Tag: milky way
World Tree as Milky Way growing out of the back of a turtle
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A very interesting motif exists in mythology from Mexico to New York and Canada: The World Tree and the turtle. In Maya mythology, the First Father or Hun Hunahpu as the Maize God is depicted as emerging or resurrecting through the shell of a turtle, symbolizing the earth. This reborn…
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Acharya S on Aeon Byte radio, 11/17-18
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Come hear my new radio program with Miguel Conner all this weekend! In this show, I discuss the Maya, the Milky Way and religious ideas that can be found around the world. The Mayans and the Milky Way http://www.aeonbytegnosticradio.com/2010/05/may-15-may-16-its-complete-truth-about.html Here’s Miguel’s write-up: “Groundbreaking scholarship continues to reveal the sublime legacy…
Read MoreMilky Way image reveals 84 million stars at galactic center
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See my new Examiner article about this massive, 9-gigapixel photograph of the Milky Way created by astronomers. Astronomers catalogue 84 million stars from new image of our Milky Way “By combining thousands of infrared images by Europe’s dust-piercing VISTA telescope, astronomers have been able study more Milky Way stars than…
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