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165 pages of results. 421. Mycenaean Culture: The Shift in Recent Historiography from its Destruction by Invasion to Destruction by Natural Agents [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... R. Palmer, professor of comparative philology at Oxford, in the revised edition of his Mycenaeans and Minoans as late as 1965 subscribes to C. W. Blegen's 1939 view that the "Dorian invasion" destroyed Mycenaean Greece:" After 1200 B.C . came collapse and wide-spread destruction, which may be attributed most reasonably to those Greek tribes known later as the Dorians" (p . 160). He sees this action as part of the huge invasions of the Near East, "checked only at the gates of Egypt when Ramses III hurled back the Peoples of the Sea" (p . 155). Palmer admits, however, the lack of "positive ...
422. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... referring to Stonehenge. Diodoros wrote in the first century before this era, and indicated that his account of the Hyperboreans was derived from Hekataios and certain others'. (Hekataios lived around -500; his books have not survived.) However Sweeney goes too far in taking this passage of Diodoros to have been quoted' from Hekataios: the Greeks did not use quotation marks, and the reference to Hekataios and certain others' is not very precise anyway. Sweeney uses an unidentified translation that speaks of a round' temple. A more responsible translation might be sphere-shaped in form'. (That is not redundant; Greek uses repetition for emphasis.) In any case, the ...
423. Morning Star II [Journals] [Aeon]
... , according to Macrobius, the Egyptians also identified the same goddess as the Moon. (30) Lucian identified Astarte, who is the same as Ishtar/Isis, as the Moon, (31) but that this class of Eastern deities actually symbolized the planet Venus we know from many ancient authors. (32) One of the Greek names for the planet Venus was Aphrodite, yet Aurelius Augustinus, better known as St. Augustine, definitely knew of others who just as strongly insisted that the Roman Venus, and therefore Aphrodite, her Greek namesake, was a name by which the Moon was also known. His actual words are: "There is another star, ...
424. Indeterminacy: Temporary, Permanent, Or Indefinite? [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... neither of which I share unreservedly. The first of these is that most, if not all, of mankind's perennial imagery reflects pre-catastrophic Saturn and its surroundings. The second is that, apart from Saturn's primal, or polar configuration, mythic imagery becomes, in his words, a "madhouse of absurd and contradictory themes." Ever since Greek philosophers first initiated critical examination of Homeric and Hesiodic myth, some mythologists have characterized myths in general as mad. And, during the past century of mythological theorizing, naturists have been contradicted by psychoanalysts who in turn have been contradicted by structuralists, until the entire debate has come to be viewed by many external observers as a scholarly Theater ...
425. Thoth Vol III, No. 13: Oct 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... signifying deviation. Is there no attestation for a Latin disastrum' (deviating star or planet)? (The suggestion here should be obvious.) The Shorter Oxford Dictionary (based on the O.E .D .) does not mention an Italian origin for the French, but goes directly from the French to Latin astrum' and Greek astron'. In fact, according to this dictionary, until 1669, disaster' had the sense an obnoxious planet'! ROGER WESCOTT jumps in: Ted Bond rightly perceives a connection between Indo-European nouns cognate with English "star" and Semitic names like Akkadian Ishtar. Most historical linguists, adhering to conventional chronology, either descry lexical ...
426. Phoebus Apollo - Aspect of Venus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 4:1 , p. 22, by calling Apollo "Lord of the Zodiac" which signifies a position rather than a particular deity. Before this can be done, however, it must be pointed out that J. Abery does not complete her quotation from Robert Graves which should continue: ", .. . Typhon, the Greek God Set". Set, of course, is Saturn who was defeated by Zeus rather than by Apollo. We know that Apollo started his working life as a Mouse Oracle under the aegis of the Great Goddess, that he took her place at the oracle of Delphi, that he spent the winter in Britain, presumably at an ...
427. The Blind King. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... A new city, bearing the king's name, was erected."1 Akhet and Akhn are derivatives of the same root, and Aton (Aten) is the same in both the name of the king and that of his capital. Herodotus rendered the names Akhnaton and Akhet-Aton as Anysis, one of the better transliterations of Egyptian names by Greek authors. The exact reading of the name is still a matter of surmise and Maspero, for instance, read the name of the king as Khuniatonu. In an ancient Greek version of the legend an island of dunes was the place of Oedipus' exile;2 this is not too different from a marshland, place of exile of ...
428. Trisms and Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... only offer more evidence of this instability, but also will contribute to our understanding of the nature of this instability. Velikovsky believed he had found evidence that parts of Homer's Iliad described anomalous behavior within the solar system, particularly involving Venus, Mars and the Moon. (4 ) Figure 1, below, is my rendition of the ancient Greek duel of Menelaos and Hector over the body of Euphoros, with a checkered triangle (described as a gameboard) suspended between them. While the duel appears real enough, the strange decorations in the background do not. Did these decorations represent objects visible in the sky during the Trojan War or were artists merely depicting symbols whose meaning is ...
429. Society News. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... or pen scripts on paper with ink; the range of similar marks with similar meanings Steve found beyond coincidence. Of 39 Egyptian determinatives he considered 21 to be clear parallels with Chinese. Steve challenged his audience to distinguish between sets of modern Chinese characters and Egyptian ones from 2100BC. There was much evidence of western cultural influences, such as Greek bronze technology and warfare techniques, spreading eastwards to western China via the Scythians. Steve proposed that Egyptian writing could have been similarly transmitted by the Scythians, having travelled to their heartland in the Caspian basin by cultural contact between Egypt and the Greek mainland or, more directly, via northern Iran. However, the Scythians could not have ...
430. Thoth Vol III, No. 12: Aug 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... other published articles.] "Saturn" (the Universal Monarch) has both elder and younger aspects. I think it may have been Macrobius who said that the younger Saturn is Jupiter and the elder Jupiter is Saturn. (Be that as it may, I didn't invent the idea!) : ). The principle is inherent in Greek approaches to the two gods. Though Kronos and Zeus were clearly two different planets in Greek times, their biographies nevertheless overlap. Zeus is acknowledged to be the younger form of Kronos, of course. However, the two aspects are impossible to miss: Kronos is never portrayed as a victor over world-threatening dragons of darkness. You see ...
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