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89 pages of results. 251. Modern Origins of Flat Earth Theory [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... . Internet Digest Readers may also be interested in the following book- Ed. The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction by James S. Romm.Paper, 1994, www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/5037.html $18.95, 247pp. For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. Here James Romm surveys this tradition, revealing that ...
252. Child of Saturn (Part V) [Journals] [Kronos]
... (sometimes rendered Zaphon, Saphon, Sephon, and/or Safon). All variants are conventional transliterations of the Hebrew name for Mount Khazzi, the same as Mount Casius, which was sacred to Baal Tsaphon,(5 ) not far from Ugarit on the same Syrian coast.(6 ) It has often been stated that the Romans alluded to Baal Tsaphon by the name Jupiter Casius.(7 ) But before this is accepted as a direct identification it should be noted that Jupiter Casius was the Latin translation of the Greek Zeus Casius who succeeded - i.e ., transplanted - Baal Tsaphon.(8 ) When Baal was slain by Mot, it was ...
253. Newton And Historical Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... further radical contention that all accounts of events that were not put down in writing at the time of their occurrence are absolutely untrustworthy. Newton carried this contention on to an extreme point, arguing, for instance, that it is unscholarly to try to reconstruct Chinese history for the period before 230 B.C . On the subject of early Roman history, he took an equally uncompromising attitude: "But the Romans, having no historian during the first 400 years of their city, I forbear to meddle further with their original antiquity." He dismissed the reliability of all accounts of Greek history before the age of Herodotus. Newton thought that he had found a preemptory argument against ...
254. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... predictions, such as that the nucleus of Halley's comet would be black with organic molecules. Readers will not be surprised to learn of the scientific community eventually accepting their ideas, but then failing to give them credit, or how Hoyle was cheated out of a Nobel prize. An Archaeology of Images: Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe – by Miranda Aldhouse-Green. Routledge. £50.00. A new, and sometimes controversial, discussion on the role of images in the life of the Celts and Romans from 600 BC to AD 400. Britain AD: A quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons – by Francis Prior. Harper Collins. This is ...
255. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop No. 5 (Apr 1979) Home | Issue Contents Letters Sir , I should like to comment on Mike Rowland's short discussion of our calendar and its Roman origins (Newsletter 3, p.10-11) by offering the following corrections and observations. Firstly, it is manifest to those who have studied the civilised nations of antiquity that the Romans were one of the most ignorant of "civilised" peoples; their one strength was land warfare, other things were beyond their invention. Quite why they should have seen fit to invent a calendar of their own when they could have brought a good one with them is an excellent topic for discussion. The ...
256. The Electrical God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... E and final H to S. (Jeremiah is Jeremias). The "Y " was originally a "Z ". Thus YHWH becomes ZEWS or ZEUS, and with the erroneous transliteration of Y for J, "Jews." The Etruscan-Roman case, "Jove," pronounced "Yowe" is so close to Yahweh that the Roman Jupiter may be considered as basically the same entity [7 ]. Another theory holds that Moses framed the word from Egyptian roots, meaning "I am." Egyptian was familiar to all Hebrews and was Moses' native tongue. A Jewish legend says that Yahweh's first word when he announced the Decalogue was Egyptian: "Anoki! ...
257. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... every one of them in the same terms- as a great circle enclosing a central orb. And when they drew pictures of them, they produced the singular image , probably the most common pictograph in the ancient world. Interestingly, the African Dogon have a "picture" of Saturn: it is this very image. The early Greeks and Romans portrayed Saturn with the same pictograph, and so too did the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians, who called Saturn "the high one of the enclosure of life." And many thousands of miles away the Maori remember Saturn as "the encircled one." (4 ) The connection of this familiar image to ancient ideas about Saturn is ...
258. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... a strong imprint on the witnesses. There were physical upheavals on a global scale in historical times; the grandiosity of the events inspired awe. From the Far East to the Far West- the Japanese, Chinese and Hindu civilizations; the Iranian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Hitto-Chaldean, Israelite and Egyptian records; the Etruscan, Attic and Roman theogonies and philosophies; Scandinavian and Icelandic epics; Mayan, Toltec and Olmec art and legends- all, with no exception, were dominated by the knowledge of events and circumstances that only the most brazen attitude of science could so completely disregard. The scientific community starts its annals with Newton, paying some homage to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo ...
259. Abraham to Hezekiah: An Archaeological Revision Part II [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... astonishing picture of vigorous development in the construction of political centers and fortified towns throughout the land."(37) G. Ernest Wright gives a similar testimony: "The Middle Bronze Ages IIB and IIC are a period, therefore, of the greatest prosperity that the country had seen to that time, or would see again before the Roman peace."(38) Summarizing the Middle Bronze IIB,C period (which he terms MB II), de Vaux writes: Middle Bronze II . . . was certainly the most prosperous period in ancient Palestine. One of the most striking aspects . . . is the emergence or re-emergence of towns with large populations over the ...
260. Thoth Vol I, No. 10: April 22, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Milton Book Review of "Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky: Essays in the Continuing Velikovsky Affair"- Quote of the day: Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. Nietzsche- SATURN: THE ANCIENT SUN GOD By David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) Many threads of Greek and Roman astronomy appear to lead back to a priestly astronomy arising in Mesopotamia some time in the first millennium B.C . The Babylonians were apparently the first to develop systematic observations of the planets, and they recorded the celestial motions with considerable skill. But in laying the foundations of later astronomy, they also preserved a crucial link with the ...
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