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89 pages of results. 161. Implications for Chronology if Certain 'Historical' Characters are Mythological [Journals] [SIS Review]
... students of myth is defining its relationship with history. How are we to distinguish between historical events and mythical events transmitted as sacred history? Although this is hardly the place to offer a definitive analysis, I shall attempt to summarise my findings, most of which have been published elsewhere. Fig. 1 The labours of Heracles depicted in a Roman mosaic from Valencia, Spain, now in the Museo Arqueologica Nacional, Madrid (photo: T. Palmer) A bit of history is in order by way of introduction. In the 19th century it was common to find the greatest of scholars defending the thesis that Herakles and other Greek heroes were simply much-celebrated and only slightly embellished flesh ...
162. Janus: Corrigenda et Addenda [Journals] [Aeon]
... On the first day of the month there goes in procession no less a personage than Janus himself, dressed up in a two-faced mask, and people call him Saturnus, identifying him with Kronos." (3 ) It has since been brought to my attention that: (a ) Janus and Saturnus are presented as different deities in the Roman pantheon; (b ) that the quote from Virgil actually states the opposite to what I had interpreted it to mean; and (c ) that the one from Lydus is so late, dating from the sixth century, that no credence should be attached to it. In retrospect, it seems I was wrong in using the quote ...
... Pausanias has left a very good description. Even the one- * See this more particularly noticed in the history of the elephant, in the second volume of my Researches into the Extraneous or Fossil Remains of Quadrupeds. . THEORY OF THE EARTH. 79 horned rhinoceros, although its country be far from Rome, was equally known to the Romans ; Pompey showed them one in the circus, and Strabo has described another which he saw at Alexandria.* The hippopotamus has not been so well described by the ancients as the two foregoing animals ; yet very exact representations of it have been left by the Romans in their monuments relative to Egypt, such as the statue of the ...
164. The Foundations of the Assyro-Babylonian Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of a series of documents that are quite independent of the solar eclipse of June 15, 763 BC, and that this eclipse merely provides an additional confirmation of a chronology that is wholly established on other grounds. "Ptolemy's Canon", or kinglist, beginning with the reign of Nabonassar in Babylon (747-733 BC) and ending with the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD). [after F. K. Ginzel, Handbuch der Matematischen und technischen Chronologie, I, (Leipzig 1906), p.139] The Eponym Canon and Ptolemy's Canon When Sir Henri Rawlinson's translation of the eponym lists appeared in print in 1866, their importance for the fixing of the Neo-Assyrian ...
165. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... II | Vol III | Vol IV | Vol V | Vol VI Contents: p.1Section 1- Exodus p.6 Section 2- Isaiah p.13 Section 3- Luckenbill p.16 Section 4 - breasted p.20 Section 5- Ipuwer p.25 Section 6- Ginzberg p.46 Section 7- Greek & Roman p.78 Notes & Corrections on Part 1. Section 1. Exodus. One of the central themes of WIC is V's interpretation of the Exodus story, In particular, of the ten plagues in terms of the events accompanying the approach of the Venus Comet. For the record, the ten plagues were as follows .. . ...
166. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... borrowed Greek mythology, that is). Georges Dumezil, one of the leading scholars of the new school of comparative mythology, has addressed this problem in a series of books on Latin religion. Dumezil concluded that while the Latin mythology might appear to have been lost, it actually persists in rudimentary form disguised as Latin history: "The Romans are not, after all, a people without mythology- as the textbooks, alas, still delight in characterizing them- but rather that, for them, mythology, and in fact a very ancient mythology in large part inherited from Indo-European times, while it has been destroyed at the level of theology, has prospered under the form of history ...
167. Philologos | The Legends of the Jews: Volume IV [Books]
... . (46) Hence no spot on earth is too far removed for his help. As an angel (47) he enjoys the power of assuming the most various appearances to accomplish his purposes. Sometimes he looks like an ordinary man, sometimes he takes the appearance of an Arab, sometimes of a horseman, now he is a Roman court-official, now he is a harlot. Once upon a time it happened that when Nahum, the great and pious teacher, was journeying to Rome on a political mission, he was without knowledge robbed of the gift he bore to the Emperor as an offering from the Jews. When he handed the casket to the ruler, it ...
168. The Archaeology of Shiloh and Pottery Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Danish) 3. The Site and its Identification Tell Seilun was first identified as Shiloh in modern times by E. Robinson in 1838. At that time there was an Arab village named Seilun at the site, apparently retaining elements of the original name. Judges 21:19 gives an approximate location of the site as also did Eusebius in Roman times. The excavated evidence for the religious nature of the site in early times also tends to confirm its identification. It is located in the east of the central Israelite hills and in the 20th century the area has been one of barren hills with some agricultural land in the valleys. Tell Seilun is a natural hill rather than a ...
169. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop No. 6 (June 1979) Home | Issue Contents Letter Sir, At first sight, Mike Rowland s thoughts on the Roman Calendar do appear to be a little jumbled. (See WORKSHOP No. 3, p.10 for original article and also letters in WORKSHOP No. 4 and 5 criticising the article - Ed.) The "Year of Confusion" was initiated by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C . as a period of adjustment between the old system and his new Julian calendar. January and February had been added to the calendar at a much earlier date - by Numa, the successor of Romulus (7th century B. ...
170. On Mars and Pestilence [Journals] [Aeon]
... the fourteenth of March a man clad in skins was led in procession through the streets of Rome, beaten with long white rods, and driven out of the city. He was called Mamurius Veturius, that is, "the old Mars," and as the ceremony took place on the day preceding the first full moon of the old Roman year (which began on the first of March), the skin-clad man must have represented the Mars of the old year, who was driven out at the beginning of the new one. (150) As was the case with the Greek pharmakos, the "Old Mars" represented such a blight upon society that it was deemed ...
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