Download or read book The Pictographic Library of the Ancient Gods written by John C. Compton and published by Compton/Kowanz Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows and demonstrates the mathematical methodology employed to analyse the trigram sequences of the I Ching (The Chinese book of changes). The source material for this analysis is based on a Tibetan Mandala, which is illustrated herein. It is generally known as a Tibetan Calendar Charm. The I Ching is a spiritual book that guards its secrets in a number of coded formats which contain the thoughts, ideas and deep profound wisdom of a long lost civilization that created it. These are all locked within a vast library of pictographic images, which act as a photographic memory of an ancient scribe’s observations.
Download or read book The Secret Computer of the Ancient Gods written by John C. Compton and published by Compton/Kowanz Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The I Ching Project was inaugurated in 1986 when the initial research on an ancient Tibetan Mandala revealed a trigram relationship with the I Ching, the Chinese book of changes. For the past 30 years the author has conducted a private research project, delving deeply into Tantric/Buddhist symbolism and the commentaries of the I Ching. The author’s research work has revealed and conclusively proves the existence of a lost civilisation, whose mathematical and scientific knowledge not only equalled but surpassed its Greek and Egyptian contemporaries. This book contains a series of commentaries, research notes and illustrations selected from the author’s amazing research work which will astonish practitioners, philosophers and scholars of the ancient art of divination. The author demonstrates and show that the scribes of this civilization retained their knowledge and wisdom for posterity within a computerized time capsule of pictographic images. His work proves that the I Ching is not only a book of divination but a profound book of mathematics and science. It also incorporates the original binary code, which can now be attributed to the ancient authors of the I Ching some 4000 years ago.
Download or read book In Search of Ancient Gods written by Erich von Däniken and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1974 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research findings are presented to support the author's theories and speculations about the validity of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Download or read book Evidence of the Gods written by Erich von Daniken and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book opens von Daniken's unique photo archive for the search for traces of our cosmic gods, who came to Earth thousands of years ago. Evidence of the Gods is the best and most impressive visual evidence from prehistoric times to be published along with concise explanations for the images.
Download or read book Ancient Libraries written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
Download or read book The I Ching The T ai Hsuan Ching written by John Clifford Compton and published by Compton/Kowanz Publications. This book was released on 2024-10-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The content of this book differs from the other volumes of the I Ching Project, because it is a mathematical analysis of the T'ai Hsuan Ching , another Chinese Classic, which is considered to be the lost companion of the I Ching. This research document is based on nine magic squares incorporated on an ancient Tibetan Mandala and the 81 linear line symbols of the T'ai Hsuan Ching, each of which have been given a numerical notation based on the transposition of linear line symbols. The transposition of the three linear line symbols of the I Ching is known and may be represented by the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9. However, the transposition of the four linear line symbols of the T'ai Hsuan Ching is NOT known. The author's research and mathematical analysis shows that the transposition of these four linear line symbols may be represented by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, which conclusively proves that the T'ai Hsuan Ching may predate The I Ching as a divination oracle.
Download or read book The Gates of Destiny written by John C. Compton and published by Compton/Kowanz Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of commentaries, research notes and illustrations selected from the author's amazing research work. It shows how the notational values (for trigram transposition) which change the ancient symbolic language of the I Ching into a simple numerical language were oringinally derived from the combined symbolic mathematics of the ancient Ho-T'u - The Dragon Horse diagram and the Lo Shu - The Tortoise diagram. This document provides additional conclusive evidence that the originator(s) of the I Ching employed a mathematical system (developed during the Ch'in and Han dynasties) which encompassed a formalistic natural philosophy that sought to embrace the entire world in a system of number symbolism. In addition, the research work contained herein sets out to prove, by using mathematical operand gates methodology, that the destiny/fate of an individual being is dependent upon their own genetic DNA.
Download or read book The Egyptian Myths A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends Myths written by Garry J. Shaw and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide to the Egyptian myths that sheds new light on an ancient way of understanding the world This survey of Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the creation and evolution of the world and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the manifestations of Egypt’s deities in the natural environment; the inventive ways in which the Egyptians dealt with the invisible forces all around them; and their beliefs about life after death. Through his engaging narrative, Garry Shaw guides us through the mythic adventures of such famous deities as Osiris, the god murdered by his jealous brother Seth; the magical and sometimes devious Isis, who plotted to gain the power of the sun god Re; and Horus, who defeated his uncle Seth to become king of Egypt. He also introduces us to lesser known myths, such as the rebellions against Re; Geb’s quest for Re’s magical wig; and the flaying of the unfortunate god Nemty. From stars and heavenly bodies sailing on boats, to the wind as manifestation of the god Shu, to gods, goddesses, ghosts, and demons—beings that could be aggressive, helpful, wise, or dangerous—Shaw goes on to explain how the Egyptians encountered the mythological in their everyday lives.
Download or read book The Key Codes of Fu Hsi King Wen written by John C. Compton and published by Compton/Kowanz Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of research notes and graphical illustrations selected from the author’s amazing research work. It shows how: · The Sixty-Four hexagrams were derived by using combinatory trigrams selected from the Earlier Heaven and Later Heaven trigram cyclic sequences. · The legendary authors of the I Ching, known as Fu Hsi and King Wen, used Key Coded Matrices which enabled them to change the hexagrams of the ancient Ma-wang-tui into the Standard Modern edition. · The formulation of the Trigram Order of Completion was derived by using Knight’s Chess /binary codes and the manipulation of hexagram identification numbers. · The cyclic sequences and trigram line to line transitions were utilized to formulate the King Wen’s hexagram arrangement. · The natural numerical notation for each individual trigram was mathematically derived. · The author’s inter-face code was derived and used to determine the mathematical methodology of the Genetic Code. · Trigram lines are manipulated to form the Inner and Outer Nuclear trigrams/ hexagrams. · The Genetic Code was determined from Fu Hsi’s diagram of the derivation of the Sixty-Four hexagrams. It also includes the constructional details of an analytical model calculator which can be created from the actual design details shown within this book. This document provides the conclusive evidence that the originator(s) of the I Ching used a mathematical system which encompassed a formalistic natural philosophy that sought to embrace the entire world in a system of number symbolism. It shows the links to the ancient Indian Vedic mathematical system which reveals the relationship between the I Ching and the Binary / Genetic Codes.
Download or read book The Library at Night written by Alberto Manguel and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of A History of Reading, this book is an account of Manguel’s astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The Library at Night begins with the design and construction of Alberto Manguel’s own library at his house in western France – a process that raises puzzling questions about his past and his reading habits, as well as broader ones about the nature of categories, catalogues, architecture and identity. Thematically organized and beautifully illustrated, this book considers libraries as treasure troves and architectural spaces; it looks on them as autobiographies of their owners and as statements of national identity. It examines small personal libraries and libraries that started as philanthropic ventures, and analyzes the unending promise – and defects – of virtual ones. It compares different methods of categorization (and what they imply) and libraries that have built up by chance as opposed to by conscious direction. In part this is because this is about the library at night, not during the day: this book takes in what happens after the lights go out, when the world is sleeping, when books become the rightful owners of the library and the reader is the interloper. Then all daytime order is upended: one book calls to another across the shelves, and new alliances are created across time and space. And so, as well as the best design for a reading room and the makeup of Robinson Crusoe’s library, this book dwells on more "nocturnal" subjects: fictional libraries like those carried by Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster; shadow libraries of lost and censored books; imaginary libraries of books not yet written. The Library at Night is a fascinating voyage through the mind of one our most beloved men of letters. It is an invitation into his memory and vast knowledge of books and civilizations, and throughout – though mostly implicitly – it is also a passionate defence of literacy, of the unique pleasures of reading, of the importance of the book. As much as anything else, The Library at Night reminds us of what a library stands for: the possibility of illumination, of a better path for our society and for us as individuals. That hope too, at the close, is replaced by something that fits this personal and eclectic book even better: something more fragile, and evanescent than illumination, though just as important.
Download or read book The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius written by Johann Amos Comenius and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler written by Martin Palmer and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a unique guide book that takes us on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, and helps us to discover and explore a multitude of sacred sites: ancient stone circles and tombs, Christian and pre-Christian shrines, medieval synagogues, small country churches and much more.
Download or read book Black Ships Before Troy written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Greek myth fans, those who can’t get enough of the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, and readers who have aged out of Rick Riordan, this classroom staple and mythology classic is perfect for learning about the ancient myths! As the gods and goddesses of Olympus scheme, the ancient world is thrown into turmoil when Helen, the most beautiful woman in all of Greece, is stolen away by her Trojan love. Inflamed by jealousy, the Greek king seeks lethal vengeance and sends his black war ships to descend on the city of Troy. In the siege that follows, history’s greatest heroes, from Ajax to Achilles to Odysseus, are forged in combat, and the brutal costs of passion, pride, and revenge must be paid. In the end, the whims of the gods, the cunning of the warriors, and a great wooden horse will decide who emerges victorious. Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time and Rosemary Sutcliff's retelling of the classic saga embodies all of the astonishing drama, romance, and intrigue of ancient Greece. Don’t miss The Wanderings of Odysseus, the companion to Black Ships Before Troy, and follow Odysseus on his adventure home. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Jewelry written by Ambrose Lansing and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This picture book features images of Ancient Egyptian Jewelry covering works from Pre-dynastic shell necklaces to intricately designed gold earrings of the Roman period. A brief introductory essay discusses the history of jewelry and the evolution of Ancient Egyptian jewelry craftsmanship.
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Myths written by Catherine Chambers and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 180 artworks and photographs, Ancient Egyptian Myths is an engaging and highly informative exploration of a rich mythology that still fascinates today.
Download or read book Picture Worlds written by David Saunders and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from April 10 to July 29, 2024, and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University from September 14 to December 15, 2024.
Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by Philip Steele and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a general history of the cultural and social aspects of Ancient Egypt, in a book that also provides readers with instructions for creating such related craft projects as a miniature pyramid, a canopic jar, and a water clock.
