Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

1. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]

... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER II THE SPIRAL SECTION I Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif?Theory of savage origin - Wide distribution of spiral - Older in Near East than in Oceania - Unknown in Hawaii - Luck motifs and Art motifs - Diffusion theory - Independent origin theory - Natural spirals - Had the Spiral a meaning? - Hallstatt spirals - Angular spirals - Curves to right and to left - A. Lang on "natural ornamentation " - H. R. Hall on origin of spiral - Archaeological evidence - Elliot Smith on spiral symbolism - Thunder gods and spiral - A magico-religious symbol. ...

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2. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]

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3. The Spiral and Birth [Books]

... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents SECTION IV The Spiral and Birth When problems arose each year born anew-"Hanging out the heavens " in Egypt and India - Agni as the "navel " - The spiral in birth ceremonies - The navel as a spiral - Navel-string customs - Tattooed spirals -Polynesian souls reach sky on whirlwinds - Spirals as ears and eyes in Polynesian Navel as source of "air of life " - Heart and breath - Navels of sky and earth - "Great Bear" as navel - Brahma born from Vishnu's navel-Sacred cities as "navels " - Navel, bowels and heart" - Heart and ...

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4. The Spiral and Birth [Books]

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5. The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol, and its Migrations by Thomas Wilson [Books]

... even possible relations to the Swastika, Certain of them have been accepted by the author as related to the Swastika, while others have been rejected; but this rejection has been confined to cases where the known tracts seemed to justify another origin for the symbol, Speculation has been avoided. Fig. 13a. Fig. 13b, OGEE AND SPIRAL SWASTIKAS. SPIRAL AND VOLUTE. Telraskelion (four armed). Triskelion (three armed). Fig. 13c. Fig.13d SPIRAL AND VOLUTE OGEE, SWASTIKA, (Five or many armed.) WITH CIRCLE. PECULIAR FORMS OF SWASTIKA. Names and Definitions of the Swastika The Swastika has been called by several names in different ...

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6. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]

... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents SECTION II Whirlpools and Whirlwinds Spiral as expression of ideas-Motion associated with Life - The heart as seat of Life - The womb of nature - PalaeoIithic paintings, etc., in deep caves - Caves as "wind holes " - Belief that Life was in sky - Sky as source of wind and water - Water as source of Energy - The Whirlpool enclosing embryo - Whirlpools in ancient religion - Zuni myth - Birth of Aphrodite Whirlpool Dragons - Whirlpool as "gate" of Dragon's palace � Dragons lake whirl-pool - Sumerian Sea-serpent goddess - Whirlwind lord Typhon and Echidna -Fairies, nereids, demons ...

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7. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]

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8. Dark Matter [Journals] [Velikovskian]

... By the 1970s, however, the problem of the missing mass was brought closer to home. By then, both radio and optical telescopes were beginning to reveal curious rotations in both the Milky Way and nearby galaxies which suggested that galaxies contained more mass than previously assumed. Astronomers always took it as a matter of course that stars in a spiral galaxy would revolve around the galaxy's core like planets in the solar system whose motions adhere to Newton's laws of gravitation. Newton recognized that the gravitational attraction between a planet and the Sun follows a simple rule of thumb: The attraction between two celestial objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. That means that if ...

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9. On Number as Artifact (Part 3: Conclusion) [Journals] [Horus]

... From: Horus Vol. 2 No. 3 (Fall 1986) Home | Issue Contents On Number as Artifact (Part 3: Conclusion)Fred Fisher There is a longstanding cultural connection between the spiral and the labyrinth In a pithy paragraph in his Prelude to Science, Richard Furnald Smith writes, The first day of the lunar month may vary from place to place according to the visibility of the first crescent, but in general the system is simple and uniform. Anyone can tell the date in any given month simply by noting the phase of the moon. There is one maddening defect, however. The lunar months and the solar year do not come out even. ...

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10. The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs [Books]

... The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs by Donald A. Mackenzie Author of Ancient Man in Britain, Myths of Pre-Columbian America, etc Contents Foreward Chapter The Swastika Section I: The Area of Origin Section II: As the Cross of the Cardinal Points Section III: Beliefs Connected with the Cross and the Swastika The Spiral Section I: Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? Section II: Whirlpools and Whirlwinds Section III: The Celestial Whirlpool Lake Section IV: The Spiral and Birth Section V: The Sacred Circuit Ear Symbols Tree Symbols LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Bride Baby 2. Lapland Swastika 3. Celtic Knot Swastika 4. Tibetan Swastika 5 ...

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