| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: chinese in all categories
594 results found.
60 pages of results. 281. Transcontinental Contact [Journals] [Aeon]
... authority than Miguel Gonzales in 1914. Not that it is now believed that ancient Egyptians had, in any way, colonized the New World, but it is obvious that contact and a certain amount of trade passed between the two cultures. Meanwhile, analysis of characters found in Central American carvings have shown them to be identical to those of Chinese writing employed during the Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. Comparison of South American pottery with that of Asia has also led to the conclusion that Japanese sailors must have made contact with the indigenes of Ecuador some 5,000 years ago. French archaeologists working in Brazil unearthed a skull, claimed to be at least 9 ...
282. Human Sacrifice - Then and Now [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... its imagery from Chavin de Huantar to the Mochican culture and the Incas of Peru, and from the Olmecs at 1250 BC to Monte Alban, the Maya, Toltecs and finally the Aztecs in Mesoamerica, failing to relate this imagery to that of other world cultures. One of the earliest Jaguar figures carved by the Olmecs is extremely like the Chinese lion', even down to its flame' eyebrows, and the jaguar facial characteristics are also seen associated with a great bird of prey and that most characteristic of American gods, the feathered serpent. A Mochican image has a jaguar head with a headdress like a radiating sun, it is often associated with a human figure with only ...
283. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ] During the 19th century notions of European superiority and anti-Semitism, plus the degenerate state of Egypt at that time, led to the idea that the Greeks had given birth to their own culture independently. This culture was placed on a pedestal for all to admire and woe betide anyone who dared to knock it. Bernal is an expert in Chinese studies but had moved on to study near eastern languages. He was surprised to find that about 50% of Greek vocabulary was derived from Levantine or Egyptian words and only the remaining 50% was of Indo-European origin. Even the obvious derivation of the Greek alphabet from Phoenician characters was played down, denied or ignored until recent years. ...
284. The Pentagram of Venus [Journals] [Horus]
... than 360 degrees, the interrelationship between 13 and 28 would apply exactly. There is provision for a 364-day computing year in the Mayan Dresden Codex, which is especially concerned with Venus and the Moon, and Alban Wall has shown evidence that the Stonehenge was used as a Lunar/Solar calendar with a 364 day counter. Considering that the Chinese once divided the circle into 365 1/4 equal parts, and that Vedic astronomy in India measured time rather than angles, the 364 part division of the circle does not seem out of order. Conclusions Is there significance in aft this for our own times? On the one hand, the cross-cultural quantitative evidence suggests great antiquity for ...
285. Earth has Flipped Over in Space Many Times [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... a great splash, seas and lakes sloshed over the land, and as the world spun through cold and lifeless space it froze into solid ice." Ancient Egyptian texts and paintings show constellations reversed in the sky and moving in the opposite direction to what they now follow. The Bible records that the sun stood still for Joshua. Ancient Chinese and Mexican records also tell of a time when the sun remained in the sky for a longer than usual time. These can be explained, Warlow maintains, by the Earth's rolling over, making the sun seem stationary and making, night on the opposite side of the planet seem extremely long. What caused the axis to shift? ...
286. The Role of Collective Amnesia in Retarding the Acceptance of Correct Ideas in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... A case in point is Clavius, author of the Gregorian calendar reform. At first a vehement opponent of Galileo, Christopher Clavius, with other Jesuits of the Roman College, repeated Galileo's observations in 1611, a year after Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius. "John Adam Schall von Bell, later to be the first European director of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy, was present as a young man in the hall of the Roman College in May 1611 when Galileo received a triumphant welcome from Clavius and his mathematicians after their confirmation of his discoveries." (Joseph Needham and Wang Ling, Science and Civilization in China, Vol. III(1959), p. 444. ...
287. A Short Biography of Immanuel Velikvosky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... afternoon while reading the scriptures, he began to speculate on the relationship between the shower of meteorites and the appearance of the sun standing still in the sky, as recorded in the Book of Joshua. He wondered if these phenomena had been the result of an unusual cosmic event, perhaps universal in impact. Velikovsky looked for further evidence in Chinese and Mexican sources and found common testimony to an uncommon event. Because of the constant references to Venus in these documents he developed the idea that this planet was connected to the upheavals. This speculation became the nucleus for Worlds in Collision. The latter was published after much difficulty in 1950, and touched off the storm of protest which ...
288. In Belated Memoriam: Charles Raspil (1947-2002) [Journals] [Aeon]
... agreed with Velikovsky in that planetary orbits had not been consistent during man's historic and prehistoric past, he disagreed with him concerning the timing of these events. Likewise, while he respected the methodology of the later Saturnists, he distanced himself from their theory of planetary linear formation as expressed in their Saturnian configuration model. Instead, in studying early Chinese and Medieval records, as well as an encyclopedic amount of ancient art depicting celestial apparitions, Raspil reached the conclusion that planets continued to change their orbital paths well into late history, but that these anomalies self-corrected without dire consequences on Earth. Visible electrical phenomena in the shape of what he termed "trisms" and "splatters" accompanied ...
289. The Orientation of the Pyramids [Journals] [Pensee]
... Petrie, Egyptian Architecture)." In a lecture delivered in April 1966 at Yale University on the subject, "The Pyramids, Their Purpose and Orientation," I stressed that the entirety of Egyptian astronomy, as G.A . Wainwright brought out, was developed with the celestial position of the terrestrial axis playing the governing role. Chinese astronomy was so oriented, too (J . Needham). See also the Section, "Tao", in W. in C. The persisting order of the world and solar motions were watched with the help of the obelisks, for which we have the testimony of Pliny (W . in C, p. 320) ...
290. Dragon-Slayers (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... ancestress Tiāmat, and Chronos undoes his father Uranus. Translated into the language of this book, this means that later developments of the dying satellite's appearance overcame' the earlier ones. A faint echo of such tales seems to linger in the world-wide traditions of dynasties of kings who are descended from serpents or dragons. In Greek, Indian, Chinese, and Peruvian mythology we find many examples of this aristocratic pedigree-and even Augustus and Alexander were accorded ophitical parentage. Of course, what is meant in most myths of this kind is that their heroes, as, for instance, Cecrops, were born or lived at the time of the serpent; indeed, having escaped from ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.041 seconds |
