Bibliography: D

Devereux, Paul
Earth Lights
Turnstone, 1982

Keywords:
natural sacred sites, megaliths, mounds, petroglyphs, houses of worship, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, archaeoastronomical observatories, symbolic landscaping, ley lines, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, UFOs, Atlantis, prehistoric, ancient, Europe

Comment:
Devereux introduces the concept of a previously unknown form of radiation perceived as UFO-like lights seen around sacred sites. CY

Devereux, Paul
Earth Lights Revelation
Blandford, 1989

Comment:
This contains an extensive and up-to-date bibliography on the subject, and fully recounts the nature of the phenomenon, and all or most of the key research projects that have gone into the study of the lights. KO

Devereux, Paul
Earth Memory: Sacred Sites, Doorways to the EarthÕs Mysteries
Llewellyn/Quantum books, 1992
ISBN 0-87542-188-1

Comment:
Paul was a founder of The Dragon Project in England, a group of scientists, dowsers, psychics, astro-archaeologists, etc. who did studies and experiments on sacred sites in Britain. KO

Comment:
Makes John Michell look like a sober-sided academic. CY

Devereux, Paul
Earthmind, A Modern Adventure in Ancient Wisdom
Harper and Row, 1989
ISBN 0-06-015977-4

NOTE: The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets: A Visual Key to the Heavens, co-authored by Paul Devereux, is listed under Geoffrey Cornelius.

Doczi, Gyorgy
The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
Shambhala, 1981, 1994
150 pp., numerous b&w illustrations
ISBN 0-87773-193-4

Keywords:
natural proportion, patterns, ratio, golden section, spirals, polygons, polyhedra, Pythagoras, Fibonacci, geometry in art-music-architecture, megaliths, houses of worship, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, religious iconography, prehistoric, ancient, medieval, renaissance, Asia, Australia, Crete, Egypt, Europe, Greece, Meso-America, Middle East, North America, Pacific Islands, Rome, South America, world survey

Comment:
Very interesting. BC

Comment:
A classic-in-the-making, as witness its recent reprinting; it draws in part on the work of D'Arcy Thompson's "On Growth and Form" and one would do well to read the two books in tandem. CY

Doob, Penelope
The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Cornell University Press, 1990
LC 89-23993
ISBN 0-8014-2393-7

Keywords:
labyrinths, symbolic landscaping, religion, myth, folklore, cosmology, religious iconography, ancient, medieval, Crete, Europe, Greece, Rome

Comment:
Mostly philosophy and literary symbolism; a couple of pictures of labyrinths not easily found elsewhere. TL

Dragoo, Donald
Mounds for the Dead

Keywords:
mounds, funerary-cemetery-burial sites, prehistoric, North America

Dunham, William
The Mathematical Universe

Keywords:
natural proportion

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