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27 pages of results. 51. Fingerprints of the Gods: do ancient relicts point to an advanced civilisation 15,000 years ago? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a star in the sky. I do not think that these strange similarities are a coincidence. I think we are looking at a remote common origin, which had rather divergent, but obviously related, effects in two widely separated parts of the world. American astronomers The Pyramid of the inscriptions at Palenque in Mexico demonstrates the work of the Mayan culture, which had, above all else, very accurate astronomers whose estimate of the length of the solar year was better than the estimate of the length of the solar year that we use in the Gregorian calendar today, who thought and calculated enormous spans of time, 90 or 300 million years into the past or future. They ...
52. Catastrophism and Anthropology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the heavenly powers and to smear the symbolic world pillars' with its blood in order to prevent the collapse of the heavens [9 ]. By participating in these kind of catastrophe games and rituals, the people were not entirely lacking a means of activity in order to hinder or inhibit a threatening disaster' [10]. According to Mayan mythology, their famous ball game was played for the first time by two gods (One Hunahpu and Seven Hunahpu) immediately after a flood catastrophe had destroyed the third era of creation [11]. The Aztecs had similar apocalyptic traditions of past and future catastrophes. Their most celebrated festival was called Toxiuhmolpilia. This ceremony took place every ...
53. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was a sinking of a great crescent of land stretching from Central America to the Canary Islands; seven major islands remained above water. Yucatan itself sank, and then later arose. This was the origin of the Atlantis legend, he thought. It took place 6000 to 7000 years ago. Later Bourbourg discovered the famous Troano Codex of the Mayans, and deciphered it with some success. He thought that the Codex told of the catastrophe of Atlantis, and placed the time now at 9973 B.C (11,973 B.P .) , using Mayan time reckoning. If the two times and two events are kept distinct, they would correspond with the great Lunarian ...
54. Cosmic Catastrophes and the Ballgame of the Sky Gods in Mesoamerican Mythology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Interpretation of the Four Ballcourt Panels at Tajin' in A. F. Aveni [ed.] Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America, Univ. of Texas Press, Austin/London, 1977, pp. 263-281; idem: [ed.] World archaeoastronomy, Cambridge Univ. Press 1989; idem: [ed.] The Sky in Mayan Literature, Oxford Univ. Press, New York/Oxford, 1992; see also R. H. Fuson, The orientation of Maya ceremonial centers' in: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 59 (1969), pp. 494-511; M. Cohodas, The Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico ...
55. Comalcalco: A Case for Early Pre-Columbian Contact and Influence? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... (fig. 2), the largest pyramid at the site. Figure 1 Site map Figure 2: Temple 1 (Photo: D. Eccott)] Comalcalco: Location and Historical Excavation The most interesting and unusual aspect of Comalcalco is the use of fired clay bricks (fig. 3) instead of the limestone which was the principal Mayan construction material. Although adobe (sun-dried) clay bricks were used in pre-Columbian America, the use of fired clay brick is without precedent. It is puzzling that kiln-baked brick, otherwise totally unknown in the whole of pre-Columbian America, should emerge in this particular pocket of the Maya area. It is so unusual that some commentators have not ...
56. Friday Evening Discussion [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Sun, Moon and Sothis (Kronos Press). His current main activity was answering letters about the book and tying up loose ends. In support of his placement of the Middle Kingdom in the Persian era, he is studying the King Lists to see if they may be Ptolemaic creations or restorations. He is also studying Ptolemy III, Mayan numbers and Venus numbers. Ev Cochrane comes from Iowa and got involved in late 1970s after reading Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. He went to the symposium at Princeton College, having been interested in Mars and its association with Saturn. There he met Mrs Velikovsky, Jan Sammer, Dwardu Cardona who spoke on Venus and many others. He ...
57. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... earliest civilization presently known in Meso-America (and it may be that by Venusian times the American population had been reduced to a survival culture). In the light of our earlier chapters, the existence of cultures in Meso-America that flourished long before Venusia cannot be doubted. The legends all go back before then. So do the calendars. The Mayan calendars begins with the year October 4, 5373 B.P . or August 13, 5113 B.P . according to recent calculations. This would indicate a Jovean base, and before then comes the story of Atlantis and eastern connections. In Meso-America between 1500-1200 B.C ., writes, there was a diffusion of the ...
58. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... It has been clear to all serious students of Mesoamerican culture that there was an intimate relationship between astronomical knowledge, the calendar, and religious beliefs and rituals." (52) So, likewise, Susan Milbrath: "A number of scholars agree that the fundamental nature of the ancient Mesoamerican pantheon is astronomical." (53) In Mayan lore, Morning Star received the name sastal ek, which means "Bright Star," (54) an appellation that, as we have seen, was also reserved by the Pawnee for Venus as evening star. And, in fact, it is the consensus among Mayanists that the Morning Star of these people was the planet Venus ...
59. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... kings. (22) The planet Venus, moreover, shares much of the same symbolism. Thus Brundage comments upon the intimate association of the appearance of Venus with the death of kings: "It is curious that the Mesoamerican peoples thought of the Morning Star so consistently as malign. He was to them, whether they were Aztecs or Mayans, the very father of calamity. The dates of his heliacal rising were forecast so that the dooms ahead could be adequately read and prepared forSignificantly, his malice could also be directed at rulers, for if he arose in the trecana opened by One-Reed, then great lords sickened and died." (23) The original source for ...
60. News C&C Review 2001:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... taken a fresh look at the physics of Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision scenario and concludes that, contrary to previous analyses, there are no fundamental objections. Trevor Palmer and Steve Mitchell return to the question of whether centuries can be removed from the medieval Dark Ages and find fundamental problems with the proposals of Niemitz and Fomenko. Bob Johnson's analysis of Mayan calendars looks at the curiosity of the 260 day cycle. Eric Aitchison returns to Assyrian history and Jesse Lasken to the Sothic cycle. The regular Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology', Monitor' and Bookshelf' columns each contain bumper amounts of interesting information, thanks to the efforts of Jill Abery and Bob Porter. There is also ...
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