Time, Dharma, and Consciousness: Compassion and Mythic Cosmology in the Wer-Auld

By John Knight Lundwall. The concepts of time, dharma, and consciousness are examined in the context of Buddhist teaching and tradition.

Taurus Oedipus and the Riddling Sphinx: A New Interpretation

By John Knight Lundwall: A new and original interpreation of the Oedipus myth. Oedipus is an image of the wobbling axis of the earth and the entire myth that Sophocles built his tragedy on dealt with the precession of the equinoxes.

Mayan Calendar System

Mayan epoch: 11 Aug, 3114 B.C.E. The Mayans had an elaborate calendrical system, no longer in use, which obviously evolved in complete isolation from those of the old world. This system ended with the fall of the Mayan civilization. Most...

The Sacred Power of the World: Dogon Cosmology as the Prototypical Heirocentric Universe

A study of the Dogon myth and ritual, drawing cosmological connections from the world of antiquity.

The Cosmological Space of Sacrifice

Ritual sacrifice is tied to mythic cosmology. Through the image of the bull or ram often sacrificed on the altars of ancient temples the image of the sun raising in Taurus, the Bull, and Aires, the ram is invoked.

Above and Below: The Cosmic Tree and the Deep Well of the Unconscious

by John K. Lundwall In December of 1995 NASA chose a dark and uncluttered pin-point of sky in Ursa Major and directed the eye of the Hubble Telescope towards it. Over a period of ten days or approximately 150 orbits...

The Cosmic Age of Rama in the Ramayana

Specifically, and as the etymologies and history of the root rama will show, the Hindu Rama was the personification of the sun, the husband and father of the earth succoring it out of winter, and the axis-mundi as represented in the sky at the vernal sun rising in the constellation Aires–the ram.

The Red Lands

An update of the "Red Cosmos", this article addresses possible cosmological and mythological connections with the color red and the ancient world.