GA 180 · Lectures

Mysterienwahrheiten und Weihnachtsimpulse. Alte Mythen und ihre Bedeutung

Mystery Truths and Christmas Reflections; Ancient Myths and Their Meaning

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-1800-1 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-1801-3 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	2017	362	the publisher's online catalog
	1980		AnthroWiki (German)
	2017		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

17 units in the printed table of contents, about 106,778 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1966.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Basel, 23. Dezember 1917	1917-12-23	Basel	lecture	6110
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 24. Dezember 1917	1917-12-24	Dornach	lecture	4619
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 25. Dezember 1917	1917-12-25	Dornach	lecture	4904
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 26. Dezember 1917	1917-12-26	Dornach	lecture	5429
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 29. Dezember 1917	1917-12-29	Dornach	lecture	5149
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 30. Dezember 1917	1917-12-30	Dornach	lecture	6762
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, Silvester 1917			text	6095
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 4.Januar 1918	1918-01-04	Dornach	lecture	6137
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Januar 1918	1918-01-05	Dornach	lecture	6459
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 6.Januar 1918	1918-01-06	Dornach	lecture	5956
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. Januar 1918	1918-01-08	Dornach	lecture	6233
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 11.Januar 1918	1918-01-11	Dornach	lecture	6322
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12.Januar 1918	1918-01-12	Dornach	lecture	7735
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13.Januar 1918	1918-01-13	Dornach	lecture	10068
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14.Januar 1918	1918-01-14	Dornach	lecture	6748
SECHZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17.Januar 1918	1918-01-17	Dornach	lecture	10295
HINWEISE			apparatus	1757

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	16 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	16 the site's completeness audit
Words served	105346 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA180/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1966 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page SBC1971

Translator	M. Cotterell the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1971
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table AM1929	G. Adams Kaufmann the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1929
Mysterious Truths and Christmas Impulses the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Ancient Myths and the New Isis Mystery the SteinerBooks catalog CW 180 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: James H. Hindes, Mabel Cotterell, Mado Spiegler, Signe Eklund Schaefer	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2018	9781621482284	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	16	14, 2, 0	618	4, 7

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	18 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	32 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	1 plates the site's blackboard index

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Mysterienwahrheiten und Weihnachtsimpulse. Alte Mythen und ihre Bedeutung (GA 180), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/180/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/180/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions SBC1971.

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Witnesses

Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.

the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-11-02a.db · sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_180
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 f719dc89c34c6c12
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA180/English/SBC1971/AncMyt_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ (the master table)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04
the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations: https://rsarchive.org/blog/Translation2024.html · 2024-08-01, clarification 2025-03-18
the library's own account of its translation process
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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