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383 pages of results. 181. 094book.htm [Journals] [Aeon]
... York), 1966. A Review by Ian C. Johnson Charles H. Hapgood, a professor of the history of science at Keene State College in New Hampshire, acknowledged that his book was inspired by Captain Arlington H. ... the portion of England shown on "The Ptolemaic Map of the North" reproduced in Hapgood's book. A major historical anomaly lies in Ptolemy's knowledge of the existence of Greenland. The 1979 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Volume 7 ... Page 1037, informs us that Irish colonists first reached Iceland about 670 AD, followed by Norsemen in 870 AD. The saga of Eric the Red (Eiriks saga rauda), a Norwegian, tells of the discovery of Greenland ...
182. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... balance, and hierarchy."[3 ] I have carried the birth of the Moon back in solar system history to an astronomical catastrophe occurring even before the Age of Saturn. We hear Theopompos quoted by Plutarch: [4 ... precedence of the Moon and the definite designation of Urania, an impossible name for a later deity; long before historical nations began, Ouranos was a deus otiosus. The goddess Amphitrite Thalassa (" of the Sea") shares ... be approached skeptically). In this temple, we have noted, stood a monolith that Tacitus, the Roman historian, described as "A rounded mass rising like a cone from a broad base to a small circumference." ...
183. The Celestial Ship of North Vol II [Books]
... a sign covers a period of seven years. He entered the sign of Aquarius in 1914. In all Bible history seven years of famine, catastrophe, epidemics, wars, plagues, etc., preceded the coming of a ... with priceless ancient wisdom told in myth, fable, and allegory. Events of every description and kind, whether historical or otherwise, were anciently recorded. It was a method of learning and assimilating great truths, which were true ... represented by the four sacred animals-The Bull, the Lion, the Eagle, and the Man. Joaephus, Flavius-An historian of the First Century; a Hellenized Jew who lived in Alexandria and died at Rome. His writings, in ...
184. Distorting and Reconstructing the Past [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... to light. The cuneiform literature of Mesopotamia revealed the existence of monarchs, nations, and civilisations previously unknown to history. Thus, in Lower Mesopotamia, which ancient writers named as the land of the Chaldaeans, a new and ... represent one of the best-documented epochs of ancient times. A whole mass of political correspondences, private letters, and historical documents, from all over the Near East, has survived. If indeed the Mitanni and the Middle Assyrians, ... well as the 18th Dynasty, do belong to the 7th and 6th centuries, we might expect these documents to mention, or allude to, the great events of the time: namely the fall of Assyria, the rise of ...
185. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Ballgame of the Sky Gods in Mesoamerican Mythology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , Yucatan, Mexico, Garland Publishing, New York/London, 1978. 5. For literature on the history and ritual function of the Mesoamerican Ballgame see S.F . de Borhegyi, The Pre-Columbian Ballgame, a Pan-Mesoamerican ... ]. Catlin was far from being a bible fundamentalist. In his view, the Indian flood traditions validated the historicity of past natural disasters, not the authenticity of biblical theology. The flood legends of the natives were of independent ... Konrad Theodor Preuss, Eduard Seler and Walter Krickeberg) tried to decipher the cosmic symbolism of the Mesoamerican ballgame, historians have been aware of the close relationship between heavenly bodies, the ritual function of the ballgame and the personification of ...
186. Ras Shamra (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... dates can be given." A. J. B. Wace, "Prehistoric Greece" in Cambridge Ancient History, I (Cambridge, 1923), 173-80. "The difficulty comes when we attempt to fit these archaeological ... identifying the Philistines with Kreti and Pleti, Caphtor was identified as Crete. It will be more in accord with historical evidence if we understand Caphtor to be Cyprus. If Caphtor was not Cyprus, then no name for Cyprus and ... mention of the island would be found in the Scriptures, and that would be unlikely because Cyprus is very close to Syria. The islands of Khitiim (Jeremiah 2:10; Ezekiel 27:6 ), usually identified as ...
187. The Great Father [Books]
... newly organized Cosmos. The legends often present the figure as the first man or "primordial man," whose history personified the struggle of good and evil. Whether emphasizing the great father's character as creator, first king, or ... figures of the primeval god possess this tangible character, and accounts of the god's radiant appearance are more of a historical than a speculative nature. Egyptian and Mesopotamian traditions of the solitary creator find many parallels in later Hebrew, Greek ... far broader than any local tradition. And the story was not limited to Egypt. According to the theologian and historian Eusebius (who relates the account of the Babylonian priest-historian Berossus), the ancient tribes of Chaldea owed their civilization ...
188. Catastrophe: An Investigation Into The Origins Of The Modern World (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... to their collective knees, and in more than a few instances relegated them to oblivion. If such a case history of a catastrophe can be rightly considered fascinating- as this most certainly is- the fascination lies in the hideous ... these past 1500 years. This was a disaster which brought almost all ancient civilizations that we consider classical in the historical sense to their collective knees, and in more than a few instances relegated them to oblivion. If such a ... 12th century Michael the Syrian) wrote that the Sun became dark and shone dimly for eighteen months. The Roman historian Procopius commented on the lack of normal sunshine for a whole year. Zacharias of Mytilene iterated that both the Sun ...
189. Chaldean Account of Genesis [Books]
... OF THE GODS; FROM THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS. OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL ARTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM, AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF ASSURBANIPAL, ASSYRIAN DISCOVERIES, ETC. ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS SECRET DOCTRINE REFERENCE SERIES THE "NEW PHILOSOPHY" ... CHAPTER I- THE DISCOVERY OF THE GENESIS LEGENDS. Cosmogony of Berosus.- Discovery of Cuneiform Inscriptions.- Historical Text- Babylonian origin of Assyrian literature.- Mythological tablets.- Discovery of Deluge texts.- Izdubar, ... of Creation legends. -The Fall. -New fragments. -List of texts. Fragments of the Chaldean historian, Berosus, preserved in the works of various later writers, have shown that the Babylonians were acquainted with traditions ...
190. Bel and Dragons [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a real person? The name was first used by the English cleric, the Venerable Bede, in his A History of the English Church and People. He seems to have simply translated the Latin of Gildas in The Ruin of ... Cambridge Conference (C &C Review Special Issue: Evidence that the Earth has Suffered Catastrophes of Cosmic Origin in Historical times pp. 74-94), this valley has features which virtually rule out ordinary erosion as its cause. It ... of traditional material known as the Historia Brittonum. Some of the material was legendary and is regarded as dubious by historians. However, unlike Geoffrey of Monmouth's popular work, Historia Regnum Britanniae, it does not appear to have been ...
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