Research Catalog

Title

Constructing a new world map / Steven Strong, Evan Strong.

Author

Strong, Steven, 1953-

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Strong, Evan.

Description

xiv, 165 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Nearly fifty thousand years ago Australian Aboriginals set sail seeking new horizons. As they arrived on distant shores, they brought with them beliefs and a lifestyle unknown elsewhere. Their legacy was a mixed blessing. Although founding the basis of modern culture and cooperative living, they also exported knowledge of one errant practice." "These mariners did not volunteer to leave Australia, they were banished for selecting an agricultural practice that offended the Ancestral Spirits and the land. Living in the first Garden of Eden, as it was with Cain and Abel who chose to farm the land and animals, they were exiled for breaking a sacred covenant with the Dreaming. Common sense would dismiss these radical claims, but findings made at Aboriginal sites, ancient graves, and cave walls, along with new advances in genetics, have created circumstances that require the construction of a new world map." "Recent discovery of Gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi, particularly scriptures devoted to Mary and Jesus, reveal the ancient mystical tradition that began in the Dreaming was the inspiration behind their teachings. The message, preached by both the Dreaming, and Mary and Jesus is as relevant and important today as it was fifty thousand years ago."--Jacket.

Subject

• Nag Hammadi codices
• Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
• Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
• Gnosticism > Origin
• Gnostic literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. First Dreaming -- Ch. 2. First Colonists -- Ch. 3. Veiled Mirror -- Ch. 4. One Big Family; Hobbits, Yowies, Mega-Fauna, Orcas, Dolphins, Gracile and Robust Humans -- Ch. 5. First Among Equals -- Ch. 6. Ancient Gnostic Path -- Ch. 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin -- Ch. 8. Serpent: God's Everlasting Blessing or Humanities Eternal Curse -- Ch. 9. Isis and/or Mary, Jesus and/or Osiris; it's all part of the Dreaming -- Ch. 10. Voices of the First Day.

ISBN

• 9780761840817
• 0761840818

LCCN

^^2008925444

OCLC

229021656

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library