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... wide-open fangs, perhaps a reference to creation. He roared with a voice that could be heard a hundred miles away, and in the Popol-Vuh he is one of a trinity who create and destroy. Cuculkan, we are told, sat upon the waters before any mountains or life existed, and communed with "Hurakan" and "The Thunderbolt that Strikes." He was a serpent enveloped in feathers of green and blue. Nearer to ourselves we find in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Mt. Cruachan, in Argyllshire, three ancient circular temples, the first and last being serpentine in design. All have been proved to be astronomical in intention. THE SERPENT SYMBOL SCULPTURED ON ...
292. The Burning of Troy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Thyestes begging Jupiter to bring disaster upon Earth "not with the hands that seek out houses and undeserving homes, using your lesser bolts, but with that hand by which the threefold mass of mountains fell .. .These arms let loose and hurl your fires"[25]. Could there have been a qualitatively different kind of Jovian thunderbolt playing about the world in mythical and prehistoric times? A ramified bolt of hundreds of strokes is not impossible to imagine. The myriad lightning and fire effects in the Krakatoa disaster are worth recalling, but these occurred within a radius of a few kilometres [26]. The mysterious melted copper and lead, alluded to above, which ...
293. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... world would become practically an established fact. The map highlights another point : peoples from all around the world and all types of culture are obsessed with the idea that masses of neighboring land were deluged or overrun by water and sank forever into the depths. As John Locke said of the "fire of hell" and Vico of the "thunderbolts of Jove," an idea so universal and persistent must refer to an intense experience suffered in the past. The map is extremely schematic, as is the evidence. It merely indicates areas and names them. The size of an area conveys little or no meaning, especially considering that almost the whole globe was land-covered before the floodings ...
294. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... or he, was remembered as having once done precisely that? Nonnos, for instance, told of the shining victory of Zeus at war and the hailstorm snowstorm conflict of Kronos' [192]. Is it not written that during the war between Zeus and Kronos, a war said to have lasted ten years, Zeus pelted Kronos with thunderbolts, while Kronos retaliated with snow? Is it not told in the Persian Shahnama that when Kai Khusrau departed he prophesied that a furious blast' will rise and snap the boughs and leafage of the trees' and a storm of snow will shower down from heaven's louring rack' [193]? In the first fargard of the Vendidad ...
295. Saturn's Children [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the waters, was in primitive times much wider.... The name Poseidon seems to derive from the root meaning to be master'.... It is not impossible that this primitive Poseidon, this sovereign master, ' had once been a celestial god, as his attribute, the trident- probably a symbol for the thunderbolt- seems to indicate. Though supplanted by Zeus, Poseidon continued to exercise his empire over the entire Earth...[32] At Sparta he was called "the creator." It is possible, then, that Poseidon was mistaken for Jupiter or may have been for a time a visible distinct element in the break-up of ...
296. The Succession of Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... because he was already homo sapiens in all or part; but he cannot recall any specific catastrophic events before this time ; therefore it becomes his creation moment, his gestalt of creation. Then there are later stories about divine and celestial behavior that are found throughout the world, as, for example, the later coming of an electric or thunderbolting god. For instance, Eliade comments, as have I, on "the later transformations of sky gods into storm gods." Is this diffusion, or a common experience of separated people? Evidently, religious historians do not sense that a sequence of gods might exist, which are related to real natural events as experienced by widely ...
297. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... produces cosmic exaggerations. "The defeated Egyptian dragon' grows into a symbol as vast as the world in the drama of rescue which serves as prelude to the revelation..." From what unconscious source did Buber conjure up the Egyptian dragon'? It can be none other than Typhon, the great monster whom Zeus struck down with thunderbolts at the time of Exodus, and the name of the first Hyksos king of Egypt whose forces were invading the country at the moment of Exodus. If this be sheer conjecture about Buber's mind, let it pass as such. But let me nevertheless conjecture about a similar effect in the mind of David Daiches, for he, like ...
298. Encounters and Collisions [Books] [de Grazia books]
... The Phaeton myth, most famous of all, is treated by Plato self-consciously as a myth in form but standing for true natural history. Phaeton is reluctantly lent the chariot of his father the Sun for a day. He cannot control its powerful steeds and burns sky and Earth in his wild plungings. Finally he is felled by a Jovian thunderbolt, cast dead into the river Eridanus, and the nearly destroyed Earth recovers. The sad and angry Sun emerges once more. Parallel legends are found in other cultures; the best resume occurs again in Donnelly's Ragnarok. The paramount student of ancient astronomy of his day, F.X . Kugler, dissected the myth of Phaeton to ...
299. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in revulsion by Egyptians, was again two foams, the original Aphrodite-Moon foam of the seed of Ouranos, and the later Aphrodite-Typhon foam transferred from the mid-second millennium. The latter foam came about, the Egyptians thought, from the falling of Typhon (the cometary tail of proto-Venus) into the sea (after Zeus had struck him with a thunderbolt, according to the Greeks), this according to Plutarch. There are in sum numerous reasons to explain the confusion, to assign the name to the planet, and to retain it for the Moon for all the purposes that we have in mind here. HOW TO NAME A PLANET? We know that the Moon had names - ...
300. The New Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... water, though other lesser ones are due to countless other causes. Thus the story current also in your part of the world, that Phaethon, child of the Sun, once harnessed his father's chariot but could not guide it on his father's course and so burnt up everything on the face of the earth and was himself consumed by the thunderbolt - this legend has the air of a fable; but the truth behind it is a deviation of the bodies that revolve in heaven round the earth and the destruction, occurring at long intervals, of things on earth by a great conflagration.(22) Plato appears to stand at that time when men were of a strong disposition ...
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