Amphion (Greek) With Zethus, the Boeotian Dioscuri, twin sons of Antiope by Zeus. Abandoned on a mountain, they were raised by a shepherd, eventually reunited with their mother, and became the rulers of Thebes.

They built the walls of Thebes, Amphion fitting the stones together with the music of his lyre. Amphion married Niobe, and after his children were slain and his wife turned into a rock because she had insulted Latona, he killed himself and was buried with his brother in one grave. (SD 2:795).

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Dambulla (Sanskrit) The name of a huge rock in Ceylon. It is about 400 feet above the level of the sea. Its upper portion is excavated, and several large cave-temples, or Viharas, are cut out of the solid rock, all of these being of pre-Christian date.

They are considered as the best- preserved antiquities in the island. The North side of the rock is vertical and quite inaccessible, but on the South side, about 150 feet from its summit, its huge overhanging granite mass has been fashioned into a platform with a row of large cave-temples excavated in the surrounding walls - evidently at an enormous sacrifice of labour and money.

Two Viharas may he mentioned out of the many: the Maha Raja Vihara, 172 ft. in length and 75 in breadth, in which there are upwards of fifty figures of Buddha, most of them larger than life and all formed from the solid rock. A well has been dug out at the foot of the central Dagoba and from a fissure in the rock there constantly drips into it beautiful clear water which is kept for sacred purposes. In the other, the Maha Dewiyo Vihara, there is to be seen a gigantic figure of the dead Gautama Buddha, 7 feet long, reclining on a couch and pillow cut out of solid rock like the rest. "

This long, narrow and dark temple, the position and placid aspect of Buddha, together with the stillness of the place, tend to impress the beholder with the idea that he is in the chamber of death. The priest asserts . . . . that such was Buddha, and such were those (at his feet stands an attendant) who witnessed the last moments of his mortality" (Hardy’s East. Monachism).

The view from Dambulla is magnificent. On the large rock platform which seems to he now more visited by very intelligent tame white monkeys than by monks, there stands a huge Bo-Tree, one of the numerous scions from the original Bo-Tree under which the Lord Siddhartha reached Nirvana. "About 50 ft. from the summit there is a pond which, as the priests assert, is never without water."

(The Ceylon Almanac, 1834.)

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Falling : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Falling or Drowning  

Falling or Drowning

Definition: You dream of falling through the air, frightened. You may or may not strike the ground before awakening. A variant of this dream are images of drowning or near-drowning.

Examples:

• I am running when I trip over a stick and fall over a cliff, going down and down and I am about the hit the rocks below.
• I'm swimming when a giant tidal wave washes over me; I can't breathe.

Source: Patricia Garfield, Ph.D., President of ASD

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Falling : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Falling or Drowning

Falling or Drowning

Definition: You dream of falling through the air, frightened. You may or may not strike the ground before awakening. A variant of this dream are images of drowning or near-drowning.

Examples:

• I am running when I trip over a stick and fall over a cliff, going down and down and I am about the hit the rocks below.
• I'm swimming when a giant tidal wave washes over me; I can't breathe.

Source: Patricia Garfield, Ph.D., President of ASD

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Definition and meaning of Sinkhole Collapse :

Sinkhole Collapse: The peril of a sudden sinking or collapse of land into underground empty spaces created by the action of water on limestone or similar rock formations. This peril is now covered by the latest commercial property forms. Other forms of earth movement continue to be excluded in most cases. (PR)

(Source: InsWeb)

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Vihara (Sanskrit) [from vi-hri to spend or pass time, roam, wander through]

A Buddhist or Jain monastery or temple; originally a hall where the monks met or walked about, afterwards used as temples. Today those viharas are in towns and cities, but in earlier times they were generally rock-temples or caves found only in unfrequented jungles, on mountaintops, and in the most deserted places.

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Ragnarok (Scandianvian Norse). A kind of metaphysical entity called the "Destroyer" and the "Twilight of the Gods", the two-thirds of whom are destroyed at the "Last Battle" in the Edda. Ragnarok lies in chains on the ledge of a rock so long as there are some good men in the world; but when all laws are broken and all virtue and good vanish from it, then Ragnarok will he unbound and allowed to bring every imaginable evil and disaster on the doomed world.

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Vihara (Sanskrit). Any place inhabited by Buddhist priests or ascetics; a Buddhist temple, generally a rock-temple or cave. A monastery, or a nunnery also. One finds in these days Viharas built in the enclosures of monasteries and academies for Buddhist training in towns and cities; but in days of yore they were to be met with only in unfrequented wild jungles, on mountain tops, and in the most deserted places.

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LABYRINTH - maze, archetype of the circuitous quest for wisdom; the five great ones in antiquity were Crossus and Gortyna Crete; Lemos, Greece; Clusium, Etrusca; and lake Moerus, Egypt. Labyrinths have also been depicted on pillar scratches at Pompeii in floor tiles of Toussaints Abbey in France, 18th c. Rajasthani manuscripts, in traditional Zuni sand drawings, the notebook of Paul klee and among Chiriqui rock drawing in Panama, adj. labyrinthine (from Latin via Greek) (NAD)

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GROUND -

1. place on the Earth where we were born in rootedness in our own culture, in physical work, in the body. (Robert Bly)

2. our native soul; the particular combination of climate, air, light and vibration coming from the earth through a certain kind of humus or sand or rock where intuition functions at its peak and the voice of the demiurgos comes through clearly. (Sherman Goldman) (NAD)

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CRYSTAL

Crystallized rock, quartz and gemstones are the highest forms of the mineral kingdom. If you accept the fact that the earth is alive, as the entire manifest universe is alive, then crystals, although not biodes, are centers of mineral "intelligence", deriving from elemental proto-evolution. It is through crystal that messages are broadcast via the air-waves and as earth is the amalgamating force, crystallization precedes formation of the most primitive amino acids of life. Thus, for the adept, crystals are avenues of cosmic information, quantum change and negentropy.

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Linga or Lingam (Sanskrit). A sign or a symbol of abstract creation. Force becomes the organ of procreation only on this earth. In India there are 12 great Lingams of Siva, some of which are on mountains and rocks, and also in temples.

Such is the Kedaresa in the Himalaya, a huge and shapeless mass of rock. In its origin the Lingam had never the gross meaning connected with the phallus, an idea which is altogether of a later date. The symbol in India has the same meaning which it had in Egypt, which is simply that the creative or procreative Force is divine. It also denotes who was the dual Creator - male and female, Siva and his Sakti.

The gross and immodest idea connected with the phallus is not Indian but Greek and pre-eminently Jewish. The Biblical Bethels were real priapic stones, the " Beth-el" (phallus) wherein God dwells. The same symbol was concealed within the ark of the Covenant, the "Holy of Holies". Therefore the "Lingam" even as a phallus is not "a symbol of Siva" only, but that of every "Creator" or creative god in every nation, including the Israelites and their "God of Abraham and Jacob".

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Definition and meaning of bioherm:

bioherm - a body of rock built up by or composed mainly of sedentary organisms, e.g., hard corals, calcareous algae or mollusks, and enclosed or surrounded by rock of different origin

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Piyadasi (Prakrit) [from piya lovely, beloved + dasi from Sanskrit the verbal root dris to behold; Sanskrit priyadarsi]

Lovely to look at; a title applied to the Indian King Asoka (c. 234-198 BC), found on the rock-cut pillar inscriptions he erected. It refers to the love which his subjects bore to their monarch rather than to his physical appearance.

The title is likewise given to Asoka's grandfather Chandragupta, the Sandracottus of the Greeks. Another title given to these two monarchs was devanampriya (the beloved of the gods).

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Pachacamac (Peruvian) The ruins of an ancient wall in Peru, believed to be the remains of a temple, of Cyclopean style -- large rocks of irregular size and shape fitted closely together, and similar to the ruins of Tiahuanaco (also in Peru) and masonry of Easter Island.

"The oldest remains of Cyclopean buildings were all the handiwork of the Lemurians of the last sub-races" (SD 2:317), although the Atlanteans copied the Cyclopean style of the Lemurian buildings, so that some of the Cyclopean remnants are Lemurian in type, but of Atlantean handiwork.

Also "the name given by the Peruvians to the Creator of the universe, represented as a host of creators. On his altar only the first fruits and flowers were laid by the pious" (TG 245).

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Lorelei The legendary maiden who sat on a rock in the Rhine between Bingen and Coblentz, combing her beautiful hair and by her entrancing song bewitching sailors on the river to their doom. She belongs to a numerous class of such mythologic maidens, representing mainly the fascinating powers of the astral light over the unwary pilgrim in search of knowledge.

The astral light partakes of the "watery" cosmic element, and the nature spirits pertaining to water on this plane were called by medieval European mystics the undines, of whose entrancing beauty and singing many tales are told, such as that of Odysseus and the sirens, or the Scandinavian lake maiden.

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Achala acala (Sanskrit) (from a not + the verbal root cal to be moved, agitated)

Immovable, not moving. As a masculine noun, a mountain, rock; also the number seven. As a proper noun, a name of Siva. As a feminine noun, the earth; also one of the ten stages or degrees of a bodhisattva in his progress toward buddhahood. Used in the Bhagavad-Gita (2:24) to describe the self in contradistinction to the not-self: "He is eternal, all-pervading, unchanging and immovable (achala)." Also a heroic charioteer on the side of the Kurus slain by Arjuna.

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Path

• To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path, stumbling over rocks and other obstructions, denotes that you will have a rough encounter with adversity, and feverish excitement will weigh heavily upon you.
• To dream that you are trying to find your path, foretells that you will fail to accomplish some work that you have striven to push to desired ends.
• To walk through a pathway bordered with green grass and flowers, denotes your freedom from oppressing loves.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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Definition and meaning of Woodstock generation:

Woodstock generation

The term Woodstock generation came to define members of the late 1960s counterculture; named for a rock festival held in New York State in August 1969.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

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Volcano [It from Latin Vulcanus the fire god]

Small special manifestations of the general, large-scale phenomenon of volcanism, by which the continents are cyclically subjected to catastrophes, alternatively with the cyclic cataclysmal deluges. The geological record contains proofs of volcanism in the vast outpourings of lava-sheets now found interstratified with the sedimentary rocks. It is the physical manifestation of the work of the kabeiroi, whose father was Vulcan or Hephaestos.

From another standpoint, volcanic phenomena are outlets of energy of various kinds which accumulate under the surface of the globe, dissipating the dangerous accumulations. But for these outlets, the earth would be subjected to far more severe catastrophic changes than those now known to have occurred, and which to a certain extent are still occurring.

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Niobe In Greek mythology, daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She arrogantly compared herself, with 14 children, to Leto who had but two -- Apollo and Artemis. These two killed Niobe's children, and she was turned into a rock.

In one interpretation Niobe represents an Atlantean race, and her seven sons and seven daughters are its branches. She descends from the Atlantides, representative of the doomed continent. Her children are slain by Apollo and Artemis, representing the sons of will and yoga; and she was changed into a stone from which has flowed an unceasing stream -- an allusion to the rivers of lives broken up into the various races and branchlets forming the living flowing stream of human existence.

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Definition and meaning of bedrock:

bedrock - the solid rock of the earth's crust that lies under the soil and other unconsolidated earth materials

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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