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217 pages of results. 851. Ancient Knowledge of Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Journals] [Kronos]
... invention, do not admit of a specific technology that far exceeds the general level of its culture. Then, if it had existed, the destroyed civilization would have inspired myths of some essential correctness within the survivors' theology. Alternatively, and straining credulity even more, would occur the idea that at one time within the transmitted memory of ... , and he insisted that the gods were among the planets and not upon Olympus.(5 ) The modern practice of arbitrarily labeling new objects of the sky from Greek mythology has obscured the sacredness of the ancient belief in the union of astral bodies with divine personages. If any distinction between the planet and god were required, it would ...
852. Editorial [Journals] [SIS Review]
... further study of Velikovskian catastrophism. In the past the SIS Review has offered its readers papers by both specialists and laymen, dealing with interplanetary electrical processes, the approach to Myth, historical astronomy and the chemistry of Manna; articles refuting objections to Velikovsky's reordering of ancient history and questioning the concept of a "Dark Age"; but also ... is the giant among contemporary synthesising catastrophists .. . but the issues he raises stand independent of him. iii) The heart of Worlds in Collision comprises the historical and mythological records Velikovsky has there drawn together, and the interpretation he places upon them. Yet, in all the symposia and published discussion so far, only a very small ...
853. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... are. There is another argument that is bound to occur in connection with any analysis of "Worlds in Collision", and it is this: no known text, myth or legend refers directly and unmistakably to the Venus Comet. The evidence' is always either indirect, secondary or symbolic- and thus open to dispute I am personally ... America for permission to quote from Louis Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews" in Section 6; and to the Hamlyn Group for permission to quote from the Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology in Section 7, I shall also be eternally grateful to Penguin Classics and the Loeb Classical Library for their translations of the various texts used in Section 7. Last ...
854. Jupiter's Bands and Saturn's Rings [Books] [de Grazia books]
... invention, do not admit of a specific technology that far exceeds the general level of its culture. Then, if it had existed, the destroyed civilization would have inspired myths of some essential correctness within the survivors' theology. One may stretch farther for hypotheses, but they would be most unlikely: the reports of informed visitors from outer ... , and he insisted that the gods were among the planets and not upon Olympus [6 ]. The modern practice of arbitrarily labeling new objects of the sky from Greek mythology has obscured the sacredness of the ancient belief in the union of astral bodies with divine personages. If any distinction between the planet and god were required, it would ...
855. Herakles and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , as Manetho has related, they used to burn men alive, calling them "Typhoneioi." And here we find the first trace of catastrophism, for the Typhon myth is seen by Velikovsky as originating during the Venus catastrophe described in the first part of Worlds in Collision.14We observe a link between Typhon and human sacrifice during the ... neck to his own shoulders, is well known. Having got the apples Atlas fetched for him he let the heavens roll another time.19 Rolling heavens are of course mythical language to account for unusual movement of the stars- another Velikovskian topic.20 I think the many signs of catastrophism shown above indicate that our Herakles saw a Velikovskian ...
856. Sodom and Gomorrah [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , and a loud crash rang out from heaven's vault. Thrice did the god thunder from a cloudless sky, thrice did he hurl his bolts." (8 ) Myth, legend and ancient history attest that this same Jupiter once dominated our heavens as a brilliant celestial light. Hebrew legend is very specific in regard to Jupiter's former proximity ... a remembrance that the depression was formed not eons ago but was a consequence of the "fire from heaven" in the time of Lot. An apparent parallel in Scandinavian mythology comes to mind: terrestrial valleys said to have been dug by Thor's hammer. An incident in the life of Abraham, as preserved in Hebrew legend perhaps suggests such ...
857. On Number As Artifact: Part 2: Development [Journals] [Horus]
... the positive statement that contradictory relationships are identical inasmuch as they are both self-contradictory in a similar way! ' This statement occurs in his essay, "The Structural Study of Myth," which has appeared in several anthologies on structuralism and myth. See for example R. and F. de George, eds., The Structuralists (Garden ... the observable evidence (new moon, full moon, etc.)? Were the ancient Peruvians struggling to find something to explain other phenomena that concerned them? The Belgian mythographer Claude Levi-Strauss notes that a paradox becomes much more assimilable in the preliterate mind if it can be balanced by a second paradox. [4 ] Did the sidereal month ...
858. Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Loh became dry." With astronomical evidence in mind a simplified, but testable, hypothesis of Bronze Age collapse would involve accepting the legend of Phaethon as an event inspired myth, as Plato contended it was, and also giving credence to stories of protracted winter in the aftermath of celestial battles', such as the Ragnarok. During a ... each is given as the star of': Cronos, Zeus, Aphrodite, etc. Clearly the planets did not inspire the earlier stories which championed these gods. The mythology associated with these names certainly better describes the break-up of a comet with an orbit that crossed Earth's path than the monotonous behavior of planets. As for the bibbus, ...
859. In Defence of Higher Chronologies [Journals] [SIS Review]
... efforts to get rid of Hippias on this guilt-by-dissociation' basis. If Peiser values Plato's low opinion of Hippias, why doesn't he pay more attention to Plato's high opinion of myth? (According to Plato's Timaeus 29d2, myth is likely'.) The earlier Greeks did not accept Peiser's sharp distinction between myth and history. It is time ... the Mycenaean Age from where Velikovsky had it. Peiser puts the beginnings of Greek history in the early 6th century or so [13]. Everything before that would be mythic', not historical. Thus Peiser argues against the historicity of the Olympic Era, said to have begun in -775. He also claims that the Homeric poems as ...
860. Monitor. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... several hundred years before Stonehenge, it would originally have been a brilliant white and probably surrounded by a water-filled moat. There is obviously no denying its connection to the universal myth of a world mountain or tower, with spiralling snakes, rising from the waters of chaos. By the Bronze Age, copper ores were being mined not only in ... years ago. An excavation in Hampshire revealed an Anglo-Saxon cemetery directly on top of Bronze Age burials. One Anglo-Saxon burial, apparently of a warrior, contained a buckle with mythological figures and Greek writing, which came from Antioch in Syria, indicating that the Anglo-Saxons had far reaching trade connections in the 6th century AD. Otzi - How Did ...
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