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75 pages of results. 111. Velikovsky, Brasseur, And The Troano Codex [Journals] [Kronos]
... and of Mayan monument stones. On the face of it, Mr. Johnson's criticism was just, for as Velikovsky, himself, acknowledged in note 2 of "On the Other Side of the Ocean": The Mayan tongue is still spoken by about 300,000 people, but of the Mayan hieroglyphics only the characters employed in the calendar are known for certain. But Mr. Johnson then went on to make the following statement: It is difficult to determine whether the other twenty-seven Brasseur quotations [in Worlds in Collision] covering three different works of this author also share this fault of being based on the translation results of the Landa Mayan "alphabet." More important ...
... and, it was said, "mapped out the heavens", which really signified that the seers and sages among the Druids discovered the true movements of the earth, devised the Solar Ecliptic, designed the zodiac of the twelve constellations through which the sun passes annually, classified the principal star groups according them specified names, invented also the calendar and studied the movements not of the regular constellations alone, but those of irregular bodies like comets. We were taught long ago that the Magi of the Chaldeans, Phoenicians, and Egyptians were the earliest pioneers in the field of astronomy, and this is quite correct if it be recognized that they were Druids. These wise men closely ...
113. The Atlantis Researches by Paul Dunbavin (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC, another idea of Velikovsky's that he seems to have appropriated. However, the evidence he presents is really very interesting. Before 3200 BC there were 360 days in the year, but thereafter it fluctuated, due to wobbles in the orbit that did not settle down until the first millennium BC, a solution that makes sense of ancient calendars in that our ancestors had trouble in defining exactly how many days there were in the year, as the number was in flux. It may also explain Alexander Thom's alignments that appear to involve the Moon and the Sun in very close detail. The legendary chronology of China, in tradition, dates from around 2953 BC. A disastrous ...
114. Magi, The Quest for a Secret Tradition by Adrian Gilbert [Journals] [SIS Review]
... might be possible to trace a tradition of ancient esoteric knowledge. As a result of his investigations he invents a tale of what the wise men saw in the sky and how it was interpreted according to the astrology and politics of the time. What will interest SIS readers is some of the early historical data and speculation and also the changing calendar at the turn of the millennium BC/AD and earlier. The book takes the form of a travelogue interwoven with sections of history, not all of which will be familiar, and which are not in chronological order. There is reference to early church history, art and architecture, the Templars, Crusades and many other subjects. ...
115. "Just Plainly Wrong": A Critique of Peter Huber (Second Installment) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the very book that "corrects" five months and sixteen days into two months and six days, simultaneously "correcting" Nisan 9 and Ulul 25 into Ayar 29 and Ab 5, respectively! This book is not only Huber's general model for treating the Ninsianna tablets, but appears also to be the main guide for his remarks about the calendar in use during the First Babylonian Dynasty. Huber's point about the calendar is that there are numerous documents from the First Babylonian Dynasty, mostly agricultural and other contracts, that contain references to intercalary months; and he claims that the general frequency of those intercalations would fit the requirements of a luni-solar calendar for our present solar system. Huber ...
116. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... back to the earliest civilization presently known in Meso-America (and it may be that by Venusian times the American population had been reduced to a survival culture). In the light of our earlier chapters, the existence of cultures in Meso-America that flourished long before Venusia cannot be doubted. The legends all go back before then. So do the calendars. The Mayan calendars begins with the year October 4, 5373 B.P . or August 13, 5113 B.P . according to recent calculations. This would indicate a Jovean base, and before then comes the story of Atlantis and eastern connections. In Meso-America between 1500-1200 B.C ., writes, there was a ...
117. Calendrical Changes And Sothic Chronology [Journals] [Kronos]
... in Collision (Part I, Chap. 5; Part II, Chap. 8), I endeavoured to show that each of these changes took place, and more than once during historical times. There I wrote (p . 124): "There exists a direct statement found as a gloss on a manuscript of Timaeus that a calendar of a solar year of three hundred and sixty days was introduced by the Hyksos after the fall of the Middle Kingdom; the calendar year of the Middle Kingdom apparently had fewer days" (Cf. pp. 123, 336, 338).(1 ) The cataclysm that brought the downfall of the Middle Kingdom (ca. ...
118. The Pentagram of Venus [Journals] [Horus]
... Egyptian years." He notes that although the eight year period for Venus is well attested from many sources in antiquity, including usage in a completely different context in Babylonian astronomy, little is known about its origin. The eight-year period is also the basis of the oktaeteris, which was introduced into Greece by Eudoxus. It was a lunar-solar calendar since there are 99 lunar synodic months of 29.53 days in eight years (in round figures), the oktaeteris was used extensively until it was superseded by the 19 year Metonic cycle. Figure 5 - The Great Star Glyph Looking for parallels in Mesoamerica, we find that one pass through the Venus table of the Mayan Dresden ...
119. Catastrophic Theory of Mountain Uplifts (A Crustal Deformation Theory) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... a 92.25-million mile orbit radius, not today's 93.0-million miles. (This "slot" in space puts the Earth's orbit in a 12:1 orbit timing resonance with Jupiter and a 30:1 resonance with Saturn, also 85:1 with Uranus. This explains the 360-day (not 365-day) ancient year and ancient calendar; 360-day calendars were the norm in ancient societies before 701 B.C . Orbit Hot Spot. The closest point in a planet's orbit to the Sun is its "perihelion" (Greek, peri = near, helios = Sun). Mars had a perihelion of 66 million miles in our model, and thus its perihelion was ...
120. Years Of Ten Months, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... consisting of twelve signs, at one time had eleven and at another time ten signs. A zodiac of fewer tha n twelve signs was employed by the astrologers of Babylonia, ancient Greece, and other countries.7 A Jewish song in the Aramaic language which is included in the Seder Service refers to eleven constellations of the Zodiac. The calendars of the primitive peoples disclose their early origin by the fact that many of them are composed of ten months, and some of eleven months. If the time of the lunar revolution was thirty-five days and some hours, the year was something over te n months long. The Yurak Samoyeds reckon eleven months to the year.8 The ...
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