World Science Database Home Scientists Abstracts Books Events Journals Experiments Topics Index More Find Login Scientists Interests Profession Websites Notables Countries World Map Recent Memorials Memorial More *Ev Cochrane* ev.cochrane@gmail.com Tel: 515-708-1776 PO Box 1092 Ames, IA 50014 United States Map It *View count:* 80 *Cochrane, * (*Easy Link:* http://www.worldsci.org/people/_Cochrane) Independent Writer and Researcher Interests: Ancient Myth, History, and Evolutionary Biology Nationality: USA *Related Websites:* Maverick Science *Books:* 2010 On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds 2006 Starf*cker 2001 The Many Faces of Venus 1997 Martian Metamorphoses *Abstracts Online:* 2011 Ancient Testimony for a Comet-like Venus *Event Attendence:* 2011-07-06 18th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference Conference will attend *Biography* Ev Cochrane (M.S. Iowa State University) is the author of the following books: Martian Metamorphoses (1997); The Many Faces of Venus (2001); Starf*cker (2006); and On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** *Books by Cochrane * *View count:* 81 *Martian Metamorphoses* /by Ev Cochrane / Publisher: Aeon Press Year: 1997 ISBN: 0965622908 ISBN: 978-0965622905 Read it now online Buy it now *Description* The planet Mars in ancient myth and religion: summary and analysis. A subject barely touched upon up to now is the mythology of Mars. What do ancient traditions the world over remember about the role of the planet Mars? Unbelievable as it may sound, stories drawn from all corners of the world tell a remarkable similar picture of the identity of Mars. The author shows in an unequivocal way, though in a lucid and entertaining style, how the mythology of Mars (as well as some other planets) is the key to a new understanding of the beginning of our civilization and the history of the earth. Well known figures such as Hercules, Samson, Mars, Apollo and Hercules are shown to represent Mars. Their lives are closely mirrored in the lives of Gilgamesh (ancient Iraq), Horus (ancient Egypt), Tezcatlipoca (Mexico), Mura (Amazonia), Murukan and Indra (India), Maui (New Zealand) and numerous others. These heroes, all dragon-slayers and furious warriors, were at the same time the grounders of civilisation, according to our own forebears. This book has been an enormous eye-opener for me and will be for thousands of others. Carefully documented at every page, it invites you to start your own investigation and triggers the imagination. The time may not be ripe, but nothing withholds from getting involved in a better understanding of the true nature of our religion and our history. - Rens Van der Sluijs, amazon *View count:* 80 *The Many Faces of Venus* /by Ev Cochrane / Publisher: Aeon Press Year: 2001 ISBN: 0965622909 *Description* The planet Venus in ancient myth and religion: summary and analysis. *View count:* 81 *Starf*cker* /by Ev Cochrane / Pages: 168 Publisher: Google Books Year: 2006 ISBN: 097728512X Read it now online *Description* The catastrophic conjunction of Venus and Mars in ancient myth and religion. *View count:* 84 *On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds* /by Ev Cochrane / Pages: 262 Publisher: Lulu Press Year: 2010 ISBN: 978-0557389438 Buy it now *Description* Essays on the role of Venus and Mars in ancient myth and modern science. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Papers by Ev Cochrane * *Ancient Testimony for a Comet-like Venus* (2011) *Ev Cochrane * PO Box 1092, Ames, IA 50014, United States; ev.cochrane@gmail.com , 515-708-1776, www.maverickscience.com /Proceedings of the NPA , Volume 8, pp. 121-126/ /2011, 18th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference, College Park, MD, United States/ *Keywords: Venus, comet, Inanna, Eye, cosmic disaster* *Lookup :* comet (2), venus (9), cosmic (14) *Abstract:* The paper summarizes literary and iconographic evidence for a comet-like Venus in ancient sources. In the earliest writings from Mesopotamia the planet Venus is denoted by a pictograph which shows a spiraling ?comet-like? image. A very similar form is attested in the earliest religious texts from ancient Egypt?the so-called Pyramid Texts?wherein it is employed to denote a comet-like celestial phenomenon, one associated with Venus. The question arises as to how to explain such testimony? Is it possible that the planet Venus formerly presented a comet-like form?