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176 pages of results. 301. The Emerging Revision of Ancient History: Recent Research [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Bronze I and II periods. At the end of the Late Bronze era, a catastrophic breakdown afflicted the entire Near East. The civilizations of Canaan, Egypt and the Hittite Empire all collapsed, supposedly before the invasion of mysterious ... construction. At the end of the Early Bronze Age, these cities and their people were overthrown by invaders from east of the Jordan River, widely assumed to have come from Mesopotamia or from the north, although there is no ... Middle Bronze II period. At this time, the composite Asiatic strongbow and the light chariot were introduced into Middle Eastern warfare for the first time. They also built vast fortresses, protected by so-called glacis-embankments of piled earth, probably ...
302. The Great Kingship of the Medes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , placed Shalmaneser III and Ashur-da'n-apla in the latter 9th century BC whereas the Classical sources insisted that Sardanapalus had lived near the end of the 7th century. However, since Shalmaneser III and Ashur-da'in-apla actually lived at the turn of the ... future Shalmaneser III. (8 ) There may indeed have been a long co-regency (quite common in the ancient East), and this seems all the more likely when we consider the otherwise uncommon length of Shalmaneser's reign, almost ... as the principal enemy. It remains to be shown how the Urartian kingdom was in fact little other than the eastern facade of the Hittite Empire, and how after the region's incorporation into the Hittite confederacy during the time of Suppiluliumas ...
303. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... of Helios and Hades. In the Odyssey, for example, it is stated that the road to Hades lies near the gates of the sun. (31) This statement recalls the fact that great gates were distinctive of the ... we begin our analysis. Gilgamesh It has often been maintained that the mythology of Heracles stems from the ancient Near East. Certainly there can be no doubt that Oriental motives found their way into the mythological cycle of the Greek hero ... description of the Cedar Forest can't help but recall the mythological motive of the Cosmic Mountain, so prominent in Near Eastern tradition. As numerous scholars have shown, it was upon this mountain that the assembly of the gods was located ...
304. Variations on a Theme of Philolaos [Journals] [Kronos]
... small in comparison to the orbit of the Moon, and if the Moon and the other orbiting bodies proceed at nearly uniform speeds around their circular orbits, what becomes of planetary retrogradation? By avoiding lunar and solar retrogradation, we ... . Its speed does vary on a monthly basis, but during the day it moves rather steadily from west to east with respect to the background stars. A Moon that is high in the sky does not move appreciably slower sidereally ... that a defender of the theory of the Central Fire and the Counter-Earth knew that the distance from the Atlantic to eastern Persia is roughly 5000 miles, and that that span lies roughly at latitude 35 or 40. If no one ...
305. Mons Veneris [Journals] [Aeon]
... from the Old and New World alike. Our discussion here will focus upon the literature and art from the ancient Near East and, while necessarily technical in nature, it is hoped that it will serve as a launching pad for ... radical reinterpretation of ancient cosmology in general. (Fig. 1) Cylinder seal impression showing Shamash rising over the twin-peaked mountain. Simply stated, it can be shown that descriptions of the celestial whereabouts and stereotypical behavior of the ancient ... than those which give us the representation of the Sun-god Shamash emerging from the gates of morning and rising over the Eastern mountains." (9 ) Venus Ancient hymns celebrating the planet Venus- or the goddess identified with that planet ...
306. Velikovsky and his Critics by Shane Mage [Books]
... demonstrating that) for Sagan, Asimov, Goldsmith, et. al., the moment of historical reckoning is near at hand." (Greenberg, V&ES, p. 4) Clearly, we have here something ... to give instances of similar traditions from Mexico, Dalmatia, China, Palestine, Finland, Lapland, Greenland. East Africa, West Africa, and Brazil. Did Chicken Little vlsit all these places? And why did everybody believe ... ? Sagan II: The "Strong" Arguments Returning now to the main part of his case, we see that Sagan gives highest weight to his arguments against the physical plausibility of four Velikovskian contentions: that Venus entered our solar ...
307. Chapter 4 Scientific ? Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... do not fit an a priori hypothesis."15 With respect to radiocarbon dating of the Bronze Age in the Near East Professor Ingrid Olsson, a senior radiocarbon dating scientist at the Gothenburg conference on ancient chronology, admitted: " ... I would say that I feel most of the dates from the actual Bronze Age are dubious. The manner in which they have been made . . . forces me to be critical."16 As we well understand, the ... , five 44 M.B . Rowton, "The Woodlands of Ancient Western Asia," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 26 (1967), p. 275 and p. 295 136 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI ...
308. A Return to the Two Sargons and Their Successors [Journals] [Aeon]
... to the Two Sargons and Their Successors Dwardu Cardona Recapitulation For years Gunnar Heinsohn had been proposing a reconstruction of ancient Near Eastern history in which, among other things, the conquest of southern Mesopotamia by the Akkadians around -2350 was shown ... . And just because there were Hitlerian administrations (using four different languages) in France, Norway, Poland/east Europe, and Germany itself does not mean there must have been four different Hitlerian empires in different areas (and ... or in different periods of history). If, however, anyone uncovers a massive Hitlerian stratum deep down and another equally massive Hitlerian stratum four strata upstairs, then that will be quite another thing! If anyone can show me ...
309. Velikovsky, Glasgow and Heinsohn Combined [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that at least two thousand years needs to be removed from the ancient history of the Near East. The first person to suggest that there was something fundamentally wrong with the timescales of ancient history was of ... Immanuel Velikovsky and in the early 1950s he proposed that 18th Dynasty Egyptian chronology was too long by around 500 years. Ages in Chaos Vol. 1, published in 1952, demonstrated to the world how, if those 500 years ... had clearly Iranian names. Hurrian is non-Indo-European and is closely related to the language of Urartu, the region of eastern Anatolia immediately south of the Caucasus. From the Iranian royal names and the Indo-Iranian gods worshipped by the Mitanni, ...
310. The Birth of Athena [Journals] [Aeon]
... it is, conforms to a universal archetype. This fact has rarely been appreciated by scholars despite the fact that nearly every ancient goddess of comparable stature to Athena was described in like manner. (47) In Greece alone Hera ... Hekate, and Aphrodite were represented as armed warriors. (48) The ancient Near East provides a wealth of goddesses distinguished by their propensity for war. Kapelrud offered the following summary in his study of the war-goddess: Both the ... conquest of Shiva/Mahisasura constitutes "the archetypal myth of the goddess in India." (89) Near Eastern Parallels Violence also characterizes the relationship of the great goddess and her father/consort in Near Eastern mythology. In ...
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