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99 pages of results. 571. Venus And Sirius [Journals] [Kronos]
... records cited by Y-hang tell of a regular phenomenon. The brightest of the planets approaching the brightest of the fixed stars and merging its light with it if that is the correct interpretation of the texts must have been an impressive sight. It may have given rise to the Egyptian expression Isisothis - Venus and Sirius shining as one. Among the Babylonian astronomical texts the so-called Dilbat tablet links the planet Venus with various fixed stars; it says that "the Bow Star [Sirius] is Dilbat [Venus] in the month of Abu".(9 ) Dilbat, or Venus, is linked with other fixed stars in other months of the year. If we may interpret this ...
572. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... (Recent trends in astronomy, and some archaeological findings suggest that they are likely to prove mistaken on both counts.) But there was one thing in which most followers failed to imitate Velikovsky: the method of presentation which makes him such refreshing reading. As when, in the first pages of In the Beginning, he finds in the Babylonian Talmud that the Holy One took two stars from Khima and brought a flood upon the world', and pursues the elusive Khima down eight independent traditions until - before he can tell us - we have seen that Khima is the planet Saturn, from which obviously two comets erupted. (Examples of the opposite approach are J. E ...
573. Phaėthon, Part 1 Venus Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... is or whither he is going." "It was then, as men think, that the peoples of Aethiopia became black-skinned, since the blood was drawn to the surface of their bodies by the heat." Then also Libya became a desert, for the heat dried up her moisture. . . . The Don's waters steam; Babylonian Euphrates burns; the Ganges, Phasis, Danube, Alpheus boil; Spercheos' banks are aflame. The golden sands of Tagus melt in the intense heat, and the swans . . . are scorched. . . . The Nile fled in terror to the ends of the earth . . . the seven mouths lie empty, filled ...
574. Asimov's Guide to the Velikovsky Affair [Journals] [Kronos]
... original 360 days. Why? Dr. Velikovsky says they were right in laying the error to "the faults of heaven." EVIDENCE IS ENORMOUS The evidence for these fearful and wonderful speculations is enormous. It exists in the excavated history, and in the folklore of peoples all over the globe- of Egyptians, Hindus, Hebrews, Babylonians, Finns, Polynesians, Chinese, Aztecs, American Indians. If Dr. Velikovsky is correct he will have started a new era in thinking, a new trend in writing universal history in terms of cataclysms, undoubtedly a new chronology. He will explain some things that have puzzled scientists for centuries. This book is daring in viewpoint ...
575. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... the scientific deprecation of Biblical history which arose in the19th century was the mainly Germanic historical and textual analysis of the Bible, with which Velikovsky would also have been made painfully familiar in his secular education. Spanning some 100 years, it challenged the authenticity of every section of the Jewish Bible by arguing that its major components were copies of earlier Babylonian or Canaanite prototypes and that its present form was a craftily-selected composite of various sometimes-contradictory earlier sources, rather than an original document dictated by God to Moses. So extreme was this attack upon the Jewish Bible that, to quote a leading commentary at the turn of the century: Religious terms, ideas, institutions, once supposed to be ...
576. Indra [Journals] [Kronos]
... have been seen in the very midst of the rings or in close conjunction with them. Thus Mars was believed to have been fostered by the Saturnian rings. For this reason Mars (Kesil, Kartikeya) and the Saturnian bands (Maruts, Kesilim, Krittika) received similar names. It is also for the same reason that in both Babylonian and Hindu astronomy, Mars became the planetary representation of the Pleiades.(21) At the close of the Golden Age, the Saturnian configuration was fragmented. The collective memory of the nations holds both Mars and Jupiter as having been responsible for this calamity.(22) But although Mars was definitely involved, the Hindus did not ...
577. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes edited by Iona and Peter Opie [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to go back to Seth, son of Adam, at the gates of Paradise. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, is an incantation for the safety of children during the night, with particular emphasis on protection from the four quarters, a descendant of similar Celtic, Cabbalistic (Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael) and even Babylonian (Shamash, Sin, Nergal and Ninib) chants. Ladybird, ladybird fly away home, has sacred associations with our Lady' and the north European goddess Freya and, therefore, the Lady of Heaven. This beetle is sacred the world over and can be associated with the Egyptian scarab and Isis. Even more curious are rhymes ...
578. Darkness Over Sinai (Where was Moses when the light went out?) [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... long dark silent hours. To be successful herders, shepherds have to learn to be observant, and no doubt they would note the changing positions of the constellations with respect to the Moon. Eventually, it would be realized that at sunrise the Sun emerged from a slightly altered position on the horizon each day. We know from Egyptian and Babylonian sources that the rising and setting of both the star Sirius and the planet Venus were noted - although the appearances were very brief and near to the horizon. Exactly when in the ancient past the priestly star-watchers realized that the repeated zodiacal cycles proved that the Earth went round the Sun, or the Sun and the heavens wheeled round the ...
579. The Pageants Of The Sky, Part 2 Mars Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... of this constellation do not resemble the shape of this insect. It is "one of the most remarkable coincidences in nomenclature."2 The constellation, which is not at all like a scorpion, probably was called by this name because a comet that looked like a scorpion appeared in it. Actually, we read on one of the Babylonian astronomical tablets that "a star flared up and its light radi ated bright as day, and as it blazed, it lashed its tail like an angry scorpion."3 If it was not this particular appearance of a comet that caused the constellation to be called Scorpion, there must have been a similar occurrence on another date. ...
580. The Holy Grail: Source of the Ancient Science and Spirituality of the Circling Cosmos by Lee Perry [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , from the Ark of the Covenant to the Temple of Solomon and various prophetic visions can be seen as patterns perceived on the grid. The Church would go to great lengths to conceal from lay devotees the knowledge that its religion stems from such archaic sky worship'. Interesting evidence is presented, including the original pattern as depicted on a Babylonian cuneiform tablet from 1800-1600BC and an early King Arthur story in which the Grail is described as a piece of precious green silk embroidered with a pattern of lines in gold threads. The obvious patterns to be seen are crosses, wheels and eyes and this particular grid pattern can be seen on many ancient structures throughout Europe, the Middle East ...
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