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93 pages of results. 231. The Spiral and Birth [Books]
... when they were severally applied, and sketched the patterns of all the noble families. But, unfortunately, all the reporters of the occurrence have only recorded the incidents as such, without the details of Tupai Kupa's explanations. We know, however, that in the central islands of Polynesia, it was customary to have his tutelary deity or sacred animal tattooed on each person; we know that on festive occasions the tokens were recorded on the breast of all the participators, and we find the same rite in Mrica, as, for instance, with the western Niam-Niams.11 Ruth H. Greiner, who has made an intensive study of Polynesian and Melanesian symbols, shows that ...
... huge kilns, where heat, hydro-carbon, and sometimes sulphur were concomitants, and these rents and forests were simultaneously buried under clay, sand, and other heated material showered over them. Amber contains hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. It preserves electric properties, and was accordingly called "elektron" by the Greeks. It bore a very sacred reputation, as did jet, doubtless because of its origin, and in Egyptian, French, Italian, Scandinavian, and British tombs of the late Neolithic and subsequent periods amber is frequently found as amulets. Now we pass on to the next phase in this strange story. What caused the Drift? What brought to the shores of ...
233. The Domestication of Cattle. Interdisciplinary Evidence in Support of Catastrophism [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . It can also be seen in the widespread nature of the "fire-bull" ritual in the ancient Near East, North Africa and Europe (as described by Dr Elizabeth Chesley Baity in an address to the Society in London, 7th Sept., 1980, reported in SISR V:1 , p. 2), and even the sacred cow aspects of some present religions. The goddess whose rituals consequently caused such a major step in mankind's economy, is assumed by Isaac to be a lunar one. Readers' of Velikovsky will recognize that this assumption is not necessarily valid, and that other celestial bodies, Venus in particular, were also thought of as possessing crescent-shaped horns ...
234. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... more dishevelled. [57] During the same time, they dress in old, black clothes. Similar practices prevailed in ancient Greece: "In Greece, as elsewhere, the dirge was sung and accompanied with an ecstatic dance in which women beat their breasts and tore their hair." [58] Lion of Heaven "In the sacred iconography surrounding Ishtar, lions are conspicuous. A popular motif finds lions being marked with a hair-star' on their bodies...The hair-star, ' of course, is a common term for comet' throughout the ancient world." (From Beth Shan.) In the same hymn in which she is described as a " ...
235. Let There be Darkness: The Reign of the Swastika by Lewis M. Greenberg [Journals] [Aeon]
... , it contains no less than 275 references (for those who need to be assured of the seriousness of this work). Let There Be Darkness begins with Heinrich Schliemann's pivotal discoveries in the 1870s of swastika-adorned artifacts at what he called the Third City of Hissarlik-Troy in present-day Turkey. Because the swastika, a word rooted in Sanskrit, was sacred to India while also found in Germany and associated "with the great Teutonic god Thor," Schliemann linked these two distant Aryan nations with ancient Troy. As Greenberg notes: "This discovery was to have far-reaching implications and catastrophic consequences for the next seventy-five years of German history and the world at large." Thus, Germany's history ...
236. Amenhotep III and Tiy. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... and his cohorts, and incantations and the muted tones of flute, viol, and harp sounded. Encircling the main sanctuary were sanctuaries of lesser divinities, rooms for special ceremonies, and storerooms for vessels and vestments. The main ceremony took place in the month of Paophi. The image of Amon was carried from Karnak to Luxor on the sacred barge by more than a score of priests amid rejoicing crowds, and the pharaoh himself participated in the procession. He was looked upon as a descendant of the god, son of Amon himself, and one of his functions, upon arrival at Luxor, was to effect the conception of a next son of Amon, taking upon himself ...
237. The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... Earth was waste and desolate and darkness was upon the face of the deep," for it is plain that he was describing the Earth and the heavens. These two objects he certainly had in mind for the context shows that the "firmament" which was "called heaven" was "in the midst of the waters". The sacred penman then, it is most evident, began his description of heaven and an Earth that were familiar to him, or revealed to him. Of course, I am for obvious reasons committed to the former. It is certain then that we must go back and see what was then seen, and believe, as it were, ...
238. Chapter I: The Worship of the Sun and the Dawn [Books]
... that from the beginning of things- so far as we can judge from the records- the sign for God was a star. We find the same idea in Egypt: in some of the hieroglyphic texts three stars represented the plural "gods." I have already remarked that the ideas of the early Indian civilisation, crystallised in their sacred books called Vedas, were known to us long before either the Egyptian or the Babylonian and Assyrian records had been deciphered. Enough, however, is now known to show that we may take the Vedas to bring before us the remnants of the first ideas which dawned upon the minds of the earliest dwellers in Western Asia- that is ...
239. The Enigma of Tiahuanaco (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... Tiahuanaco has at all times been a problem to the investigator. It was a ruin-field (though an incomparably richer one) in the time of the Incas, who not only appear to have taken no interest in it, but actually seem to have avoided it. Though they built a considerable number of settlements, including two of their most sacred shrines, in the Inter-Andean Altiplano, they do not seem to have used Tiahuanaco even as a source of building material. The site was probably taboo. The Spanish chroniclers could gather practically no traditions regarding the builders of the astonishing structures of Tiahuanaco, but this is not to be wondered at since the unbridled conquistadores had killed off practically ...
... its action were as I have described it, and if the wise men of that age anticipated some form of celestial destruction in which fire would naturally be a leading feature, they would take steps to seek self-preservation. Enoch, we are told, was "concealed". These strongly-built and inhabitable chambered barrows, formed of thick slabs of sacred stone, a similar roof, and covered with a mound of lesser stones, would supply emergency shelters like those provided in our own time to preserve persons from high-explosive bombs. They were, of course, useless against a flood. That some such method was in existence is the explanation of a remarkable passage in Isaiah: "Come ...
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