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... expressed that this pictograph was a highly conventionalized Map' of the World' known to the inhabitants of the Andinian Life Asylum, which also features certain magical' (or religious') elements. In some quarters this opinion was regarded as fanciful, if not downright fantastic. (In this regard I would like to say, emphatically, ... be adduced (except "unremembered memories" of satellite worship, which, as I have shown in my mythological works, is, after all, the ultimate basis of religion'). -H.S .B . 350 23 Tuncamayani' The Number Eleven The Hendecade 0ne of the most peculiar things one meets when dealing with the ...
572. The Jupiter Order [Books] [de Grazia books]
... see behind to Chapter Six). Jupiter is the most phallic of the great gods. The association of electrical stimulation, phallicism, and thunderbolting is strongly linked to the religious rites in vogue at the time of Jove (Ziegler, pp65-72). Phallic worship is common among Jupiter-type deities (Tresman and O'Gheoghan). The Amun temples in ... electrical aspects of the god are here apparent; "the euhemerization of electricity", Blavatsky calls him. Lightning is handled by a number of gods in the history of religion, but all together these are insignificant compared with the references accorded Homer's "Jupiter the Thunderbolter" alone. It is natural to see in this literature an exaggeration of ...
573. "The Basest Of The Kingdoms". Part 2 Ch.2 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... have been associated with Wenamon in the building of the shrine at Umm-Ebeida in the oasis, it follows that Herihor also lived under Darius II; he was vested with the religious rank of a high priest but in the oases, the southern (el-Kargeh) and the northern (Siwa), he had also a secular rank, that of ... in Jerusalem as well as in Egypt. Ezra, though of a priestly line, was not descended from a high priest. Nevertheless, he succeeded in moulding the Jewish religion into forms that were unbreakable through the Persian, Greek, and Roman times, and through the nineteen centuries of Diaspora. The Egyptian priests of his time supplemented their ...
... , if it were possible, to cast out of his memory those his former sins against God, of which he now repented, and to apply himself to a very religious life. He sanctified the temple, and purged the city, and for the remainder of his days he was intent on nothing but to return his thanks to God ... ten days. Now Jehoiakim's mother was called Zebudah, of the city Rumah. He was of a wicked disposition, and ready to do mischief; nor was he either religions towards God, or good-natured towards men. CHAPTER 6. HOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR, WHEN HE HAD CONQUERED THE KING OF EGYPT MADE AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE JEWS, AND SLEW ...
... our first impression when we found it was that the figure was an early one, re-erected when the building was being re-modelled. But this archaism must be due simply to religious conservatism." The analogy was made both ways: with what was thought early and what was thought late, and the last consideration (" the analogy of the ... information on the political history of these principalities, consisting, as they do, mostly of dedicatory inscriptions. Increasingly, archaeological evidence provides a view of the daily life, religion, and cultural achievement of the city states. There is every indication that their culture was indigenous, that it grew from its own roots and matured in a slow ...
576. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... Their household was to any guest invited into it a civilized and familial one, where music and art were routinely at home and where the Western humanist, rationalist, and religious inheritance was held in respect. You knew this from the moment you entered it, whether in New York City or later in the modest house in Princeton where he ... . Velikovsky's words in this respect were carefully chosen, especially in his epilogue, where he summarized the problems he knew he was presenting for ancient history, the origins of religion, psychology, geology, paleontology, and, not least, astronomical physics. Being aware of these, he made explicit what conclusions must necessarily follow from his, ...
577. "Just Plainly Wrong": A Critique of Peter Huber [Journals] [Kronos]
... Inanna" and the myth of "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World", we should not forget Velikovsky's word of caution in the morning session: Sumerian was used for religious and other special purposes long after it ceased to be a living language. In this respect it resembles Latin. And we should not assume that a text is very ... Those who doubt the preeminence of Venus should recall that Venus or Inanna was the principal deity in the pantheon at Uruk. And those who doubt the astral character of ancient religion might do well to note that on the Uruk tablets one and the same symbol is used both for "deity" and for "star" or "heavenly body ...
578. Chapter 14 Agronomy and Climatology [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , or of sunrise and sunset on equinoctial days. As this purpose was not perceived, the object for which the obelisks were built seemed enigmatic: "The origin and religious significance of the obelisks are somewhat obscure."9 7 Ibid., p. viii 8 H. Nissen, Orientation, Studien zur Geschichte der Religion (1906 ... ; E. Pfeiffer, Gestirne und Wetter im griechischen Volksglauben (1914), p. 7. See also F.C . Penrose, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, CLXXXIV, 1893, 805-834, and CXC, 1897, 43-65. 9 R. Engelbach, The Problem of the Obelisks (1923), p ...
579. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... deposits of the Earth and reported them to be the result of universal deluges; just as often they have been rebutted by scientists who see in their studies the hand of religious authority. The greater the controversy, the less immediate the conviction that my few paragraphs here can convey. Nevertheless, I will state that an unbiased scientist must today ... , who had explained the Deluge by a comet, he then wrote the first scientific work uniting the four factors; comet, flood, terror, and the origin of religion. G.R . Carli followed in a few years with additional world-wide legends and geological evidence of catastrophe. The ancient reports of universal catastrophe, both men reasoned ...
580. Water [Books] [de Grazia books]
... have been squeezed from below. Its excessive salinity in the oceans has already been discussed. Its "misbehavior" is subject of countless legends and its symbols are engraved in religious doctrine and ritual. It has apparently been highly energized in the past in the form of tides, deluges, and ice. That the exoterrestrial connections of Earth's water ... God" must have made the basins to hold the water, and even if gods are dispensed with, the basins must stay. So just as some communists stuff their religion into the mummies of Lenin and Mao, some geologists stuff their religion into the "nature" that wisely provided ocean basins to hold the great waters. The waters ...
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