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119 pages of results. 821. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ) which "clave unto the bright Yima" during the Golden Age. As we have noted elsewhere, Yima is to be identified with the planet Saturn. According to Avestan tradition, the Glory departed from Yima with the end of the Golden Age, That was when "the glory was seen to flee away from him". And strangely, on its departure, the Glory took the form of a female chaos monster, remembered as "that most powerful, fiendish Drug, that demon baleful". This turns out to be a key, for we are reminded that the goddess Inanna, the Sumerian star of terrifying glory, was also transformed into a world threatening dragon ...
822. Thoth Vol II, No. 18: Nov 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a human form (as goddess), the symbolists DUPLICATED it, since single eyes do not occur in nature. Put two pictographs of the Venus-eye together, and you have the beginnings of anthropomorphic representation, a trend which can be easily documented. But something else happens. The "head" of the goddess so represented takes on a strange resemblance to an "owl" (" Symbols", pages 90-91). As shown by Marija Gimbutas and others, the ancient eye goddess does, in fact, pass into the figure of an "owl" goddess. From eye goddess to owl goddess: nothing more is needed in order to explain the owl-eyed Athene, a ...
823. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... pagan hangers-on) and joined with other monotheistic thinkers in the Sinai region. A national group was formed that claimed a special relationship with the One Supernatural God. Further, let me suggest that this second approach is more probable, as the scenario of Moses taking pagan slaves out of Egypt for conversion to monotheism by exposure to wonders is rather strange. Moses, according to the Bible, had no love of the leadership mission or of converting people. It was his duty to redeem Abraham's, Isaac's and Jacob's offspring, who were probably the bulk of already monotheistic thinkers. One does not necessarily need catastrophes to appreciate the shortcomings of paganism and the value of human life, but ...
824. Theomachy in the Theater: on the Fringes of the Collective Amnesia [Journals] [Kronos]
... . Such indeed he was, for his heroes were already animated by the Titanism of the superman. The violent action of his stories inspired by Nordic myths or the Homeric(11) poems, or by the supernatural world of Milton, seems to evolve in an amorphous and cataclysmic world, a magical world. His heroes and heroines wear strange improbable robes and towering coiffures, looking like sea anemones or the wing cases of beetles. (Fuseli was a coiffure fetishist). His fury and his pomp seem aimless, as in a dream. For all these reasons surrealists have been fascinated by the intensity of the passion that invests his haunting, possessed creatures. This painter of ...
825. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... striking and has not escaped the notice of scholars. (105) In a further elaboration of the imagery, the "solar wheel" may be set atop a pillar-like appendage (see figure two). And yet, if we are to take this image as an objective representation of the Sun, what are we to make of the strange spoke-like forms emanating from its "hub", typically four or eight in number? The simplest answer, of course, would be to assume that the terrestrial symbol (the wheel) has influenced the artistic rendering of the celestial object (the Sun). This explanation, however, would appear to be ruled out by the fact ...
826. Senmut and Phaeton [Journals] [SIS Review]
... later that the figures on the other panel are not wholly aligned as required by this postulated upside down situation; see also note 7.) It may be noted in passing that the god-like figure could actually be a representation of Sagittarius in his traditional pose of aiming an arrow at Scorpius; in that case, it would seem rather a strange accident that a bull had unaccountably interposed itself between Sagittarius and Scorpius, exactly along the line of aim of the arrow (8 ). The present writer's preference is actually for a figure other than Sagittarius (presumably Horus or some other local representation of Zeus-Jupiter) deliberately aiming a weapon at the bull in mid-flight (and also actually striking ...
827. Day Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... -symbol petroglyphs on smooth lava pavement. Such "sun" -symbols are to be found all over the world. (Illustration by Y. S. Green.) Considered in isolation, and without reference to the evidence from ancient language and myth, such pictures must seem abstract in nature or the product of fantasy. Yet the strange fact is that each of these images has countless counterparts in rock art from around the globe, a strong indication of their original objective nature. Indeed, it is the very ubiquitousness of the imagery in question, coupled with the striking parallels in myth and folklore, which prompted me to propose that each of these so-called "sun" ...
828. The Case for Catastrophe in Historical Times [Journals] [Kronos]
... it was "like a dragon", or even "in the form of the great Serpent"? Of the major deities of the Sumerian pantheon, An, Enlil, Sin, Enki, Nergal, etc. are not described thus: "dragon" or "serpent" fits only a minority of gods. Equally, it is strange to read of a deity depositing "venom" or "poison" on the land, but here we read of one that fills the land or deposits over it a "venom" or "poison" in the manner of (or even in the form of) a dragon or serpent. There are some parallel themes in the ...
829. Of Lessons, Legacies, and Litmus Tests: A Velikovsky Potpourri (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... publication; but these were viewed as unsatisfactory by Kronos . When Beyond Velikovsky came out in early 1985, it garnered favorable reviews in Nature (25 April 1985), Science (14 June 1985), Fate (June), Skeptical Inquirer (Summer), ISIS (September), and JHA (1987), among others. Strangely, however, no review appeared in any Velikovsky-oriented publication. In Nature, Owen Gingerich hailed the book as "the most balanced and informative analysis yet to emerge from the whole affair." In JHA, Donald Goldsmith predicted it "is likely to become, and deservedly so, the definitive discussion of Velikovsky's hypotheses and their reception. ...
830. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was running through the AAAS conference and, the subsequent publishing efforts, of destroying Velikovsky politically and pushing him out from the centre of the scientific stage. His reaction to this may be (and some of us may help him in this regard) not simply to let the book come out without his material in it - it's a rather strange kind of book, an animal running around without a head: the Velikovsky article was the featured paper, and it can't make sense without the paper - but, when it comes out, to write another book including his piece and a full analysis of the argument and points in this knotty issue. But, as I say, ...
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