Hi Whenever I look at the geography of the Mithraeum, I cannot help thinking that the very position of the Tauroctony clearly sugests that it takes place at...
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john.wallace@...
Aug 1, 2000 1:43 pm
Jane, I for one do not buy the Plutarch theory of Cilician pirates being the source of the mysteries; however, that is quite a little bombshell you slipped...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 1, 2000 1:46 pm
Hi ... mysteries ... There is evidence that the Mysteries existed already by the 2nd half of the 1st century AD, 100 years before Commodus. The source is...
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john.wallace@...
Aug 1, 2000 2:54 pm
Antonio, I didn't say I agreed with Jane but I wanted to hear her theory. As far as Statius goes, he mentions a "Persian cave" and a bull being twisted by the...
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john.wallace@...
Aug 1, 2000 4:37 pm
Antonio, Hate to re-open the "closed discussion", but... There are problems with your renewed belief in an Age of Taurus right off the bat when you state this:...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 1, 2000 5:16 pm
Hi John ... Ok.. ... re-post ... Interesting. ... I'm basing my statement on the plot of the sky provided by my Astronomy programs from 100 BCE to 100 AD. By...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 2, 2000 12:59 pm
Hi all Yesterday, some Loeb books have arrived. Cato presents the Seasons as follows: 1st day of Spring: when the Sun is in Aquarius 1st day of Summer: when...
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john.wallace@...
Aug 2, 2000 1:57 pm
Antonio, I also received a few books from Amazon a couple of weeks ago, one of them being Otto Neugebauer's The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (I highly recommend...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 2, 2000 5:57 pm
Hi Nathan, My German is marginal. I can get by in Germany. That's about it. Oh well, thanks anyway. I wonder why Roman zodiacal renderings are so rare... ...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:03 pm
Dick, Can you tell me where the original story (oldest known version) of Typhon/Set can be found in relation to the Olympian gods transforming into various...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:09 pm
Corvus, Thank you. That's very interesting... I read that Set was the chief god in Egypt for a while, but an enemy of the state had a corresponding god and...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:14 pm
Jane, Thanks, I'll search Egyptology... I saw those new tombs opened. It was interesting. Part of the problem of speaking of ancient Egypt is that there was...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:22 pm
Mithra appears in Hinduism and Zoroastrianism before he takes a position as the central figure in Roman Mithraism. For earliest known entries concerning Mitra...
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J. T. Sibley
jrsibley@...
Aug 2, 2000 9:33 pm
... No, this will not be in the paper. I cannot recall offhand where I read this...will look for the source. Would be interested in any *reliable* sources ...
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J. T. Sibley
jrsibley@...
Aug 2, 2000 9:34 pm
... Aha! Thank you, Antonio!! I sit (here at the keyboard) corrected, thanx for the info! Now to go hunt up Statius....where would I find this? jane...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 3, 2000 11:22 am
Hi John I think I'm going to start a thorough study of ancient Astrology/Astronomy. The paper of R. Beck on the Ponza Zodiac (1st part available at the EJMS) ...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 3, 2000 11:31 am
Hi See Statius Thebaid 1.719 Look for the online version at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature.html Cheers, Antonio ... From: J. T. Sibley...
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Wallace, John
john.wallace@...
Aug 3, 2000 3:58 pm
Antonio, I need to download Beck's interpretation of Ponza. However Turcan has the following to say: "The zodiac occupying the vault of a cultic niche on...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 3, 2000 4:11 pm
Salve John ... Ponza ... There are 2 Dragons: Draco and another one called Atalia (the Babylonian word for Eclipse is 'atalu'). Please read R. Beck. The...
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Wallace, John
john.wallace@...
Aug 3, 2000 4:39 pm
Antonio, "But this is precisely the old Chaldeo-Babylonian belief, which was inherited by Greek Astrology-Astronomy!" Which belief are you referring to? I am...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 3, 2000 5:47 pm
... mmm.. Augustus repressed Isis while Marcus Antonius was alive. After Augustus' victory, I think that he started to put the Egyptian religion at his own...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 4, 2000 11:31 am
Hi I don't know if you have already managed to download the paper on the Ponza Zodiac. Yesterday I've been reading the 2nd part of the paper (yet to be put on...
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Wallace, John
john.wallace@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:08 pm
Antonio, Fascinating (and no, I haven't downloaded the Ponza paper yet - I'm hesitant to ask our tech guy for help on a non-work problem). But I'm confused by...
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Antonio Grilo
amg@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:47 pm
Salve John I'm really a poor substitute of Beck's paper. Nevertheless I'll try to address your questions. ... No, they are not exactly the same. What Beck...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 4, 2000 4:33 pm
I need the following two inscriptions translated. They are dated 1796 and are written in script. As such, I may have misinterpreted one or two characters. L...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 4, 2000 4:42 pm
An interesting parallel to Mithras... In cabalism, there is a figure knownas Metatron (Mittron) who was once a human known as Enoch (Hanoch, Henokh). Enoch...
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wgafwjwd@...
Aug 4, 2000 6:24 pm
he second page of Jung's book "Aion" has a picture of Mithric deity (with lions head?) Named Aion. I've never heard anything about such a deity in the Mithric...
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Wallace, John
john.wallace@...
Aug 4, 2000 6:49 pm
I used to have a great fondness for that book, Aion - Jung's analysis of the European absorption of the precession theory (primarily focusing on how it relates...
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Wallace, John
john.wallace@...
Aug 4, 2000 7:11 pm
Antonio, I think Beck is treading on difficult ground by calling Atalia a *constellation* when it fact it was just the line of the nodes (where the moon...
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Dena Holman
denancenter@...
Aug 4, 2000 7:12 pm
... In cabalistic thought, Aion or Aeon is some form of celestial power of a high order... Abraxis is one, but there are others including Pistis Sophia and...
