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72 pages of results. 31. Archetypes Showing The Presence of Anomalous Electromagnetic Activity [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Fig. 6 North and south poles of the Earth with magnetic field lines shown Fig. 7 Tantric vajra or thunderbolt Fig. 8 Dancing' double triangles inscribed on Etruscan vase In China the sacred mountain K'un-Lun was said to resemble ... in the ancient concepts of the double axe, a horizontal manifestation of facing triangles, and its relation to the thunder god and his powers. The mythologist Jean Chevalier writes [28]: all cultures associate the ax with thunder ... previously described vajra. Fig. 10 [30] depicts the Syrian god Hadad or Teshub's thunderbolt. Around the thunderbolt's core appear lines that resemble field lines. Fig. 11 [31] depicts a Cretan goddess holding the double ...
32. The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... Belus, the spirit of the sun, ended the war by slaying the spirit of the deep by thrusting a thunderbolt into its mouth. This we know to have been a celestial fight, for Belus and his cohorts were in ... . His arm of thunder was there and the dragon and the deep were there, too. And the canopy chain gains another golden link. The great serpent, Thalath, brings to our view another legend, where Belus and ... antiquity from the Pelasgian Greeks, and certainly had for its foundation, the descent of dragon waters, under the thunder's home. Here we recall the fact that Hesiod also tells us, that Typhoeus was the parent of moist nature ...
33. Thoth Vol III, No. 2: Jan 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... sending affliction'." As is well-known, Indra's weapon of choice was the vajra, typically understood as a thunderbolt. Indra's heaven-hurled weapon, however, is elsewhere said to be composed of metal or stone. Here Gonda observes ... stone which shoots down from heaven to earth." Meteors, in accordance with this belief, were identified with thunderstones throughout the ancient world. G. Wainright, surveying the conceptions of the ancient Egyptians, concluded that: " ... religion the meteorite and the thunderbolt are the same thing." Virtually identical beliefs prevailed in aboriginal Mesoamerica. If the original reference for Indra's heaven-hurled bolt was to a meteor-like object, both descriptions of the vajra-rock and metallic rock-would be ...
34. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... feet and imprisoned him in his den in Cilicia. Rescued by Hermes, Zeus renewed the struggle. With his thunderbolts he overwhelmed Typhoeus, who fled to Sicily, where under Etna the god crushed him." On WIC p ... heat being only too painfully felt." As regards the plague of hail, "Sayce refers to a desolating thunderstorm with hail in the Nile Valley in the spring of 1695." For the most part, then, there ... and sores. Ex.9 :8- ll. 7.The very grievous hail', mingled with thunder & fire.Ex.9 :l8- 23. 8. The plague of locusts, Ex.10 ...
35. Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science [Journals] [Aeon]
... ." (64) As is well-known, Indra's weapon of choice was the vajra, typically understood as a thunderbolt. Indra's heaven-hurled weapon, however, is elsewhere said to be composed of metal or stone. Here Gonda observes ... down from heaven to earth." (68) Meteors, in accordance with this belief, were identified with thunderstones throughout the ancient world. (69) G. Wainright, surveying the conceptions of the ancient Egyptians, concluded ... : "In religion the meteorite and the thunderbolt are the same thing." (70) Virtually identical beliefs prevailed in aboriginal Mesoamerica. (71) If the original reference for Indra's heaven-hurled bolt was to a meteor-like object, ...
36. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... The gods themselves battle in the sky, wreaking havoc on the earth and rearranging the heavens. Their weapons include thunderbolts and stone, flaming "arrows," fire-breathing dragons, celestial wind and flood. The tale is most familiar ... , a starting point which leaves the mythologist such occasions as a sunset or an eclipse, a local hurricane, thunderstorm or earthquake. And here again the nature of these explanations serves only to discourage close examination of the stories, ... the result that vital, repeated elements are missed. For all of the motifs previously noted- and a good deal more- figure so vitally in the story that it would be useless to attempt any explanation of the wars of the gods ...
37. Venus and Sirius: Some Unexpected Similarities [Journals] [Kronos]
... This was a symbol of the brilliance of the lightning and rays cast from the heavens when he sent tempests and thunderbolts; to express the same he was totally clad in red."(62) It is notable, too ... , depending on 1. the association of Venus, the Venus god, the Rain God, and rain or thunderstorms with the color red; 2. the association of Venus, the Venus god, water, rain, and ... (chak). A similar near homophony links the Quichean terms for "red" with Quichean terms for "thunder and lightning" or just "lightning". 2. Thompson associates the Kan cross, and thus the circled-cross ...
38. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... title is similar to that of the Etruscan tanasar. The poet Pindar refers to Zeus as prytanis of lightnings and thunderbolts. The title means he who holds out the fire', i.e . the hurler of lightning. ... was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. Romulus was said to have disappeared during a storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, when he was holding a meeting with the people on the Goat's Fen. It is possible that ... escape from the stone." The first kind of bolt was used by Zeus for short range work from a thundercloud hovering over an impious person whose wicked actions called out for punishment. It was also thought that it was sent ...
39. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... . These birds appear to have acquired a reputation as rain-bringers on account of their restless movements, especially when a thunderstorm was at hand. During the Great War the pheasants in English country districts made known to human beings by their ... " - H. R. Hall on origin of spiral - Archaeological evidence - Elliot Smith on spiral symbolism - Thunder gods and spiral - A magico-religious symbol. The problem of the spiral, like that of the swastika, not ... by observers to whom the spiral already possessed a definite significance, and they regarded the peacock as a rain-bringer and thunder-maker which performed the appropriate magical spiral movement. FIG. 28. Predynastic Egyptian Stone Amulet, Perforated for Suspension, ...
40. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... . These birds appear to have acquired a reputation as rain-bringers on account of their restless movements, especially when a thunderstorm was at hand. During the Great War the pheasants in English country districts made known to human beings by their ... " - H. R. Hall on origin of spiral - Archaeological evidence - Elliot Smith on spiral symbolism - Thunder gods and spiral - A magico-religious symbol. The problem of the spiral, like that of the swastika, not ... by observers to whom the spiral already possessed a definite significance, and they regarded the peacock as a rain-bringer and thunder-maker which performed the appropriate magical spiral movement. FIG. 28. Predynastic Egyptian Stone Amulet, Perforated for Suspension, ...
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