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... VII. The Many-Colored Cover 96 VIII. Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep ... Styx, eldest daughter of backflowing Ocean. She lives apart from the gods in her glorious house vaulted over with great rocks and propped up to heaven all around with silver pillars. Rarely does the daughter of Thaumas, swift-footed Iris, come to her with a message over the sea's wide back. "But when strife and quarrel arise among ...
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... VII. The Many-Colored Cover 96 VIII. Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep ... as the "likeness" of Apsu, or whether it was Sun the Chinese Monkey who fetched his irresistible weapon from the "navel of the deep" an enormous iron pillar by means of which, once upon a time, Yu the Great had plumbed out the utmost depth of the sea. In any case, whether the description is ...
28. The Patchwork Pentateuch [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Levy, Worterbuch uber die Talmudim und Midrashim' for the meaning a prince, lord of a clan, head of a family' and it is an attractive idea. Samson might be more believable, for example, if he killed a chieftain' of the Philistines with the well known mandible. It is also perhaps preferable to believe that ... avoided that problem. Bimson argues that the walls of water at the Sea of Passage were only metaphorical walls and thus opens the flood-gates, so to speak. Concerning the Pillar of Smoke, he alludes to 6 passages which describe its behaviour in such a way that no natural explanation' is possible - the Pillar or Cloud descends on the ...
29. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... and apples in our picturing of the constellation that aided Miss Rolleston to her substitution of the biblical Adam for the mythological Hercules. Others, however, changed the latter to Samson with the jawbone of an ass; and Julius Schiller multiplied him into the Three Magi. The Arabians turned the classical Saltator, or Leaper, into Al Rakis, ... magnitudes m, s and rwere Taeen Hwang, the Heavenly Pool; and n, t , u, f, c, with another unidentified star, Choo, a Pillar. 2o south from, on the 24th of January, 1892, an amateur observer, the Reverend Doctor Thomas D. Anderson of Edinburgh, discovered with an opera-glass ...
30. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... manufacture of the noose, we are told, led to the discovery of the art of rope making. He took his brothers with him; he armed himself, like Samson, with a jawbone, but instead of the jaw bone of an ass, he, with much better taste, selected the jawbone of his mistress. She may ... hath destroyed them and disunited them, and in the dust they have lost what they amassed." Talib goes on with his troops, until they come to a great pillar of black stone, sunk into which, to his armpits, was a mighty creature; " he had two wings and four arms; two of them like those ...
... VII. The Many-Colored Cover 96 VIII. Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep ... , rose heliacally) marked the "place" where the sun rested. At this time it was known as the sun's "carrier," and as the main "pillar" of the sky, the vernal equinox being recognized as the fiducial point of the "system," determining the first degree of the sun's yearly circle, and ...
32. Velikovsky's Legacy [Articles]
... Thor; among the ancient Celts, Cuchulainn; among the Latins, Mars; among the Aztecs, Tezcatlipoca; among the Ulates, Batraz; among the ancient Hebrews, Samson; among the Chinese, Kung kung; among the Japanese, Susanowo; among the ancient Egyptians, Shu or Horus. As I have documented, an analysis of ... participation in a rebellion against a heavenly kingdom, which itself produced an eclipse of the sun and/or the destruction of the world; an intimate connection with the World Pillar, the latter said to uphold heaven; an intimate association with the Netherworld; dragon-slayer; prodigious raper of women, bane of great goddesses; a remarkable capacity for ...
33. Artificially Structured Biblical Chronologies [Journals] [SIS Review]
... judges Israel 10 yrs 1087-1078 BC (16) Abdon judges Israel 8 yrs 1077-1070 BC (17) Philistines oppress Israel (? ) 40 yrs 1118-1079 BC (18) Samson led Israel (? ) 20 yrs 1098-1079 BC 410 yrs Firstly, note the obviously artificial sequencing of the first 256 years, i.e . 8-40-18-80-20-40-7-40-3. Secondly ... , whilst in his hands are the symbols of his power. In front of him are kneeling the priests and officials of the temple hierarchy, while behind him are two pillars flanking the entrance into the temple. The entire imagery portrays the power of an organised religion via the channel of an institutionalised and externalised temple hierarchy. The present context ...
34. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... 23. 235. E. A. W. Budge, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 286. 236. A. Palmer, The Samson Saga (N . Y., 1977), pp. 227-230. 237. Macrobius, Saturnalia 3:12:6 ; B. L. van der ... disc of Ra, the sun-god, encircled by the Venerian serpent, beneath which is the figure of the Horus falcon, here identified as Mars, resting above the Djed pillar, symbol of the Axis Mundi, or polar column. Of additional interest is the inclusion of the seven apes, said to represent the spirits of the Duat. ...
35. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Abraham [Books]
... men alike.[221] But God said, "Thou didst give him seven sheep. As thou livest, the Philistines shall one day slay seven righteous men, Samson, Hophni, Phinehas, and Saul with his three sons, and they will destroy seven holy places, and they will keep the holy Ark in their country as ... the third day of his journey, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place at a distance, which God had told him. He noticed upon the mountain a pillar of fire reaching from the earth to heaven, and a heavy cloud in which the glory of God was seen. Abraham said to Isaac, "My son, ...
36. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Jacob [Books]
... a son, whom Rachel called Dan, saying, "As the Lord was gracious unto me and gave me a son according to my petition, so He will permit Samson, the descendant of Dan, to judge his people, that it fall not into the hands of the Philistines."[179] Bilhah's second son Rachel named ... God, wherein is the gate of heaven through which prayer ascends to Him." He took the stone made out of the twelve, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it, which had flowed down from heaven for him, and God sank this anointed stone unto the abyss, to serve ...
37. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... 18. "A house full of dead; no dead one came among them, nor did a living come forth from them?" "It is the story of Samson and the Philistines." 19. The queen next ordered the sawn trunk of a cedar tree to be brought, and she asked Solomon to point out at which ... a huge snake rolled itself up against the machinery, forcing the lions and eagles upward until they encircled the head of the king. A golden dove flew down from a pillar, took the sacred scroll out of a casket, and gave it to the king, so that he might obey the injunction of the Scriptures, to have the ...
... VII. The Many-Colored Cover 96 VIII. Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep ... known to need repeating. 22 While Tarquin was thus employed (on certain defensive measures), a dreadful prodigy appeared to him; a snake sliding out of a wooden pillar, terrified the beholders, and made them fly into the palace; and not only struck the king himself with sudden terror, but filled his breast with anxious apprehensions ...
39. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... drive him out in the wilderness is useless, thou knowest the desert did no evil to the Israelites that passed through it; putting out his eyes avails naught, for Samson blind did more mischief than ever Samson seeing. Therefore hang him, for no Jew has ever escaped death by hanging." (158) Haman was well pleased ... of byssus, white and sapphire blue, and vivid green and royal purple, fastened to their supports by ropes depending from round silver beams, these in turn resting on pillars of red, green, yellow, white, and glittering blue marble. The couches were made of delicate draperies, their frames stood on silver feet, and the ...
40. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... histories can be shown to parallel those of characters quite happily accepted as mythological in other cultures. This includes, just from above considerations, Noah, Moses, David, Samson, Solomon - and therefore also Sheba. This reminds me of the work some years ago by the late Nel Kluitman. She tried to make a case that a ... where he presents much interesting myth about heads. He interprets these as cometary heads, despite noting that the Celtic heads are regarded as solar symbols. Their frequent association with pillars and mountains he therefore interprets as cometary tails. Various other associations such as fieriness, giants, black birds, celestial seas, cauldrons, Bran's head being served on ...
... VII. The Many-Colored Cover 96 VIII. Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep ... the signs of the zodiac which determines world-ages, each numbering thousands of years. Each age brings a World Era, a Twilight of the Gods. Great structures collapse; pillars topple which supported the great fabric; floods and cataclysms herald the shaping of a new world. 3 The image of the mill and its owner yielded elsewhere to more ...
42. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... catastrophes) cannot rely on only a few myths - especially if they are poorly chosen or over-interpreted (as when Clube & Napier take apparently solar myths, eg Phaethon, Samson, and simply ignore the references to the sun). What is needed is a large body of mutually supportive evidence - and, of course, a physical model ... Egypt. The point Ellenberger tackles is my objection to the relocation of the Atlantis story in the sky - together, presumably, with a celestial Greece (inhabited), Pillars of Hercules, Mediterranean, Atlantic (complete with impassable mud-banks)... The story has a single source - Plato; Ellenberger cannot reject its numerous unequivocally earthly ...
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... VII. The Many-Colored Cover 96 VIII. Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep ... tried for a model, conceived mechanically, an orrery, a planetarium maybe, such as Plato suggests teasingly in his deadpan way with his whorls and spindles and frames and pillars. A real model might indeed help, he goes on without batting an eye, and one realizes it would come into the price range of a Zeiss Planetarium, ...
44. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... into tribal "history." Researchers who would attempt to reconstruct a viable chronology of the ancient world based upon the stories surrounding such figures as Moses, Abraham, and Samson remind me a good deal of the folks hiking up Mt. Ararat in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the ark. Simply put: they're barking up the ... I have come to call the "axioms of Astronomy" (see my letter to the editor in KRONOS X:3 ). These are the most closely protected sacred pillars of the Astronomical communities collective denial system. They are: (1 ) The solar system formed from a swirling gas and dust cloud 4.5 billion years ago ...
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