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59 pages of results. 211. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... authors arrived at their conclusions independently of Velikovsky and would no doubt be horrified at the prospect of seeing their researches mentioned in the same breath as those of the author of Worlds in Collision. Regarding the planet Saturn, for example, de Santillana and von Dechend found that it figured prominently in myths of World-ending cataclysm, Phaethon's fall and the Deluge being among them. This finding recalls Velikovsky's understanding of Saturn's recent history- deduced from ancient myth- whereby it experienced a nova-like flare-up and inundated the surrounding cosmos with fire and flood. (14) Unlike Velikovsky, however, de Santillana and von Dechend were hamstrung by a conservative approach to astrophysics and this, in my opinion, ...
212. The Succession of Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of the atmosphere; or the atmosphere is a medium through which they may move more easily than by treading the earth. Indeed, was not the vault of heaven itself low? And was not the Earth the goddess, sufficient itself to the first age of religious awareness? The Clouds of Heaven were many and low, until descended in deluges. The Vault of Heaven was lifted and humans saw the heavenly bodies removing themselves to remoteness and, too, the gods and hosts of heaven behaving destructively and benevolently with their own wills and human features. We can agree with Mircea Eliade (The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion) Where, discussing Wilhelm Schmidt (Ursprung der ...
213. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... from Gardner.(160) Rose criticized Gardner for characterizing Velikovsky as a fundamentalist and for misstating the events in Worlds in Collision, using "the flood of Noah" as an example. Gardner replied that he has "never called Velikovsky a fundamentalist" because "the term labels a Protestant movement". After admitting his error on the Deluge, Gardner adds with sarcasm, "I hope Rose will forgive this terrible blunder". He then correctly states the scenario closing with the observation that after the Deluge, "For several centuries both Earth and Moon were completely covered with water". Gardner is amused that, after being blasted for wrongly calling Velikovsky a fundamentalist. " ...
214. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... The Earth lost charge, and close-in sky vapors began to condense and fall. Also, holes were chopped in the adamantine heaven - by the creator God, Panku, says the Chinese legend. These would be extensive meteor bombardments, many of them of ice. Great lightning discharges struck between canopies, clouds and land surfaces, with sporadic deluges. The sky waters descended, gathered into clouds, and cooled the near-in atmosphere. The land waters overflowed. Heavy winds blew for the first time. THE ICE DUMPS Where were the immense ice caps of the ice ages during this time? It will be recalled that geology is fixated on the gradual advance and decline of ice caps ...
215. The Wayward Sun [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... and Mount Jefferson.20 They believed that Mount Rainier21 was the refuge of those who were saved after the wicked of the earth were destroyed in a great flood. The Shasta of northern California tell of a time when the sun fell from its normal course.22 In a separate myth they tell how Mount Shasta saved their ancestors from the Deluge.23 On the opposite side of North America lies another great mountain chain, the Appalachians. Here also, tales were told of terrifying solar changes, massive floods, and the survivors of these catastrophes. The lush green forests of the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains were once the home of the Cherokee. In the early part ...
216. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... System within historical times, have made attempts to link the myths surrounding Saturn and Jupiter with the observations of modern astronomy. Velikovsky used the ancient texts referring to the brilliance of Saturn to argue that the planet had exploded like a nova at some point in the prehistoric past. Furthermore, Saturn deities are often curiously connected with legends of the Deluge. (For example in Babylonia it was Ea/Enki who warned the Babylonian equivalent of Noah that the Flood was coming.) So Velikovsky speculated that a nova-like explosion of the planet had been responsible for the Deluge, as two watery comets ejected from the exploding planet splashed over the Earth. Velikovsky had an uncanny knack for predicting ...
217. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Ballgame of the Sky Gods in Mesoamerican Mythology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... century were equally convinced that the various flood accounts among the South and North American natives were evidence of an ancient cataclysm [12]. With the emergence of evolutionary gradualism during the 19th century, an increasing number of authors started to become more sceptical about the universality of the biblical flood. Many of the Mesoamerican traditions seemed to resemble the Deluge accounts and the question was therefore raised whether these stories might originally have been introduced by Christian missionaries. The early anthropologist George Catlin, on the other hand, found that, amongst more than 100 Indian tribes which he had visited in North and South America, not one existed which was unfamiliar with the tradition of past flood disasters. ...
... the mastaba type of tomb, carefully concealed under rocky heights. Pyramids are the most prominent and unmistakable of edifices. The other aspect is that they were built as refuges for the living. Masudi, a noted Arab historian, said that the Gizeh pyramids were built by a king named Surid in consequence of a dream which predicted the coming deluge, and who, having assured himself that the world - would afterwards be re-peopled, caused the pyramids to be erected and the prophecy inscribed on their surface. A Coptic legend states that Surid ordered the inscription to be engraved in words, together with other matters. They certainly bore inscriptions, as testified by many travellers, including Herodotus ...
219. Catastrophism and Anthropology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... spirit responsible for earthquakes, they shot volleys of arrows in the direction of the volcano to terrify him and make him desist' [18]. Flood rituals One of the oldest ceremonies in the history of mankind, which has taken place in almost unchanged form for over 2000 years, is the annual commemoration by the Jews of the biblical Deluge. Once a year, the story of the great flood is retold in the reading of the weekly portion of the Torah Ele Toldoth Noach (i .e . Genesis 6:9 to 11:32). Whilst the Jews have remembered the Flood of Noah through writing and learning of history, other cultures have commemorated ancient floods ...
220. Another Look at Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... history of the Ancient Near East as developed in a recent book (see Book Review section) by W. H. Stiebing, Jr. An Associate Professor of history at the University of New Orleans, Stiebing critically reviews several popular theories and ideas that have gained wide currency. The popular concepts treated by Stiebing are the universality of the Deluge, Atlantis, cosmic catastrophism, ancient astronauts, the mysteries of the pyramids, and early voyages to the Americas. Our comments on Velikovsky's ancient historical revisions will be augmented by Stiebing's recent Biblical Archaeology Review (Vol. II, 1985, 58ff.) article which considers this matter as well as other "restorations" of ancient history ...
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