21
. For an examination of the celestial symbolism of bi and pi disks see Shu-P’Ing, “The Original Significance of Bi Disks,” 165–94.
22
. Czaplicka,
Aboriginal Siberia,
211–22; Walter and Fridman,
Shamanism,
vol. 1, p. 611
.
See also Lombard, “Bored Stones, Lithic Rings and the Concept of Holes in San Shamanism,” 25.
CHAPTER 8. THE PATH OF SOULS
1
. Tedlock,
Popol Vuh,
356; also Jenkins,
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012
.
2
. Hatch, “An Hypothesis on Olmec Astronomy, with Special Reference to the La Venta Site,” 1–38.
3
. John Major Jenkins, “Commentary on Stuart and Houston’s Study of Mayan Place Names in ‘Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology 33, 1994,’” Edj.net,
http://edj.net/mc2012/fap11.html
(accessed January 15, 2014).
4
. For a full review of these Native American star myths, see Greg Little, “Can the Alignments of the Giza Pyramids be Explained from Moundville, Alabama Artifacts?—Part 2” Archaeotrek, Alternative Perceptions Magazine,
http://apmagazine.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=273
(accessed January 15, 2014). See also the various internal texts of Reilly III and Garber,
Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms,
for a fuller account of this subject, especially Lankford, “The ‘Path of Souls’: Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex,” 174–212.
5
. White,
Babylonian Star-lore,
159–60.
6
. See “MUL.APIN 1.2: The 33 Stars on the Path of Enlil, within the Ellipse of the Milky Way,” MUL.APIN Tablet No. 86378, British Museum, column 1, line 28, Lexiline: A Renaissance in Learning,
www.lexiline.com/lexiline/lexi173.htm
(accessed January 15, 2014).
CHAPTER 9. CULT OF THE VULTURE
1
. Schmidt,
Göbekli Tepe,
131–32.
2
. Mellaart,
Çatalhöyük,
104.
3
. Allen,
Star Names and Their Meaning,
s.v. “Cygnus.”
4
. Hodder,
Çatalhöyük,
196.
5
. Uyanik,
Petroglyphs of South-eastern Anatolia,
12.
6
. Ibid.
7
. Klaus Schmidt, television interview by Dr. Graham Phillip, “Death Cult Temple and Bog Bodies of Ireland,”
Ancient X-Files,
National Geographic Channel, 2012.
8
. Solecki and Solecki, “The Zagros Proto-Neolithic and Cultural Developments in the Near East,” 120.
9
. See Solecki, “Predatory Bird Rituals at Zawi Chemi Shanidar,” 42–47.
10
. Solecki and Solecki, “Zagros Proto-Neolithic and Cultural Developments,” 120.
11
. Solecki, “Predatory Bird Rituals at Zawi Chemi Shanidar,” 42–47.
12
. Solecki and Solecki, “Zagros Proto-Neolithic and Cultural Developments,” 117.
13
. Belmonte, “Finding Our Place in the Cosmos,” 2052–62.
14
. Horowitz,
Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography,
156, 180–81, 259; White,
Babylonian Star-lore,
177–81.
15
. Bricker and Bricker, “Zodiacal References in the Maya Codices,” 148–83.
16
. See Vachagan Vahradyan and Marine Vahradyan, “About the Astronomical Role of ‘Qarahunge’ Monument,” Anunner.com, www.anunner.com/vachagan.vahradyan/About_the_Astronomical_Role_of__“Qarahunge”_Monument_by _Vachagan_Vahradyan,_Marine_Vahradyan (accessed January 15, 2014).
CHAPTER 10. COSMIC BIRTH STONE
1
. Verhoeven, “Person or Penis?” 8–9.
2
. Gimbutas,
The Language of the Goddess,
185, 265.
3
. See Collins,
The Cygnus Mystery
.
4
. Silva,
Archaeology of Intangible Heritage,
125.
5
. Kay,
Bird Gods,
197.
6
. Róheim,
Hungarian and Vogul Mythology,
63.
7
. Lüling,
A Challenge to Islam for Reformation,
207.
CHAPTER 11. THE HOODED ONES
1
. Schmidt,
Göbekli Tepe,
238.
2
. Klaus Schmidt, television interview by Dr. Graham Phillip, “Death Cult Temple and Bog Bodies of Ireland,”
Ancient X-Files,
National Geographic Channel, 2012.
CHAPTER 12. FEAR OF THE FOX’S TAIL
1
. Peters and Schmidt, “Animals in the Symbolic World of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, South-eastern Turkey,” 209.
2
. Ibid.
3
. Sagan and Druyan,
Comet,
19.
4
. John and Caitlin Matthews, “The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures,” Otakuyume,
http://otakuyume.angelfire.com/magic1.html
(accessed January 15, 2014).
5
. Rìbas,
History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith amongst the Most Barbarous and Fierce Peoples of the New World,
676.
6
. “Halley’s Comet,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley’s_Comet
(accessed January 15, 2014).
CHAPTER 13. COSMIC TRICKSTER
1
. Santillana and von Dechend,
Hamlet’s Mill,
385.
2
. Ibid.
3
. White,
Babylonian Star-lore,
86.
4
. Pseudo-Hyginus,
Astronomica,
part 2, trans. by Mary Grant, s.v. “The Bull,” Theoi Greek Mythology,
www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusAstronomica2.html#21
(accessed January 15, 2014).
5
. Schmidt,
Göbekli Tepe,
184.
6
. Ibid., 185.
7
. Alastair McBeath and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, “Romanian Astrohumanism (III): Sky Myth and Great Sky Dragon,” Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM),
www.cosmopoetry.ro/ashuman/
(accessed January 15, 2014).
8
. Ibid.
9
. Ibid.
10
. Ibid.
11
. Ibid.
CHAPTER 14. FROM A FOX TO A WOLF
1
. Kuperjanov, “Estonian Sky,” 151–52.
2
. Ibid., 152.
3
. See Collins,
The Cygnus Mystery
.
CHAPTER 15. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
1
. Zoega,
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic,
s.v. “ragna-.”
2
. Ibid.
3
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology
.
4
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
142.
5
. Byock,
The Prose Edda,
164.
6
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
417.
7
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
142.
8
. Ibid., 143.
9
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
417.
10
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
143.
11
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
418.
12
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
144.
13
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
418.
14
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
144.
15
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
418.
16
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
146.
17
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
418.
18
. Ibid., 419.
19
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
147.
20
. Lindow,
Norse Mythology,
s.v. “Fenrir.”
21
. Anderson,
Norse Mythology,
419.
22
. Ibid., 416.
23
. Ibid., 429.
24
. Donnelly,
Ragnarök,
403–4.
25
. Ibid., 152.
26
. Ibid.
CHAPTER 16. THE WOLF PROGENY
1
. Otto S. Reuter, “Skylore of the North,” trans. by Michael Behrend, Website by Michael Behrend,
www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/repubs/reuter_himmel/pages/index.html
(accessed January 15, 2014).
2
. Thorsson,
Futhark,
53.
3
. Ibid., 54.
4
. “Týr,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Týr
(accessed January 15, 2014).
5
. Lubotsky,
Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series,
167.
6
. Reuter, “Skylore of the North.”
7
. Grimes,
The Norse Myths,
s.v. “Fenris.”
8
. Afanasyev,
The Life Tree,
168, quoted in Vladimir V. Rubtsov, “Tracking the Alien Astroengineers,”
RIAP Bulletin
4, no. 4 (October–December 1998),
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/universo/esp_sirio06.htm
(accessed January 15, 2014).
9
. Rubtsov, “Tracking the Alien Astroengineers,”
RIAP Bulletin
4, no. 4 (October–December 1998),
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/universo/esp_sirio06.htm
(accessed January 15, 2014).
10
. Ivanov, “Ancient Balkan and All-Indo-European Text.” In Rubtsov, “Tracking the Alien Astroengineers.”
11
. Grumeza,
Dacia,
76.
12
. Grimm,
Teutonic Mythology,
vol. 1, 244.
13
. Ibid., 244–45.
14
. Ibid., 245.
15
. Ibid.
16
. Bundahishn, quoted in Charles Francis Horne,
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: Ancient Persia,
vol. 7, 1900, ch. xxx, verse 18, p. 182, Forgotten Books,
www.forgottenbooks.org
.
17
. Ibid., p. 182, n. 7.
18
. Massey,
The Natural Genesis,
vol. 2, 103.
19
. Bundahishn, quoted in Horne,
Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East,
vol. 7, ch. xxx, verse 19, p. 182.
20
. Ibid., verse 31, p. 183.
21
. Ibid., verse 25, p. 183.
22
. Clow,
Catastrophobia.
CHAPTER 17. A DARK DAY IN SYRIA
1
. Bruce Fellman, “Finding the First Farmers,”
Yale Alumni Magazine
(October 1994),
http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/94_10/agriculture.html
(accessed January 15, 2014).
2
. Ted E. Bunch, Robert E. Hermes, Andrew M. T. Moore, et al., “Very High-temperature Impact Melt Products as Evidence for Cosmic Airbursts and Impacts 12,900 Years Ago,” PNAS Online, June 18, 2012,
www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/14/1204453109.full.pdf
(accessed January 15, 2014).
3
. Ibid.
4
. Ibid.
5
. Ibid.
6
. Ibid.
7
. Kloosterman, “The Usselo Horizon, a Worldwide Charcoal-rich Layer of Allerod Age.”
8
. Hoesel, Hoek, Braadbaart, et al., “Nanodiamonds and Wildfire Evidence in the Usselo Horizon,” 7648–53.
9
. Bunch, Hermes, Moore, et al., “Very High-temperature Impact Melt Products.”
10
. For a full examination of the effect of the Younger Dryas Boundary impact event on the Clovis culture, see Firestone, West, and Warwick-Smith,
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophies,
especially pages 132–47.
11
. Ibid. Although see objections from Surovell, Holliday, Gingerich, et al., “An Independent Evaluation of the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Hypothesis,” 18155–58, and Boslough, Nicoll, Holliday, et al., “Arguments and Evidence against a Younger Dryas Impact Event,” 13–26. Counterarguments come from Malcolm A. LeCompte, Albert C. Goodyear, Mark N. Demitroff, et al., “Independent Evaluation of Conflicting Microspherule Results from Different Investigations of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis,” PNAS Online,
www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/12/1208603109.abstract
(accessed January 15, 2014), as well as Wittke, Weaver, Bunch, et al., “Evidence for Deposition of 10 Million Tonnes of Impact Spherules across Four Continents 12,800 Y Ago,” who have identified the date of the Younger Dryas impact event as 12.8 kya (± 0.15 ka); that is, 12,800 years ago.