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164 pages of results. 651. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... them. But there is much more. In their response to the remembered "age of gods and wonders" the sky worshippers produced the great myths, symbols, and religious texts of antiquity. They expressed their fears in astronomical diaries. They recounted tales of celestial upheaval, reenacting the events in sacred dramas and mystery plays. And they ... . In analyzing ancient beliefs and practices, Dave had uncovered many cross-cultural patterns. He concluded that these patterns reflect celestial events no longer occurring. Though other students of comparative religion and mythology had noticed many of the themes, no one could explain them consistently in terms of familiar natural phenomena. Yet the global themes, Dave realized, are ...
652. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... they also came into contact with early writing. Some think writing was solely for recording economic information to start with but others are more inclined to the view that it was religious and gave power to an elite. A major rock engraving recently investigated in the Caha mountains of Ireland is purported to date between 500 BC and AD 500 and lies ... are not as many hard facts known about the Vikings as it would sometimes seem. Although the development of their long ships gave them a most successful fighting machine and their religion was very much that of the old gods of Europe and included human and horse sacrifice, they were far more than simply barbaric warriors. By the 8th century AD ...
653. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , as Pharaoh had commanded." Rameses was a border district in the eastern Delta, called after and holy to the Sun -god Re' or Ra'. Its religious centre was the city of On - Heliopolis in Greek. This city is mentioned in Genesis 41:45: Joseph's wife was the daughter of the High Priest of ... as representing the planet Jupiter. Not only is there a weak link between Zeus and the planet Jupiter, but Cook in a very scholarly tome (A Study in Ancient Religions), gives him all the attributes that Velikovsky associates with Venus. The last comment is that I have personally found little or no reference to connect either Aphrodite or ...
654. Aristotle's Tragedy: An Example of Collective Amnesia [Journals] [Kronos]
... ; his father had been physician to King Amyntas II of Macedonia.) The Politics even mentions the notions of healing and purgation together: "Some persons fall into a religious frenzy, whom we see as a result of the sacred melodies- when they have used the melodies that excite the soul to mystic frenzy- restored as though they ... these."(32) Nearly all of Greek drama was about "mythical" figures from such houses as these. Velikovsky argues that most of the world's myths and religions are of planetary and catastrophic origin. Stories of the adventures of various deities were inspired by the interactions of certain of the planets (Kronos and Zeus, Athena and ...
655. Nova of Super Uranus and Ejection of the Moon [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , are ancient and widespread and are not to be neglected as reflections of the ancient traumas imprinted upon the collective memory and sublimated into the first fictional literature alongside the sacred religious myths (de Grazia, 1978, 1984a). When the heavens were broken open, as by P'an Ku, the Chinese creator god, Super Uranus appeared in ... early human existence. But these and similar stories in the Teutonic, Greek, Roman, Hindu, Iranian, Mexican, Egyptian, and archaic (" primitive") religions are baffling in regard to their positioning in time. Given an empirically established calendar, a general review of the early literature may assign a period to them. Tentatively ...
656. The Origin of Mankind [Books]
... moulded, out of clay took powerful hold of human imagination. The most interesting, and certainly significant, example is probably that of the most authoritative and otherwise rather advanced religious belief of our times. In the first chapter, of the first section of the Holy Book of the Jews (cum-Christians) is found the magnificent statement that after ... meaning, and doubly dangerous to teach without a mass of explanatory, talk. Much of the discredit in which the Bible is held-axe which hence also extends to all the religion which is partly based upon it is due to the wrong teaching of fundamental sacred lore, that is, to, the unnecessary and skill-less stressing of the more obscure ...
657. Forum: Did Jews Fabricate Their History Between 500 and 1099AD? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to outline the raison d'être for this clash and some of the more bewildering developments among the German branch of the Velikovskian movement. Fiddling with Jewish history In Jewish cultural and religious history, the period between the early 7th century and the middle of the 11th century (~ 600 to ~1000AD) is generally known as the Gaonic period of ... 12]. In the early 9th century, however, a great upswing of intellectual creativity among both Arabs and Jews occurred, in particular with regard to the philosophy of religion and other forms of literature. The philosophical works of eminent Jewish-Arab scholars such as David Al-Mukammis (820-890), Isaak Israeli (850-932 ) and Sa'adia ben Josef ( ...
658. Genesis and Extinction [Books] [de Grazia books]
... bothersome problem. Nor is it the continual relapse into Lamarckian environmentalism that characterizes the literature of many professed Mendelian-Darwinists. It is the nagging intuition of purposefulness that afflicts both the religious and atheistic observers alike. The species, from the virus up to the human, appear to be put together meaningfully. The species function in the wierdest, meanest ... works of the Quantavolution Series), I maintain that the historical gods are scientifically explainable within the framework of natural causes and human nature, but merge into a philosophy of religion that is not germane here. Hence enlightenment on the scientific level has to come through a uniform explanation of the fossil record or through macromutation in a catastrophic setting. ...
659. The Still-Lost City of Avaris: The Capital and Stronghold of the Hebrew Pharaohs (Hyksos) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... He affirmatively mentions that these Semitic graves were like the ones built in the XIIth Dynasty. Even in contemporary society burials are an extremely personalized and emotionally charged inheritance. Each religious sect has its own piece of land for burials. Baines and Malek call it Tell el-Yahudiya4 (sometimes spelled this way although it refers to the same site) and ... the Children of Israel living in Egypt. It will also enable them to ascertain the true date of the Exodus, a pivotal endeavor for both Judaic/Christian and Islamic religions. As to how the Children of Israel are connected to the Hyksos regime in Ancient Egypt, see the author's "My Kingdom for a Horse."42 The ...
660. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Pensee]
... many variants of the same theme. In hymns, in prayers, in historical texts, in philosophical discourses, in records of astronomical observations, but also in legend and religious myth, the ancients desperately tried to convey to their descendants, ourselves included, the record of events that took place in circumstances that left a strong imprint on the ... the year, the length of the month and of the year and the motion of the planets? The legends and myths clearly point to an astral origin of all ancient religions. The problem that occupied the minds of the Classicists, Mesoamerican scholars, Orientalists, and students of social anthropology and mythology, was not solved in any one of ...
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