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43 pages of results. 181. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... events, hampers the transference of the "Peoples of the Sea" to the Martian epochal interface. While we talked, Catherine de Grazia, an art historian and my daughter, was glancing at the work and commented, looking at the figures in the murals about Ramesses III, that she had never seen Greek warriors of the period wearing horned helmets. Velikovsky turned from the major point, upon which he was determined, to this admittedly critical detail and I, as the parent responsible for such progeny, volunteered to prove him right by locating the helmeted Greeks. Some museums and months later I gave up the task. As Sieff says, "By placing the 19th Dynasty ...
182. Analogous Mountain Building [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ,(5 ) and received a further boost at the end of the Pleiocene 1 million years ago(6 ) at the same time that the recent Appalachian mountains were formed. If the Atlantic has always opened at the present rate of 1 centimetre to the west per annum,(7 ) this pressure applied steadily from Greenland to Cape Horn across two continents curved in two directions over the surface of a sphere, therefore giving it greater rigidity, should have, in accordance with the rug experiment, produced continuous mountain building on the east coast of the Americas from Newfoundland through Florida and Brazil to Argentina: but it did not. If, on the other hand, the ...
183. British Museum: Compass [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... high quality greenstone seals that were made when much of Mesopotamia was united under the military control of the kings of the city of Agade (Akkad). The cuneiform inscription identifies the owner of the seal as Adda, who is described as dubsar, or scribe'. The figures can be identified as gods by their pointed hats with multiple horns. The figure with streams of water and fish flowing from his shoulders is Ea, god of subterranean waters and of wisdom, called Enki by the Sumerians. Behind Ea stands Usimu, his two-faced vizier (chief minister). Ishtar , the goddess of fertility (indicated by the cluster of dates) and war (the weapons rising ...
184. Planetary Observations of the T'ang Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . The Hsius and their Western equivalents There are 28 hsius, each corresponding roughly to the apparent position of the Moon as seen against the background of stars each month. Table 1 compares the hsius with the zodiac. Please note that the hsius' number increases as one travels from east to west. Hsiu number and name Equivalent constellation 1 Horn Stars in the east central part of Virgo including Spica 2 Neck Narrow belt that includes Arcturus and eastern extremities of Virgo. 3 Base (or Floor) Most of Libra from its central western part, including stars Zubel Cenubi and Unukalha. 4 House (or Room) A small slice of eastern Scorpio, including the star Oschubba but ...
185. Dinosaurs Grow Ever Bigger [Journals] [Aeon]
... belonged on the second digit of the dinosaur's foot. With a razor-sharp edge and pointed tip, the claw was similar to the one on the foot of Velociraptor of Jurassic Park fame- except that it was much bigger, nearly a foot long. Since, in the living specimen, the bone would have been covered with a sheath of horn, it would probably have measured 16 inches in length! Naming the new denizen Megaraptor namunbuaiquii (Mapuche for "lance-foot"), Novas estimates that the beast would have been 26 feet long, which would have made it three times the length of the famous Velociraptor. Besides their size, these clawed raptors had other dissimilarities. For ...
186. Shamash The Sun God [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... plaque about 11.5 cm high excavated at the site of Khafajeh in the Diyala region north-east of Baghdad during the excavations of the Oriental Institute of Chicago in the 1930s. It is now in the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago. it probably dates to the 19th or 18th century BC. It shows a male deity, identifiable by his horned headdress. It cannot be Hammurabi, as you suggest, since he never claimed divine status, but we cannot be sure which of the many warrior gods is depicted. The other figure is a real puzzle and no one has come up with a satisfactory explanation. I deal a lot with iconography and it baffles me too! It ...
187. Thera and the Exodus: the Cause and the Effect [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... chamber. The vertical collapse of this structure imparts an outward moving radial wave through the surrounding sea. The most devastating effects of the Krakatoan tsunamis were restricted to the shores of Java and Sumatra facing the volcano within a radius of some 120 km across the unobstructed water of the Sunda Strait. The remnants of Thera form a crescent with two horns, facing west. The location of the pre-eruption volcanic vents (Reck, 1936) are all well within the walls of the present day caldera. Egypt, to the south-east, is well sheltered by the remaining bulk of the island. Any wave created by such an enormous explosion would disperse its initial energy negotiating a reversal of direction ...
188. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... earlier and seems to have originated in Anatolia. (Dwardu Cardona has pointed out that a common entry in Babylonian astrological reports was when Shamash stands in the halo of Sin', but for Cardona Shamash is Saturn. Is Sin even the Moon? As depicted the crescent lies on its back, looking more like the Minoan depiction of bull horns.) Mayan creation The Independent [date unknown] Experts in hieroglyphic writing have succeeded in interpreting the Mayan account of the creation. They claim that the universe was created in 3114 BC when the gods made the Orion nebula, near the belt of the constellation of Orion, in the form of a flame burning on the celestial hearth ...
189. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... now turned to meteorology, Dr Meaden's specialist subject. He suggested that archaeologists should pay more attention to the weather in ancient times as all natural phenomenon associated with it would have been seen as sacred. Dr Meaden's explanation for the later importance of a masculine deity was as a storm god and the associated importance of bull worship, with its horns symbol, was due to the sound of thunder and the obvious damaging power of storms. Catastrophists would suggest that this is too mild an explanation for the cataclysmic symbolism of the bull of heaven', But nevertheless, Dr Meaden's imagery derived from this is not necessarily thereby negated. The tornadoes which are often associated with storms he suggests ...
190. Human Sacrifice - Then and Now [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Now there were no victims to expiate cultural misbehaviour and the individual became responsible for the good of his society by rigid adherence to its rules. The old places and symbols of sacrifice took on new meanings. The fire pit of Gehenna where children had been sacrificed became Hell, the staff and bronze serpent became the Devil, with the horns associated with Yahweh. Unfortunately the Jews stood alone in their abandonment of sacrifice, surrounded by people to whom it was still vitally important. Paul, whose early life must have made him aware of the spring rites of the sacrifice and resurrection of the god Attis, founded the Christian religion by reverting to the primitive sacrificial level where panic ...
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