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... to another aspect of this great question. Almost from the earliest times of legend and history we discover successive waves of people emigrating from the north to the south. There has never been a movement scientifically proved of an emigration from the south to the north, which refutes very considerably the long-held supposition that the ancestors of the Nordic peoples were originally placed in the land we now term Palestine. Sergi, Angelo Mosso, and other anthropologists, who pursue their investigations not by guesswork but by the scientific comparison of physical characteristics as revealed in thousands of tomb measurements, have stated definitely that there was never any emigration from Asia into Europe, whilst again we find Sir William Ridgeway, ...
342. The Oedipus Legend and the Amarna Period [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. IX No. 3 (Summer 1984) Home | Issue Contents The Oedipus Legend and the Amarna Period Walter Federn INTRODUCTION There is no reason to doubt that the Oedipus story may have had its origin in some historical events of the Mycenaean Age. Since the only episode of the Oedipus story that can be localized with certainty in continental Greece is the slaying of Laios,(1 ) which may have been a later addition,(2 ) there is no reason to deny the possibility that the story originated among the Ionians of Asia Minor, and for some unknown reason was transferred later to Boeotian Thebes. To account for the appearance of the Sphinx ...
343. On Models and Scenarios [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the models shares something in common with others, each has its own distinctions, and many new possibilities will doubtless arise from the preliminary papers presented in this issue. Since the researchers involved have suggested varying interpretations of the polar configuration concept or of the mythical data behind it, I wish to briefly state the thesis for which I claim originality. In 1972 I employed the phrase "the polar configuration" (an original phrase at the time) to describe the celestial form I believed ancient man had seen in the sky. The immense apparition involved a stationary Saturn at the celestial pole, a surrounding band with illuminated crescent and a column of gas or dust stretching along the ...
344. The Listing by Months: An Ancient Study of the Disappearances of Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... overlap to a certain extent, yet they do not agree totally: there are minor discrepancies among some of the entries on different fragments, and there are some fragments that omit individual entries or groups of entries from the series. We agree with the general view that the various fragments are copies, or copies of copies, that reflect an original series of Venus observations with varying degrees of distortion. But we suspect that both the tablets and the observations are from the last two centuries or so before the fall of Nineveh in -611 (astronomical); we do not accept the usual view that the observations were from the reign of Ammizaduga, and that the tablets were copied and ...
345. The New Solar System: Selected Criticisms [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. IX No. 3 (Summer 1984) Home | Issue Contents The New Solar System: Selected Criticisms C. Leroy Ellenberger The origin of comets is an unsolved problem despite the consensus among astronomers favoring ice balls and Oort's hypothesis. The foregoing paper by McGanney on the nature and origin of comets presumes to offer a revolutionary replacement for this consensus. To the reader unfamiliar with the details, the author seems to make a good case; but the more one reads, the less satisfactory his model - as well as his criticism of conventional concepts - becomes. The author presents the thesis that planets originate from comets captured from interstellar space, whose orbits ...
346. The Birth of Vahagn: An Armenian Vision of Celestial Catastrophe? [Journals] [Kronos]
... - Moses of Khoren Given the location of the Armenians upon the high plateau overlooking Anatolia, Iran and the Semitic world, it is not at all surprising to find that the pre-Christian Armenian pantheon was an amalgam of various religious concepts drawn from among those of the people around them. Thus, while some of their deities were manifestly Iranian in origin - Aramazd, Anahit, Tiur, and Mihr (Mithra) others were obviously of Semitic provenance - Nane, Astghik (Astarte), and Barshamina (Ba'al Shamin).(1 ) There was one figure, however, who was peculiarly Armenian; a national god, as it were, known as Vahagn. Reduced by Christian ...
347. The Origin and Evolution of the Comets and Other Small Bodies in the Solar System [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. II No. 2 (Nov 1976) Home | Issue Contents The Origin and Evolution of the Comets and Other Small Bodies in the Solar System*S. K Vsekhsvyatskii Astronomical Observatory, Kiev University, Kiev, U.S .S .R . *Reprinted by permission of the INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION from Chebotarev et al. (eds.), The Motion, Evolution of Orbits, and Origin of Comets, 413-418. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (c ) 1972 by the IA U. AIso reprinted with the permission of the author. ABSTRACT: It has become evident that comets and other small bodies are indications of eruptive evolution processes ...
348. Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... S .A . Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky Charles Ginenthal Table of Contents Preface Part I Introduction An Improbable Tale An interdisciplinary scholar * Tales of upheaval * The cometary newcomer' * A case of professional hysteria * Looking for Velikovsky's comet * What is science? * Religion, astrology, superstition * How science operates * Peer review * The origin of craters The Historical Evidence Experts * Diffusion or common observation * Teo- place or god * The shapes of cometary fields * Reading carefully * Fractions- calendars * Synchronism * The world ages * Aphrodite, Athena- planet Venus * Pallas- Typhon * Meteorite thunder * Lightning and magnets * Hail of barad * Sagan's principle * The ...
349. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... reasonable to postulate that the world was upside down at the era when the terms clockwise' and anti-clockwise' were first introduced?" I'd say no it isn't reasonable. Surely these terms aren't all that ancient. I should "postulate" that these terms derive from the fact that the shadow of the gnomon of a sundial (surely the original clock) travels in a clockwise direction. Starting in the morning pointing west, then through north (as the Sun in the northern hemisphere has a southern aspect) to finally pointing to the east in the evening. Once again I should imagine that the general public would be more familiar with "shadow clocks" than "astronomical clocks ...
350. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... portrayal of Caesar's cometary soul is virtually identical to the star of Inanna-Ishtar-Venus? As ob-served by Schilling, the Romans themselves called the Latin comet image "the star of Venus.." Its form is that of Aristotle's anciently-remembered comet. AEON: Are you suggesting, then, that the oft-depicted star of Venus is an actual depiction of the original cometary form of Venus? Talbott: Yes, the archetypal star and the comet are the same thing. Venus is the Great Star and, in the early languages, the phrase carries the general meaning of the primeval, or prototypical star, the star par excellence. It is the star whose radiance streams out across the face of ...
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