What do the world's ancient myths have to say for your life? This book will help you learn to converse with humanity's myths, scriptures, and sacred stories in the language that they are actually speaking: the language of the stars. Clear, systematic explanation accompanied by over fifty illustrations, diagrams and star charts shows the astonishing evidence that virtually all the world's ancient myths (including the stories in the Bible) are built upon a common, worldwide system of celestial metaphor -- and explains the system to you, allowing you to interpret their meaning for yourself, so that you can gain direct access to their profoud wisdom.
Explore recurring patterns which appear in myths around the world, and what they may be trying to tell us. Examine the evidence that these myths may have come from a long-forgotten ancient civilization (or civilizations) of incredible spiritual sophistication, predating the most ancient civilizations known to conventional history such as ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient China, and the ancient Indus-Saraswati civilization. And plumb the depths of spiritual meaning encoded in these Star Myths, and how their celestial metaphors point us towards the presence of an invisible and infinite realm, and the reality of the concept of the Higher Self taught in many cultures where some of the connection to the ancient wisdom has still survived.
Brought to you by David Warner Mathisen, the author of The Undying Stars and of Star Myths of the World, and how to interpret them (Volumes One, Two and Three).
The most complete guide to the ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor, sometimes called Astro-theology, which forms the foundation for virtually all of the scriptures, myths, and sacred stories of humanity -- including the texts we call the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible.
Explore the scriptures and myths of humanity in a new light as you learn to hear the language in which they are all actually speaking: the language of the stars. Star Myths of the World and How to Interpret Them is a series of volumes exploring the amazing evidence of an ancient, world-wide system of metaphor which underlies all of the world's myths, and points to the conclusion that they are all closely related.
Learn how to understand the clues and symbols in the stories which point to specific constellations, and how the constellations fit into the larger heavenly cycles, all of which are used by the ancient wisdom given to our ancestors as a precious inheritance, with information for our benefit and blessing.
Volume One explored evidence that this system is worldwide, sampling a few representative myths and stories from ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient India, ancient China and Japan, and myths from various cultures in Australia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
Volume Two explored the massive evidence that the Greek myths are built on the same worldwide system, examining specific myths, gods, and goddesses -- as well as both the Iliad and Odyssey in depth, for their celestial patterns.
Volume Three provides a broad survey of the celestial foundations of some of the most well-known stories and characters in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, complete with hundreds of full-color illustrations and star charts.
Explore the ancient wisdom of the world's myths as it applies to one of the most common and most serious problems in the modern world: the separation from who we are.
Unresolved psychological trauma can lead to anxiety, depression, addiction, self-sabotage, and even serious physical illness. Forward-thinking doctors, psychologists and healers have in recent decades gained greater understanding of the central role that trauma can play in our lives, and how it can impact our lives without our even realizing what is going on. Many leading doctors in this field describe the effect of trauma as causing us to separate from ourselves -- to suppress important aspects of who we are, even to suppress our essential or authentic self.
Although the use of the term trauma in a psychological sense is relatively new, the world's ancient myths can be shown to be dealing with this very subject: note for instance the amazing prevalence of twins in ancient myths from around the world. These twinned pairs do not actually represent two different individuals: they are actually about the very split that takes place when we separate from our own essential self, from whom we can become alienated and whose existence we often bury and suppress, often without even realizing that we are doing so.
When we realize that these stories can be conclusively shown to be metaphor, we can begin to see that they are not about ancient figures and events external to ourselves: they are in fact about us. And one of the central truths they want to convey has to do with the effects of trauma, the ways it can separate us from who we are, and most importantly that path towards recovering our lost and suppressed essential self.
Myth and Trauma explores the evidence which shows that the world's ancient myths are built on a foundation of celestial metaphor in which characters and events correspond to specific constellations and heavenly cycles, a system which actually underlies the ancient myths of cultures around the globe, on every inhabited continent and island -- and a system which appears to have been designed to impart profound truths we need in our own lives, even in this present day, right where we are.
The world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories, from virtually every culture on every inhabited contient -- and all the islands -- can be shown to be founded upon a common system of celestial metaphor, embodying the heavenly cycles of the sun, the moon, the visible planets, and especially the stars and constellations. This common, world-wide system underlies the characters and episodes found in what are commonly called the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, as well as the myths, scriptures, and sacred traditions of ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient China and Japan, ancient India, ancient Greece and Rome, other parts of Europe including Scandinavia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific, and Australia. The discovery that all these ancient traditions, from all these cultures spread literally around the world, has startling implications for our understanding of humanity's ancient history -- and for our understanding of the challenges we face at this critical moment in history, today.
This book is a collection of essays from the first one thousand posts published in the Mathisen Corollary blog between April 2011 and October 2017, grouped chronologically within eight subject categories:
Contains hundreds of diagrams, illustrations, and star charts.
David Warner Mathisen, author of seven previous books investigating the connection between the myths and the stars, explores the Norse myths in a way you have never seen before, providing the most comprehensive examination yet of the evidence that the world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories from virtually every culture on our planet are built upon a worldwide system of celestial metaphor, using the infinite realm of the heavens to convey profound truths about the Invisible Realm: the Other Realm, the realm of spirit, the realm of the gods.
Star Myths of the World, Volume Four: Norse Mythology begins with the Norse account of the creation, and ends with the inexorable approach of the day of Ragnarok, and along the way examines the identities of the Aesir and the Vanir, the great World Tree Yggdrasil, the gods and goddesses including Odin, Thor, Njord, Freyr, Freyja, Tyr, Loki, Baldr, Hod and others, as well as many of the most memorable adventures and stories preserved in the eddic texts.
You will see dramatic evidence which reveals the connections between specific constellations and celestial features in our night sky and the various characters and events in the ancient myths, as well as stunning connections to the myths and scriptures of other cultures, including those collected in the myths of ancient Greece, ancient India, ancient Egypt, the Bible, and even ancient Japan, as well as the sacred stories of the cultures of the Americas and of the far-flung islands of the Pacific.
Contains over 100 illustrations and star charts.
Open your eyes to an entirely new world, and begin to understand the world's ancient wisdom in an entirely new way, as you learn to listen to the ancient myths in the language they are actually speaking: the language of the stars.
This completely new edition of Star Myths of the World, Volume One, stands as the definitive guide to the ancient world-wide system of celestial metaphor which forms the foundation for the world's ancient myths, scriptures and sacred stories, from virtually every culture on every inhabited continent and island of our planet. Embark on a journey of exploration through the myths of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient India, Ancient China and Japan, and of the cultures of Australia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas. You will encounter astonishing connections between the myths, and see how these connections reveal the existence of a vast ancient system which predates even the most ancient cultures and civilizations known to conventional history. And you will learn to listen to the myths in the language they are actually speaking -- a language of the stars, intended to convey profound (and practical) truths for our benefit and blessing in this life.