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41 pages of results. 251. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Jews as a hidden internal evil to be exterminated. The germ had originated before Velikovsky was born, but became most virulent during his young manhood. To this list of Germanic attacks upon Judaism known by Velikovsky, we might also add the theory of the Indo-European language. Developed in the 19th century, it is still a staple of many linguistic schools today. Although I am not prepared to say it is right or wrong, I insist that it can and should be looked at sociologically, which provides a very different picture. Traditionally, the Indo-European source is believed to be the mother language behind most of the tongues of present Europe. One branch is held to be the ...
252. "Worlds in Collision": Reviews and Reviewers [Journals] [Aeon]
... on their own orthodoxies, exercise their own Index, and impose their own imprimatur." The scientists, while continuing to seek sanctions, did little to improve their public image. In the July 13, 1951, Science, John Pfeiffer ranked Velikovsky's book with "Grimm's fairy tales and the Rubaiyat," and queried why the astronomers, linguists, geologists, and anthropologists had not "come out with their feelings about Worlds in Collision. Or should that be the function of AAAS? If no, is there an organization that represents the body of American science in such matters?" In the November 23 issue, Samuel A. Miles, a technical writer for the Hagstrom ...
253. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . If you were to agree with them that semiotics can include the study of all these and more, people will probably assume that semiotics is about visual signs'. [. .] Semiotics represents a range of studies in art, literature, anthropology and the mass media rather than an independent academic discipline. Those involved in semiotics include linguists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, literary, aesthetic and media theorists, psychoanalysts and educationalists. Beyond the most basic definition, there is considerable variation amongst leading semioticians as to what semiotics involves. It is not only concerned with (intentional) communication but also with our ascription of significance to anything in the world. Semiotics ...
254. The Scientific Reception System [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the proceedings of any group considering the revision of curriculum for students of the natural sciences. Soon a century will have passed since the beginnings of the scientific investigation of myth, folklore, and primitive psychology. It has been many years since a theory of the unconscious has found a place in the instrumentation of social science. The science of linguistics, of symbols, of the sociology of communication, has progressed. It would appear that a more broadly educated or at least philosophically trained scientific class would have been able to perceive the relevance, validity, and unique capabilities of Velikovsky's method to key problems of natural science. But the passage of time has relegated the natural sciences principally ...
255. The Empire Strikes Back [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to erase fifty to a hundred non-functional adjectives or phrases. And, in respect to Velikovsky as a knowledgeable scientist, aside from "who is a scientist besides the self-elect," Bauer underestimates Velikovsky totally. Let him ask Burgstahler (chemist), Motz (astrophysicist), someone like myself who knew Hess (geology), Hadas (linguistics), Lasswell (psychiatric psychologist), Cyrus Gordon (Near East Studies), Einstein (physics), Juergens (electricity), et al. Every last one will or would say that Velikovsky is not only a good scientist, but an imaginative one, and at home in a number of fields. I wonder why Bauer ...
256. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... dragons or serpents) were slain by the arm of the L-ur-d, i.e . the father of heaven, which is a proper, and very distinguishing epithet of the sun. ' Mackey read Lord' as equivalent to LURD, being AL+ UR+ AD supposedly meaning THE+ HEAVEN+ FATHER, a hopeless cocktail of unrelated linguistic fragments from different milieus. Likewise he later interprets Nimrod' as NAIM+ UR+ AD, i.e . BEAUTIFUL+ HEAVEN+ FATHER. The Greeks corrupted Nimrod into Nebrod, which has a close affinity in sound with their word for Buck, and so they made the celebrated tower into a hunter. ' ! ! In ...
... of the whole bewildering story, one thing is established beyond controversy, that the Sampo is nothing but heaven itself. The fixed adjective kirjokansi, "many-coloured," did apply to the cover of the heavenly vault in Finnish folk poetry, as Comparetti and others showed long ago. As for the name Sampo, it resisted the efforts of linguists, until it was found that the word was derived from the Sanskrit skambha, pillar, pole.[n7 See chapter VIII.]. Because it "grinds," Sampo is obviously a mill. But the mill tree is also the world axis, so the inquiry returns to the Norse mill, and to the complex of ...
258. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the proceedings of any group considering the revision of curriculum for students of the natural sciences. Soon a century will have passed since the beginnings of the scientific investigation of myth, folklore, and primitive psychology. It has been many years since a theory of the unconscious has found a place in the instrumentation of social science. The science of linguistics, of symbols, of the sociology of communication, has progressed. It would appear that a more broadly educated or at least philosophically trained scientific class would have been able to perceive the relevance, validity, and unique capabilities of Velikovsky's method to key problems of natural science. But the passage of time has relegated the natural sciences principally ...
259. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... go back to a common source is well-known. The numerous correspondences between Indra and Thraetona are a case in point. Vritra's epithet Ahi (" serpent") is cognate with Azi, the name of the Iranian dragon; while Indra's weapon vajra is cognate with vazra, the club-like weapon of the Iranian hero. Greenebaum concludes: "These linguistic similarities, together with the epithets involved, and the similarity in themes would seem to indicate that a tradition of the slaying of Vritra Azhi Dasa was common to Indic and Iranian myths." (69) Overlooked, however, is the fact that Verethragna stands as the middle-Persian name for the planet Mars in texts dating to Sassanid times ...
260. Egyptian Influence Upon Early Israelite Literature [Journals] [Aeon]
... . 550 B.C .E . [60] The Shabaka Stone, on the other hand, has been estimated to have been written c. 700 B.C .E . [61] However, James B. Pritchard asserts: "The extant form of this document dates only to 700 B.C ., but linguistic, philological, and geopolitical evidence is conclusive in support of its derivation from an original text more than two thousand years older." [62] The linguistic evidence from the inscription suggests that the Shabaka Stone text could have originated from a much earlier source and certainly allows for the strong possibility that Genesis 1 was influenced by its contents ...
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