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5 pages of results. 51. Genesis and The Origin of Species. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... day was the earth divided' [10:25]. Does that refer to the Great Rift Valley? Who knows - there's just not enough information. Does the Babel story actually refer to something falling from the heavens? On the other hand, Jacob's dream of angels running up and down a ladder to heaven suggests a meteor-shower. ... or tablet of the generations of (whoever) '. The first 36 chapters have been written up from a series of tablets. Yahuda, an expert on the Egyptian language, found throughout the book of Genesis that the Hebrew showed an Egyptian influence so extensive that the development and perfection of the language can only be accounted for and explained ...
... that they are pious now, only to be inclined to do evil the next moment. In the Ge, the fourth earth, live the generation of the Tower of Babel and their descendants. God banished them thither because the fourth earth is not far from Gehenna, and therefore close to the flaming fire.[35] The inhabitants ... thou shouldst teach me the whole of the Torah." The frog assented, and he did, indeed, teach him the whole of the Torah, and the seventy languages of men besides.[48] His method was to write a few words upon a scrap of paper, which he had his pupil swallow. Thus he acquired ...
53. Morning Star II [Journals] [Aeon]
... 1976), pp. 11 ff. 37. J. Schaumberger, "Die Horner der Venus," in F. X. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (3rd supp., 1935), p. 302; S. Langdon, Tammuz and Ishtar (1914), pp. 176-177; F. G. ... 187. 4. Ibid., p. 134. 5. Ibid., p. 187. 6. E. Cochrane, "Venus in Ancient Myth and Language," AEON I:1 (January 1988), p. 48. 7. J. Strong, Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary (Madison, N. J ...
54. The Methodology of Patten's Martian Scenario [Journals] [Aeon]
... as per Patten, et al., were originally presented as having been the following: the Noachian deluge (circa 2500 B.C .) ; the Tower of Babel catastrophe (1930 B.C .) ; the Sodom and Gomorrah catastrophe (1877 B.C .) ; the Exodus catastrophe (1447 B.C . ... repeat that Apollo is "a Greek transliteration of Baal." (51) More specifically, he stated the case in the following words: In Punic, the Phoenician language [sic.], the word for Mars was Baal, sometimes represented as Ba'al. This word was a derivative from the Babylonian word, Bel .. . ...
55. Origins: Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth - by James E. StrickIing, Jr. [Journals] [Kronos]
... catastrophist framework. Intriguing investigative studies with respect to certain origins and "nonorigins' within various disciplines are also included- both natural and cultural. Among these, "The Tower of Babel and the Catastrophic Nonorigin of Language Diversity." "James Strickling belongs to the new wave of post-Velikovskian neo-catastrophists. His disclosures on certain subjects have won him a place ... the pages of this newly-reconstructed science... He has turned quite a few stones- and uncovered the odd surprise to boot. " From the Foreword by Dwardu Cardona $11.95 hardback, indexed, postpaid from Vantage Press, Inc., 516 West 34th St., New York, NY 10001. \cdrom\pubs ...
56. Sun and Saturn by Morris Jastrow Jr [Articles]
... .165] Recognized many years ago by Sayce, Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society, vol. 40, Nr. 3. See Kugler, Sternkunde and Sterndienst in Babel, I, p. 259. 14 . [# 4 p.165] Kugler, Sternkunde, II, I, p. 104, independently reached the ... names for Mars occurring in astrological texts. See an article by the writer on "Signs and Names of the planet Mars" to appear in the American Journal of Semitic Languages, vol. XXVII, Nr. 1. 70 . [# 2 p.175] Gu-ud = šahâtu "check, hinder" etc. (see Jastrow ...
57. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . (D .N . No. 4.) I regret that the title of the book by Herbert Wendt was omitted. It is: " Es Begann in Babel ", subtitle: "die Entdeckung der Volker", RoRoRo-Taschenbuch-Ausgabe (Rowohlt) 1966, (Nos. 869, 870, 871, 872). The photograph ... from Revue Biblique 40 (1931) pp. 54-55, has swsk , for what they may be worth. On the problem of how words change when passing from one language to another, I think there is a fourth circumstance in which changes occur (although it could be said to be only a variation of Malcolm Lowery's No. 3 ...
58. The Poem of Erra [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Assyrisches Handworterbuch (Leipzig, 1896), p. 288. 40. Ibid., p. 395. 41. F. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (Munster, 1935), p. 304. 42. Gossman, op. cit., p. 82. 43. For traditions associating the planet Mars ... . De Santillana and von Dechend drew a similar conclusion in Hamlet's Mill: "It is evident that the events of the Flood in the Era Epic, however vivid their language, apply unmistakably to events in the astral heavens and to nothing else." (7 ) A few excerpts from the poem confirm this opinion. Thus Marduk is ...
59. Sirius and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... KRONOS V:1 (Fall, 1979), pp. 12-46. 8. See Lynn E. Rose, The Afar Triangle As the Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel', Aeon II:4 (1981), pp. 5-28. 9. See L.E . Rose, On Saturn at the North Pole', ... of the SIS Silver Jubilee Event" Home | Issue Contents Sirius and Saturn by Lynn E. Rose Lynn F. Rose received both his BA in Ancient History and Classical Languages (majoring in Greek) and his MA in Philosophy from Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught ancient philosophy ...
60. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes [Journals] [Kronos]
... only the best-sellers of Erich von Daeniken but Jaynes' own statement (on p. 235) that ". .. the Ziggurat of Neo-Babylon, the Biblical Tower of Babel, was... a heavenly landing for the... celestialized gods." In reconstructing the prehistory of consciousness, Jaynes ranges freely over continents and millennia ... based on the Greek-derived word metaphor and meaning "a relationship of similarity" and "something to be described," respectively. Predictably, he does not scruple to cross languages in producing coinages, as in the case of his Greco-Latin neologism introcosm, meaning "inner world," where most Classicists would of course prefer an unhybridized form, ...
61. Introduction (In the Beginning: God) [Books]
... mythological subject matter of the Book of Genesis. One we may term the Literary Theory. According to it the stories of the Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Loss of Eden, etc, Were, freely invented by the scribes who had been commissioned to write the history of the Jewish nation and who, endeavouring ... of the last half-century whose labours culminated in the great modern Commentaries. I am neither by training a theologian, nor by inclination; besides though a lifelong student of many languages; ancient and modern, humble and classic, I can hardly call myself a Hebraist. Therefore; I could scarcely add one title to the findings of these scientists ...
62. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... . 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 ... but not identical. This is a third principle we have to reckon with. Taken together these three elementary guidelines will turn out to be the keys to unlocking the forgotten language of mythology. I will illustrate this theory with an introductory discussion of the string of pearls archetype, a powerful and well-developed pattern that has hitherto never been recognised, ...
63. The Ring About The Earth at 2300 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Jewish Traditions in Syriac Sources', Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 30, (1979), p. 222. 87. H. Gressman, The Tower of Babel, Jewish Inst. of Religion Press, 1928, p. 32. 88. S. Langdon, Tammuz and Ishtar, a Monograph upon Babylonian Religion and Theology ... , Houghton, Mifflin, 1885, p. 30. 20. W. F. Albright, The Location of the Garden of Eden', American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures Vol. 39 (1922), p. 25. 21. Warren, op cit [18], pp. 30, 31. 22. ...
64. Man's Divine Mirror [Books] [de Grazia books]
... destroy them. So it happened with the giants who piled Ossia upon Pelion to reach Zeus, who, however, overthrew everything, and as happened with the Tower of Babel, which the Hebrew Lord sent crashing by lightning and quaking. But this is a sublime challenge, someone may object; an ordinary act is not divine, for ... from above, concocting rites, and letting out the chains of fear carefully into sublimatory and practical behavior. When the gods remove themselves somewhat, the chains are slackened. Language, symbols, and myth are allowed to bury memories deeper. Religion becomes less depictive and denotative, more general and abstract. Finally, philosophy is freed to play ...
65. Mars Moves The Earth From Its Pivot, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... 3 . 6 The order of succession of the kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire will be discussed in Ages in Chaos. 7 Schaumberger, in Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, 3rd supp., p. 307. 8 Bezold, in Boll's Sternglaube und Sterndeutung, p. 6. 9 Thibaut, "Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik ... 15 But we ask for a direct statement that the planet Mars-Nergal was the immediate cause of the cataclysms in the eighth and seventh centuries, when the world, in the language of Isaiah, was "moved exceedingly" and "became removed from its place." This very action is ascribed to the planet Mars-Nergal: "The heaven he ...
66. Origins-- Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth - by James E. StrickIing, Jr. [Journals] [Kronos]
... catastrophist framework. Intriguing investigative studies with respect to certain origins and "nonorigins' within various disciplines are also included- both natural and cultural. Among these, "The Tower of Babel and the Catastrophic Nonorigin of Language Diversity." "James Strickling belongs to the new wave of post-Velikovskian neo-catastrophists. His disclosures on certain subjects have won him a place ... the pages of this newly-reconstructed science... He has turned quite a few stones- and uncovered the odd surprise to boot. " From the Foreword by Dwardu Cardona $11.95 hardback, indexed, postpaid from Vantage Press, Inc., 516 West 34th St., New York, NY 10001. \cdrom\pubs ...
67. On Mars and Pestilence [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Cumont, Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans (New York, 1960), pp. 22-41. 64. F. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (Munster, 1935), pp. 303. Mesoamerican skywatchers likewise appear to have described Venus as a "bearded" planet. See J. Thompson, Maya ... Mars shares this epithet with Apollo. (84) A link between the planet-god Mars and the phenomena of pestilence and/or death is also suggested by evidence from ancient language. The most probable etymology of Mars refers it to the root m(a )r , an early name of the Latin god being Marmar, a duplication of ...
68. The Chaldeans of Sumer [Journals] [Aeon]
... a seminal impact upon it. Samuel Noah Kramer has pointed out that the events in the initial chapters of Genesis-the fall, Cain and Abel, the Deluge, and the Babel of tongues-all had Mesopotamian antecedents; except that, instead of antecedents, one should now read "successors." In literary terms, it is certainly easier to grasp ... the time of Solomon, and as a consequence of the international trading and cultural pioneering developments of his reign. Again a perfect fit. e) The "Ebla-ite" language is startlingly similar to Ugaritic of the Late Bronze world, and to Biblical Hebrew. It would be interesting to see if, as I expect, "Ebla-ite" ...
69. The Love Affair as the Mask of Tragedy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... material. What had really happened had probably caused repeated surges of disjoined symbols and thoughts. The poetry must have sprung originally from a chaos of sounds, sights and human babel and ejaculations, uttered by many tongues, over hours and days of time. A "normal" adult would probably have been reduced to bodies of expression such as ... punish oneself by moving out wildly and attacking others. Temples and palaces for the provision of security and order must be erected; these will celebrate, in a different screening language, of course, the events of those days; they will see to it that the right food is eaten and digested and the proper mating and reproduction will occur ...
70. Cuneiform and the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... " (" Ur of the Chaldees"). He was the first king in history; he declared himself a god, and was the force behind the Tower of Babel. Stories of his conflicts with the patriarch Abraham (before Abraham left Ur) abound. The conclusion is apparent. Nimrod's self-deification was so successful that even modern Assyriologists ... ," which has the meaning in Sumerian of "big," may also be read "rabbum," which means "big" in Akkadian. (In modern languages we have similar logograms: the sign "2 " may be read as "two," "du," "zwei," "shtayim," " ...
71. The Olympian Rulers [Books] [de Grazia books]
... The small planet came close to Earth, on occasion, and treated the globe to electrical shocks that unsettled the minds of people. The Biblical story of the Tower of Babel seems to be saying so. The Greek Hermes puts people to sleep and awakens them; he is an arch-deceiver. wizard, patron of magic. Table 30 attempts ... Egyptian priests to the effect that the sun had changed its course four times since Egypt possessed its first king [21]. Notably, these Egyptians came with a distinct language, culture, and a new race or races, perhaps one from the West to the Delta and a second from the South to Upper Egypt, the time being ...
72. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... to show that this is incorrect.) 96. J. Schaumberger, "Die Hörner der Venus," in F. X. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (1935), p. 303. 97. B. Forrest, Velikovsky's Sources, Vol. 7 (Manchester, 1983), p. 528. 98 ... stars;" but it also meant "gods." (7 ) This belief can actually be traced to the oldest civilization that we presently know of. In the language that was Sumer's, very much as in that of the Egyptians, the word and/or cuneiform sign for "god" and "star" was one and ...
... , p. 221; [and] F.X . Kugler, C.F . J. Schamberger "Der Bart der Venus", Sternkunde and Sterndienst in Babel, (3rd supp. 1935), p. 303. [71"A Prayer of the Raising of the Hand to Ishtar" in Seven Tablets of Creation ... Doctor, the assurance of my sentiments of cordial devotion. Etienne Droiton, General Director Department of Antiquities" Robert H. Pfeiffer, was Chairman of the Department of Semitic Languages and History at Harvard University, and an authority on the Bible. Pfeiffer's published letter to Velikovsky deals with the contents of Worlds in Collision. He writes, " ...
... Es ton eera," see F. K. Movers, Die Phonizier (1967), vol. I, p. 205.], even the Tower of Babel itself, and first of all the Wild Hunter ( appendix #20 ). This assembly of figures "in mid-air" helps to give meaning to an otherwise pointless ... which these Peruvian Indians seem to have understood, where the great commentators of the Christian Church had missed the meaning . . . Another curious and somewhat similar transfer of the language of the Marean story in the folk-lore of a people, distant both in time and place. . . will be found, even at the present day, amongst ...
... , or reaching above the Clouds; which are phrases commonly used to express the height of buildings, or of mountains, and such like things: so the builders of Babel said they would make a tower should reach to Heaven; Olympus and Parnassus are said by the poets to reach to Heaven, or to rise above the clouds; ... it as the White that lies under the shell. And considering that this notion of the Mundane Egg, or that the World was Oviform, hath been the sense and Language of all antiquity, Latins, Greek's, Persian's, Egyptians, and others, as we have shewed elsewhere, (4 )( 4 . Tell. Theor. ...
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