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93 pages of results. 191. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Like comparative anatomy in biology, comparative mythology allows for the recognition of parallels in seemingly diverse forms from different times and places; and once such parallels are established, the reconstruction of a god's cult can begin, not unlike the reconstruction of a fossil hominid from a few teeth and an occasional bone. If a crucial link in the sacred dossier of Indra has been lost, perhaps it can be recovered from the dossier of some other hero. In this way, and in this way only, in our opinion, is it possible to arrive at a true understanding of the origins of Indra's cult, much of which has been lost or otherwise obscured with the passage of ...
192. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... magical and funerary works, as well as other "liturgical texts, ritual books, and manuals of theology and astronomy were composed, copied, and kept [in the] House of Life," [41] known also as the house of books, which was a building in or near a temple precinct. "All of these sacred texts were collectively known as the manifestations of Re'," and the people and scribes who worked in the House of Life were "the personnel of Re." [42] For all that has been written about ancient Egypt, it is still not a widely known fact that the priesthood consisted of more than just temple servants ...
193. Thoth Vol III, No. 16: Dec 1, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... CHAOS AND THE RISE OF NEGATIVES. The earliest-remembered condition is the state of "not". That is the most fundamental meaning behind the words that are translated as "chaos", and it provides the first tier in an evolving ancient language of negatives. It means the condition out of which an exemplary order, the model for all sacred order, arose. The negative state of chaos must be interpreted specifically in terms of the contrast between that state and what followed. It is the condition before motion, activity, differentiation, time, order, form. The Saturn model defines this as an EXPERIENCED condition of the world, not a primitive speculation on "how it ...
194. The Sibylline Oracles [Books]
... who solemnly consulted the Delphic oracle, and it proved to be, if not the beginning and sole cause, at least an early and potent factor in the Hellenizing of Roman religion.13 New deities, new forms of old deities, new cults, new methods of propitiation, new festivals and observances were introduced on the authority of the sacred canon thus imported. A college of officials, Duumvirs at first, Quindecimvirs later, was appointed to have charge of the documents, and two assistants at least were always provided who had a knowledge of Greek.14 The oracles, it would seem, were constantly studied, but were never "consulted" or "approached" except ...
195. The Myth of the Goddess, Evolution of an image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... it is largely confined to the myths and artefacts of western Asia and Europe. The book begins with a consideration of the earliest known goddess images from the Palaeolithic period around 20,000 years ago. From these the authors derive the classic image of an Earth Mother and an idealistic vision of earliest cultures regarding the earth and its produce as sacred, to be worshipped and not exploited. Already associated with some of these earliest images are symbols which start to demand further explanation: nets, four balls, a round head with seven layers, emphasis on a pillar-like structure, crescents, spirals and serpents. Yet, following the theories of Joseph Campbell, the only concession to a ...
196. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Aaron. Once more there is a grave insurrection, this time at Beth Peor, just before Moses' death, and of this too we shall shortly speak. When Joshua assumed command before the entry into the Promised Land, he instituted severe measures to unify the Israelites. He had all households destroy their god-images, masks, and other sacred representations [35]. And he ordered by command of Yahweh a general circumcision; the Bible says that those born in the desert had not been circumcised [36]. This is odd, coming so long after Moses had appeared to demand it; it does indicate, I think, that circumcision was a relatively new practice without ...
197. Flavius Josephus Against Apion Book 2 [Books]
... to produce, in the first place, such things as resemble what we have examined already, and relate to the departure of our forefathers out of Egypt; and, in the second place, he accuses those Jews that are inhabitants of Alexandria; as, in the third place, he mixes with those things such accusations as concern the sacred purifications, with the other legal rites used in the temple. 2. Now although I cannot but think that I have already demonstrated, and that abundantly more than was necessary, that our fathers were not originally Egyptians, nor were thence expelled, either on account of bodily diseases, or any other calamities of that sort; yet ...
198. The Many Faces Of Venus - The Planet Venus in Ancient Myth and Religion by Ev Cochrane (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to her were common. In Mesopotamia the Sumerian Inanna and the Semitic Ishtar were identified with the planet Venus and dominated ancient religion in this area. From this earliest civilised period the goddess was associated with an 8-pointed star or rosette and a pole-like standard with appendages at the top. She was a great queen, a bride, venerated by sacred marriage rites associated with fertility, yet at the same time a warrior and a venomous dragon. She was radiant, even at noon, shook heaven and earth and rained fire. Epithets translated as Morning and Evening Star have been variously used to tie in this goddess with the present aspects of the planet Venus as Morning and Evening Star ...
199. Notes (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... The (twenty-four) books that you have copied first make public .. . (46) But the (seventy) [others] thou shalt keep and deliver .. . to the wise of thy people. Regarding the careful selection of the people to whom the `revelations' were made and the interpretation of the symbols of the sacred secret records by the pirishtu (the `revealer') to the ldmid pirishti (the one desirous of learning secret lore), Sumerian inscriptions say: `The knowing one shall tell the knowing one, but the unknowing one shall not be told, for it is a secret . . . . ' Note 10. Compare also ...
200. Samples From The Planets, Part 2 Mars Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... was the image which fell down from Jupiter, the stones of Amon and Seth at Thebes,5 were meteorites. Also the image of Venus on Cyprus was a stone which fell from the sky.6 The Palladium of Troy was a stone that fell on the earth "from Pallas Athene"7 (the planet Venus). The sacred stone of Tyre, too, was a meteorite related to Astarte, the planet Venus. "Travelling about the world, she [Astarte] found a st ar falling from air, or sky, which she taking up, consecrated on the holy island [Tyre]."8 At Aphaca in Syria a meteorite fell which " ...
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