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165 pages of results. 271. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... hardly be separated from the recent history of the planet Venus. It is a curious fact, one little noticed by the scholarly community as a whole, that the vast majority of the world's great goddesses were identified with the planet Venus. This is the case with the Sumerian Inanna, Babylonian Ishtar, Canaanite Astarte, Egyptian Isis, and Greek Aphrodite, for example. (1 ) Following the lead of Immanuel Velikovsky, who, in Worlds in Collision, proposed that the planet Venus had recently assumed a comet-like orbit, Talbott and I attempted to reconstruct the history of this most unusual "comet." (2 ) We found a consistent connection of a comet-like Venus with ...
272. The Lord Of Light [Journals] [Aeon]
... of Heaven'), identified with the Accadian Ishtar...Both the descent and exaltation of Ishtar [were] connected with the vicissitudes of the planet Venus." (16) The name of the god Adonis also literally means "lord" and, what's more, his mother was called Myrrha or Smyrna, "both variant Greek dialect forms of the word for myrrh' or incense'." (17) It is, therefore, of special interest to recall that one of the gifts brought by the Magi was myrrh and that it was used by Nicodemus to anoint the body of Christ before burial. (18) Even the Emperor Augustus was depicted on ...
... Comyns Beaumont CD Home | Contents Part Three: The Cult Of The Underworld Chapter V The Secret Of Iona "Phoebus, where'er thou strayest far or near, Delos of all thy haunts was still most dear." HOMER Hymn to Apollo. APOLLO was especially the deity beloved of the Ionians, the most cultured and artistic of all the Greeks. The elegance and refinement that was Greek was in origin Ionian, its most brilliant facet reflected in the Ionian cult of Apollo, it having been said with truth that through his worship the brightest side of the Hellenic mind was reflected. Yet with all this the ethnology of the Ionians has always proved very uncertain. Even Herodotus was ...
274. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , Mazzaroth etc. were never identified with Isis, etc. As Velikovsky himself pointed out, the ancients spoke of Typhon, Tiamat, etc. (all dragons, serpents, etc. of monstrous size) having been seen in violent conflict with Zeus, Marduk, etc. (all names for the planet Jupiter). But the Greeks not only gave a different parentage to Typhon from those they gave to Athene, Aphrodite, etc., but also affirmed that it was during this great struggle between Typhon and Zeus that Athene was born, fully armed, from the head of Zeus. The major question here is, did the Greeks of that time see Zeus, ...
275. The Foundations of the Assyro-Babylonian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the Neo-Assyrian chronology was immediately realised [4 ]. It was pointed out that the limmu-list at several points could be linked up with and brought into chronological harmony with the Canon of Ptolemy - a list of kings and their length of reigns beginning with the rule of Nabonassar in Babylon (747-733 BC) through the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman rulers to Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD), a contemporary of Ptolemy. In this way, and not by the aid of the Eponym Canon eclipse, it was first shown that the eponymy of Pur-Sagale fell in the year 763 BC. Prof. Eberhard Schrader, in a work published in 1878, demonstrated this mutual agreement ...
276. Ancient Astronomical Values Revealed in The Book of the Secrets of Enoch [Journals] [Horus]
... : "This new fragment of early literature came to light through certain manuscripts which were recently found in Russia and Servia and so far as is known has been preserved only in Slavonic. Little is known of its origin except that in its present form it was written somewhere about the beginning of the Christian era. Its final editor was a Greek and the place of its composition, Egypt." An introduction at the head of Chapter I supplies a brief description of some of the book's contents: "An account of the mechanism of the world showing the machinery of the Sun and Moon in operation. Astronomy and an interesting ancient calendar." A thoughtful perusal of the entire ...
277. Sidelights on Velikovsky's 'Ages in Chaos' [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... that country by the Hyksos took place in the same period- according to my own calculation, in the year 1448 before the age of Jesus of Galilee.1 At that time, Velikovsky proved in his pioneer work Worlds in Collision (1950), a colossal comet was ravaging the Earth, which classic chroniclers named Typhon. To the Greek and Latin information about the comet that Velikovsky gathered with truly marvelous pains-taking, I am now able to add a notice I found in Gershom Scholem's Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah.2 On page 438 of this fascinating volume we learn that in the year 1666 a young man called Moses Suriel from Brussa, Turkey, presented himself to ...
278. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... a pattern we will discover in other thundergods around the world. Thus, an Assyrian prayer invokes Adad as follows: "thunderer, splendid, mighty god, terror, doughty warrior, who wields lightning, master of the deluge...you make abundant greenery." [10] The most familiar example of the thundergod is the Greek Zeus (see Figure 4), whose resemblance to Hadad was commonly acknowledged by the ancients themselves. Although the cult of Zeus was subject to profound evolution, often to the extent that his original nature was largely obscured [11] , the portrait of the god offered by our earliest sources is consistent, and it conforms to that ...
279. 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 ...
... history, such as might have afforded data for comparing the condition of species, at two periods considerably remote. But, fortunately, we are in some measure independent of such evidence : for, by a singular accident, the priests of Egypt have bequeathed to us, in their cemeteries, that information which the museums and works of the Greek philosophers have failed to transmit. For the careful investigation of these documents, we are greatly indebted to the skill and diligence of those naturalists who accompanied the French armies during their brief occupation of Egypt : that conquest of four years, from which we may date the improvement of the modern Egyptians in the arts and sciences, and the ...
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