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176 pages of results. 291. Natural Catastrophes in the Ninth Century AD C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ice, 15 feet long, 7 feet wide and 2 feet thick was said to have fallen with the hail near Autun, in Gaul. Three years later, during fighting with Moors over territory in the southwest of the empire ... Xanten and the Annals of St Bertin. Two years later, Xanten recorded that strange rays of light appeared from east to west in the night sky and for 837 AD and the transition to the following year, they continued: ... grandson of Charlemagne through his mother, Bertha. In contrast, the Annals of Fulda [4 ], from eastern Francia (mainly modern Germany) supported first Lothair and, later, Louis the German, whereas the Annals of ...
292. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... planets. [10] Examples of the motif discussed . (From Mesopotamia.) Further examples from the ancient Near East. The theory continued to flourish throughout the later centuries of antiquity with several minor variations. Opinions differ, ... instance, with regard to the exact location of the primordial conjunction in space. The most abstruse location of the planetary conjunction is indubitably Aetius' statement: "The so-called Great Year occurs when all [planets] return to the ... ; but in Cancer occurs a flood in a part of the universe." [15] More examples from eastern countries. Anthropomorphic renditions of segmented axis. (Compare with figures on opposite page.) Anthropomorphic rendition of segmented ...
293. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... II and the end of the Late Bronze Age. [See Geoffrey Gammon's article "Bronze Age Destructions in the Near East" in SISR IV:4 .] Schaeffer was inclined to attribute these destructions to seismic activity, and ... the light of our knowledge of plate tectonics, Dr Baity thought it noteworthy that the Palestinian rift, in which many Bronze Age cities were repeatedly built and rebuilt, is one of the major plate boundaries. Further afield, in ... , Schaeffer assembled a wealth of archaeological data suggesting a series of simultaneous destructions at sites throughout Western Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean between the end of Early Bronze II and the end of the Late Bronze Age. [See Geoffrey Gammon's ...
294. Temple, Crown, Vase, Eye, and Circular Serpent [Books]
... innumerable entrance and threshold rites of mankind are expressions of this numinous feminine place." (32) Throughout the Near East, states Allegro, "the temple was designed with a large measure of uniformity" and this sacred abode ... "now recognizable as a microcosm of the womb." (33) Not in one land, but in every segment of the world, the sacred texts confirm this identity of temple and womb. The Egyptian great god resides ... : "The idea of the Mother Pot is found not only in Babylonia, Egypt, India, and the Eastern Mediterranean, but wherever the influence of these ancient civilizations made itself felt. It is widespread among the Celtic-speaking peoples ...
295. Anomalistics - a New Field of Interdisciplinary Studies [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... . Another American journalist, Robert L. Ripley, whose syndicated column "Believe It Or Not" appeared in nearly all United States newspapers, was the first popularizer (or, as his detractors may prefer to phrase it, ... the middle of the first millennium B. C., of Aramaic as the common language of the ancient Near East between Egypt and India, which it remained till the Islamic conquest of the 7th century A. D. The ... with most symbols, to identity - between the Harappan script of the pre-Aryan Indus Valley and the rongo-rongo script of Easter Island. Though both scripts remain undeciphered, it is hard to believe that they are not varieties of a single ...
296. Introducing Anomalistics: A New Field of Interdisciplinary Study [Journals] [Kronos]
... . Another American journalist, Robert L. Ripley, whose syndicated column "Believe It Or Not" appeared in nearly all United States newspapers, was the first popularizer (or, as his detractors may prefer to phrase it, ... the middle of the first millennium B. C., of Aramaic as the common language of the ancient Near East between Egypt and India, which it remained till the Islamic conquest of the 7th century A. D. The ... with most symbols, to identity- between the Harappan script of the pre-Aryan Indus Valley and the rongo-rongo script of Easter Island. Though both scripts remain undeciphered, it is hard to believe that they are not varieties of a single ...
297. The Hyksos Were Not Assyrians [Journals] [Aeon]
... as Heinsohn assumes. He shows an utter ignorance of the work by the great school of literary analysts of ancient Near Eastern texts, particularly the work of Robert Alter, whose "The Art of Biblical Narrative" is particularly relevant ... this connection. I would also recommend he read "The King David Report" by the great East German dissident writer Stefan Heym, which wittily but convincingly demonstrates how the Saul-David account must have been put together in the early years ... Solomon's reign when many of the eyewitnesses were still alive: its purpose was to establish the legitimacy of King David, and of his son Solomon to succeed him. Apart from the startling psychological truth of the characters- no astrological ...
298. Man: The Past, The Present, and the Future [Books]
... everywhere else. The Assyrians and Babylonians had traditions of a Flood. Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldeans, near the head of the Persian Gulf. His grandson, Jacob, with his twelve sons, moved farther westward into ... Flood have spread over the surface of the earth; most of the populations of Europe and America came from the east; and the migrations of peoples and the histories of nations attest to the fact that these land areas and continents ... Mexico, and the West Indies. Seeking traces of some of these vegetables in the opposite Safe Area, or eastern pivot point, where pre-Flood civilization was similarly not destroyed, we find that cobs and kernels of popcorn-identical with the ...
299. The Hermes Connection [Journals] [Aeon]
... . But more than this, all art forms carry a message; and in so doing they encrypt ancient secrets nearly lost in Lethean forgetfulness. Reality has become surrealistic to the interpreters, and except for these encoded messages, the ... into Egypt and Persia), forming Greek theories of "atoms" and "elements." In the Middle East, Nebuchadnezzar, the Chaldean king of Babylon, permitted if not encouraged the priestly class of the Magi, who ... their doctrines of incest and homosexuality. And, in Egypt, Pharaoh Necho II added to this age of exploration by sending a fleet of Phoenician ships to circumnavigate Africa. Amidst these "paths" of human endeavor and enlightenment we ...
300. Aphrodite The Moon or Venus? (Continued) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... people of little discipline fight so murderously and for so long over a mere woman in an age when women were nearly ordinary chattels?" is answered. Beautiful Helen, eternally unravishable and unconquerable, was Moon-Aphrodite. Demodocus Entertaining - ... Venus. So the one "ardently pursues" and "inflames with passion" the other. In the near East, a similar switch of identities occurred. The great goddess Ishtar (who is generally identified with the planet Venus ... before Jupiter, Venus and Mars, probably after Uranus, and possibly of the age of Saturn - using the Eastern Mediterranean theogony and names as points of reference. When Botticelli painted his delicate and tranquil Birth of Venus (as ...
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