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... as revealed in thousands of tomb measurements, have stated definitely that there was never any emigration from Asia into Europe, whilst again we find Sir William Ridgeway, the learned authority on Greek antiquities, tracing the origin of the Hellenic peoples to the neighbourhood of the north and probably to the Baltic. (Early Age of Greece.) The Romans themselves, with an origin which has mystified investigation, have long been thought by many learned students to have owed their origin to Scandinavia. Also, in the Roman era, the south was continually assailed by vast migrations from the north or north-east, driven by hunger and cold to the prosperous communities of the south. The Cimbri, ...
222. King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend, by Rodney Castleden (Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the west of Britain and the north. There are lots of little bits of information in this book that are factual but some are conjectural. For instance, the status of Tintagel in the Dark Ages may have been due to the tin trade. Castleden also mentions the unspeakable trade in slaves, which must have been extensive in the Roman period. This would presumably have involved the export of British slaves, the product of warlord activity - and Arthur was a warlord. He may also have been a slave trader, Castleden speculates, bringing him power and wealth. Castleden also raises some interesting chronological points, particularly about the date of Gildas' work The Ruin of Britain ...
223. Specs and Bureaucracies [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... old wheel ruts. So who built these old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts? The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the chariots were made for or by Imperial Rome they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Thus, we have the answer to the original questions. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Specs ...
224. Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, by John North [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the night sky. North even considered the viewing platform was in use in the 2nd century AD, or possibly a bit later, a date I find intriguing as dendrochronology has a small glitch in the mid 3rd century, a short period of very cold weather that led to folk movements, tribes from the Baltic region moving south towards the Roman border along the Danube. If this had involved portents in the sky, and remember, Christianity mushroomed in the 3rd century, the locals may have reverted to studying the heavens. By looking down from a position on or near the hill figure itself, North noted that a road can be seen running away in a dead straight line ...
225. Planetary Worship [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to invent the equation of planets with gods. Besides, he was not the only one to offer the assertion. Others maintained and voiced identical opinions. Among the Greeks, Lucian of Samosata also knew this verity.(10) Plato, who recognized it on his own, had it verified by the Egyptians.(11) The Romans, who, in their turn, borrowed most of their deities from the Greeks, were no different. In fact, the synonymity of planets with gods was so entrenched among the Romans that Cicero denied the possibility of orbital changes simply because he believed this to be contrary to the planets' godly character.(12) It is ...
226. The Day the Sun Stood still [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... striking that it can hardly be doubted that such an event actually took place. Many scholars (both ancient and modern) place the Israelite conquest of Canaan in the fifteenth century BC.7 Although it may not be possible to assign Joshua's catastrophe to a specific year, the precise date of the disaster has been preserved for us by the Roman poet Ovid. In his Fasti, a didactic poem about the Roman calendar and religious festivals, he made the following comments about March 19, the birthday of the goddess Minerva: And after one more day the rites of Minerva are performed, which have their names from a group of five days. The first is free of bloodshed ...
227. Synodos, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... a celestial body that, changing its path, passed close by the earth, and he even pointed to the planets as the cause of periodic world catastrophes9 The Greek term for the collision of planets is synodos, which, in the words of a modern interpreter, requires a meeting in space and also a collision of planets.10 The Romans knew that the earth is one of the planets; Pliny, for instance, wrote: "Human beings are distributed all round the earth and stand with their feet pointing toward each other. . . . Another marvel, that the earth herself hangs suspended and does not fall and carry us with it."11 The earth, ...
228. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Earth's climate is often assessed by carbon dioxide levels, but some research indicates that variations in cosmic-ray activity are much more important in regard to temperature fluctuations. Radiation, magnetised plasma and energetic particles from the Sun are all key factors which need to be taken account of in models of climate change in the past. THE IMPACT OF A ROMAN LEGEND (New Scientist, 21.6 .03. p. 13) A legend of a falling star has been around in Italy since Roman times in the 4th century AD. Constantine was supposedly converted to Christianity after seeing an amazing vision in the sky in 312 AD. This is now supported by the discovery of impact characteristics ...
229. Origins of the Red Dragon Symbol? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the word "Dreigiau" (dragons) to describe Mellt Didaranau (lightning unaccompanied by thunder). It is also interesting that Alastair McBeath gives the date 537 as referring to a siting of a celestial object (probably a comet) as having a bearing on the origin of some dragon- related myths. In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', Gibbon (Pelican abridgement, Low. D.M ., 1960, p. 580) refers to this very date as one where a comet was sighted widely in Europe and was considered to have brought pestilence and crop failures in the following years. This is also the date given generally to the year of birth ...
230. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... A fact that must not be taken lightly is that planets and comets are often explicitly associated with each other in archaeoastronomical traditions, with survivals in modern folklore. According to various of these pre-scientific views, comets are somehow produced by planets or planets and comets are related otherwise. Somehow a dynamic relationship is suggested between the two. The great Roman philosopher, Seneca, quoted his little known predecessor Apollonius of Myndus, who flourished in the 4th century BCE, to the effect that the ancient Babylonians described comets as bodies something like planets: Apollonius says that the Chaldaeans place comets in the category of planets and have determined their orbits ÿ 1 Le Boeuffle paraphrases Seneca: Il affirme . ...
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