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165 pages of results. 601. 'Worlds in Collision' and the Prince of Denmark [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and Velikovsky: Collective Memory and the Springs of Art, shortly to be published in Canada and under consideration by Sidgwick and Jackson in the U.K . A section of the book including part of the material above, has already appeared in Kronos Vol. I, Nos. 3 and 4, and a further section (Hamlet and Greek Myth) will be included in a future issue.] I use the term narrative art to designate prose narratives of all lengths, provenance and levels of historicity, epic and shorter narrative poems and drama. Beyond this, the term must also be understood to implicitly include to varying extents all other conventional forms of narrative, from myth ...
602. The Riddle of the Earth [Books]
... same principle enunciated among the past and present races of the world. In his " Atlantis " Plato tells how Poseidon the earthquake or meteor god, associated with the sea, created Atlantis and gave it to Atlas, and this Mount Atlas, a volcano, was the father of the race of Atlanteans from whom, amongst others, the Greeks were descended. There was Mt. Prometheus, so sacred to the former race of men, also a volcano (94, 95), and hardened lumps of clay, preserved in an Arcadian temple, were shown to Pausanias, the historian, as remnants employed by " Father Prometheus " in moulding man. We find Hesiod describing ...
603. The Transfiguration of Trauma [Books] [de Grazia books]
... The myth has been worked upon consciously. It is not Kafka-esque or Ionescuesque; it does not double back upon itself like the theater of the absurd. Homer had gone far, but not that far. His myth is classical, "rational," "normal." His handling of the material gives a clue as to how the Greek and Western mind will work from then on in transmuting its unconscious material into its fictional components: "realism," romanticism (in the vulgar sense), explicit motivation, clarity of plot. At least, this has been the leading thrust of western literature, especially of popular literature, until now. Freud mentions also the reversal ...
604. On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors [Journals] [Kronos]
... 2 ) were viewed as harbingers of misfortune and wars, of plague and famine. Varied indeed are the names by which they were known to the peoples of antiquity: they range from "circling star" or "great star" to the "ray" and "torch" to the Biblical "Angel of the Lord". The Greeks first gave them the name "comet" (the "hairy one") by which they are still referred to today. Not always was a comet a harbinger of misfortune: for the victor of a battle it must have become a symbol of luck if it was visible in the sky during that time. Mithridates VI, the ...
605. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... that this might be a late interpretation and that originally Zeus, Hades and Poseidon represented planets; but to this I would make the following points. Firstly, the ILIAD was used extensively as a source of data by Velikovsky himself. Secondly, it is a much earlier source than most we possess and it clearly reflects the views of the Greeks around the beginning of the first millennium B.C ., a time not too distant from the catastrophic events proposed by Velikovsky. And if one refutes this evidence simply because it does not seem to support the Velikovskian scenario, then one is treading on very dangerous ground indeed. In fact the whole vexed question of selectivity in any ...
606. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... away, on the island of Nias (off the coast of Sumatra), the story was told of the ancient chief whose life-breath was lodged in a single copper-like "hair." When it was removed from him the myths say (tautologically) the king died. (83) This, of course, reminds one of the well-known Greek tale of Pterelaos, the god-king whose lifebreath was invested in a vital lock of hair, eventually removed by his daughter. Need we be surprised, then, to discover that Comaetho, the daughter removing the hair, was none other than the most famous of copper goddesses, Aphrodite- or that, in applying the consistent language of ...
607. Myth and the Origin of Religion [Journals] [Pensee]
... of the world and of its origin" (2 ). The problem with this theory was that it did not get down to specifics regarding particular myths and how they arose. Were all ancient sources to be equally suspect? Or only those with anthropological overtones that could be revisited in surviving aboriginal groups? Were the sacred tales of the Greeks more respectable than those of the Polynesians? Was the Old Testament a series of myths, or history? In recent years this interpretation of myth has become dominant, and it would appear that almost every ancient source available has fallen under the general category of myth or the mythological. Granted that theologians dance fancy steps to maintain the sacredness ...
608. Dating the Wars of Seti I [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the two Setis is assumed throughout Parts I and II of this paper. Velikovsky's scheme involves the identification of the XIXth Dynasty with that normally known as the XXVIth or Saïte Dynasty. The identifications which he proposes for individual rulers are shown in Table I. It will be seen that Seti I is identified with Psammetichus I (of the Greek sources), who reigned 664-610 BC (11). How far do the wars of Seti I, as related in his own inscriptions, resemble those of Psammetichus recorded in Greek sources? Certainly both men campaigned in Palestine's southern coastal plain, but there the similarity ends. Seti's war reliefs at Karnak, and stelae of his found ...
609. Folklore, Part 2 Mars Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... 19:2-3 The scholars who dedicate their efforts to gathering and investigating the folklore of peoples are constantly aware that folk tales require interpretation, for, in their opinion, these tales are not innocent and unambiguous products of the imagination, bu t veil some inner and more significant meaning. The legends of classic peoples, first -among them the Greeks, also belong to folklore. As early as pre-Christian times these legends were subjected to interpretation, many interpreters recognizing the symbolic character of mythology. With Macrobius in the fourth Christian century, there begins a tendency to see in many gods of Egyptian and Greek antiquity the personification of the sun. Macrobius compared Osiris to the sun, and ...
610. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the area just outside the pylon (EES Report for the Year 1992/3 , p. 5) and have uncovered further inscriptions of Ramesses III, in addition to those already known of Ramesses II and III. It may be of interest that the name Rhampsinitis (spelt rho, alpha, mu, psi, etc) is a Greek version of Egyptian Ramesses plus S3 Nt (= son of Neith) which was a Late Period royal title (ref. A. Lloyd, Herodotus Book II Commentary 99-182, Leiden, 1988 p. 52). Lasken's question concerning Tony Rees' breaking of the link between Assuruballit and the Amarna Period is justified. I do not ...
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