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383 pages of results. 221. Letters [Journals] [Pensee]
... at Victoria, I have tried to show how the visual evidence could be interpreted according to the Velikovsky reconstruction of history. I have also presented instances where it cannot. My intention was to urge students to keep an open mind ... historical frameworks, to realize how in the course of popularization so many "possiblys" and "presumablys" get dropped out, and areas as full of guesswork as ancient history are presented as cut-and-dried dogma. Your published reference to ... textual emendation; it is a deliberate rewriting of historical data, and thereby a repudiation of the entire enterprise of historiography. (2 ) The word "Ninsianna" means "lady of the defenses of heaven" (see Sayce ...
222. Discussion Questions From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... think that personalities are much less important in this affair than is getting at the truth about the proper order of history. A SUGGESTION TO CRITICS SPEAKER: GUNNAR HEINSOHN- To focus the many critical efforts of my scholarly opponents upon ... down the Earth's spin other processes tend to work in the opposite direction...There is for instance undeniable historical evidence from eclipse data showing that this has happened; a change as simple as a one meter fall in sea ... would decrease the rate of deceleration from its present level...However, these changes in the Earth's rate of rotation are miniscule in comparison with an additional "leap second," which The Astronomical Almanac (1983) records ...
223. Intimations of an Alien Sky [Journals] [Aeon]
... so long ago, in an attempt to delineate certain basic rules that should be followed in the reconstruction of cosmic history, I had reason to claim that, in its cosmic interpretation, the mythological record "is backed by the ... - hence the term "diaries"- month by month, throughout the year. Were it not for the historical events that they also report, they would probably have incited less interest among scholars. Astronomically, they are nothing ... thing at a time. The term "Chaldean," meanwhile, has long been misunderstood and misapplied by ancient historians and moderns alike. As used by Diodorus and other classical authors, the term simply meant "astrologers" and ...
... which Mordecai had discovered; and when the scribe said no more but that, and was going on to another history, the king stopped him, and inquired "whether it was not added that Mordecai had a reward given him ... names of those families, that I may not take off the mind of my readers from the connexion of the historical facts, and make it hard for them to follow the coherence of my narrations; but the sum of those ... other of the sacred histories, find it a very easy matter to reconcile the different accounts which were given by historians of the affairs of this king, or to confirm any one fact of his whatever with the same evidence which ...
... Part One: Britain's Great Antiquity Chapter II The Era Of Giants "The fundamental rule of science, whether in history or elsewhere, is not what has been believed but what is true." Sir F. Palgrave: The ... eyes must inevitably turn to the north, for there is the natural region of the fair-haired peoples, although within historical times they have suffered by interbreeding with the darker races. There are few men of height, natives of the ... seaboard or in the Middle East. Another feature to be observed of the Giants is that nearly always they are described as red-haired and red-bearded, as were the Adamites and Edomites, names derived from the Hebrew adorn or edom, ...
226. The Hermes Connection [Journals] [Aeon]
... Alexander the Great in attempts to unify Greece under one rule. However, as it is with most accidents of history, unification was not to be. Whereas Alexanda was born with the proverbial silver spoon, Alcibiades was an orphan ... considered to be a purely abstract astral symbol in present-day thought, it is herein assumed to have originated in a historic reality modern man has simply forgotten. It has been said that art reflects Nature. But more than this, ... of civilization from a critical juncture about the 9th century B.C . has been something of a puzzle to historians. But much might be explained by the simple consideration that the Saturnian column- or the symbolism of the trunk ...
... I. The Chronicler's Tale 12 II. The Figure in Finland 26 III. The Iranian Parallel 36 IV. History, Myth and Reality 43 Intermezzo: A Guide for the Perplexed 56 V. The Unfolding in India 76 VI ... could not guess that W. D. Ross, his modern editor, would condescendingly annotate: "This is historically untrue." Yet we know that Saturday and Sabbath had to do with Saturn, just as Wednesday and Mercredi ... to do with Mercury. Such names are as old as time; as old, certainly, as the planetary heptagram of the Harranians. They go back far before Professor Ross' Greek philology. The inquiries of great and meticulous ...
228. The Early Years: Part Two [Journals] [Aeon]
... the view which is stretched before you. It is the consciousness that this occasion marks a great epoch in the history of a people who made this little land of Palestine a seed ground of great religions, and whose intellectual and ... , and the United Synagogue of America; founder of the Jewish Publication Society of America and of the American Jewish Historical Society; editor of the Jewish Quarterlv Review), chief rabbi Hirsch Perez Chajes of Vienna, Anglo-Jewish political leader ... called the "greatest renaissance in this century". (1 ) In his nostalgic study of the city, historian Otto Friedrich evoked the names of: Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Josephine Baker, the grandiose productions of Max ...
229. The Establishment of Gradualism [Books]
... [1 ], Stephen Jay Gould's Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle [2 ], Richard Huggett's Cataclysms and Earth History [3 ] and Claude Albritton's Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History [4 ]. These works, all of which ... catastrophism is uniformitarianism' [6 ]. With all this in mind, let us go on to consider the historical development of geology and evolution. Myth, cosmogony and pre-nineteenth century catastrophism According to the Genesis account of creation, ... spent the first three days separating first Day and Night, then Heaven and Earth, and finally Land and Sea. On the fourth day the Sun and Moon were formed (raising the question of what Day was like before the ...
230. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... possibly do justice to all the points he adduces as proof. Bibliography 1. John van Seters, Abraham in History and Tradition New Haven, 1975 2. Eduard Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums Erster Band (History of the Ancient ... and the entire historiography hinges on this mythical figure, were in fact duplications of each other; and only one historical sequence can be developed starting c. 1500 BC. The case is far more complicated in Egypt where the same ... M. Noth, and H. Winckler. Another time scale is applied in what must be considered orthodox modern historiography: in a German dictionary of the Bible (published in 1985) I found the opinion that Abraham's "story ...
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