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164 pages of results. 631. Heinsohn's Ancient "History" [Journals] [Aeon]
... Aryan from the Achaemenid clan. [20] Indeed, the Persian king seems to go out of his way to emphasize his Aryan heritage: "In its ethno-linguistic and religious aspects, the word ariya...can be traced back to the Achaemenid period (and even earlier times). In their inscriptions, Darius and Xerxes not ... none to set aside my statutes." [55] Darius, as we have seen, was renowned for his patronage of Ahuramazda, the leading god of the Zoroastrian religion: "A great god is Ahuramazda, who gave this beautiful work, who gave favor to man, who gave wisdom and friendliness to Darius the king." ...
632. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... first hear My commandments, and the men will then follow their counsel." [189] God, furthermore, knew that women are more scrupulous in their observance of religious percepts, and hence He first addressed Himself to them. Then, too, God expected the women to instruct their children in the ways of the Torah, wherefore ... : "If thou dost not accompany us as a favor, I will command thee to do so, that the Israelites might not say thou hadst been converted to our religion only in the expectation of receiving a share in the promised land, but hadst returned to thy home when thou didst discover that proselytes have no claim on property in ...
... Caledonian chain of lochs to Tarbat Ness. Having reached the Caledonian country, so different in the character of its peoples from the Western Highlands, the one superstitious, intensely religious, inclined to be inert, the other practical, hard-headed, venturesome, and colonizing, it may be advisable to say something of Mon~ via, a~ ... to examine controverted points, to settle what is doubtful, and by the authority of monuments and histories to throw light upon the manners, art, Ianguage, policy and religion of past ages." BORLASE in Antiquities of Cornwall. THERE is an extraordinary account of the Flood, preserved by the Hellenes as the Deluge of Deucalion, in ...
... the desire to set up these sacred stones in honour of their tutelary deity which they singularly enough neglected to do at home! The more so since they were a very religious people. It is so impossible a proposition that necessarily we must discover the flaws and readjust the evident error. Rolleston, a well-known writer on the Celts, summarized ... of his times, but he recognized in Avebury (in his work termed Abury) a Temple of the British Druids, not only the origins of "the aboriginal patriarchal religion", but associated Abraham with it. Quite irrespective of Stukeley, and approaching the subject from an entirely different angle, I long ago came to the like conclusion ...
635. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... May Day. They are thus purified initiates, like priests, able to observe and consecrate the transformation from Winter to Spring. In other words, this day is a religious occasion, and these princes are fit to supervise it. What we should therefore expect is a preamble to establish the day's meaning theoretically before the actual passage into the ... night, but turning finally to salvation by morning. This pattern encapsulates the Velikovskian sequence in brief and is also universal to most creative art, myth, folklore, and religion. In the play, because it is not a dream, the variations have been carefully, geometrically structured to produce an ordered result because they must fulfill a conscious ...
636. The Cambridge Conference [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the biblical Deluge. Other cultures have similar flood myths and a few have acted them out in ritual games and festivals, held in the form of combats, sacrifices, religious ceremonies or dramatisation of catastrophe. From the beginning they had the function of pacifying catastrophic forces in an attempt to prevent an apocalyptic end of the world. Flood festivals ... cosmology, opened by Irving Wolfe with another of his thought provoking catastrophic interpretations. Those who had heard Irving at last year's Nottingham meeting, interpreting the development of the world's religions as a response to the trauma of cosmic catastrophe, recognised the formula as applied to the development of western cosmologies. Why were they successful? What did they sell ...
637. The Catastrophic Substructure of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.(2 ) Thus, the political story acquires a vast religious dimension- it clears the way, prepares the ground, for a new life, for Christ. The turbulence in this tragedy leads to a welcome, beneficent stasis ... up against a universal watershed. Once you cross over, you cannot look at anything as you did before. Every human activity, from war to government to science to religion to art, is seen in a new, revolutionary light. In this paper, I want to look at William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra from the Velikovskian optic. ...
638. Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery [Journals] [Kronos]
... and Jacobean Literature (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1960), p. v. 34. John Strype, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England During Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign Together with an Appendix of Original Papers of State, Records, and Letters (New York ... truly graced in her proper weed. Such changes never have been seen of yore, In countries and in Kingdoms, as of late, Manners, and Laws, and Religion's lore, Never were prized at so mean a rate: Such are the changes of this Earth's estate, It may be said, Time's wings begin to fry, ...
639. The Reforming Of The Calendar, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... of Jerusalem was no longer correctly oriented after the cardinal points had become displaced. On his accession to the throne following the death of Ahaz, Hezekiah "inaugurated a sweeping religious reformation."22 II Chroni cles 29:3 ff. Says: "He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the ... 12 S. Smith, Babylonian Historical Texts, p. 22. 13 Ibid., p. 25. 14 A. Jeremias, Der alte Orient und die ägyptische Religion (1907), P. 17; Winckler, Forschungen, III, 300 15 Bezold, Zenit und Aequatorialgestirne am babylonischen Fixsternhimmel (1913), p. 6 ...
640. On the Pendulum Experiment (Vox Popvli) [Journals] [Kronos]
... I agree with Peter James [and P. N. Friedman] on the primary political meaning of Bit Sulmani in el-Amarna document 290. Velikovsky was clearly mistaken on its religious reference. He should have discerned the analogy with Bit Omri, and recognized that Jehoshaphat would have referred to his capital in terms appreciable by the Egyptian recipients of his ... Man's Cosmos is at stake. In a secular age, Velikovsky was an "exoheretic" precisely because he presumed to question irreverently some of the sacred precepts of the secular religion embodied in twentieth-century establishment science.... Gunnar Tomasson Bethesda, MD STRATIGRAPHY AND CATASTROPHISM To the Editor of KRONOS: Pursuant to the difference of opinion between KRONOS ...
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