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Release Date:
January 1, 1996
Original Title:
Mythscape: Remembering The End Of The World
Alternate Titles:
Remembering The End Of The World
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 90
Based on more than two decades of systematic research and cross-cultural comparison by comparative mythologist David Talbott, Remembering the End of the World reconstructs a cosmic drama when planets hung in the sky close to the earth–an epoch of celestial wonder giving way to overwhelming terror. This highly visual presentation offers new answers to enigmas that have baffled experts for centuries. Why did every ancient civilization celebrate a former “Age of the Gods”, an age claimed to have ended in earth threatening disaster? What was meant by the lost “Golden Age?” Why did ancient sky worshipers refer to Saturn as “the sun?” Why was Venus worshiped as the “Mother Goddess?” And why did both Old and New World astronomers celebrate the planet Mars as a great warrior whose battles shook the heavens?
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Director:
Ben Ged Low
Editor:
Larry Bollinger
Executive Producer:
Larry Williams
Ronald Van Noy
Elissa Pacifici
Kent Van Noy
Music:
Ben Ged Low
Music Arranger:
Jon Lemon
Producer:
Paul Hillman
Production Manager:
Walter Alter
Special Effects:
Brian Talbott
Technical Advisor:
Wayne Paige
James Olson
Writer:
David Talbott
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