was located at the principal entrance, where it received many valuable offerings, human burials and sacrificed llamas. The standing stone it was built round is similar to many considered sacred all over ...
... Britain. This was the view of the ancients, for Pliny, in his Natural History, says that it came from the isles of the north, and we possess the account of Pytheas, of Marseilles, who sailed to the British Isles, to the shores of Norway, and entered the Baltic for amber. It was accounted a sacred stone, and is frequently found in tumuli for reasons which may seem apparent. It is probable that a quantity of amber is lying deep in the sea-bed around our coasts, concealed in seaweed. My mother as a little girl found a large piece near Lowestoft. Hector Boece tells of amber in his day in quaint fifteenth century language ...
164. Dance of the Planets [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2000:1 (May 2000) Home | Issue Contents Dance of the Planets www.danceoftheplanets.com Dance of the Planets by Angiras is a new book that reveals the True Message which has lain hidden in the Sacred Myths of all cultures for 6000 Years - relating that Venus and Mars repeatedly came close to the Earth for 3000 years. Volume 1: The Earth (ISBN: 0-7414-0070-7 ©1996): puts forth a new scenario detailing recent planetary chaos in the solar system. The Velikovsky/Angiras (V /A ) scenario postulates a long series of close interactions between Venus, Mars and the Earth, which profoundly affected mankind for ...
165. Paired Sets in the Hebrew Alphabet [Journals] [Aeon]
... , development, and continued existence of civilization. It serves the practical needs of modern communication so well that we sometimes forget its close connection in times past with divination, mystical powers, and esoteric interpretations. "Even in modern times we can observe the widespread use of the magic effect of writing. Here we may mention the phylacteries with sacred writings which the Jews wear during prayer, and the inscrip-tions on the doorposts of Jewish houses which are supposed to protect the inhabitants from harm. The Moham-medans carry amulets with enclosed verses from the Koran. Among Christians we find the custom of fanning a sick person with the leaves of the Bible, or of having him swallow a pellet ...
166. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to the function of women in spinning and weaving. Do these derive from lunar behavior? ENCYCLOPEDISTS AND THE MOON GODDESS Robert Graves refers to "Selene the Moon, alias Aphrodite" and develops the lunar traits of Aphrodite extensively. "The Athenians called Aphrodite Urania the eldest of the Fates' because she was the Nymph-Goddess, to whom the sacred King had, in ancient times, been sacrificed at the summer solstice... Aphrodite is the same wide-ruling goddess who rose from Chaos and danced on the sea, and who was worshiped in Syria and Palestine as Ishtar, or Ashtaroth [12]. She was regarded as a queen-bee. "She destroyed the sacred king, ...
... it would explain the subsequent transference from gods to promise for reasons we may comprehend. It would have signified that the austere statues erected, and prayers and pious texts engraved on them, were religious tributes to these god-kings, much as we erect statues to the Saints. They were fanciful effigies of the antediluvian kings who had reigned in that sacred island where lay Amenta and where Osiris presided over the Underworld. This is tantamount to an admission that the Book of the Dead, based on the apotheosis of Amenophis, who from mortal man became deified, must necessarily have been a post-diluvian doctrine, and coincident with the first dynasty which reigned subsequently. The 20th Dynasty thus inaugurated a ...
168. The Selection of the Site (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... only tropical waters are in our time. So much for the question why Tiahuanaco was built in that highly elevated, practically barren' territory. The question why Tiahuanaco was built just at that spot does not allow of so ready an answer. The most likely incentive was probably that, for some reason or other, the site was considered sacred'. The Old Temple' of the First Period seems to have been a sort of regional ancestral shrine, if we interpret correctly the rows of sculptured heads set in its interior walls. This fact and the fact that the great inundation catastrophe which brought about the end of the First Culture Period, though it apparently wrecked the Old ...
169. Guidelines To The Saturn Myth [Journals] [Kronos]
... an amazing extent, this quantum leap into "civilization" was the consequence of a collective ritual, honoring through imitation the visible attributes of planetary gods, at once beautiful and terrifying. Significantly, the ritual elements seem to have little if any precedent in a more primitive era. The overriding purpose emerges suddenly: to establish on Earth a sacred order defined in the sky, to bring forth and to extend at every level of collective activity a Saturnian kingdom. And the manner in which this was to be achieved permitted no deviation from the "plans" of the celestial designer himself, whose own life and attributes expressed all of the necessary cosmic principles. What I have suggested ...
... offering a perspective on all human activity, involving hostility toward science and its institutions, thriving on uncritical and wishful thinking, accepting at face value what one wants to be so. That combination is very much what John Searle [366:74] discerned in the student movement of the mid-ig6os to early 197os: a seeking of abstract, sacred values; uncompromising hostility toward all traditional institutions; uncritical acceptance of the rhetoric of the student leaders. "The answer to the more general question- why is it easier to believe in mythology rather than facts? --is that where the sacred is concerned, people's perceptions are rigidly shaped by their dramatic categories. In the sacred cause . ...
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