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MARS, MEDUSA, ROAD TO SATURN
[COSMIC MOUNTAIN UNDER MARS]
Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... next to Moe Mandelkehr's recent assertion that the Morning
Star mentioned in the earliest mytho-historical records was not
originally the planet Venus. (10) One thing that can be stated
for certain is that not all morning stars are to be
>... as the Saturnian one. Due to a certain imbalance which
developed in the orbit of Mars as the entire configuration
circled the Sun, (118) Mars moved closer to the Earth and was
thus seen from terrestrial perspective as growing ... in size
while emitting, and/or attracting from the Earth, an outflow of
iridescent material that was visualized as a cosmic mountain of
vast proportions. So memorable was this event that, in the Near
East, it continued
[MARUTS CIRCLED POLAR AXIS]
Velikovsky's Martian Catastrophes [Journals] [Aeon]
... extant material, any mention of the first appearance of
Mars, whereas expressions referring to the birth of the planet
Venus have been found in literary sources of the peoples of both
hemispheres." (2) By this, Velikovsky
>... it happens, David Talbott is of a different opinion,
interpreting the Maruts as the seven "satellites" seen circling
around Saturn within the enclosure of its encircling band.
According to him, these bodies were not, strictly speaking ...
satellites of Saturn since he envisions them as having circled
around the Axis Mundi far "below" the Saturnian orb. It was only
terrestrial perspective that made them appear to orbit the
Saturnian plane. (87) What, then
==========================
[MEDUSA STREAMS]
The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon IV:3 (Dec 1995) An In-Depth Interview With David
Talbott. David Talbott, perhaps best known for his 1980 book,
The Saturn Myth, has been researching the Saturnian phenomenon
since the 1970s. (1) He has, since then, published much about
the subject - ...
>... of the gods) implies that these symbols are inseparably
connected, highly chaotic, disordered streams. This is where we
confront the mother goddess in her Terrible Aspect - the Medusa
archetype, the raging goddess with wildly disheveled hair, the
chaos monster, the Doomsday comet. Until we understand something
about the dynamics creating the orderly appearance of the
[MEDUSA TRISKELEON]
The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon IV:5 (Nov 1996) An In-Depth Interview with David
Talbott- (Continued) AEON: We interrupted our previous interview
(1) at a very interesting juncture in which you stressed certain
global pictographic examples of what you called the Radiant
Venus. What ...
>... explicitly related to the streaming, cometary hair of the
ancient goddess? There is indeed. One of the most dramatic forms
of the goddess in her terrible aspect was the Medusa, whose
unkempt locks were undulating serpents. And it seems that
ancient artists remembered an interesting relationship of the
Medusa's head to the triskeleon. Among the most telling examples
[MEDUSA CROSS]
The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon IV:5 (Nov 1996) Dwardu Cardona See Note * below. 1.
SATURN In Sanskrit, the emblem we know as the swastika is called
pramantha. The word also means "fire-drill". (1) According to
Robert Graves, it is this ...
>... the Earth. Left: Lycian coin showing the owl of Athena in
the center of an ogee. Right: Sicilian (Roman) coin showing the
head of the Gorgon Medusa in the center of a triskeleon. In an
earlier work, Talbott had much to say concerning the cross-like
apparition that formerly appeared to radiate from the Saturnian
orb.
[MEDUSA ICE AGE]
The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... referred to the polar column as "a cone of light" emanating
from a Saturnian body in the boreal heavens. Eight years later
he published his brilliant study, The Saturn Myth, but without
anything more than a glimmer of a physical model. Talbott
mentions what he has termed "the polar configuration," which
includes a pictorial conceptualization
>... the moment of sunset, where the refraction of the
atmosphere sweeps the spectrum of the Sun's rays nearly
instantaneously through the viewer's position. Thus we could
expect that the polar column would have been encased in a pale
green envelope, as a result of solar irradiation on the more
tenuous outer portions of the column sheath. In combination with
the bluish color of the central core, the polar vortex would
exhibit the classical blue-green or turquoise of myth and
artifact. In the intricacies of myth we find Leo, the zodiacal
lion, whose colors were red and green. In the present-day
constellation, one of the prominent luminaries, Denebola, is
associated with the color blue and was known by the Euphratean
name of Mikid-isati, or burning blue fire. Adjacent to the lion
was the zodiacal crab, the dark companion of Hermes, which also
laid claim to the colors red and green. There are many more
examples, most of which we can associate with the phenomenon of
birefringence, dichroism, and polarization surrounding the
vortex, if not the column itself. However, there are a number of
reasons to believe that the colors of bright golden yellow
fading into the deep purplish red of magenta is more closely
allied with the visions of the celestial sea, and especially red
with that of the hyperboreal planet itself. There can be no
functional relationship, save the mythological relevancy,
between what we call the zodiacal stars and their associated
constellations and that which was observed and perhaps similarly
named during the epoch of the polar column and the plerosphere.
Due to the overshadowing effulgence of the polar complex no
other stars or planets beyond the plerosphere could have been
visible. It is my contention - admittedly controversial - that
it is doubtful that these ancients ever were cognizant of the
other planets in our solar system, but even if they were the
pinpoints of light would pale in comparison with the bright
dynamism of the polar complex. And here again it should be
stressed, this present model contains the salient features of
myth within a Lilliput, and does not and can not rely on the
Brobdingnag of the Saturn model. After the final cataclysm, the
World Tree would have been cut down for the last time. The
once-enormous, dumbbell-shaped magnetosphere would collapse and
be no more. And with this collapse would come a cooling so
intense and so penetrating that the residual, primordial ice
would still be in evidence to this day. And mankind has since
looked to the hyperboreal skies in puzzlement as to why the
Earth now hangs upon nothing. Without becoming unnecessarily
enmeshed in an ontological argument, the study of mythic origins
is a study in chimerical events. It is one thing to observe and
research such events and then record them for others to study,
but it is quite another to breathe life into them and give them
physical substance. In this essay I have made the attempt. And
yet, the images are still there, hidden in the mists of folklore
and legend: A convoluting brightness had returned for one brief,
shattering moment, mirroring the Sun on the silvered shield of
Perseus, and then the world froze as if it had looked upon the
face of Medusa.
_References
1. W. Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth (1696).
2. G. de Santillana & H. von Dechend, Hamlet's
[MEDUSA HAIR]
The Birth of Athena [Journals] [Aeon]
>... Athena presented one of their ancient kings with a lock of
Medusa's hair which rendered that city impregnable (in the
original myth, according to leading scholars, Athena was the
Medusa). (131) The talismanic significance here accorded the
lock of hair is identical to that accorded the comet-like
palladium.
_The Eye Goddess. An interesting use of the ... evidence was
presented that Venus only recently assumed its present orbit.
Prior to that, the Cytherean planet occupied a prominent
position within an unusual celestial configuration associated
with the planet Saturn. (150) During the period in question
Venus was locked in axial alignment together with Saturn and the
Earth, at some point between the two planets. From ...
[MEDUSA SHIELD]
The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon V:1 (Nov 1997) An In-Depth Interview with David
Talbott - (concluded) AEON: In our last discussion you were
explaining the various mythological motifs associated with the
displaced Radiant Venus and Mars. You mentioned that one item
that this celestial apparition resembled ...
... goddess, the connection with "radiance" has been missed
altogether by the experts. But can you see how the same form
could have inspired the idea of a spread peacock's tail? Or the
fan or shade held by so many ancient goddesses? Feathered
headdress of power. Ha-na-tah-nu-mauh - known to early French
traders as Chef de Loup - wolf-chief of the Mandan nation.
(Illustration by George Catlin.) AEON: Is there any symbolic
connection between this scallop and the face of the Medusa you
presented us with in November of last year? It seems to me that,
in one of the illustrations we published for you, the head of
the Medusa was ensconsed within a radiating back-drop that
closely resembles a shell. [2] Talbott: The reader will recall
that the same radiating material, in periods of disorder, gave
rise to the disheveled hair of the angry goddess, whose most
familiar form is the Medusa, and whose head was repeatedly
placed in the center of shields. Given the mythical equations we
are suggesting, such facts take on considerable significance.
(The radiating streamers were the shield of the hero, as we
noted in our previous discussion. [3]) The disheveled hair of
the Medusa appears in the form of serpents. It follows,
therefore, that the serpent-hair and the flutes of the scallop
shell refer, respectively, 1) to the radiating material in its
symmetrical appearance, and 2) to the same material in its
disorderly aspects. So we are not surprised to discover that the
serpent-hair of the Medusa is juxtaposed with the scallop shell.
This kind of juxtaposition is, of course, the way ancient
artists were able, within the constraints of a pre-scientific
language, to record and interpret what was seen in the sky.
AEON: Aren't serpents themselves symbolic of comets and,
therefore, of a cometary Venus? Talbott: Yes, and, in fact, the
idea that the coma or "radiance" of Venus would take the form of
"serpents" leads to a further identification. Take the
seven-headed Naga of Hindu myth for instance. Again, it seems
quite clear that the artists were conscious of an abstract form
that comparative mythologists and comparative symbolists have
missed altogether. Also of interest is a similar pattern from
the Americas, showing seven "blood serpents" emanating from the
neck of a decapitated ritual ball player. Decapitation is, of
course, part of the Medusa-theme as well. But let's follow
through with the more fundamental reasoning here. If the
streamers of the Radiant Venus signified the headdress worn by
the hero or his alter ego the warrior-king, we should expect to
find a pretty clear-cut confirmation of this in the early strata
of myth and symbol. Well, this is exactly what we find. In
ancient Egypt, the priests celebrated the "radiance" of 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 Faulkner calls
the "royal wig-cover." The remembered radiance/hair takes the
very form predicted by the model. Aphrodite in her shell. From a
Greek terra-cotta figure, now in the Louvre, Paris. AEON: What
about the symbol of the "fan" you mentioned earlier. Talbott:
Actually, there is a series of images we can group together here
to save time. This would include: the fan, umbrella, shade,
broom, whisk, and flail. All can be seen as symbols of the
"power" - the protective function, and the unique form, of the
Radiant Venus when displaced somewhat from its central position
- and "sweeping" or "clearing" the sky as it churned visually
around the polar center, with the rotation of the Earth.
Inseparably connected to the idea of radiating "feathers" is the
ancient image of a goddess displaying a "fan." In Egyptian,
Greek, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and other eastern
cultures, the fan possesses an enigmatic significance in
relation to power (life-strength, authority, charisma,
protection), and this significance has never been explained. On
its own, the inconspicuous symbol does not suggest any of its
symbolic connotations, except in the feeble sense that we
associate the fan and shade today with "protection" against heat
- which happens not to be the original role symbolically.
_Scallop shell of Aphrodite. Head of the Medusa ensconced within
scallop shell. Radiating hair of the Pharaoh's "wig."
(Tutankhamun's funerary mask - front and rear views.)
Seven-headed Naga serpent. Stone sculpture from Ceylon. Aztec
"blood" serpents. AEON: In what character or aspect of the
archaic goddess, then, did the symbolists perceive this curious
attribute? Talbott: In many instances the fan is composed of
feathers, sometimes peacock or ostrich feathers, but often these
are mere symbolic ornamentation in the same way that the
headdress was ornamentation and not part of a utilitarian
function. Cosmic history offers an archetypal form explaining
and unifying the diverse symbols while, in the absence of a
celestial reference, the similarities in underlying form can
only be ascribed to a freakish accident. The early contexts of
the symbols show a convergence on a pervasive idea - that of the
Radiant Venus, or Great Comet, sweeping away the chaos hordes,
the clouds of darkness associated with the onset of catastrophe.
What they protect against are the demons of darkness. Any good
dictionary of symbolism will confirm this role of the fan. The
fan achieves the same thing as so-called "sweeping" rites, in
which the chaos fiends are, symbolically, swept from the hearth,
the shrine or the threshold. Now if the explanation lies in the
original celestial form, then the fan gives us one more
variation on the theme of the Radiant Venus, a form so close to
that of the scallop shell and the peacock's spread tail feathers
as to make any meaningful distinction of abstract shape
impossible. Or, we can state the point in terms of the
predictive ability of our model. If an extraordinary
configuration in the sky will explain one, it would be absurd to
contend that it will not explain the others. And nothing other
than the cosmic reference will ever explain the symbolic
connotations. The consistent meanings are dignity of office,
majesty, power, authority, and protection, concepts that are
universally rooted in the idea of the radiance of the mother
goddess. One rule of thumb here is that the mythical meanings of
a symbol always go beyond the symbolic object's earthbound
functions. Since a symbol can never capture the full range of
archetypal meanings, it will always serve to narrow the spectrum
of meanings, contributing to the fragmentation of an originally
unified idea. I know of no exceptions to this rule, which has
never been adequately appreciated by the specialists. In fact,
the common approach imagines that the symbolic object was first
venerated animistically, and then the meanings were
progressively expanded to cosmic proportions with the evolution
of the ancient religions from totemism to more macroscosmic
systems. In truth this approach has done more than any other
factor to direct attention away from the archetypal roots of
ancient memory. While, mythically, the fan really belongs to the
same category as the whisk, broom, or flail, only the fan has
preserved the archetypal form. AEON: Why is that? Talbott:
Because the broom, whisk and flail could not serve their
practical function - not even their practical ritual functions -
without adaptation to one or another utilitarian requirement.
But look at the idea underlying the symbolic function - the
clearing or scattering of the chaos hordes - and you will
discover the inherent logic of the symbolism. AEON: What, then,
is the cosmic symbolism behind the Egyptian flail? Talbott: The
Egyptian symbol of the flail presents us with a good example
here. Clearly, the symbol has been adapted to its more narrowly
defined utilitarian function. But the flail is not just a
practical instrument. In the hieroglyphic language, it is an
Egyptian symbol of the "Outflow" - the luminous material
appearing to radiate outward from the heart-soul of Atum-Ra. The
Outflow is the "radiance" of the Radiant Venus.
Hieroglyphically, the flail means "glory," "radiance,"
"majesty." It means the shining "words of power" spoken in the
creation, the "glorified souls" constituting the visible
emanation or soul-essence of the goddess, the raw material
coursing outward as the primeval matter from which the first
forms of creation were fashioned. Keep in mind that "radiance"
does not just mean brightness. It means stuff radiating from a
center. And this outflow gathered into streamers that were
symbolized by the separate strands of the flail. The
hieroglyphic language itself suggests noise, tumult, and visual
spectacles. Now in terms of earthbound functions, the flail
would make a very poor broom, whisk, or fan. Yet there is no
distinction between these objects in terms of mythical roles.
They are instruments of power - weapons - against the chaos
hordes. That is why, in terms of useful function, the flail can
help us to understand the ritual uses of the fan, whisk and
broom against the fiends of darkness. The flail was employed
ritualistically against human symbols of the chaos powers, in
ways that would be impossible with a clump of feathers, or
straw, or grass, for example. One of the universal
characteristics of ancient cultures was the habit of perceiving
the enemies of royal power ("barbarians," "rebels,"
"foreigners," "the non-existent ones") as terrestrial symbols of
the chaos powers. Fundamentally, the chaos hordes mean the dark
and cloud-like swarms acting in opposition to the forces of
stability, organization and symmetry. They are "non-existent" in
the sense that they stand outside and in opposition to the
radiating streams of life. Hieroglyphically, "to exist" means
"to come to life," an idea symbolized by various signs of the
radiating streams (and, of course, the revolving crescent in its
upright position-
============================
ROAD TO SATURN?
_[DIM LONE SATURN IN AGE OF DARKNESS] In prehistoric times,
Saturn was the most conspicuous object in the sky. [It] was
observed ... as a rotating sphere, which means that markings of
some sort were clearly visible on its surface. Since tradition
insists there was no way of telling time in those "days," these
markings must have been of a fluctuating nature with no specific
form retaining a recognizable shape that could have been timed
with each rotation. Fluctuating surface markings bespeak an
active atmosphere, perhaps in turmoil, and the impression one
receives, especially in view of what transpired later, is that
Saturn was an unstable gaseous body.
_[NORTH POLAR SATURN] Unlike the Sun, [Saturn] did not rise or
set. It simply hung suspended in the north celestial pole, which
could only mean that it shared the same axis of rotation with
Earth. More than that -- and this was a puzzle I had not yet
solved -- the texts speak of this planetary deity as having
ruled alone and in darkness. The Sun, it is stated, was
completely absent from the sky. Man remembers this age as a time
of perpetual night. But for Saturn to have been visible, it must
have shed some light. Since the light did not dissolve the gloom
the illumination must have been feeble.
_[IDEAL CLIMATE] For fauna and flora to have thrived, Saturn
must also have shed warmth. Man himself went completely naked.
He knew nothing of chilling winds, cold rain, of snow, or ice.
_[UNIMPRESSIVE SATURN] During this period, the Saturnian orb
does not seem to have been paid much heed. It was simply there,
invoking neither fear nor reverence.
_[SATURN FLARE] But then an event transpired of such
stupendousness that it went down in the annals of mankind as Day
One. Saturn suddenly flared up in nova-like brilliance, flooding
the Earth and its inhabitants with a blinding light. The
[supposed] act of creation had commenced.
_[BLACK MASS ATTACKED SATURN] When the light of the flare-up
finally ebbed, man was presented with a ghastly sight. Spewing
out from the central orb was a multi-spiralled black mass that
revolved and wound itself around [Saturn]. Viewed as a monster
which the transformed [planet Saturn] had to subdue, this was
also the chaos out of which creation progressed.
_[SUNLIGHT FIRST APPEARED] It seems to have been precisely at
this point that the Sun made its appearance [i.e. sunlight
appeared, but the Sun itself was not yet visible]. Day now
succeeded night. Time had come into the world.
_[SATURN LIGHT OBSCURED STARS] Saturn itself continued to shine
as a sun in its own right. It was bright enough to keep the
stars, except those of first magnitude, from being seen. It was
not however as bright as the Sun and, during the day, it paled
into a cloud-like ghost.
_[ICE DEBRIS FILAMENTS & RINGS FORMED] Two filaments detached
themselves from Saturn's spiralling matter and were temporarily
"lost" in the reaches of space. The rest of this watery debris
congealed into a ring around [Saturn]. The [planet] had
organized his cosmos. It was this "world" that man had witnessed
the god create, for in truth the creation did not originally
refer to [anything on Earth]. In time this ring resolved itself
into a series of concentric bands -- first into three and later,
for the longest time, into seven. These were the original seven
"heavens" or seven "earths." They were also the seven stages of
creation, long after misunderstood as seven "days."
_[LIGHT CRESCENT/S APPEARED ON THE RINGS] The light from the
unveiled [unseen] Sun illuminated Saturn's encircling ring as a
gigantic crescent, and later as seven nested ones. The other
half of the band was only dimly lit, forming a crescent in
shadow that was nonetheless visible. Both crescents revolved in
unison, perpetually chasing each other, around the stationary
orb [described as dark- and light-colored twins etc]. This,
together with the now rising and setting Sun, enabled man to
calculate the passage of time. The visual revolution of these
crescents was naturally due to the rotation of the Earth. This
means that the Saturn-Earth System must have been at right
angles to the Sun-Earth vector (although, as Chris Sherrerd was
to point out to me years later, not necessarily perpendicular to
the plane of the ecliptic).
_[9 SATURN MOONS WERE VISIBLE] Nine smaller satellites, which
were not formerly apparent, now appeared to revolve around
Saturn. In mythology they became the nine followers, or company,
of the god.
_[BRIGHT CROSS-SHAPE APPEARED ON SATURN] A cruciform star-shape
also appeared as four bright rays radiating from the central
orb. Rightly or wrongly, I initially interpreted these as an
atmospheric illusion.
_[POLAR COLUMN CONNECTED EARTH & SATURN] A singular beam of
light also appeared to taper upward from Earth's northern
horizon, connecting our humble abode to Saturn's glorious realm
in the sky. All mythologies speak of this singular beam, this
polar column or cosmic tree, this bond which tied heaven to
Earth. Despite the apparent impossibility of the system I had
managed to reconstruct, nothing perplexed me more at the time
than this effulgent axis mundi. Together with the puzzle of the
primeval darkness, this so-called world-axis stymied me. What
could it really have been?
_[POLAR COLUMN STOOD ATOP A GREAT MOUNTAIN ON EARTH] Mythology
also speaks of a universal world mountain located at the north.
This was a phenomenon I had understood as a lithic bulge that
was raised in gravitational response to Saturn's close
proximity. The axis mundi would have rested on top of this bulge
which would have accounted for the world-wide belief in the
archaic deity resting on his mountain of glory.
_[BLINKING LIGHTS APPEARED BY SATURN] Various atmospheric
phenomena also appeared in conjunction with this polar sun in
the form of parhelia [sun dogs] and Parry halo arcs, although
these, because of their very nature, were understandably
impermanent.
_[SATURN CONFIGURATION LOOKED LIKE A GIANT HUMAN] The most
amazing aspect of the Saturnian structure, however, was the
uncanny resemblance it bore to the human form, especially around
the hour of midnight, when the sunlit crescent of its encircling
ring(s) appeared as two uplifted arms. The entire apparition was
like a resplendent giant towering above the world for all
mankind to see.
_[GOLDEN AGE] The Sun itself might have been brighter, but
Saturn was much more glorious. For untold generations Saturn's
strange apparition became the very focus of man's existence. It
was the fountainhead of all religious beliefs and, more than
that, the impetus behind the rise of civilization. Unstable as
this system might have been, it managed to sustain itself for an
unspecified but long period of time. Its formation ushered in an
era that mythology remembers as the Golden Age. This was the
Edenic childhood of mankind, a time of prosperity and peace,
during which the earth was said to have given freely of its
bounty. It was an age that man was forever after to recall with
nostalgic longing.
_[ICE FILAMENTS CAUSED FLOOD ON EARTH] But in time it, also,
came to an end. The two filaments that had detached themselves
from Saturn's former spiral had gone into orbit around the Sun.
Each successive passage had brought them back into close
proximity of the Saturnian system. These were seen as monsters
which periodically threatened the god. Eventually at least one
of them collided with the Earth. Composed mainly of water, this
filament dispersed itself across the Earth in a deluge that
lasted for days. Thus the universal flood was a direct result of
Saturn's initial flare-up.
_[EARTH TURNED OVER] Saturn, with its cosmos, became unhinged.
It was now seen to circle around the sky as the Earth, knocked
off its balance by the impact of the collision, began to wobble
and topple. Slowly but surely the Saturnian apparition slid down
the sides of heaven and sank beyond Earth's trembling horizon.
Earth had actually turned head over heels. The god of mankind,
dying his death, had drowned in the deluge. With the overturning
of the Earth, the Sun reversed its path across the sky, rising
where it had formerly set and setting where it had formerly
risen. The quarters of the world had been displaced.
_[EARTH RESTABILIZED] But all was not lost. After a while the
Earth righted itself and Saturn was seen to return to his post
in his former glory. The god had risen from the dead. To others
he had been saved by building an ark. Noah was actually Saturn
... while his ark was the sunlit crescent. Textual evidence of
Noah having sailed through the sky actually exists. Moreover,
the word "ark" derives from a root that, in more than one
language, translates into an ancient name for Saturn. The panic
with which mankind had witnessed the death and disappearance of
its divinity was temporarily allayed.
_[BLOTCHES FORMED ON SATURN] But, ere long it became apparent
that something was amiss with the deity. The central orb lost
its brightness; wrinkles and blotches began to appear over its
surface. The luminary's gaseous envelope was re-asserting
itself. To those who looked on in horror, the risen deity had
been struck with leprosy; to others, he was beginning to show
signs of his advancing age.
_[POLAR COLUMN SEVERED] In the end, whatever force had held the
planets rotating on the same axis dissipated. The polar column
severed itself from the main body, while the ringed structure
was seen to break up. Saturn's cosmos had become unglued and
literally fell apart. [Saturn], to some still dead, had been
dismembered.
_[SATURN DEPARTED] Earth and Saturn parted company. The giant
planet, growing ever dimmer, was seen to move slowly away. No
longer a sun, it grew smaller as it rose above the Earth until,
eventually, it became the pin-point of light we now see in the
night where it was free to reconstruct a new system of rings. In
the surrounding sea of stars that now became the order of the
night, mankind saw the dissected members of its god. Thus Saturn
was the only deity who was born his own son; who lived on Earth;
who died and descended to the underworld; who rose again from
the dead and finally ascended into heaven. If the tale sounds
familiar, you now know its origin. ...
The Road to Saturn, Dwardu Cardona
HTML https://www.aeonjournal.com/articles/road_to_saturn/road_to_saturn.html
__AGE OF DARKNESS.
.Saturn glowed dimly; it was alone and stationary in the sky
above Earth's north pole.
.Everything was dark; there was no sunlight.
.Saturn had fluid surface features, maybe clouds, that indicated
rotation, but time could not be measured by their movements.
.Earth's climate was ideal, as heat from Saturn warmed the
Earth.
__THE GOLDEN AGE.
.After many generations [?] Saturn suddenly had a great flare-up
or nova, which was called Creation of a new age.
.A black mass [cloud of dust?] wrapped around Saturn; it was
called a chaos monster.
.Sunlight then arrived, though the Sun was not visible.
.Saturn's light at night prevented stars from being seen, except
for first magnitude stars.
.In daylight Saturn was very dim.
.Two filaments of ice and dust formed and detached from Saturn,
went in orbit around the Sun and came back much later to cause a
Flood on Earth.
[I'm wondering if those filaments formed the meteor streams
which now move on elliptical orbits between Jupiter and
Mercury.]
.Similar matter formed into rings around Saturn, first into 3
rings and later into 7, which became known as 7 days of creation
and 7 heavens.
.The bright crescent on the Saturn band or rings became visible,
and time-keeping began; 7 stacked crescents became apparent.
.The bright and darker crescents were thought of as twins, a
dark one and a light one.
.The crescents appeared to revolve around Saturn due to Earth's
rotation.
.The line from the Sun to Earth must have been at about a right
angle to the line of the Saturn System, where the polar column
soon appeared.
.9 Saturn moons were visible from Earth, which Saturn later
appeared to "devour".
.A bright column of probably ice and dust formed a
pine-tree-like shape between the Earth, Mars, Venus and Saturn.
.A somewhat pyramid- or cone-shaped mountain was visible beyond
the northern horizon which the base of the polar column appeared
to rest on.
.There were some blinking lights around Saturn.
.The Saturn system looked like a giant humanoid angel or saint:
Saturn looked like the head, the crescent like upraised arms at
night, the polar column like a skirt or robe.
.This angel was glorious-looking at night, making it probably as
bright as evenings are now; it was widely thought to be God and
was revered.
__CATACLYSMIC AGE
.The two filaments of icy debris that erupted from Saturn
earlier and went into orbit around the Sun came back and one or
both collided with Earth and caused a major Flood.
(.If any of the debris was of very large size, they would also
have produced some impact craters.)
.Impacts caused Earth to wobble, making it look like Saturn
wandered from its polar position.
.Earth turned over so the Sun began to rise in the west instead
of the east.
.The Saturnian god appeared to go down from the sky to the ocean
and drown in the Flood.
.Earth then returned to its normal orientation and Saturn thus
was seen to return to the northern sky, as if reborn.
.An alternative view was of Noah/Saturn riding out the Flood in
an ark/crescent on the ocean or in the sky/ocean.
.Fluid debris around Saturn made it appear sick.
.The polar column severed when Mars collided with it; it looked
like Saturn became dismembered.
.Saturn slowly moved away to its present orbit.
_[TALBOTT'S MODEL] [In 1976 or 1977] The long-awaited copy of
Talbott's paper on Saturn arrived. Titled "The Universal
Monarch: An Essay on the Lost Symbolism of Saturn," it outlined
the mythological motifs associated with Saturn's northern
cosmos. The first thing that struck me on reading it was the
close similarity -- nay, near identity -- that Talbott's
Saturnian configuration had to my own model. It was immediately
obvious that Talbott and I had been digging in the same well.
There were differences, especially in interpretation, but, in
the totality of the scheme, these were minor. ... While
Talbott's paper included many items which were not contained in
my work, ... The paper contained nothing about the events prior
to Saturn's flare-up, nor did it so much as hint at Saturn's
dissolution. The method through which he proferred his
revelations was entirely different from mine, stressing symbol
rather than myth. A chronological sequence was not even
attempted. ... I was elated because if two researchers, working
independently of each other, could come to the same
unconventional conclusions about a most unconventional celestial
arrangement, the derived model could hardly have been the result
of an overworked imagination.
_[DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 2 MODELS] In what did Talbott and I
differ? Where my research had unearthed nine satellites
revolving around the Saturnian orb, Talbott vouched for only
seven. Among the varied symbolism associated with the revolving
crescents of light and shadow, Talbott included that of the ever
battling cosmic twins, a mythological motif I had not yet
accounted for.
_[WORLD MOUNTAIN] But our main difference concerned the polar
column or axis mundi. While I had visualized the world mountain
as an actual uplift of land, Talbott saw the mountain as an
analogy of the polar column. In other words, to Talbott, mount
and axis were one and the same. Actually, certain texts do speak
of mount and axis as if they were one and the same portent;
others, however, seem to intimate that the two were separate,
even if closely connected, phenomena.
_[MARS & POLAR COLUMN] Certain mythological themes had also made
me believe that, at some point, the planet Mars had passed
through the fabric of the polar column, temporarily trapping
itself there before passing on. A repeat performance was what
later severed the polar column. In Talbott's scheme, the polar
column is shown to have stretched earthward from Mars, which
planet would have been permanently suspended between Saturn and
the Earth, rotating on the same common axis with them. Visually,
Mars was thus part and parcel of the same configuration. The
polar column would then have been seen as belonging to the
Saturnian complexity without losing its identity with Mars.
While this was not entirely spelled out in Talbott's paper, it
was clarified by him in later works. Of the planets Jupiter and
Venus nothing was mentioned. This was somewhat strange because
my earlier debate with Talbott's brother had eventually led to
the role Venus had played in the Saturnian age, and why it was
that the Venerian deities of later times were often imbued with
Saturnian motifs.
_[POLAR COLUMN TORNADO] In March of 1976 I asked [Fred Jueneman]
if he had any ideas on what could have constituted the fabric of
the polar column, or, as I phrased it, the trunk of the cosmic
tree. ... To him the axis mundi and world mountain were separate
phenomena. Very much ... as I had, he interpreted the latter as
a tidal uplift of land. But the most important thing he
disclosed was the mechanics he had worked out to account for the
polar column. Its major constituents he had ascertained to have
been air and water vapor. According to him, these were carried
upward towards the null-gravity at the apex between the two
planets in a columnar Rankine vortex. To put it in a nut-shell,
the axis mundi would thus have been a cosmic tornado seen from a
distance. The fact is that various texts which had already
passed through my hands had actually described the axis as a
cyclone, a whirlwind, or churning hurricane.
_[MARS IN POLAR COLUMN CAUSED FLOOD] The Rankine vortex, if that
is what it really was, answered another mystery. On the basis of
an Assyro-Babylonian text, de Santillana and von Dechend had
inferred the occurrence of a second deluge caused by Mars. If,
now, the polar column consisted of water vapor, the immense
volume of moisture it would have contained would have been
released when Mars swooped by and severed it. As the column
twisted and sank in its death throes, it would have poured its
water on Earth's northern hemisphere. This would account for
those traditions which insist on a calamitous flood that roared
down from the north. Going further, Jueneman also described the
effect of a bolus flow complete with Coriolis tendency which, at
times, would have split the central pillar [polar column] into
two serpentine spouts. Entwining about each other, these were
later to give rise to the god's twisted legs and the mythic
caduceus popularly associated with Mercury.
_[JUPITER WAS BEHIND SATURN OR BELOW EARTH] Talbott published
his views on the polar configuration at about the same time
[1977] I published "The Sun of Night." ... In his opinion,
Jupiter would have been invisible from Earth since it was hidden
directly behind Saturn. My own research, on the other hand, had
disclosed what seemed to be exactly the opposite. Ancient texts
from various quarters describe Jupiter as the god and/or star of
the south. This led me to believe that Jupiter must have been
located in Earth's south polar sky. This configuration would
coincidentally have lessened the Roche limit problem since the
Earth would have been gravitationally attracted to both giants
without succumbing to either.
_[MORE ON TALBOTT'S MODEL] Hard on the heels of "Saturn's Age,"
Talbott released a slightly longer paper titled "Saturn:
Universal Monarch and Dying God." Offered as a special
publication through the Research Communications Network, it
consisted of a numbered thesis that included the outline of
events connected with the polar configuration's dissolution that
he had earlier mentioned.
_[DATE OF SATURN SYSTEM] To begin with, Talbott proposed a
tentative date for the cosmic catastrophism associated with
Saturn. Whereas Velikovsky had opted for a period between 5 and
10,000 years ago as the time slot within which the universal
deluge had occurred, Talbott reduced the time span to "within
the past 6-8,000 years."
_[BENT POLAR COLUMN] Talbott described the bending of the axis
mundi as the beginning of the Saturnian destruction. The bent
pillar would have lent the configuration a hunch-backed
appearance that was interpreted by the onlookers as a sign of
the god's decrepitude. He said nothing about the mottled
appearance of the central orb in this respect.
_[TORNADO & RINGS] According to him it was at this point that
the cosmic pillar commenced on a churning motion while the
ringed structure began to move "in ever widening circles."
_[SATURN DEVOURED MOONS] Still according to Talbott, the deity
was seen to devour the seven satellites orbiting around it and
that these actually began to disintegrate.
_[FLARE MATERIAL OBSCURED SATURN & FORMED RINGS] Saturn's
disappearance was then explained as the clouding of the central
orb by the ensuing debris. The seven disintegrating satellites,
in Talbott's view, continued to revolve around the clouded
center while spewing their own detritus in a multi-spiralled
manner. This spiral eventually segregated itself into the seven
concentric bands of myth.
_[JUPITER APPEARED AS SATURN LEFT] At some point during this
destruction, according to Talbott's scheme, Jupiter finally
appeared from behind Saturn, "stole" Saturn's encircling band,
and then wandered away from the celestial center. Thus Talbott
made it clear that the original ringed structure had actually
surrounded the hidden Jupiter and that it was only Earth-bound
perspective that had made it appear to encircle Saturn.
_[FLARE] In more than one place, Talbott had made it appear that
the enclosing band was formed from material ejected by the
Saturnian orb. It is hard to conceive that material ejected by
one celestial body would encircle another x-miles away. Or was
this, according to Talbott, but another celestial illusion in
which the primeval matter had actually been ejected by Jupiter?
Was it Jupiter then that flared up?
_[JUPITER APPEARED AS EARTH TURNED OVER] In contradistinction,
my scenario had Jupiter appearing from beyond Earth's horizon
when the [Earth] flipped over. Saturn and Jupiter were seen to
change places. It was said that Saturn made his acquaintance
with the southern constellations while the star of the south
rose to occupy Saturn's vacated post.
_[SATURN & JUPITER FORMED RINGS] In my scheme the seven bands
had actually surrounded the Saturnian orb, rather than merely
appearing to do so, from long before the dissolution. These
disappeared with Saturn when [Saturn] dropped out of sight.
Jupiter was encircled by its own ringed system, which accounts
for the apparent "theft."
_[FLOOD WAS IN HEAVEN] According to Talbott, it was this partial
destruction of the Saturnian configuration that was later
remembered as the universal deluge. Thus, along with de
Santillana and von Dechend, but for different reasons, Talbott
saw the deluge as a strictly, but perhaps not entirely,
celestial event.
_[SATURN'S RESURRECTION] In Talbott's scheme, the resurrection
of the deity is explained as the clearing of the obscuring
debris which again brought the Saturnian orb into full view.
Whether the Jovian planet ever returned to its position behind
Saturn was not made clear.
_[FINAL DESTRUCTION] The second and final destruction, blamed on
Mars, was described in terms closer to my scenario, as was
[Saturn's or Mars'] final withdrawal to the "great beyond." Of
the planet Venus there was not a single mention in either of
Talbott's two papers.
_[CONFUSION BETWEEN DESTRUCTIONS] One of us, or perhaps even
both, had confused some of the earlier events associated with
the creation of Saturn's cosmos with those connected with its
destruction.
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3. Changing Sea Levels [Journals] [Aeon]
[EARTH TOPPLED]
... the dominant body of the equatorial heavens above the
elevated region of the "Orphic Egg." [12] After periodic visits
by Jupiter, Saturn was finally deposed. This region now rests
beneath our northern sky, it having shifted through 90-deg as
Earth toppled. This sequence of events is possibly that told in
the "Wars of the ____Titans." In the process, mass was lost from
Earth's present northern hemisphere and our globe was recast in
a pear-shaped form. With this change in the levels of the
Earth's crust, a transfer of the oceans from about the southern
continent towards the north would follow. Early sea levels would
have been quite low and much less saline ...
7. Astral Kingship [Journals] [Aeon]
[HELIOS = SATURN]
... the city of Heliopolis, more properly called On, would have
been the City of Saturn. Let us consider the following: The name
Heliopolis derives from Helios, the supposed Greek
personification of the Sun. His cult was very ancient and
practiced throughout Greece. It was related that Helios was
drowned in the ocean by his uncles, the ____Titans, and then
raised to the sky, where he became the luminous sun. (53)
Interestingly, this tale bears an amazing resemblance to that of
Osiris-Saturn who was nailed shut in a specially made coffer and
drowned in the Nile waters by his brother Set. (54) After being
rejuvenated by his sister-wife Isis, Osiris reigned ...
8. The Electric Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
[SATURN VS. JUPITER]
... effect that has no explanation in a Newtonian Solar System.)
Every time proto-Saturn crossed the ecliptic it would transfer
charge more rapidly in the denser plasma there. That would tend
to pull its orbit into the ecliptic plane. In this scenario,
Jupiter is proto-Saturn's nemesis. As proto-Saturn's system
spiraled in toward the Sun, a clash of the ____Titans was almost
inevitable. When it happened, Jupiter would have appeared to
loom large in the sky in a matter of days, or even hours. Given
that we were trailing behind our primordial (ex)-star, it could
be that Jupiter appeared suddenly from behind proto-Saturn, just
as Talbott has been suggesting. It would certainly ...
12. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
[CELESTIAL UPHEAVAL]
... disturbance, it is the story of celestial upheaval. The gods
themselves battle in the sky, wreaking havoc on the earth and
rearranging the heavens. Their weapons include thunderbolts and
stone, flaming "arrows," fire-breathing dragons, celestial wind
and flood. The tale is most familiar to us, perhaps, as the
famous wars of the ____Titans, the catastrophic aftermath of the
Golden Age of Kronos, when "wide heaven was shaken and groaned,
and high Olympos reeled from its foundation under the charge of
the undying gods. So, then, they launched their grievous shafts
upon one another, and the cry of both armies as they shouted
reached to starry heaven; and they met ...
17. CLASHING MAGNETIC FIELDS [Journals] [Aeon]
[IONS FORMED COILS ON VENUS & MARS]
... kinds of voices", bellowings, yelpings and hissings. Earth,
sea and sky resound with the din of battle. There is thunder,
lightning, fire and burning hurricane; the whole Earth seethes,
and the sky and sea likewise. Great waves rage along the shore
and there is endless quaking, so that even Hades and the
____Titans under Tartarus are reduced to trembling.(18)
Elsewhere in Greek literature, including Homer's Iliad, Ares,
like Medusa, is portrayed with coils like snakes. We propose
that these were ions and electrons in normal vortex whirlpool
motion seen by terrestrial observers. If so, the coiled snake
symbol of modern medicine is another relic of ...
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[MAGNETICALLY REVERSED VASE & TIAHUANACO]
68. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas
(Part 4) [Journals] [Kronos]
... of coincidence. Next, Sagan's distortion of the story of
manna was corrected, followed by the correction of five of
Sagan's misrepresentations: the plague of scarabs, earthquake
proof Hebrew dwellings, that all Hebrews crossed the Red Sea
safely, grazing collisions, and collective amnesia explaining
missing concordances. Sagan's comments about the extreme
antiquity of geomagnetic reversals and ____mountain building____
were countered with the example of 8th century B.C . Etruscan
vases possessing reversed polarity and the conditions attending
the present height of Tiahuanaco in the Andes. Next to be
rebutted were Sagan's remarks about Jupiter's fissioning, the
odds against Worlds in Collision, and the stopping and
restarting of Earth's rotation. "The scientific basis for ...
[EARTH'S FIELD DIDN'T CAUSE MAGNETIC REVERSALS?]
43. Magnetic Poles Reversed. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In
Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... : lava flowed and igneous rock intruded in the form of dykes
or otherwise; the heated rocks acquired a reversed magnetic
orientation; the intensity of their magnetization is stronger
than the earth's own field could possibly produce. In the
section "A Working Hypothesis," it was asserted that the
formation of the ice cover, pluvial phenomena, and
________mountain building____ could be explained if the earth's
axis was shifted, and it was assumed that the axis was shifted
by an extraneous magnetic field. Now, the circumstance that
rocks the world over show reversed magnetic orientation and an
intensity of magnetization which the earth's magnetic field
could not have induced, proves that our assumption was not
unfounded. In ...
[MOUNTAINS FORMED RECENTLY]
6. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters
(Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... N.D . Watkins in Nature, Vol. 227 (1970) pp. 930934 state
that, "Geomagnetic field reversals occurred more than twenty
times during the past 4 M.Y . (million years) and probably more
than one hundred times during the Tertiary." Apparently Sagan's
million year clock is in need of repair. Mountain building____
Sagan states, "Velikovsky's contention that ________mountain
building____ occurred a few thousand years ago is belied by all
the geological evidence which puts those times at tens of
millions of years earlier." 17 With respect to how long ago the
major mountain ranges of the Earth rose, Sagan claims they rose
millions of years ago, not during ...
[HOLOCENE OROGENY]
62. Crustal Distortion in the Holocene [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ) Home | Issue Contents Crustal Distortion in the Holocene
Phillip Clapham The talk at the 2004 AGM by the geologist Han
Kloosterman [1 ] pinpointed a catastrophe at the boundary of the
Pleistocene and the Holocene periods. This boundary is a kind of
shut-off as it marks a phase of mass extinction in conjunction
with vast geological changes, such as ________mountain
building____ episodes, volcanism and marine transgressions.
Kloosterman associated it with a burnt charcoal layer –
delineating vast landscape fires. It has been suggested by
various authors (2 ) that this catastrophic scenario encompassed
a shift in the geographical location of the North Pole – from
somewhere in the Hudson Bay area to where it is now. Subsequent
Holocene ...
[RECENT OROGENY & CATACLYSMS]
70. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky]
[Velikovsky Stargazers]
... recently involved in planetary near collisions. That is to
say, the astronomers with whom so much of Velikovsky's account
is concerned have taken a step backward and left the brunt of
the contest to the geologists, who are charged with the time
scale of the powerful forces which they know all too well have
shaped the surface of our planet. Mountain building____ was
recent; changes in sea level and sedimentation on the seabed
floor were recent; phenomena we attribute to the end of the last
ice age, like the creation of Niagara Falls, were recent. It
will be interesting to see how many years pass before the
geologists, too, will be willing to say: Yes, ...
[CATASTROPHIC GRADUALIST OROGENY]
21. The Establishment of Gradualism [Books]
... least concerning the most recent catastrophe, Cuvier drew
attention to the discovery of unputrified carcasses of large
extinct mammals in the northern ice. Later, Cuvier's pupil, Jean
Baptiste Léonce Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874), argued that even
if the Earth was cooling slowly and gradually as Buffon had
proposed, and that the reduction in volume led to
________mountain building____, then this latter process was
still likely to occur in an episodic and catastrophic fashion,
with upheavals of submerged land creating gigantic and
destructive waves. Hallam, in Great Geological Controversies,
stated unequivocally that Cuvier and Brongniart had used
`actualistic methods' in their work, and Albritton wrote in
Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History, ` ...
[MAYA RECORD]
35. A Maya Record of Two Thousand Years? [Journals]
[Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , 177) and Kuenen (1950,538) arrive at this approximate date
for a geologically rapid drop in sea level of 16 to 20 feet, but
it is not implied that this drop was rapid in terms of human
time scale. If the water did not disappear in the formation of
glacial ice caps it receded because of massive ________mountain
building____ on land, or both. In any case, rapid changes of
this kind in the earth's crust would, over a period of time,
cause a succession of volcanic explosions, sharp climatic
changes, and violent earthquakes, accompanied by tsunami and
coastal floods, if the drop took place in sudden steps. The
archaeological and historical ...
[LARGE METEORITES CAUSED OROGENY ETC]
46. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1964) Since the discovery of the Barringer Crater in Arizona
and the reassessment of the origin of similar craters of
enormous size, the theory of meteoritic origin has grown in
strength. Gallant shows that the impact of meteorites of
planetary dimensions must have caused a shift in the earth's
polar axis, changes in the spin rate and crustal slips,
________mountain building____, climatic change and the
destruction of species. Impacts must have released large
quantities of lethal radiation which would alter the course of
evolution. The author, who is a mathematician but has done field
work in geology and archaeology, offers calculations of the
energy requirements needed to produce the observed effects. The
book's foreword is by Professor ...
[METEORIC IMPACT EFFECTS]
48. The slip of the earth's crust under meteoritic impact
[Books]
... that needed for the average force of blow to built up,
exactly as a nail, submitted to such a force, penetrates into
wood in practically the same time interval as that during which
the force acts. This shows that the Earth's crust may be
submitted, during a short time, to forces of very considerable
value producing folding and ________mountain building____. The
force of blow will be still greater if it acts on a more limited
portion of the crust. (b ) In No. 6, it is considered that the
momentum transmitted to the lithosphere on impact will give rise
to a smaller stress acting during a longer time, exactly as a
floating object, submitted to ...
[COSMIC SERPENT, IMPACTS, OROGENY, RAPID CONTINENTAL DRIFT]
49. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? [Books]
... years that tectonic theories are incomplete without an
extraterrestrial dimension [32,105,234]. In The Cosmic Serpent
they considered the physics of the Earth's tectonic system, and
the likely effect of a large impact, concluding: "The picture
then is one of episodes of rapid continental drift, with all the
associated worldwide sea-floor spreading, ________mountain
building____, vulcanism and so on, immediately after an impact,
followed by a gradual decline of activity as the disturbed Earth
settles into a new pattern of movement with more gradual
splitting or colliding of continents. If these ideas are
correct, large impacts will thus set in motion a complex chain
of interacting phenomena - sea-level changes, climatic ...
[ANTARCTIC FOSSILS SHOW RAPID OROGENY]
50. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ." The discoveries consist of marine plants and fossilised
wood with its roots - found at altitudes of 1800 m., and a rock
containing a fossilised dolphin, dating from 2-5 Myrs ago. Not
only do the findings indicate dramatic changes in climate, the
marine flora and fauna found at an altitude of 1800 m. shows
remarkably rapid ________mountain building____ to have taken
place, and this is a problem to explain, for Antarctica does not
have a seismic history which might account for such
________mountain building____. Saturn's Recent Rings source: NEW
SCIENTIST 3.7 .86, p.29 There is a new challenge to the
orthodoxly held view that planetary rings are as old as ...
[SOME MOUNTAINS FORMED RECENTLY]
11. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Comets. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In
Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... der Erde), are certainly but faint reminiscences of those
telluric movements to which the structure of almost every
mountain range bears witness. Numerous examples of great
mountain chains suggest by their structure . . . episodal
disturbances of such indescribable and overpowering violence,
that the imagination refuses to follow the understanding. . . ."
5 Suess thought that ________mountain building____ came to an
end before the advent of man; but today we know that it lasted
well into Recent time, and consequently man must have witnessed
the great earthquakes that made the globe shudder. When the
Andes rose in South America, according to the description of R.
T. Chamberlin, "Hundreds, if not thousands ...
[RAPID MOUNTAIN BUILDING VS. GLACIAL TRANSPORT]
13. Discussion Comments From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... model of Antarctic geology. The first evidence of climatic
complexity came from microscopic fossils collected in 1965 at
elevations 2100 to 2700 meters above sea level in the mountains
of Antarctica.(2 ) Analysis of these fossils at Ohio State
University surprisingly revealed the remains of marine creatures
that lived 2 to 70 million years ago. To rule out rapid
________mountain building____ or a drastic rise in sea level,
one has to resort to ice transport, but glacial sediment on the
floors of nearby seas shows no evidence that Antarctica was free
of ice during the recent part of the period represented by the
microscopic fossils. For ice to carry marine fossils high up the
mountains, a prior ice-free period ...
[CENOZOIC OROGENY CAUSED ICE SHEETS]
18. Uniformitarian Or Catastrophist? Ice Age Theory [Journals]
[Velikovskian]
... , (1977), pp. 390-396] cannot be invoked to initiate
Quaternary glaciation, because the continents have been
supposedly in nearly their current configuration since well
before the start of the ice age. Then why didn't the ice ages
begin much sooner in the geological time scale? An obvious
solution to the problem has been to propose that
________mountain building____ in the late Cenozoic initiated ice
caps that coalesced to form large ice sheets. Further climatic
cooling would cause lower plateau areas to become ice covered [R
. F. Flint, Glacialand Quaternary Geology, (New York, 1971), pp.
808-809] The problem with this theory is that many
____mountainous areas are not now ...
[RECENT OROGENY]
20. Collapsing Schemes. Ch.13 Collapsing Schemes (Earth In
Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... epochs were of very different length than has been assumed
on the ground of the theory of uniformity. The very concept of a
60 000 000-year-long Tertiary when mountains were uplifted,
followed by 1000 000 years of Ice Age, a time of great climatic
changes, followed by 30 000 years of the tranquillity of Recent
time, with quietude in ________mountain building____ and
stability in climate, is basically wrong. The ________mountain
building____ went on during the Ice Age, coinciding with
climatic catastrophes, and both endured into Recent time, only a
few thousand years ago. Notes. 1. A. L. Kroeber in the volume
dedicated to A. M. Tozzer, The Maya and Their ...
[CATASTROPHIC OROGENY]
25. Earth has Flipped Over in Space Many Times [Journals]
[Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... The Earth, spinning like a top, would tilt over until it was
upside down. "I suggest that the actual reversal takes place in
a matter of days- even as little as one day." Studies from many
widely separated fields of science are linked together by the
concept of polar shifts, Warlow says. Ice ages, ________mountain
building____, periods of global volcanic activity, animal
extinctions, sudden rise and fall of land masses, and magnetic
field reversals are given a unified explanation. John White
Rejected by a newspaper, this article recapitulates many
catastrophic themes. Mr. White is writing a book, Pole Shift.-
Ed.
[TIDAL PULL ON MOHO LAVA]
15. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... do not cross the Mojo to match up with those of lower
strata. The Mojo deserves much more attention. It should be
mentioned that Velikovsky referred to the possibility that
electrical currents, resulting from close encounters between
Earth and other planets, could produce subterranean heating of
the very type which could melt vast stretches of the Mojo and
lead to ________mountain building____ on Earth at low energy,
provided there was a gravitational pull from above. With such a
pull from above, it is readily apparent that Mojo lava could be
extruded out from under subsiding land destined to become new
sea bottoms, while lifting former lowlands or even sea bottoms
to become the new highlands of very recent millennia. ...
[WATER EXPANSION FORMED MOUNTAINS]
8. Velikovsky's Water Mountain((s) [Journals] [SIS Internet
Digest]
... was electrically or gravitationally produced. The dust tail
may even be the biblical pillar of cloud by day and fire by
night. The charge transfer mechanism, from Venus to Earth, could
have been the comet's ion tail from which the Earth had very
recently emerged..The following drawing illustrates the elements
of the discussion. This electrostatically induced
________mountain building____ effect of water can be easily and
inexpensively simulated. (Water molecules are electrical dipoles
and you can do some wild stuff with them.) The drawing top-right
shows how to do the experiment and the written material below is
for clarification. Its best to try this under low humidity
conditions (Winter time is generally good.) ...
[TWO GRAVITY THEORY]
3. Catastrophic Theory of Mountain Uplifts (A Crustal
Deformation Theory) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... the Earth's crust 20 percent of the Earth's mass is north of
the 30th latitude north "slice," and 80 percent of the Earth's
magma mass is south of the 30th latitude north. The convex
versus concave ranges are respectively proportional to the
position of the uplift between spin axis poles. This is
significant only to a two-gravity theory of ________mountain
building____. Such is due not to chance but to distribution of
the Earth's subcrustal mass and upwelling magma. These patterns
of convex and concave mountain ranges recur in North America, in
South America, in Europe, in the mid-Pacific drowned ranges, in
Indonesia, in Southern Asia, in Melanesia, and in Antarctica.
Taking a global ...
[PARALLEL MOUNTAIN RANGES]
7. The Key to Mountain Ranges Part 3 Ch.VI (The Mysterious
Comet) [Books]
... system of the north of England. He said of these that the
corresponding directions only differ to a few degrees and that
they have followed one another in the same order, leading to the
supposition that there has been a kind of periodical recurrence
of the same, or nearly the same, directions of these elevations.
These parallel directions of ________mountain building____ are
worldwide. Taking the Pyrenees as a basis of one of these
systems, the direction being WNW to ESE as de Beaumont puts it,
but from ESE to WNW as is really correct, we can trace the
following like ranges, namely, the Ghauts of Malabar, and
certain chains in Egypt, Syria, and Northern ...
[HISTORY OF OROGENY THEORIES]
14. Sinking and Rising Lands [Books] [de Grazia books]
... did Darwin's disciple, Thomas Huxley, and Darwin probably
agreed with him. No injustice is done to Darwin by regarding his
work as a great model of natural history, or "simply a theory"
as some critics like to say. He had many doubts and made many
"anomalous" observations about vast sudden catastrophes of
species, of ________mountain building____, and, when he
experienced a now-forgotten earthquake off the coast of Peru, he
was appalled by the high energy displayed, noting in his
Journals that the surface of the stricken island was changed
more in a day than in a century of uniformitarian processes.
Lesser known scientists developed more elaborate theories of the
sinking of Pacific lands ...
[EARTHQUAKES TAPER OFF AFTER OROGENY]
60. Earthquakes in the Early Irish Tradition [Journals] [SIS
Workshop]
... the basis of the material offered in the foregoing pages,
the assumption is made here that earthquakes result from torsion
of the crust following a change in the position of the equator
and the displacement of matter inside the globe caused by the
direct attraction of a cosmic body when in close contact. Pull,
torsion, and displacement were responsible for ________mountain
building____ too. "If this conception of the causes of
earthquakes is correct, then there must have been fewer and
fewer earthquakes during the course of time since the last
cosmic catastrophe. The regions of the Apennine Peninsula, the
eastern Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia, for which we have
reliable records, can be compared in this respect with ...
[FORMER MOONS BUILT MOUNTAINS]
9. Evidences of Earlier Satellites (Life History of Our Earth)
[Books]
... the Permian period. How coal and salt deposits came into
being has already been discussed at another place. When the
Carboniferous satellite first started building____ up stratified
layers at the end of its pre-stationary period, calciferous
sandstones and limestone shales, and later the great limestone
beds and black shales (Culm), were laid down. In its chief
________mountain building____ period the satellite laid up the
great systems of sandstone shales which contain the most
important coal seams. The peculiarity that the older
Carboniferous rocks cover a smaller area than the younger ones
is due to the fact that the former were built up by the smaller
zenithal tide hill, and the latter by the bigger nadiral one.
After ...
[CAUSED BY HUGE ICE CAPS]
5. Scientific Prehistory [Books]
... ,000 years rather than 4, 000 million years); 2. the split
up of the original supercontinent, Pangaea, was caused by the
stresses due to build up of huge ice caps at its poles and this
occurred (ending the ice age) around 10, 000 years ago; 3. ice
cap forces were responsible for ________mountain building____;
4. coal, oil and fossils were formed by sudden deep burial of
plants and animals in the resulting upheavals; 5. the
re-adjustments required to restore horizontal and vertical
isostacy are evident as continental drift; 6. the conventional
geological and fossil "succession" reflect sequences of burial,
rather than time; and 7. ...
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__SISYPHUS; BABEL; MENHIR, POLAR; BRIDGE; WORLD TREE
(todo: Giza, Flood; obelisk; column; pillar) 10:32 AM 4/5/2022
(Still after Saturn breakup clues. Recently found that the Great
Pyramid was partly flooded probably by the YD Flood.)
The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... by the genii of the sunland, as they rode over it- a thought
also very general in ancient times. Thus the ever rolling or
floating canopy must be conceded in order to afford any
satisfactory explanation of such universal thoughts. This ever
rolling canopy was Ixion's ever turning wheel. It was the ever
rising and ever falling stone of ____Sisyphus. It was the ever
tempting and ever receding waters of Tantalus. These
relationships can be fully demonstrated. The step from Japanese
legendary thought to that of ancient Chinese is a short one. And
who has not heard of the Chinese dragon, the "dragon king", the
"dragon car" and the "dragon throne" ...
Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... one but never overtaking it; there, too, is a world of
waters that never turn back to quench the thirst of the reacher,
and all in the very midst of perpetually impending forms falling
and eternally crushing. Take this scene from the polar Hades? I
cannot think of it. Then, too, are we to take ____Sisyphus from
his rolling stone? Here he is pictured pushing with perpetual
effort without a moment's repose, a huge stone up the Hadean
hill, the "funeral mount". When he reaches the summit it always
falls back and yet without an instant of rest he still rolls on
and on, We cannot take the picture from the polar
Celestial Records of the Orient by Isaac Vail [Books]
... pole. Orpheus, with the sound of his sun-made harp, it was
said, overcame nature. The most rapid streams ceased to flow at
the music strain. The savage beasts of the forest forgot their
wildness and the very mountains collected around him. The nymphs
were charmed. Ixion's wheel ceased to revolve. Tantalus forgot
his pains ____Sisyphus ceased to labor. This vast batch of
canopy fossils leaves no room for doubt that Orpheus symbolized
the Polar opening that seemed to have the visible command and
control of everything around it. Bands and belts in the canopy
in their rapid movement around the great polar center were
celestial rivers on their march; and as they concentered around
the
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__BABEL
The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 4 Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs
__The New Mythology
_The quest for the lost origins of world mythology can be
resolved with the help of a relatively small number of
principles that one might call the "axioms of mythology." One of
these is the understanding that the visual templates of the
myths - the graphical imagery evoked in the stories, such as the
descriptions of the gods and their landscapes - are a far more
accurate and reliable pointer to the origin of the myths than
the acquired psychological and sociological functions, meanings,
and interpretations, to which too much attention has been paid
in the last century by Joseph Campbell, Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Émile Durkheim, Georges Dumézil, and many others. Once you begin
to focus on the pictures implied by the myths, an unmistakable
pattern reveals itself in which all mythical "contradictions"
are resolved. A second guideline of major importance is the
notion that the
... [48] R. Briffault, The Mothers: a study of the origins of
sentiments and institutions, Vol. II (1927), pp. 659 ff. [49] J.
G. Frazer, Folklore in the Old Testament; studies in comparative
religion, legend, and law, 1975: 89f [50] Sir J. G. Frazer, op.
cit., pp. 172 ff. Compare the Fang tradition from the Congo in
which Nsambe went up to the sky after a stay on Earth, but that
all animals followed him in his train, which he had to dispatch
later. See J. G. Frazer, The Worship of Nature, Vol. I (London,
1926), pp. 135 ff. [51] J. G. Frazer, op. cit., p. 174. [52]
Ibid., p. 195. The strong resemblance these folk-tales bear to
the Biblical account of the tower of ____Babel is no
coincidence, as all are symbolic elaborations of the same visual
prototypes. One of the common symbols of the polar axis was the
tower, whose layers corresponded to the divisions in the string
of pearls. All sorts of permutations occur. In Pindar"s poetry,
the notion of a string of ascending souls is combined with that
of the tower of heaven, as the souls of the dead on the Islands
of the Blessed ascend from there to the tower of Kronos. Pindar,
Olymp., II. 56 ff., in W. F. Warren, op. cit., p. 145. In a
separate legend
The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay)
[Journals] [Aeon]
... the god and de Grazia, together with Milton, fell into the
same trap. De Grazia's blind reliance on Velikovsky particulalry
showed through in his treatment of the planet Mercury. In Ramses
II and his Time, Velikovsky promised that, in a future work, he
would show "that what is known as the catastrophe of the Tower
of ____Babel. . .was caused by a close passage of Mercury."
Corroboration of this event would have been understandable had
some independent research been conducted by way of verifying the
existence of evidence in its favor. De Grazia's glaring lack of
data connecting Mercury to the Tower of Babel indicates that he
was content to accept Velikovsky's statement without an
The Afar Triangle As the Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel
[Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon II:4 (1991) Lynn E. Rose
__Introduction
_The geological literature describes the Afar Triangle in
Ethiopia and Djibouti as unusual in several respects, but
especially in that it is the only spot on Earth that seems to
have features characteristic of an ocean bottom and is
nonetheless dry land. The conventional view is that the Afar
Triangle was once overlain by the southwestern portion of the
Arabian peninsula - namely, the western parts of Yemen and South
Yemen (including Aden, the capital of South Yemen).
Subsequently, Arabia separated from Africa, forming the Gulf of
Aden and
Solar System Studies [Journals] [Aeon]
__From: Aeon I:1 (Jan 1988) Fred Hall
__INTRODUCTION. Prior to this century arguments raged over the
implications of the geological record and the subject of
evolution of life forms on Earth. Some argued that Earth had
been fundamentally altered by the Universal Deluge and that the
biblical record should be taken literally. Others argued that
uniformitarian processes and slow evolution by adaptation of
species could explain the geological record as we find it. The
latter school gained the day and their premises came to be
widely taught. A corollary result was a loss of interest in
biblical descriptions of catastrophes and a general disregard
for tales of other ancient cultures regarding
... overthrew Saturn to become king of the gods. Jupiter was
also the primary god of the thunderbolt. There are numerous
references in ancient literature to the lightning of Jupiter and
its adverse affects on earth and on other planetary gods. Some
of these descriptions are consistent with the unleashing of
literal thunderbolts, as in the destruction of the tower of
____Babel and the later destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In
the Greek myth of the wars of the gods, it is by the Jovian
thunderbolts that the threefold mass of mountains raised against
heaven came crashing down. Velikovsky's mythically based
scenario has the planet formerly moving in close conjunction
with the Earth, followed by major celestial catastrophes.
Perhaps he left enough information for us to weigh his ideas
against the general evidence for upheaval in the Jovian system,
but one might have hoped for more. Hopefully, the new
mythological research of the past ten to fifteen years will
yield additional and more specific details.
__SATURN. The Saturnian orbital plane lies between those of
Venus and Mars at 2.5 from the ecliptic or 4.5 from the Solar
equatorial plane. Saturn is the second largest planet of the
Solar System and has 21% of the planetary mass and 25% of the
angular momentum of the Solar System. Saturn is 9.54AU from the
Sun and, due to its large size and despite its high albedo,
receives 40% of the Solar energy which reaches Earth. It emits
the same amount of energy as is received by Earth from the Sun
despite the cold 100 K temperature of its cloud tops. It does
not emit bursts of radio noise but electromagnetic waves are
emitted in its equatorial plane, as evidenced by spokes seen
rotating in its ring system. Visible clouds are arranged in
golden and white latitudinal bands with differential velocities
to 1,800 km/hr. Its apparent day is close to 10.67 hrs. Its
presumed high central temperature and its very low density argue
against it having a solid core or even the presence of high
density liquids. Its density is 1/8 that of Earth, 7/10 that of
water and only 1/2 that of Sun and other gas giant planets. Its
On Saturn At the North Pole [Journals] [Aeon]
... XI:2 (winter, 1986), pp. 13-18. 3. AEON I:3 , page 136. 4.
AEON I:3 , pp. 39-55. 5. See "Answer to Critics," pp. 15-18. 6.
In a paper entitled "The Afar Triangle as the Nether Reaches of
Eden and Babel," I do intend to propose values for the distance
of Earth from Saturn and (less confidently) for the mass of
Saturn. From these values the sidereal period of Earth - and
thus the approximate length of the day - can easily be
determined. But none of these figures was included in the
original "Philolaos" model
Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) if the ancients are to be believed, modern conceptions of
astrophysics must be revised. Jan Sammer, like Clark Whelton and
Charles Ginenthal, drove up from New York. Jan presented a paper
on the ancient mythology associated with the planet Mercury.
Taking his cue from Velikovsky's thesis that the smallest planet
was linked to the various Tower of ____Babel legends, he argued
that a systematic comparison of Mediterranean and Mesoamerican
World Age systems leads to the identification of Mercury with
Quetzalcoatl, and submitted this identification as a test of the
validity of his comparative method. While I have serious
reservations about Mercury's involvement with any Tower of
Babel-like episode, there is little doubt that, as Sammer
pointed
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MENHIR, POLAR (todo: obelisk, column, pillar, tree)
Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... was invaded and taken over by the Torreans, or tower
builders. Early megalithic structures consisted of low circles
of standing stones surrounding a stone cist and associated with
a single ____menhir. Later, alignments of standing stones were
built but none of the usual astronomical explanations based on
the rising or setting of the Sun or Moon can apply here, ... in
proportion to the whole. It appeared to me that the sword' could
never have been a representation of a human weapon but perfectly
fitted the sword associated with the ____polar column surmounted
by crescent of the polar configuration' theory. The faces would
then be that of the fixed polar god and the north-south
orientation of the alignments self explanatory
Night of the Gods: The Pillar [Books]
... , and both became Christian Welsh saints. (Some of the Welsh
mythic names in El may disclose to us more than we expect.) THE
OBELISK. If the Menhir be, as Capt. Conder considers, 35 the
ancestor of the obelisk, we should at once claim all such " long
stones" or rather tall stones ( ... a sister named Asteria or
Asterie (one of the mothers of Herakles) who is otherwise the
daughter of Polos and Phoibe, which equates Laths father Kolos
with Polos the polar deity. Kotos is of course the hollow
heavens. Where Asterie fell in the Ocean, there arose all
island, called D6los (or Asterite or Ortugia).
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BRIDGE
Celestial Records of the Orient by Isaac Vail [Books]
... . . . . . . . . . . As the earth- gods and evil deities
multiplied, confusion and discord reigned, which, the Sun-
goddess seeing, resolved to correct by sending her grandson,
Ninigi, to the earth to rule over it. Accompanied by a great
retinue of deities, he descended by means of the floating
____bridge of Heaven . . . . . . . . . . After his descent
heaven and earth, which had already separated to a considerable
distance, receded utterly, and further communication ceased". To
him who has studied the various phases of canopy history this
narrative is a golden truth. The import is so plain to the
Annular
Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole
[Books]
... , value as a contribution to the infant science of
Comparative Mythology. By the application of the author's " True
Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography," it has been
possible to adjust and interpret a great variety of ancient
cosmological and geographical notions never before understood by
modern scholars. For example, the origin and significance of the
Chinvat ____Bridge are here for the first time explained. The
indication of the polocentric character common to the mythical
systems of sacred geography among all ancient peoples will
probably be new to every reader. The new light thrown upon such
questions as those relating to the direction of the Sacred
Quarter, the location of the Abode of the Dead, the character
The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... . The totem poles of north-west Canada had the same
significance: the ancestors of great chiefs were here
represented as a string of stacked beings constituting the
cosmic pillar itself. [78] The White Tana's numerous heads
stacked on top of each other [79] is another elaboration of the
same prototype. The String And The Pathway- ____Bridge And The
Milky Way It would not be difficult to go on enumerating the
symbolic manifestations of the string of pearls ad nauseam.
Considering that the mythical forms of this image have never
before been presented in the proper context, I think we could
risk some nausea and list a few more examples. A particularly
well-known form of the polar
Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... . It grew", says a well- known scholar, "in the Persian
Eden, at the source of all waters", but the source of all waters
was heaven's vapor canopy. It is further stated that the White
Haoma tree was "encircled with a starry girdle", Grill tells us
this tree is connected with the "____Bridge of Heaven", but this
____bridge is plainly the vapor canopy, for it was a "floating
bridge", and moreover it was in the sky. The bridge of heaven is
not infrequently an expression in old- world thought, and it
must mean, in all cases, the vapor sky in its revolution around
the earth.
The Ring of Truth by Isaac Vail [Books]
... , cold and heat; seed time and harvest; wind and storm; life
and death; sun, moon and stars- the immortal products of the
agitated vast abyss. This same agitation of the celestial waters
is shown in primitive Japanese legends. The creator of the
world, Iranagi and his spouse, took their stand on the
"____bridge of heaven" and, stirring the deep, produced "The
Island of the Congealed Drop". What this island was, will be
understood when we reflect that during the reign of canopies, in
the far north there must have been a circular opening in the
polar vapor. The lack of any centrifugal force at the poles of
Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole
[Books]
... in Egyptian cosmology 104 Its solution 107 CHAPTER X POINTS
AND PROBLEMS FOR FUTURE STUDT The prehistoric world-concept 109
Myths as beginnings of a philosophy of nature 110 Why hard to
understand 112 Their seeming lack of harmony often unreal 112
Mythical representations of the world s axis 113 Also of the
cosmic water-system 115 And of inter-mundane highways 116 The
lunar sphere as ____bridge from underworld to upper 118 The
Zodiac, when invented, and where 119 The answer to these
questions becoming clearer 126 APPENDIX I. The Mandala Oblation
133 II. Homer s Abode of the Dead 157 III. Homer s Abode of the
Living 178 IV. The Gates of Sunrise in the Oldest Mythologies
192 V. The Homeland of
Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... . It would certainly be the last conception of untutored
man. The underworld was an unseen region and men could not
consistently put any there. THE JUDGEMENT MOUNTAIN. The great
Judge and the judgement bar were in the region of the pole star.
Among the Chinese that star is to this day called the Judge; and
the great bean-shaped ____bridge of the Parsees in the northern
heavens was called "____Bridge of the Judge of Heaven", even the
sacred hill or mountain of Iranian thought is the "Daitic peak",
"The Mount of the Judge". But it so happens that there was in
this place of the dead also a "mountain of life".
SERVANT OF THE SUN GOD [Journals] [Aeon]
... , produces music with a reed (flute), or passes through a
reed to the upper world. Divine head (animal or human) on staff,
sceptre, pole, phallus. God or hero transfixed on his own or
alter ego's sword, spear, pike, pole, stake. God of the
ascending path, way or ____bridge; conductor of souls to heaven.
One-legged god or giant, or single leg of the creator-king. God
of the fountain, spring, well or river beneath the dwelling of
the creator or of a great king. Wind god, personifying the air,
wind, smoke or aether joining upper and lower realms. Serried
column of warriors
Stairway to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... its attendant myths as follows: "If we try to achieve a
general view of all the myths and rites just briefly reviewed,
we are struck by the fact that they have a dominant idea in
common: communication between heaven and earth can be brought
about- or could be in illo tempore- by some physical means
(rainbow, ____bridge, stairs, ladder, vine, cord, chain of
arrows', mountain, etc., etc.). All of these symbolic images of
the connection between heaven and earth are merely variants of
the World Tree or the axis mundi." [42] That the planet Mars was
itself linked to ancient conceptions of the
Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... axis mundi is Mircea Eliade: "If we try to achieve a general
view of all the myths and rites just briefly reviewed, we are
struck by the fact that they have a dominant idea in common:
communication between heaven and earth can be brought about- or
could be in illo tempore- by some physical means (rainbow,
____bridge, stairs, ladder, vine, cord, chain of arrows',
mountain, etc., etc.). All of these symbolic images of the
connection between heaven and earth are merely variants of the
World Tree or the axis mundi...the myth and symbolism of the
Cosmic Tree imply the idea of a Center
Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... [151] The Australian aborigines likewise described the Milky
Way as serpentine in nature. [152] Other cultures compared the
Milky Way to a ladder spanning heaven. Such ideas are attested
in the New World among the Navaho: "In Acoma sandpaintings the
Milky Way appears as a ladder, for it is thought that these
stars form a ____bridge to the heavens. In the Acoma creation
myth, the roof beams of the first kiva represent the Milky Way."
[153] The same idea is attested in ancient and medieval Europe,
as Cook has documented with his usual thoroughness. [154]
Another widespread concept compared the Milky Way to the
backbone of heaven. The
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WORLD TREE
Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... into a kind of ladder on which all of them climbed up. They
remained in the sky, to one side of the sun." [24] The Sikuani
disclosure that the ancient sky was radically different in
appearance from the one we are accustomed to viewing will be
confirmed again and again during the course of this study. The
____World Tree Sacred narratives everywhere describe a previous
World Age in which a colossal tree dominated the celestial
landscape, joining heaven to earth. [25] By climbing this tree,
primeval heroes were able to visit heaven and converse with the
gods. A few examples should suffice to illustrate the
fundamental affinity between the World Tree and ladder-to-heaven
motifs
Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation [Journals] [Aeon]
... and/or observation of current celestial occurrences. They
have made the common and fatal uniformitarian mistake that the
tranquil sky of the present day is the same as that of the past.
If their theory becomes generally accepted, all new discoveries
will be viewed through very narrowly focused uniformitarian
glasses. Instead of reading about the Cosmic Serpent, ____World
Tree, and the portal to the Otherworld in the proper context
intended by the ancient Maya, we will be obtaining mundane
translations that refer to the ecliptic, the Milky Way, and the
Zodiac. [4 ] More will be said about this later in the Appendix.
Actually it amazes me that mythologists can read myth after myth
Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation (Part II) [Journals]
[Aeon]
... in these continents for many millennia before the European
peoples happened upon them and changed their lives forever."
Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path This
essay is a continuation of my earlier paper about Maya beliefs
of former world ages (creations) and some very specific imagery
concerning those times, such as their sun gods and ____World
Trees. [1 ] Freidel, Schele, and Parker's Maya Cosmos forms the
major source of this essay, as it brings together some of the
latest findings of Mayanists combined with excellent
illustrative material. From this, it has been possible to
augment what has become known as the Saturnian, or Polar,
Configuration model. The basic
The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 4 -- Marinus Anthony van der
Sluijs
__The New Mythology. The quest for the lost origins of world
mythology can be resolved with the help of a relatively small
number of principles that one might call the "axioms of
mythology." One of these is the understanding that the visual
templates of the myths- the graphical imagery evoked in the
stories, such as the descriptions of the gods and their
landscapes- are a far more accurate and reliable pointer to the
origin of the myths than the acquired psychological and
sociological functions, meanings, and interpretations, to which
too much attention has been paid in
... juxtaposed with the axis: they sit within a tree, climb a
mountain, or hang down a rope symbolic of the axis. At other
times, the beads or pearls physically constitute the axis
itself.
__The String And The Tree. The tree is perhaps the best-known
symbol of the polar axis. What is less known is that this same
____world tree is frequently peopled by a group of gods, souls,
animals, or human beings, stacked one upon another. In the north
of South-America it is believed that the souls of the dead
ascend "the tree of heaven" in a garden, at the top of which
they would meet their creator, called Tamoi among the ...
On testing The Polar configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... column, if such a thing was actually witnessed by ancient
man: World Mountain World Pillar Binding Post Phallic Column
Serpent-Column (112) Heaven-Supporting Giant Nether River
Fountain of the Deep Underworld Spring North Wind/South Wind
(113) Sword (straight, not curved) (114) Single Leg (of a
one-legged god) Trunk of the World Tree We are thus faced with
an array of radically different images, many of which, in their
own terms, seem to offer no basis for meaningful combination.
For only if the hypothesized column was actually there would one
expect to find a mythical sword identified as an aetherial
fount, or a river conceived as a towering mountain. ...
The Hermes Connection [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the column are considered to be imaginative mythic
expressions rather than real historic events. The peculiar trace
of civilization from a critical juncture about the 9th century
B.C . has been something of a puzzle to historians. But much
might be explained by the simple consideration that the
Saturnian column - or the symbolism of the trunk of the World
Tree or the World Mount- had a rebirth in the collective psyche
of mankind in the late 8th or early 7th century BC (either with
or without accompanying Velikovskian cataclysms), producing a
re-experience of more ancient events. By connecting hermetic
myths and the symbolism of the Tao to the prior world of the
apparition, perhaps we can ...
7. The Mixtec Tree of Origin [Journals] [Aeon]
... the make-up of the Mayan universe. According to Brian Fagan,
the Mayan "universe" consisted of three layers: "the Upper-world
of the heavens, the Middleworld of living people, and the waters
of the Underworld beneath human feet." [14] As Fagan states:
"Wacah Chan, the raised up sky, ' a World Tree with its roots in
the Underworld, its branches in the heavens, linked the three
layers. Both gods and the souls of the dead used the trunk of
this tree to pass from one layer to another. Wacah Chan's trunk
was personified by the body of the king, who brought the World
Tree to rest as he stood ...
8. SERVANT OF THE SUN GOD [Journals] [Aeon]
_From: Aeon II:1 (1989) David Talbott
__BACKGROUND. In seeking to flesh out the mythical character I
have called the "warrior-hero" one must deal with a certain
paradox: many of the encountered personalities will appear to
have little or no connection with either the concept of a
"warrior" or a "hero." The problem of definition will be easy
when one takes on such well-known figures as the Babylonian
Nergal, Greek Ares and Latin Mars, figures readily identified as
both warriors and heroes. But pressing the investigation further
will inevitably move the researcher into a much larger circle of
myth and a wider range
... takes the form of a lotus bud, papyrus bud or plant of
life;. Man or god who hides in a gourd, or is born or reborn
from a gourd. God whose identity is inseparable from his foot;
foot of the creator-king. God identified as a root; root of the
plant of life; root of the world tree. Man or god who vanquishes
chaos fiends, monsters, creatures of sea or desert; man or god
who clears or excavates sacred territory. Voice of the creator,
the visibly manifest sound of creation, roarer, trumpeter,
drummer, screecher, god who is the thunder. Externalised power,
strength, "glory" of ...
9. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION
[Journals] [Aeon]
... 14. I. Velikovsky, Mankind in Amnesia (New York, 1982), pp.
99-102. 15. G. de Santillana and H. von Dechend, op. cit., pp.
252-253. 16. Ibid., p. 49. 17. Ibid., p. 293. The author's
discussion of the World Tree provides a perfect example of their
tendency to "correct" the ancient testimony in order to conform
with the tenets of astronomy. Upon discovering countless
examples of Trees said to have spanned heaven, supporting or
obscuring the Sun, the authors remark of the Indian Pillar
(Skambha): "Skambhawas the World Tree consisting mostly of
celestial ...
10. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals]
[Aeon]
... a paradisiacal epoch. How long did it last? It seems from
the legends Cardona cited that people did, in fact, start
keeping track of time in this period of continuous day. Also, at
what point did the maelstrom at the North Pole appear? Did it
visibly reach Mars? It seems clear that the legends about a
____world "tree" (i .e . a gnarled trunk), "serpent," "dragon,"
"chaos monster," and "mountain" are describing the same
phenomenon, the maelstrom in the north. But I'm confused as to
how Venus' "hair" comes into the picture. Isn't that supposed to
be ...
11. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals]
[Aeon]
... . (84) This latter stipulation presents a problem, inasmuch
as the current sun bears little relation to the north polar
axis. And yet the Hindu sources are quite emphatic about this
point: indeed it was said that the sun both rose and set upon
Meru. (85) Other prominent images associated with the World
Pillar include the ____World Tree or Celestial Spring. Eliade
offered the following summary of this symbolism: "The symbolism
of the ____World Tree is complementary to that of the Central
Mountain. Sometimes the two symbols coincide; usually they
complement each other. But both are merely more developed
mythical formulations of the Cosmic Axis (World Pillar, etc.)."
...
12. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... more than likely, is a mythic doublet of Huwawa's 7-fold
aura. Huwawa's seven-fold halo/range of mountains confirms the
intimate relation of the monster's stronghold to traditions
associated with the Cosmic Mount. For as Eliade and others have
documented, the various symbols of the Cosmic Mount were
typically equipped with seven stages or sections. (52) The
____World Tree, for example, had seven limbs, while the World
Pillar had seven notches or steps (remember the Babylonian
ziggurat, the terrestrial copy of the World Pillar). Heaven
itself, according to Mesopotamian cosmology, bore seven layers.
(53) In conclusion, the similarities between Huwawa and Shamash
are so close as to amount ...
13. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... Mars. [106] Note here that Odysseus uses a club of olive
wood to blind the giant (remember the club of the Skidi Mars),
while, elsewhere, an olive tree serves as the foundation post of
the peculiar bed which he shares with Penelope. Once again, we
have a classic example of the axis mundi as ____World Tree.
[107] See here D. Cardona, "The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika,"
AEON IV:5 (November 1996), pp. 26-28. [108] On this subject, see
F. B. Jueneman, "The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth,"
AEON I:4 ...
14. The Milky Way [Journals] [Aeon]
... between heaven and earth can be brought about- or could be
in illo tempore- by some physical means (rainbow, bridge,
stairs, ladder, vine, cord, chain of arrows', mountain, etc.,
etc.). All of these symbolic images of the connection between
heaven and earth are merely variants of the ____World Tree or
the axis mundi." (97) The Polar Configuration Readers of this
journal are well familiar with the theory of the polar
configuration and the wealth of evidence indicating that the
planet Saturn's prominence in ancient myth reflected its
one-time prominence in the ancient skies. (98) As Talbott has
documented, during one stage of the ...
15. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... sword and column will echo poetically in diverse ways: a
divine mountain launched by the warrior hero as a sword, or a
hero's sword "immense as a mountain," or a hero's sword raised
from the nether waters, or a sword serving as the central column
of a palace, or a sword round which a sacred tree (____world
tree) grew up. What the theory predicts is that certain specific
and discrete symbols will gather around the two figures entirely
out of proportion to pure chance and without explanation in any
prior theoretical vantage point. And most significantly, it will
be found on closer inspection that the associated symbols share
a previously unrecognized identity and function. In ...
16. Discussion Comments From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... atmosphere of Venus is of a recent origin. WORLD MOUNTAIN
NOT OF OUR EARTH SPEAKER: FRED HALL This comment is in response
to C. Warren Hunt and his discourse on the constraints of a
physical World Mountain concept. By referring to my article, the
speaker seems to imply that I subscribe to the notion that the
World Mountain or ____World Tree was a physical protuberance
located on the Earth at the north pole. But this is not so.
Clearly, the vision elicited from legend by Talbott was of the
heavens and not a part of geological processes down here. The
vision could have been caused by electrical effects and visible
dust streaming between the Earth and Mars. ( ...
17. Sothis and the Morning Star in the Pyramid Texts [Journals]
[Aeon]
... , p. 391. See also the discussion in I. Velikovsky, Worlds
in Collision (New York, 1950), pp. 258-261. 83. Ibid., p. 390.
Other epithets associate Nergal with the tamarisk and laurel.
Each of these epithets, in our opinion, reflects the intimate
association of Nergal with the ____World Tree. See E. Cochrane,
"Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology," AEON II:4
(1991), pp. 61-63. 84. K. Tallqvist, op. cit., p. 391. Such
epithets would originally appear to have reference to the god's
connection with the Netherworld. 85. ...
18. The Poem of Erra [Journals] [Aeon]
... is you, hero Erra, who did not fear prince Marduk's name!
You have undone the bond of Dimkurkurra, the city of the king of
the gods, the bond of all the countries." (22) Yet another
barometer of the state of heavenly affairs, according to
Mesopotamian conceptions, was the health and well-being of the
____World Tree. In Babylonian tradition this tree was known as
the Mesu tree, described in the following manner: "The flesh of
the gods, the ornament of the king of the universe, that pure
tree... whose roots reached as deep down as the bottom of the
underworld... whose top reached as high as ...
19. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... the columnar vortex between the planets, continuously
replenished by the charges carried within the solar wind, the
polar column would have remained relatively intact. During
periods of asynchronicity, which would have a disruptive effect
on the entire polar complex, the integrity of the column would
have been dispelled. It would have collapsed and, in effect, the
____World Tree would have been cut down. Such asynchronicity
could occur through periodic or spasmodic disturbances where the
polar planetary bodies temporarily stopped sharing the same axis
of rotation. They would then have rotated about parallel axes
that would have caused a displacement of the columnar linearity.
Such a phenomenon acting on the column and its attendant bolus
flows could have ...
20. Stairway to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... between heaven and earth can be brought about- or could be
in illo tempore- by some physical means (rainbow, bridge,
stairs, ladder, vine, cord, chain of arrows', mountain, etc.,
etc.). All of these symbolic images of the connection between
heaven and earth are merely variants of the ____World Tree or
the axis mundi." [42] That the planet Mars was itself linked to
ancient conceptions of the World Pillar has been documented by
other scholars in addition to David Talbott and myself. [43]
Thus, Cirlot reports that: "The Tree of Life, when it rises no
higher than the mountain of Mars ...
21. VELIKOVSKY AND OEDIPUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... 34 #1 ) Versnel, op. cit., p. 144. The same conclusion is
supported by another motive which frequently accompanies these
myths of chariot-crashes. Here I refer to the strange fact that
the reins of the fallen king's chariot often become entangled
within a tree, a sure sign that the scene of the crash is the
____World Tree associated with Saturn (See Graves' account of
the death of Hippolytus, op. cit. p. 357). The reins of the
chariot correspond to the god's sinews which elsewhere become
enwrapped around the tree upon his tragic fall. The objective
reference of the bands/sinews would appear to have been the
hands which came ...
22. On Models and Scenarios [Journals] [Aeon]
... ideas by Velikovsians or other catastrophists: Saturn as a
polar power; Saturn as the ancient sun god, Saturn dwelling
within a revolving enclosure, Saturn as the sun-in-crescent,
Saturn on the world mountain, etc. This original thesis of the
polar configuration included several additional ideas- including
that of the catastrophic transformation of the configuration
into the "____world tree" of seven bands, and the idea that many
myths which had long been understood in terrestrial terms- such
as, most importantly, the creation and the deluge- originally
described events in the sky. In its original form the creation
myth did not tell how our Earth, its landscape and inhabitants
came into being, but
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