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93 pages of results. 71. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... was an exception to this rule. All symbols did not originate in the same way. Some were conventionalized natural subjects, or conventionalized living creatures, or simply characteristic features of these objects or creatures, such as a leaf or branch representative of a tree, the horns of an animal like the ram or deer, the wings of a sacred bird like those of the falcon in the Egyptian "winged disc", or merely a feather of a bird, or the impression of a "bee's foot" to convey the idea of the presence of a god, as a Buddha footprint conveys to Buddhists the feeling that Buddha is present. Thus in an Egyptian magical papyrus, ...
72. KA [Books]
... . Chapter Seven reviewed the Greek and Hebrew apotropaic practices- red-haired men being killed to avert the red Typhon, and the driving by the Israelites of a scapegoat into the wilderness. We have also studied the earthing technique (trench filled with water, sprinkling of water and blood, etc.), and details of an Homeric sacrifice and sacred meal, with slices of thigh wrapped up in fat, entrails and tongues burnt in the fire, and other meat roasted on spits. Chapter Eight described the apotropaic nature of the origins of dithyramb and tragedy, and the significance of the axe was discussed in Chapter Eighteen, with reference to the Etruscans and the Roman magistrate. It ...
73. The Book of Revelation is History [Books]
... a statement of fact. Before we proceed we shall have to get clear on a number of points. Firstly, What is an apocalypse? The Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse proper, is not the only work of this type: but it is the greatest, longest, most detailed, and best known of the class of sacred literature called apocalyptic.1 It is, in fact, the work which, though it is not the earliest by far, provides the name for the whole class. The non-classical, Hellenist, Greek, the first word, or index-word, or title, of the Book of Revelation and it means `uncovering, disclosure, laying ...
... It was the same custom elsewhere, notably in Glastonbury, and the selection of Iona is evidence of its former eminence in the pagan cult. Iona possessed an ancient reputation, its roots very deep in the past, and accordingly from thence did Columba wrestle with Satan and all his works. Tradition says that here once stood a city of sacred reputation, adorned with fine buildings and temples, a seat of learning visited by students from all parts of the world. Its present village, named Threld, means in the Gaelic "great city", and though Iona's antiquities have suffered more destruction by wanton acts than mostly any other site, the remains of stone circles and some ...
75. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... Night "Brought forth another Monster, irresistible, no wise like to mortal man or immortal gods, in a hollow cavern ; the divine, stubborn-hearted Echidna (half-nymph, with dark eyes and fair cheeks ; and half, on the other hand a serpent huge and terrible and vast), speckled, and flesh devouring, neath caves of sacred Earth. . . . With her, they say that Typhaon (Typhon) associated in love, a terrible and lawless ravisher for the dark-eyed maid. . . . but she (Echidna) bare Chimaera, breathing resistless fire, fierce and huge, fleet-footed as well as strong ; this monster had three heads: one, indeed ...
76. Catechism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... but divinity implies no superiority over the pragmatically knowable. 34. What is the divine on Earth? The divine on Earth is a uniquely human way of looking upon oneself and the world. 35. How does one worship the divine? The rituals for worshiping the divine are whatever exercises are useful to achieve it. 36. What is sacred? Everything viewed in its supernatural and divine manifestations is sacred. 37. What is faith? Faith is positive morale, a conviction of meaningfulness about what one is thinking and doing, which when related to the divine is religious faith. 38. What is revelation? Revelation is the recognition by an internal or external stimulus of an ...
77. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... World- Mountain into court. Mount Helicon cannot be questioned amiss in this inquiry; and the first thought which comes up at the sound of the name is one of utter wonder how man ever gave a mountain that name, and we settle down to the emphatic refusal to believe that any terrestrial mountain was ever so named, save as a sacred memorial of a mountain of infinite circles or curves in perpetual rotation around a single turning point. Bocatia's divine mountain of the gods and the home of the Muses was no terrestrial mountain. The ineffable order and harmony of the celestial pole gave men licence to use the name as a memorial. Helicon as first seen by the human family ...
... over 750 miles south-west of Gibraltar, both being isolated volcanic dumps like so many others in the Oceans, and never occupied any great area. Nor is then any succession of islands from which ships could sail to the opposite continent from the Straits of Gibraltar. Moreover, the Columns of Hercules were not only an important landmark but were of sacred import in the ancients' eyes, and that long before the Mediterranean played any leading part in history. Even in the fifth century BC so learned a man as Herodotus was supremely ignorant of the Atlantic as to ignore the Hesperides and he had evidently never heard of the British Isles although we claim in our own histories that the Trojans ...
... of heaven, hence it is standing with face towards the North-east that one offers libations, and standing towards the North-east that one leads up the dakshinas; it is by the gate that he (the priest) thus makes him enter into the world of heaven." To the Ainu the North-east, according to Batchelor, is the most sacred of all points.10 The North-east is likewise of importance in Celtic mythology In the "Cuchullin Saga" the god Lugh (" the Celtic Apollo") is referred to as" a lone man out of the North-eastern quarter", while the goddess Morrigan comes "from the North-west "11 Winifred Faraday, dealing with the Scandinavian ...
80. KA [Books]
... , as demonstrated in vase paintings of the Geometric period. Bastet is an Egyptian animal god, the cat. Its hieroglyph shares with that of Set the feature of a tail pointing straight up into the air. Compare, for the erect tails, the electrical significance of Hermes and the ithyphallic statues of Hermes, and the hoopoe, a sacred bird with a striking erectile crest, a principal actor in the comedy The Birds of Aristophanes. The Greek for a cat is ailouros, wavy-tail. Setekh is the Egyptian storm god. STATUES AND MUMMIES A man's ka and character could be transferred to an image or statue of a man. If we look at relief sculptures or paintings ...
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