Category: Comparative Mythology
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The Hammer of Creation in the Mysteries: Thor, Swastika, and Fohat
The Solarwheel and Fohat “The Svastica is found heading the religious symbols of every old nation.” (H.P. Blavatsky) THE 卐 IN THE CIRCLE BY STUDYING THEOSOPHY AND HISTORY, THE REAL MEANING BEHIND THE SWASTIKA can be elaborated upon in the sense it is meant to be, as opposed to outlooks you might acquire from perspectives…
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Luciferous Protogonos, The God the Ancients Call “The First-Born”
PRE-CHRISTIAN AND MYTHIC ORIGINS COMMENTARY ABOUT THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE SECRET DOCTRINE LUCIFEROUS describes the radiance of the FIRST PRINCIPLE born from the Great Mother and Father-GOD in nearly every ancient cosmogony. Here, we will give a different meaning of LUCIFER, or the morning star, that is based upon the Graeco-Roman MYSTERIES, known under the titles…
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Disney’s Hercules “One Last Hope”
Although, the mythical legend and moral of the story of Herakles, should not be learned from the Disney film, this song remains a childhood favorite. Being one for drama, it is the perfect song to make allusion to our hopes here. Based on the lessons we learn from ancient mythology, you are raised in truth,…
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Sun and Lunar Worship: Adonai, Baal and Moloch in the Mysteries
INTRODUCTION The source of “The Secret Doctrine” on the Ancient Worships of Syria explains the ancient Sun-Gods. These Gods and Names in the ancient world are intimately tied to the history of ancient peoples, cities, and the meanings those people ascribed in their world. S.F. Dunlap was a reference source in H.P. Blavatsky’s major work,…
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Interpretations of Serpents and Dragons in Theosophy and Ancient Mythology
Part I. ON “Human Serpents” and Immortal Sages: ANCIENT INITIATES CALLED SERPENTS MEANING “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matthew x: xvi) ⊕ “(…) the “Serpent” and “Dragon” were the names given to the “Wise Ones,” the initiated adepts…
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Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries
In Samuel Fales Dunlap’s work The Origin of Ancient Names of Countries, Cities, Individuals, and Gods (Cambridge, 1856), he argued that the proper names of countries, cities, individuals, and gods, drawn from regions including Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and Judaea, are generally compound words incorporating the names of ancient sun-gods. This reveals…
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Carl Jung on the Greatest Creations of Mythology
“Only the greatest creations of mythology proper could hope to make clear to modern man that here he is face to face with a phenomenon which “in profundity, permanence, and universality is comparable only with Nature herself (F.W.J. von Schelling: Philosophie der Mythologie, Collected Works, II:136).” If we want to promote a real knowledge of…
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The Tragedy of Pan the Great: From Primordial Deity to Rustic Sex-Craving God
Ofelia: “My name is Ofelia. Who are you?” Pan: “Me? I’ve had so many names. Old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the forest and the earth. I am… I am a faun. Your most humble servant, Your Highness.” (Pan’s Labyrinth, film) PAN A PRIMORDIAL GOD AND…
The American Minervan 