Kim H. Veltman

Lines, Knots and Dragons:

Astronomy as a Key to Cross Cultural Mythology

Congresso Internazionale

Rieti

May 2006

Aby Warburg

Das Nachleben der Antike

Das Vorleben der Antike

Microcosm-Macrocosm

Ida (Female, Dark) and Pingala (Male, Light) and Shushumna

www.trigono.com/calendario_celtico/ concetti_di_base.htm

Kundalini Yoga (7 Chakras)

www.beyondtheveil.net/ meditation.html www.paranormal.de/kundalini/ historisch/indien1.htm

Siberian World Tree and Energy Points

users.lmi.net/maxdashu/ shamanic/shaman_sanc.html www.erm.ee/?node=191

www.theo.tu-cottbus.de/. ../Barabanov.htm

home.earthlink.net/ ~asatru/symbols/symbols12.html

Dog Palette, Louvre, 3200 B.C. Late Nagada II period

http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ae/e11052/ae_f.htm

Milky Way in Sagittarius as World Tree

http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?aid=433895944&item=390696

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Nut and Night and Day

http://www.anthonykosky.com/Egypt/papyrus.html

Nut and key constellations

members.surfeu.fi/ robin.cook/religion.htm

Sarcophagus

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~catshaman/14Egyptian/04Egyptian3.htm

Spring Equinox 21 March

-. rL,..1’

Female as Path of the Zodiac in Celestial Planisphere www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

-. rL,..1’

Female as Path of the Zodiac in Celestial Planisphere. Cf. Yin-Yang www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

pere.20megsfree.com/ linux/lletters/

Zodiac as a Reversed S.

-. rL,..1’

Male as Equator in Celestial Planisphere

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

-. rL,..1’

Male as Equator in Celestial Planisphere

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Sumer

hanskrause.de/ HKHPE/hkhpe_43_01.htm

Male and Females Lines to

Triangle and Hexagon

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Min Palette

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/palettes.htm

Seal of Solomon and the Seal of Vishnu in the Anahata Chakra.

Male and Females Lines to

Trigram and Hexagram in I Ching

Male and Female

Male = Vertical

Female = Horizontal

Male and Female

Male = Vertical

Female = Horizontal

Male and Female

Male Female

Dark Light

Moon Sun

Male and Female

Male Female

Dark Light

Moon Sun

Male and Female

Male

Light

21 June

Summer Solstice

Female

Dark

21 December

Winter Solstice

Male and Female

Spring Equinox 21 March

Autumnal Equinox

21 September

I Ching Sequence of Earlier Heaven

www.terrencepayne.net/

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

To indicate the heavens above a hemisphere is added. This is also linked

with the world egg and new birth.

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

India. China and Egypt

The Chinese hexagrams, the Indian Tattwa and the Djed with its Ankh are variants of the same story.

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Irmunsul and Babylonian Tree of Life as a Palm

www.antiqillum.com/ texts/bg/Rose_Croix/RC008.htm

Knots in the Sky

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Nomes of Lower Egypt:17. Taurus - Aldebaran, Zm³-bhdt, "united Behedet". The united element refers to the crossing of the ecliptic and the celestial equator.http://www.tauta.net/ancientegypt/2004_05_01_ancientegyptarchive.htm

Al Rischa: The Knot, the Cord, The Node associated with Swallow’s Tail

Autumn Sky (October 22 to January 22)

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Festival of the Beautiful Reunion at Behedet

http://www.hethert.org/reunion.htm

Nile Nile

Fuxi and Cang Jin founders of Chinese Civilization 3332 bc

exodus2006.com/ nomocode.htm

www.crystalinks.com/ nibiru.html

Harihara Temple 2, Osian, Detail: nagas bow in submission

www.art-and-archaeology.com/ india/osian/osi8.html

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Lakshmi

http://www.courses.rochester.edu/muller-ortega/rel249/lakshmi/Lakshmi_ArtRep.html

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Ecliptic as a Snake

www.alchemylab.com/ ouroboros.htm

www.esoterica.gr/articles/sciences/ quantic/quantic.htm

Lakshmi (Laxmi)

www.viswaguru.com/ visn.htm

Horse and Ouroboros, Ur

iraqipages.com/iraq_ mesopotamia/ancient.htm

http://iraqipages.com/iraq_mesopotamia/1/Rein%20ring%20of%20gold%20and%20silver%20From%20Ur,%20southern%20Iraq,%20about%202600-2400%20BC.jpg

Knot of Dissolution from Life

Buddhism

Celestial Planisphere with Path of Zodiac

www.tahoeposters.com/ nature.htm

www.auralia.com/mapas/pages/

Infinite Knot of Buddhism

www.hindubooks.org/.../ freegraphics.html

http://www.hitherandyononline.com/Hemp/hemp.htm

www.12stepmiracles.com/ jewelry/jf557.htm

navel

Aquarius and Aries: Khumba, Fishes and Knot. Once in 12 years (= cycle of Jupiter) when Jupiter = Aquarius and when Sun = Aries there is Khumbu Mela.

http://www.astronet.ru:8105/db/msg/1190041

Ashtamangala (8 auspicious symbols) or Tashi Tagey as combined symbol

http://www.inspired-mind.com/images/8signs_s.jpg

Intertwined Dragons looking almost like dolphins.

Pl. IV A talismanic bowl, Toronto Museum (after Ittig 1982: pl.VII, a) Arcangela Santoro

http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html

Knot as Dragons

Knot of Infinity

Pl. III Two intertwined dragons from Qal'eh- i Yazdigird ( after Keall 1977: pl. III, b)

Arcangela Santoro

http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html

Intertwined Dragons

Pl. III Two intertwined dragons from Qal'eh- i Yazdigird ( after Keall 1977: pl. III, b)

Arcangela Santoro

http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html

Intertwined Dragons

Pl. I Two intertwined dragons from Pendzikent, Pendzikent Museum

Arcangela Santoro

http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html

Intertwined Dragons

Pl. II Two intertwined dragons from Gandhara ( after Kurita 1990: fig.716)

Arcangela Santoro

http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html

Intertwined Dragons

Pl. II Two intertwined dragons from Gandhara ( after Kurita 1990: fig.716)

Arcangela Santoro

http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html

Filarete, Ospedale, now Statale

Caduceuswww.crystalinks.com/ caduceus.html

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Tree of Life and Cross

www.agopuntura.org/.../ Dicembre_1997.htm

Talisman Gate, Baghdad

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kurdistannameh/art/dragon/art_dragon_art.htm

Capital of St. Giovanni in Borgo, Pavia. Musei Civici, 12th c.

http://www.thais.it/scultura/anonimo.htm

Cernunnos

http://tattoos.awenpress.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=47

Dragons, Kurdistan

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kurdistannameh/art/dragon/art_dragon_art.htm