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182 pages of results. 521. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... ( , 781-771 B.C .) of the Chou Dynasty, we recognize Velikovsky's "king Yen-Yang". To Gaubil and du Halde, the authors cited by Velikovsky, he was Yeou Vang. Wang is merely the title used by all the Chou rulers, and translates as "king" or "emperor". As attested by tradition, and as I have confirmed at least in general for late Chou times by an analysis presented in "On The Year -687' " (see KRONOS VI:4 (1981), pp. 4-27), the Chou calendar began with the month of the winter solstice. The first day of the tenth month of 776 B ...
522. Introduction (In the Beginning: God) [Books]
... consequence all the Bible, from the scorn of the agnostic, and the ridicule of the vulgar. No wonder, therefore, that even progressive theologians eventually began to regard again any interference from outside the pale of divinity as unwelcome, and either reaffirmed dogmatically the primary religious importance and value of the cosmogonic accounts of the Bible in their severely traditional form, or just slurred them over not committing themselves as to their actual meaning. Yet in spite of the ill success which comparative mythology had, in getting at the content of truth in the biblical cosmogonic myths which ill success, as me now can see, was exclusively, due to the method of approach to the myths, ...
523. Towards a new Evolutionary Synthesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... speciation? ' He answers, "There is no question that the end product of speciation is effective reproductive isolation between natural populations. But reproductive isolation is after all the end product, not the cause, of speciation. It is really the process of speciation that concerns us, and that is what we know least about." The traditional view, still presented in books such as Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity, is that two isolated populations of the same species accumulate different small mutations and evolve separately for many generations until eventually they become separate species. This, although a perfectly plausible scenario, provides no proper explanation of what happens between the accumulation of small mutations ...
524. The Rise of a New Culture (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... , as it has been named from the most important site on the shore of the land-locked Inter-Andean Sea of the Intermediate level-and soon it spread its fertilizing cultural impulses over all the area of the Asylum. This area was probably the mythical land of Ttahua-ntin Suyu', the Common Gathering Place of All Nations',1 of which local Indian tradition is still faintly reminiscent. (Cf. Diagram 3) So safe did the rulers of that realm feel, that they embarked upon grandiose, ambitious, long term building schemes for a Sacred Capital, and began to erect extensive, well-orientated edifices. And far from being afraid of the waters, they even made them their servant by ...
525. The Israelite Origins of Monotheism and the Prohibition of Killing [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... almighty God brings with it the renunciation of human sacrifice to planetary deities. However, as Abraham's achievement cannot be maintained in practice outside Mesopotamian influence, the much clearer formulation of the prohibition (and of monotheism) under Moses remains unexplained. In my opinion Abraham's ability to reject human sacrifice- with monotheistic reasoning through astronomical erudition- is the traditional reason for the Israelite institutionalization of the general prohibition of killing. I shall now pass to the real circumstances of the Exodus as a secondary reinforcement of the renunciation of murder, especially infanticide. It is well known that canonized Biblical tradition combines both stages of the development of Abraham's faith- first the old religion with its human sacrifice and ...
526. Jupiter - God of Abraham (Part III) [Journals] [Kronos]
... catastrophe is known . . ." (183) This argument had been earlier raised by Sarna: "Unfortunately, no parallels to our story from extrabiblical Palestinian sources have yet turned up. It is unthinkable, however, that a devastating calamity such as overtook the cities of the Plain' did not leave its impress upon the local Canaanite traditions. In fact, the existence of a more extensive popular version or, perhaps, several versions, of the saga in ancient times may be deduced from the scattered and fragmentary biblical citations which differ in some respects from the Genesis recension in the names of the cities involved and in the details of the description of the disaster." ...
527. Collective Amnesia and the Catastrophic Basis of Soap Opera (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... gained recently when the soap-opera phenomenon made the front cover of Time magazine.(2 ) Even "cool" American university students gather regularly in groups to follow their favorite programs, perhaps in conjunction with courses which are now being given on the topic. Indeed, the soap operas have become so appealing that they have broken out of their traditional afternoon enclave and invaded prime time television overtly, not to mention their covert influence on the content of other prime-time shows which are ostensibly not soap operatic. For example, certain previously-innocuous situation comedies have recently felt forced to introduce into their content such melodramatic soap-opera sensationalism as incest, unwed motherhood, violence and brutality, separation and death. ...
528. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the Bible as a reliable historical account has taken a pounding in recent years. Van Seters and TL Thompson, Robin Lane Fox and Norman Cohn [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ] have all emphasised its late date of compilation and, most importantly, its historiography. Although the Bible was compiled from a large body of traditional material and palace and temple documentation etc. it also made use of myth and folktale. The Deuteronomist ethnocentric world view appears to have been brought back to Jerusalem by the returning Exiles and simply did not exist before the conquest of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar. The extreme fundamentalist flavour of the Deuteronomist is a feature of an important quasi historical section ...
... appear that the fylfot is a mystical ornament, not only adopted among Christians from primitive times, but also, as if prophetically, for centuries before the coming of our Lord. To descend to later times, we find it constantly introduced in ecclesiastical vestments, till the end of the fifteenth century, a period marked by great departure from traditional symbolism. Its use was continued in Tibet into modern times, though its meaning is not given.21 The Rev. G. Cox, in his "Aryan Mythology,"says: We recognize the male and the female symbol in the trident of Poseidon, and in the fylfot or hammer of Thor,which assumes the form ...
530. The el-Amarna Letters [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... their help in disposing of Egyptian influence. One of the main instigators is called Labayu, a ruler of the central hill-country of Palestine. He had been assigned a region in the neighbourhood of Shechem, but there is no reference to his being in control of this city, just land in its vicinity. In Biblical terms this is the traditional tribal area of Ephraim. From this base he attacked cities in the northern plain, towards the coastal plain (near Gath) and across the Jordan into the area known Biblically as Gilead. Originally he may only have ruled in the region of 25 settlements, but after his conquests of territory to north, west, and east beyond ...
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