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165 pages of results. 281. Palaeo-Egypt (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... known the Serapeum and Brucheum libraries and some of their contents. If they state that the records of the Egyptians go back for `seventeen thousand years', this should not be taken as an invention on their part or as an instance of boasting on the part of their Egyptian friends who were pleased to plant tall stories on the credulous Greeks. The `nine thousand years' mentioned in Solon's manuscript should be taken at its face value. There is nothing really improbable about it, especially as we now know that traditions have been handed down to us from times which are incomparably more remote than the periods mentioned. Let us now consider the other surprising point in Plato's myth ...
282. Chapter 3 Astronomical Sothic Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the scholars arrived at their first fixed points in the ancient history of the Near East."1 In order to fix the history of Egypt, astronomy seemed to hold the key for the historians. They based their analysis on the rising of the star Sirius; one of the Egyptian names for Sirius was Sopdet, which was translated into Greek as Sothis. According to a Roman author, Censorinus: "The Egyptians, in forming their great year, do not take the moon into consideration; the Greeks call it cynic, the Latins call it canicularis, because it begins at the rising of the Dog Star [Sirius, Sothis] on the first day of the month ...
283. The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika [Journals] [Aeon]
... 1996) Home | Issue Contents The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika Dwardu Cardona See Note * below. 1. SATURN In Sanskrit, the emblem we know as the swastika is called pramantha. The word also means "fire-drill". (1 ) According to Robert Graves, it is this Sanskrit word that lies behind the name of the Greek Prometheus. In Greek, "Prometheus" means "forethought" but, according to Graves, the name may really have originated "in a Greek misunderstanding of the Sanskrit word pramantha, the swastika, or fire-drill, which he had supposedly invented, since Zeus Prometheus at Thurii was shown holding a fire-drill". (2 ) Arthur ...
284. The Polar Sun [Books]
... uttered by man, calling him to acts of devotion, bidding him raise an altar and kindle sacrificial flames. "Before the Sun's all-glorious shrine the first men knelt and raised their voices in praise and supplication, fully confirmed in the belief that their prayers were heard and answered." (1 ) Not without reason do scholars identify the Greek Helios, Assyrian Shamash, or Egyptian Re with the solar orb. Can it be doubted that Helios, radiating light from his brow and mounted on a fiery chariot, is our sun? That helios became the Greek word for the solar orb is beyond dispute. In Egypt countless hymns to the god Re extol him as the divine ...
285. The Crescent [Books]
... . This very aspect of the crescent is explicit in the title of the "moon" -divinity Sin, who is called the "mother womb, begetter of all things." (19) It can hardly be doubted that the Saturnian crescent eventually became confused with our moon. The confusion is most noticeable in the case of the Greek Selene and Latin Luna, whose names were assigned to the lunar sphere. But neither the names nor the imagery of Selene and Luna originated in connection with our moon. Within the sphere of Luna "Sol is hidden like a fire." Helios dwells as the impregnating seed within the womb of Selene. (20) "According ...
286. Neo-Babylonians and Achaemenids [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of king Nabonidus confirms this sequence. The latter document makes it quite clear that Nabopolasser was closely related to Ashurbanipal, almost certainly a son. Because of scholarship's more or less unquestioning adherence to traditional biblical chronology, it has always been assumed that the Neo-Assyrian kings were in fact the Imperial Assyrians of the 8th century BC., whom the Greek historians informed us had been overcome by the Medes, in alliance with the Babylonians. Thus, it was also assumed that the Babylonian king who allied himself with the Medes to overthrow Assyria was none other than Nabopolasser. The discovery of cuneiform documents of Nabopolasser in which he refers to his defeat of the Assyrians, who had long oppressed ...
287. A new synthesis: Prolegomena (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... vaguely alive in his time, somewhat in the manner that we ourselves still treasure faint folk-memories of the deeds of mythical heroes such as Beowulf in far-off and all-but-forgotten ages. Sais, where Solon is said to have obtained the story of Atlantis, was, in Plato's day, that is about two centuries later, in many ways almost a Greek city. In Naucratis, on the western, or Canopic, branch of the Nile, there was an even greater Greek colony, and strong forces of Greek mercenaries were stationed in many parts of Lower Egypt in Plato's time. If Plato's story had not been authentic and yet still current in Sais, there would surely have come forth ...
288. Binomial Coefficients, Permutations and Combinations in Elam and Babylon [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... I-King. This consists of the various permutations of straight and broken lines taken three at a time. This arrangement of lines is seen on amulets and charms in China and India, and it is also used as an ornament on objects where it can have no mystical significance whatever. Interest in the subject of permutations was relatively slight among the Greeks, but in late Roman times Boethius (c . 510) gave a rule for the number of combinations of n things taken 2 at a time.(5 ) The development of the Binomial Theorem, beginning with Euclid's formula for (a+ b)2 and culminating in Abel's proof of the theorem for any value of the ...
289. Saturn's Children [Books] [de Grazia books]
... during his reign, stood in the north.... The Egyptian Ra, Osiris, Horus...the Mesopotamian Ninurta, Enki, Anu, Shamash... the Hebrew, or Ugaritic El...the Hindu Brahma, Vishnu, Varuna, Surya...the Chinese Huang-ti or Shangti...the Greek Kronos- all appear as stationary suns... They are described as fixed at the polar summit... Ra comes forth and diminishes em hetep, which means while standing in one place. ' He comes forth and diminishes at the center, which is also the summit- the celestial Pole."[3 ] Saturn ...
290. The Chaldeans of Sumer [Journals] [Aeon]
... is that of the Late Bronze world and the Biblical prophets. Placing the Sumerians 1,200 years later, in a Late Bronze context, also makes sense of their links to Greece. "The Mesopotamian flood story, for example, is paralleled by the story of Deucalion. This dragon-slaying theme in Mesopotamian myth has its counterparts in such Greek tales as those of Jason and Herakles Plagues sent as punishment by the gods also figure in the mythology of Greece and Mesopotamia. And there is a marked resemblance between the Greek and Babylonian netherworlds-both of which were gloomy places separated from the realm of the living by an ominous river across which the dead were ferried. Similarly, the Greek ...
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