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220 pages of results. 371. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... change of worship so far as observed all around the earth, on monument, pillar and tomb, where the serpent is represented as a fallen god. The students of archaeology have long been puzzled over this change. In Egypt in particular, the serpent, once called the "savior" and "guardian of men", became the ... showing that this deceiver of the whole earth became inseparably linked with the spirit of evil at a very early period. Figure 5. Typical Serpents and Dragons of Art and Archeology Now, it is very plain that this deceiver, this serpent of the skies, as a false feature was presenting the "tree of knowledge" to the human ...
372. World Ages Archive [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Amid the continuing debate over the origins of Western civilization, Planet of the Greeks interjects some new perspectives into this ever-expanding controversy. The author inaugurates a brand new era of archaeological detective work and a multi-disciplinarian, approach to ancient history. Inspired by the epoch-making revision of ancient history presented in Dr Immanuel Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos book series, Planet ... - 4,413 BCE to 2,730 BCE: Ch. 1: The Formative Period. Ch. 2: A New Beginning. Ch. 3: The Archaeotheology of Creation. Part II - 2,730 BCE to 1,953 BCE: Ch. 4: The Supremacy of Horus, Son of Re. Ch. ...
373. De Grazian Discography (Reviewed) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the moment remains Clube and Napier's giant comet. The scientific plausibility of this at least allows progress to be made in all our areas of interest, from megalithic astronomy to archaeology and mythology. It even allows Duncan Steel to repeat Velikovsky's proposal that the pyramids were air-raid shelters', without risk of dismissal from his astronomical post! However, ... becomes. It is as certain as any other proposition of science, that, were an asteroid or comet of modest size to strike the globe, astronomy would promptly become astrology, meteorology divination, biology creationist, politics catastrophic, and theology revivalist. Evidence for this statement is strewn among all writings on the effects upon humans of close-in and ...
374. Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Books] [de Grazia books]
... have been thoroughly devastated but whose telescopes would have been unmatched until the nineteenth century. Only so advanced a culture could produce and systematically employ such a telescope. Paleo-anthropology and archaeology, overseen by the sociology of invention, do not admit of a specific technology that far exceeds the general level of its culture. Then, if it had existed ... a stable sky and a workable celestial mechanics - or more bluntly, if one were to dismiss certain premises and conclusions of modern astronomy - one would apply modern psychological and anthropological analysis to the coincidence and to the words of Proclus, and suggest, as Taylor could not say 150 years ago, that the quotations exemplify how a primordial experience ...
375. A Cosmic Debate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... products below the ground. Here, and far beyond, extend the working of chemical clocks, such as radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon dating, and so forth. Geological and archaeological dating are achieved by the penetration of strata of earth and the remains of cultures, and assigning a later date to what is above something else. Archaeology has not ... connect with common centers that were obliterated in catastrophes, leaving behind many puzzling connections between the Orient, America, and the Mediterranean. All such problems extend beyond history into anthropology and other fields, of course. III A third large area of fuel for debate would be the humanities. There are many fields here and my breakdown of the ...
376. The Genesis of Religion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... transactions with the supernatural appearances. The drive to control oneself (oneselves, we should say) is paramount and moves man to wherever his rears alight. Again, Radin's anthropological surmise is acceptable: "man was in a state of fear, physically, economically, and psychically. Man thus postulated the supernatural in order primarily to validate his ... becomes. It is as certain as any other proposition of science, that, were an asteroid or comet of modest size to strike the globe, astronomy would promptly become astrology, meteorology divination, biology creationist, politics catastrophic, and theology revivalist. Evidence for this statement is strewn among all writings on the effects upon humans of close-in and ...
377. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology [Books]
... " (7 ) Why, then, do the astronomer-priests summon comet-like images of Venus "smoking" in a symbolic relationship to fear-inspiring natural disturbances? Forrest seems unaware that astrological texts and omens draw upon very ancient traditions, not just contemporary observations. Thus one scholar has noted of Mesoamerican religion: "A dominant characteristic of Toltec and Aztec ... Cochrane, "The Birth of Athena," Aeon 2:3 (1990), pp. 5-28. 48. B. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature (Bethesda, Md., 1993), pp. 510-512. 49. Ibid., p. 74. 50. D. Wolkstein and ...
378. Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... in Siberia * Lakes of the Great Basin * La Brea tar pit * Florida * Agate spring quarry, Nebraska * Elephants * South America * Arctic muck * Whales * Archaeology * The Columbia plateau * Tidal destruction of the moon * Sagan's bitter pill Sagan's fifth problem: Chemistry & biology of the terrestrial planets The origin of atmospheric oxygen * ... Tale An interdisciplinary scholar * Tales of upheaval * The cometary newcomer' * A case of professional hysteria * Looking for Velikovsky's comet * What is science? * Religion, astrology, superstition * How science operates * Peer review * The origin of craters The Historical Evidence Experts * Diffusion or common observation * Teo- place or god * The ...
379. The SIS Silver Jubilee Event, September 1999 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Windsor Great Park area, but the weather unfortunately deteriorated and only those desperate for fresh air ventured out. John Bimson kept us occupied until lunch with a scholarly assessment of archaeological evidence which should not be ignored by chronologists. After lunch Len Saunders presented evidence from Newgrange and Stonehenge to back his theory that the Moon had suffered major disturbances in ... tried to convince us that, after all, the Saturnists (and Electricians?) had it wrong and to take a fresh look at modern ideas of catastrophism and ancient astrology to explain myth in a more acceptable way. Our final speaker was Trevor Palmer who enlightened us with the history of diluvial thought and, in particular, what geological ...
380. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to look review the latest developments. Speakers will include: Harold Tresman: Introduction John Crowe: An overview of the various chronologies Dr John Bimson: An overview of the archaeological evidence Len Sanders: The bank and ditch of Stonehenge as indirect outcomes of lunar disturbance Dr Bernard Newgrosh: Contributors to the History of Science, Professor Lynn E Rose ... April 1998 meeting (C &CR 1998:1 , p. 53), Mike Rowland was inadvertantly stated to be the ISIS Honorary Secretary instead of Honorary Treasurer. Apologies from John Crowe for this mistake. Some mistakes/misprints also crept into Eric Aitchison's article Assyrian History: The Black Hole (C &CR 1998:1 , ...
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