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75 pages of results. 231. Thoth Vol I, No. 23: August 17, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... and the collapse of his kingdom (or world age) contained signposts and warnings which no terrestrial king could ignore. 2) AS BEFORE, SO AGAIN. This is the key to all mythically-rooted fear. What happened before will happen in the future. Quite apart from their interesting mathematics, for example, the mythical context of the Mesoamerican calendar system was the periodic cataclysm. But that deeply-embedded fear reached far beyond the calendar and into every expression of culture from war, to sacrifice, to such seemingly mundane practices as ritual sweeping. The collective goal was to reckon with divine caprice, to bargain for a new lease on life, to avoid the recurring disaster. Though Immanuel ...
232. Ages in Chaos in the Light of C14 Archaeometry [Journals] [Pensee]
... intended to represent the outer limits of the true historical date. If the error margin is doubled to two standard deviations, then the chances increase to 95.45 percent (20 in 21) that the reported date lies within the doubled error range of being the true experimental value. CONVENTIONAL CHRONOLOGY OF PHARAONIC EGYPT (Adapted from "The Calendars and Chronology" by Richard A. Parker in The Legacy of Egypt, Second Edition, edited by J. R. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1971, pp. 24-25.) PROTODYNASTIC PERIOD: 3110-2665 B.C . Dynasties I and II OLD KINGDOM: 2664-2155 Dynasties III-VIII FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD: 2154-2052 Dynasties IX-XI MIDDLE KINGDOM ...
233. The Celestial Ship of North Vol II [Books]
... the Zodiac was a symbol of water. The Babylonians had "Shepherding Stars" for their celestial flock. Anu, who was their god, selected certain stars as "Measuring Stars, Regulators, or Period Stars." They were Seven, the crossing stars of the mid-heaven. In a very ancient royal tomb of the Twentieth Dynasty a calendar of astronomical observations was found, and these crossing stars were given as: 1, to the left shoulder; 2, the left ear; 3, the left eye; 4 was given to the middle; 5 was given to the right eye; 6, to the right ear; and 7 was given to the right shoulder ...
234. Geogullibility And Geomagnetic Reversals [Journals] [Kronos]
... ) Meantime, geologists working on land had identified several apparent geomagnetic reversals, as recorded in the remanent magnetism of extensive rock formations; and had "dated" them radiometrically. They had worked out the "history" of several periods of normal and reversed magnetism going back about 3.5 million years. The oceanographers enthusiastically adopted the magnetic calendar of the geologists and quickly extended its reach in time by a factor of 20. The "dated" field-reversals of the land-based calendar were assumed to correspond to the first few anomaly changes in the magnetic record closest to the axis of any mid-ocean ridge. Then, on the further assumption that the rate of sea-floor spreading away from each ...
235. "In Search of Ancient Astronomies": A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... possibilities we have discussed were functional. Moreover, our search for significant astronomical events to match the alignments has included only those which seem of obvious importance to us: solar, lunar and planetary extremes and the setting positions of the brightest stars which announce, through their heliacal rising and setting, important dates in the civil, religious or agricultural calendar. ''(5 ) Perhaps Aveni should have pondered the implications of his own statement. Does he not find it surprising that, given this plethora of azimuthal directions, he was unable to correlate all of his alignments? Proponents of archaeoastronomy have offered such a vast number of astronomical events purportedly utilised by the ancients that it is ...
236. Vox Populi [Journals] [Aeon]
... the honesty with which beliefs are expressed is rare in science. This is science with a human face. Both personalities emerge and add to an understanding of the issues at stake. Mars and Uranus Frederic B. Jueneman, from Newark, California, writes: In relation to Eric Aitchison's piece on calendrics- "Historical Day Cycles and Ancient Calendars"- in AEON VI:2 , I might point out that at the 1980 Symposium in San Jose the question was raised during an informal colloquium as to the provenance of the Mayan 260-day calendar. I there suggested that the 780-day synodic period of Earth-Mars was the trine of this period, and that perhaps the Maya had a much ...
237. Nine Spheres of Venusian Effects [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , intensive, large-scale changes, and contrast with evolutionary changes which are, as they say, drop-by-drop and point-by-point. The time, about 3500 years ago, was that of Exodus. The catastrophe of the Exodus is described in detail in God's Fire and Ages in Chaos. I. We begin with astronomy and physics. We speak of calendars, reports of sky bodies in action, legends of the gods, sky-struck human behavior of the period. We say of the Astrosphere: "No available record of astronomical events from anywhere presents astral, planetary, or solar movements as unchanged or uniformly changing from before that time to afterwards." When Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision appeared in ...
238. Chapter I: The Worship of the Sun and the Dawn [Books]
... but that at one period one stagee was more developed than another, and so on. For instance, in the first stage, wonder and worship were the prevalent features; in the second, there was the need of applying the observation of celestial phenomena in two directions, one the direction of utility- such as the formation of a calendar and the foundation of years and months; and the other the astrological direction. Supplied as we moderns are with the results of astronomical observation in the shape of almanacs, pocket-books, and the like, it is always difficult, and for most people quite impossible, to put ourselves in the place and realise the conditions of a race ...
239. The Twenty-One Years of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... conjunction, which lasts about 2 days or longer), because her brightness is swamped by that of the Sun. A great number of civilizations all over the globe, including some classified as primitive, have paid close attention to the dates of the disappearances and reappearances of Venus. The importance of the cuneiform Venus Tablets is that they provide calendar dates for the beginning and the end of the invisibilities of Venus that are strikingly different from what we would expect. Rose (Pensée IVR III) aptly quotes these entries of K. 160 as a typical example of how data are presented: In the month Sivan, on the twenty-fifth day, Ninsianna (that is, Venus) ...
240. Answers To Further Critics [Journals] [Kronos]
... We are reluctant to do this, however, since the figure of 0.090 might turn out to have been fairly well chosen, despite the fact that it does not mirror Velikovsky's views on the non-schematic character of post-Beth-horon months. Ironically, it is the Venus tablets that are once again important here. * * * Like the post-Beth-horon calendars, the Venus tablets feature thirty-day months. With an Earth eccentricity of at least five or six times the present eccentricity, the months of thirty days on the Venus tablets could not be observational either, and would have to be schematic or at least mean months. Since Vaughan and I would put Years 1 to 17 on the Venus ...
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