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93 pages of results. 21. The Sacred Circuit [Books]
... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents SECTION V The Sacred Circuit The Dancing and Revolving Sun - Winter Solstice Ceremony - Quarter days - The Course of Nature - Left-hand circuit - Birds that fly sun-wise - Highland, Irish, Gaulish, Buddhist and Homeric customs - English mistletoe dance - Dancing Greeks - Hindu customs - Ocean flowing from left to right around the world -Circulating dwelling houses - Masonic spiral staircase - Hindu priests' circuit - Evil Eye customs - Top spinning - Serpent spirals - Left-hand circuit as Ceremony of Riddance - Egyptian example - Hindu movements explained - The Wishing Maidens - Borneo expulsion ceremony - Spiral on wand-Pig calls ...
22. The origin of the sacred 260 day calendar of the early Mesoamerican civilisations: a hypothesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:1 (Apr 2001) Home | Issue Contents The origin of the sacred 260 day calendar of the early Mesoamerican civilisations: a hypothesis by Bob Johnson Summary The Maya were obsessed with cycles of time, but the sacred cycle' of 260 days has no known relationship to naturally occurring cycles of our era. By combining the welldocumented old year of 360 days and a hypothetical period of orbital revolution for Venus of 260 days into a new calendar round, a simple means of predicting the appearances of the planet is generated. Evidence for the assumption of a 360 day year and changes in the period of Venus are presented in support ...
23. Legends and Scripture [Books] [de Grazia books]
... CHAPTER FIVE Legends and Scripture The biggest difference between myth or legends and sacred scriptures is that the latter are selected legends, called "divinely inspired or spoken" by their believers, which have been careful-ly guarded and edited to pursue the continuous but also continu-ally changing religious goals of their custodians. Myth and legends, not so regarded, or whose line of custodians died out, were left like abandoned children to wander through time as casual history and unconstrained imagination, until caught up by scientific mythological studies. Giambattista Vico was the first modern scholar to perceive this process when, two centuries ago, he wrote: "The fables in their origins were true and severe narrations, ...
24. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... as it must appear at first sight, Heracles was intimately associated with marriage rites. Ancient inscriptions upon the island of Cos confirm that the natives worshipped the Greek hero as their marriage-deity, thereby supporting Plutarch's testimony. [7 ] James Frazer, together with A.B . Cook, suggested that such inscriptions likely reflect the hero's participation in sacred marriage rites: "Mr. Cook conjectures that a Sacred Marriage of Hercules and Hera was celebrated in Cos. We know in fact from a Coan inscription that a bed was made and a marriage celebrated beside the image of Hercules, and it seems probable that the rite was that of a Sacred Marriage." [8 ] Support ...
25. The Garden of Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... a goddess for all seasons. Her intimate association with kingship made the goddess a permanent fixture of investiture rituals. [1 ] Under the auspices of the Persian empire, Anahita's cult became disseminated across much of Asia Minor. [2 ] The most complete description of the goddess is that found in the fifth Yasht of the Avesta, the sacred book of the Iranians. There Anahita is made the source of a fabulous celestial spring from whence originated the world's waters. "1 . Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zar-athushtra, saying: Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathushtra! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sura Anahita, the wide-expanding and health-giving, who hates the Daevas ...
26. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... mythical Olympus and the mythical Zion are the same mountain; only their terrestrial representations differ. When the ancients sanctified a familiar hill, giving it the name of the primeval mount, they sought to characterize their own land as a duplication of the "homeland." The local mountain took its mythical attributes from the cosmic peak. Always the sacred mount rises "higher than any mountain on earth," attaining the polar centre and functioning as the cosmic axis. Legends of the heaven-sustaining peak say that the creator- the central sun- ruled his kingdom from the mountaintop, where stood the original paradise with its four life-bearing streams. Egypt According to the long-standing belief of Egyptologists, ...
27. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... transcription. But these are now too firmly established to be discontinued or even corrected. Vergil wrote in the 1st Georgic: Navita tum stellis numeros et nomina fecit ; and Seneca, the traditional friend of Saint Paul, in his Quaesdones Naturales Graecia stellis numeros et nomina fecit; both of these heathen authors almost exactly following the words of the sacred psalmist, who, at least four hundred years before, had sung He teIleth the number of the stars He giveth them all their names, and of the prophet Isaiah He calleth them all by name. While Seneca's statement may have some foundation, and Vergil's assertion as to the sailor's influence in star-naming may be true in part, ...
28. The Sacred Mountain [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History VI:2 (July 1984) Home | Issue Contents INTERACTION The Sacred Mountain Charles H. Seitz Immanuel Velikovsky proposed that Saturn was in a stationary position at the North Pole until the time of the Deluge, when it became a nova. Behind Saturn was Jupiter and the rest of the planets. The explosion not only dumped water on the Earth and for seven days became a bright light that radiated terrestrial life, but caused Venus to emerge from the red spot on Jupiter and begin an orbit that, at the time of the Exodus, threatened collision with the Earth- diverted only at the last minute by Mars. Various planets threatened ...
29. The Holy Land [Books]
... celestial empire, and each capital city imitated the same plan. In unison, diverse traditions of the Near East, Europe, Asia, and the Americas recall a Holy Land par excellence, founded and ruled by the creator himself. From this Saturnian kingdom every nation took instruction in the ideals of kingship and in the proper organization of the sacred domain. The Mother Land In the creation myth the great god raised a circular plot of "earth" from the cosmic waters. The enclosure was Saturn's paradise- the kingdom of heaven- appearing as a vast wheel or throne turning about the stationary god. Saturn's Earth (1 ) In seeming reference to the fertile soil around us ...
30. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... . THE LABYRINTH AND AXE 8. THE BULL 9. NAXOS 10. CHRONOLOGY 11. CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS 12. CATASTROPHE, MYTH AND SKY 13. FIRE 14. THE GODDESS GAIA 15. HAWARA AND KNOSOS 16. THE DANCE 17. ROCKS 18. RITUALS 19. LIFE 20. QUAIRO: RAISING THE KA 21. KINGS 22. SACRED BIRDS 23. BOLTS 24. THE NORTH 25. RESURRECTION TECHNIQUES 26. REVERSALS 27. GLOSSARY Q-CD vol. 13, A Fire Not Blown, Ch. 14: The Goddess Gaia 85 CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE GODDESS GAIA The priest-electricians were aware that the deity was to be found not only in the sky as lightning, but also in ...
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