افسانهٔ زحل

A Reinterpretation of Rites and Symbols Illuminating Some of the Dark Corners of Primordial Society I: Introduction 8 Myth And Catastrophe 8 II: The Great Father 11 The “One God” Of Archaic Monotheism 11 The Universal Monarch 16 The Age Of Kronos 16 India 19 Iran 20 China 20 Northern Europe 20 The Rites Of Kingship 20 The Heaven Man 22 Who Was Adam? 23 The Great Father Saturn 27 The Saturn Myth Reconstructed 31 III: The Polar Sun 33 Sun And Saturn 33 Day And Night 35 Saturn And The Pole 36 The Unmoved Mover 38 Egypt 40 Mesopotamia 45 India 46 China 48 The Americas 49 IV: Saturn’s Cosmos 52 The Enclosed Sun 53 The Lost Island 56 The Egg 57 The Cosmos And The Divine Assembly 60 The Circle Of The Gods 61 The Great Mother 67 Womb And Thigh 71 Womb And Cosmos 71 The Hermaphrodite 74 V: The Holy Land 76 The Mother Land 76 Saturn’s Earth 76 The Egyptian Paradise 78 The World Wheel 81 The One-Wheeled Chariot 83 The City Of Heaven 86 The Enclosure As Prototype 90 The World Navel 92 The Ocean 94 VI. The Enclosed Sun-Cross 98 The Four Rivers Of Paradise 98 The Crossroads 99 The Four-Eyed Or Four-Faced God 110 The Foundation Stone 111 The Four Pillars Of Heaven 114 Symmetrical Elaborations Of The Sun-Cross 115 VII: Temple, Crown, Vase, Eye, And Circular Serpent 119 The Temple 119 The Egyptian Temple 122 Temple And Womb 123 The Crown 125 The Vase 128 The Eye 130 The Circular Serpent 135 In Summary: A Coherent Doctrine 142 VIII: The Cosmic Mountain 144 Egypt 144 Mesopotamia 154 India 157 Japan, China, Iran, Siberia 159 Siberia 161 Greece And Rome 162 Western Semitic 163 The Americas 166 A Collective Memory 168 The Mount Of Masculine Power 169 The Cosmic Mountain Personified 172 The Single Leg 174 The Serpent/Dragon 177 The Stream Of Life 180 Boreas And The Hyperboreans 180 The North Wind Shu 181 The River Of Life 183 The Eden-Fountain 185 The King Of The Mountain 186 IX: The Crescent 188 The Crescent And Saturn 189 The Crescent And Womb 194 Crescent And Motherland 195 The Crescent And Mount 196 The Heavenly Twins 201 Who Were The Dioscuri? 201 The Black And White Twins 203 The Two Assemblies 207 The Two Lands 208 The Two Crowns 208 The Two Eyes 209 The Two Serpents 209 The Two Thrones 209 The Two Vases (=Two Eyes) 209 The Two Lakes or Rivers 210 The Two Cords 210 Symbolism Of The Crescent 213 The Crescent Horn 214 The Horned Mountain 219 X: The Crescent-Ship (Part 2) 228 The World-Ship 233 The Island-Ship 233 The City-Ship 234 The Temple-Ship 234 The Wheel-Ship 234 The Egg-Ship 235 The Eye-Ship 235 The Vase-Ship 236 The Shield-Ship 236 The Throne-Ship 236 The Serpent (Dragon)-Ship 236 The Crescent-Arms 240 The Ka-Arms 248 The Crescent-Wings 258 Interconnected Symbols 269 The Plant Of Life 269 Sword 274 The Altar 274 Above And Below, Left And Right 275 Saturn’s Day 279 XI: Conclusion 285 Bibliography 288 Endnotes 297