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ta, etc, while no first man is ever mentioned in any of the theogonies save the bible* everywhere the man of our race appears after a cataclysm of water, after which tradition mentions only the several designations of continents and islands which sink under the ocean waves in due time "gods and mortals have one common origin" says hesiod (ibid. v. 108; and pindar echoes the statement (nem. vi, 1. deucalion and pyrrha, who escape the deluge by constructing an ark like noah's (see apollod, 1, 7, 2, and ovid, metam. i, 260, 899, ask jupiter to re-animate the human race whom he had made to perish under the waters of the flood. in the slavonian mythology (lithuanian legend, in grimm, deutsche myth. 1, 545, all men were drowned, and two old people, a man and his wife, alone remained. then pram-g

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

which has come to be entertained by ecclesiastics that the earth will be destroyed by fire, celsus writes "the belief has spread among them, from a misunderstanding of the accounts of these occurrences, that after lengthened cycles of time, and the returns and conjunctions of planets, conflagrations, and floods are wont to happen, and because after the last flood, which took place in the time of deucalion, the lapse of time, agreeably to the vicissitude of all things, requires a conflagration; and this made them give utterance to the erroneous opinion that god will descend, bringing fire like a torturer"[44 [44] origen against celsus, book iv, ch. xi. the mythologies of all nations are largely founded upon the "religious history" of a flood. the doctrine of a triplicated god saved from de

nations understood little concerning the origin and true meaning of the legends which they had inherited from an older race is quite evident. the ignorance of the greeks regarding the significance of these legends is shown by the following: when solon, wishing to acquaint himself with the history of the oldest times, inquired of an egyptian priest concerning the time of the flood, and the age of deucalion or phroneous or noah, this functionary replied "o solon, solon, you greeks are always children, nor is there an old man among you! having no ancient traditions nor any acquaintance with chronology, you are as yet in a state of intellectual infancy. the true origin of such mutilated fables as you possess is this. there have been and shall again be in the course of many revolving ages, num

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ghty limbs ,35 these formidable men were exterminated by zeus, king of the gods, as a punishment for the misdeeds of prometheus, the rebellious titan who had presented humanity with the gift of fire.36 the mechanism the vengeful deity used to sweep the earth clean was an overwhelming flood. in the most widespread version of the story prometheus impregnated a human female. she bore him a son named deucalion, who ruled over the country of phthia, in thessaly, and took to wife pyrrha, the red-blonde, daughter of epimetheus and pandora. when zeus reached his fateful decision to destroy the bronze race, deucalion, forewarned by prometheus, made a wooden box, stored in it all that was necessary, 33 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 460, 466. 34 c. kerenyi, the gods of the greeks, tham

and climbed into it with pyrrha. the king of the gods caused mighty rains to pour from heaven, flooding the greater part of the earth. all mankind perished in this deluge, save a few who had fled to the highest mountains. it also happened at this time that the mountains of thessaly were split asunder, and the whole country as far as the isthmus and the peloponnese became a single sheet of water. deucalion and pyrrha floated over this sea in their box for nine days and nights, finally landing on mount parnassus. there, after the rains had ceased, they disembarked and sacrificed to the gods. in response zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion

disembarked and sacrificed to the gods. in response zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion threw became men, and those that pyrrha threw became women.37 as the hebrews looked back on noah, so the greeks of ancient historical times looked back upon deucalion as the ancestor of their nation and as the founder of numerous towns and temples.38 a similar figure was revered in vedic india more than 3000 years ago. one day (the story goes) when a certain wise man named manu was making his ablutions, he found in the hollow of his hand a tiny little fish which begged him to allow it to live. taking pity on it he put it in a jar. the next day, howeve

come full circle to the sumerian and biblical floods. the earth was filled with violence, says genesis: and god looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. and god said unto noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold i will destroy them with the earth. 45 like the flood of deucalion, the flood of manu, and the flood that destroyed the aztecs fourth sun, the biblical deluge was the end of a world age. a new age succeeded it: our own, populated by the descendants of noah. from the very beginning, however, it was understood that this age too would in due course come to a catastrophic end. as the old song puts it, god gave noah the rainbow sign; no more water, the fire

f northern mexico have preserved world destruction legends based on a change in the sun s path.17 an african myth from the lower congo states that long ago the sun met the moon and threw mud at it, which made it less bright. when this meeting happened there was a great flood. 18 the cahto indians of california say simply that the sky fell .19 and ancient graeco- roman myths tell that the flood of deucalion was immediately preceded by awesome celestial events.20 these events are graphically symbolized in the story of how phaeton, child of the sun, harnessed his father s chariot but was unable to guide it along his father s course: soon the fiery horses felt how their reins were in an unpractised hand. rearing and swerving aside, they left their wonted way; then all the earth was amazed to s

e will. out of that chaos they formed and populated the sacred land of egypt,2 wherein, for many thousands of years, they ruled among men as divine pharaohs.3 what was chaos? the heliopolitan priests who spoke to the greek historian diodorus siculus in the first century bc put forward the thought-provoking suggestion that chaos was a flood identified by diodorus with the earth-destroying flood of deucalion, the greek noah figure:4 in general, they say that if in the flood which occurred in the time of deucalion most living things were destroyed, it is probable that the inhabitants of southern egypt survived rather than any others. or if, as some maintain, the destruction of living things was complete and the earth then brought forth again new forms of animals, nevertheless, even on such a

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the stout ashen shafts of the heroes, why, isco or askr may have bran dished them too. one remembers too those wood-wives and fays, who, like the greek meliads and dryads, had their sole power of living bound up with some particular oak or ash, and, unlike the tree-born man, had never got wholly detached from the material of their origin. then, a creation out of stones is recorded in the story of deucalion, whom after the deluge hermes bade throw stones behind his back: those that he threw, all turned into men, and those that his wife pyrrha threw, into women. as in the edda, after the great flood comes a new creation; only in this case the rescued people are themselves the actors.2 even the jews appear to have known of a mythical creation out of stones, for we read in matth. 3, 9: on, svv

after an intervening deluge, garly spoken of as one whose father got drowned on the apple (or nut) tree_ also, not to have sprung from an oak-stem, etner s unw. doct. 585. min gof 1st au niid abbem nossbom aba choh, and my dad didn t come off the nut-tree, tobler 337b, who wrongly refers it to the christmas-tree. 1 homer s phrase is: chat from oak or rock, as youth and maiden do. trans " as deucalion and pyrrha create the race of men, so (ace. to a myth in the eeinhartssage, whose source i never could discover) do adam and eve create that of beasts by smiting the sea with rods. only, adam makes the good beasts, eve the bad; so in parsee legend ormuzd and ahriman hold a creating match. 574 ceeation. men and dwarfs are created, appears in surprising harmony with a theological opinion l

being placed beside the first- created men of the edda. the agreement of the myths would be more striking if we might bestow the name of stone race on the third, and shift that of brazen, together with the creation from the ash, to the fourth; stones being the natural arms of giants. apollodorus however informs us it was the brazen race that zeus intended to destroy in the great flood from which deucalion and pyrrha were saved, and this fits in with the scandinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of the earth gives

n the water, with a man and woman in it; on it sits a bird, another comes flying with a twig in its claws. close by stand the same human pair on firm land, holding up their right hands. beside the ark appear the letters nfl (noah, and this apamea is distinguished by the by-name of /a/3o>to. 3 according to greek legend, zeus had determined to destroy mankind; at the prompting of prometheus, deucalion built an ark, which received him and pyrrha his wife. zeus then sent a mighty rain, so that hellas was flooded, and the people perished. nine days and nights deucalion floated on the waters, then landed on parnassus, and offered sacrifice to zeus; we have seen how this couple created a new generation by casting stones. plutarch adds, that when deucalion let a dove out of the ark, he coul

or their enemies the asuris (elsewhere daityas and danavas= titans, giants. but it is a great point gained for us, that manus (after whom manushyas, homo, is named) comes in as a creator; so that in our german mannus (whence manna and manniskja, homo) we recognise precisely borr and his creator sons (p. 349. askr and embla are simply a reproduction of the same idea of creation, and on a par with deucalion and pyrrha, or adam and eve. i must not pass over the fact, that the first part of the indian poem, where brahma as a fish is caught by manus, and then reveals to him the future, lingers to this day in our nursery tale of the small all-powerful turbot or pike, who gradually elevates a fisherman from the meanest condition to the highest rank; and only plunges him back into his pristine po

one pair remained in that country, and from them the lithuanians are descended. but they were now old, and they grieved, whereupon god sent them for a comforter (linxmine) the rainbow, who counselled them to leap over the earth s bones: nine times they leapt, and nine couples sprang up, founders of the nine tribes of lithuania. this incident reminds us of the origin of men from the stones cast by deucalion and pyrrha; and the rainbow, of the bible account, except that here it is intro duced as a person, instructing the couple what to do, as hermes (the divine messenger) did deucalion. it were overbold perhaps to connect the nutshell with that nut-tree (p. 572-3, by which one vaguely expresses an unknown extraction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating

inbow, of the bible account, except that here it is intro duced as a person, instructing the couple what to do, as hermes (the divine messenger) did deucalion. it were overbold perhaps to connect the nutshell with that nut-tree (p. 572-3, by which one vaguely expresses an unknown extraction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating the whole earth: that in which deucalion was rescued affected greece alone, and of such accounts of partial floods there are plenty. philemon and baucis in phrygia (where noah s ark rested, p. 577, had given shelter to the wayfaring gods, and being warned by them, fled up the mountain, and saw themselves saved when the flood rose over the land (ovid. met. 8, 620; they were changed into trees, as askr and embla were trees. a wel

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me delphi from delphos, the womb. this name was chosen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature that had crept out of the slime left by the receding flood that had destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo, climbing the side of mount parnassus, slew the serpent after a prolonged combat, and threw the body down the fissure of the oracle. from that time the sun god, surnamed the pythian apollo, gave oracles from the vent. with dionysos he shared the honor of being the patron god of delphi. after being vanquished by apollo, the spirit of python remained at delphi as the rep

the predictions were usually in the form of hexameter verse, but the words were often ambiguous and sometimes unintelligible. every sound that she made, every motion of her body, was carefully recorded by the five hosii, or holy men, who were appointed as scribes to preserve the minutest details of each divination. the hosii were appointed for life, and were chosen from the direct descendants of deucalion. after the oracle was delivered, the pythia began to struggle again, and the spirit released her. she was then carried or supported to a chamber of rest, where she remained till the nervous ecstasy had passed away. iamblichus, in his dissertation on the mysteries, describes how the spirit of the oracle--a fiery d mon, even apollo himself--took control of the pythoness and manifested thro

and nymphs were believed to dwell in its depths. from the ancient oaks and beeches were hung many chains of tiny bronze bells which tinkled day and night as the wind swayed the branches. some assert that the celebrated talking dove of dodona was in reality a woman, because in thessaly both prophetesses and doves were called peleiadas. it is supposed that the first temple of dodona was erected by deucalion and those who survived the great flood with him. for this reason the oracle at dodona was considered the oldest in greece. p. 64 drawn into the cave, which was described by those who had entered it as having only the dimensions of a fair-sized oven. when the oracle had completed its revelation, the consultant, usually delirious, was forcibly ejected from the cave, feet foremost. near the

symbolized as rocks supporting upon their broad surfaces new lands, races, and empires. according to the scandinavian mysteries, the stones and cliffs were formed from the bones of ymir, the primordial giant of the seething clay, while to the hellenic mystics the rocks were the bones of the great mother, g a. after the deluge sent by the gods to destroy mankind at the close of the iron age, only deucalion and pyrrha were left alive. entering a ruined sanctuary to pray, they were directed by an oracle to depart from the temple and with heads veiled and garments unbound cast behind them the bones of their mother. construing the cryptic message of the god to mean that the earth was the great mother of all creatures, deucalion picked up loose rocks and, bidding pyrrha do likewise, cast them b

o depart from the temple and with heads veiled and garments unbound cast behind them the bones of their mother. construing the cryptic message of the god to mean that the earth was the great mother of all creatures, deucalion picked up loose rocks and, bidding pyrrha do likewise, cast them behind him. from these rocks there sprang forth a new and stalwart race of human beings, the rocks thrown by deucalion becoming men and those thrown by pyrrha becoming women. in this allegory is epitomized the mystery of human evolution; for spirit, by ensouling matter, becomes that indwelling power which gradually but sequentially raises the mineral to the status of the plant; the plant to the plane of the animal; the animal to the dignity of man; and man to the estate of the gods. the solar system was

es lived harmoniously together, which is in accord with the principles of the philosophers, who declared the world to be preserved by the concord and harmony of its elements. in time, however, the racing horse of jupiter burned the mane of the horse of earth; the thundering steed of neptune also became covered with sweat, which overflowed the immovable horse of vesta and resulted in the deluge of deucalion. at last the fiery horse of jupiter will consume the rest, when the three inferior elements--purified by reabsorption in the fiery ether--will come forth renewed, constituting "a new heaven and a new earth" when the fifth seal was opened st. john beheld those who had died for the word of god. when the sixth seal was broken there was a great earthquake, the sun being darkened and the moon

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

dom was said to have been borne away from the lost lands prior to the cataclysm by certain survivors, who knew the minds of the watchers, and fled the oncoming doom. the knowledge is said to have been preserved until such a time as bit by bit in devious manners it could be secretly reintroduced to humanity once more. babylonian legends of uta-napishtim and the biblical noah or his greek parallel, deucalion, all contain echoes of this belief. witch lore, moreover, tells of settlers from the lost lands coming in their wanderings to the land which is now britain and northern europe, or middle earth as it was called in old english, and mingling with the neolithic cultures then in existence. it was the people produced by this intermingling that the iron-bearing celts discovered on their sweep w

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

away cities andlargely populated districts almost in a flash (ibid)it has been suggestedthat the changes now at work in prehistory herald the shift to a newparadigm,made necessary by the collapse of the first paradigm(colin renfrew, beforecivilization)when we hear of the coming of the angels of the lord to humans, like manu (india),satyaravata (india, khasistra (india, yima (iran, noah (semetic, deucalion(greece, dwyfan (wales, nuada (ireland, bergelmir (scandinavia, coxcox (mex-ico, and nata (aztec) warning of the coming deluge, we must understand that it ismembers of the sons of the serpents who brought the warnings and not, as isbelieved, the representatives of jehovah.records of blood and stone52atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genet

peoples claiming descent or knowledge of the sky godskachinas (decent from the sun)hopis, utes, toltecs, miztecs, aztecs, quiches, aleutians, creeks, seminoles, mattoles, tepanecas (of columbia)mormonsmikados of japan (decent from the sun)sumerians (sargon the great)semites (moses, isaac, john and jesus, abrahamthe name means father is high)greeks (hesiod theogony, pindar. in plato, the deluge of deucalion)appendix b: book abstracts190atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation chinese (in the pwan-ku, or reign of chaos, states that people lived underground)babylonians and akkadiansindians (indra versus vritra and the battles between the asas and the asuras or gods and demons)russianscelts (in the deluge of ogyges and the journey of bran, of the coming of the tuatha de dannan, the

ifethe toltec legends speak of a garden, a tree, a serpent and a woman that was the mother of all mankind.they also speak of a race of giants that were in the world from the earliest times (see p. 199)warnings of the coming flood:in chaldean legend, cronus appeared to xisuthros and warned him to prepare for the coming disas-ter. the arc was 600 cubits in length and 60 cubits for width and height. deucalion of greece was also forewarned.manu of indiasatyravata of indiakhasistra of persiayima of iraniansnoah of the hebrewsdwyfan and dwyfach of walesnuada of the celtsbergelmir of scandinaviacoxcox of mexicoappendix b: book abstracts198atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation nata of the aztecscity of the serpentsthe chiapanese of central americatell us that there was a v otan who

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mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in and so therefore plotted to destroy everything on earth in a great flood. but wily prometheus warned a man named deucalion, who builds a chest and survives the flood. in persian mythology, the benevolent god ahura mazda tells a man named yima that a terrible winter of frost and snow is upon him. ahura mazda commands yima to build an underground enclosure to protect 2 of every creature and a small group of choice people. in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 6 serbian legends, a rooster who acts as the mess

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

overarching boughs protected him from the inclemency of the weather. in the course of time these primitive human beings became tamed and civilized by the gods and heroes, who taught them to work in metals, to build houses, and other useful arts of civilization. but the human race became in the course of time so degenerate that the gods resolved to destroy all mankind by means of a flood; page 22 deucalion [22](son of prometheus) and his wife pyrrha, being, on account of their piety, the only mortals saved. by the command of his father, deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife took refuge during the deluge, which lasted for nine days. when the waters abated the ship rested on mount othrys in thessaly, or according to some on mount parnassus. deucalion and his wife now consulted the

be restored. the answer was, that they were to cover their heads, and throw the bones of their mother behind them. for some time they were perplexed as to the meaning of the oracular command, but at length both agreed that by the bones of their mother were meant the stones of the earth. they accordingly took up stones from the mountain side and cast them over their shoulders. from those thrown by deucalion there sprang up men, and from those thrown by pyrrha, women. after the lapse of time the theory of autochthony (from autos, self, and chthon, earth) was laid aside. when this belief existed there were no religious teachers whatever; but in course of time temples were raised in honour of the different gods, and priests appointed to offer sacrifices to them and conduct their worship. these

ing with fruitfulness, only yielded her increase after much toil and labour. the goddess of justice having abandoned mankind, no influence remained sufficiently powerful to preserve them from every kind of wickedness and sin. this condition grew worse as time went on, until at last zeus in his anger let loose the water-courses from above, and drowned every [24]individual of this evil race, except deucalion and pyrrha. the theory of hesiod,[8] the oldest of all the greek poets, was that the titan prometheus, the son of iapetus, had formed man out of clay, and that athene had breathed a soul into him. full of love for the beings he had called into existence, prometheus determined to elevate their minds and improve their condition in every way; he therefore taught them astronomy, mathematics

travelled through many countries, seeking a fitting site upon which to establish an oracle. at length he reached the southern side of the rocky heights of parnassus, beneath which lay the harbour of crissa. here, under the overhanging cliff, he found a secluded spot, where, from the most ancient times, there had existed an oracle, in which gaa herself had revealed the future to man, and which, in deucalion's time, she had resigned to themis. it was guarded by the huge serpent python, the scourge of the surrounding neighbourhood, and the terror alike of men and cattle. the young god, full of confidence in his unerring aim, attacked and slew the page 79 monster with his arrows, thus freeing land and people from their mighty enemy. the grateful inhabitants, anxious to do honour to their deliv

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is creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the mandan myth of lone man (see p. 94. even in the 19th century, folklorists could still collect in serbia a cycle of slavonic myths about the great flood f

h of prometheus by piero di cosimo (1461/62 1521) this painting depicts several stories from the myth of prometheus; the creation of man (assisted by epimetheus; the theft of fire from heaven, helped by athena (minerva; and there are references to the later story of pandora s box. humankind the first human race lasted until zeus decided to send a great flood to destroy it. the only survivors were deucalion (prometheus son) and his wife pyrrha (daughter of epimetheus and pandora. zeus then offered them any gift they desired, so they asked for more people. each stone they threw over their shoulders became a new man or woman. clash of the titans t he 12 titans, children of uranus, the sky, and gaia, the earth, were the first gods. they were deposed after a 10-year struggle by zeus, son of cro

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