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327 pages of results. 261. The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1992 No 1 (Aug 1992) Home | Issue Contents REVIEWS The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins by Elaine Morgan (Souvenir Press, London, 1990) In this brief, clear, and engaging presentation of the Aquatic Hypothesis on human evolution, Mrs. Morgan succinctly details the evidence for our ancestors' ecological detour from Miocene forests to Pleistocene grasslands by way of Pliocene seashores. More precisely, she follows the late Leon P. La Lumiere of the U.S . Naval Research Laboratory in locating the cradle of the hominids on what used to be Danakil Island (but is now the Danikil upland ...
262. The Area of Origin [Books]
... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER I THE SWASTIKA SECTION I The Area of Origin Swastika as a "luck symbol " - Meaning of "luck " - Various readings of symbol - Problem of Distribution -Not found in Ancient Egypt or Ancient Mesopotarnia - Late introduction into Africa- Hittite and Phrygian swastikas - Found in Cyprus and Troy - On early Elamite pottery - Swastika as a Christian cross - As a Celtic goddess symbol - Survivals in Modern Europe - Aryan origin theory - Migrations of swastika -Egyptian "Winged Disc" and swastika - Distribution of swastika in America - The octopusand swastika. Which symbol has of recent years ...
263. Notes (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, edited by R. H. Charles (Oxford, 1913); Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, and Revelations (Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. xvi), edited by A. Roberts and J. Donaldson (Edinburgh, 1870). Note 2. Compare, for instance, the scintillating splendour and picturesque originality of the passage Rev. xii. 4 with the drab rendering and uninteresting dullness of the parallel verse in Dan. viii 10. The one reports authoritatively that a `great dragon' with tremendous swishings of its tail `drew the third part of the stars from heaven, and did cast them to the earth . . . ' ...
... Ages in Chaos, Velikovsky describes a number of these problems and demonstrates how these problems are resolved by use of a revised chronology. Some of these points will be reviewed here, but first it is interesting to see how flaws entered this standard for world history. This was discussed by Velikovsky in an article titled Astronomy and Chronology. 1 ORIGIN OF THE STANDARD For background, it is necessary to define relative and absolute dating. If it is known only that a certain king died three years after a major battle, then the time of the demise of the king is known only relative to the battle. Several other events may also be known to have occurred a given number ...
265. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... each of whom usurped some of the Vedic functions of Indra. (5 ) A similar demotion is apparent in Iran, where Indra became relegated to the status of a low-grade demon. (6 ) Given the degeneration in Indra's status in post-Vedic times, it is our opinion that the Rig Veda offers the best guide in reconstructing the god's original cult. This is not to say that the traditions found in the Atharva Veda, Mahabharata, and numerous other texts are irrelevant to a discussion of Indra's mythus- far from it; only that one must beware of revisionist tendencies in these later texts. Puhvel's commentary on this state of affairs is most relevant: Late Vedic and post-Vedic ...
266. A Record of Success [Journals] [Pensee]
... "Ten years ago in our hypotheses of cosmic evolution we were thinking in terms of gravitation and light pressure .. . Tomorrow we may contemplate a galaxy that is essentially a gravitating, turbulent electromagnet." Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, "Why Do Galaxies Have a Spiral Form," Scientific American, 89 (September, 1953). VENUS Venus originated in a violent disruption of Jupiter. (Worlds in Collision, "Pallas Athene," 169-172) For references see C.J . Ransom, "How Stable is the Solar System?" in this issue. (Velikovsky referred to the legendary motifs on this subject in Worlds in Collision and promised to elaborate in a sequel to ...
267. The Celestial Tower [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the god in anger chased the builders away, broke down the building, and changed their language, so that they spoke divers tongues. ' [2 ] From Africa there is an abundance of similar traditions, all of them of great antiquity, which are discussed at some length by a little-known writer named Brendan Stannard in his encyclopedic The Origins of Israel and Mankind. Stannard notes that, In many versions of the separation myth, the departure of Heaven brought to an abrupt end a previously paradisal age, during which man and the gods were in close communication. Sickness, death and the necessity of labour now entered man's domain. Man found himself abandoned and destitute of the ...
268. Intimations of an Alien Sky [Journals] [Aeon]
... Far-Off Times was the idea that the gods are really stars, and that there are no others. The forces reside in the starry heavens, and all the stories, characters, and adventures narrated by mythology concentrate on the active powers among the stars, who are the planets. (6 ) The above should make it evident that, originally, there was no differentiation between the names of planets and the names of gods since both were one and the same. For that reason it becomes somewhat difficult to discuss ancient astronomical lore without also discussing the ancient deities. But while, in Egypt, astronomy was not divorced from religion until the advent of the Greeks under the Ptolemies ...
... this cauldron in a great bar, which reaches above the present sea level in the island of Alboran. Plato's Atlantis myth naturally does not contain a reference to the breaching of the Straits of Gibraltar, because that is outside its sphere of interest. But ancient geographers, as, for instance, Strato, according to Strabo, testified that originally the strait of the Pillars did not exist, but the rock was eventually broken through in a cataclysm. And Seneca, evidently quoting an old tradition, says that Spain was torn away from Africa by earthquakes. Greek- mythology treasures even more distinct traditions. Originally, says Diodorus Siculus, quoting ancient lore, `the two continents ...
270. A Critical Re-appraisal of the Book of Genesis, Part Two [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... brought about a situation where students who perhaps might have undertaken to penetrate more deeply into a study of Egyptian-Hebrew relationships were intimidated and deterred from approaching the matter [3 ]. On the other hand, he says, Biblical critics could always refer to such statements by renowned Egyptologists as being highly authoritative in support of their views on the late origin of the Pentateuch, and the unreliable character of those parts which deal with Egypt. The endeavours of those few scholars who dared to go beyond "the limits prescribed by the official view," as Yahuda puts it, "were either ignored altogether or only condescendingly considered, the results of their research being contemptuously rejected as unscientific and ...
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