Word: moons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesus' real mission, explains Agabus-Graves, was to "destroy the power of the Female"-i.e., of Jehovah's predecessor, rival and unacknowledged consort, the Great Mother Goddess or Triple Moon Goddess, known in the Eastern Mediterranean lands by various names, including Hecate and Astarte. She had ruled Canaan before the Israelites came; her worship included ritual prostitution, and Jesus' mother Miriam (Mary in the English Scriptures) had actually been born, so the High Priest said, "under the old dispensation," as a result of a dreamlike unmarital incident in a garden during the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus...
Japan too celebrated the harvest moon with a "Moon Viewing Festival." Millions of Japanese came out to gaze skyward, to dance and feast in honor of harvest home. Some remembered that in Japanese tradition the moon also symbolizes homesickness. Outside the cream-colored Russian Embassy in Tokyo, 3,000 men & women, mostly elderly farmers, marched slowly back & forth, bowing as they passed the big iron gate. In their hands were small white banners decorated with moons. One banner was inscribed: "Oh moon, tell me where...
...marchers were members of the "Federation of Families for the Speedy Return of Japanese Soldiers in the Northern Areas." To the Russians they presented a humble petition: "It is full moon now. We are sure that our soldier sons are looking at the same moon, worrying about us as we are worried about them. We ask for your humane consideration...
Ethel Barrymore, 67, first lady of the U.S. theater, sped from Hollywood to Manhattan-but not to Broadway. What sent her packing was grandmotherhood, her first (see MILESTONES). She was not homesick for the theater; she liked Hollywood fine-the weather, the sunsets, the Pacific, the moon. As for cinemacting: "It's so much easier than the stage," said she, "it's a shame to take their money...
Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But the bands are 30 feet apart, and they race past a telescope's lens at more than 1,000 miles per hour. No photographic plate or observer's eye is big enough or fast enough to catch them...