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220 pages of results. 511. Paired Sets in the Hebrew Alphabet [Journals] [Aeon]
... lamadh, "to learn," "study," and limmedh, " to teach", " train" (cf. Assyrian lamadu, "to learn"), and "the idea is that learning is generally accomplished under compulsion." (26) It is possible to see "learning" as metaphorically "seeing the light," and Syrian Arabic lama', "to shine," "gleam," distinctly implies "light." Greek lampein, "to shine," appears to be related to the Arabic word, perhaps through diffusion, and it even more closely approximates Syrian Arabic lamba, "lamp," " light" (singular ...
512. Enheduanna and the Goddess Inanna [Journals] [SIS Review]
... divine attributes). Nin-me-sar-ra' will be discussed at length here. The most recent authoritative translation, that of Hallo and van Dijk [14], will be cited throughout, but at points of critical interest the renditions of other leading authorities will be compared. The hymn opens with: 1. Lady of all the mes, resplendent light, 2. Righteous woman clothed in radiance, beloved of Heaven and Earth, 3. Hierodule of An (you) of all the great ornaments, where An is the heaven god, the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon. The word hierodule' could perhaps be better understood as queen-consort': thus hierodule of An' would ...
... can be studied day by day granted fair their colour and by their action, red predominating but white, weather. These movements vary considerably according to the reaction towards the solar radiation. Moorhouse's Comet of 1908, for example, exhibited pronounced ultra-violet hues, and explosions in the tail revealed the presence of cyanogen. Bright jets or streams of light are projected from the nucleus, and their action betokens the character of the gases. Some jets resemble rams' horns and are due to iron vapour, others like goats' horns, streaming away in a curve, indicate hydrocarbon. Often the intense magnetic attraction of the sun compels the nucleus to throw out a protective nebula like a ...
514. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... anger, violence, confusion, mistrust, and desperation. When Puck then obscures the sky with a dense cloud, so that the Sun is veiled and shines not in the sight of men, man threatens man and woman woman, friend against friend, beloved against beloved. Because the play is a comedy, its tone is kept correspondingly light, but it is important to notice that the actual events in it are quite horrible. One critic observes that . . . the effects of error are a chain reaction of surprise, misunderstanding, mystification and near frenzy.(53) It is a farcical axe-time, sword-time, with movements of peoples and tribal strife, while in ...
515. The Jewish Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Articles]
... perhaps a later pseudepigrapher, who portrayed the events at Mt. Sinai, when Moses received the Torah, in suitably Velikovskian terms: "Thou didst bow down the heavens, didst make the earth quake, and convulsed the world. Thou didst cause the deeps to tremble and didst alarm the spheres" [Box: 1913]. In light of this, one could say (if one wished) that Velikovsky seemed to have even a genetic disposition toward catastrophism, particularly given his own rather Lamarckian views on the subject of acquired genetic characteristics within the psyche; or, more plausibly perhaps, one could claim that these apocalyptic words ascribed to his own ancestor, and possibly drummed ...
516. Evidence From the Moon, Newgrange and Stonehenge Indicates Lunar Disturbance [Journals] [SIS Review]
... rocks only a few hundred feet apart at Derrynablaha, County Kerry. Figure 8 Cup and ring marks and tomb' (Beal after Evan Hadingham, Circles and Standing Stones, Sphere Books, 1978) The four pieces, now satellites of the moon, circled within a mantle of orbiting debris, all of them highly luminous in the sun's light, but the satellites were more so than the mantle and remained visible from Earth. Collectively, the moon, satellites and mantle reflected far more sunlight to earth than the moon does today and they inspired the carvings known as cup and ring' marks (figs. 8 and 9). These include the gutter and tadpole' features ...
517. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... , to the luminous one, to Inanna, as bright as the sun..." [25] That Inanna was identified with the planet Venus in early Sumerian times is well-known. [26] The Akkadian Ishtar shares the same epithet. Witness the following hymn: "To the pure flame that fills the heavens, to the light of Heaven, Ishtar, who shines like the sun, to the mighty Queen of Heaven, Ishtar." [27] How is it possible to understand these early hymns to Inanna and Ishtar apart from reference to a celestial body? In complete agreement with the religious literature, Babylonian astronomical tablets include the Sumerian phrase dnin.dar ...
518. Aphrodite - The Moon or Venus? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... has so far been largely ignored by scholars - in particular, the planetary character of some Greek deities has been overlooked. This article examines the identity of one of these and suggests an answer to the question: - Aphrodite - The Moon or Venus?Peter James IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY's reconstruction of the solar system's recent history has thrown a completely new light on the question of the origin of religions. In "Worlds in Collision" he draws our attention to the Homeric Hymn to Ares" (1 ), which explicitly refers to that deity as a planet god - the hymn leaves no doubt that one of Ares' most important aspects was as the god of the planet he named ...
519. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) The Iliad also condemns Heracles for his dark deeds. There the poet puts the following words into the goddess Dione's mouth: "O that hard violent man! that worker of evil! who distressed the Olympian gods with his arrows!" (4 ) It is curious that our two earliest Greek sources represent Heracles in so dark a light- indeed as some great sinner against the gods. Of the Homeric Heracles, Nilsson was led to observe: "This Heracles is the strongman relying solely on his strength. . .a reckless, violent character who proceeds to extremes, even to rivaling the gods and raising his weapons against them." (5 ) The exact ...
520. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... supposing a relative movement of several degrees takes place (the shell axis then being different from the core axis), by what means is it possible to determine whether the shell slipped over the core, or the core shifted under the shell? If the core is the rotor having the greater mass, and spins 17 times faster than the light thin shell, the core has a good gyroscopic or centrifugal reason for staying put with little change, as Mr Eric Crew duly points out. The slower moving shell, cool, thin, and low in mass, consisting of material with excellent insulating properties, and lacking the high density nickel-iron easily influenced by electromagnetism, seems to offer ...
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