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5 pages of results. 76. Darkness and the Deep [Journals] [Aeon]
... p.17. 190. Plato, Epinomis 101, 83. 191. L.E . Rose, "The Afar Triangle as the Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel," AEON II:4 (May 1991), p.23. 192. J.G . Frazer, The Golden Bough, Vol.II ( ... mot" to connote water. (47) Maspero likewise stated that "Mot...is probably a Phoenician form of a word which means water in the Semitic language." (48) The Babylonians told the story differently but they, too, held that creation commenced out of the waters. Consider the Enuma Elish : When ...
77. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... , not with the planets; and she is observed to have phases, like the Moon. Kugler's broadside against the Panbabylonists was published in 1910 under the title Im Bannkreis Babels: Panbabylonistische Konstraktionen und religionsgeschichtliche Tatsachen (Under the Spell of Babel: Panbabylonist Constructions and Facts from the History of Religion). In 1907 Fr Kugler published the first ... also took the field against the astralmythological theories of Panbabylonism. These "extravagant views . . . on the age of Babylonian astronomy and the influence of Assyrian mythology on the language, culture and religion of the East"(3 ) observed that most mythologies prove to be astrally inspired, and can be interpreted as presenting detailed astronomical information. ...
78. Implications for Chronology if Certain 'Historical' Characters are Mythological [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , often where least expected. Noah's adventures during the Deluge, as is well-documented, have striking parallels in the sacred narratives of primitive peoples around the globe. Towers of Babel are to be found virtually everywhere as well. Such towers' typically provide access to the sky and thus represent a thematic parallel to the World Pillar, the latter ... of Time, and one which provides the pattern for human behaviour .. . Clearly, what we are dealing with here is a complete reversal of values; whilst current language confuses the myth with fables', a man of the traditional societies sees it as the only valid revelation of reality' [22]. Yet there is a ...
... set up] [n1 The terminus is "Lumashi" -stars, and it is not yet certain which stars are meant. F. Kugler (Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel. [1907-13], vol. 1, p. 259) voted for zodiacal signs; E. Weidner (Reallexikon der Assyriologie [1932], vol. ... .), however, has some pretty survivals to offer: In 1895, Dr. Jakob Jakobsen, the well-known collector of the remnants of the ancient "Norn" language of the Western Islands, was informed by an old Shetlander, whose parents had come from the Orkneys (Ronaldsey) that near the most northerly of these islands there ...
... the North. There need be, after all, no great mystery about the object of the pyramids. Have we not the evidence of the reason why the Tower of Babel, another pyramid, was erected? Josephus says: "And by reason of the multitude of hands employed on it (the tower] grew very high, but ... Arab writers mention the inscriptions; while in the fourteenth century a German knight calling himself William of Boldensole, on a pilgrimage, states that lie saw the inscriptions in various languages.11 Thus there is cumulative evidence to the effect that the former outer casing, now peeled off, was lavishly inscribed, as Masudi relates of the unknown king ...
... . DOMBART, THEODOR. Zur Frage der Böschung am Babel-Turm, in AOF VII (1932) 251-62. DOMBART, THEODOR. Ein neues "Bild" vom Turm zu Babel, in JSOR XIV (1930) 1-10. DOUGHERTY, RAYMOND P. Cuneiform parallels to Solomon's provisioning system, in AASOR V (1923/24) 23-65. ... Persian inscription was read by Dr. George G. Cameron. Professor Martin Sprengling plans to publish the Aramaic, Greek, and Pahlavi inscriptions in the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. Dr. T. George Allen carefully edited and saw through the press this publication, as he has my previous ones, for which I again wish ...
82. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a huge lake - people had tried unsuccessfully to build, then been swamped. Compare this with the story in Josephus (Book 1 Chapter 4) of Nimrod's Tower of Babel, to be built of brick and too high for the waters to reach. Lasken believes the dating of the story of Gilgamesh, as told by Berossus, as ... 365 days and named the kings who made the changes. Harappan civilisation started c2000 and was destroyed in 1700 (uncalibrated carbon-dates). Then came the spread of the Indo-Aryan languages. There was diffusion including by boat from there to everywhere including N. America. Lasken equates Yu with Noah as the engineer who controlled the flood. Neither the ...
83. On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... truth in it which, on account of what has been said, gains in credibility. 52. J. Schaumberger, in Franz Xaver Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, supplementary vol. 3 (Munster, 1935), pp. 344-345. 53. Schaumberger, in Kugler, Sternkunde... 54. Jastrow, Religion ... the supernatural domain of the gods and the assignment to myth also create great difficulties. Additional problems are due to the multitude of paraphrasing expressions as well as the use of language which abounds with metaphors; these two factors make it difficult to separate fantasy from reality. In addition, our main source, the Omen Texts, is compromised by ...
84. CLASHING MAGNETIC FIELDS [Journals] [Aeon]
... the feared Capricorn. (Saturn was in Capricorn every fifth October flyby, including the Long Day of Joshua, 1404 B.C .E . and the Tower of Babel Holocaust, 1944 B.C .E .) The two parties agreed that the deity who answered with fire, He was God. The first turn went to ... academia. Modern Science, in mistakenly advocating the nebular hypothesis, tends to cloud error with complexity in a desperate pursuit of faith in gradualism and uniformitarianism. Conversations in the language of buzz words such as "billions and billions of years" and specialty jargon discourage inquiry and relegates truth to the hinterlands of scientific thought. ANCIENT MARS AND EARTH ...
85. The SIS, its history and achievements: a personal perspective [Journals] [SIS Review]
... event of 1905. One of the early events was Sodom and Gomorrah, but was it reported anywhere else in the world, did anyone else experience it? What about Babel? What about the Noachian Flood? What happened then, was it the acquisition of the Moon (when did we acquire the Moon?) as I think it ... carvery of the then very posh Regent's Palace Hotel where we had a meal over which we would mull over things. And lo and behold! we all spoke the same language, all had the same ambitions. If America could turn out a Pensee, and it obviously had a good subscription list, there must be other people in Britain ...
86. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Times 18.10.98 and 6.6 .99 Michael Sanders has been studying satellite pictures and claims to have found' Sodom and Gomorrah and the Tower of Babel. He thinks the tower is in a remote region of eastern Turkey and not in Mesopotamia as normally thought. Three anomalies beneath the waters of the northern end of ... as the child's abilities declined with the acquisition of speech the less skilful cave paintings at the end of the ice age may indicate that Stone Age humans had begun to evolve language. Needless to say, the theory is controversial as it seems unlikely that early human groups would have survived for thousands of years without some sort of verbal communication. ...
87. Cyrus The Mardian/amardian Dethroner Of The -6th Century Medes And Aziru The Martu/amurru (Amorite) Dethroner Of The -14th Century Mitanni [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... has to tell us about mankind's first world leader: "Nimrod: He began to be a mighty one on the Earth. / And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech (Uruk), and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar" (Genesis 10: -8/10). This is what ... time of Aziru- and after the death of King Shuppiluliumash- the capital of the Khatti=Hittites is concerned about a king of Haiasa (= Armenia in its own language) by the name of Karannis (Astour 1989, 5), while in the time of Cyrus a king of Haiasa (Hayasha) by the name of Tigranes ...
88. Mars Gods of the New World [Journals] [Aeon]
... . Cochrane, "On Mars and Pestilence," AEON III:4 (1994), pp. 59-79. 65. F. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel (Munster, 1935), p. 304. 66. Ibid. 67. W. Roscher, "Mars", RLM (Hildesheim, 1965), ... abundance of death by plague". (66) As we have shown, the connection of Mars with disease and pestilence is archetypal in nature, being reflected in the language surrounding the red planet. Relevant here is the fact that the root mar appears at the base of words meaning "death" and "pestilence" throughout the Indo-European ...
89. The Dating of Hammurabi [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... built Erech, reigned 420 years as king." [43] Enmerkar could be Nimrod, for Genesis 11:10 states that "The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." If Enmenkar is Nimrod, then Meskiaggasher would be his father, Cush. ... ), the father of Enshag-kushanna is said to be Elilina,[66] perhaps the real name of Akki. Josephus called Cushan a king of the Assyrians. The language of the Akkadians had affinities to what is called Old Assyrian. The usage of Old Akkadian names in the Old Assyrian period is taken as an indication that many " ...
... to make the kings of the earth and their men to stumble. "Surely thou knowest that Abraham their father acted thus, who made the armies of Nimrod king of Babel and of Abimelech king of Gerar to stumble, and he possessed himself of the land of the children of Heth and the whole realm of Canaan. Their father Abraham ... him Pharaoh, as was their custom with all their kings, but his wise men called him Akuz, for Akuz is the word for "short" in the Egyptian language, and Adikam was exceedingly awkward and undersized. The new Pharaoh surpassed his father Malol and all the former kings in wickedness, and he made heavier the yoke upon ...
91. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Configuration', AEON IV:2 August 1995, p. 25. 77. L.E . Rose, The Afar Triangle as the Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel', AEON II:4 , May 1991, pp. 5-28. 78. Hall, op. cit. [69]. 79. H. Tresman ... The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg," AEON III:5 , May 1994, pp. 52-70. 174. N. Webster, Webster's Twentieth-Century Dictionary of the English Language, N. Y., 1939, p. 1000. 175. O'Flaherty, op. cit. [33], p. 274. 176. Ibid ...
92. Chapter 14 Agronomy and Climatology [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... der Mathematik (2nd ed., 1894), p. 91. Laplace made efforts to find an explanation for these figures. 14 Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, I, 226-227. 422 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 The length of the longest day in a year depends on the latitude ... the mass have subsided."12 The passage indicates that Pliny envisaged every possible cause, not excluding the one known to have occurred in earlier times when, in the language of Plutarch, "the Pole received a turn or inclination," or in the words of Ovid, "Earth sank a little lower than her wonted place. ...
93. Cheers and Hisses [Books] [de Grazia books]
... mobilized to discharge electricity (cf. my article on Troy IIg, which might be synchronized with the vitrification found in many places). Query: does the Tower of Babel case belong here? Did the languages of man disperse in shocked amnesiac behavior? Do the ziggurats and pyramids evidence Vitrification or an intent to facilitate (ex post facto ... future current-flows? (Troy IIg is in pyramid-building times.) Note Mercurial qualities? When did Hermes flourish as a god? (under overall aegis of Zeus, perhaps). If people on an eminence feel current starting to flow, they get out before the heavy scorching from the heavier flow occurs. Are there vitrified eminences and walls ...
94. The Hebrew Patriarchs in Greek Tradition (Part I) [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... by the Lake of Willows'. But he did not stop in Philistia. He moved further north: "desirous of mastering the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, sent 72 persons to learn them. He established a university over which he and Gadel and Caoith presided. These formed the Greek... and Hebrew letters ... to the altar of the Philistines by the Lake of Willows'. But he did not stop in Philistia. He moved further north: "desirous of mastering the 72 languages created at the confusion of Babel, sent 72 persons to learn them. He established a university over which he and Gadel and Caoith presided. These formed the Greek ...
95. Greek History Begins in the Sixth Century B.C. [Journals] [Aeon]
... Berlin, 1922), p. 484. 54. Ibid., p. 483. 55. Ibid. 56. Franz Xaver Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, Vol. I (Mnster, 1907); Vol. II (Mnster, 1909/10). 57. F.X . Kugler, ibid. ... Olympionikai. I vincitori negli antichi agoni Olympici (Rome, 1959); and supplement Klio 52/1970. 14. See William Mure, A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece, Vol. IV (London, 1853), p. 88; for a comprehensive discussion of the ancient controversy about the period of ...
96. Isaac Asimov in Absurdity [Books]
... Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, (Ace Book reprint), (New York, 1941), pp. 166-167. 38. Anonymous, Tower of Babel, American Journal of Science, Vol. I, No. 37, (1839), pp. 352-353. 39. Fredric B. Jueneman "PC, ... moves his arms in, he spins more rapidly. That is, a spinning body has a certain quantity of rotation (angular momentum, as it is called in technical language) . . . . As the rotating mass of gas continues to shrink and rotate faster there came a time when the centrifugal force at its edge became equal to ...
97. Variations on a Theme of Philolaos [Journals] [Kronos]
... planet lost its Sun of Night and when the natural division between "Earth" and Counter-Earth was obliterated.) The story of the Confusion of Tongues at the Tower of Babel is traditionally dated some centuries after the Deluge (that is, well after the Age of Kronos), and is sometimes associated with Babylon. I suggest that such ... another body, and that an "eclipse" is when the shadow of one body (not necessarily Earth) falls upon and shades another body. This will give our language both consistency and flexibility. If the Moon, or Saturn, or any other body moves between Earth and some other body, such as the Sun, or a ...
98. Sidelights on Velikovsky's 'Ages in Chaos' [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... reader who has had the singular luck to be trained to respect facts ahead of fathers wants to behold a modern parallel to the Bible legend of the polyglot sky-flouting tower of Babel, he could do no better than survey the global literature concerning Babylonia, in particular the clashes and confusions of the experts on its relations to Egypt and Assyria. ... , it is plausible to me that the original Kadmos could have been a member of the royal family of Ugarit, where Niqmadu was a name of ancient veneration. European language wizards many decades ago explained the myth of Kadmos as a priestly and poetically transmuted memory of an early immigration of "Phoenician" culture into Greece. By-passing the tale ...
99. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... , p. 88. [78] Mikittim isati. See the discussion in J. Schaumberger, "Planeten," in F. Kugler, Sternkunde und Sterndienst in Babel, Supplement 3 (Münster, 1935), p. 304. [79] J. Murie, "Ceremonies of the Pawnee: Part I: The Skiri ... of Time, and one which provides the pattern for human behaviour...Clearly, what we are dealing with here is a complete reversal of values; whilst current language confuses the myth with fables', a man of the traditional societies sees it as the only valid revelation of reality." [1 ] According to Eliade, ...
100. The Kaaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... Art of the Ancient Near East (N .Y ., 1965, third printing), p. 120. 66. J. Schaumberger, Sternkunde und Sterndiest in Babel (Munster, 1935), p. 317; al-Biruni, Kitab at-Tafhim (ed. R. Ramsay Wright, London, 1934), p. 240; ... contact with the coasts of both south Arabia and southern India. Nor were these contacts cursory. Linguistic analysis has uncovered a proliferation of Sanskrit and Arabic roots in the Malay language. More than that, Malay mythology is of very mixed character with Arab influence predominating.(33) According to the Malay Charmbook, god himself created the Kaaba ...
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