At www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4988 there was a bit of a splat between Gary Gilligan and the Saturnists in which some basic problems endemic to the Saturn theory and likewise of Gary's interpretation of Egyptian texts and monumental inscriptions, were aired in public. Leroy has of course been rabitting on about these kind of things for years - banging his head against the wall.
Mythology news
Happenstance?
At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/09/12/mythology-at-stake/ ... mythology is interpreted in many ways especially when societies and cultures seem to record almost the same phenomena but live many miles apart without any apparent contact. One idea popular in some quarters is that the use of plants and fungi to produce hallucinogenic visions in some way reproduce similar images from the depths of the human collective unconscious - a similarity in shapes and form.
Flint
Gary Gilligan has sent in another link, this time to an article and on-line book on flint mythology (go to http://swansea.academia.edu/CarolynGravesBrown/Papers/847861/The_Ideolog... where there is an abstract of the paper and where you can also download (via Scribd) some 500 pages of text (including notes) on the subject. Or you can of course trawl down and print out individual pages at your leasure (scanning the document as you go).
Indra - and Rig Veda
Ravindra Godbole's book, accessible at www.themeaningofvedas.com is some 340 pages long - a very big download. However, it is an extremely useful addition to the mythological library as his interpretation of Rig Veda is challenging as far as mythologists are concerned. Those who don't have trouble reading text online rather than printed copy will of course be at an advantage as there will be no need to actually download all those pages. Simply by reading one chapter a day, or even one chapter a week, might be more manageable, but make no mistake this book is remarkable.
Gary's updates
Two new pages have been uploaded by Gary at www.gks.uk.com/Horus-Behdety-Winged-Disk/ and www.gks.uk.com/Re-Horakhty_Horus/ and as always he has some lovely images of genuine Egyptian statuary which are worth looking at solely for that reason. The text is an ongoing story, and represents a completely novel way of interpreting Egyptian mythology and history. Readers can make up their own minds - but as in all these things, a receptive or open mind is an attribute.
The God King Scenario
At www.gks.uk.com Gary Gilligan has the second book of his series, the God King Scenario, available - with a link to Amazon. There is a Foreword on the web site that outlines some aspects of the work - and a brief description of what it consists of. We are all familiar with legends of monsters, dragons and demons and mythology with Gods that seem to dominate and intercede in human affairs. Generally, we might dismiss most of this as fictitious, the product of colourful story tellers whose business it is to elaborate and embroider the ordinary.
A Bulgarian Loch Ness Monster thingummybob
A report from the Sofia News Agency at www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=113906 the Water Bull of Rubisha Lake in the NW of the country is set to become a tourist attraction - it is hoped. However, it is an extremely small body of water in comparison to Loch Ness, a mere one square km. It was formed in the Quaternary, between 5 and 2 million years ago, and is over 30m deep. It is the subject of a folktale, or legend, in which it is said to be bottomless.
The consensus opinion of myth
www.thunderbolts.info June 21st has an excellent post by Rens van der Sliujs on the scholarly evidence of similarities between cultures - sometimes from opposite sides of the planet. He says there is an ingrained prejudice against looking for similarities - and what is thought to be good scholarly work is for somebody in a specialised field to discover oddities peculiar to that culture and the period of time being researched. The fact that there might have been lots of similarities with other cultures is ignored.
Thunderbolts
www.thunderbolts.info February 25th ... Mel Acheson claims that during the Ice Age the ice occurred in a ring around the North Pole, quoting Dwardu Cardona and his book, Primordial Star. He correlates such a ring with a ring of aurora. The article doesn't supply any evidence to substantiate this claim or any source that might be checked out - which is unfortunate. Maybe Cardona has references but the thunderbolts article did not.