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... ).], and Firdausi (ca. A.D . 1010) is still today the national poet. At the time Firdausi wrote, his protector, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, had shifted the center of his power to India, and the Iranian empire had long been only a memory. With prodigious scholarship, Firdausi, like Homer before him, 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 ...
242. Velikovsky and Racial Memory [Journals] [Aeon]
... long latency came into effect and created phenomena similar to symptoms in their structure and purpose. (3 ) Freud then made a series of statements that parallel, in general outline, Velikovsky's reconstruction of history. The poor state of affairs in Palestinian archaeology at the time prevented Freud from demonstrating his main thesis directly, but he assumed that the Homeric epics dated to the same period that the Jews were adopting the Mosaic form of monotheism; the early Greeks, in Freud's words, (4 ) had probably experienced in their prehistory a period of external brilliance and cultural efflorescence which had perished in a historical catastrophe and of which an obscure tradition survived. He predicted, however, that ...
243. Thoth Vol II, No. 14: Sept 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Athene, says Velikovsky, is the planet Venus, and Ares the planet Mars. Here is an allegory of a great cosmological drama of the eighth century B.C ., when, as Velikovsky believes, these two planets nearly collided in space. The myth seems decisive evidence for his beliefs. But, on looking more closely at Homer, we see that this incident is one of several that occurred in a scene where various gods and goddesses were depicted as lining up against each other. In another part of this sequence Athene trounces Artemis, a goddess of the earth; in yet another Apollo, the sun god, contemplates a trial of strength with Poseidon, god ...
244. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 3 ]. THE LIMITS OF DISTORTION There was a major difference, however, between the Exodus and other epic accounts. The Exodus began in writing, under the authorship and direction of Moses, then was carried by epic tradition in oral form, and then was revived in written form in the tenth century at which time there was no Homer to reassemble it. So it came together afterwards piece by piece for five hundred years, as sacred history and in writing. In inception and conception, the Exodus was modern; it was to be a sacred written history. Luckily for students of ancient events, the Exodus was from its beginnings a sacred happening so that no despot ...
245. Introgenesis (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... long latency came into effect and created phenomena similar to symptoms in their structure and purpose. (11) Freud then made a series of statements that parallel, in general outline, Velikovsky's reconstruction of history. The poor state of affairs in Palestinian archaeology at the time prevented Freud from demonstrating his main thesis directly, but he assumed that the Homeric epics dated to the same period that the Jews were adopting the Mosaic form of monotheism; the early Greeks, in Freud's words, (12) had probably experienced in their prehistory a period of external brilliance and cultural efflorescence which had perished in a historical catastrophe and of which an obscure tradition survived. He predicted, however, that ...
246. Theomachy in the Theater: on the Fringes of the Collective Amnesia [Journals] [Kronos]
... Michelangelesque anatomy is combined with the violent and unrestrained gestures of the Shakespearian theatre as represented in London at the time of his visit, the expressionists have hailed him as a forerunner. Such indeed he was, for his heroes were already animated by the Titanism of the superman. The violent action of his stories inspired by Nordic myths or the Homeric(11) poems, or by the supernatural world of Milton, seems to evolve in an amorphous and cataclysmic world, a magical world. His heroes and heroines wear strange improbable robes and towering coiffures, looking like sea anemones or the wing cases of beetles. (Fuseli was a coiffure fetishist). His fury and his pomp ...
... do nothing. In this case the story is not told around the world by many cultures, and there is no scientific evidence to observe Jupiter as a swan, so one ignores this evidence as Sagan should. Aphrodite, Athena- planet Venus Finally Sagan deals with the "Venus Myth", "In any case, when Hesiod and Homer refer to Athena being born full-grown from the head of Zeus, Velikovsky takes Hesiod and Homer at their word and assumes that the celestial body of Athena was ejected by the planet Jupiter. But what is the celestial body of Athena? Repeatedly it is identified with the planet Venus (Part 1, Chapter 9, and many other places ...
248. Victory of The Sun [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Ca. Hentig, Hans von (1968), Ueber den Zusammenhang von Kosmischen, Biologischen und Sozialen Krisen, Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart. Herr, Richard B. (1978), "Solar Rotation Determined from Thomas Harriot's Sunspot Observations of 1611 to 1613," 202 Science (December 8), 1079-81. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, H. G. Evelyn-White, trans. (1936), "Eastern Anatolia and Velikovsky's Chronological Revisions I," 1 Kronos No. 3, 20-30. Hibben, F. C. (1953), Treasure in the Dust: Archaeology in the New World, Cleaver-Hume Press, London. (1968 ...
... of meteoric falls. 128A.The River Eridanus was mythologically the son of Oceanus, the Ocean (and there was but one Ocean) and Tethys, the Sea. It flowed through the country of the Gauls (or Galatai) and the Cimmerians were the Gallic or Gaelic race traditionally dwelling by this Eridanus, in a country, as Homer sang, beyond Ocean stream and unblest by the Sun. Amber, tin, and the Cimmertans are all alluded to by Herodotus as more or less fabulous, although that historian admitted that tin and amber came from the northern parts of the world. Amber, which in this poetic myth of Phaeton was the outcome of his destruction by ...
250. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... whole had a governing influence in practically all the affairs of the Heroic Age. Hera acted as patroness of some heroes, such as Jason, leader of the Argonauts, and the persecutor of others, such Heracles (Roman Hercules), the greatest hero of all. Athena watched over all the heroes and, according to the great poet Homer (8th century BC), bested the war-god Ares in battle, a clear sign that the age of his ascendancy (the Bronze Age of naked militarism) was over. The love-goddess Aphrodite also conquered' Ares, using more subtle means, and gave birth to a daughter Harmonia (meaning literally harmony'), who with the ...
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