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99 pages of results. 421. Schools of Thought - A Reply [Journals] [SIS Review]
... such records do exist; and that their meaning is fairly obvious; but that it has always been explained away as due to mankind's fertile mythopoeic imagination, and the astonishing coincidences have been either not adverted to or shrugged off (12). It has been observed that, according to calculations derived from our present knowledge of the solar system Babylonian astronomical records become largely accurate from the 8th century B. C. onwards while those dating from before that time appear to be inaccurate, and inconsistent with what could easily have been observed. It has been suggested that, whereas the earlier astronomers recorded the positions of heavenly bodies more or less according to imagination and caprice, their successors ...
422. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is the case, and astrology was all to do with predicting meteor streams, then the raison' d'être for astrology would effectively dissolve with the disappearance of the meteor streams. Could this not be exactly what happened during the first millennium BC some 2000 years after the new comet first broke up? Could this not be the time when the Babylonian astrologers and Greek philosophers really realized things were changing in the sky, when they first began to pay serious attention to the planets which now acquired the names of ancient gods? The early Greek philosophers and the Pythagoreans for example had many strange doctrines like a ring of fire around the Sun and a body called anti-Earth, both drawn from ...
423. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... intimately associated with ancient conceptions of the World Pillar. In A Dictionary of Symbols, for example, Cirlot reports that: "The Tree of Life, when it rises no higher than the mountain of Mars .. . is regarded as a pillar supporting heaven." (96) Additional support for Cirlot's statement comes upon consideration of the Babylonian traditions surrounding Nergal, the Babylonian war-god identified with the planet Mars. An epithet of Nergal, Meslamtae- thought to signify the "luxuriously sprouting Meshu-tree"- confirms that he bore an intimate relation to the Babylonian World Tree (Meshu), described as follows in an early hymn: "That pure tree. . .whose roots ...
424. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the stage, all standing in a fundamental relationship to the sovereign god we have called the Universal Monarch, and all playing distinctive roles in the One Story QUEEN OF HEAVEN Wherever you find the Universal Monarch you will find close at hand the ancient mother goddess- the feminine power whom the Sumerians called Inanna, the Queen of Heaven, and the Babylonians called Ishtar. For the Egyptians the prominent goddess figures include Isis, Hathor, and Sekhmet, each with numerous counterparts in their own and in other lands. Familiar names of the great goddess would include the Greek Aphrodite, Athena, and Artemis, or the Latin Venus, Minerva, and Diana, but many hundreds of counterparts could ...
425. Jerusalem -- City of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... by Jewish scribes to "Milcom," is given as Chemosh. If these identifications are correct, the worship of MOLECH at Jerusalem was probably a relic of the pre-Israelite cult of the local god Shalem (28) [* Athtar was "the S. Arabian god, who corresponds in name, but not in sex, to the Babylonian Ishtar, the Phoenician Astarte, and the Aramaic Attar or Athar" all of whom were divinities representative of Venus in their respective pantheons.- See W. Robertson Smith, op. cit, pp. 100 and 58-59.] The alternate name of the god Shalem- Shulmanu or Shulman- can be linked to the Ninevite deity ...
426. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The North [Books]
... the Tables. The great interest of this Umbrian practice is that it not alone gives us a practical recognition of the Egyptian title of the Four Cardinal powers, the "lords of the kebs (= angles) of the heavens, but it trust also be viewed as a (not identical but only) similar case to the posing of Babylonian temples, as we shall see later. This Umbrian ritual seems also to supply a clue to the strange proceeding in Gallican church-consecration, upon which we shall come immediately. [Indeed the boundary of the augur's templum seems to have been sometimes drawn in a circle (Guhl and Koner, ii, 410), whence, and originally ...
427. Velikovsky, Glasgow and Heinsohn Combined [Journals] [SIS Review]
... single illustration of their god. In Persia, there are illustrations of Ahura-Mazda all over the place but mysteriously, throughout Mesopotamia and in the Neo-Assyrian period, you find these illustrations of the god Ashur all over the place. What does Ashur look like? Exactly like Ahura-Mazda, a man inside a winged ring. Remember, Sennacherib bans the Babylonian gods in favour of Ashur, he carries off the golden statue of Bel-Marduk - and 200 years later, Xerxes bans the Babylonian gods in favour of Ahura-Mazda, carries off the statue of Bel-Marduk and establishes monotheism in the Persian Empire. I can be criticised and Gunnar can be criticised - people can look at the details and say, ...
428. Sidelights on Velikovsky's 'Ages in Chaos' [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... of the experts on its relations to Egypt and Assyria. Let the reader endure, for example, a comparison of Olmstead, who makes the Pharaoh Akhnaton trade with Ashurubalit I, patriarch of the Assyrian empire, with Redford,47 who examines the "hotly debated" documents of the dynasty and their alleged coeval archives of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, etc. Everywhere we find scholars violating the first commandment of science: You should not multiply hypotheses! Especially, of course, when the fortification of theory allures one to the distortion of truth, as in the recent radiocarbon studies of the Tutankhamen burial period.48 The obstinate fondness of Egyptologists for basing their dynasty dates ...
429. Morning Star II [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Mars was again seen to penetrate the Saturnian band and slide back down the axis. Thus it was said that Helel fell from heaven, cut down to the ground, brought down to the recesses of the bor of sheol, that is the pit of the underworld. It was, no doubt, these celestial maneuvers that compelled the Babylonians to refer to the planet Mars as the "erratic star." (24) It is also why, to the Hindus, Mars was known as Skanda, a name which translates as "the jumping, or hopping, one," (25) the reference being to the "jumping" or "hopping" up and ...
430. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... the "heart" and "soul" - of the ancient sun god is a GODDESS. And not a goddess in the abstract, but in the precise form of a radiant star drawn in the center of a larger circle or sphere. You can see this for yourself - and abundantly so - in the birthplace of astronomy. The Babylonian goddess Ishtar, who gave "life" to the gods (and symbolically to the ruling king), was the planet Venus. Her star was not located in an ambiguous "sky", but precisely in the center of the great wheel of Shamash, the "sun" god, identified by Babylonian astronomers as the planet Saturn ...
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