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220 pages of results. 41. The Scientific Mafia [Journals] [Pensee]
... . The next few years saw the publication of his Earth in Upheaval, which assembles geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence for the same theory; and of Ages in Chaos, Velikovsky's revised chronology of Egyptian history (which he ... the reception of Velikovsky's work would have been if it had been Christian fundamentalism, say, or fashionable French metaphysical anthropology. Or psychoanalysis; suppose Velikovsky had interpreted the folklore of catastrophe as distortions of infantile or intrauterine experience. Of ... the French Academy, which until 1803 continued to classify all stories of the fall of meteorites from the sky with astrology and superstition. It is the world view of the conventional historians of astronomy, who confidently compute the time and ...
42. Poleshift [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... remotest degree to anything on Earth."39 According to Lamb, based on the established chronology, "The archaeological excavations at Ur, Kish, Fara, and Nineveh have given clear evidence of breaks in the stratification caused by ... wet climate was replaced by one that caused deserts to develop. There has been strong denial of this from the archeological establishment. To argue that such a climatic catastrophe had never occurred, Nelson Gueck sums up this viewpoint of most ... permanent climate changes. In fact, as reported by Prof. Benny Peiser, there is a new book, Archaeoseismology, S. Stiror, R. E. Jones eds., (British School at Athens, 1996) ...
... the king of Kheta (Hatti) with Ramses II, omitted to mention his former objections. "The chief archaeological gain of this first excavation was, however, the realization, arrived at by Winckler from the clay tablets, ... origin of the Chaldeans was not Babylon. The Chaldeans retained for themselves the position of a caste of priests and astrologers,3 and it would have been only natural that, in their sacerdotal invocations and mysteries, they should have ... the tongue of their ancient traditions, not known to the common people. They recorded their secret knowledge, not to be divulged, in a script not understandable to the profane abecedarians. It is often asserted that no secret writing ...
44. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Peiser questions orthodox thinking about the dating and origin of Homer, and Gunnar Heinsohn asks some awkward questions about the archaeology of the Middle East, focussing on the site of Hazor. Phillip Clapham suggests a radical solution to the identity ... will be held at Fitzwilliam College from 11th-13th July 1997. It is entitled Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilisations: Archeological, Geological, Astronomical and Cultural perspectives'. Speakers are: Mark Bailey: cometary astronomy and ancient history Mike ... It was David Roth who provided the assistance in preparing material for publication, for which I am very grateful. Apologies to both Davids for the misunderstanding. p. 572nd para.: the Southern shaft of the Queen's Chamber of ...
45. Heinsohn's Ancient "History" [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Greek levels, thereby supporting his identification of Hammurabi's period with that of Darius and the Persians, since the archaeological remains of the latter would naturally be sought for immediately before the arrival of Alexander the Great. It is worth ... 30- p. 19. [42] Quoted from J. Pritchard, The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (Princeton, 1958), p. 208; see also, J. M. ... ., p. 120. [79] Quoted from A. R. George, "Babylon Revisited: Archa-eology and Philology," Antiquity 67 (1993), p. 743. [80] A. Bivar, ...
46. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... first permanent lords. The origin of these sacred procedures remained equally enigmatic. Though well documented, the textual and archaeological sources which point to catastrophic preconditions for the emergence of a sacrificial elite, are only rarely taken into consideration by ... C. Geertz, "Religion as a Culture System," in M. Banton (ed.), Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (London, 1966). 14. A. L. Oppenheim, Ancient ... (revised ed. completed by E. Reiner, Chicago, 1977), p. 185. 15. S. N. Kramer, History Begins at Sumer (Philadelphia, 1981), pp. 169 ff. 16 ...
47. Chaldean Account of Genesis [Books]
... the account of the Deluge in the state in which I published it at the meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, December 3rd, 1872. I had discovered that the Izdubar series contained at least twelve tablets, and I ... Babylonian Chronology.- Akkad.- Sumir.- Urukh, king of Ur.- Hammurabi.- -Babylonian astrology.- War of Gods.- Iadubar legends.- Creation and fail.- Syllabaries and bilingual tablets. ... the third volume of Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. Accordingly, in 1867, Smith was appointed assistant in the Assyriology department, and the earliest of his successes was the discovery of two inscriptions, one fixing the date of the ...
48. sTARBABY [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... in his own mind, Kurtz had every reason to believe he'd found his solution. Another chapter in our ongoing anthropology lesson: the clash of two alien cultures, public relations versus scholarship. Kurtz tried another let's-make-a-deal ploy, bursting ... of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) has proudly proclaimed itself the scourge of the "new nonsense": astrology, ESP, UFOs and other phenomena of which it does not approve. Its pronouncements on these and other subjects ... any contact with the Gauquelin matter. But Skeptical Inquirer (then Zetetic) editor Truzzi asked me to referee an antiastrology paper. I found, to my astonishment, that the paper was promoting the Humanist and Comite Para theory ( ...
49. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... of astronomical skills in timing the change of seasons had a greater chance of survival than groups that did not. Anthropology links measurement of time by astronomical cycles with mastery of controlled agriculture and the rise of full civilisation. Tied to ... . "Such efforts to wring the future out of the stars became a passion with the Babylonians priests skilled in astrology reaped rich rewards from both people and king." Ibid., pp. 256-25 7. 3. J ... Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy ( 1st paperback ed.; Cambridge: MIT Press 1964), pp. 78, 82. See also S. Giedion, The Eternal Present: The Beginnings of Architecture (N . ...
50. Venus Tablet Anomalies [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... is thought to have originated in Ammisaduqa's reign. The historical date of this reign has not yet been established by archaeological means. But an astronomical investigation carried out by Peter J. Huber of Harvard University dated the reign as 1702-1681 ... damaged copies of a twenty-one year sequence giving the day after settings of the planet Venus and the rising dates with astrological omens added. Twenty-one years is the reign length of King Ammisaduqa of the Hammurabi Dynasty. Since his 8th date-formula ... 32nd Edition, Europa Publications Ltd), p. 418. Information regarding climate can also be gleaned from the Assyriological books, for example: Seton Lloyd: The Archaeology of Mesopotamia, from the Old Stone Age to the Persian ...
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