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165 pages of results. 471. The Apocalyptic Atlantis (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... although these passages have been made to serve religious purposes even a superficial analysis shows that they really contain no `religion' at all. On the contrary, they consist almost exclusively of mythological material, and their reference to the great cataclysm which caused the end of Atlantis is quite unmistakable. The biblical Atlantis myth is fully supported by the Greek report; its existence helps Plato's Atlantis myth to stand even more firmly. We do not know the source from which the biblical Atlantis material was derived, but it can be asserted with confidence that it was not from Plato's myth. It seems to draw on entirely independent traditions, for the apparent parallelisms with the Greek myth-as, for ...
472. Merlin and the Round Temple [Journals] [SIS Review]
... venues throughout the country, most recently at the April 1999 Fortean Times Unconvention in London. Stonehenge (after Rodney Castleden, The Stonehenge People, London 1987) Summary The island of Britain lies at the centre of two of the most enduring mysteries of antiquity: she is the location of ancient Europe's greatest monument, a monument known to the Greek writer Hecataeus as early as 500BC, and she is the home of old Europe's greatest hero, a hero whose fame spread over the continent during the Middle Ages. The monument of course is Stonehenge: the hero is Arthur. In the myth it was Merlin, the magician and helper of King Arthur, who raised Stonehenge. However ...
473. Paradise -- The Lost Frontier: Early Voyages to the Forbidden Isles [Journals] [Aeon]
... original Paradise was, people from most religious traditions regarded it as an earthly region of eternal bliss. Its legendary location was not a secret: Paradise was believed to be situated across the Great Sea. Asians looked eastward to the rising sun and believed that the "Isle of Immortals" was in that direction. Romans, Egyptians, and Greeks looked westward to the setting sun and believed that the "Fortunate Isles" would be found somewhere across the Atlantic Ocean. It was not, therefore, the location of Paradise that was in doubt; the principal concern had to do with worthiness. According to most religious beliefs, this sanctuary from the tribulations of mortal life was reserved ...
474. Hazor and the anachronisms in the chronology of the Ancient Near East [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Because of all this evidence I utterly disagree with the conventional conviction that we have no historical evidence to associate the fourteenth-century Amarna letters and the apiru mentioned in them with the origins of Israel' [36]. This fourteenth-century' date is derived from pseudo-astronomical chronology schemes of modern Egyptology. Conventional dates Author's tentative dates (derived from stratigraphy and Greek chronology) from -300 Hellenistic (stratum I) from -300 from -1200 Iron Age (strata XII to II) Two Tablets inscribed in Old-Babylonian cuneiform dated to the period of Martu=Amurru=Amorites around -1750 (note 1). (However no text belonging to the stratum, i.e . the period between -1200 and -300 ...
... paramount among the Pelasgi, first settlers in the later Hellas, as also among the Phoenicians, and the Thracians. But little of this worship is discoverable in the countries of the Mediterranean except in the remains of ancient Carthage. There is no surprise that Hermes was the principal deity in Britain, for his genealogical tree, as contained in Greek myth, shows immediately his relationship to the Ocean, the West, and to Atlantis. Mythologists made him the son of Zeus by Maia, a daughter of Zeus and Pleione, the latter a (laughter of Oceanus. Maia was one of the Pleiades or Atlantides, a daughter of Atlas, one of those islands apparently engulfed when ...
476. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... area called the Upper Lands' - the original home-lands of the Old Kingdom Hittites. The Upper Lands lie between the headwaters of the two major rivers of the Halys and Euphrates and may in fact have been what was meant by the term Aram-Naharaim' ( 'Upper Lands of the two rivers'), which was usually rendered by the Greek writers of the Septuagint as Mesopotamia' (Stephen the Martyr, Acts 7:2 ). The name Camli-Bel is similar to that of Camil-Blur (Camil-Bel-Ur?) Margaret Grant refers to as Musasar. It should also be noted that Noah, whose ark came to rest between the Greater Zab and the lesser Zab, was presumably the ...
... , undertook to organize and record the Zendic tradition, which extended back from historic times into the purely mythical. The first section on the Pishdadian and Kaianian dynasties must be considered mythical throughout, although it does reach into historic times and encompasses four of the nine volumes of the Book of Kings in the English translation. Khusrau (Chosroes in Greek) is also the name of a line of historical rulers, one of whom, Khusrau Anushirvan, gave sanctuary to the last philosophers of Greece, the members of the Platonic Academy driven out by Justinian in A.D . 529. But Firdausi's Kai Khusrau is the towering figure of his own mythical age. Almost one-fifth of the ...
478. Baal-Manzer the Tyrian: A Reappraisal [Journals] [Aeon]
... clearly his own conjecture. What are the implications of all this for the revised chronology? Donovan Courville and the late Bronson Feldman have both suggested that the Abimilki king of Tyre in the Amarna letters was Pygmalion. (16) They cite the phonetic similarity, and Feldman adds a suggestion that the name was an intentional sarcasm derived from the Greek pygmaion, from which the word "pygmy" is derived. Peter James, responding to Feldman's article, (17) rejected the equation primarily on the basis of the "Baal-Manzer" of Shalmaneser's annals, whom he equates with Baalazor. As we have seen, this objection is groundless. If Pygmalion was Abimilki, a loyal servant ...
479. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with a comet. I found an interesting parallel between the castle being built during the day and disappearing at night, and the story of Penelope unpicking each night the embroidery she had done during the day while awaiting the return of Odysseus. This diurnal change must surely be associated with a fixed image and not a moving comet. Jill Abery Greek Gifts Despite one of the their chapters being entitled Beware the Greeks Bearing Gifts', the authors of Centuries of Darkness failed to heed their own warning. The Greek gift' to which I refer is a chronology going back to the 8th century BC. In Centuries pp. 99-103, the authors point out the dangers of accepting Thucydides ...
... away to make the fortresses in the country more secure than formerly. But Demetrius passed over [Euphrates], and came into Mesopotamia, as desirous to retain that country still, as well as Babylon; and when he should have obtained the dominion of the upper provinces, to lay a foundation for recovering his entire kingdom; for those Greeks and Macedonians who dwelt there frequently sent ambassadors to him, and promised, that if he would come to them, they would deliver themselves up to him, and assist him in fighting against Arsaces, (12) the king of the Parthians. So he was elevated with these hopes, and came hastily to them, as having ...
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