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1. The Celestial Tower [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... deluge caused by erratic movements of the heavenly bodies brought to an end a paradisal age of innocence, and how mankind (or in some cases a race of giants or titans) attempted to reopen communciation with heaven by erecting a tower that reached to the sky. Westerners are perhaps most familiar with the biblical version of the story, the Tower of Babel. In this account, it is the ambition of humans that leads them to attempt the raising of a tower to the heavens: but mankind's plans are frustrated when God confuses their speech. In the traditon of the Greeks, the tower-building story is connected with a devastating upheaval of nature which saw the Olympians pitted against the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 491  -  16 Apr 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/w2003no1/03celestial.htm
... From: Kronos Vol. VIII No. 1 (Fall 1982) Home | Issue Contents The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues James E. Strickling "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said to one another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 405  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0801/053tower.htm
3. Mercury and the Tower of Babel [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Workshop Vol 5 No 2 (Apr 1983) Home | Issue Contents Mercury and the Tower of Babel Hugh Eggleton In a different work I intend to bring out that what is known as the catastrophe of the Tower of Babel (Babylon) was caused by a close passage of Mercury, Nebo of the Babylonians (heard in the names of Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar), or Thoth of the Egyptians (heard in the name Thutmose). (I . Velikovsky, Ramses II and His Time, p. 102) In Genesis, chapter 11, we read how God destroyed the Tower of Babel, associated with the city of Babylon. as its name indicates ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 326  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/vol0502/10tower.htm
... Text to be formatted | Images to be added [ CD-Rom Home ] Full PDF online at the Internet Archive Chaldean Account of Genesis George Smith Containing THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CREATION, THE FALL OF MAN, THE DELUGE, THE TOWER OF BABEL, THE TIMES OF THE PATRIARCHS, AND NIMROD; BABYLONIAN FABLES, AND LEGENDS OF THE GODS; FROM THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS. OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL ARTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM, AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF ASSURBANIPAL, ASSYRIAN DISCOVERIES, ETC. ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS SECRET DOCTRINE REFERENCE SERIES THE "NEW PHILOSOPHY"THE present age is as deficient in philosophy as was the age of Plato in knowledge of science. It follows therefore, that ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 312  -  19 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/chaldean/index.htm
... have experienced a great Fall. In several directions outward from Aden/Eden, the crust of Earth would have been forced to split. Bab-el-Mandeb The strait between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden is called Bab-el-Mandeb, which is Arabic for Gate (or strait ) of Mourning. Does this name derive from the fact that the original Tower of Babel was built in that vicinity, before the strait came into being? Probably not, but the possibility of such a connection is intriguing. The Hebrew place-name Babel was taken from the Akkadian Bab-ili, which means Gate of the God. (Bab-ili became Babylon in Greek.) The Arabic bab is directly derived from the Akkadian ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 116  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0204/005afar.htm
... Babylon he went from the south to the north, the same as every other Sun-born ruler, and it is plain that he was at polar sun-god. It is said that nearly 2000 years before the time of Semiramis he was worshiped with great pomp by the Assyrians and Babylonians. His temple at Babylon was said to have been originally the Tower of Babel, which is all very true in the light of canopy movement. First, then, we have a solar form brought out of Egypt and worshiped as a god; and if so worshiped, that farm was a polar sun phenomenon of the same character as the Greek and Roman Apollo. So that, away back in ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 99  -  19 Jun 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/vail/canopy.htm
... Forward The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg Volume I Bible Times and Characters from the Creation to Jacob NOAH THE BIRTH OF NOAH THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FALLEN ANGELS THE GENERATION OF THE DELUGE THE HOLY BOOK THE INMATES OF THE ARK THE FLOOD NOAH LEAVES THE ARK THE CURSE OF DRUNKENNESS NOAH'S DESCENDANTS SPREAD ABROAD THE DEPRAVITY OF MANKIND NIMROD THE TOWER OF BABEL NOAH THE BIRTH OF NOAH Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she bore him a man child. The body of the babe was white as snow and red as a blooming rose, and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes like the rays of the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 94  -  05 Jan 2001  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/legends/vol1/four.html
... in the smooth waters of the lake, so does the imagery of men of those antediluvian ages, reflect itself in the periods we can embrace in an historical retrospect. As above, so it is below, that which has been, will return again. As it is in heaven, so on earth."[9 ] The Tower of Babel, one of the most ancient astronomical temples, was called the Temple of "Seven Lights," or the "Celestial Earth." It was an edifice embodying the astronomical knowledge of antiquity. Herodotus tells us that there was a road on the outside of the Tower of Babel that went eight times round in its ascent ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 76  -  19 Jun 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/celestial/book.htm
... Samson's career represents a particularly obvious example of myth masquerading as history, it is hardly unique in this regard. Mythical motifs are to be found on virtually every page of the Pentateuch, often where least expected. Noah's adventures during the Deluge, as is well-documented, have striking parallels in the sacred narratives of primitive peoples around the globe. Towers of Babel are to be found virtually everywhere as well. Such towers' typically provide access to the sky and thus represent a thematic parallel to the World Pillar, the latter often visualised as a towering tree or mountain. A representative example from the African Congo follows: The Bambala of the Congo say that the Wangongo once wanted to ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 74  -  12 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v2003/096implications.htm
10. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , something like the Samhain, the Armilustrium and the onset day of Noah's Flood. Figure 1 illustrates the probable orbit of Mars in the Catastrophic Era. Figure 2 illustrates the probable dating of fourteen catastrophes in that period, thirteen of which are recorded in the Old Testament and most of which are also recorded in the Talmud, plus the Tower of Babel Holocaust. Figure 1 THE PROBABLE ORBIT OF MARS IN THE CATASTROPHIC ERA 58 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. V, No. 1 Periodic Cyclicism Patten 59 Figure 2 THE PROBABLE DATES FOR THE ANCIENT MARS FLYBYS 60 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. V, No. 1 THE PROBABLE ORBIT OF MARS IN THE CATASTROPHIC ERA Orbital Resonances at 12:1 and ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 74  -  27 May 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/velikov/vol0501/03periodoc.pdf
... either wrote or borrowed a considerable mass of prophetic narrative relating to (and hostile to) Alexander the Great. Conceive, then, an Alexandrian Jew, about 160 b.c ., in whose hands is a work already accepted as Sibylline, but containing- in a pagan form, of course- the stories of the Deluge and the Tower of Babel, together with a rationalistic handling of Greek religion. What Berosus had begun, the Jew could not fail to continue. A few touches only were needed to expunge the polytheism of the Berosian stories: the rest could be incorporated en bloc. This, it would seem, was actually the way in which Book III. ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 65  -  19 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/sibylline/index.htm
12. Jupiter -- God of Abraham (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... It is not known with certainty which was the city designated as Ur "of the Chaldees". Most authorities favor the well-known Sumerian city of ziggurat fame, the designation "of the Chaldees" being explained as arising later in time.(6 ) This finds some confirmation in the fact that legend connects Abram with the building of the Tower of Babel in the valley of Shinar,(7 ) which is assumed by most scholars to be the land of Sumer (later Babylonia).(8 ) Abram is also connected by legend with Nimrod,(9 ) a name that is purely Babylonian.(10) Cyrus Gordon, on the other hand, has argued ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 59  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0701/068jupit.htm
... place called Sarnath. It was raised in the year of Christ 1027. . . . This conical hill is about sixty feet high, with a small but handsome octagonal temple on the summit. It is said in the inscription that this artificial hill was intended as a representation of the worldly Meru, the hill of God, and the tower of Babel, with its seven steps or zones, was probably raised with a similar view and for the same purpose." Wilford in Asiatic Researches, vol. viii., p. 201. 5. Miller, " The Pyramidal Temple," in the Oriental and Bib. Journal. Chicago, 1880: vol. i ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 54  -  19 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/paradise/index.htm
14. Electricity [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ) came to be variously interpreted as giant sundials, emblems of royal power, phallic symbols, or sign boards for vainglorious inscriptions. As Ziegler suggests, the Greek word "obelisk" itself might have meant "ob-el-ish," or "serpent-light-fire." Von Fange recounts a century-old report on a Babylonian ziggurat, which may have been the Tower of Babel. The structure can be placed several centuries earlier than Moses but also in a highly electrical epoch. It appeared that fire struck the tower and split it down to the very foundation. In different parts of the ruins immense brown and black masses of brickwork had changed into a vitrified state. At a distance the ruins looked ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 53  -  29 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/degrazia/lately/ch05.htm
... Fall 1982 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Contributors 3 Electric Discharge as the Source of Solar Radiant Energy (Part I) Ralph E. Juergens 15 The Listing by Months: An Ancient Study of the Disappearances of Venus Lynn E. Rose and Raymond C. Vaughan 38 On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors (Concluded) Ilse Fuhr 53 The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues James E. Strickling 63 Jupiter - God of Abraham (Part III) Dwardu Cardona 78 Hammurabi and the Revised Chronology Immanuel Velikovsky 85 Science-Fiction and Collective Amnesia: "Dragon's Egg" Richard J. Jaarsma 92 Vox Populi Ellenberger, Serjak 96 Special Offer Cover Photo: The destruction of the Tower of ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 53  -  01 Sep 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0801/index.htm
... after the Deluge. Euphratean research seems to show a stellar Altar differently located, which Brown says probably was the lost zodiacal sign subsequently represented by the Claws and afterwards by the Balance; and identifies it with the 7th Akkadian month and sign Tul-Ku, the Holy Altar, or the Illustrious Mound, perhaps a reference to the mound-altar of the Tower of Babel. When these changes were accomplished this early zodiacal Altar was removed to its present position, and its diversified altar-censer form retained from the Euphratean figuring. This recollection of the first Altar will perhaps account for the otherwise strange prominence given in classical times to our visually unimportant Ara, when Manilius called it Mundi Templum; this last ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 53  -  19 Jun 2005  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/stars/index.htm
17. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... . G. Frazer, The Worship of Nature, Vol. I (London, 1926), pp. 135 ff. [51] J. G. Frazer, op. cit., p. 174. [52] Ibid., p. 195. The strong resemblance these folk-tales bear to the Biblical account of the tower of Babel is no coincidence, as all are symbolic elaborations of the same visual prototypes. One of the common symbols of the polar axis was the tower, whose layers corresponded to the divisions in the string of pearls. All sorts of permutations occur. In Pindar"s poetry, the notion of a string of ascending souls is ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 50  -  25 Mar 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0604/019cosmic.htm
18. Pentecost [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that a change in the transmission line route is demanded..."(6 ) One can imagine the possible auditory effect of a corona just above or surrounding the ear. Like the field-induced pseudosound which might accompany it, it would seem to be everywhere. There is one other effect of note. In a paper entitled "The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues"(7 ), I presented evidence that electrical or electromagnetic stimulation (of an appropriate frequency and intensity) of a human subject can result in confused or garbled speech - an uncontrolled response. Presumably, such speech might sound to an untrained ear like another language - another "tongue". ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 48  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/vol0602/11pent.htm
... constructed on the principles here laid down, is generally admitfed.16 In respect to their form, however, there is considerable difference of opinion. While it cannot be denied that those of Hindustan are built to conform in shape to the fabled Meru, it is contended by some that the type of all is to be found in the Tower of Babel, and that the Babylonian temples, as well as the pyramidal edifices of India and America, were but traditional transcripts of the great structure on the plain of Shinar the central point from whence radiated all the families of the earth and the nations of every continent.17 The discussion of these questions is, however, foreign ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 47  -  19 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/serpent/index.htm
20. Variations on a Theme of Philolaos [Journals] [Kronos]
... . (The Old World and the New World have reputedly borne those names for only a few centuries, but such names would also apply, and perhaps were applied, when our planet lost its Sun of Night and when the natural division between "Earth" and Counter-Earth was obliterated.) The story of the Confusion of Tongues at the Tower of Babel is traditionally dated some centuries after the Deluge (that is, well after the Age of Kronos), and is sometimes associated with Babylon. I suggest that such a construction project would make more sense during the Age of Kronos and at the sub-Saturnian point. (Even if there was some later but similar project, at ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 44  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0501/012theme.htm
21. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of some sealed tombs of the period [56]. The pyramids or Egypt may seem to have evaded divine melting, but calcination is manifested in certain places, and the plated stone that covered the pyramids is missing. We do have a provocative instance of burning in Babylon, such that it has been considered by some as the original Tower of Babel, whose brick and bitumen construction was struck by divine fire [57]. It was of the stepped, ziggurat type. It appeared that the fire had struck the tower and split it down to the very foundation. In different parts of the ruins immense brown and black masses of brickwork had changed into a vitrified state ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 40  -  29 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/degrazia/godsfire/ch3.htm
22. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Ha Yam: God the Sea. The first verse is almost identical to one from a tablet of Nammu: The Mother (or primeval sea) who gave birth to heaven and earth. There is also something similar to v.6 : God separated the waters. SUNDAY MORNING: MAYER DANINO: Genesis 11 1-9 The story of the tower of Babel. This had something to do with a catastrophe caused by the planet Mercury. There would have been a thunderbolt causing a low frequency wave. This resulted in neurological disturbance, failure of speech and communication: babbling. People were forced to invent writing. Merculis = scribe. Mercury was responsible for writing. Every 1656 years ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 39  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/workshop/w1986no2/34horiz.htm
... dismemberment of the god and de Grazia, together with Milton, fell into the same trap. De Grazia's blind reliance on Velikovsky particulalry showed through in his treatment of the planet Mercury. In Ramses II and his Time, Velikovsky promised that, in a future work, he would show "that what is known as the catastrophe of the Tower of Babel. . .was caused by a close passage of Mercury." Corroboration of this event would have been understandable had some independent research been conducted by way of verifying the existence of evidence in its favor. De Grazia's glaring lack of data connecting Mercury to the Tower of Babel indicates that he was content to accept Velikovsky's statement ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 36  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0103/109road.htm
... writers, from biblical scholars to religious zealots. The discovery of the similarities between Old Testament narratives and cuneiform accounts had caused a commotion among interpreters of the Bible, whether scholarly or not; much of what was published was irrational or irresponsible, and there was some outright exploitation of the interest of the general public. The excavation of the Tower of Babel which was then being planned by German archaeologists, seemed to be symbolic of the situation; in Germany one spoke jokingly of Babel und Bibel, a phrase which in English was expanded into Babel, Bible, and babble. ' The German scholars, who were the world leaders in developing the new field of cuneiform studies, ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 34  -  29 Mar 2004  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/degrazia/vaffair/ch4.htm
... historian make a two year mistake? Is our model of 108-year cyclicism not sound? Is it possible that the ancient historian's counting system involved counting only the 430 serene years while excluding the two catastrophic years? This is our suspicion. By model, we date Sodom-Gomorrah at mid-March, 1877 B.C . Step XV the Dating of the Tower of Babel Catastrophe This catastrophe is treated very briefly and vaguely in Genesis. However, it is treated in greater depth in Talmudic commentary, in Josephus and elsewhere. Talmudic information is as follows: This city (Zoar) had been founded a year later than the other four; it was only fifty-one years old, and therefore the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 33  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0202/082-108.htm
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