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383 pages of results. 391. The Inconstant Heavens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Under their fondest Fables, Mysteries: By Phaeton, how heaven's Powers rebelled In Fire's force, and by the histories Of Phyrrha and Deucalian there lies, The like of water's impetuity, In part concurring with divinity-The Priests ... wait to be introduced by Nabonassar (in 747 B.C .) . These contentions were based mainly on historical evidence, whereas astronomical considerations were the main ground for suggesting that comets may become planets: Yet comets by passing ... the heavenly bodies is affected by electromagnetic fields. Today creative astronomers are immersed in the study of electromagnetism. The historian finds difficulty in explaining how radical is this change that has challenged three hundred years of cosmological thought and has brought ...
392. In Defence of the Revised Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... An answer to John Day - CONTINUED Martin Sieff assisted by Peter James MARTIN SIEFF has an honours degree in Modern History from Oxford University, and is currently engaged on postgraduate research for a doctor's degree. PETER JAMES has an honours ... is a matter of controversy. On the other hand.... we find support for him in the historical setting as revealed by our reconstruction." (2 ) However, Day is right in saying that modern scholarship ... now discredited Virolleaud's translation of the poem. More recent translations - by Driver (3 ), Gray (4 ), and Ginsberg (5 ) - while differing on minor details all present us with much the same story, ...
393. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... CHAPTER SIX The Uranians The Hindu history of Super-Uranus can be told now, the Greek history later. In the beginning, there was Vritra, a covering and restraint upon the Earth, and later on Vritra had as allies ... that soul is the inward turning of the new psychology upon itself- self-awareness. And the link to divinity was historically inescapable. As the soul, or the split person looking at himself or herself, was born, it observed ... necks and tearing out each other's eyes."[11] But these sane authorities would agree with all other historians of religion that wars of the gods and self-mutilation by the gods are part of every primordial cosmogony. Our preferred ...
394. The Riddle of the Earth [Books]
... age built up, and by the linear direction of volcanoes extinct or alive can a prior period of the world's history be identified. Such is the theory advanced. It is shown how these meteor deposits, volcanoes, gradually cool ... , south-west of Naples, fortunately for that city, has remained quiescent since the fourteenth century, but in early historical times was celebrated for its frequent and extremely violent activity. Its lavas are felspathic, very beautiful and varied, ... 95), and hardened lumps of clay, preserved in an Arcadian temple, were shown to Pausanias, the historian, as remnants employed by " Father Prometheus " in moulding man. We find Hesiod describing the five creations of ...
... VI The "Forgotten Empire": Testimony Of Art Yazilikaya: "The Inscribed Rock" The "Hittite" history reveals itself as the history of the Chaldean dynasty, especially of the period of the Neo-Babylonian monarchy. The documents ... The result had it that the wood was seven hundred years more recent than expected on the basis of the accepted historical chronology.6 The same repentant author who revoked his estimate of Alisar IV and ascribed it to the post-Phrygian time ... written a few years earlier: "There are no historically known circumstances which would adequately explain a general use of hieroglyphics in the very center of the Hittite Great Empire during its existence."7 Everything became confused. "Now ...
396. Contributors [Journals] [Kronos]
... of interstellar travel. He is a Fellow in the British Interplanetary Society . Milo Kearney is an Associate Professor of History at Pan American University (Texas). He holds a Ph.D . from the Univ. of California ... articles have appeared in The Zetetic Scholar and the Dictionary of American Biography. He has reviewed books for The American Historical Review, The Historian, and History: Reviews of New Books. He has given papers at the American Historical ... , the Organization of American Historians, the Ohio Academy of History, and the Duquesne History Forum. His academic specialty is American diplomatic and constitutional history and at present he is working on a study of the constitutional history of the ...
397. Letters to C&C Workshop 2004:4 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... please? There appears to be no calendar change evident in either Kings or Chronicles. Contrary to Fairlie-Clarke's view of history, the New Bible Dictionary, along with all other authorities (except the Bible, Daniel 5:2 ) ... remainder of the article is concerned with building up a theoretical model of how the empire could have been administered. Historical Greek sources describe the structure of the Persian government, but, again, Sancisi-Weerdenburg is forced to admit that, ... that she had to reaffirm this speaks for itself about the virtual non-appearance of the Persians in the region. Which historian or archaeologist has ever had to state that the existence of the Roman Empire is not to be doubted? While ...
398. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
... down; happens that which never (yet) had happened'. V here refers to the "Cambridge Ancient History" (1923), vol.I , p.340- 346, and A.H .Gardiner's ... . But whether prophecy or pseudo- prophecy, it is still very far from being the matter- of- fact historical document that readers of WIC might suppose it to be. (ii) V's quotes from the Ermitage Papyrus are ... site is in any way connected with them ? To make an analogy, it would be academically unwise for a historian to point to every tumble- down house in Britain today as evidence' of the wide- spread bombing in ...
... , and who were also the power in Wessex. A queer sidelight is thrown upon the Ethiopians in an apocryphal history of Moses recounted by Josephus. In this Moses, as the general of Pharaoh, waged war on the Ethiopians ... it may be taken as generally substantiated, and it indicates how the priesthood tyrannized over these Ethiopians until well into historical times, and that in their capital, Meru, they were dominated by the oracle of their god Bel. ... however, a quaint account of the same event told differently by Hector Boece (Boethius), the fifteenth-century Scots historian and head of the Marischal's College, Aberdeen. Boece calls the Meropes by the name of "Moris", ...
... 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 ... esse simulavit"). Saxo must have also read the Brutus story as told by Livy, and by later historians, whose versions were ultimately based on Dionysius of Halicarnassus. [n5 5 Gollancz, pp. xxi-xxiv.] ... juxtapose the twin brothers Hamlet and Brutus, here is the earlier portion' of the tale of Brutus as told by Livy (I .56). The subsequent events connected with the rape of Lucrece are too well known to ...
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