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164 pages of results. 411. The Amarna Royal Tomb [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... it should be noted that the burial equipment is of an entirely traditional style, including a Canopic chest and various statues. Many of these items are quite incompatible with Atenist religious practice. There are also, unsurprisingly, many points of similarity with items found with Tutankhamun. The bodies and most of the equipment was removed from the royal tomb ... , conventionally around 1350 BCE. A surprising feature was that many of the burial artefacts are familiar from traditional Egyptian funeral practice, and are nothing to do with the Amarna religion. Content The talk began with a photographic journey from the modern village within the city limits of Akhetaten, up to and along the wadis leading to the royal tomb ...
412. Akhenaten as Moses [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... summarised the main evidence used in support of his thesis that Akhenaten was in fact Moses, ruling Egypt prior to his departure. Akhenaten's motives, and some details of his religious beliefs were examined. Content Before the middle of the 19th century, essentially nothing was known of Akhenaten. However, it was known from the Old Testament that Moses ... the hieroglyphic representation of the word ma'at (meaning truth), traditionally incorporating a sign for deity, was changed to a form where the word was sounded phonetically. The religion was not a worship of the sun itself, but rather the sun was seen as an abstraction and visual representation of the power of god. His ideas represent the ...
413. Uniformitarianism, Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... his Cambridge days and on the Beagle, all of his teachers and friends firmly believed that species do not change. They held this belief in large part because of their religious views. The two teachers in Cambridge to whom Darwin was closest, Henslow and Sedgwick, were both orthodox Christians and accepted the dogma of the Bible literally, including ... the marvels of the world to demonstrate the existence and benevolence of the creator, as was done by the natural theologians; indeed, he quite deliberately never mixed science and religion. ' [4 : p. 364] Natural Theology In Britain at this time, such a distinction between science and religion would have been most unusual, because ...
... keyed to a Hamlet situation and an unexplained melancholy. The essence is an unsubstantial pageant of ambiguous abstractions, an elusive ballet of wildly symbolic actions tied to ritual magic and religious doctrines, with motivations which bear no parallel to normal ones. The whole thing is a puzzle to be interpreted through hymns-very much as in the Rigveda. ... the lineages 55 of the double village of Ogol and the most important totemic priests of the region of Sanga met together and. decided that the more esoteric aspects of their religion should be fully revealed to Professor Griaule. To begin this they chose one of their best informed members, Ogotomméli, who, as will be seen in the introduction ...
415. Kessinger Publishing [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Tales of Babylon that Survived its Fall; Earth's Oldest Language; Texts in the Akkadian, or Oldest Semitic Tongue; The Writings of Hammurapi; The Creation Epic; Other Religious Legends; Moral & Philosophical Texts; The Tel-el-Amarna Letters; Records of the Conquering Kings; Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, Illustrated. ISBN 0-7661-0013-8, 498 pages, $36 ... in Paradise (1830), The Serpent, a world-wide symbol, is either an omen of good, or evil. This book reveals the serpent's place in mythology and religion and how its symbolism varies from culture to culture. ISBN 1-56459-898-5, 410 pages, $29.95. Horne, Charles F., Sacred Books and Early ...
416. Paradise -- The Lost Frontier: Early Voyages to the Forbidden Isles [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) Home | Issue Contents Paradise- The Lost Frontier: Early Voyages to the Forbidden Isles Gunnar Thompson Regardless of what and where the original Paradise was, people from most religious traditions regarded it as an earthly region of eternal bliss. Its legendary location was not a secret: Paradise was believed to be situated across the Great Sea. Asians ... [34] The standard isolationist disclaimer that the Egyptian pyramids predate the New World pyramids by 3000 years does not account for the fact that Egyptian architecture, symbolism, and religion have continued to influence cultures throughout the world up through modern times. Just examine the back of the [U .S .] dollar bill in your pocket. ...
417. Shamash and Sin [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Horus II:3 (Fall 1986), p. 28; Sky and Telescope (Jan. 1990), pp. 74-76 12. H. Eggleton: Some Religious Themes in the Light of Velikovsky et alia', SIS Workshop 4:2 (Sept. 1981), p. 12 13. D. N. Talbott ... pagan deities, incorporating them as saints, and various pagan rites and festivals in an effort to satisfy newly acquired converts, so did Mohammed retain pagan elements in his new religion for similar reasons. In fact it can be honestly stated that all of the great religions of the world can be traced to those first primitive stirrings which humanity underwent ...
... which he presently went over all that country which he ruled round about, and taught the people, as well the laws which God gave them by Moses, as that religious worship that was due to him. He also constituted judges in every one of the cities of his kingdom; and charged them to have regard to nothing so much ... , with his friend Jehonadab, and gave orders to make search whether there were not any foreigner or stranger among them, for he would have no one of a different religion to mix among their sacred offices. And when they said that there was no stranger there, and they were beginning their sacrifices, he set fourscore men without, ...
419. Introduction: The Saturn Myth [Books]
... most spectacular light in the heavens and its impact on the ancient world overwhelming. In fact Saturn was the one "great god" invoked by all mankind. The first religious symbols were symbols of Saturn, and so pervasive was the planet god's influence that the ancients knew him as the creator, the king of the world, and Adam ... - all appearing as they do today, but for such ever-so-slight changes as the precession of the equinoxes. This long-standing belief not only confines present discussion of ancient myth and religion; it is the fixed doctrine of modern astronomy and geology: every prevailing theory of the solar system and of earth's past rests upon an underlying doctrine of cosmic uniformity ...
420. Who Were the Assyrians of the Persian Period [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the pages between 900 and 610 BCE. The Akhaemenid items are dated between 520 and 330 BCE. From this chronological sequence the conclusion is drawn that the material and religious world of the Akhaemenids is but an imitation of that of the Assyrians. Are we to believe that, nearly a century after the demise of Assyria, the Akhaemenids ... ). X. "It is not difficult to understand why Ashur never gained willing adherents among other nationalities. It should be remembered, however, that when the Zoroastrian religion prevailed in the land which had once been Ashur's, the symbol of the god still remained to testify to his former glory; for that symbol was adopted to represent ...
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