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5 pages of results. 1. The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues [Journals] [Kronos]
... 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 ... 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 may ...
... of primeval savagery Their doctrine Sub-savage stupidity of the first men Dr. Wilhelm Mannhardt's representation A most important primitive discovery Daphne not a tree Emphatic demand for antediluvian longevity The new Babel Nine memoranda Primeval human history The ancient ethnic view Biblical and true Plato's antediluvian age The consensus of all ancient religions The " Stone Age " in the light of our ... Asa Gray The claim of Count Saporta The conclusions of Otto Kuntze CHAPTER VI. THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ZOOLOGY. Geographical distribution of animals, most remarkable fact Second remarkable fact Language of Professor Orton Language of Professor Packard Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace cited Conclusion CHAPTER VII. THE TESTIMONY OF PALEONTOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY. One traveler who has been ...
3. The Myth of the Tower [Books]
... 19 into a tower-building myth and a city building plus language confusion myth and, it must be admitted with great skill. However, led astray by the redactor's gloss about Babel', he supposes the myths to be of possibly Babylonian origin. Unfortunately this very theory deprives him of the basis for his case, for in the ancient Orient ... S. Bellamy CD Home | Contents In the Beginning: God XVI The Myth of the Tower (xi. 2) (Originally] the whole earth was of one language, . (2 ) And .. . as they journeyed from the east . , . they found a plain .. . and they dwelt there. ( ...
4. A Critical Re-appraisal of the Book of Genesis, Part Two [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... composition, style and mode of narration," and on many conceptions concerning the well-known stories of Genesis such as the Creation, the Flood, and even the Tower of Babel. One can only conclude, he says, "that the whole pre-Egyptian narrative, too, was written from an Egyptian perspective" [12]. The Egyptian ... , we shall be examining Genesis from the linguistic point of view. It will be shown that Egyptian exerted considerable influence on the formation and development of Hebrew as a literary language. The Graf-Wellhausen system has dominated the field of Biblical research for more than a century, as was explained in Part One. Consequently the entire Pentateuch is considered by ...
... 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 ... , has been ascertained. And even now there are few who have a just estimation of their importance in these respects it may, however, be claimed, in the language of the traveller Clarke, " that by a proper attention to the vestiges of ancient superstition, wo are sometimes enabled to refer a whole people to their original ancestors ...
6. Chaldean Account of Genesis [Books]
... ] 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, ... written, was everywhere abundant, copies were multiplied, and by the veneration in which they were held these texts fixed and stereotyped the style of Babylonian literature, and the language in which they were written remained the classical style in the country down to the Persian conquest. Thus it happens that texts of Rimagu, Sargon, and Hammurabi, ...
7. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... 1' See Index to References before Index. t Principes (deij in Latio Salunmu el op, De Lirry. La f, v; to, 17. # Babel.. '. dlueur! f Orirnla! Rutiqmiliu (enlarged by H. T. A. Evens, M.A .) , p. qs. ... which so interested him that he at once resolved to study Japanese in order to explore the field of inquiry thus opened to his vices. His first studies in that difficult language were made under the competent guidance of Professor Summers, by whom he was introduced to Mr. W. G. Aston, the accomplished Japanese scholar' then attached ...
... on Sirius, 215, 216 Axis, world, 232-234; Heimdal as, 158-159; accompanying frame of, 235 Aztecs, 8, 290, 321 Baal, 128 Babel, Tower of, 249 Babylon, 6, 7, 195, 219, 266, 297, 307, 324,432; gods of, 124,244 ... 263, 264, 395 Agni, 157, 159, 322, 382, 395,428-429 Agrippa d'Aubigne, quoted, 317 Aigokeros (Capricornus), 63 Akkadian (language), 449 Albania, 79n Al-Biruni, 8, 30n, 83, 215n, 221 Albright, W. F., 124-125, 211, 295, 401 ...
... Assyro-Babylonian Chronology Additional Symposia ADS Abstracts ADS Abstracts Advanced Book Exchange Home Page, The Advertisement Aeon Announcements Aeon Announcements Aeon Aeonic Aphorisms Afar Triangle As the Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel, The After 200 Years It's Time to Get Serious About Dynasty XVIII and Tuthmose III Aftermath of the Trojan War Afterword Age of Moses, The Age of Purple Darkness ... Battles of Karkar and Ramoth-Gilead Akhenaten as Moses Akhnaton: A Geneticist's View Akhenaten - Heretic or Visionary Akhetaten - Horizon of the Aten Akhnaten, Aten, and Venus Reconsidered Akkadian language (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts) Alalakh and the Collon Affair Alan Alford's The Phoenix Solution Albrecht/Glueck-Aharoni/Rothenberg Confrontation: Who was Right and Who was Wrong ...
10. The Celestial Ship of North Vol. I [Books]
... , 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 ... Babel- Nimrod- Shu and Kepheus- Kush- Coils of the Serpent- World subject to Conflagration and Flood- Ezekiel, Daniel and John. CHAPTER X. --Celestiai Origin of Jewish Race and Hebrew Language. --Seven, Ten, and Twelve The Hek-Shus- Hebrews- Sut, the Black God, Nahsi- Aten- Temple and Shrine at Luxor- Exodus- Doctrine of the Coming One- Iu-em-Hept- The ...
11. Untitled [Journals]
... Amazon Mythology in the Greco-roman World [Aeon Vol0402] Eggleton, Hugh: Did Saturn Explode Twice? [Workshop Vol0403] Eggleton, Hugh: Mercury and the Tower of Babel [Workshop Vol0502] Eggleton, Hugh: Some Religious Themes in the Light of Velikovsky Et Alia [Workshop Vol0402] Ellenberger, C. Leroy: Heretics, Dogmatists ... : Velikovsky and Oedipus [Aeon Vol0106] Cochrane, Ev: Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification [Aeon Vol0102] Cochrane, Ev: Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Aeon Vol0101] Cochrane, Ev: Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two [Aeon Vol0103] Cochrane, Ev: Venus, Mars .. . ...
12. A Tale of Two Mountains: Ararat and Sinai [Journals] [SIS Review]
... began the oppression of the Israelites is portrayed by Moses as something of a Nimrod figure, as found in Genesis 10 & 11, a megalomaniacal builder of cities. At Babel, the inhabitants use a phraseology: Come, let us make bricks .. .. Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its ... Toledoth) of his illustrious forefathers [1 ], was apparently also very conscious - when writing his own story in the rest of the Pentateuch - of the content, language and structure of Genesis. Simple examples of this are identified below, followed by a more profound, structural example. Just as God saw His creative works as good ...
13. The "Forgotten Empire". Ch. 4. (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... and of the city the father conquered and the son built. 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 Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar), or Thoth of the Egyptians ... have occupied such an unexpectedly important role on the scene of the ancient East.6 It was expected that, if the pictographic inscriptions would divulge their secrets in an intelligible language, the history of the Hittites would no longer depend on Egyptian and Assyrian sources alone. This was the dream of the historians. Then something happened of which they ...
14. The Sibylline Oracles [Books]
... ., 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 ... traceable throughout the book,33 the latter, whose main conclusions I have adopted, regarding it (with the exception of 1-51) as a unity. The evidence of language, metre and mood appears to me to lend adequate support to Geffcken's view. In 1-51, then, we have a sketch of the emperors down to M. ...
15. Index of Authors
... , Some Notes on Catastrophism in the Classics Hugh Crosthwaite, The Etruscans and their Language Hugh Eggleton, Did Saturn Explode Twice? Hugh Eggleton, Mercury and the Tower of Babel Hugh Eggleton, Some Religious Themes in the Light of Velikovsky et alia Hugo Meynell, A Philosophy for Interdisciplinary Studies Hugo Meynell, Schools of Thought - A Reply Hyam ... Towards a Science of Mythology: Velikovsky's Contribution Ev Cochrane, Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification Ev Cochrane, Velikovsky And Oedipus Ev Cochrane, Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two Ev Cochrane, Venus in Ancient Myth and Language Ev Cochrane, Venus, Mars .. . and Saturn Ev Cochrane, Viva Lamarck: Renewed Discussion ...
16. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... of the Atlantic the traditions of mankind refer to several deluges to a series of catastrophes occurring at times far apart. It may be that the legend of the Tower of Babel refers to an event far anterior in time even to the deluge of Noah or Deucalion; or it may be, as often happens, that the chronology of this ... ." The story has come down without its geography, and a new geography is given it. Again, an ancient word or name may have a signification in the language in which the story is told different from that which it possessed in the original dialect, and, in the effort to make the old fact and the new language ...
17. The Periodic Cyclicism Of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... 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 ... , or the Santa Indra, or the Phoenician Baal, or the Sumerian Enlil, or the Egyptian Horus? All of these words are the planet Mars in various ancient languages? (4 ) If so, how close did Mars come to the Earth, measuring planet center to center? (5 ) If so, how frequently did ...
18. From Creation to the Death of Isaac [Books]
... The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion. The Sibyl also makes mention of this tower, and of the confusion of the language, when she says thus: "When all men were of ... abstain from the tree of knowledge; and foretold to them, that if they touched it, it would prove their destruction. But while all the living creatures had one language, (5 ) at that time the serpent, which then lived together with Adam and his wife, shewed an envious disposition, at his supposal of their living ...
19. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... idolatry of the Jews, Isaiah appears to refer to the practice of incubation, on a mountain top, or, as in Babylon, on a ziggurat [tower of Babel]. In LVII:7 he writes: "upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice" ... Text to be formatted | Images to be added [ CD-Rom Home ] 1 A FIRE NOT BLOWN.. Investigations of Sacral Electrical Roots in Ancient Languages of the Mediterranean Region by Hugh Crosthwaite with an Introduction by Alfred de Grazia Published by METRON PUBLICATIONS Box 122, Princeton, NJ-08542, USA Copyright 1997 by Metron Publications. All rights reserved ...
20. Abraham and Ur [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Biblical word for Sumer is generally assumed to be Shinar." Let us look at the first reference to Shinar in Genesis. "And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erekh and Akkad and Kalneh in the land of Shinar" (Genesis 10:10). At this point I might add that Velikovsky helped establish the general ... on Kramer's The Sumerians. They cite Kramer: "In the case of the Sumerians, however, there was no recognizable trace of the land, or its people and language, in the entire available Biblical, classical and postclassical literature." This is odd, since Kramer's article on "Sumer, Sumerians," in the Encyclopedia Judaica ...
21. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... might have been trade, since once trade started social interaction with other peoples was inevitable, and would cause the hallucinated voices of the gods to come in an unsolvable "Babel" of confusion. Such a weakening brought about the otherwise unaccountable collapse of Assur around 1700 BC, according to Jaynes. He also attributes the breakdown of bicamerality to ... the face of intelligent criticism. He then proceeds to clarify what is meant by "consciousness" and convincingly argues that it is probably the most misinterpreted word in the English language. For instance, he points out that what most people normally think of as consciousness is really little more than "reactivity". To illustrate this, it is ...
22. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... ; 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 ... Milton, " the poetical historian of the astronomy "of his day," that in astronomy the accuracy of his facts fairly divides the honors with the beauty of his language; but he slipped when he located Ophiuchus ' in th' Arctic sky," and it is not till late in his works that we see the abandonment of ...
... Limitations of the Astronomical Dating Methods 48 V The Placement of Dynasty XII in the Archaeological Ages 90 VI Natural Catastrophe and Archaeological Synchronism 120 VII Archaeological Evidences of the Dispersion from Babel 141 VIII Archaeology and the Duration of the Predynastic Period 153 IX The Predicament in Archaeological Interpretations at Shechem 172 X Confusion in the Archaeology of Megiddo 188 XI Who Was ... very dark and confused period. To compress this into two centuries seems impossible. The advocates of the longer period consider that the evidence of changes in the art, the language, and the burial customs show that much more than two centuries had passed, and that this fully balances the supposed scantiness of monuments as historical material. ' Subsequent ...
... these various positions, and the ingenious but mutually destructive arguments by which their respective advocates have sought to establish them. It will be more profitable to turn from such a Babel of ideas, over which the darkness of Hades itself seems to have fallen, and inquire what the poet himself has to say on the subject. 1 Mythology of ... uralte feste Anordnung." Aufsatze und Abhandlungen, iii, 375-383. 8 See Winckler, p. 34. "In immer grosserem Abstand von der Erde" is the language of Hommel in his Insel der Seligen, p. 38. . 38 THE EARLIEST COSMOLOGIES This explains the language of Dr. A. Jeremias where he says: ...
25. Index of Titles
... , Tammy Jo: Alexander and the Amazons: Ancient Belief and Modern Analysis Eggleton, Hugh: Did Saturn Explode Twice? Eggleton, Hugh: Mercury and the Tower of Babel Eggleton, Hugh: Some Religious Themes in the Light of Velikovsky et alia ELECTRO-GRAVITIC THEORY AND NEPTUNE'S ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD: Discussion Ellenberger, C. Leroy: HERETICS, DOGMATISTS ... of Mythology: Velikovsky's Contribution Cochrane, Ev: Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification Cochrane, Ev: Velikovsky And Oedipus Cochrane, Ev: Venus in Ancient Myth and Language Cochrane, Ev: Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two Cochrane, Ev: Venus, Mars .. . and Saturn Cochrane, Ev: Viva Lamarck ...
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