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182 pages of results. 641. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... subscribing to the modern interpretation of mythology favoured by such as Karl Jung and Mircea Eliade which seeks to demonstrate that the word myth is not to be exhaustively defined as fiction insofar as its underlying significance contains important and eternally valid truths relevant to man's psychological make-up. This modern sense of the word myth has proved invaluable to biblical scholars; whereas traditionally they were obliged to accept, without question, the literal truth of early biblical narrative, they could now admit the fictitious nature of the narrative provided that some inner significance could be found which was non-fictitious in the sense, mentioned above. For example, the statement that the world was created in six days could be admitted as fiction ...
642. Thoth Vol II, No. 13: Aug 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... at the mercy of the individual authors. One of our earliest sources for Greek myths is Pindar, who considered himself under no obligation to tell the story as he knew it. Like the modern government censor, Pindar defended his right to change any parts of the story he thought objectionable. The earlier, of course, the purer the tradition. Conversely, many later versions of individual myths show considerable embellishment.... Virtually everything Pitton says here is correct except the overstatement of Pindar's assumed "right to change any part of the story". There is an observable degradation of human memories over time, through localization, fragmentation, elaboration, and embellishment, including various ...
... northern one is shown. The black portions are those parts of the present continents which may have been inhabitable; the white islands are the high ground in the present seas which was free from water, and probably also partly settled. The exact distribution of land and water is not attempted in the diagram. By far the finest is a tradition of the Ojibway, Algonkian Indiansof the Lake Superior region in North America. The manitou Menabozhu, they say, warned his most intimate friend, a little wolf, not to venture out upon the ice of a certain lake in which the Serpent Chief, Menabozhu's particular enemy, lived. However, the cub, instead of being deterred ...
644. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... previous centuries. During the late fourteenth and through the fifteenth centuries linguistic changes in the vernaculars did little to alleviate this. The enthusiasm for the "recovery" of the classics was not over concerned with textural accuracy, in its earliest wave. The preoccupations in subject matter shown in the Rederijkers, Grands Rhetoriqueurs, Meistersangers and the evolving Bardic tradition of the time in the Scandinavian and Celtic cultures shows this enthusiasm as both an adoption of classical as well as a preservation of native traditions in story-telling. It was an enthusiasm which was as ready to accept "Ulysses" or "Ulixes" as an acceptable version as "Odysseus"; and it did not end there. A ...
645. Myths of the Great Fire (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... In the Avesta, the Holy Book of the Aryan Persians, we find the story of a great fiery dragon which rose in the south and destroyed everything. It raged for ninety days and nights. Then came a terrible rainstorm followed by a flood. In Firdausi's epic poem Shâh Nâmah, many parts of which are based on early Persian traditions, the fire-bringer is also a serpent-killer. The Biblical records usually place the Great Fire in the distant future. In 2 Peter iii. 5- 10, we read: They willingly are ignorant that . . . the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, which are now ...
646. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... that appear to describe Venus [22]. One depicts an owl-like creature with hands, feet, feathers, owl-tail, owl-eyes, and owl-head. It is painted in ocher. (It is doubtful that there were owls in pre-colonial Australia.) Figure 32. The Imperial Chinese Dragon Robes The Kang Hsi emperor (1662-1722) wearing the traditional dragon robes, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1942.) Another painting shows a serpent-woman between whose hands is arched what is probably a lightning-bolt. And still another reveals a person called "Thunderman" who holds a lightning bolt in his hands. In China, the classical "Lucky Dragon," which was ...
647. Chaos and Creation by Alfred de Grazia [Books] [de Grazia books]
... these issues, but too often they do not practice their scientific method with regard to them; they simply carry on at their special tasks. I subscribe to the methods of science, but yet am putting forward a challenge to the beliefs. This sets me among a small minority of scholars, but permits me to draw support from the traditions of a great many people, the specialized studies of many scientists, and the sympathetic efforts of a certain few. Many scientists pay close attention on their leading men who are building upon "realities," but ignore their philosophers of scientific method, who warn them not to arrogate "The Truth" to themselves. When their raft ...
648. Night of the Gods: The Pillar [Books]
... takes the oath seated on the stone.20 Conn the Hundred-fighter trod on a stone which screamed all over the land. This was the lia Fail, or (throne) stone of Fal. At Tara it screamed under every king whom it acknowledged, and carried the sovereignty (for the Goidels of Milesian descent) with it. The tradition that this Tara stone went to Scone, the capital of the kingdom of Alban, and thence, "favoured by" Edward 1, to Westminster Abbey is much doubted.21 Fal is the same god we have in Inis Fail, the island of Fal, a name of Ireland and the Japanese Rock-seat of heaven, Ame no ...
649. Discussion Comments From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... believe...We have, as a corroboration of our view of this matter, the direct testimony of Arabian historians, that the Amalekites conquered Egypt, and governed it for several generations. A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs, by H. K. Brugsch, Vol 1, 1881, p. 266: "An ancient tradition, which has been preserved by several Arabian historians of the Middle Ages, furnishes a contribution to the proofs of the Arab origin of the hated Hyksos Kings. An Arabian legend tells us of a certain Sheddad (the name means a mighty man'), the son of Ad, who made an irruption into Egypt, conquered the ...
650. Forum [Journals] [Aeon]
... Evolution"- I was not aware that he had been influenced by Samuel Butler. I suspect that Butler has had more influence in scientific circles than is generally believed, particularly in England. Mainstream biologists, however, are understandably reluctant to mention him with favor. As for Mr. Mebane's statement that Karl Popper refused to kowtow to Darwin's traditional status as a great scientist, I'm not sure what he has in mind. Here I would simply quote Popper himself in one of his last lectures: "Darwin is not only the greatest of biologists- he has often been compared to Newton- but also a most admirable, venerable, and indeed a most lovable person. I ...
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