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72 pages of results. 71. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... The ordinary Latin word fulgur, fulgor, lightning', is related to Tocharian A polkāts, star'.3 3 In Turkish, the word y2ld2r2m, lightning, thunderbolt', might be related to y2ld2z, star, north'.3 4 The planet Mercury was called P?ailacou in Armenian and Failak in New-Persian, names which were ... , we can hardly doubt that it was a star or a planet that was associated with lightning here. The connection is made in the Americas. The Caribs have a thunder god Sawaku who is associated with a star: .. . sometimes he is spoken of as a star, and sometimes as a bird, who blows the lightning ...
72. The Celestial Tower [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Titans, who endeavour to reach the domain of the gods by piling mountains on top of each other. The resulting tower however is smashed when Zeus strikes it with a thunderbolt. In the Norse myth, the giants attempt to reach Asgard by piling up a huge mound of clay, in the shape of a man. This tower is ... by Thor, the god of thunder, who strikes it with his hammer. That this is a universal tradition is apparent from mythologies on every continent. As an example, consider the following account from Mexico. After narrating the story of the Flood which brought to a close the first world age, Ixtilxochitl described the catastrophe which ended the ...
73. KA [Books]
... Delphi. Q-CD vol 12: KA, Ch. 14: Bolts from The Blue 180 CHAPTER FOURTEEN BOLTS FROM THE BLUE THIS chapter is devoted to examples of meteors and thunderbolts, and intervention by deities. It also deals with the question of the Greek prutanis, and the Etruscan lightning-averter. In the archery contest at the funeral games for ... , drawing their tresses after them in their flight. Vergil, Aeneid V:522ff.. Homer, Iliad VIII:133 ff.: Zeus saves the Trojans by thundering and sending a terrible shining bolt. He sends it to earth in front of Diomedes' horses. There rises a great flame of burning sulphur. Iliad XIV: ...
74. The Misread Record by Isaac Vail [Books]
... old heaven is banished, a time-measuring heaven takes the throne, and the hours are born. Then again these old Pelasgic records tell us that Zeus, the rain-maker and thunderer, as the son of Kronos, was born after the old heaven passed away. Now it does not require very deep thinking to see that rains and tempests and ... northworld, and the Scandinavian heaven. I call this god, the Scandinavian heaven, because, as all northern scholars know, he was the forerunner and parent of the thunder-god Thor. Because he sat in the "world-tree' which overspread the heaven; because there are innumerable witnesses which prove that he was an ephemeral covering that concealed the ...
75. Planetary Identities: I, The Concept of Deity [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... earthquakes [14]. In fact, the Babylonians never discarded their belief that earthquakes were actually caused by the planets [15]. Meanwhile, the ancient belief that thunderbolts originated from the same planets needs no reference. But before I am again told that my idea of primitive man' is the astronomically adept Assyro-Babylonian culture', allow ... heart of Africa. Would Boyles consider the Efe pygmies of the Ituri forest primitive enough? 2. The Star of Nine Moons These pygmies do not cower in fear of thunder and lightning. Their lives are not ruled, or terrorised, by a squadron of jungle spirits that have to be appeased every time a calamity hits their community. ...
76. The Spiral and Birth [Books]
... region'. In the Rig Veda (1 ,103, 2) it is said of him: He established the earth and stretched it out; smiting with the thunderbolt, he let loose the waters.5 That the spiral was a birth symbol is suggested by the Hindu evidence regarding Agni as the "navel," and the ... God Gucumatz and called their monarch Gucumatz. This deity was the god of "the four ends of heaven" (the four cardinal points), and sent tempests, thunder and rain. He was, in short, the controller of the seasons and a personification of natural energy, and was known as "Heart of Heaven", ...
77. The Spiral and Birth [Books]
... region'. In the Rig Veda (1 ,103, 2) it is said of him: He established the earth and stretched it out; smiting with the thunderbolt, he let loose the waters.5 That the spiral was a birth symbol is suggested by the Hindu evidence regarding Agni as the "navel," and the ... God Gucumatz and called their monarch Gucumatz. This deity was the god of "the four ends of heaven" (the four cardinal points), and sent tempests, thunder and rain. He was, in short, the controller of the seasons and a personification of natural energy, and was known as "Heart of Heaven", ...
78. Index of Authors
... Ev Cochrane, The Saturn Theory Ev Cochrane, The Spring Of Ares Ev Cochrane, The Sunken Kingdom: The Atlantis Mystery Solved by Peter J. James Ev Cochrane, Thundergods and Thunderbolts Ev Cochrane, Towards a Science of Mythology: Velikovsky's Contribution Ev Cochrane, Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification Ev Cochrane, Velikovsky And Oedipus Ev Cochrane ... Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two Ev Cochrane, Venus in Ancient Myth and Language Ev Cochrane, Venus, Mars .. . and Saturn Ev Cochrane, Viva Lamarck: Renewed Discussion on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Ev Cochrane, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Freud's Moses Eva Danelius, Did Thutmose III Despoil the Temple in Jerusalem? ...
79. The Cosmic Double Helix [Journals] [Aeon]
... a metamorphosis of the Egyptian uraei." [60] D'Alviella later changed his mind, saying that the caduceus "has alternately been considered to be an equivalent of the Thunderbolt, a form of the Sacred Tree, a contraction of the Scarab, a combination of the solar Globe and the Crescent of the moon, and so forth. ... the sun. [44] Grafton Elliot Smith, another insightful Egyptologist and symbologist, admitted that the winged disc is in fact the healing caduceus as well as the baneful thunder-weapon, [45] while Cirlot confirms the identity of the serpents attached to the winged disc with those of the caduceus: "The two small serpents which are often ...
... up large showers of rain, which became a mighty tempest. There was also such lightning, as was terrible to those that saw it; and thunder, with its thunderbolts, were sent down, and declared God to be there present in a gracious way to such as Moses desired he should be gracious. Now, as to these ... winds, that raised up large showers of rain, which became a mighty tempest. There was also such lightning, as was terrible to those that saw it; and thunder, with its thunderbolts, were sent down, and declared God to be there present in a gracious way to such as Moses desired he should be gracious. Now ...
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