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119 pages of results. 551. Aphrodite The Moon or Venus? (Continued) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... adulteress in the most complete sense. For Paris there was no atonement. .. . But Helen received no punishment, and scarcely any reproach. She ended her days back in Sparta, administering magical drugs obtained in Egypt, interpreting omens, and participating in the life of the palace much like Arete [queen of the Phaeacians and a strange powerful figure] and not like a proper Greek woman."(6 ) We think that the "enigmatic" and "complicated" image of Helen that Finley alludes to has a simple solution. Helen of Troy is the Moon. She represents the goddess Aphrodite. Paris-Alexander, Prince of Troy, represents the god Mars-Ares. The ...
... , twenty, nay, thirty years;" but did not assign the just determinate limit of his reign. Herod was satisfied with these replies, and gave Manahem his hand, and dismissed him; and from that time he continued to honor all the Essens. We have thought it proper to relate these facts to our readers, how strange soever they be, and to declare what hath happened among us, because many of these Essens have, by their excellent virtue, been thought worthy of this knowledge of Divine revelations. CHAPTER 11. HOW HEROD REBUILT THE TEMPLE AND RAISED IT HIGHER AND MADE IT MORE MAGNIFICENT THAN IT WAS BEFORE; AS ALSO CONCERNING THAT TOWER WHICH ...
... relation to the Swastika. Fig. 251. Fig, 252. Fig. 253. These objects were all prehistoric. None of them bore the slightest evidence of contact with white civilization, The commoner objects would compare favorably with those found in other mounds by the same and other investigators. Much of it may be undetermined. It is strange to find so many objects brought such long dstances, and we may not be able to explain the problem presented; but there is no authority for injectlng any modern or European, influence into it. Fig. 254. WATER dl'G WITH FIGURE OF EWASTIRA. By what people were these made? In what epoch! For what purpose ...
554. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... Venus makes perfect sense if that planet-goddess once presented the appearance of a comet-like body. Aphrodite Areia Lion with "hair star." (From an Egyptian tomb.) In ancient Greece, especially in Sparta, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior, as attested by the epithet Areia. As Graz has pointed out, this cult was considered strange by the Greeks themselves: "The armed Aphrodite of Sparta challenged the wits of Hellenistic epigrammists and Roman students of rhetoric: for both, she was a puzzling paradox." [72] Yet the Spartan cult finds a parallel on the island of Cythera, where Aphrodite Urania was represented as armed. And this cult, it will ...
... course of one man's life our whole outlook upon nature has been fundamentally altered. (9 ) [Paragraphing altered]. Velikovsky's attempt to perform a similar scientific revolution, single-handedly, would be unconsummated and his name defamed. Intriguingly, the Palestinian years are the ones most barren of Velikovsky's own personal manuscripts. In his autobiographical writings he was strangely quiet about those years. It is true that, in 1935, with the encouragement of Ivan Bunin (and using the pen name "Immanuel Ram") he finally had his Thirty Days and Niqhts of Diogo Pires on the Bridge of Sant'Angelo published in Paris, but he had written the first part of the prose poem fifteen years ...
556. Thoth Vol I, No. 6: March 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of Eridu at the mouth of the Euphrates, the priests recalled a Golden Age prior to familiar history. The predecessors of their race, it was claimed, had formerly reposed in the paradise of Dilmun, called the "Pure Place" of man's genesis. This lost paradise of Dilmun, about which scholars have debated for decades, is strangely reminiscent of the paradise of Eden. "That place was pure, that place was clean^Ê In Dilmun...the lion mangled not. The wolf ravaged not the lambs," the Sumerian texts read. The inhabitants of this paradise lived in a state of near perfection, in communion with the gods, drinking the ...
557. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... rejecting the possibility that rocks could fall from the sky. Confronted with a report of a meteorite-fall in Connecticut, Jefferson is said to have quipped: "It is easier to believe that Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven." And this was in 1807! Reviewing the history of meteoritics, Dodd commented upon this strange turn of events: "That meteorites came from beyond the Earth is both a very old and a new idea...The ancient Greeks and Chinese also regarded meteorites as objects from the heavens, but this perception, like so much else of value, was lost to Western culture during the long intellectual night that we call the ...
558. The Youthful Planet Venus [Articles]
... . "But by geologists usual measure these fresh looking craters had plenty of time to fall prey to the ravages of geological change." After Magellan completed its mapping of Venus' surface the pristine condition of Venus' surface topography told the very same story appearing to be brand new, as Grispoon explains: "But there is something quite strange, almost unnatural about the Venusian craters. Nearly all of them appear pristine as if planted there recently. Indeed, VIRTUALLY EVERY GEOLOGICAL FEATURE OF THE PLANET APPEARS BRAND-NEW .. . (Capitalization added). All of this evidence is starkly and strikingly in accord with Velikovsky's theory of Venus as a new born planet. The scientific establishment ...
559. "Cenocatastrophism" [Articles]
... and therefore I find it legitimate to use the prefix "ceno-" here to mean "within human memory". By this definition, therefore, cenocatastrophism designates a model which has not yet won a scientific consensus; those who support it have all the methodological and rhetorical problems of the not-yet-mainstreamed. It is a model shared by those strange bedfellows, Immanuel Velikovsky and Fred Hoyle, and also by Victor Clube and Bill Napier, the two astronomers on whose The Cosmic Winter Hoyle's recent The Origin of the Universe and the Origin of Religion openly depends. Just as catastrophism once existed in opposition to uniformitarianism, until the latter gained dominance and the two terms became archaic, so ...
... while bards eulogized the gods and goddesses to the delight of the listening crowds. Thus, indeed, did the once contemptible little rocky isle become the very heart of Ionic culture, the central boss of the Cyclades. Delos had been a "floating island" until Zeus fastened it by adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea, a strange conception in its way, yet the Irish have a legend relating to Balor, the Fo'Morian monarch, who being disgusted with the difficulty of ruling that island, ordered that it should be towed by chains to the middle of the Atlantic and there drowned, hence another "floating" island! In the near vicinity of Delos was Euboea ...
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