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89 pages of results. 191. Velikovsky's Martian Catastrophes [Journals] [Aeon]
... Velikovsky himself. (8 ) In this respect, Velikovsky appealed to the veneration of Martian deities which, he informed us, only gained prominence during the 8th and 7th centuries B.C . He thus stressed the Martian legends associated with Romulus and the founding of Rome, (9 ) concerning which he stated: Only one god of Roman mythology plays a role not comparable to that attributed to him on the Greek Olympus. It is the god Mars, whose counterpart is Ares of the Greeks. (10) This, however, is a matter of opinion. To most mythologists, the Greek Ares is just as prominent in mythology as is the Roman Mars. In ...
192. Ninurta [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... , that Ninurta was associated with Mercury or Mars, that might (given the dates of the texts) suggest that the latter were secondary identifications. Then there are the Saturn-like aspects of Ninurta. His association with agriculture and farmers is strong. His name, according to Jacobsen, may even mean "Lord Plough". Cf. the Roman Saturn as god of agriculture. The scythe he was depicted with was certainly an agricultural implement, though there is the confusing aspect of him castrating Uranus with same weapon. (Both seem to have added to the image of the Grim Reaper.) Why did the Greeks, Romans, think that the scythe was Saturn's weapon? Because ...
193. Sothic Dating: the Shameless Enterprise [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Before examining this latter claim in more depth, we should first turn to Theon, a source whom Depuydt and others before him have cited in support of Sothic dating. We shall find that Theon actually contradicts current Sothic dating assumptions. The Origins of Sothic Dating Sothic dating, of course, starts with Censorinus. In AD 238, this Roman scholar wrote in De Die Natali that the Egyptians had a 365 day calendar without leap year and that on July 20 (12 Calends of August), AD 139, a heliacal rising of Sirius corresponded to 1 Thoth on the Egyptian calendar. Censorinus indicates that the Egyptians had a great year tied to the correspondence of the rising of ...
194. Puritanism, Misogyny, and Female Sexuality [Journals] [Aeon]
... plaque found in a small shrine at Sarepta bears a dedicatory formula commemorating the erection, or installation, of a statue of Tanit-Ashtart. This is clear and direct evidence that the Phoenicians themselves identified Tanit with Ashtart/Astarte/Ashteroth who has long been recognized as the goddess of the planet Venus. This identification was not lost to the later Romans who saw in the Carthaginian Tanit a form of their own Venus Cælestis, the Heavenly Venus. The latter, in turn, was the Roman counterpart of the Greek Aphrodite Urania..." [45] The Latin virgo can, of course, be translated simply as "girl" or "young woman." Berecynthia is ...
195. Catastrophes in the period 5th cent. BC to 14th cent. AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... maligned Gildas [3 ]. Clube and Napier interpreted Gildas's talk of death and destruction as a description of a catastrophe. However, it described not what had happened but what might happen in the near future. Like many of his era, Gildas believed in the imminent end of the world. Pagans were about to descend upon the civilised Roman world. An intervention by god would be a blessing and it seems Gildas genuinely believed (and hoped) fire from the heavens was about to fall. Why did he expect fire to fall from the sky? What was happening upstairs to prompt his thoughts of catastrophe? The Confessions [4 ] of St Patrick and the Lives of ...
196. The Misread Record by Isaac Vail [Books]
... directly on the earth to keep up the eternal movement of aerial currents, upon which all atmospheric phenomena depend. A great volume might be penned here as the testimony of the immortal witnesses speaking from these ancient records, but I have culled enough of them from the old Greek arcanum, and we must pass on to Latin Rome. The Roman Heavens. I know that men have indicted the Latins as "borrowers of the Greeks", but they are innocent of the charge. The ancient Romans had their own heaven, and all the erudition the old school can throw into line cannot make it appear that any people or tongue would worship exotic gods. Rome's heavenly canopy was ...
197. Earth without a Moon [Journals] [Pensee]
... Appolonius Rhodius mentioned the time "when not all the orbs were yet in the heavens, before the Danai and Deukalion races came into existence, and only the Arcadians lived, of whom it is said that they dwelt on the mountains and fed on acorns, before there was a moon (2 ). " Plutarch wrote in "The Roman Questions": "These were Arcadians of Evander's following, the so-called Pre-Lunar people (3 ). " Also Ovid: "The Arcadians are said to have possessed their land before the birth of Jove, and that folk is older than the Moon (4 ). " Lucian in his book on Astrology says that the Arcadians " ...
198. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... one of purification and expiation - the "propitiation" suggested by Rowland did not enter into it; and this was done in the name of the citizens' ancestors ( februali ), not in honour of any "angry gods". Moreover, far from the new first month of the year being named after "Janus-the-untrustworthy", the Romans had much more positive attributes of Janus in mind when they renamed the month to suit its new status. (It would be interesting to learn the earlier name of the month, which I have been unable to ascertain.) Janus, as any Latin scholar will tell you, is the patron deity of gates, entrances and beginnings ...
199. Sword-God, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... stretched so that it appeared like a sword. Often before and later, too, celestial prodigies assumed the shape of swords. Thus, in the days of David a comet appeared in the form of a human being "between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem."2 The Roman god Mars was pictured with a sword; he became the god of war. The Chaldean Nergal is called "Sword-god." Of this sword Isaiah spoke when he predicted the repetition of the catastrophe, a stream of brimstone, flame, storm, and reeling of the sky. "Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, ...
200. What's in a Name? -- Venus "The Newcomer" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... striking examples of this, and represent a distinct discontinuity in the reproduction of inherited speech patterns. Venus the Newcomer? Velikovsky's assumption is that the name "Venus" was created from the verb venire "to come". Orthodox linguistics, identifying Venus the goddess with venus the common noun, derives the name (pronounced "wenus" in Roman times, as we know from bilingual evidence of classical phonology) from a reconstructed IE root *wen-, to which we return below. The word venire, on the other hand, is traced (surprisingly, perhaps, to the layman) to the same root *gwem- which spawned the Germanic forms come, kommen, ...
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