| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: thunder* in all categories
719 results found.
72 pages of results.
... figure, the Japanese mitsu-tomoe, with the ancient spiral, representing thunder, and gives a Japanese picture of the thundergod with his drums, all emitting fiames and adorned with the mitsu-timoe. But this argument is not at all limited ... snake to be released on the hill. For this reason the Emperor altered the deity's name into Ikazuchi ( 'Thunderbolt')". As to the Ryb-i-ki14, this gives the same details as the Gempei seisuiki, which apparently ... CAUSING RAIN, THUNDER AND STORM The gods of thunder, clouds and rain. Violent rains accompanied by heavywinds and thunderstorms. Rain magic and prayers. Buddhist rain ceremonies. CHAPTER VI. EMPERORS CONNECTED WITH DRAGONS Hwang Ti rode on ...
2. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon VI:1 (Feb 2001) Home | Issue Contents Thundergods and Thunderbolts Ev Cochrane It is the unanimous view of scholars exploring comparative religion that the peculiar mythical traditions surrounding thunderbolts and lightning originated in primitive man's ... before the thunderstorm. Davidson's opinion may be cited as representing the orthodox position: "To people of an earlier civilization, living in vulnerable houses of wood or in tents and caves, such a sight as this [a major ... ] 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 ...
3. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... the Scythian Ares. In either case, the name and the epithets may clearly refer to the weapon of the thundergod, and recall Shakespear's "thunder's crack" and "the fire and cracks of sulphurous roaring " in The Tempest ... he impels a " # triple-pointed dart, which dart has been accepted as a symbol of r # • the thunderbolt. . The rock in scriptions of Behistun and Per- sepolis are said to show Ahura Mazda thus represented. ... Walton-on-the-Naze on 3rd Sept. 1889. Prof. Gryll Adams's party, while crossing the great Aletsch glacier during a thunderstorm felt a pricking and tingling on the crown of the head, and their alpen-stocks gave a singing sound. It ...
4. Jupiter God of Abraham (Part IV) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Jupiter God of Abraham (Part IV)Dwardu Cardona Copyright (c ) 1983 by Dwardu Cardona 20. The Thunderbolt In a separate paper(264) I have indicated that there is nothing in ancient records, myths, or ... ) Thunderbolts are awesome phenomena. Ancient man, like his modern counterpart, would have had many an experience with thunderstorms. He would have witnessed lightning striking trees, perhaps causing forest fires, and other mishaps. It would not ... demolish buildings. - But entire cities? One can understand why the North American Indians of the eastern woodlands deified thunder and anthropomorphized the phenomenon as Heng, the big vigorous youngster of the thunderbolt.(268) But in the ...
5. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... several cities in the south-west of Asia Minor, and it appears in later historical times in the cult of the thundergod of Asia Minor (Zeus Labrayndeus). An impression from a seal-stone shows the double-axe placed together with a zigzag ... 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 ... closely related with celestial fire: "St. Elmo's fire, the electric discharge from the ship's mast during a thunderstorm, was regarded as the corporeal epiphany of the Dioskouroi. These sparks were called Dioskouroi, but were also compared ...
6. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... the planet Venus was envisaged by the ancients, whether it be as goddess, star, wheel, eye, thunderbolt, dragon, torch, heart-soul, etc., in that form was it said to have been hurled from ... 465-466. There it is concluded: "This is possibly a reference to the obscuration of the sun by a thunderstorm." 85. IV:16:14 86. E. Cochrane, "Indra," AEON II ... 4 (1991), pp. 49-76. 87. See the discussion in Cochrane, "Heracles and the Planet Mars," AEON I:4 (1988), pp. 90-92, for further examples. 88. ...
7. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... of the darkness. He restored the light. He produced the lightning by hurling stones with his sling. The thunderbolts are small, round, smooth stones.4 The stone-worship, which played so large a part in antiquity, ... They were engaged in this conversation when that vara, or boar-form, ' suddenly uttered a sound like the loudest thunder, and the echo reverberated and shook all the quarters of the universe." This is the same terrible noise ... Nor all the king's men, Can ever make whole again." In another Russian legend, Perun, the thunder-god, destroys the devils with stone hammers. On Ilya's day, the peasants offer him a roasted animal, which ...
8. The Birth of Athena [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Latin word venetus- apparently cognate with Venus- signifying sea-green or blue. (160) Athena of the Thunderbolt As the wielder of the death-dealing thunderbolt, Zeus was feared and revered throughout the Greek world. Aeschylus has preserved ... interpret Athena's birth in terms of a nature-allegory. Roscher, for example, compared the epiphany of Athena to a thunderstorm, seeing in the goddess a personification of the lightning. (7 ) F. M. Muller sought an ... (9 ) Farnell's criticism is typical of the modern position on this matter: Whether Athena is regarded as the thunder or the lightning, the aether or the dawn, she can leap from the head of Zeus with equal appropriateness ...
... justify what all competent astronomers know? Lightning and magnets Next Sagan wishes Velikovsky to justify his claim that "a thunderbolt when striking a magnet, reverses the poles of a magnet."66 What Velikovsky had postulated is that the ... ignores the evidence and this is as near as he approaches the "Venus Myth" delineated by Velikovsky. Meteorite thunder Sagan states, "the statement (p . 283) [in Worlds in Collision] that Meteorites when entering ... leaves a smoke trail, and creates a series of sonic booms resembling the sounds of firing cannon, or of thunderclaps. ' And, in July 1977, Madagascar reported a meteorite fall that was accompanies by noise variously described as ...
10. The Thunderbolt in Myth and Symbol [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2001:1 (Jun 2001) Home | Issue Contents The Thunderbolt in Myth and Symbol Thoth Vol V, No. 1 Jan 15, 2001 A thunderstorm is a remarkable, often terrifying event ... So it's not surprising that few scholars have paused to wonder about the prominent role of lightning in ancient mythology. [. .] Our comparative investigation has identified hundreds of recurring themes of myth, including numerous global images of lightning ... sky, the "chariot" of the gods. #6 : Lightning is accompanied by falling stones or "thunderstones." #7 : Lightning is the messenger of a central sun that ruled the sky before the present sun ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.058 seconds |
