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119 pages of results. 931. Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Aeon]
... with the dual horizons, needless to say, have proven particularly puzzling to those scholars who would see in this god a personification of Sirius. For how could a relatively stationary star like Sirius appear to rise in the East with the Sun and set in the West? Obviously puzzled, Kakosy commented as follows upon this apparent incongruity: "Strange to say, the God is split into a western and eastern Sothis-Horus." (89) A wealth of evidence indicates that it was the planet Mars, not Sirius, which formed the subject of these traditions surrounding Horus-Spd.w . Thus, it is significant that Egyptian astronomical lore identified Mars as Harachte- "Horus of the ...
932. Mars Gods of the New World [Journals] [Aeon]
... 107) In Ugaritic texts, Attar immediately appears among the host of heaven, as a satellite of the ancient sun-god. Nearly a millennium later, he appears among the South Arabians as the Morning Star, represented as a youthful warrior and as god of irrigation. (108) Oldenburg summarizes Attar's cult as follows: "It is not strange that the brilliant Morning Star... fascinated the desert dwellersIn their imagination this planet became the Valiant war god, the Strong One, and by giving victory he became Peace-maker. Also his symbol the spearhead reveals him as the terrifying war god... Although there is evidence of the hermaphroditism of Attar also in South Arabia, ...
933. From the End of the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Time of Ramses II [Journals] [Kronos]
... Judea, might easily have infringed on Menashe's territorial rights. But apparently Menashe leaned toward Assyria and Egypt; he called his son Amon, a sacred name among the Egyptians. He tried to avoid a major conflict. The latter part of Menashe's long reign coincided with the earlier part of the long reign of Seti, and it would be strange indeed if, in Seti's account of his march to Galilee and Syria, he did not mention Menashe. With this thought in mind, it is worthwhile to reread the annals of Seti. There we find Seti's boast that he had "set terror in Retenu [Palestine] ," had taken from there "every costly stone of ...
934. Paired Sets in the Hebrew Alphabet [Journals] [Aeon]
... raas (pl. ruus , head, chief')]. Also resh Y poverty, ' to be in want, ' hunger'Y "Chinese lunar station chen a carriage, ' to revolve' (as wheels of a carriage), distressed'; from che a cart, ' carriage, ' and chen bushy hair'Y "The strange assortment of meanings of the Chinese character chen a carriage, ' to revolve, ' distressed, ' taken together with the original meaning of chen a bushy head of hair' and divine influences, ' could hardly be gotten together except in the prognostications of an astrological divining board. "There seem to be some parallels to chen in ...
935. Whence Homo? [Journals] [Aeon]
... whether ancient animal life or climate is the benchmark. At any rate, the line of demarcation is not precisely defined. I would therefore suggest that all Australopiths belonged to the Pleistocene, as did Homo erectus, and that none of them was ancestral to Homo erectus. Any possible common ancestry in the Tertiary is uncertain. Australopithecus possessed a strange mixture of features, some mirrored today in man, and some in apes. Given the manipulative ability inherent in a man-like opposable thumb and the freedom of hand-use associated with bipedalism, the protoculture (? ) of the Australopiths was qualitatively different from that of modern chimpanzees. But the intelligence to fully exploit the possible potential of these physical ...
936. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... underlying motifs. Often masks simply enabled actors to present themselves in the role of the god or hero portrayed in ritual reenactments. But it is surprising how frequently one finds the goddess, or the head of the goddess, portrayed with wildly disheveled hair, and being donned by the warrior or hero as a mask. We see the same strange role in both the Old and the New World. The Medusa head, of course, served as a mask to protect the warrior. Comparable is the mask of Glory in India, China, and Tibet; and the Aztec mask was fashioned symbolically as the head and radiating hair of the goddess Xochiquetzal. In magical and ritual terms ...
937. Abimilki, Azaru and Nikmed in the El-Amarna Correspondence and the Assyrian Annals [Journals] [Kronos]
... - "How long after that disaster of 855 B.C . he described the charnelled Ugarit we cannot tell." This is rather a weak explanation of a serious chronological difficulty; the rest of the information in Abimilki's letter, concerning troop movements and political upsets, shows that it was communicating urgent news, and it would be rather strange if it were reporting a fire some two years old. Moreover, as demonstrated above, if Abimilki was Pygmalion, his reign cannot have begun earlier than 832 B.C ., which means that nearly a quarter of a century would have passed before Ugarit's fall was reported to the Pharaoh. Once again, it is difficult to ...
938. Mons Veneris [Journals] [Aeon]
... and Ishtar. Here von Soden offered the following observation: "[ Sin] is invoked in prayers much less frequently than the Sun-god Shamash and Ishtar, nor does he play a very important role in myth." (57) Nor, for that matter, is the god surely attested in anthropomorphic form among the extent art, a strange situation indeed if the Moon was once the most important figure of the pantheon, as many scholars would have us believe. (58) (Fig. 4) Seal impressions showing the crescent of Sin in conjunction with disc. In ancient art, Sin is typically represented simply as a crescent. Indeed, an early epithet of the ...
939. On Morrison: Some Further Remarks [Journals] [Kronos]
... planet. This "raft" concept of a planetary crust has already been remarked upon, above. The principle of isostasy should be even more applicable to a thin-skinned, juvenile planet (if, indeed, a newborn planet must be molten) than to an old, deeply crusted body like the Earth. Reports of craters on Venus with strangely stunted rims not at all in keeping with their great diameters seem to suggest that such formations are indeed deformed by subsidence. Nor is this explanation confounded by recent reports concerning a "rift valley" and a "volcanic peak surpassing any such features on Earth" (Cf. New York Times, May 27, 1977). We ...
940. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... quarks. The leptons comprise three neutrinos that come in the respective flavors of their less virtual and more massive lepton complements: the electron, the muon, and the tau particle. The quarks- of which only five have been found- have equally colorful names, and are termed up, down, top, bottom, charm, and strange. All these quarks combine in pairs and triplets to form the hadrons, of which the proton and neutron are the best known. There are currently 216 of these beauties, which includes the lovely array of antiparticles. And further, there are eight gauge bosons that comprise three out of the four forces in the macrocosm and the microcosm ...
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