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89 pages of results. 111. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in which Dr Velikovsky "frequently" asserts, or at least asserts even once, that the name Venus comes from the Latin venire, he ought to amend his own article accordingly, more particularly in the opening paragraph and in the first half of the concluding sentence. The same remark applies to passages in the first paragraph under "The Roman View" (p . 49). For the rest, I found Mr Lowery's article interesting and scholarly. What remains, incidentally, is the fact that, however mistakenly, some people in ancient Rome - a large enough number to warrant Cicero's referring to them as "nostri" (our people) - did derive the name ...
... dared not resolve upon nor execute any plan, so that in truth it was they who ruled, while the kings, who sat on golden thrones and fared sumptuously in their palaces, became mere ministers of the Druids' will."3 These might be described as unsolicited testimonials mainly from by no means too friendly sources, for the Romans regarded the Druids as their arch-enemies and massacred them. They are given the highest praise as philosophers and seers, a caste which searched into sublime subjects and taught the immortality of the soul. If Mela be right they must have been acquainted with world geography, astronomy, and astrology, while Dion, the most eminent of the Greek ...
113. Forum: Did Jews Fabricate Their History Between 500 and 1099AD? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... birth of Jesus). Yet we know that the first Crusades occurred some 1100 years after the naissance of Christianity because the Jewish chroniclers used a dating system that referred to another defining moment in Jewish history, one that had occurred, incidentally, in the same century Jesus of Nazareth was born: the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans and the subsequent expulsion of Jews from the Holy Land in 68AD. According to The Crusade Chronicle of Solomon Bar Simson', the Crusaders' attacks on the Jewish communities in Mainz, Worms and Speyer occurred in the year 4856 after the creation of the world, in the year 1028 of our exile', i.e . ...
114. Monitor. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Edge in the north. The first record of mining in this area was in the 17th century AD and finds of stone implements, which indicated much earlier mining, were dismissed as 19th century weights until a wooden shovel, also previously dismissed as recent by top museums, was radiocarbon dated to 1750 BC. Scepticism still ruled until 1995 when Roman coins were found in a tunnel and timbers were dated at 75 AD, just after the Romans arrived in Britain. It would appear the Romans took over already well established Bronze Age mines. Another occupation with a long history is growing opium poppies; seeds were found in an underwater excavation in Scotland dated to 2500 years ago. An ...
115. Reviewing Velikovsky'S Venus And Mars Theories [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , or the days of the year, when (and where) catastrophes occurred. These dates, therefore, cite where that marauding planet crossed the Earth's orbit. One intersection was when the marauding planet was coming in and the other was where it crossed our orbit going out. Sometimes the Earth was nearby. For instance, the old Roman tubulustrium (day of trouble) was March 20-21, just like the Hebrew "Passover." These are the two locations in the Earth's ancient orbit (the two days) that the Hebrews and Romans held as "fearidays" (almost the opposite of holidays). They were on anniversaries of earlier catastrophes. This indicates several things ...
116. Alexander and the Amazons: Ancient Belief and Modern Analysis [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon IV:4 (Apr 1996) Home | Issue Contents Alexander and the Amazons: Ancient Belief and Modern Analysis Tammy Jo Eckhart Introduction Amazon mythology (1 ) is commonly encountered in the writings and art of the ancient Greeks and Romans. While the abundance of writers who mention Amazons indicates that the ancients considered them an important race, the surviving accounts leave the modern scholar with many unanswered queries. Several groups of questions surface in the account of Alexander the Great's two reported encounters with these Amazons. The first group of questions concerns the very existence of Amazons: are they a historical people? Did these encounters really occur? The second group concerns their mythological ...
117. The Etruscans and their Language [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... by Hugh Crosthwaite The purpose of this short paper is to comment on a few Etruscan words in an attempt to discover more about the nature of religion in the ancient world. Livy, in his history of Rome, is our best known source for stories of the early days of Rome when the city was ruled by Etruscan kings. The Romans owed to the Etruscans many of their political and religious concepts and terms. We will start with words associated with the idea of kingship, which, in Mesopotamian usage, was sent down from heaven (the monarch took the hand of Bel'). There was a high ranking Etruscan official, whose title appears in various forms, ...
118. The Caves Of England. Ch.2 Revolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... " Certain scholars prior to Buckland had their own explanation for the provenience of elephant bones in the soil of England, and to them Buckland referred: "[ The idea] which long prevailed, and was considered satisfactory by the antiquaries [archaeologists] of the last century, was, that they were the remains of elephants imported by the Roman armies. This idea is also refuted: First, by the anatomical fact of their belonging to an extinct species of this genus; second, by their being usually accompanied by the bones of rhinoceros and hippopotamus, animals which could never have been attached to Roman armies; thirdly, by their being found dispersed over Siberia and North America ...
119. The Methodology of Patten's Martian Scenario [Journals] [Aeon]
... , Patten found himself accepting the same sources, and the events they describe, as evidence of these supposed calamities. Thus, in the main, Patten continues to follow Velikovsky in drawing heavily on the books of the Hebrew prophets and other chronicles of the Old Testament, to say nothing of tangential forays into the works of Classical Greek and Roman authors. In this respect, it can safely be stated that all of the criticisms and objections levelled at Velikovsky's postulate re the supposed Martian catastrophes of the 8th and 7th centuries B.C . stand also to undermine Patten's hypothesis. (1 ) Unless and until Patten can successfully refute these criticisms, his work must remain as irreconcilable ...
120. Indra and Brhaspati- II (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... it out of hand. (The record shows that Velikovsky made great efforts to address pertinent inquiries to leading scholars, usually- but not always- unsuccessfully so. Like myself, he was after scholarly knowledge, not establishment plaudits.) Cardona's own logic can be rather puzzling at times at least to me: " .. . the Roman Jupiter personified the planet Jupiter. By the same token, therefore [sic!], so must Indra." (Second emphasis only added.) Why? At the risk of being once more accused of "irrelevance" (surely one more time won't matter all that much), let me note that Odin was the chief ...
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