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2 pages of results. 26. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... to the Indian Indra. Like Indra, Huitzilopochtli fought a great battle at the dawn of time only shortly after his birth. His success in this struggle saved the world and represented a focal point in Aztec mythical history. Brundage summarizes the Aztec ritual commemorating these events as follows: Upon the Runner's [Huitzilopochtli's] return the xiuhcoatl, the turquoise dragon made up as a great fire-breathing mask followed by an undulating paper tail, was brought down the temple steps to represent the weapon Huitzilopochtli hurled upon the Southerners from the top of the world mountain. At the foot of the pyramid had been placed a sacrificial bowl containing bits of paper taken from the victims to be, each piece ...
27. The Saturn Thesis (Part 3) [Journals] [Aeon]
... a red stone or sphere, signi-fying the sun god's innermost, masculine "heart of carnelian." In this relationship the Uraeus does not look like a sphere but a narrow band. The same form appears in familiar representations of the Aten and of the Shen-bond. But in all three instances the common form is a white, gold or turquoise band around a red disk, stone or orb. This red orb never means "goddess." Hiero-glyphically the red disk, the "heart of car-nelian," means the warrior hero, the mas-culine ab-heart of Ra. So the hero was called "the heart of the heart" (ab en hati). Two different words ...
28. EARLY GLASSMAKING AND CHRONOLOGICAL PUZZLES [Journals] [Aeon]
... the New Kingdom, and they are extremely rare before the reign of Amenhotep III (1438-1412 B.C .) . The earliest glass vessels from Egypt are represented by two fragments found in the disturbed debris of the tomb of Thutmose I (1512-1500 B.X .) . A lid of lapis lazuli blue glass and fragments of two turquoise blue glass bottles decorated with yellow, dark blue and black threads were found in the disturbed debris of the tomb of Thutmose III (1490 - 1436 B.C .) ." (20) Two chalices and a small jug,(21) for the time being, are the first precisely dated glass vessels because they are ...
29. On the Nature of Cometary Symbolism [Journals] [Kronos]
... comet emanates from Saturn, the sun god, appearing as the externalization of the god's own "heart" or "soul". In many myths, it is "exhaled" or "spit out" as the god's emanating life force. 2) The comet's form is that of a curl with braided streams. Its color is brilliant turquoise (or something very close; descriptions range from green to blue). 3) Initially appearing as a spiraling appendage of the sun god, the comet eventually is torn away, sent out or otherwise departs from the god as a raging, world-threatening monster. 4) But, subsequently, the cometary monster wraps itself around the god ...
30. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... the Aten as formed by the body of a serpent. Moreover, while Ra was addressed as ami-khet-f, dweller in his fiery circle', he was also known as ami-hem-f, dweller in his fiery serpent'."(14) Ancient Aztec tradition has preserved a striking parallel to Ra's fiery enclosure. Xiuhcoatl, whose name means "turquoise serpent", was represented as a fiery dragon enclosing the Aztec sun god. Significantly, Xiuhcoatl was described as a "heavenly torch" and reputed to spew forth comets.(15) Besides appearing as a house or dwelling of the sun god, the Egyptian dragon was also represented as a throne upon which the god is seated ...
31. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]
... normal careen of the globe-may be considered a prerequisite for the calcification of the wood. Wood which has turned to stone (excluding coal) is generally found to be silicified, calcified, or partly silicified and partly calcified. The colorings of the petrified wood are due to other chemical elements and vary from red to blue, from garnet to turquoise. When a soil layer is superimposed on another soil layer after a flood, a formation develops which is different from a superimposed silica layer. In the tropics-when mining tin ore-normally hard rocks, like granites, are found to be so soft that they can be dug with a spade to depths of scores or even hundreds of feet. ...
32. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... the high priest. Besides the names of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad the following device was wrought on the second standard, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." The third standard, around which rallied the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin, bore the color of the diamond, the turquoise, and the amethyst, for on these three stones in the high priest's breastplate were engrave the names of these three tribes. On this standard beside the names of these three tribes was the motto, "And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of camp." As on the breastplate ...
33. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... war. There, the ascending hero is identified with the Morning Star: "Morning Star, looking on, saw that they were losing the battle. He called to his younger brother and said, Let us go to our sun father and see if he can tell us how to help our friends. ' They took corn meal and turquoise and put it upon their arrows. They shot toward the sun making a road to the sun of the dust. They climbed this." [89] Here the arrow-chain is described as a "road to the sun," a situation which naturally recalls the aforementioned traditions describing the World Tree as the "road to the sky ...
34. The Hermes Connection [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the very effects produced in the above experiment. One can imagine the spiraling pathway rising in terrace-fashion on the apparition of the cosmic column itself. These trails would also symbolize the "wake" behind the ferryman's boat, crossing and recrossing in endless patterns on the waters of the dead, where the color blue, or lapis lazuli (turquoise), is sacred to the river Styx. Such patterns- in endless rearrangement- would be "embossed" in the convolution of the Polar Column, enwrapped in cloudy, splendiferous storms. Then too, from out of this striated nimbus would come the reinforcing image of the serpent-entwined column of the heraldic caduceus, symbol of Hermes. ...
35. The Timna Test [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Yet, it must also be noted that he plainly has no problem with major Dynasty XVIII activity only 100 miles (160 km) to the southwest at Serabit el Khadim in the Central Sinai, where he acknowledges that various Dynasty XVIII pharaohs subscribed to a series of chambers added to an original Middle Kingdom temple in conjunction with malachite, turquoise, and copper mining operations at that isolated location. [6 ] Indeed, he goes so far as to claim that "there is a clear similarity between the Hathor temple of Timna and the Egyptian temple excavated at Serabit el Khadim by Petrie." [7 ] This recognition must allow that those New Kingdom kings were as much ...
36. Day Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... World. There the Mescalero Apache knew Venus as suus bik? edalatl? izhe?, "Blue/Green star." [19] Although such names have no obvious explanation in terms of Venus' current appearance, they accord perfectly with the description of Venus in ancient myth, where the planet-goddess is said to have assumed a brilliant turquoise color during a celebrated phase in the history of the polar configuration. An early example of this motif occurs in The Descent of Inanna where the planet Venus, as Inanna, is described as hanging upon a great wall and as being of a putrid green color. [20] Day Star Among various Slavic peoples, the planet Venus ...
37. Cataclysms of the Earth [Books]
... normal careen of the globe-may be considered a prerequisite for the calcification of the wood. Wood which has turned to stone (excluding coal) is generally found to be silicified, calcified, or partly silicified and partly calcified. The colorings of the petrified wood are due to other chemical elements and vary from red to blue, from garnet to turquoise. When a soil layer is superimposed on another soil layer after a flood, a formation develops which is different from a superimposed silica layer. In the tropics-when mining tin ore-normally hard rocks, like granites, are found to be so soft that they can be dug with a spade to depths of scores or even hundreds of feet. ...
38. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... missed only because the possibility of concrete references would be inconceivable to the modern observer. In Egyptian representations of Akhenaton, we see the rays of the celebrated Aten as extended arms bringing the gift of life. Now the Aten, usually interpreted as the disk of the Sun, is generally represented as a red circle or orb surrounded by a turquoise or gold band, which band is frequently interpreted as either an enclosing serpent (Uraeus) or an enclosing rope (the Shen bond). Hopefully, the reader will have no difficulty recognizing our own interpretation of the disk in terms of the juxtaposed orbs of Mars and Venus. (This mythical interpretation of Venus as enclosure is, ...
39. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... it would glisten in the sun, much as the Egyptian pyramids are thought to have done; access to it was carefully restricted. Sculptures include jaguars and a double bodied serpent. Stone pestles and mortars were used for grinding red pigment and there examples of what appear to be stamp and cylinder seals. There are textiles, wooden figurines and turquoise beads along with pottery and there were many cultivated plants and rodents for food but there is no trace of the later staple maize. Other sites indicate that this site was part of a larger political complex which lasted for 1000 years before being abandoned abruptly, with many buildings left unfinished. Near East loses its priority New Scientist 21. ...
40. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part I [Journals] [Aeon]
... Ancient Myth and Religion (Ames 1997), p. 159 ff. [64] K.S . Gilbert (ed.), Treasures of Tutankhamun (NY, 1976), pp. 104-105. [65] Clark, op. cit., see illustration p.112. Note: Venus was white, green, turquoise, and more, at different times during the era of the Saturnian configuration. [66] K. Preisendanz, Papyri Graecae Magicae, Vol. I (1928), as quoted by G. de Santillana & H. von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill (Boston, 1969), p. 147. [67] Antelme & ...
41. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... in the Great Lake. It was also named Mesekhti, and was described as having a bull's head. The Book of the Dead [Tr.Budge, Arkana p.409] refers to the water flood which is over the thigh of the goddess Nut at the staircase of the god Sebaku. The bull is described as enveloped in turquoise [Budge, op.cit. p.333]. thing The Greek chrema, thing, may be a flow of ka. Creation may have been thought of as a flow of ka, as the unseen god became visible. Greek rheo = flow. The phenomenon would have been helpful to Plato in his formulation of a ...
42. From Myth to a Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... possibility of an "accident" producing an accord with universal myth and symbol is either extraordinarily remote or nonexistent. The colors associated with the participating planets in this early stage are- Saturn: yellow, gold, i.e ., as god of the Golden Age; Venus: white, silver, gray, later turning to bright turquoise; Mars: rusty red and dark. The two images presented below represent the view of the celestial configuration from Earth under two closely related conditions, without any attempt to accommodate the light from the Sun (a critical component). In the first, the dark orb of Mars appears in the center of a spherical Venus, which ...
43. The Opening of The Mouth Ritual - Part II [Journals] [Aeon]
... two doors of crystal (? ) in the firmament are unbolted for him," Pepi passes through. [134] From the Book of the Dead we also have: "For mine is that green amulet [Venus?], Fastened to the neck of Re, That makes the lightlanders green...I know those two turquoise sycamores, Between which Re comes forth, That grow on the elevation of Shu, At the gate of the lord whence Re comes forth." [135] This forked structure atop the twisting column (" ivy was one of the plants of Osiris" [136] ) was also the inspiration for countless upward spiralling objects that ...
... , one to each of the four cardinal points of the compass, the faces look forward, the arms half extended on either side, the hands raised to a level with the shoulders. They wear around their loins skirts of red sunlight adorned with sunbeams. They have ear pendants, bracelets, and armlets) blue and red, representing turquoise and coral, the prehistoric and emblematic jewels of the Navajo Indians. Their forearms and legs are black, showing in each a zigzag mark representing lightning on the black rain clouds. In the north god these colors are, for artistic reasons, reversed. The gods have, respectively, a rattle, a charm, and a basket ...
45. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... the earth-goddess who sometimes replaces Kuvera as deity of riches' is also assigned to the North. The holy little district of holy Puri in Orissa, which is called the Swarga-dwdra or heaven-gate, is also symbolically the Blue Mountain ; ' and we find manifestly. the same idea preserved among the SGbbas or Sabaeans in their high northern mountain of turquoise (jade ?) , the reflection of which' when the sun shines on it, makes the sky blue. ' The 42nd Psalm, recited before the Mass, seems certainly to have I Hinalayar and Indian Flains, p. 535. 2 lisdo-,4 #yaiss' ii' 146. ' Revue des gtudesjuives xix ...
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