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Двипа на санскрите по-любому остров, а потому ляп есть.

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The Seven Dwipas apportioned to Priyavrata's septenary progeny refer to several localities: first of all to our planetary chain. Jambu-dwipa alone representing our globe, the six others are the (to us) invisible companion globes of this earth. This is shown by the very nature of the allegorical and symbolic descriptions.

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Ziatz

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Тем более что в др. месте в Т.Д. материк первой расы назван "нерушимая священная земля".

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The reasons for this name are explained as follows: This "Sacred Land" -- of which more later on -- is stated never to have shared the fate of the other continents; because it is the only one whose destiny it is to last from the beginning to the end of the Manvantara throughout each Round. It is the cradle of the first man and the dwelling of the last divine mortal, chosen as a Sishta for the future seed of humanity. Of this mysterious and sacred land very little can be said, except, perhaps, according to a poetical expression in one of the Commentaries, that the "pole-star has its watchful eye upon it, from the dawn to the close of the twilight of 'a day' of the GREAT BREATH."

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Ziatz

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Безант имела в виду явно не этот отрывок, потому что тут говорится про полярную звезду.

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Ziatz

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Я не уверен, может быть и этот отрывок. Просто он у вас был обрезан, а перед этим сказано:

"It is proposed, then, to call the first continent, or rather the first terra firma on which the first Race was evolved by the divine progenitors: -- I. "The Imperishable Sacred Land." The reasons for this name are explained as follows: ..."

Terra firma — это выражение, ясно указывающее на континент или остров и исключающее плавучие острова, льдины и т.п.

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But historically, or better, perhaps, ethnologically and geologically, the meaning is different. The land of the Hyperboreans, the country that extended beyond Boreas, the frozen-hearted god of snows and hurricanes, who loved to slumber heavily on the chain of Mount Riphaeus, was neither an ideal country, as surmised by the mythologists, nor yet a land in the neighbourhood of Scythia and the Danube. It was a real Continent, a bona-fide land which knew no winter in those early days, nor have its sorry remains more than one night and day during the year, even now. The nocturnal shadows never fall upon it, said the Greeks; for it is the land of the Gods, the favourite abode of Apollo, the god of light, and its inhabitants are his beloved priests and servants. This may be regarded as poetised fiction now; but it was poetised truth then.

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sova

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В смысле, маленькая была очень эта "твёрдая земля".

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sova

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Это потом она начала расти, от неё ответвился какой-то, типа, каменный пояс и т.д., и т.п.

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She travailed harder for the third (race) and her waist and navel appeared above the water. It was the belt, the sacred Himavat, which stretches around the world.

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That it is reached by those who can secure the services of the twelvelegged progeny of the crocodile and the female hippopotamus, whose legs become at will twelve wings; or by those who have the patience to wait for the good pleasure of Simorgh-anke, who promised that before she dies she will reveal the hidden continent to all, and make it once more visible and within easy reach, by means of a bridge, which the Ocean Devs will build between that portion of the "dry island" and its severed parts. This relates, of course, to the seventh race, Simorgh being the Manvantaric cycle.

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sova

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Ну, можно, конечно, считать, что эта "священная земля" является чем-то бесплотным и потому невидимым, но это будет ооочень небуквальное толкование ТД.

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Bailly thought he saw in this horse a twelve-oared ship. The Secret Doctrine teaches that the early Third Race built boats and flotillas before it built houses. But the "horse," though a much later animal, has, nevertheless, a more occult primitive meaning. The crocodile and the hippopotamus were held sacred and represented divine symbols, both with the ancient Egyptians and with the Mexicans. Poseidon is, in Homer, the God of the Horse, and assumes that form himself to please Ceres. Arion, their progeny, is one of the aspects of that "horse," which is a cycle.

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sova

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Таким методом можно извлечь практически любой желаемый смысл из любого текста.

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