Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

161. The Hyksos (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]

... published on this theme: "Remise en position chronologique et conditions historiques de la XII' Dynastie," Journal asiatique CCXXXIV (1943-45), 131-49; and "Le Synchronisme égypto-babylonien", Chronique d'Egypte, XXI (1946), 3441 6. Josephus, Against Apion, 1, 82. 7. Ibid. At present the preferred etymology sees in the name Hyk-sos the Egyptian equivalent for "the rulers of foreign countries". 8. Against Apion, I, 76. The Israelites Meet the Hyksos Even before the Israelites reached Mount Sinai they met the multitudes of Amalek. At Meriba, which is at the foot of Horeb, where the people thirsted for water, ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Apr 2001 - URL: /online/no-text/velikovsky/ages/chap-2.htm

162. "The Basest Of The Kingdoms". Part 2 Ch.2 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]

... a Persian title, the first part of it meaning "king".[6 ] Upon being asked whether the word could mean "king-priest," "hereditary ruler," "vice-king," or the like, Professor George G. Cameron of the University of Michigan answered that the word "could have a respectable [Persian] etymology".[7 ] Osorkon II, who placed foundation deposits under two comers of the temple enclave, also built himself a tomb inside the enclosure. Very little was found of funerary equipment-the tomb had already been violated by tomb robbers and left rather empty in antiquity. The labourers who worked for Montet in clearing this tomb passed " ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 04 Jul 2007 - URL: /online/no-text/velikovsky/peoples/202-basest.htm

163. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - I [Journals] [Kronos]

... " SDFML, p. 844; and Albert J. Carnoy, "Legends of Yima," chapter 4 in vol. 6, MAR. 5. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, George A. Buttrick, editor (New York, 1962), volume 2, pp. 22-23. 6. Ernest Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (New York, 1971), p.533. (Although Klein acknowledges that the word "paradise" comes to us - by way of French, Latin, and Greek - from Old Persian, he makes no attempt to reconstruct the unattested original, citing only the attested cognate pairidaeza- from Avestic ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol1001/041aster.htm

164. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - II [Journals] [Kronos]

... Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, Maria Leach, editor, 2 volumes, Funk and WagnaUs, New York, 1949) TOW (The Other World, Cambridge,1950) 42. The Avestic nominal Berezaiti has a feminine ending, vis-a-vis the masculine form berezant-, "high, mountainous" (Julius Pokorny, Ein Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, Munich, 1959, vol. 1, p. 140). According to the indigenous Maori of New Zealand, the Fertilizer God Tane created humanity on Mother Earth's mons veneris (David A. Leeming, Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, 2nd ed., New York, 1981, p. 342). ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol1002/071aster.htm

165. A Fire not Blown [Books]

... the same much later as pioneer sculptor of realistic marble statues in Greece. Katreus was the important successor to the king-god Minos of Crete, and his name is made up of the two components, the aura of divinity and watching for something, here the essential electromagnetism. Nomen est omen is to be borne in mind at all times in etymology. A linguistic root may never just that, but is always something behavioral, real, connected with the direst and most blessed activities of homo schizo. Q-CD vol. 13, A Fire Not Blown, Introduction 6 Once more, astronomy, electricity, gods, and bulls find a score of linguistic links, and several identities and ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 19 Jun 2005 - URL: /online/pubs/books/crosthwaite/fnb_1.htm

166. Tree Symbols [Books]

... (Udyoga Parva, pp.309 et seq, Adi Parva p.163 and Vana Parva, section CI, Roy's translation). 27. Hymn of the Atharvaveda (Sacred Book of the East) Vol.XLII, p.43. 28. Carmina Gadelica, Vol.II, pp.247 et seq. 29. Etymological Gaelic Dictionary, Stirling, 1911. 30. Suet in L'Anthropologie, Tome XXX, pp.235, et seq. 31.The Confessions of St. Augustine (English translation, London, 1895, p.45). 32. Laufer, Sino-Iranica. Chicago, 1919, pp.346 and 558. 33. The ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 29 Mar 2004 - URL: /online/pubs/books/migration/4.htm

167. The Crescent II [Books]

... the bark of Anubis." (18) Many years ago G.S . Faber, examining ancient symbolism of the ship, wrote: "A heifer seems to have been adopted as perhaps the most usual emblem of the Ark .. . That the heifer was an emblem of the Ark appears from a very curious passage in The Etymological Magnum, the author of which informs us, that Theba, in the Syrian dialect, signified a heifer' .. . The import, however, of Theba, in the Hebrew language, is an ark'; and the only reason why a heifer was designated by the same appellation, was the circumstance of its being used ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 09 Aug 2007 - URL: /online/pubs/books/saturn/ch-09b.htm

168. Kadmos: The Primeval King [Journals] [Kronos]

... sources, Ogygos, like Kadmos, appears as the first king of Thebes.(56) At this point the meaning of Kadmos' name becomes of interest. Many scholars, following Bochart's 17th century suggestion, derive "Kadmos" from the Semitic root "kdm" which, inter alia means "east".(57) This etymology is often cited as favoring Kadmos' Phoenician origin. But "kdm" has other meanings. For one thing, "kdm" was an early Akkadian term for "god".(58) For another, the word also signifies "former" or "primordial" as applied to time.(59) This last, ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 Mar 2003 - URL: /online/pubs/journals/kronos/vol1103/003king.htm

169. Tree Symbols [Books]

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 29 Mar 2004 - URL: /online/pubs/books/symbols/4.htm

170. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]

... Were we to follow the windings of Ulysseus we would also find him on the island of Kirke or Circe, daughter again of the sun, and all these islands were the polar opening at different times which we have often referred to as the manifested Delos, the polar sun-god's birthplace. Now another name for Delos was Ortygia, and the etymologist brings this word from the sanscrit vart "to turn". Compare Latin verto to turn". The unmistakable meaning is that all these mythic islands were turning scenes in the polar dance of deities. So that Ogygia was a helix island, the home of Helicon the helix mountain. That these islands were all located near the pole ...

Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 19 Jun 2005 - URL: /online/pubs/books/vail/mythic.htm