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... projected against the celestial screen, that, a few hours after they were seen in India, appeared over Nineveh, Jerusalem, and Athens, shortly thereafter over Rome and Scandinavia, and a few hours later over the lands of the Mayas and Incas. "The spectators saw in the celestial prodigies either demons, as the Erinyes of the Greeks or the Furies of the Latins, or gods whom they invoked in prayers, as in the Vedas of the Hindus, or the executors of the Lord's wrath, as in Joel and Isaiah." Therefore, using Sagan's brand of semantic logic, it would seem that if stories are similar, but the objects described are not cognate ...
622. Ancient Mysteries (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... book's eight major sections are related to each other in one fashion or another. As it is, this reviewer is personally acquainted with some of the contemporary protagonists and subjects mentioned in the various controversies surrounding these mysteries. So let's chat about and outline a few of them just for the exercise. On Atlantis: The authors refer to the Greek geologist Angelos Galanopoulos' epiphany of 1969, namely, that Plato's mythical land was actually the Mediterranean volcanic island caldera of Thera, which explosively erupted sometime around the mid-16th century BC, and that the date given to Plato by his uncle Critias, via the latter's grandfather Solon, was off by a factor of ten- nine hundred years ...
623. The Geological History of the Earth [Books]
... the Earth, nor even to investigate at any length the science of geology. Only the basic principles indispensable to a clear understanding of the ideas propounded in the work will be given. As many technical words will recur throughout the book, it is necessary to define most of them as precisely as possible. 1. Geology (from the Greek words ge = earth, and logos = discourse) is the science that studies the origin of the materials composing our planet, their nature, distribution, and different arrangements (or structures). The study of the chemical and physical properties of the Earth's materials (rocks) is called structural geology: it comprises geochemistry, petrology, ...
624. Shoshenq and Shishak: A Case of Mistaken Identity [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is of questionable value as an explanation of the difference. We are not seeking to explain how Hebrew "a " came to be represented by "enq" or "inq", but vice versa. Kitchen's comment does not explain adequately why the second syllable of the name was pronounced this way in Hebrew (as attested also by the Greek rendering IsakoV and SousakoV in Josephus and the Septuagint) rather than with a short "e " (as in Manetho's SeswgkiV/Seswgcwsis[Sesoukis/Sesoukhosis] , where the first two vowels have been transposed - i.e . read SwsegkiV etc.) Finally, there is the omission of the "n " from the Hebrew ...
625. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... continued to a hundred. ' Although modern scholars have questioned this, it remains to be disproved." A more perfect match could hardly be asked for. And in light of it, it behooves Rees to explain why the Midrashim support an 18th Dynasty Exodus rather than a 6th Dynasty one. Also, his ideas of equating characters in Greek mythology is confusing. Is Rees trying to mythologize Israelite history or de-mythologize Greek mythology? Is he suggesting that the Patriarchs were Greek? Or Indian? Does his equation of Abraham and Sarah with Brahma and Sri imply that the biblical Patriarchs are merely echoes of Indian deities or that the Indian deities are actually based on real (Semitic) ...
626. More on Apollo [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ", so he is clearly a god of light. Like most sun gods he is enslaved to a mortal; like many sun gods he is a shepherd. His confusion with the sun is caused first of all by the racial amnesia about Venus, which clouded his true position as the morning star, secondly by the civilizing tendency of Greek thought which diminished his true ferocity in much the same way as it turned the rampaging braggart Indra/Thor figure into the wise father of the gods, and reduced the savage demon Dionysos to the jovial god of wine, and thirdly by the classical mania for solarizing all deities, which culminated in the Julian monotheism of the "Unconquered ...
627. ABC's of Astrophysics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Motz says the same problem besets those who think of quasars as a high-intensity explosion, an eruption from larger bodies. Where can the energy come from, he says, and how could it gather together? With Director of Antiquities Spiridon Marinatos in 1968, Deg met astronomer Constantinos Chassapis who had studied the Orphic Hymns and derived certain conclusions about Greek astronomy in the second millennium B.C . The Hymns, he asserted, had originated between -1841 and -1382, but probably in the 17th century. They showed the Greeks to understand heliocentricity and the sphericity and rotation of the Earth, and spoke of the attraction of the Sun as the source of orbital movement, and named the ...
628. The Creation of Man (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... Pallas Athene. The virgin birth' myth of Jesus, on the other hand, is as original as it is beautiful. The myth of the birth of a child -always of female sex- out of a man is found in different parts of the world. All parts of the body, except the abdomen, are mentioned. The Greeks say that Pallas came out of the head of her father; the Aryan Indians, that Kali leapt out of the eye of Durga; the Cato Indians of California, that the first woman came out of a split thigh; the Binna, in the Central parts of the Malay Peninsula, that they are descended from a boy and ...
629. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... find close at hand the ancient mother goddess- the feminine power whom the Sumerians called Inanna, the Queen of Heaven, and the Babylonians called Ishtar. For the Egyptians the prominent goddess figures include Isis, Hathor, and Sekhmet, each with numerous counterparts in their own and in other lands. Familiar names of the great goddess would include the Greek Aphrodite, Athena, and Artemis, or the Latin Venus, Minerva, and Diana, but many hundreds of counterparts could be named, all expressing a similar complex of ideas. While the goddess will at times appear as the mother of the universal sovereign, the more common role is as the god's daughter or spouse. When the ...
630. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... an entire book which I published in 1966 under the title Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings. "In some way or other, which is still not, and may never be entirely clear, this extraordinary deglaciated map of Antarctica has come down to us. Apparently originated by some ancient people, preserved perhaps by Minoans, Phoenicians, and Greeks, it was discovered and published in 1531 by the French geographer Oronce Fine, and is part of his Map of the World... Impossible! ' That would be the opinion of practical people of intelligence and learning. Utterly impossible! ' But sometimes truth is really strange. It has been possible to establish the authenticity of ...
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