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69 pages of results. 521. Thoth Vol II, No. 13: Aug 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... celebrations or re-enactments had the effect, over time, of placing originally CELESTIAL gods on plots of earth. In commemoration of the gods and their attributes, ancient artists and architects fashioned thousands of terrestrial symbols- temples, cities, and kingdoms patterned after, and NAMED after, the dwelling of the gods. They constructed artificial mounds, pillars, pyramids and towers, reflecting earlier memories of the world mountain or pillar of the sky. So too, they founded innumerable holy sites in the shadow of sacred hills, or above sacred springs, or in proximity to sacred rivers- all made "holy" through symbolic projection, all pointing back to the world mountain, or fountain of the ...
522. Anchors Aweig [Journals] [Kronos]
... . F. Albright). However, Mellaart feels, this consensus is not supported by radiocarbon data from ancient Near Eastern material which has been "corrected" by the tree-ring calibration derived from the Californian bristlecone pine. For example, the corrected C14 dates for the Egyptian IIIrd Dynasty king Djoser (Zoser), builder of the famous Step Pyramid, fall around 2900 BC, while his dates in the accepted "middle" chronology are given as 2667-48 BC Rather than "demand that the physicists adjust their dating to the middle chronology", Mellaart attempts to show that the calibrated dates support the "high" chronology which he believes to be justified quite independently of the C14 evidence ...
523. The Garden, the Fall, and the Restoration [Journals] [Kronos]
... , and Meso-American cultures of centuries earlier. Velikovsky was fascinated by the ingenuity and acumen of the ancients: in an unpublished manuscript titled Shamir*, he cites evidence that radioactive material, hypnosis, and atmospheric electricity were understood and used millennia ago. He respected what ancient peoples conveyed to us about their experiences: if they could build the pyramids, compute the circumference of the Earth and build well-planned cities with running water, must we consider them such unreliable witnesses to natural events in their time that their descriptions must be interpreted as hyperbole, allegory or fantasy? [* A portion of Shamir was published in KRONOS VI: I, pp. 48-50, under that title. ...
524. Thanatos and Anastasis [Journals] [Aeon]
... his sepulcher after the stone was "rolled away" to be revealed before his disciples and adorants for one last earthly moment prior to heavenly ascent. The resurrection of Christ is not only a palimpsest of Osirian rebirth but, in his death and renewed life, Jesus became an Osiris as did the ancient Pharaohs. (41) In the Pyramid texts, we read: Osiris is Unas in the mounting chaff! .. .By the Two Kites of Osiris (Isis and Nephthys) .. .Unas is up and away to heaven; Unas is up and away to heaven...(Pyr. 308-309) (42) The stellar transformation of Jesus which worked ...
525. Thoth Vol II, No. 8: May 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... distinguishing characteristics of the first civilizations. BUT WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE THE SKY HAS CHANGED SO DRASTICALLY? The best I can ask for is a willingness to consider an argument. I could show you, for example, that certain celestial images preoccupied ancient man to the point of an obsession. A great cosmic wheel in the sky. The pyramid of the sun. The eye of heaven. Also the ship of heaven, a spiraling serpent, the raging goddess, and four luminous "winds" of the sky. The problem for conventional perspectives is that these images are far, far removed from anything we see in the heavens today. But that is only the beginning of ...
526. Historical Paradise and Collective Psychology [Journals] [Horus]
... evidence that the earliest peoples were deeply interested in astronomy, as well as in the plants and animals which surrounded them. And this is precisely what we find: the most ancient surviving monuments are astronomical in orientation and function and the examples which could be named are extremely numerous: Stonehenge; American Indian medicine-wheels; Egyptian, Chinese and American pyramids and temples; and neolithic earthworks in Europe, America and Asia. And when the ancients' concern was not with the heavens, it was with the flora and fauna of the natural world - witness the cave paintings of Altamira, or those of the Bushmen of Africa, in which the form and spirit of various animals are rendered ...
527. New Scenarios for Solar System Evolution [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Arp, Max Plank Institute, Garching, Germany: Open Problems in Cosmology (I ) For ¾ of a century science has believed that the universe was created instantly out of nothing and that this matter is still exploding away from itself in all directions. An enormous edifice of theory has been built upon this assumption but, like an inverted pyramid resting on its apex, it all rests on the assumption that the shifting to the red of the light of faint galaxies means that they are receding from us with speeds that can approach the speed of light. For the last 33 years, however, observational evidence has shown that objects of enormously different redshift can be at the same ...
528. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... humbug [that the bulge exists] for ever" as Slade suggests. There is no conspiracy to conceal the truth. Not only is the equatorial bulge a theoretical consequence of rotation, it has been deduced many times by observations made from the ground. Even the ancient Egyptians, if you believe Peter Tompkins' The Secrets of the Great Pyramid, knew the Earth was flattened at the poles. (b ) In reporting on Dr Slabinski's criticism of Warlow's tippe top model of geographic reversals, Ian Tresman is quite out of place even to chide Slabinski gently for not taking electromagnetic forces into account. This is not Slabinski's responsibility. All he was doing was correcting the errors in ...
529. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... President Reagan's science adviser. The 1976 Viking expedition to Mars took thousands of pictures of the planet's surface, and it appears that in the Cydonia region, there is an aggregation of features strongly suggestive of intelligent life. There is a face' apparently carved in a rock about a mile wide, and with perfect symmetrical features: also several pyramids arranged symmetrically in what could have been a city. The space scientists are divided into two camps, some saying the objects are artificial and others saying they are freak creations of nature. Adrian Berry writes an amusing column on the 26th, to the effect that "who is out there crying Wolf, wolf..." ' ...
530. A Catastrophist Reading of Religious Systems [Journals] [SIS Review]
... see them instead as human constructs serving human fear and therefore as legitimate areas for secular observation, and that is why I feel free to handle Stratum Four rationally and objectively, rather than submissively and reverently. Method This is what the world's religions look like when set out schematically in a certain way. The structure might be described as a pyramid if the term is understood organisationally, with power and identity flowing from the top down. To put it in one mouthful, the concept of the Deity as pre-existent creator in the distant past validates the sacred narratives about Divine intervention in the more recent past, which leads to a perception of the meaning of the world now and thereby ...
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