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Jewels of the Oracle was the biggest commercial success published by Discis. However, by August 1996, it had nevertheless underperformed compared to forecasts. The company's John Lowry anticipated lifetime sales of 250,000 units, but, according to Anita Elash of Maclean's, "The game was popular, but sales stalled at 80,000 when Discis ran out of marketing money."
The Sibylline Oracles in their existing form are a chaotic medley. They consist of 12 books (or 14) of various authorship, date, and religious conception. The final arrangement, thought to be due to an unknown editor of the 6th century AD (Alexandre), does not determine identity of authorship, time, or religious belief; many of the books are merely arbitrary groupings of unrelated fragments.
The peacock in a crowned flask associated with Venus Splendor Solis (English: "The Splendour of the Sun") is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin . This version dates from around 1582.
The origins of the planetary symbols can be found in the attributes given to classical deities. The Roman planisphere of Bianchini (2nd century, currently in the Louvre, inv. Ma 540) [2] shows the seven planets represented by portraits of the seven corresponding gods, each a bust with a halo and an iconic object or dress, as follows: Mercury has a caduceus and a winged cap; Venus has a ...
The series of twelve hardbacks, each about 100 pages, splits Voyage to Venus and Operation Saturn across two volumes each. After a brief hiatus, the following two stories, 'Man From Nowhere' and 'Rogue Planet' were released in 2008, with The Phantom Fleet and Safari in Space continuing publication into 2009.
"September 10th Is the Day When The Moon, Venus and Saturn Form A Super Triangle And Mercury Bumps Into The Heart Of The Lion"--Jack Horkheimer: August 30, 2004 () 1396 #04-36 "The World Will Not End On Sept. 29th! Even Though A Rather Large Asteroid Will Make Its Closest Approach"--Jack Horkheimer: September 6, 2004 () 1397 #04-37
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
In Traditional Western Occultism, Planetary intelligences are one of the seven divine beings associated with each of the seven traditional planets of astrology. [1] The basic idea is that each planet is part of the Great Chain of Being and has a vast hierarchy of various spirits, intelligences, angels, deities, plants, stones and minerals as partaking in its nature. [2]