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165 pages of results. 651. Athens Quakes [Books] [de Grazia books]
... book on ancient geography argues: "If earthquakes would break the nerve and nullify the life-long training of Spartan troops, there must have been abundant reason." Ambrayses was able to trace 3000 earthquakes of the Eastern Mediterranean since Christ's day, and perceives little change in frequency or intensity. So it appears that there were in the founding of Greek civilization great seismic eras, but that the seismism has petered out over the ages. Rome, to take another example, which presently is as "free" from earthquakes as Athens, had a couple of hundred in one year according to the encyclopaedist Pliny. Plato also tells us that the fresh water springs that once flowed on the ...
652. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... flower, or stand as a great pillar supporting the sky. When referred to natural phenomena on earth the images could not be more preposterous. Yet the divine thunderbolt of world mythology and symbolism finds its parallels in electrical discharge structures seen in plasma laboratory experiments. One outstanding example (featured on the cover of this book) is the way Greek sculptors carved the thunderbolt in the hand of the god Zeus. Called the "lotus form," it looks like an elongated football with spiral threads. Tibetans molded the gods' thunderbolt into the form of a short double trident or scepter, which lamas hold during prayer. These forms resemble the shapes taken by electric discharge in a ...
653. The Cosmic Origins Of Arthur (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with individual tribal experience until the truth at the core can almost be lost and has to be worked hard for by the process of comparative mythology. We shall first consider the core elements which Sweeney expertly shows are due to mankind's experience of cosmic catastrophe, with Arthur exhibiting all the attributes of a sky god, the hero figure represented in Greek myth by Herakles, and just as much a dragon king as that worshipped by the Steppe people. We would not have expected Reid to recognise this side of things but, interestingly, he does pick up on a crucial point. Describing the Steppe people as worshipping a sword stuck vertically into the ground, he realises the similarity of ...
654. Clockwork [Books] [de Grazia books]
... been set by coordination with Egyptian artefacts and occurrences, required resetting by 500 years as well. In Greece, a gap which had been closed only by creating a barbaric "five hundred years of the Dark Ages," was promptly nominated for elimination. A grateful rush of scholars to profit from the new chronology did not occur; the Greek scholars were frozen to their Positions until the Egyptologists (all 30 of them) would admit the loss of the five centuries. Then they would follow suit. Similar scientific lags continued in the other ages affected by V. s reconstruction of Egyptian chronology. When did the mistaken chronology begin? V. traced the major error to Manetho ...
655. Chapter II. The First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy [Books]
... Gallery of the British Museum. It was the finding- of this stone in 1799 by Boussard, a captain of French artillery at Rosetta, which not only showed the baselessness of the systems of suggested interpretations of the hieroglyphics which had been in vogue from the time of Kircher downwards, but by its bilingual record in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek characters, paved the way for men of genius like Thomas Young (1814) and Champollion (1822). The latter must be acknowledged as the real founder of the system of interpretation which has held its own against all opposition, and has opened the way to inquiries into the history of the past undreamt of when the century was ...
656. The City of the Sun. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... and still large parts of the city of AkhetAton remain for future excavators to explore. Since it was inhabited for only about fifteen years, archaeologists have not had the tedious and often difficult task, encountered in other places, of separating various levels of occupation. Heaps of imported ceramics were found in Akhet-Aton; these came from Mycenae on the Greek mainland, or at least they were of the same manufacture as those found in Mycenae. Archaeologists dubbed a street in Akhet-Aton "Greek Street" because of the abundance of this ware.2 On the basis of it, the age of King Akhnaton is established as synchronous with the Mycenaean age in Greece, and the time of the ...
657. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Preface [Books]
... Jewish Legend. More than eighteen centuries ago the Jewish historian Josephus observed that "though we be deprived of our wealth, of our cities, or of the other advantages we have, our law continues immortal." The word he meant to use was not law, but Torah, only he could not find an equivalent for it in Greek. A singer of the Synagogue a thousand years after Josephus, who expressed his sentiments in Hebrew, uttered the same thought: "The Holy City and all her daughter cities are violated, they lie in ruins, despoiled of their ornaments, their splendor darkened from sight. Naught is left to us save one eternal treasure alone- the ...
658. The "Forgotten Empire". Ch. 4. (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]
... out of the complicated relations between the Chaldeo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar and Egypt, relations that endured for decades and to which the Scriptures dedicated many chapters in the Books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Kings, and Chronicles. Pertinent material for writing the history of this great Neo-Babylonian period was drawn almost entirely from these texts of the Scriptures and from the Greek literature. In the preceding chapter it was shown that Ramses II was Pharaoh Necho and that an abundant hieroglyphic material dealing with the war of Egypt against the Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar exists. The cuneiform material pertaining to the same period was unearthed at Boghazkoi in 1906. But by the same black magic that has distorted the past of mankind ...
659. The Danunians and the Velikovsky Revision [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Aegean seaboard colonized Pamphylia and Cilicia at about the time of the Trojan War. The legends mention one such adventurer, Mopsus. Now it happens that we have a synchronism here, because Asitawandas- who wrote the Karatepe inscription- claims he is of the house of Mopsus. In the first place, it must be mentioned that Mopsus in Greek legend is a Lydian. This has some significance, because one of the languages of the Karatepe inscription is Late Hittite hieroglyphic, which is considered Late Luwian, and the language of the Lydians is considered to be Late Luwian. ' Mopsus with a group of warriors at about the time of the Trojan War fought his way to Pamphylia ...
660. A Boy From Texas. File III (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... the Pharaoh Hophra. He wrote me that he would read Manetho as quoted by Josephus (" from a 1832 edition of my brother Robert who has an over-supply of books") and "try to get all the information I can out of the Cambridge Ancient History about the Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Persians. .. . I don't know when the second volume of Ages in Chaos' will be published so I would like very much if you would help me by giving me some hint as to how I can finish this reconstruction. The end of the first volume left me dangling and I wanted to find out the ...
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