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... larger than it. And when he was informed how large that was which was already there, and that nothing hindered but a larger might be made, he said that he was willing to have one made that should be five times as large as the present table; but his fear was, that it might be then useless in their sacred ministrations by its too great largeness; for he desired that the gifts he presented them should not only be there for show, but should be useful also in their sacred ministrations. According to which reasoning, that the former table was made of so moderate a size for use, and not for want of gold, he resolved that ...
172. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... the earth, heaven and the underworld (the axis mundi). Ancient Mesopotamia, in fact, provides some of the best examples of this symbolism: "In Mesopotamian beliefs a Central mountain joins heaven and earth; it is the Mount of the Lands, ' which connects the territories. But the very names of the Babylonian temples and sacred towers bear witness to their assimilation to the Cosmic Mountain: Mount of the House', Mount of the Mountains of all Lands, ' Mount of Storms, ' Link between Heaven and Earth, ' and the like. The ziggurat was, properly speaking, a Cosmic Mountain, a symbolic image of the Cosmos; its seven stories ...
173. The Magnetic Tube and the Planetary Orbits [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ]. In the manner of => whistling atmospherics, as lately studied (Hines, p816), such sound would be trapped by the magnetic field and propagated along the magnetic tube. In the late times of the tube, when celestial bodies could be distinguished visually, the sound might have inspired the Pythagoreans to the invention of their sacred musical scale, which was also related to their sacred theory of numbers - both sound and numbers constituting theophanies. The sounds might first have been involved in the earliest sacred music. The magnetic tube worked its wonders by an invisible hand. Notes on Chapter 7 46 A magnetic field only appears when relative motion exists within systems containing electric ...
174. Puritanism, Misogyny, and Female Sexuality [Journals] [Aeon]
... well as other cultures. It is here argued, via an examination of ancient texts, myths, legends, and religious beliefs and practices, that they have a common origin in the Yahwist religious reforms with which Hebrew scripture is largely preoccupied, reforms which only succeeded in ending the worship of the old deities with their attendant rituals- including sacred prostitution and child sacrifice- after a long struggle. Let me begin with some Biblical quotations, the first of which comes from the Book of Isaiah, a prophet who, according to current reckoning, lived in the 8th century BCE. Here Isaiah tells us that God is going to punish women severely for sexual display designed to attract ...
175. Letopolis: city of the thunderbolt (Report) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:2 (Jan 2002) Home | Issue Contents Report Letopolis: city of the thunderbolt Phillip Clapham Velikovsky expressed an interest in the ancient Egyptian cult centre of Letopolis. This was due, I assume, to its connection with thunderbolts - and its sacred animal, the shrewmouse. The early-mid 20th century Egyptologist, W.E . Wainwright, is still regarded as an authority on Letopolis (see Journal of Egyptian Archaeology XVIII:1932, p. 164 for an article on Letopolis that is quoted by Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision and by Bauval in The Orion Mystery). Velikovsky was eager to make a connection between mice and ...
... together, and exposed their necks bare, and cried out that they were sooner ready to be slain, than that their law should be transgressed. Hereupon Pilate was greatly surprised at their prodigious superstition, and gave order that the ensigns should be presently carried out of Jerusalem. 4. After this he raised another disturbance, by expending that sacred treasure which is called Corban (10) upon aqueducts, whereby he brought water from the distance of four hundred furlongs. At this the multitude had indignation; and when Pilate was come to Jerusalem, they came about his tribunal, and made a clamor at it. Now when he was apprized aforehand of this disturbance, he mixed ...
... incredibly ancient, very weather-worn, survive still in Scotland, mainly within the Caledonian region, especially about the Moray Firth, although others were standing about a century ago both north and south of it. Lamentable indeed is it that most of these are left to moulder and rot out of doors owing to the ignorance of the purpose of these sacred stones. The engravings on them bear celestial signs of the Zodiac and other heavenly bodies, and others, like the Elgin Stone, devote only small space to the symbols-yet sufficient to anyone able to interpret them-and depict a scene instead. Chiselled in low relief, they agree with the Chaldean adage amid should be recognized for what they really ...
178. Boiling Earth and Sea, Part 1 Venus Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... BODIES were driven near to each other. The interior of the terrestrial globe pushed toward the exterior. The earth, disturbed in its rotation, developed heat. The land surface became hot. Various sources of many peoples describe the melting of the earth's surface and the boiling of the sea. The earth burst and lava flowed. The Mexican sacred book, Popol-Vuh, the Manuscript Cakchiquel, the Manuscript Troano all record how the mountains in every part of the Western Hemisphere simultaneously gushed lava. The volcanoes that opened along the entire chain of the Cordilleras and in other mountain ranges and on flat land vomited fire, vapour, and torrents of lava. These and other Mexican sources relate ...
... days, and of the fall of our first parents by eating an apple. The courteous savages listened attentively, and, after thanking him, one related in his turn a very ancient tradition concerning the origin of maize. But the missionary, plainly showed his disgust and disbelief, indignantly saying: "What I have delivered to you were sacred truths, but this that you tell me is mere fable and falsehood ! ' ' "My Brother," gravely replied the offended Indian, "it seems that you have not been well grounded in the rules of civility. You saw that we, who practice these rules, believed your stories; why, then, do you ...
180. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the orientation, then it is that the ancients could not tell directions well, or that the matter in any case was not important to the builders. What is absent from such reasoning? First, there is a failure to appreciate that the desire to orient to the skies was an obsession, a compulsion, an inescapable tradition, a sacred obligation, a proud duty. Second, the ancients, as far back as we can discover their humanity, could calculate readily and exactly the course of heavenly bodies and orient themselves thereto. Many examples of this are presented in G.de Santillana and H. von Dechend's book, Hamlet's Mill [30], indeed this is ...
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