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75 pages of results. 91. Solomon's Temple: An Astronomical Observatory [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Observatory Charles McDowell I. Introduction To some readers the title of this article may appear offensive. It might imply that the basic purpose of the Temple of Solomon was not worship of God but the collection of astronomical data. My intention, however, is to show that such worship in Solomon's time required certain astronomical skills for the preparation of calendars which in the case of the Jews were rather sophisticated. These skills were so advanced, in fact, we could easily claim that practitioners possessed the necessary knowledge to prepare charts for the navigation of the high seas. Because they were closely associated with the Phoenicians who helped construct the temple, we might also consider that the Phoenicians obtained ...
92. Astronomical Dating and Calendrics [Journals] [Aeon]
... extensive. Efforts in this direction were concerned with only six documents, of which the two most recent- originating as late as early Christian times- contained statements referring to a so-called "Sothic period" said to have been used by the ancient Egyptians in their reckoning of time. This period is calculated to cover 1460 years of the Julian calendar, and depends on the first heliacal rising of a fixed star which spends part of the year below the horizon. The following discussion of the six documents in question needs to be prefaced by the statement that the ancient Egyptians themselves left no references to a Sothic period or a Sothic calendar of any sort. Concrete support for such a ...
93. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Four [Books]
... Marduk = the subjugation of that chaos prior to the establishment of universal order. After Marduk has killed Tiamat he proceeds to split her body into two parts. From one half he fashions the vault of heaven and from the other the solid earth. He then fixed the order and the courses of the various heavenly bodies, ordaining the yearly calendar and the monthly phases of the moon. Finally, he created man for the service of the gods, and the world takes on more or less its present form. It seems to me, then, that since this battle is part of a creation epic and since it takes place prior to the very creation of man, it ...
94. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... of Heaven, ploughed by the heavenly Directing Bull, our Taurus, which from about 3880 to about 1730 B.C . was first of the twelve. Although our knowledge of that country's astronomy is as yet limited, it is certain that the Akkadian names of the months were intimately connected with the divisions of this great circle; the calendar probably being taken from the stars about 2000 B.C ., according to Professor Archibald Henry Sayce, of Oxford. Thence it passed to the Jews through Assyria and Aramaea, as the identity of its titles in those countries indicates; and the eleven, or twelve, signs for a time became with that people objects of idolatrous ...
95. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Five [Books]
... as fig.1 at the end of this book. Here, then, is Humboldt's account; "First cycle. Its duration is 13x400+ 6 5206 years. This number is indicated on the right in the lower picture by nineteen rounds, thirteen of which are surmounted by a feather. We have already observed, speaking of the calendar, that the hieroglyphic of the square of twenty is a feather; and that, like the nails of the Etruscans and the Romans, more rounds indicated among the Mexicans the number of the years. This first age, which corresponds to the age of justice (Sakia Youga) of the Hindoos, was called Tlaltonatiuh, age of ...
96. Tiahuanaco and the Delug [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Nanabozu, the Crows' Coyote, the Greek Deukabon and Pyrrha, the Chinese Noah Kuen, and the Polynesian Tangaloa. It is evident there was a world-wide deluge 12,000 years ago. Global doomsdays are conspicuous in the Hopi Indian legends, the Finnish Kalevala epic, the Mayan Chilam Balam and Popol Vuh, and in the Aztec calendar, the last of which predicts that our present civilization will be destroyed by "nahuatl olin" or "earth movement," that is, devastation by earthquake. Due to Aztec cyclic theory this will become the fifth doomsday after the "death of the Jaguars," "the death of the Tempests," "the death of ...
97. Solving the Exodus Mystery by Ted T. Stewart [Journals] [SIS Review]
... at Xois from 1443-1260, Dynasty 16 (Hyksos) at Memphis from 1341-1224, Dynasty 15 (Hyksos) at Avaris from 1331-1224, and Dynasties 13 and 17 at Thebes from 1341-1224, so he has Dynasty 18 starting in 1224. In many ways this chapter is much weaker than the description and synchronisms with the earlier Pharaohs. Chapters on calendars and astronomical dating follow. The actual dates Stewart uses, he claims, are justified by Huber's computations. But, in the reviewer's opinion, the careful synchronisms of the biblical account of the time from Abraham to Moses, along with the documents from the 12th Dynasty, could move as a block with any starting date. In the ...
98. Response to Critique by Leroy Ellenberger [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... have already mentioned the new shortfall of the shadow of the Jerusalem sun dial. Another description was interplanetary lightning that struck, in Jerusalem's vicinity, the 185,000 (iron) lightning rods of Sennacherib's army, parked just outside Jerusalem, preparing for a final assault. A third change came later, when the Jews realized the old 360-day calendar could not be made to work. A five-day intercalary period, Veadar by name, begins to appear in the literature. It was tacked on to the twelfth of the Hebrew months, Adar. An interesting variety of other ancient calendars underwent comparable reorganizations. Following this final Mars-Earth flyby, the Uniformitarian Era arrived as Mars began a process ...
99. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of 1/636 represents 30 years. To account for the discrepancy because of the delay between Jehu's coup and his entry into Samaria' (p . 6) leaves a hiatus in the chronology which is contradicted by the synchronism 2 Kings 12:1 . That Aaronson's chronology fits the jubilee cycle mentioned by Prasher is hardly surprising. The calendar used is the LM (Liytziyat Mitzrayim or from the Exodus) calendar. The year 1 LM begins on the first of Nisan 1476 BCE' (p . 4). Stenring (The Enclosed Garden, 1965), calculated that the Jubilees were synchronised with the Seleucid Era so that the retroactive date of a sabbatical year fell in ...
100. Venus: A Battle Star? [Journals] [Horus]
... From: Horus Vol. 1 No. 2 (Summer 1985) Home | Issue Contents Venus: A Battle Star?by C.E . Bowen Introduction Measurement of time by celestial cycles and concern with the calendar played a much more visible role in ancient civilizations than in our own. In ancient times, the calendar was not merely a device to mark the days, weeks, and months of the year. The calendar system was perceived religiously and the priests gave the astronomical gods, active, vital roles in daily affairs. As a result, each day was different, depending upon which astronomical gods were believed to control or influence a particular phase of the calendar ...
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