The Lunar Basis of Myth and Symbol
Publisher: Letters
Published: 2013 [5 February]
Place of publication: Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
Language: eng
Format: handbound
Number of pages: 64
Description: Outlands ten. A review of lunar measures in ancient iconography; Part One addressing the origin of the Alphabet, the Ennead of focal deities, the Goddess, the Underworld, and totemic fauna (each embodying different aspects of the lunation): Serpent, Bull, Horse, Ibex, Cat, Dog and Bird. Part Two presents a sample of previously unsolved ancient puzzles with their lunar solutions: Mayan Long Count calendar cycle; Egyptian Hekat fractions; Israelite Jubilee calendar; Christian puzzle of the 153 large fish; and Hellenic puzzle of the Cattle of the Sun; together with a solution to the inconsistencies in the Biblical account of the Flood.
Table of contents: title: 5
label: PART ONE: SURVEY; title: 7
label: Alphabet; title: 8
label: Lunar Cycles; title: 10
label: ICONOGRAPHY; title: 10
label: Goddess; title: 17
label: Serpent; title: 20
label: Underworld; title: 21
label: Bull; title: 26
label: Horse; title: 29
label: Ibex; title: 30
label: Cat; title: 31
label: Dog; title: 31
label: Bird; title: 35
label: PART TWO: PUZZLES; title: 35
label: Mayan Long Count Calendar; title: 37
label: Hekat Fractions; title: 43
label: Jubilee Calendar; title: 45
label: 153 Large Fish; title: 49
label: Cattle of the Sun; title: 50
label: The Flood; title: 6
label: PLATES; title: 6
label: 1 Conjectured Early Alphabets; title: 11
label: 2 Compass of the Egyptian Thirty-Day Lunation; title: 12
label: 3 Venus of Laussel; title: 23
label: 4 Vesica Piscis; title: 24
label: 5 Minoan Bull Leaper; title: 27
label: 6 Lascaux Hall of Bulls Frieze; title: 28
label: 7 Lascaux Shaft Scene; title: 39
label: 8 The Eye of Horus Anatomized; title: 40
label: 9 Twelfth Dynasty Pectoral: Eyes of Horus & Ra