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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