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75 pages of results. 461. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... fingers indicate that the idea of sacrifice was not unknown to them. The early agriculturists, who discovered the cardinal points and connected them with the seasons, had, however, a wider range of vision than the early hunters. Their mode of life, as has been emphasized, made it necessary that they should measure time. When their Calendar was introduced, it was first connected with the moon and stars, and it was subsequently connected with the sun. The heavenly bodies not only measured time for the agriculturists, but appeared also to exercise a very intimate influence on plant life and on the supply of water as nourishment for crops. The belief consequently arose that life was ...
462. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... giants... ' when in fact the word nefilim did not mean giants but descended from heaven'. He was told not to question the Bible and decided to do just that. He claims Sumerian culture is 6,000 years old and has compiled a list of over 100 firsts' for it, including the wheel, the calendar, the measurement of time, the division of the circle, the hours, art, singing, music, dance, sculpture, brick, the kiln, courts of law, etc. Sumerian geometric shapes anticipated Greek mathematicians by thousands of years. Of course, if we follow Heinsohn, there is nothing extraordinary in this: the ...
463. Aeon Volume V, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... composer and author, having written two symphonic suites and several ensemble and piano works as well as two published books on speculative science: Limits of Uncertainty (1975) and Raptures of the Deep (1995). Sean Mewhinney is a free-lance writer who has focused his scholarship onthe Velikovsky controversy, and whose interests have ranged from ancient astronomy, calendars, and chronology, to paleoclimatology, and the dynamics of individual and collective belief systems. His previous publications have appeared in KRONOS and Catastrophism and Ancient History. Ev Cochrane, the author of Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion, has also published numerous articles on comparative mythology and archaeoastronomy. He previously served as ...
464. Update on Nabta Stone Circle [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... : The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric, Megalithic, Astrophysical Map and Sculpture of the Universe (see also p.11). As the title implies, Dr. Brophy hypothesizes after extensive measuring and calculations of star alignments that existed 6,500 to 8,500 years ago, that the surface Nabta stones are a detailed calendar and astrophysical map that tracked the constellation Orion and its belt stars with astonishing accuracy. Further, Dr. Brophy thinks the Nabta megaliths could mark the apparent motion of our Milky Way's galactic center every 25,900 years. Even more astounding, Dr. Brophy hypothesizes that the carved bedrock buried beneath the Nabta sand is an image of ...
... at Denderah, Medînet-Habû, and Karnak, we have a strict reference to the year, and in Egypt the year was always, as it is now, associated with the rise of the river. The sacred river must now occupy our attention for awhile; we must become familiar with its phenomena, and the divisions of time and the calendar systems which were associated with them. ...
466. PREFACE [Books]
... and crystallised early ideas suggested by actual observations of the sun, moon, and stars. Next. there were apparently two mythologies, representing two schools of astronomical thought. Finally, to endeavour to obtain a complete picture, it became necessary to bring together the information to be obtained from all these and other sources, including the old Egyptian calendars, and to compare the early Babylonian results with those which are to be gathered from the Egyptian myths and temple-orientations. It will, I think, be clear to anyone who reads this volume that its limits and the present state of our knowledge have only allowed me really to make a few suggestions. I have not even attempted to ...
467. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... equal gravities mean that Venus would have had to be closer than 1000 km from the surface of the Earth. That close a pass would have sterilized the surface of the Earth – Velikovsky underestimates the effect by a factor of millions'. Such a pass would have drastically changed the Moon's orbit, making it tremendously elliptical'. The Hebrew calendar, still going strong after 5,800 years' [sic] [18], is based on cycles of the Moon – as it remains unchanged by any hypothetical passage of Venus, it directly and completely refutes his hypothesis'. Venus's orbit shows no eccentricity – today we see absolutely no evidence whatsoever that such a[( ...
468. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of which Aaronson is one) can only view Bur-Sagale's eclipse (shamash atalu) with extreme suspicion. The whole thing is just too neat, and too comfortably uniformitarian. It must be remembered that the astronomical foundations of Assyrian chronology were being established at the same time as the astronomical foundations of Egyptian chronology - erected upon the now discredited Sothic calendar. Bearing this in mind, we can only look favourably upon Aaronson's assertion that it is the Eponym Canon, and not the Scriptures, that is corrupt. The history of Mesopotamia is indeed utterly chaotic. Much evidence exists, for example, to suggest that all of the Middle Assyrian kings (whose reigns form the earlier part of ...
469. Temples And Obelisks, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... tied up or encircled. T here are inti-huatanas on the height of Ollantay-tampu, at Pissac, at Hatun-colla, and in other places."11 The Egyptian obelisk could serve as a gnomon, or shadow clock. The length of the shadow and its direction would indicate the hour of the day. Obelisks placed in pairs served as a calendar. On the vernal and autumnal equinoxes their shadows would be con tinuous for the length of the day, the sun rising exactly in the east and setting exactly in the west. That the purpose for which the obelisks were erected was to check on the shadow of the sun (and the position of the earth) can be plainly ...
470. March 23rd, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... two bodies.. Notes 1 The Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Pesahim; Seder Olam 23; Tosefta Targum II Kings 19:35-37; Midrash Rabba, III, 221 (English ed. by H. Freedman and M. Simon). 2 In the last two thousand years or so, the Feast of Passover, bound to the lunar calendar, has been observed between the middle of March and the latter part of April. 3. Paris, 1846. 4 Abel Rémusat, Catalogue des bolides et des aérolithes observés à la Chine, et dans les pays voisins (1819): "On a beaucoup discuté sur ce texte de Confucius" (p .7 ). ...
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