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39 pages of results. 1. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... vulnerable houses of wood or in tents and caves, such a sight as this [a major thunderstorm] must have been terrifying indeed. It is not surprising then that thunder is visualized, in lands where storms are frequent, as the manifestation of divine power, and symbolized accordingly throughout the world." [1 ] The thundergod himself ... the growth of crops and the yearly harvest. This took place in the holy marriage of Ukko and his spouse: in flashes of lightning, the rumble of thunder and thundery rain. Ukko may have celebrated such holy marriages from his very arrival but no firm evidence of them appears until the Iron Age with the coming of elliptical fire stones ...
... No mythical creature is more familiar to Far Eastern art and literature than the dragon. It is interesting to observe how in Japan three different kinds of dragons, originating from India, China, and Japan, are to he found side by side. To the superficial observer they all belong to one and the same class of rain bestowing, thunder and storm arousing gods of the water, hut. a careful examination teaches us that they are different from each other. The Indian serpent-shaped Naga was identified in China with the four-legged Chinese dragon, because both were divine inhabitant; of seas and rivers, and givers of rain. It is no wonder that the Japanese in this blending ...
3. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... of a succession of suns and skies. Our sky and our sun had each a father and a grandfather. A vapor heaven necessitated the absence of rains and tempests, thunder, etc. This thought also comes down from the remotest times. Ancient Greek, Roman and Hindu legends tell us that the thunder- god was born after two ephemeral ... had passed away, and Genesis affirms that in the very beginning of man's career the "Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth" (2 :5 ). But inexorable law affirms that if there ever was a day when it did not rain on the earth, as it now does, then the sun was ...
4. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... systematically ignore oddities and irregularities in ancient testimony, stressing only what is deemed sound and intelligible from a modern point of view. A prime example of this unspoken principle, which has in fact been attested since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, is the explanation given to anomalous superstitions in lightninglore. No one will deny the central place lightning and thunder storms occupy in the everyday experience of the godly realm. As a matter of fact, the concept of the storm god, who wields his thunderbolts over a world eclipsed by heavy clouds, is deeply entrenched in the superstitious imagination of man-kind and seems to have been so since the earliest days of writing. The belief that the thunder ...
5. The Hero's Garment [Journals] [Aeon]
... Viracocha seems to have been a double of Illapa (or Ilyap'a), who "was thought of as a man in shining clothes, with a club in one hand and a sling for throwing stones in the other." [4 ] It was said that "when he threw a stone, the crack of his sling was the thunder, and the reflection from his clothes was the lightning." [5 ] An almost identical belief is encountered among the Navajo who claim that the war-god, Nayanezgani, who was one of the lightning brothers, or twins, [6 ] "is clad all in flint, and from the joints of his flint armor flash the ...
... round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. (4 ) And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. (5 ) And out of the Throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne. . . . (6 ) And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. (7 ) And ...
7. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... Sea-serpent goddess - Whirlwind lord Typhon and Echidna -Fairies, nereids, demons and gods in whirlwinds - Maori ghosts carried to sky by whirlwinds - Early Pharaoh ascends to sky on wind - Japanese whirlwinds as "dragon rolls" - Dragons cause whirlwinds -Chinese coiled and revolving dragons - Chinese "red ball" problem - Ball, sun, moon, thunder and pearl as spirals - Flat and ascending spirals - Chinese spiral and Yang matter. Ancient religious art invariably expressed something by means of its symbols. It would be rash therefore to assume that the spiral was an exception to this rule. All symbols did not originate in the same way. Some were conventionalized natural subjects, or conventionalized ...
8. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Six [Books]
... no swelling waves. When the sky, hostile to living things, wishes to harm them, it burns them, the sun and the moon grow thinner and are eclipsed, the five planets leave their course, the four seasons encroach one on another, the day grows dark, the shining mountains collapse, the rivers dry up, it thunders in winter, frozen rain falls in summer, the sky and man come into conflict and the state perishes; the aspect and order of the sky is distorted, the customs of the century are upset, the rainbow appears, living things are mutually confounded, the pure essence and the Khi shock each other. The acts of spiritual ...
9. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... Sea-serpent goddess - Whirlwind lord Typhon and Echidna -Fairies, nereids, demons and gods in whirlwinds - Maori ghosts carried to sky by whirlwinds - Early Pharaoh ascends to sky on wind - Japanese whirlwinds as "dragon rolls" - Dragons cause whirlwinds -Chinese coiled and revolving dragons - Chinese "red ball" problem - Ball, sun, moon, thunder and pearl as spirals - Flat and ascending spirals - Chinese spiral and Yang matter. Ancient religious art invariably expressed something by means of its symbols. It would be rash therefore to assume that the spiral was an exception to this rule. All symbols did not originate in the same way. Some were conventionalized natural subjects, or conventionalized ...
10. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Two [Books]
... give the meaning of Mars. ' (1 ). .. .. . the death of Romulus occurred when, according to Plutarch, suddenly strange and unaccountable disorders with incredible changes filled the air; the light of the sun failed, and night came down upon them, not with peace and quiet, but with awful peals of thunder and furious blasts, ' and amidst this storm Romulus disappeared. (2 )" V's references (1 ) and (2 ) are both from Plutarch's "Life of Romulus". Taking the second one first, here is A.H .Clough's rendering of the tale. The reader should bear in mind that considerable mystery surrounds ...
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