M Y T H S ARE H I S T O R Y
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  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis >
      • 2 Definitions
      • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony >
      • 5 Time After Time
      • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
      • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes >
      • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony >
      • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
      • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains >
      • 14 As Above, So Below
      • 15 Foregone Ages Past
      • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts >
      • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History >
      • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth
-- CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION --
The Mythopoeic Cosmovision (Series)
Volume 3:
MYTHS ARE HISTORY
1)   Introduction: On World Mythology
      As a Global Record of Historical Catastrophism
1.     Premise: On the Global Unanimity of Myth
        On the History of Comparative World Mythology

2.     Proposition: On Myth as an Oral Record of Early Prehistory 
        On Historical Catastrophism as an Explanation for Mythic                    Cosmogonies
        On the Long-lived Lineage of Catastrophist Speculation


3.     Demonstration: On the Revaluation of Myth by Applied                      Historical Astronomy
        On the Ultimate Instability of the Solar System
        On Modern Observational Evidence for the Solar System's                    Chaotic Evolution
        
      
                      
“In the world's literature there exist books, usually little known, which accidentally or by design may happen to be assembled on one shelf in one library. These, taken together, will yield so clear and complete a picture of human existence, its path and its goal, that there will be no further doubts about the destiny of humankind.”
          — P.D. Ouspensky

"It is a truth perpetually, that accumulated facts, lying in disorder, begin to assume some order when an hypothesis is thrown among them."
          — Herbert Spencer

"If you wish to untie a knot, you must first understand how it was tied." 
          — Buddha
2)   When Seeing Was Believing
          1.     On the Primacy of Sight at Primary Cultural Sites
          2.     On Solving the Problem of Partial Perspectives
          3.     On Reconciling Cross-Cultural Similarities & Differences

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3)     Myths of Creation: A Comparative World Symposium

        On Seeing the Past Anew:
        Notes on the Historical Approach to Myths of Creation

                    First: A New Impartial Gathering ... 
                    Second: A Global Synoptic View ...
                 Third: An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...

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  • Home
  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis >
      • 2 Definitions
      • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony >
      • 5 Time After Time
      • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
      • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes >
      • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony >
      • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
      • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains >
      • 14 As Above, So Below
      • 15 Foregone Ages Past
      • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts >
      • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History >
      • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth