Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

231. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Moses in Egypt [Books]

... suspended in the air. Part of it dropped down while Joshua was engaged in battle with the Amorites, and the rest God will send down in His fury against Gog. Also the thunders ceased at Moses' intercession, and were stored up for a later time, for they were the noise which the Lord made the host of the Syrians to hear at the siege of Samaria, wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight.[194] As Moses had foreseen, so it happened. No sooner had the hail stopped than Pharaoh abandoned his resolve, and refused to let Israel go. Moses lost no time in announcing the eighth plague to him, the plague of ...

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232. On the Length of Reigns of the Sumerian Kings [Journals] [SIS Review]

... era (ibid, p. 17). Also see Joachim W. Ekrutt: Der Kalender der Juden', Der Kalender im Wandel der Zeiten, (Stuttgart 1972), pp. 40ff. b). There are the legends of Adon (Phoenician, meaning Lord, master), or Greek Adonis, a variant of the Syrian half-god Tammuz, the spirit of new growth, and the holy year of the goddesss Aphrodite = Persephone = Cytherea = Urania = Melanis = Skotia = Androphonos = Epitymbria (from the graves). Her consort was also called Attis, or Anchises. The sign of the zodiac, Capricorn, was an attribute of Aphrodite, as the ...

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233. Intimations of an Alien Sky [Journals] [Aeon]

... Venus as Evening Star] & Eosphoros [Venus as Morning Star] are mentioned by name at all...Mercury appears for the first time by name [as Hermes] in [Plato's] Timaeus 38e, and other divine names are given [also by Plato] in Epinomis 987b sq., where they are said to be Syrian. ' The Greek names Phaenon [Saturn], Phaethon [Jupiter], Pyroeis [Mars], Phosphorus [another designation for Venus as Morning Star] & Stilbon [Mercury] are no doubt older, though they do not happen to occur earlier. (10) So, also, W.D . Ross, another ...

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234. Catastrophism and Anthropology [Journals] [SIS Review]

... of Aegina also celebrated a Hydrophoria festival. Here an athletic competition in honour of Apollo was carried out. The interesting fact about these mimetic games were the foot races known as agon amforites during which the competitors carried water jugs on their shoulders [40]. The most famous flood games in antiquity, however, were the Hydrophoria in the Syrian city of Hierapolis. In this city, water was poured twice a year into a crevice of the Hera Temple in memory of the Flood of Deucalion. The crack was believed to have absorbed a great amount of water during this flood. This has an even greater significance for our investigation since the excavators, in fact, discovered a ...

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235. Shishak - Ramesses II or Ramesses III? [Journals] [SIS Review]

... firmly with Ramesses II. Either way it seems that Shoshenq I comes about the same time, c.800 BC [53]. Shoshenq might then be the saviour' of northern Israel mentioned in II Kings 13:5 , provided that his list of subject towns can be taken as Israel's voluntary subjection in return for protection against the Syrians [54]. References 1. See K. Kitchen: in Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 (1991), p. 236. 2. A. Dodson: in Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1992), p. 72. 3. P. J. James et al.: Centuries of Darkness, p. 230; J ...

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236. A Slice Through Time (dendrochronology and precision dating) by M. G. L. Baillie [Journals] [SIS Review]

... mass of interesting archaeological evidence, with many changes in site occupation, changes in wares, a hiatus in the use of oak timbers across Europe and even an unfinished dug-out boat at Lough Neagh submerged in a sudden rise of its waters. Reports of a catastrophe event come in from far and wide: Procopius, John Lydus, Michael the Syrian, Cassiodorus, the Chinese records, the Irish Annals of the Four Masters, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Annales Cambriae. Plague is described by Justinian, starting in 542 AD, and some time in the 6th century by St. Columba. This is interdisciplinary catastrophism at its best but Baillie modestly concludes that we cannot tell what caused this ...

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237. Egyptian Chronology: A Solution to the Hyksos Problem [Journals] [Aeon]

... ruler at this time ( -750 onwards, on evidential dating) in southern Palestine- that is, the kingdom of Judah- whose power was great enough to extend to Egypt? And do Egyptian sources go so far as to give his name? Thanks to the Great Papyrus Harris, it has long been known that an Asiatic or Syrian by the name of Arsu took power over Egypt. Is there, then, a king in Judah around -750 who could be this Arsu? Indeed there is! We need look no further than King Azariah (Uzziah, dated to ca. -773 to -736), whose expansionist activities are well chronicled in the biblical reports.( ...

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238. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]

... to the Queen of Pharaoh Siptah (her husband)? Again, the non-Pharaonic style would be correct. If this theory is correct, it goes a long way to support the Peter James identification of Shishak as Ramesses III. All we need to do now is find the Princess' who married Solomon and the Princess Tahpenes who wed the Syrian - Haddad. Any comments? Adam Green, London NW3 P.S . I have a friend who believes her to be an Indian Queen, i.e . Queen of Sheva (Queen of the god Sheva)! ...

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239. A Seven Year Famine in the Reign of King Djoser with Other Parallels between Imhotep and Joseph [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]

... Ptah-hotep and would then mean "Im is satisfied." But it is not constructed quite the same way and more probably means "Come in peace" [I = come, m = in, htp = peace; Egyptian hieroglyphs like most Semitic scripts do not indicate vowels]. Hurry, 95, 96 However, Im is a Syrian god, probably identifiable with Baal Adad or Baal Saphon. Clay, 40 Baal Saphon, the Lord of the North, is associated with the Pole Star.* Joseph/Zaphenath Paneah: Joseph as a name is not apparently instanced in outside records of the second millennium. Bright, 77 Later editors of the Bible took a dim ...

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240. The Birth and Death of Memory [Books] [de Grazia books]

... the lame excuse that the fiery terms used for the heavenly bodies were so similar because the Greeks did not know the planets and did not want unfairly to give names to some but not to others. Perhaps the whole matter of naming was controversial, involving as it did ancient psychological associations, theological theories, and intercultural contacts with Egyptians, Syrians, and others. In any event, attention should be called to Plato's statement that the heavenly bodies are gods without souls. He distinguishes these from the Olympian gods, whom he dislikes, precisely because of their reputation for immorality and uncontrollability. He is, in effect, trying to rid the mundane scene of these gods, by ...

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