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2 pages of results. 1. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... And in the case of the eye, the identity with mother goddess is strictly maintained throughout all of Egypt: every Egyptian goddess was called "the Eye of Ra." (20) Additionally- and in language which could only add to the mystery for the translators- the ritual texts represent the central eye as a luminous green or turquoise stone. (21) While the context is unequivocally cosmic, there is simply nothing in the appearance of our sky today to support the vivid imagery. Further complicating the mystery is the fact that the turquoise heart-soul or eye has its own "heart" (central, interior orb), called "the heart of the heart" ...
2. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... fading progressively," (98) which seems to indicate a change of color in the evolution of the planet as seen from Earth. In this respect it should perhaps be noted that David Talbott has already intimated such a change in color in the planet Venus which he described as "white, silver, gray, later turning to bright turquoise..." (99) Strangely, he did not include the color red, but perhaps he should have. Be that as it may- most students of Mesoamerican lore have shown that various lines of evidence converge to indicate that the Mesoamerican Morning Star was indeed the planet Venus. Where we differ drastically from received opinion is ...
3. Thoth Vol I, No. 19: July 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , not just depicted as a star with quetzal-tail ( = comet), but is said to have taken the form of a great cosmic serpent (= comet both in Mexico and in the universal language of comets). The name Quetzalcoatl itself is simply a combination of two Nahuatl terms- that for the quetzal-bird, known for its long brilliant turquoise tail, and the serpent or coatl." Thus two of our listed five most common comet glyphs are brought together in the name of the god. And the combined hieroglyphs clearly have a long history. The earliest known version of the plumed serpent pre-dates the Aztecs by many centuries, appearing on monuments of the Formative Olmecs. Conceptually ...
4. The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
... the goddess as the headdress or "wig" worn by the pharaoh. The pattern will be clearly seen in the famous headdress of Tutankhamon. On ascending the throne (which means the conjunction of the hero and the goddess), the warrior-king wears the radiating streams as a headdress or wig. There are two colors involved: gold and turquoise. Gold was, of course, the most common Egyptian hieroglyph for radiance, while turquoise is uniquely the ancient color associated with the planet Venus (as we've noted many times in the past). Thus, in the Coffin Texts and elsewhere we see the Venus goddess Hathor imbued with turquoise and "covered" with what the translator ...
5. The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... though illumination by the Sun seems to have generated associations with a golden hue as well, gold being a universal glyph for "brilliance." With the evolution of the configuration, then, the colors associated with the participating planets are: Saturn: yellow, gold, ochre. Venus: white, silver, gray, turning to bright turquoise. Mars: blue-gray, growing to deep rusty red. Jupiter: (unseen until displacement of Saturn): brightly ornamented with bands, undulating streams and colorful spots. The wheel of Shamash AEON: Let's give an overview of the myths relating to these early phases of the configuration. You have one phase in which Venus and Mars ...
6. Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation (Part II) [Journals] [Aeon]
... interesting "acoustic tumult" would have been possible. All of this, and more, would have taken place within the column which could have contained a blue core of "exquisite brilliance...encased in a pale green envelope." This, then, could explain the ancients' "choice of precious minerals" such as "turquoise, lapis-lazuli, and even jade." An alternative theory gaining popularity as a solution to the science behind the entire multi-planet configuration is one involving Birkeland currents. Wallace Thornhill, a proponent of electrical forces as the prime constituent energy behind the Universe, believes that sustained Birkeland currents, which naturally form a twisted rope-like structure due to their ...
7. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... and be missed completely. "A bolt out of the blue" may be such a transliterate expression from a primitive time when mankind looked out upon a world far different from that which our own ancestors viewed a mere hundred generations ago. This "blue" may not have been simply the airglow of the daylight hours, but a shimmering turquoise emanating from the columnar air-mass arising from the polar mount. It is a most important characteristic which pervades the entire tangle of myth. Tezcatlipoca is the blue deity of Aztec mythology. In the Kalevala, the Ugro-Altaic epic myth of Finland, the hero Kullervo is described as having "the bluest of blue stockings." In India it ...
8. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... . 283-311. 99. Ibid., p. 287. Note also the appearance of the wind-jewel (ehecacozcatl) as a pendant in the Aztec iconography of Quetzalcoatl. Duran, op cit., p. 130. 100. In the Aztec funerary ritual of kings, specifically consecrated to Quetzalcoatl, the king's heart was symbolized by a turquoise colored stone. See W. Krickeberg, "Mesoamerica," in Pre-Columbian American Religions (New York, 1969), p. 52. As we know from a wealth of evidence Venus presented a turquoise appearance at the time of its association with Saturn. See the discussion of Talbott in "Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero," Aeon ...
9. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... not just depicted as a star with quetzal-tail ( = comet), but is said to have taken the form of a great cosmic serpent (= comet both in Mexico and in the universal language of comets). The name Quetzalcoatl itself is simply a combination of two Nahuatl terms- that for the quetzal-bird, known for its long brilliant turquoise tail, and the serpent or coatl." (45) Thus two of our listed five most common comet glyphs are brought together in the name of the god. And the combined hieroglyphs clearly have a long history. The earliest known version of the plumed serpent pre-dates the Aztecs by many centuries, appearing on monuments of the Formative ...
10. Caananites, Chronologies and Connections, by Susan Cohen [Journals] [SIS Review]
... walls of the ruler' to control access to Egypt by refugees from Canaan. Sesostris I – The story of Sinuhe is based in this reign and describes border control in action and tribal chiefs who grew up adoring Sesostris. Ammenemhet II – From this reign an inscription describes commercial expeditions, military campaigns and tribute from Canaan. Inscriptions from the Turquoise mines in Sinai indicate a peaceful relationship with the Asiatics and the brother of the Prince of Retenu is shown visiting the mines. Asiatics are recorded as holding official court positions. Sesostris II – At Beni-Hassan, in the tomb of Khnumhotep III who is Overseer of the Eastern Hill Countries', the arrival of an Asiatic group, led ...
11. The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I) [Journals] [Aeon]
... viewer's northern horizon a great column of light rose toward Saturn along the polar axis, looking very much like a pillar holding aloft both the planet and the celestial enclosure. The small orb at the apex of the column was the reddish planet Mars, the heaven-sustaining giant and warrior-hero of global myth. Spiralling out from the polar axis was a turquoise stream of gas or dust, terminating in the orb of Venus, remembered around the world as the mother goddess. Myth-making imagination perceived this projection as a revolving curl of "lifebreath," a circling beard or sidelock, or the termination of a rope or cord extending from its coil (to name a few of the most prominent ...
12. Velikovsky's 360 days/year calendar [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... supposed to) as 2773 BC, 1317 BC and 139 AD. More importantly he gives two examples in a side bar on page 12 of how badly the calender went out of sync: One inscription from the reign of Amememhet III (1842-1797 BC) records a visit by the Kings treasurer to Serabit el-Khadim, in Sinai, to extract turquoise ore in the third month of what was, according to the civil calender, winter. However the actual weather conditions prevailing were those of high summer because the calender was some seven months out, and Harurre records how he and his men suffered badly from the Mountains that brand the skin' with the very great heat. ' As ...
13. Dragons [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... activity - and thus is frequently used decoratively to ward off evil spirits," Biedermann wrote in Dictionary of Symbolism. "The number of dragons on the brocade garments of the generals of ancient China was precisely regulated, and only the emperor's garment might have nine. From the Han Dynasty (206 BC to AD 220) onward, the turquoise dragon (lung) was the symbol of the emperor: it was the fifth sign of the Chinese zodiac, and the symbol of the East, the rising sun, and the spring rain; the white dragon, on the other hand, governed the West and death. In winter, according to popular tradition, dragons live underground ...
14. Thoth Vol III, No. 15: Nov 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the king of the world, the legitimate "head", the cap-tain. One connection I would explore is that to "copper" (German Kupfer, Latin cuprum, the metal of Cyprus, Greek Kypros), since the "radiance" of the Great Star took the color of copper ore, i.e ., brilliant turquoise. Copper ore (such as malachite) was used to produce the turquoise color of the Venus-eye-goddess symbols in both Egypt and Mesopotamia. And Aphrodite was called the "copper" goddess, the Cyprian. Hence, that would be a connection of the Venus-coma to a K-P root worth considering. Also, it's hard for me to imagine ...
15. The Identification of the Biblical "Queen of Sheba" with Hatshepsut, "Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia" (Part III) [Journals] [Kronos]
... at the end of the 7th century B.C . A 10th century temple at Timna would fit this idea perfectly. The newly-conquered Negev was occupied territory, the "country of Edom," not the Land of Israel proper. The people who worked the mines were Midianites, Kenites, eventually Amalekites- the same people who worked the turquoise mines in Sinai, where Hathor, the "Lady of Turquoise," was their protrectress to whom had been built the famous sanctuary at Serabith-el-Khadim. The similarity between the two temples, that at Serabith and that at Timna, has been especially stressed by Rothenberg and his advising Egyptologist.135 Hatshepsut's wish to erect a temple to her ...
16. The Holy Land [Books]
... god's primeval home- was not of our earth. Apollo, the polar sun, was not the only god to occupy this centre. In Mexico, a Nahuatl hymn extols the god Ometeotl as: Mother of the Gods, Father of the Gods, the old God distended in the navel of the earth, engaged in the enclosure of turquoise He who dwells in waters the colour of the bluebird. (98) A Babylonian hymn located the god Ea at the "centre of the earth": The path of Ea was in Eridu, teeming with fertility. His seat (there) is the centre of the earth; his couch is the bed of the primeval mother ...
17. Venus and Sirius: Some Unexpected Similarities [Journals] [Kronos]
... homophony links the Quichean terms for "red" with Quichean terms for "thunder and lightning" or just "lightning". 2. Thompson associates the Kan cross, and thus the circled-cross shape with rain, water, and the year in Mesoamerican thought: "[ X ]iuitl, the Mexican name for the year, also meant turquoise and by extension, rain, . . . because both turquoise and rain were precious things. Furthermore, the trapezoidal ornament, usually worn by the Tlalocs, is the sign for the year in Mexican texts, and there are good reasons for identifying the head of Cocijo, the Zapotec rain god, as the year symbol in the ...
18. The Still-Lost City of Avaris: The Capital and Stronghold of the Hebrew Pharaohs (Hyksos) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... where they would not be damaged by fire. This war continued for over ten years, so there was time to find such places. Prince Kamose captured the Hyksos ships laden with cargo. We will refer to his victory speech later on. The Hyksos had a long reign of 511 years67 and they had the Sinai mines of copper and turquoise as assets, plus the gold trade with Nubia. Since these Semites were familiar with water and canal construction, perhaps it is to the now-dry water courses that excavators should look for sizable hoards. The greatest find of all would be to locate the tomb of Joseph's wife. She was Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phere, the priest ...
19. The Cosmic Double Helix [Journals] [Aeon]
... surface of a ballgame ring from Chichén Itzá. [12] An engraved and pierced shell from the Post-Classic Huaxtec [MAv7] depicts an interlaced two-headed cosmic serpent. [13] Joseph Campbell [MAv8] reproduces an Aztec stone carving of two snakes intertwined, the heads facing east and west. [14] The British Museum owns a turquoise mosaic mask [MAv9] of Mixtec-Aztec provenance and dating from between 1400 and 1521 A. D. This mask is described as follows: "A pair of serpents is entwined around the eyes, nose and mouth of this mask. Two serpent tails meet at the top and a feathered plume hangs down on either side. Snakes were ...
20. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... that turns like a wheel, and in this way the wealthy tribe of Zebulun were kept in mind of the fickleness of fortune. Dan's stone was a species of topaz, in which was visible the inverted face of a man, for the Danites were sinful, turning good to evil, hence the inverted face in their stone. The turquoise was Naphtali's stone, for it gives its owner speed in riding, and Naphtali was "a hind let loose." Gad's stone was the crystal, that endows its owner with courage in battle, and hence served this warlike tribe that battled for the Lord as an admonition to fear none and build on God. The chrysolite was ...
21. Chapter22
... hold of him by the tail, so that Gilgamesh as espada can come in between the horns for the kill. The artisans of the town admire the size of those horns: "thirty pounds was their content of lapis lazuli." (Lapis lazuli is the color sacred to Styx, as we have seen. In Mexico it is turquoise.) Ishtar appears on the walls of Uruk and curses the two heroes who have shamed her, but Enkidu tears out the right thigh of the Bull of Heaven and flings it in her face, amid brutal taunts (appendix # 27). It seems to be part of established procedure in those circles. Susanowo did the same ...
22. Chapter 6 Egyptian Stratigraphy [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... a tour de force that supports and corroborates Rose's, Heinsohn's, Sweeney's, and Velikovsky's, highly shortened chronology. In his chapter "Faience in the Third Millennium" he writes: "In the Badarian [pre-dynastic] cemeteries of Egypt (c . 4200 B.C .) beads of blue-glazed steatite were found together with beads of real turquoise. . . . "Most writers state quite uncritically that glazed faience appears in Egypt in the Pre-Dynastic Period — i.e ., before 3000 B.C . . . . "However, it is clear that Beck was not happy about the attribution of some of the faience beads and queries the Pre-dynastic beads from cemetery 3700 ...
23. Tree Symbols [Books]
... the Florence museum there is a stela (No. 2567) in which the following sentences occur: May the Nile give thee the essence of the gods, May Hathor give thee beer, May Isis give thee milk, that thou mayest wash thy feet upon the stone of silver(?) and the seat (or throne) of turquoise. Here "silver" is doubtful; the determinative used is of metals in general, but is also used as that of grains or seeds. A stele in the Louvre, Paris, contains a prayer for "the white liquor of Isis "in her cow form of Hes-t, as in the Florence text, and adds " ...
24. Tree Symbols [Books]
... the Florence museum there is a stela (No. 2567) in which the following sentences occur: May the Nile give thee the essence of the gods, May Hathor give thee beer, May Isis give thee milk, that thou mayest wash thy feet upon the stone of silver(?) and the seat (or throne) of turquoise. Here "silver" is doubtful; the determinative used is of metals in general, but is also used as that of grains or seeds. A stele in the Louvre, Paris, contains a prayer for "the white liquor of Isis "in her cow form of Hes-t, as in the Florence text, and adds " ...
... ), and as a star with quetzal-tail (= comet), is also said to have taken the form of a great cosmic serpent (= comet both in Mexico and in the universal language of comets). The name Quetzalcoatl itself is simply a combination of two Nahuatl terms- that for the quetzal-bird, known for its long, brilliant turquoise tail, and that of the serpent or coatl. (23) Thus two of the most common comet glyphs are brought together in the name of the god. And the combined hieroglyphs clearly have a long history. The earliest known version of the plumed serpent pre-dates the Aztecs by many centuries, appearing on monuments of the Formative Olmecs ...
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