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182 pages of results. 401. Akhenaten - Heretic or Visionary [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... questions as to who influenced whom. To call Akhenaten a heretic presupposes some idea of the typical religious forms prevalent before his time. Egyptian religion formed a highly complex inherited system where typically priests resolved difficulties or new situations by intellectual exploration, without violating historical precedent. Akhenaten disrupted this by asserting a radical simplicity, and the discarding of much tradition. His ideas were not in fact new or invented, but by omission excluded other gods from their traditional Egyptian complementary role. Other depictions of gods, or of a univese populated by divine beings, were banished. This is considered by some to have motivated and inspired changes in art and iconography. In this view, Akhenaten is ...
402. Milk and honey [Journals] [SIS Review]
... billowing in the wake of white goddesses, as in tresses of hair, or robes spread wide, had something to do with suspended bits of white light in the night sky, or golden locks during sunlight hours. However, this idea fails to take note of the food element involved, milk and honey and sticky liquid. In Greek tradition we have the idea of ambrosia, and in astronomy we have a region of the sky associated with a swarm of bees .. .. and bees produce honey. In Greek myth Zeus, the bull of heaven, was fed by bees in his cradle, on Mount Ida = a holy mountain or mound, a synonym for ...
403. Thoth Vol II, No. 1: January 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... bring war and commotion, while the Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy associates them with foreign invasion. The third century Christian writer Origen saw the comet as heralding war and the collapse of dynasties. Centuries later (1011), Byrhtferth's Manual lists war as one of the disastrous effects of a comet's appearance." The extraordinary power of the mythic tradition will explain why many of early history's most brutal wars had affixed to them the appearance of a comet, even in cases in which the actual arrival of a comet may be in doubt. A comet and shooting stars are said to have appeared before the battle of Pharsalus in central Greece, heralding Caesar's defeat of Pompey. Josephus mentions ...
404. Martian Metamorphoses [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the globe, in the New World as well as the Old? The present book will seek to address such questions. In Babylonian astronomical texts, for example, the planet Mars is routinely identified with the war-god Nergal. We will have reason to examine the cult of Nergal in great detail, arguing that it is impossible to understand the traditions surrounding this god apart from ancient conceptions surrounding the red planet. The cult of Nergal, in turn, will serve as a recurring point of comparison in our analyses of the war-gods of other cultures. As the title attests, this book is fundamentally an exercise in comparative mythology. Our subject of study is the figure we have designated ...
405. Aeon Volume III, Number 4: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... and Science Edited by: Ev Cochrane, Dwardu Cardona, Jan Sammer Frederic B. Jueneman, Lewis M. Greenberg Volume III, Number 4 ISSN 1066-5145 AEON, 2326 Knapp, Ames, IA 50010, USA Copyright (c ) December 1993 IN THIS ISSUE.The Lord of Light Lewis M. Greenberg explores astral images in early Christian tradition. Page 5. Why Did Jesus Wash His Disciples' Feet? Jan Sammer offers a solution to an age-old question. PAGE 21 Thanatos and Anastasis Lewis M. Greenberg discusses the life and death of Jesus in the light of Egyptian traditions surrounding Osiris. PAGE 24 Velikovsky in America Duane Vorhees chronicles the events leading up to the publication ...
406. The Miracles of the Exodus by Colin Humphries and The Moses Legacy by Graham Phillips (Book reviews) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Home | Issue Contents Reviews The Miracles of the Exodus by Colin Humphries Continuum, 2003 The Moses Legacy by Graham Phillips Pan Books, 2002 Phillip Clapham Colin Humphries is a Cambridge scientist and claims to be able to bring a rational mind to biblical mythology, providing a natural explanation for the miracles of the Exodus. He begins by saying the tradition that Mount Sinai should be located in the Sinai peninsular only goes back to the 3rd century AD, when groups of Christian monks inhabited the region, eager to experience the wilderness. One of these groups claimed a particular mountain was Sinai, and somewhat later, in the time of the emperor Justinian, St Catherine's monastery was built, ...
407. Horeb: The Mountain of God [Journals] [SIS Review]
... God Emmet Sweeney One of the perennial questions of biblical history is the location of the Mountain of God, on who summit Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments. The official' site is what is now called Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula. Yet there is much evidence, both from the Scriptures themselves and from later Jewish tradition (as recorded, for example, in Josephus which would suggest a location in north-western Arabia, ancient Midian. In fact, the Exodus account makes a location in Midian virtually inevitable, as Moses meets his father-in-law, Jethro (of Midian), before he ascends the holy mountain (Exodus 18). The controversy has recently been ...
408. Mysteries of the Sacred Universe [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2002:1 (Sep 2002) Home | Issue Contents Mysteries of the Sacred Universe www.sacreduniverse.com From the flat earth to the sun's chariot, traditional spiritual texts often seem wedded to outmoded cosmologies that show, at best, the scientific limitations of their authors. The Bhagavata Purana, one of the classical scriptures of Hinduism, seems, at first glance, to be no exception. However, a closer examination of this text reveals unexpected depths of knowledge in ancient cosmology. Mysteries of the Sacred Universe shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical ...
409. The Reality of Extinctions [Journals] [Aeon]
... The mastodon, lion, saber-toothed tiger, giant armadillo, all simply disappeared from the face of these continents. They were not alone. At much the same time, in Europe, the woolly rhino and the mammoth became extinct; likewise the Irish deer and Irish sheep, and very nearly the European horse. At that time, the traditional end of the last Ice Age in Europe, man was still living in scattered winter caves, so it does not seem logical to blame a voracious human appetite for these disappearances. If we step back an additional ten thousand years, we come upon an extinction event which accounted for 90% of the giant marsupials in Australia. Again ...
410. Preface (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... the art of writing had already been perfected in the centres of ancient civilization, I described them mainly from historical documents, relying on celestial charts, calendars, and sundials and water clocks discovered by archaeologists, and drawing also upon classical literature, the sacred literature of East and West, the epics of the northern races, and the oral traditions of primitive peoples from Lapland to the South Seas. Geological vestiges of the events narrated in documents and traditions were indicated only here and there, when I felt that the immediate testimony of the rocks must be presented along with the historical evidence. I closed that description of cataclysmic events with a promise to attempt, at a later date ...
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