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41 pages of results. 361. The Fall of Imperial Egypt [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... were regarded as incarnations of the deity, and their names reflected their exalted status: thus we have "son of Ra", "Amen is content" etc. But "the lemonade-seller"! We can only agree with Velikovsky that such a translation suggests that the name is not Egyptian at all: And sure enough, a prominent linguist advised Velikovsky that the ending -ek was strongly suggestive of a Persian origin. (54) But this of course then begs the question: How could a vassal king of Egypt, supposedly under Assyrian domination in the 7th century, bear a name of Persian origin? Yet Psamtek, we noted, was also the name borne by a ...
362. Preface What is historical evidence? [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... to be presented in this book with regard to the length of ancient Near Eastern chronology. What this author will demonstrate is that several lines of science and technology, such as weathering and erosion, astronomy, radiocarbon dating, pottery dating, geology of tin ore, technology for producing steel or to harden iron, sediment geology, agronomy, linguistics, as well as historical evidence, make a fundamental contribution to the length of ancient Near Eastern chronology. But most significantly they all contradict the long chronology and support, corroborate and converge in upholding the short chronology. In this sense history is moved closer to science. It becomes a field of research that establishes methodologies that can test ...
363. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language: Part Two [Journals] [Aeon]
... theory of a cometary Venus have frequently commented that if his cataclysmic scenario was true it must have left a mark on the ancient historical record. In accordance with this challenge the archaeological and geological records have been investigated, with mixed results. The mythological record of ancient peoples, however, has been virtually ignored since Velikovsky's original researches. The linguistic record has suffered a similar fate. This is most unfortunate, for as we have seen in this series of articles, the cometary phase of Venus is well-documented in the ancient languages. And as we proceed further in our analysis of the mythology of the planet Venus the truth of this statement will become ever more apparent. . . ...
364. A Re-examination of the Sothic Chronology of Egypt [Journals] [Kronos]
... the transliteration of Memphis into Menophreos. Gauthier notes that Memphis has several hieroglyphic variations, but all "men no fir" rather than the Greek Memjis.(31) Hall reported that "Memphis" transliterated by the Assyrian demonstrates the pronunciation was "Mennofer".(32) The transition to Menophreos from Mennofir was not hindered by any linguistic problems. MEDINET HABU CALENDAR Whether the Medinet Habu calendar belongs to Ramesses II of Dynasty XIX or Ramesses III of Dynasty XX is not known. The cartouche, as it appears at Medinet Habu, could belong to either Ramesses.(33) Ramesses III may have just had an exact copy of Ramesses II's calendar inscribed at Medinet Habu ...
365. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... . As committed gradualists, the oralists prefer the view that speech evolved directly from the call systems of the great apes without making a sensory detour from the visual to the auditory channel, which they consider too drastic a change to be plausible. Since I, as an anthropologist, have taught almost as many courses on human evolution as on linguistics, I would now like to comment on Strickling's more recent article on the origin of man. (4 ) In this, I support his introductory statement that "the only thing certain about man's possible ancestry is that nothing is certain." And I believe (without being as certain about it as he seems rather surprisingly to be ...
366. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... , in the effort to make the old fact and the new language harmonize, the storyteller is forced, gradually, to modify the narrative; and, as this lingual difficulty occurs at every fireside, at every telling, an ingenious explanation comes at last to be generally accepted, and the ancient myth remains dressed in a new suit of linguistic clothes. But, as a rule, simple races repeat; they do not invent. One hundred years ago the highest faith was placed in written history, while the utmost contempt was felt for all legends. Whatever had been written down was regarded as certainly true; whatever had not been written down was necessarily false. We are ...
367. Some Notes on the "Assuruballit Problem" [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Relief from Nineveh (bow, arrow and right hand removed). Drawing by Rosemary Burnard Thus this hypothesis might provide feasible identifications for the three names given in EA 15 and 16: with the Assyrian correspondent as Assuruballit II, Assur-nadin-ahe his father as Esarhaddon, and Naphuria as Neferkare, a Tanite king, if the latter two identifications are linguistically plausible. But the hypothesis would have to face the further problem: what would two letters from a 7th-century Assyrian king be doing amongst a collection of XVIIIth Dynasty royal correspondence, dated in the conventional chronology to c. 1350 BC, and by Velikovsky to c. 850 BC? Could EA 15 and 16 have been wrongly attributed to ...
368. Dr Immanuel Velikovsky TRIBUTES [Journals] [SIS Review]
... human intellect and imagination. He lived a rich and varied life during his 84 years, in Russia, Scotland, Germany, Palestine and the United States. It is unfortunate that for so many of these years he had to endure ad hominem attacks rather than intelligent evaluation of his work. Dr Roger W. Wescott PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS, DREW UNIVERSITY (N .J ) The line between literal and figurative truth has never seemed to me to be as sharp as commonly supposed. Old metaphors repeatedly lead to new insights. Having been electrified by the intellectual audacity with which Immanuel Velikovsky crossed disciplinary boundaries and having felt myself magnetically drawn to his psychohistorical concept of collective amnesia ...
369. Astronomical Theory and Historical Data [Books] [de Grazia books]
... a few hours of study of Egyptology he could contradict an interpretation laboriously arrived at by Velikovsky and supported by the authority of William F. Albright. Margolis trampled on the most precious tenets of historical research: he misquoted passage after passage, referred to statements that did not exist, submitted erroneous translations, and subverted the most elementary rules of linguistics. But his quarrel is not with Velikovsky, not with me, not with the American Behavioral Scientists; it is a quarrel with an entire scientific tradition that dates from the revival of scientific learning in the Renaissance. In my essay, having assumed that any person who enters into discussions of scientific method is familiar with at least the ...
370. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... papers. Authenticity . As far as I know the last scientific investigation into the authenticity of the O.L .B . has been made by Mr E. Miedema and by a team headed by Prof. W.G . Hellinga of Amsterdam University at the close of the fifties.(5 ) The results of this codicological and linguistic research is that the chronicle undoubtedly is a hoax. Who the author or the authors were will probably remain a mystery for ever. Mood . The jocular mood of the O.L .B . may be illustrated by a typical example which does not lose its point in English: "On the largest ship was a king of ...
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