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165 pages of results. 351. Some Preliminary Remarks About Thera and Atlantis [Journals] [Kronos]
... transport it from the Atlantic Ocean to the East Mediterranean; change its mode of destruction from quake and flood to massive volcanic explosion; divide the 9,000 years by 10 without any textual justification and despite its "ring of truth" (not as real history but as the very type of thing that Egyptians of that day told the Greeks),(4 ) then, still subtract 500 years from this figure to fit the revised chronology; and explain why an island which is and always has been perfectly visible, and which, in the 6th century B.C ., supported a vigorous population of seafarers was said to be totally submerged. Plato's references to the ...
352. The Blind Seer. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... people, all the forces of heaven and earth had to be conjured. In Boeotian Thebes the blind and merciless seer Tiresias contributed heavily to the king's downfall. This blind prophet played a conspicuous role in the entire Theban cycle; he was the wise man and the divine seer to whom the past and the future were revealed. Among the Greeks and their legendary heroes there was no one at any time who equaled Tiresias as a seer. He was an old man in the days of Oedipus and his sons, and he was dead in the days of the following generation, that of the Trojan War; Odysseus went to Hades to consult him. When the plague fell on ...
353. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... the "star with hair," or a "long-haired star," or a "maned star," an appellation that fits comfortably with the global language of the comet. In fact, the "long-haired star" is the single most common phrase for the comet around the world, and our own word for comet comes from the Greek kometes, the "long-haired star" . Yucatec Maya dictionaries give as a gloss for "smoke star" the "maned comet". (23) But curiously, the Aztecs used this very language for Venus. As noted by Velikovsky, they called the planet Tzonte-Mocque, meaning the "mane" -star, or "long-haired ...
354. Synodos, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... to change and variation."2 They counted the earth among the planets, for Diodorus wrote that the Chaldeans stated "that the moon's light is reflected and her eclipses are due to the shadow of the earth".3 This implies that they knew the earth is a sphere in space, a fact known also to a number of Greek philosophers.4 A few Greek philosophers were aware that planets, on close contact, are greatly disturbed, and that out of their agitated atmospheres comets are born. The perturbations in such contacts may be so strong that, when the earth is involved, deluge or world conflagration may take place. Zeno, the founder of the Stoic ...
355. The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain [Books]
... approached by the way of islands. "Atlantis", in a word, stood revealed as the British Islands, then of considerably greater size apart from Scandinavia, with her attendant isles, enjoying a delicious temperate clime, from whence was evolved the first of mankind, signifying the white blond race, the Aryan peoples, from whom the Greeks and other Celts-who migrated in part to the Mediterranean later-first arose. Atlantis was drawn in one way or another into the vortex of the earliest Graeco-Phoenician myths of Oceanus, of tile "earth-shaker" Poseidon, the Gorgons, the Cyclops and others, all for definite reasons pointing to the North Atlantic Ocean. This, if correct, rules ...
356. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Two [Books]
... used in section 12. 1 must also thank C.B .Britton, Phil Hyde and Malcolm Lowery for their help and advice on the translations of French and German texts used in section 12. Finally, my thanks are again due to the staff of the Manchester Central Library for their excellent services. Contents. p.81 Section7 Greek & Roman (cont.) p.92 Section8 The Kalevala p.100 Section9- Siberian Mythology p.102 Section10- Williamson p.111 Section11- Dixon p.112 Section12- Chinese Sources p.129 Section13- The Vedic Hymns p.139 Section14- The Bundahis p.146 Section15 The Send Avesta p.150 ...
357. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... lightning comes to the fore. Rather than confirming the oft-repeated standard interpretation of the storm god, the inescapable conclusion one reaches in an in-depth study of this mythological character is that the thunder god is firmly embedded in a set of interwoven symbols and events which defy all possible analogies in the modern-day world. The thundering god exemplified here by the Greek Zeus (From a Greek Vase.) The method to be followed here will be comparative and structural in nature. Thus, if peoples in distant corners of the world agree on ideas which are not directly understandable from observation of the current natural world, evidence of an original observation that was common to all, but different from what ...
358. In the Days of Seti I and Ramses II [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Akhnaton's line was far from peaceful, and that civil war as well as foreign invasion marked the age. The decline of the 18th Dynasty was the subject of one of Velikovsky's most fascinating and insightful books, Oedipus and Akhnaton (1960). Here Velikovsky argued for identifying the heretic pharaoh Akhnaton as the historical prototype of the character known to Greek legend as Oedipus, the tragic king of Thebes who inadvertently killed his own father and married his mother. The present author fully supports this identification, as well as the others proposed in the same place. I had originally intended to take up the story of events in Egypt where Velikovsky left off – at the death of Tutankhamun. ...
359. Ancient Knowledge of Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Journals] [Kronos]
... Saturn, were identified at that time with gods, called by their names, and were supposed to exhibit their traits. Plato further argued that the planets and stars were huge, and he insisted that the gods were among the planets and not upon Olympus.(5 ) The modern practice of arbitrarily labeling new objects of the sky from Greek mythology has obscured the sacredness of the ancient belief in the union of astral bodies with divine personages. If any distinction between the planet and god were required, it would relate, as Taylor put it, to "the planet Jupiter, who being a mundane divinity, according to the theology of the Greeks, is a procession from ...
360. The Blasted Career of the Mighty Swordsman [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the Hindus was "born of the wolf," was a "special disturber of the Moon," and became involved in yuddha, which in ancient Hindu astronomy meant a clash of planets in conjunction [3 ]. THE QUALITIES OF ARES Ares, scholars typically assert, was the simplest character among the Olympian gods. Ares means in Greek "male warrior." Eris, "strife," is his sister. He is bloodthirsty, ruthless, warlike, fleet, ruddy, and, of course, well-muscled. He is drunken, quarrelsome, impetuous, and a favorite lover of Aphrodite; he had a number of children by her and other women. "Rushing ...
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