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41 pages of results. 271. Bringing Light to a Dark Age [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... describes this woman as the queen of Egypt and Ethiopia, and as Brad Aaronson of Israel has pointed out, her capital city, Thebes, is apparently a mispronunciation of Sheba, by which name Josephus knew the capital of Ethiopia. The swapping of "s " for "t " or "th" (lisping) follows a normal linguistic pattern characteristic of many Semitic dialects. The Egyptian hieroglyphic name for Thebes, reconstructed as Waset, should apparently be spelled Shewat, or Shebat, with the final "t ' being unpronounced. Another great centre of the god Amon, the oasis of Siwa, bears the same name. It should be noted that the pronunciation of hieroglyphic ...
272. New Scenarios for Solar System Evolution [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... climatic variations and glaciations in the late pleistocene and holocene, so important to understand the Homo Sapiens past, is discussed. Two particular topics that have always fascinated man, namely the deluge traditions and the antiquity of the great Giza Sphynx, are discussed from the geologist point of view. The session on anthropology reviews work done by genetists and linguists, that shows a tree of evolution of human presence in the world from a very likely unique original source. Evidence of contacts before Columbus between America and Europe will be discussed. The hypothesis of civilization on Earth well before the third millennium will also be considered. A non standard interpretation will be given of who were the Nephilim and ...
273. A Personal Reminiscence [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon II:6 (1991) Home | Issue Contents A Personal Reminiscence (1 ) Lloyd Motz In 1950 Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, an M.D . (psychiatrist) from Moscow University, biblical scholar, Egyptologist, papyrologist, selftaught physicist and astronomer (with many gaps in this phase of his education), linguist, writer, lecturer, and a most stubborn opponent in a debate, published Worlds in Collision, a book that stirred a violent tempest in the scientific (particularly, the astronomical) world, and generated a controversy that continued until Velikovsky's death, some thirty years later. This book would probably have caused much less of an uproar ...
274. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ideas have been confirmed by independent research by notable scholars. For example, his hypothesis that the Ipuwer Papyrus belongs not in the First Intermediate Period but rather in the Second Intermediate Period of ancient Egyptian history was confirmed in 1966 by John Van Seters in "The Hyksos: A New Investigation." Van Seters' analysis was based on sound linguistic criteria and has never been refuted. His conclusions were reached quite independently of "Ages in Chaos." Van Seters was probably not even aware of Velikovsky's work. However, controversy over the chronology of Ancient Egypt has not entirely gone away. The Egyptologist David Rohl has put forward his own revised chronology; Peter James has also put ...
275. Untitled [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... the Redactor to identify the great Hebrew city, capital of the northern kingdom, whose general location had long been lost with the deported 10 tribes some 200 or more years earlier. Reversing Cardona's argument, one wonders why, in Eblaite documents, the city was called Ebla, or "Hebrew" (the 1' and r' being linguistically interchangable) in the first place. For according to the Genesis accounts, the Hebrews in the time of Abraham and his immediate descendants were not a vastly numerous, settled, literate people at all. As Tom Chetwynd points out in his recent book "The Age of Myth," the picture the patriarchal chapters of Genesis give us ...
276. The Identification of the Biblical "Queen of Sheba" with Hatshepsut, "Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia"" [Journals] [Kronos]
... for somebody to replace it by a more up-to-date version, their choice fell on Sir Alan Gardiner. Gardiner was most reluctant to accept the task, though he yielded at the end. His book, which appeared in 1961, was dedicated "To the Memory of James Henry Breasted".(12) Gardiner was first and foremost a linguist. His greatest work is his Egyptian Grammar. His approach is strictly scientific and highly critical as to every detail. Nowhere is there found the flight of phantasy which carried Breasted to an anticipated goal by boldly filling gaps in the written records in the ways best suited to the imagined end. Contrary to Breasted, Gardiner comes to the ...
277. The Kaaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... Saturn? 5. Earth's Navel Malaya, now part of Malaysia, is a long way from Arabia, yet the Malays have been a sea-going people for long ages. Their commercial sea-faring had, long before the modern age, brought them into contact with the coasts of both south Arabia and southern India. Nor were these contacts cursory. Linguistic analysis has uncovered a proliferation of Sanskrit and Arabic roots in the Malay language. More than that, Malay mythology is of very mixed character with Arab influence predominating.(33) According to the Malay Charmbook, god himself created the Kaaba which is believed to have been "the Navel of the Earth".(34) This ...
278. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to be invoked to cover awkward points. There are also parallels in the interdisciplinary nature of the two cases: Galileo developed a new science of optics to support his cosmological theory, just as Velikovsky's historical and astronomical theories, though independent, are mutually supportive. The question period also produced a plea for the establishment of a "philosophy of linguistic analysis" - a clear set of criteria for the interpretation of ancient texts, which is at present carried out with very poor methodology. The questioner also found it "striking" that "the strictly scientific assessment by chemical investigation of artefacts is quite rigorous in its control, but the actual assessment of the relation of archaeological data to ...
279. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... their pronunciation from those of Bethlehem. (5 ) Finally, one word to various additional commentaries by the editor in the "Notes", especially note 72, and 106. The pronunciation of the letter transcribed "w " is unknown. Professor Polotzki, who headed the Egyptological Department of the Hebrew University and is considered an authority in linguistics warned us: he did not know a living soul who knew how to pronounce Egyptian. (Incidentally, my Greek teacher pronounced the same warning in respect of the Greek language: modern Greek cannot be used as a key for the pronunciation of Homeric Greek.) DR EVA DANELIUS Nof Yam, Israel MALCOLM LOWERY replies: The amendments ...
280. Child of Saturn (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... said of their Venerian deities.(21) Of Athene, as also of Isis, Manetho said that the name meant "I came from myself".(22) Of Venus, Cicero said that the goddess was so named because she "comes [venire] to all things".(23) But by what stretch of linguistic license does "to pervade" or "to enter" equate with "to come"? Vishnu. 10th century sculpture from Central India. Photograph by Dwardu Cardona, Courtesy of the British Museum, London. "Vishnu born of Shiva" cannot therefore be used as evidence of Venus' "birth" from Jupiter. Not only ...
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