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176 pages of results. 51. The Dragon in China and Japan by M. W. VISSER [Books]
... The Dragon-kings rever Buddha's Law Dragons appear at the dedication of Buddhist temples Dragons living in ponds or lakes, mostly near Buddhist shrines. Reborn as dragons Dragon-kings of the sea check the course of vessels in order to obtain special Buddhist ... throw light upon these facts we must examine the Buddhist ideas concerning the Nagas which came from lndia, to the East. Being not acquainted with the Sanscrit language, we have to refer to the works of European scholars and to ... number of Indian, not, especially Buddhist, conceptions and legends, clad in a Buddhist garb, into the eastern countries, in China. Taoisrn was ready to gratefully take up these foreign elements which in many respects reseualded its ...
... , they widely disagree when it comes to judging the evidence in detail. The verdicts concerning the familiarity of ancient Near Eastern astronomers with the Precession depend, indeed, on arbitrary factors: namely, on the different scholarly opinions about ... , the equinoctial sun occupying each zodiacal constellation for about 2,200 years. The constellation that rose in the east just before the sun (that is, rose heliacally) marked the "place" where the sun rested. ... they widely disagree when it comes to judging the evidence in detail. The verdicts concerning the familiarity of ancient Near Eastern astronomers with the Precession depend, indeed, on arbitrary factors: namely, on the different scholarly opinions about the ...
53. Cyrus The Mardian/amardian Dethroner Of The -6th Century Medes And Aziru The Martu/amurru (Amorite) Dethroner Of The -14th Century Mitanni [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the Ninos-Assyrian, Median, and Persian powers in the Assyrian "heartland of empires", that it took them nearly one-and-a-half centuries to draw their conclusions. In 1988, the empire of the Medes was declared missing. In 1990 ... Cyrus' attack on Lydia in West-Anatolia is launched from the land of the Khat/Khatti (Hittites) in East Anatolia. This powerful nation obviously must have formed an alliance with the Persian ruler. The Khat/Khatti ( ... ) must also have helped Cyrus against the Medes, i.e ., in his conquest of their capital Ecbatana. Yet, in modern historiography, the existence of powerful Hittites between the -6th and 3rd centuries is considered no ...
54. From the End of the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Time of Ramses II [Journals] [Kronos]
... ." 3. N. Dorin Ischlondsky, "Problems of Dating a Unique Egyptian Bronze," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 25 (1966), pp. 101 ff. 4. Valdemar Schmidt, Levende og Døde ... in the sky and were followed by great perturbations such as earthquakes and other disturbances. The nations of the ancient East were in turmoil, and armies marched along military roads, engaging one another in strife and wars. Peoples from ... " 3. N. Dorin Ischlondsky, "Problems of Dating a Unique Egyptian Bronze," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 25 (1966), pp. 101 ff. 4. Valdemar Schmidt, Levende og Døde det ...
55. Problems of Early Anatolian History Part I [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... homeland west of Urkish in Anatolia or even in the islands west of Anatolia? The Hurrian presence at Dilbat (near Babylon) could have been atrading colony, which might show their connection with the Habur region (northwest Mesopotamia) ... the documents of the Assyrian colony in Cappadocia, and are strongly represented in Nuzi and Arrapkha in the Kirkuk area east ofAssyria, and in the Syrian cities of Qatna, Alalakh and Ugarit. At Mari, anumber of ritual texts ... . "6 A series of questions must now be posed: does the original Hurrian movement represent a southern or eastern migration? Is the indigenous homeland of the Hurrians in the Caucasus region, as most authorities agree, because of ...
56. Babylonian Observations of Venus [Journals] [Pensee]
... concentrate on the first and third groups on the tablet, and not worry about the artificial insertion. Unfortunately, nearly all treatments of groups one and three on K. 160, and of the genuinely observational material on the other ... literature, it may be useful to look at the nature of the observations themselves. When Venus is to the east of the Sun, it can be seen in the western sky for a time after sunset and is then spoken ... the Sun. But the "Evening Star" that vanishes from the western sky at inferior conjunction reappears in the eastern sky, west of the sun, as the "Morning Star," and can be seen for some months ...
... The simple conclusion drawn from this is, as any one can see, that a ton of matter at or near the equator of the earth would have a momentum) of 1,000 tons, in the rotating mass, ... that once inhabited the region. A few years ago I stopped at Pouynipete Island, in the Pacific, in east longitude 158 22' and north latitude 60 50'. The island is surrounded by a reef, with a ... ship channel between it and the island. " At places in the reef there were natural breaks that served as entrances to the harbors. In these shipchannels there were a number of islands, many of which were surrounded by a ...
58. A REVISED CHRONOLOGY FOR THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST [Journals] [SIS Review]
... : SIS Review Vol 1 No 5 (Summer 1977) Home | Issue Contents A REVISED CHRONOLOGY FOR THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Copyright (c ) Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1977. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER is to draw the ... of ancient historians and archaeologists, particularly those concerned with Biblical and Near Eastern Studies, to Ages In Chaos', by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. This book was first published in 1953, after its author had already achieved a ... notoriety among professional astronomers and astrophysicists by the radical nature of the hypotheses advanced in Worlds In Collision', in which the most fundamental assumptions about the solar system and its history had been questioned. Ages in Chaos' deliberately left ...
59. The Flood [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... localised floods occurred repeatedly during the last Ice Age, they would have washed away the whale fossils found on or near the earth surface. However, whale bones and other marine fossils have been found far inland, without having been ... coastlines form an inverted V (/ \) with its apex at the Bering Strait, the tidewater would veer east, over Alaska and Canada, and west, over Asia. In the Atlantic Ocean, the tidewater would flow ... the northern Atlantic Ocean and would break up, depositing large amounts of detritus on the sea bed. Since neither eastern Siberia nor Alaska were covered by such a continental ice sheet, minute amounts of glacial detritus should have been deposited ...
60. In Search of the Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... is generally recognized that the lists themselves are repetitive and stylized, tending to include communities, distant as well as near, that sent gifts through trade or diplomacy as well. The same is true of the Book of Joshua, ... widespread destruction of sites. Unfortunately, this is not confined to Palestine but is repeated in the Near and Middle East, and even further abroad. The archaeological record, consequently, is in agreement with the deduction that Palestinian cities ... Kingdom Egypt (Dynasties I-VI) there is evidence that Asiatics were allowed to graze their sheep and cattle in the eastern Delta lands. In the biblical narrative Abraham sojourned in Egypt with his flocks before returning to Palestine to settle at ...
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