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5 pages of results. 26. Canopy Skies of Ancient Man by Isaac Vail [Books]
... 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 ... " of Heaven; and as such it fulfiled all the purpose of a heavenly command. Thus physical conditions became, in effect, actual speech. It was the first language learned by man, celestial speech, taught by supernal teachers. Such speech grew into system as time rolled on. "Altar", "gift", " ...
27. A Return to the Two Sargons and Their Successors [Journals] [Aeon]
... Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh .. . And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." [60] This is partly repeated in the Book of Chronicles: " ... not mean that there must have been two German dictators ruling the same territory of Europe but in different periods. And just because there were Hitlerian administrations (using four different languages) in France, Norway, Poland/east Europe, and Germany itself does not mean there must have been four different Hitlerian empires in different areas (and/ ...
28. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Noah [Books]
... 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 ... , "So be it! So be it!"[71] Thus were divided one hundred and four lands and ninety-nine islands among seventy-two nations, each with a language of its own, using sixteen different sets of characters for writing. To Japheth were allotted forty-four lands, thirty-three islands, twenty-two languages, and five kinds of writing ...
29. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... with simple orderly progression of the ages. PANBABYLONIANISM Since Kugler's booklet on the myth of Phaeton has been ignored, his reputation rests on his monumental work Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, Astronomical Science and Astronomical Observations at Babylon. ' The first volume was published in 1907 and the second volume in 1909 ; supplements were issued up to 1914. ... given the misleading name of Panbabylonianism. In order to explain how their theory came to be formulated, one would have to review the entire history of the decipherment of cuneiform languages, but here I shall limit myself to a few points. The reading of the clay tablets that were excavated in Mesopotamia after 1842 provoked a revolution in biblical studies ...
30. Jupiter -- God of Abraham (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... 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 ... History does not know and the Bible does not identify them beyond tracing Terah's genealogy to Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. Was Terah a Babylonian? What language did he speak? What was his occupation? Certainly not a sheepherder, living as he did in one of the most sophisticated cities of that age."( ...
31. A Cosmic Debate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . From this field of psycho-sociology, one enters the field of language, linguistics, and symbols. Here, too, occurs a universal tongue. The biblical Tower of Babel story is not a unique representation of a unity and subsequent dispersal of languages groups. Does the behavior of "The Gods" cause language to diversify quickly, and ... assumption of revolutionary primevalogy is that humanity developed in great leaps, under circumstances of extreme physical and social stress. From this field of psycho-sociology, one enters the field of language, linguistics, and symbols. Here, too, occurs a universal tongue. The biblical Tower of Babel story is not a unique representation of a unity and subsequent ...
32. The Coming Cosmic Debate in the Sciences and Humanities: Revolutionary Vs. Evolutionary Primevology [Articles]
... the field of language, linguistics, and symbols. Here, too, occurs a mysterious invention. Tantalizing evidence occurs of a once universal tongue. The biblical Tower of Babel story is not a unique representation of a unity and subsequent dispersal of language groups. Does the behaviour of "The Gods" cause language to diversify quickly, and ... assumption of revolutionary primevology is that humanity developed in great leaps, under circumstances of extreme physical and social stress. From this field of psycho-sociology, one enters the field of language, linguistics, and symbols. Here, too, occurs a mysterious invention. Tantalizing evidence occurs of a once universal tongue. The biblical Tower of Babel story is ...
33. Aster and Disaster: Toward a Catastrophist Mode of Mythological Interpretation [Journals] [Kronos]
... , France, Switzerland, and the United States were also represented, and the number of "jarring sects" had risen to well over two dozen. To simplify this Babel, one could say that most of these modern mythologists are classifiable either as literalists, who hold that myths are imperfect attempts to depict momentous events as they really were ... . All are of Homeric Greek origin. And at this point we move from lexicology (in its narrower sense, which restricts it to the history of words within one language) to etymology (which relates the vocabulary of later languages to that of earlier, presumably ancestral, languages). By Classical times, the word muthos - pronounced ...
34. The Autobiography Of Nebuchadnezzar. Ch. 5. (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... XXXIV, Heft 2 (1930), 19. 12 Ibid. 13 Ginzberg, Legends, IV, 335-36. 14 S. G. Bernstein, König Nebucadnezar von Babel in der jüdischen Tradition (Berlin, 1907), p. 24. 15 Ginzberg, Legends, VI, 4245. Hiram was related to Nebuchadnezzar through his marriage ... p. 101. 7 Josephus, Against Apion, I, 135. 8 D. D. Luckenbill, "Hittite Treaties and Letters," American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, XXXVII (April 1921), Document No. 7, pp. 192-93. 9 Cf. Berosus in Josephus, Against Apion, I, 135ff ...
35. Pentecost [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Electromagnetic Field Effects. New York: 1974, 4, emphasis added. 9. Persinger, 276. 10. See also the author's elucidation in "The Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues." Kronos, VII1-1 (Fall 1982), 53-62. ...
36. Transcript of the Morning Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... into the microphone, I can't hear. HUBER: Yeah. This passage, actually it was used by Schaumberger in the third Erganzungshefte [to Kugler's Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel] as an argument that Venus was visible during the day, and you quote, in Worlds in Collision, that passage from Schaumberger, if I remember correctly. ... else in that hymn? And I am very thankful to you for giving me the text of that hymn. First, it is in Sumerian. Sumerian as a living language really extinguished rather early. But Sumerian was the Latin of the cuneiform-writing people, and it survived as long as Latin survived, past the Roman Empire, so the ...
37. Syllabi for Quantavolution [Books] [de Grazia books]
... cover-up; Homeric plots; götterdämmerung. 10. April 14 COMMUNICATION BY SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND LANGUAGE: Animal communication: earliest symbols; universal language; the Tower of Babel. 11. April 21. PRIMEVAL ORIGINS OF THE ARTS AND LITERATURE: Crafts, myths; liturgy art; dance; poetry. 12. April 28 PRAGMATICS AND ... fatal flaws; divine ambivalence to man and man to gods; the greatest cover-up; Homeric plots; götterdämmerung. 10. April 14 COMMUNICATION BY SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND LANGUAGE: Animal communication: earliest symbols; universal language; the Tower of Babel. 11. April 21. PRIMEVAL ORIGINS OF THE ARTS AND LITERATURE: Crafts, myths ...
38. The Celestial Tower [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 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 ... very high and strong Zacualli, which means a very high tower' in order to protect themselves when again the second world should be destroyed. At the crucial moment their languages were changed, and as they did not understand one another, they went into different parts of the worlds. ' [1 ] The same story is recorded in ...
39. KA [Books]
... used throughout the Mediterranean world. In Babylonia there were towers (durr), whose name sounds the same as the Latin turris'; the shrine on a Tower of Babel' is a saharu'. The Hebrew seghor, axe, Latin securis, extends the list. David's dance, wearing a linen ephod (2 Samuel VI: ... , or gateway, was sebchet, the opening of fire. The similarity of hept, septem, seven, and Egyptian seb, illustrates the use of a common technical language, such as was used when discussing the seven wandering stars' and the seven recesses, Greek muchoi. [1 ] Herodotus (II:44) visited Tyre ...
40. Electricity [Books] [de Grazia books]
... " 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 ... 14]. The arrogance of the builders in attempting to reach the sky was punished, recites the Bible, but in a peculiar way. They who spoke the same language when they began their work were caused to "babel" in many tongues. The Earth shook long beforehand; the tower partly sank into the ground, so say ...
41. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: A Critique [Journals] [Aeon]
... takes special creation into account. (Illustration by Charles Hogarth.) In 1941, Argentine essayist Jorge Luis Borges wrote his now classic short tale, "La Biblioteca de Babel" (The Library of Babel) in which he envisioned a massive library containing all the sizeable number of actual books ever written and all the near-infinite unwritten potential permutations ... F . Skinner In another arena, Dennett directs us to the radio engineer turned linguist, Noam Chomsky, one of the founders of cognitive science, who called attention to language as one of the products of the human mind's innate and mysterious qualities. But, Dennett's special admiration for Chomsky as a fellow-critic of Skinner ends with Chomsky's hostility to ...
42. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... with simple orderly progression of the ages. PANBABYLONIANISM Since Kugler's booklet on the myth of Phaeton has been ignored, his reputation rests on his monumental work Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, Astronomical Science and Astronomical Observations at Babylon. ' The first volume was published in 1907 and the second volume in 1909 ; supplements were issued up to 1914. ... realize that men tend to shunt off as fables the accumulated memories and records of cosmic cataclysms. Even biblical fundamentalists do not accept at face value what is told in plain language in a book that they purportedly interpret to the letter. A few hundred years after the last upheaval, as dated by Velikovsky's thesis, Aristotle struggled to refute the ...
43. The Papyrus Ipuwer, Egyptian Version Of The Plagues - A New Perspective [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of earlier periods." Time and the outside world were catching up with the dwellers of the Nile. Egypt traded extensively with Byblos, in what is now Lebanon. Babel under Hammurabi rose to power. The Kassites ruled in eastern, and the Hurrians ruled in southwestern, Babylonia. After Sebkhotpe's reign ended, Egyptian power declined again, ... Dynasty. The papyrus is folded into a 17-page book, but the beginning is missing, and there are several gaps within. The writing, the spelling, and the language of the recto text are all characteristic of the late Middle Kingdom. "Each page (of the recto) had fourteen lines of writing, so far as we ...
44. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 39 3 P. F. Gössmann, Planetarium Babylonicum oder die sumerisch-babylonische Sternnamen, Rome, 1950: 105f. 4 F. X. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel; assyriologische, astronomische und astralmythologische Untersuchungen, Münster, 1907: II 89f. 5 J. Obsequens applies the word sidus to a meteor .. . See Pliny ... juxtaposed his best-selling mystery genre' books with respected tomes on linguistics, was a longtime Fort Lauderdale resident whose grandfather, Maximilian Berlitz, was renowned for his international chain of language schools. Charles Berlitz was himself considered as one of the world's best linguists and spoke a number of languages, including French, German, Italian, Greek and Portuguese ...
45. Pentecost [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 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 ... in confused or garbled speech - an uncontrolled response. Presumably, such speech might sound to an untrained ear like another language - another "tongue". To simultaneously experience all of these effects could prove to be overwhelming - or might it instead be an emotional high? These few observations provide a provocative background to a reading of the biblical ...
46. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... .) I would like to suggest, if no one else has already done so, that the confusion of tongues, mentioned in the biblical account of the Tower of Babel, refers to a catastrophic origin of speech and writing born of a desperate necessity to overcome the sudden breakdown in the previous means of communication (Telepathy?). ... on his readiness to air the controversy). It is a subject better suited to the intimate surroundings of an informal discussion among friends, where the nuances and subtleties of language can be accentuated or modified by those additional aids to understanding: narrowing eyes, a sharp tone of voice, a half-smile, a raised eyebrow or an unconscious gesture ...
47. James E. Strickling's Origins [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Mysterious Origin of the Moon- and the Nonmoon of Genesis In the Beginning The Origin of the Races of Homo Sapiens: A Case of Rapid Divergent Nonevolution The Tower of Babel and the Catastrophic Nonorigin of Language Diversity Sodom, Gomorrah, and the Electrological Origin of The Dead Sea Depression Archaeo-electrics: A Once-occasional Factor in The Origin of Holy Writ ... Nonorigins: New Perspectives The Signature of Catastrophe: The Origin and Nonorigin of The Geological Record The Path of Life: A History of Interruption Whence Homo? The Origin of Language The Mysterious Origin of the Moon- and the Nonmoon of Genesis In the Beginning The Origin of the Races of Homo Sapiens: A Case of Rapid Divergent Nonevolution The ...
48. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Journals] [Aeon]
... . 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 northern sky. De Grazia described the Earth's climate during that period as "even and damp" -" a tropical greenhouse." It was during this time that language, music, and agriculture developed under a benign government ruled over by god-kings. As super-Saturn continued to slow down it, also, underwent fragmentation. The luminary's downfall ...
49. Intimations of an Alien Sky [Journals] [Aeon]
... p. 173. 87. Ibid., p. 172. 88. Ibid. 89. Ibid.; F.X . Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, Vol. I (Munster, 1907-1913), pp. 221ff. 90. M. Jastrow, Jr., op. cit., pp. 174-175 ... , they were, in more than one respect, absolutely supreme. Requiring a generic name, these mysterious celestial beings eventually became known as gods- which, in whatever language or dialect thereof, was at first an indistinctive term employed to describe the undescribable. It is as such that we must understand primitive man's first concept of the planets ...
50. Catastrophism and the Old Testament: The Mars-Earth Conflicts by Donald Wesley Patten [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and Mars, like that between Jupiter and Io. Patten links with Mars flybys most post-diluvian epic events in the Old Testament, some well known (e .g . Babel, the Exodus, the Long Day of Joshua), others less so (Sisera's defeat, Gideon's midnight bash', the Philistine Phalanx'). However, ... faster, bright with snake-like coils, its head brushing the heavens. Its fearsome lightning wa . . . FLASH . ZAP . CABOOM . .'. This is the language of comic strips, not serious literature. Unhelpful and inapt metaphors litter the pages. Equally disconcerting is Patten's habit of freely re-translating the O.T . accounts to ...
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