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38 pages of results. 201. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... god suffused with ka. The smoke of incense could have imitated smoke from the divine fire, seen as the breath of ka. Hebrew, Greek, Etruscan, Egyptian and Sumerian are all connected lingustically with the idea of rebirth, or resurrection both through the ankh and blood. Liquid libations are also sometimes associated with a sky god and thunderbolts. Hugh derived from the words for libation a connection with the five major planets. The snake was a symbol of electricity, either arising from the earth or as lightning in the sky and snakes were thought of as residing in Egyptian arks. The hieroglyph for ara, an Egyptian serpent goddess, was the cobra and the goddess Mehent ...
202. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... whom Hephaestus and Pallas Athena taught all kinds of craft (techne). '" [14] Hephaestus was the Smith-god [15], suggests Graves, to be found in many distinct cultures. We understand that Hephaestus is a technical genius, like Athena. He is more circumscribed; he is a Master Electrician, a fabricator of thunderbolts. Often he is portrayed as lame; sometimes the smiths were lames, says Graves to prevent their wandering far from their proprietary city. This is all very well. We recognize the need for towns to retain their smiths, even as we recognize [16] that the smith was one of the few "strangers" to be ...
203. The Scenario of Exodus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the changed mind of the Egyptians. In Egypt during the Middle Empire, electricity was a central concern of the government. Among many functions ascribed to the pyramids, one stands out as the most plausible: they were electrical guidance and control equipment, The great gods Horus, Thoth, and Amon, the nearest to Israel's Yahweh, were thunderbolting and cosmic fire gods. The word "pyramid" is Greek and "pyr" means "fire" as in "funeral pyre." Especially later on, the distinction among fires lessened and electrical fire and combustion are given the same word. The Great Pyramid compound at Giza was caled Khuti , "the Lights". Egypt ...
204. The Uses of Language [Books] [de Grazia books]
... symbol of "life." Still, the Egyptian Ankh', the symbol of life, is a combination of male and female. Moving to line 273, one finds a complicated sentence; Hephaestus fashions a device to capture the secret lovers in flagrante delictu. No translator feels the need to indicate that the original meaning of akinon is thunderbolt, not anvil (from which sparks fly). It also means a meteoritic stone. The mundane word derives from the astral; the significant aspect here is not the precedence, but the insistent astral atmosphere of the passages. Hephaestus, after all, might have woven a net of cord, or dug a collapsing pit; or ...
205. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ) influence of the moment. Perhaps the planet is in opposition, or maybe it is just Thursday (i .e . Thor's Day = Zeus' Day). iv). It is an easy step, after one or two memorable events have fixed the identification, to extend Zeus' effects to include all meteorites (and indeed thunderbolts - possibly originally meteorites - were the prerogative of Jupiter/Thor). I see no difficulty in imagining a similar Venus-comet identification at some very early date as seems to be implied in the early sources Bernard Newgrosh adduces. The only [! ] difficult step is the assumption that this notion was universally dispersed - including the Americas - ...
206. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... indicates that the low eccentricities and orderly distances between planets is a function of the fact that interacting systems settle into non-interacting systems at a fairly hasty rate. He thinks that each of the planets makes a "home" for itself at the limit of the next inward planet's electrical influence. That interplanetary electrical discharges (recorded in the past as thunderbolts of the gods, but not seen in present day, thank the gods) will have exactly the effect Rob is calling impossible: circularizing orbits. [Another "by the way" here: when ancient artists picture the thunderbolts of Zeus, they show the football shape of a plasma discharge in a vacuum rather than the long jagged ...
207. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Origin of Megalithic Cultures [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the face of such threats is the process of healing play-acting, but also placatory and relief-giving anticipation, as described by Heinsohn [8 ]. Culture-founding heroes and after them priests celebrated sacrificial actions in temples which were frequently constructed near stones or pillars that had fallen from the sky. There was also the possibility of ramming precautionary' and anticipatory thunderbolts and flashes of lighting into the ground, so that the angry deity itself did not need to become active. In Carnac some blocks have been found to stand on their tips, with the larger end pointing upwards. This must have been for a special reason since they are more difficult to erect in this way. At the start ...
208. Celestial fireworks [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... be the prototype of lightning. Analyses of this lightning image are hard to find in scholarly literature and the mythological meaning of it was for that reason hard to crack. It has now been established, however, that this lightning picture was a form under which the deity of heaven itself appeared in a distant past. It was the mythical thunderbolt that fell from heaven. By analysing all sorts of mythical patterns I have found that the upper half of the symmetrical image corresponds to the heaven' and the lower half of the earth' in the myth of the separation of heaven and earth. The thunderbolt appears at a crucial moment in the archetypal myth, when the Hero figure ...
209. Notes (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... one', son of Hellos and Clymene. He asked his father to let him drive the sun-chariot for one day, but proved unequal to managing the horses of the Sun which left their course and came too near the Earth. The whole world was in danger of being burnt up, when Zeus intervened and struck Phaethon dead with a thunderbolt. He fell into the River Eridanus (cf. Note 48). The factual background of the Phaethon myth is obviously that of a close conjunction of the planet Luna, or its capture which was also the opinion of the Egyptian priests (22d). The `fire', `thunderbolt', and `plunge into a ...
210. Index of Authors
... Goddess Ev Cochrane, The Female Star Ev Cochrane, The Milky Way Ev Cochrane, The Origins of the Latin God Mars Ev Cochrane, The Poem of Erra 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 ...
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