Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology (Third Ed, 2011) by William Harwood

Author:William Harwood [Harwood, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent Custom Press
Published: 2013-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

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Maccabees “Hammers”; Leaders of the successful Jewish rebellion against Seleukid rule in the second century BCE; Sons of the high priest Matathyah bar Hasmon; precursors of the Hasmonean monarchy, founded by Simon Hasmon, the only son of Matathyah to survive the war.

MACCABEES 1 Maccabees is an account of the Maccabees’ war against the Seleukids, written by a Sadducee. 2 Maccabees is an account of the same war, written by a Pharisee. 3 Maccabees is an account of Ptolemaias IV’s attempt in 207 BCE to enter Yahweh’s temple in Jerusalem. It has no connection with the Maccabee wars. 4 Maccabees is a treatise on moral philosophy, using the Maccabee wars to illustrate its arguments. No MACCABEES book is included in Jewish or Protestant bibles. Only the first two are included in Catholic and Orthodox bibles. Only the first is useful as a source of history.

McCarthy, Senator Joseph An American who did more for the Communist cause in America than the entire KGB. McCarthyism The systematic persecution of all persons who supported, had ever supported, or refused to deny that they had supported, communist theory; later generalized to mean persecution of dissent in any form.

MacLaine, Shirley High priestess of hogwash, whose books on reincarnation and entity possession, beginning with Out on a Limb, revived the long discredited spiritualism scam and helped part thousands of new marks from millions of dollars. While it was reasonable at first to view MacLaine as the channelers’ most prominent victim rather than their co-conspirator, the fact that she now derives a significant proportion of her own income from the peddling of pseudoscience at least raises the suspicion that she may have graduated from crank to humbug. see also channeling.

McQueen, Steve American movie actor whose contributory negligence does not nullify the fact that his death was hastened by medical quacks who treated him with the inert substance, Laetrile, in the pretence that it was a cancer treatment. By putting his faith in a worthless snake oil, McQueen denied himself legitimate chemical and radiation therapy that may conceivably have prolonged his life. While the doctors responsible for McQueen’s death may have believed that Laetrile is not valueless as a cancer treatment, they are at the very least guilty of negligent homicide.

Madonna of the Seven Moons 1945 British science fiction movie about a Roman matron who disappeared for long periods of time, during which she assumed a different name, a different personality and a different moral code. The movie showed the woman as possessing two different personalities, neither of which was aware of the other’s existence. But because the fantasy concept of multiple personality was touted as “based on fact,” the movie encouraged widespread belief in a nonexistent phenomenon, and led directly to The Three Faces of Eve.

magdalene Hellenized Aramaic word that meant prostitute. Magellan, Ferdinand The man who, in 1519 CE, first sailed around the world and thereby satisfied even hardcore scientific illiterates that the educated classes who had regarded a round earth as established fact for almost two thousand years were right.

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