Author: win r

"An old Hindu legend says that Brahma-Prajapati, having fallen in love with his own daughter, Ushas (Heaven, sometimes the Dawn also), assumed the form of a buck (ris'ya) and Ushas that of a female deer (rohit) and thus committed the first sin. Upon such a desecration, the gods felt so terrified, that uniting their most [...]

"The marked respect paid by the Buddhists to the sapphire-stone - which was also sacred to Luna, in every other country - may be found based on something more scientifically exact than a mere groundless superstition. They ascribed it to a sacred magical power, which every student of psychological mesmerism will readily understand, for its [...]

"As the sun, what better image could be found for Jupiter emitting his golden rays than to personify this emanation in Diana, the all-illuminating virgin Artemis, whose oldest name was Diktynna, literally the emitted ray, from the word dikein. The moon is non-luminous, and it shines only by the reflected light of the sun; hence, [...]

"It may be easily proved that from time immemorial Saturn or Kronos, whose ring, most positively, was discovered by the Chaldean astrologers, and whose symbolism is no "coincidence", was considered the father of Zeus, before the latter became himself the father of all the gods, and was the highest deity. He was the Bel or [...]

"In his astronomical aspect Zeus-Dionysus has his origin in the zodiac, the ancient solar year. In Libya he assumed the form of a ram, and is identical with the Egyptian Amun, who begat Osiris, the taurian god. Osiris is also a personified emanation of the Father-Sun, and himself the Sun in Taurus. The Parent-Sun being [...]