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165 pages of results. 671. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... in civil government which reflects the harmony and order of nature.(33) Such is not the whole picture, however. Shakespeare would undoubtedly have read of Theseus in Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated by Sir Thomas North. There, he would have found Theseus linked with a Roman figure, as were all the Greeks in the book. In this case, Plutarch compares Theseus with Romulus, best known as the founder of Rome and representative of political and marital stability. But Romulus has another significance, a more deeply repressed one, quite opposite to the first. He is identified by Velikovsky with the catastrophic near-collisions of Earth, Mars, and Venus ...
672. Aristotle And Amnesia. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... character involved. Aristotle is quite explicit that the downfall is "unmerited" (1453a4-5) and that the victim is "like ourselves" (1453a5-6) one "who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty" (1453a8-10). The single Greek word that Butcher translates as "error frailty" is hamartia. Aristotle does speak at some length about goodness and badness in victims of tragedy, but it must be stressed that he does not present the moral condition of the victims as a reason for their downfalls: all he says is that if the victims are either too bad or ...
673. Catastrophes in the period 5th cent. BC to 14th cent. AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... intellectual comfort for the bereaved and also flourished in the wake of great epidemics but fell out of fashion during better periods. 208 and 44BC dust veil events The 5th century BC is associated with enriched carbon levels suggesting optimum climate and growth [17]. Is it a coincidence that Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Tao, Confucius and the Greek philosophers (including Pythagoras) flourished then? Between 480 and 404 BC, Athens was able to send out marauding fleets and armies and colonised the heel of Italy and elsewhere. Later, similar expansion of Macedonian and Italian peasant populations fuelled the war machines of Alexander and Rome. Phoenician expansion and the spread of Carthaginian colonies took place during ...
674. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Ptolemaic canons, as well as other Assyrian documents. In WORKSHOP 4, p.4 , Vera Kerkhof discusses some apparent problems regarding the location of Punt. Punt appears originally to have denoted a region east of Sinai and south of the Dead Sea. This part of Canaan was inhabited at an early date by the people known to the Greeks as Phoenicians. Both this name and the adjective Punic, applied by the Romans to the Phoenician colony of Carthage, are related to the Egyptian word Punt or Pun. "From Pontus descended Sidon" states a Phoenician myth recorded by Eusebius in his Preparation for the Gospel (p .15 of Cory's Ancient Fragments', edited by ...
675. Sunk Without Trace? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... see C&C Workshop 1994:1 , pp. 30-31). In The Sunken Kingdom, James accepts that Zangger was right to look east rather than west for Atlantis, pointing out that many legends and names of locations (including the Atlas Mountains and the Pillars of Hercules) were transferred westwards from their origins during the period of Greek colonisation. Nevertheless, Troy could not have been Atlantis, for there are no legends coupling the Greek conquest of Troy with a natural catastrophe. On the other hand, there are legends of severe earthquakes and associated floods causing devastation in the Troad and more southerly regions of Asia Minor some three or four generations before the Trojan war. ...
676. Indra and Brhaspati (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... , would make him and Brihaspati truly equivalent. I hate to bring an earlier argument to bear upon the present one, but Isenberg's attempt to disassociate Indra the god from Jupiter the planet is as good as his former attempt to disassociate Kartikeya the god from the planet Mars.(6 ) It also surprises me that Isenberg should reject the Greek identification- "via Heinrich Zimmer and Apollodorus" - of Indra as Zeus as a "buttress" of Ashton's thesis. As I have shown elsewhere, the mythological birth and early history of Indra actually duplicates that of Zeus.(7 ) Like his Roman descendant, Zeus also personified the planet Jupiter. If Isenberg cannot accept this ...
677. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to share some of the views of Zoroaster - personal interchange with the godhead rather than an imposed and autocratic religious relationship. According to Ali Rezah Saheb it was the enlightened reign of Cyrus in combination with the teaching of Zoroaster that set up conditions for the growth of monotheism. Cyrus' empire radiated out towards India, China and the Ionian Greeks. Centres of learning attracted foreign pupils, including Greeks and probably Jews. The exiles returned at some point between 536 BC [9 ] and 480 BC [10]. It is interesting to note that these events coincide with a lull in the Temple construction, which was abandoned for a few years. Building work was restarted in ...
678. The Sphinx. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... prince who killed a king takes his queen; why should he be burdened with the riddles of a maiden-monster after having performed the heroic deed of removing the king? But let us not pass by, like a heedless traveler, the monster sitting on the rock. The creature that watched over Thebes in Boeotia was not one of the familiar Greek figures: the giant Pallas, the Minotaur, the centaur, the Gorgon Medusa, a fury, a cyclops. It was the Sphinx, and so it is called by the Greek tragedians. Her land of origin was Egypt;5 although her images were found in many countries, including Crete and Mycenae in Greece, they were ...
679. Thoth Vol II, No. 13: Aug 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... come to exact historical material from the myths we find many difficulties. The stories appear in endless variations. Each writer has his own version. sometimes the names are different, sometimes the sequence of events, sometimes the actual events themselves. We are, moreover, at the mercy of the individual authors. One of our earliest sources for Greek myths is Pindar, who considered himself under no obligation to tell the story as he knew it. Like the modern government censor, Pindar defended his right to change any parts of the story he thought objectionable. The earlier, of course, the purer the tradition. Conversely, many later versions of individual myths show considerable embellishment. ...
680. From the Death of Isaac to the Exodus out of Egypt [Books]
... with famine, resigned it up to him, under an oath. Whence it came, that, on account of the redness of this pottage, he was, in way of jest, by his contemporaries, called Adom, for the Hebrews call what is red Adom; and this was the name given to the country; but the Greeks gave it a more agreeable pronunciation, and named it Idumea. 2. He became the father of five sons; of whom Jaus, and Jalomus, and Coreus, were by one wife, whose name was Alibama; but of the rest, Aliphaz was born to him by Ada, and Raguel by Basemmath: and these were ...
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