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217 pages of results. 791. Bookshelf. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... onward. The Blood of the Vikings By Julian Richards, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001, £20 The book to accompany Richards' BBC TV series, this examines the myths of the blood thirsty warrior culture and endeavours to reveal the Viking's real contribution to our culture as settlers and rulers. Atlas of the Celts By Jane Macintosh, Philip's ... J.R . Porter, £25 The little known biblical apocrypha with stories such as the young Christ magically killing children. There could be quite a lot of disregarded mythological meat in this. The Green Man By Kathleen Basford, Boydell & Brewer, 2002, £20 A survey of the image, half man, half tree, ...
792. The Knowledge Industry [Books] [de Grazia books]
... vast skies there like a Polynesian navigator. His lifelong asthma kept him in a lifelong course in advanced nutrition, organic chemistry, and atmospheric science. Then he read into myth and legend, and there was no stopping him. In every picture he discovered fresh signs. Aside from his personal qualities, he could connect with the more than ... writer discovered by the great fatherly editor of a conventional publishing company and led carefully to reveal and convey his beautiful achievements to the world of readers. Even this case is mythical, as the editor involved, Maxwell Perkins, tried to explain in a recent edition of Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. But the truth will never catch up with ...
793. James Hutton: A Non-inductive, Theological Catastrophist [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... glasses. JAMES HUTTON The great founder of seeing the Earth through a uniformitarian filter is James Hutton. However, the evidence below will show that his view is a historical myth. The real founder of gradualism was Charles Lyell, who denied catastrophism as, itself, a religious-geological myth. One of the great concepts of the Hutton legend is ... then labeled the theory of his fellow Scotsman as "a coherent system by which the Earth became, as it were, her own interpreter." (305) Geikie's mythical Hutton has been firmly entrenched in geological textbooks ever since. (14) Modern geology texts, cited by Gould, (15) that echo the heroic legend which ...
794. On Number As Artifact (Part 1: Introduction) [Journals] [Horus]
... . The Borroff and McClain findings may well serve to encourage scholars of early literature and other records to take numerical references seriously. As McClain notes at the beginning of The Myth of Invariance, "Historians of science have barely begun to cope with certain kinds of material available to them. "( 8 ) The kinds of ideas cherished by ... reputed inventor of the compass, the wheel, and ceremonial garments such as this outfit. As always, China's fetishism for number is evident. [from Christie, Chinese Mythology, 1968 There are two contrasting pictures painted here: on the one hand the great sophistication of the Borroff findings, a calculation which - prior to computers might well ...
... Velikovsky's Originality The salient features of Velikovsky's method and conclusions are these: 1. The Bible and other ancient records contain much factual material about actual physical events. 2. Myths apd folklore are built around descriptions of striking actual events that can be discerned by proper analysis. 3. Past catastrophes were so threatening to mankind that overt reminders of ... what was seen in his time .. . [378] --cf. numbers 1, 4. Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722- 1759) . . . analyzed the cosmogonies and mythologies of several farspread peoples of the Earth, such as Germans, Greeks, Jews, Arabs, Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, Peruvians, Mexicans, and Caribs, ...
796. Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton (Book review) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... From: The Velikovskian Vol 4 No 2 (1998) Home | Issue Contents Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, 1997, 308 pages (originally published as Facts of Life, Corgi Books, London, 1993) Reviewer: Roger W. Wescott Milton's book is one of several that ... I regard Milton's book as the best of the recent critiques of Darwin, chiefly because he considers a larger number of alternative paradigms than his predecessors did. As a part-time mythologist, I am predictably unhappy with the title of the American edition of his book, which, at least by implication, equates myth with falsehood. But this title ...
797. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times -- Part II [Journals] [Kronos]
... I should place in the same category of historical comparative method the application of mythology. Dorothy Vitaliano, pursuing a strict uniformitarian theory, has nonetheless exemplified the necessary marriage between myth and geology that research properly demands; to her, myth serves as a clue to past events, especially when they are extraordinarily forceful.(37) Sometimes, ... to serve eventual critiques of received versions of the comparative development (and destruction) of civilizations. I should place in the same category of historical comparative method the application of mythology. Dorothy Vitaliano, pursuing a strict uniformitarian theory, has nonetheless exemplified the necessary marriage between myth and geology that research properly demands; to her, myth serves as ...
798. Humbaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... . S. Langdon, op. cit., p. 268. 9 5. G de Santillana and H. von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (Boston, 1969), p. 289. 6. E. F. Weidner, loc. cit. 7. G. ... the prevalent, the strong", means nothing. Such epithets were bestowed not only on Mercury Jupiter. and Procyon but on almost every other god and planet in the mythologies of all nations. That "seb [as per Robert Temple] . . . also means the planet Mercury' ", is something of a liberty. Devoid ...
799. Introduction C&AH 3rd Proceedings [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... revision of the ancient world it is important to understand fully this important document. The penultimate lecture was by Dr. Dorothea Kenny. Her subject was "A Celtic Destruction Myth: Togail Bruidne Da Derga." All the mythologies of the world must be studied to find catastrophic experiences of the ancients. The Irish, as Dr. Kenny ... , had some very comprehensive catastrophe themes. The last lecture was by Dr. Donovan Courville. His topic was "On the Survival of Velikovsky's Thesis in Ages in Chaos." Dr. Courville continues to make valuable contributions in this article to the work of reinterpreting the chronological record. In the present editor's opinion this issue of Proceedings is ...
800. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Clube and Napier, this "wildly impossible" notion led them to totally reject Velikovsky's Venus-comet theory and to seek another (and totally artificial) way of explaining why the myths seemed to equate Venus with the destructive comet. To date there has been little evidence from astronomy to support the idea that Venus was once a comet, but Jane ... taking myths at face value, and that Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos had succeeded in solving problems in chronology by treating the Bible as an historical document whose accounts were not merely mythical and symbolic. Much of what the Mayan Indians had recorded was treated as mere folklore until, in modern times, it was discovered how wonderfully accurate their astronomy had ...
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