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165 pages of results. 431. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... II (WORKSHOP 4, p.8 ) I suggested that Biblical references to personal encounters with angels should be interpreted as accounts of extra-terrestrial or super-terrestrial intervention. I pointed out that traditional interpretations involving angelic activity were likely to be invalid to the extent that they projected either modern sophisticated ideas onto these past events or more usually that they projected Greek philosophical ideas onto them. Mr. Hartington, in his letter concerning my article (WORKSHOP 5) expressed the conviction that I was likely to be equally guilty of projecting the ideas of a technological age onto these past events. In order to validate the position of traditional thinking on the subject and to support the supernaturalist' thesis, ...
432. What's in a Name? -- Venus "The Newcomer" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... well to take a moment to forestall accusations of blinkered specialism and to "legitimise" the etymological arguments Principles of Linguistics Etymology is one of the oldest-established branches of linguistic science, and has developed alongside the techniques of comparative linguistics which gave rise to the concept of an "Indo-European family" of languages (including Celtic, Germanic, Latin, Greek, Slavonic, Persian and Indian languages) and the rather more nebulous concept of a "Proto-Indo-European" (IE) mother tongue. To an outsider, the Indo-European hypothesis and the principles of etymology may appear to be characteristic examples of intra-disciplinary dogma, and it should be emphasised that there is only one reason for the continuing supremacy of ...
433. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... each and every one of them in the same terms- as a great circle enclosing a central orb. And when they drew pictures of them, they produced the singular image , probably the most common pictograph in the ancient world. Interestingly, the African Dogon have a "picture" of Saturn: it is this very image. The early Greeks and Romans portrayed Saturn with the same pictograph, and so too did the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians, who called Saturn "the high one of the enclosure of life." And many thousands of miles away the Maori remember Saturn as "the encircled one." (4 ) The connection of this familiar image to ancient ideas about ...
434. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Issue Contents Bookshelf Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 1 The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985, by Martin Bernal. Free Association Books, 26 Freegrove Road, London N7 9RQ, (1987). A controversial book, fiercely criticised in the correspondence columns of The Guardian, which argues against the standard view that classical Greek civilisation was the product of the conquest of the Greeks by vigorous Indo- Aryan peoples from the north. Bernal notes, instead, that the Greeks derived their ideas from the Egyptians, and he traces the history of the Aryan conquest idea. The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert Bakker. Reprinted in paperback by Penguin (Harmondsworth, 1988) ...
435. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of Ekron, mentioned in the 7th century BC annals of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal respectively [e .g . Luckenbill Ancient Records II pp. 142-3, 340; Pritchard ANET pp. 287-8, 294]. The authors offer a compromise pronounciation for Achish/Ikausu as Akhayus' which suggests the meaning Achaean', i.e . the Greek' (p . 11). The word ptgyh is stated to be surely the name of a goddess of non-Semitic origin, perhaps some unknown Philistine or Indo-European female deity' (p . 11). Dr Rupert Chapman has made the interesting suggestion that the name is Greek and means Lady Gaia', i.e . the ...
436. The Baalim [Journals] [Kronos]
... these epithets, especially that of "procreator", more correctly describe the primeval Saturn - as a perusal of David Talbott's work on the subject will easily disclose.(19) Berossus, who was a priest of Bel at Babylon sometime during the 3rd century B.C ., translated certain Babylonian texts on both astrology and astronomy into Greek. He also compiled a history of his country in three volumes. Unfortunately, all of his works have perished, but extracts from his history have been preserved by Alexander Polyhistor, Flavius Josephus, and Eusebius Pamphili. As was the common practice with the compilation of ancient histories, that of Berossus commences with the creation and organization of ...
437. Holy Dreamtime [Books] [de Grazia books]
... development of a line of conduct, its interruption, a climax, a resolution, a disposition of participants and values. All happens in a time span close to what Aristotle discovered, centuries later, to be the ideal unity of dramatic time. One notes particularly, in the jargon of literary analysis employed from the time of the early Greek tragedians, the "cata-strophe." The word means "the climax," "the point of denouement;" in general, the word means "the turning-down point," and also "the end of a period of time." Yet it was historical experience that lent itself to the definition of plot, not plot of ...
438. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... "Pinus Succinifera". This substance has been taken largely from countries bounded by the North Sea, and huge amounts have been found in Prussia. Conventional geology ascribes the pine forests which gave rise to amber to the very early Tertiary - about 70,000,000 years age. In ancient times, amber was much prized by the Greeks and Romans who fashioned jewellery from it. There is one fable from ancient Greece which is significant in explaining the origin of amber. It tells that Zeus became so annoyed with Phaethon, who was perpetually disobedient, that one day he struck him with a bolt of lightning and killed him. Following this, Zeus transformed Phaethon's mourning sisters ...
439. Night of the Gods: The Axis and the Universe-Tree [Books]
... root targh tragh to tug; and Prof. Skeat suggested a Teutonic type thragila, to take in both English thrall and OHG drigil a slave. But I venture to think that the root tharh tark, to twist turn-round, must also be indicated. It would thus be possible to include in the group not alone the wheel-meanings of the Greek words but the Latin torqueo turn, and the Sanskrit tarkus a spindle.15 If these etymologies will stand the strain, then Yggdrasill = force circular-motion, that is, the energy of Nature, the almighty power that seemed to turns the Universe and its typical Tree. This at once makes it a doublet of the Winged Oak of ...
440. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... as was Jaynes this past year [4 ]. One can discuss the catastrophically deposited layers on the ocean bottoms as has Worzel, with only a tiny escape hatch for the fiery end of bodies of cosmic origin'[5 ]. One need not cite Isaacson [6 ], either, in disposing of the century-old concept of the Greek Dark Ages, ' especially since Isaacson does not exist, it being the nom de plume of a young scholar in fear for his career; one might criticize the concept without mentioning Velikovsky, given the new climate of thought. A scholar can play safe in elaborating the evidence for hundreds of hypotheses in the Velikovskian literature that are already ...
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