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164 pages of results. 831. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... new science" of pyramidology. And yet, the question persisted as to why any of the pyramids were ever built, especially the complex at Giza, comprising the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), Khafre (Chephren), and Menkaure (Mycerinos) southwest of Cairo, across the Nile. It was known that they had a religious significance and that they were built as tombs, although apparently never used as pharaonic crypts, and that they were numinously associated with the Egyptian god Osiris, and perhaps the primogenitor Atum, each having attributes comparable to the Greek god Kronos, the later Roman Saturn. By 1980, mythologist David N. Talbott afforded numerous clues in The ...
832. Graham Hanock: Adjudication [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... mock his correlation theory by showing that key buildings in modern Manhattan could be joined up to show a pattern correlating with Leo. Viewers had been given the impression that his theory was no more than a game of "join the dots". The Manhattan example was irrelevant as there had been no god identified with Leo and no relevant sky-ground religious system. The BBC said that the Manhattan example had been intended to show that "as long as you have enough points, and you don't need to make every point fit, you can find virtually any pattern you want". The programme had not suggested that Mr Hancock's theories rested on correlation patterns alone. It had said " ...
833. The Genie Of The Pivot [Journals] [Kronos]
... Dwardu Cardona argued from indirect indications that the Hindu god Shiva had once personified Saturn.(1 ) The customary Sanskrit name for Saturn is Shani, a name shared by Shiva.(2 ) A possible origin for this link can be found in the " 1000" names of Shiva listed in the Linga Purana, a late compendium of religious and mythical tradition. There Shiva is called Saturn, the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Venus.(3 ) Devoid of this ambivalence, Kala, whose meanings include Blackness, time, or the god Time, is a name of Saturn and of Shiva.(4 ) Likewise, Raivata is a name of Saturn and ...
834. SIS Study Group June 1995 [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... on the left destruction of 3 of the 4 world ages - by flood, fire, a wind and a burning raven coming from the sky. The commentary included the following observations: sometimes sticks were used sometimes protection was worn, as the balls were hard some tribes played with a burning ball balls might be sacrificed or burnt, in religious contexts sacrifices were directly linked to the ball game. We know that Meso-Americans dedicated sacrificed people to specific astral bodies, maybe to safeguard the movement of the sun. It is not explained why it came to be believed that this was necessary. In Mexico there were festivals once a year, when they feared the world would end. ...
835. From Myth to a Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... as ritual expressions, honoring, re-enacting and extending celestial forms and celestial episodes in the age of the gods. The first writing, vital technologies, monumental architecture, the rise of kings and larger-scale political organization, rites of sacrifice and wars of conquest- all of these distinctive attributes and tendencies of the first civilizations- can be traced to religious or ritual practices in which men sought to re-live and to extend the Prime Example provided in the mythical age. It is not an exaggeration to say that the makers of civilization never built anything considered sacred or undertook any religious act without first finding inspiration and guidance in a celestial prototype. And all traditions agree that prototype arose in the ...
836. Velikovsky's Place in the History of Science [Articles]
... these differences are cultural ones. Engineers and sociologists differ not only in that the one knows about machines and the other about human groups: they differ in what they mean by "knowing something"; in the relative value they put on practice and on theory; in their views on a variety of such ostensibly unrelated matters as politics or religion. Whether this stems more from self-selection in our choice of profession, or from the training we experience and internalize after making the choice, the fact of the matter remains quite plain, illustrated in numerous observations that I've reviewed elsewhere. . That fact of cultural differences needs to be accommodated in any attempt to design or practice interdisciplinarity. ...
837. Palestinian Archaeology and a Ramesses VI-Shishak Identification [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... the last of the LB great kings may help to resolve any difficulty here: Ramesses III's prerogatives within Solomon's empire could then illustrate the easy way of close LB allies with their own territory, as known from EA 24 and (here) 1 Kings 9:11,16. Clearly, the main motivation here would be the former Egyptian religious presence at Lachish and Beth-Shean. Again, EA 24 affords some comparison with its evidence for the importance of religious ties in LB alliances, and this is paralleled by Solomon's indulgence of his wives in this regard. Especially intriguing here is a possible actual OT reference to this Egyptian cult: in view of the Egyptian ring of Micah 1 ...
838. The Reliability of Biblical Synchronisms in Constructing an Historical Chronology from Rehoboam to Hezekiah [Journals] [SIS Review]
... acc 7.732 -1.722 Hoshea acc 7.716 -7.687 Hezekiah * Table 1 is derived from Thiele's tables I-X with month added by D. Garbett to indicate Thiele's overlapping reigns. Month 1 is Nisan, commencing in March so the table begins with 931-930 BC of the Julian calendar. The start of the year The religious year, the agricultural year and the regnal year need not correspond. The calendar used for religious observance during the monarchy period was an intercalated lunar calendar based on observation. The first day of the year could not have been accurately back-projected from the third century. It is not certain what time of year the religious New Year was celebrated ...
839. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Lost Legacy and the Genesis of Civilisation by Andrew Collins, Headline 1997, £18 99 Yet another book claiming that the pyramids date back way before the Pharaohs, inferring that there was an earlier, technologically advanced society. It presents new evidence from Egypt, Kurdistan and Eastern Turkey. Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion by Ev Cochrane, Aeon Press 1997, $20 plus postage (order from Aeon Press, 601 Hayward Ave., Ames, Iowa 50014, USA. For those interested in planetary catastrophism and the Saturn scenario in particular this is a must. Cochrane investigates the ancient myths surrounding the world-wide hero figure and god of war to determine ...
840. Chapter XXIII: The Egyptian Year and the Nile [Books]
... , with here and there an island, which, on inspection, turns out to be a village, the mud houses of which too often are undermined by the lapping of the waves in the strong north wind. There is no doubt that the dates of the rise of these rivers not only influenced the national life, but even the religions of the dwellers on their banks. The Euphrates and Tigris rise at the Spring Equinox- the religion was equinoxial, the temples were directed to the east. The Nile rises at a solstice- the religion was solstitial and the solar temples were directed no longer to the east. To the Egyptians the coming of the river to the ...
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