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Western Esoteric
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Atlantis and the Gods of Antiquity (21)
The mythologies of many nations contain accounts of gods who "came out of the sea." Certain shamans among the American Indians tell of holy men dressed in birds' feathers and wampum who rose out of the blue waters and instructed them in the arts and crafts. Among the legends of the Chaldeans is that of Oannes, a partly amphibious creature who came out of the sea and taught the savage peoples along the shore to read and write, till the soil, cultivate herbs for healing, study the stars, establish rational forms of government, and become conversant with the sacred Mysteries. Among the Mayas, Quetzalcoatl, the Savior-God (whom some Christian scholars believe to have been St. Thomas), issued from the waters and, after instructing the people in the essentials of civilization, rode out to sea on a magic raft of serpents to escape the wrath of the fierce god of the Fiery Mirror, Tezcatlipoca.
Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 9 (6)
Here, too, began their song, which they call camucú; they sang it, but only the pain in their hearts and their innermost selves they expressed in thei...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter LIII B (7)
It is the god of the Sektit galley, and of the Mââtit galley, who hath brought them to me at Heliopolis
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter CXLIX (62)
Ye gods who live in the water of Cher-āba, ye powers of the high flood, open to me your ponds, open to me your lakes, that I may take of your water,...
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Neoplatonic
And Daemons. (76)
The Aquatic when applied to Divine Natures signifies a Government inseparable from Water, and hence the Oracle calls the Aquatic Gods, Water Walkers.
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Gnostic
The Human Appears (The Human Appears)
A voice called from the exalted heavenly realm, The human exists and the human child. The first ruler, Yaldabaoth, heard the voice and thought it had...
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Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 9 (9)
The speech of the god was also changed when they were given their god there, in Tulán, near the stone; their speech was changed when they came from...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter CXLIX (61)
There is a serpent belonging to it, who comes from the two wells at Elephantine, at the gate of the water. He goes with the water, and stops at the...
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Ancient Egyptian
A Series Of Reed-floats And Ferryman Texts, Utterances 503-522 (505)
1089 To say: I am come forth from Buto, to the Souls of Buto, 1089 adorned with the adornment of Horus, 1089 clothed with the clothes of Thot. 1089...
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Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 8 (8)
First there were Tohil, Avilix, and Hacavitz. Great was their glory, their strength, and their power over the gods of all the tribes. Many were their...
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Gnostic
Derdekeas Dons a Fiery Garment and Has Sex with Nature (2)
"And my garment of fire, according to the will of the majesty, went down to what is strong, and to the unclean portion of nature that the power of...
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Ancient Egyptian
Chapter CXLIX (57)
When the river is full and green like the flowing sap which comes out of Osiris, I take its water, I draw from its flood like the great god who is in...
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Mesoamerican
Part IV, Chapter 6 (4)
Certainly they crossed the sea when they came there to the East, when they went to receive the investiture of the kingdom. And this was the name of...
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Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 9 (5)
Immediately afterward Tohil, Avilix, and Hacavitz were turned to stone, together with the deified beings the puma, the jaguar, the snake, the cantil,...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter II (11)
And on the fifth day l He created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by His ha...
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Christian Scripture
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXIX. Parables: the Mustard Seed, the Leaven, the Merchantman, the Net—parable of the Tares Explained—the Tempest Quelled (30)
Then he arose and rebuked the winds, and the raging of the water: he said unto the sea,
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Mesoamerican
Part I, Chapter 4 (1)
IT WAS CLOUDY AND TWILIGHT THEN ON the face of the earth. There was no sun yet. Nevertheless, there was a being called Vucub-Caquix, who was very...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter XIV: Greek Plagiarism From the Hebrews. (102)
Thou know st Him not. Now He appears as fire, Dread force; as water now; and now as gloom; And in the beasts is dimly shadowed forth, In wind, and...
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Mesoamerican
Part III, Chapter 6 (2)
They took turns at watching the Great Star called Icoquih, which rises first before the sun, when the sun rises, the brilliant Icoquih, which was...
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Zoroastrian
Chapter XVIII (5)
There are places where that fish is written of as 'the Ariz of the water;' as it says that the greatest of the creatures of Aûharmazd is that fish,...
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Sufi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (10-18)
Thou art a duck, and flourishest on land and water, And dost not, like a domestic fowl, dig up the house. Thou art a king of "the sons of Adam...
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