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... still fettered with chains, once cunningly devised by Loke himself, and they are made up of such unsubstantial things as the footfall of a cat, the roots of a rock, the breath of a fish, the spittle of a bird [n12 Again, strange to say, this very kind of "un-substance" --including the milk of ... these additions and take it alone- that they thought the first substances to be gods, one must regard this as an inspired utterance, and reflect that, while probably each art and each science has often been developed as far as possible and has again perished, these opinions, with others, have been preserved until the present like relics [ ...
502. Bibliography [Books]
... 1964) William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth (London, 1696) W. D. Whitney, Atharva Veda (Berlin, 1966) Hans Winkler, Rock Drawings of Southern Egypt (London, 1938) R. C. Zaehner, Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemme (Oxford, 1955) ...
503. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... . The opening lines of the Purifications must be a report of his hopes, not his experiences: "Friends, that inhabit the great town looking down on the yellow rock of Akragas, up by the citadel, busy in goodly works, harbours of honour for the stranger, men unskilled in meanness, all hail. I go about ... was to persuade in a way that a treatise could not. (Aristotle calls Zeno the father of dialectic and Empedocles the father of rhetoric; rhetoric was viewed as the art of persuasion.) Yet ultimately Empedocles' persuasion failed. Indeed, he had already suggested that the main persuasion of humans is through the sorts of things that they ...
504. It's Time to Get Serious About Manetho [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . At the 16th annual meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration (Las Vegas, June 1997) a geologist, Marsha Adams, reported on her research on native American rock art sites in Arizona. She had measured radiation levels at two sites: one had mild amounts but the other had very strong radiation, to such a degree that ... was necessary. Interestingly, the strongest radiation at both sites was found to occur in conjunction with a specific symbol, or petroglyph'. The symbol appears to denote an astronomical origin for the radiation, apparently validating David Salkeld's ideas ( 'Shamir', C&CR 1997:1 , pp. 18-23). Phillip Clapham * Efflux ...
... , but science had no explanation for it. (219) 9. Because the Moon had to have been heavily affected by the catastrophes, Velikovsky predicted that the Moon's rocks would show remanent magnetism "induced . . . by an external magnetic field." (220) "Several months before . . . . Nature published a note ... a few scientists with whom I have talked about this matter . . . are not a little astonished that the great Macmillan Company . . . would venture into the Black Arts." (24) He called Velikovsky's idea "the most arrant nonsense of my experience" and reiterated that "the aforementioned rumor is a great relief." ...
... were in mountains that were exceeding abrupt, and in their middle were no other than precipices, with certain entrances into the caves, and those caves were encompassed with sharp rocks, and in these did the robbers lie concealed, with all their families about them; but the king caused certain chests to be made, in order to destroy ... righteous man he was, and for that reason above all fear, rose up, and said, "O you that are assessors with me, and O thou that art our king, I neither have ever myself known such a case, nor do I suppose that any one of you can name its parallel, that one who is ...
... prodigious magnitude engraven upon it. He also drew round it a great and deep canal of water. He also made caves of many furlongs in length, by hollowing a rock that was over against him; and then he made large rooms in it, some for feasting, and some for sleeping and living in. He introduced also a ... very far extended at their extremities, that they were moved with the wind, and made one believe that they were the product of nature, and not the representation of art. They also made the entire workmanship of the table appear to be threefold, while the joints of the several parts were so united together as to be invisible, ...
508. The Calendar of Kalasasaya (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... Before the door-opening and the niches and cornices at the back, as well as the sculptures on the front of the gate had been made, the block or slab of rock must have weighed considerably more than twelve tons. 2. But for an unlucky chance the Calendar Gate of Kalasasaya might be one of the treasures of the British Museum ... artistic treatment of the two little figures, their heads and feet are shown in profile while their body and arms are depicted in front view, a mannerism familiar from Egyptian art: 16. It is possible that the pictorialism of the glyphs of the solstitial buglers indicates that at these times of the year a ceremony was performed at which trumpets ...
509. Cyrus The Mardian/amardian Dethroner Of The -6th Century Medes And Aziru The Martu/amurru (Amorite) Dethroner Of The -14th Century Mitanni [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... could not possibly have been an empire at all. STRATIGRAPHICAL PUZZLES OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE Dates Core-Satrapies Armenia, Assyria and Cappadocia Iranian Heartland with remains in Pasargade, Persepolis, rock tombs, etc. HELLENISM built on nothing but pre-600 ruins, in satrapies conquered against strong resistance after -333 (Greek dates) -550 -330 Absence of finds for imperial ... of religious tolerance by not only sacrificing to his own gods but also to those of the Assyria-led nations. Preparing for the Median-Mardian/Amardian approach, the King of Assyria artfully fortifies the camp of his troops (Cyropaedia III, iii, 26) to protect his quantitatively superior army against surprise attacks. He himself then takes command in an ...
510. The Rites Of Moloch [Journals] [Kronos]
... do ye sport yourselves? [asked Isaiah] . . . Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? ''(12) So, similarly, Jeremiah: "And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son ... sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods."(3 ) Later, the admonition is repeated yet one more time: "When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. "There shall not be found ...
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