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Title: The Myth of Replacement: Stars, Gods, and Order in the Universe by Thomas D. Worthen ISBN: 0-8165-1200-0 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: May, 1991 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $48.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Astromythology - a sound appraisal
Comment: It is unfortunate that I only recently came across this book. Had I done so some years earlier, it would have been most valuable as another reference basis in my biography of Gerald Massey - a strong advocate of astromythology in the formation of religious eschatology. This book ranks well with the researches of Jane Sellars "The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt" (1992) and Santillana and Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill. An essay on myth and the frame of time" (1969).

Rating: 3
Summary: EXCEPTIONAL TREATMENT OF MTYH AND ASTRONOMY
Comment: This book is an attempt to persuade the reader that many of the worlds myths, most noticeably a number of Greek myths, are constructed after a paradigm that the author calls The Myth of Replacement. Noticing that stories that have an overt theme of dynastic struggle, or father-conflict, have many seemingly indicental elements in common he posits the paradigm about nine themes:struggle, sexual mores violated, male and female sexual symbols, fulfilled sexuality which symbolizes right running, sexuality abrogated which symbolizes wrong running, hiding, destruction and death, restoration to the golden age, meaningful names and etymologies, cosmological connexions. After thoroughly corroborating the paradigm through a detailed examination of many Greek myths, he attempts to document his theory that this paradigm of replacement is rooted in the astronomical phenomenon of precession, the most popular adumbration of which is the Age of Aquarius [replacing the age of Pisces].