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89 pages of results. 311. The Calendar [Journals] [Aeon]
... to place on record the credibility of this Sothic Period. I can find no better summary [9 ] than that used by Eva Danelius: "The scheme [i .e ., Sothic dating] commonly applied is that of a calendar tied to the fixed star called Spdt in Egyptian, Sothis in Greek, and Sirius by the Romans- the English Dog Star. ' The star becomes visible in Egypt about the time when the Nile begins to rise...the most important event for a country the productivity of whose fields depended on the annual Nile Flood. After having tied the calendar to a fixed star, it became possible, through most complicated mathematical and ...
312. More Problems with Sothic Dating [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of two other sources-Geminus and P. Paris 1 provides less speculative evidence. When this evidence is combined with the empirical evidence provided by double-dated material from Elephantine, it should be clear that Sothic dating, as now practised, yields invalid results since the Egyptians did not continuously employ the calendar described by Censorinus from the early 3rd millennium BC until Roman times. Indeed, it would appear that the calendar described by Censorinus was not instituted until sometime after the Persian period. However, before discussing Geminus and P. Par, I must correct my earlier explanation for Porten's close matches of the Egyptian and Babylonian' calendar dates in double-dated documents from Elephantine in light of subsequent studies. Porten ...
313. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . The digression into Old European seems unlikely to be relevant given the enormous time gap and the simplicity of most of the signs in Eccott's figs. 5-7 (i .e . the signs are similar merely by coincidence). Compare this to the much more complicated signs which are duplicated in his fig. 4 apparently showing links to the Roman Empire region. There is other evidence of links between the Mediterranean and the Americas. Roman jars have been found in Brazil (mentioned in a Channel 4 Equinox TV programme, The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies', 8/9 /96). Eccott on p. 28 mentioned a Roman pot, moulded in the form of ...
314. Medieval Europe: Dating and Recent Developments [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... about people and events of importance. He also helped establish the basis of a literary tradition at Canterbury that was admired and copied in the Court of Charlemagne. Gildas Author of De excidio Britonum and used extensively by Bede to cover the period of the first Christian conversion and the Anglo-Saxon conquest. Clearly the work was written against a background of Roman Britain. His dates are uncertain, but a 10th century work gives his death as 570 but, according to Blackwell, Bede seems to place him in the period before 540, in a more secure Roman context. Incidental Sources See Part 2, (page 14). The description of other documentary sources applies to this period also ...
315. Freud and Velikovsky Part II [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... among you who keeps in his heart the least memory of the old studies- he surely shall perish, he and all about him. For our destination is a place which will not suffer law and ritual; for these carry with them only death, while we are marching toward life.48 Mobs of Frank-thinkers followed their leader into the Roman Catholic Church where they warned the gullible who thronged around them to beware of the Jews. The Jews, they said, kidnapped Christian children to use their blood for baking Passover bread. In November 1757 the protector of the Frank-thinkers, Bishop Nicolas Dembowski, died. Orthodox Jews persecuted the apostates; they fled from their nucleus in Buczacz ...
316. 'Worlds in Collision' After Heinsohn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... lie buried under thick layers of clay. Analysis The task remaining is to apply Velikovsky's three assumptions to his own material as re-dated by Heinsohn: which synchronisations of datable accounts enable us to identify which celestial bodies as agents in what sequence of catastrophes? While some of the material in Part II of Worlds in Collision - mainly the Greek, Roman and Chinese - would be retained by Heinsohn for the -8th/ -7th century period of the last catastrophes, much of it (mainly the Egyptian, Mesopotamian and, above all, the Hebrew) he places too late to qualify as contemporaneous testimony. I propose therefore to collapse the two parts of the book into one and I ...
317. Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... stationary with respect to the seasons. The introduction of a leap year is connected with the name of Julius Caesar. Octavius Augustus made the calendar with leap years the legal calendar in Rome, and a few years later, in -26 or by other calculations in -29, introduced it in Alexandria in Egypt. The Egyptians of the Hellenistic and Roman periods knew that the length of the year is 365 1/4 days: the Canopus Decree and the writings of Diodorus of Sicily (10) prove it. It is possible that Caesar borrowed this knowledge from the Egyptians, but they themselves were reluctant to make their religious year equal to their astronomical year. The Roman authors of ...
318. The Catastrophic Substructure of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... prevalent image she projected for the Renaissance, Davidson tells us, was as a universal troublemaker, for though not true in every sense, the claim may be provisionally made that Venus ought to be seen in terms of discord. . . Cleopatra likewise is in one sense also viewed by Shakespeare as a major source of discord within the ancient Roman world.38 If we apply the celestial equivalents which I have tried to establish earlier in my analysis of this play, we can see that the Renaissance picture of Cleopatra is much like Velikovsky's picture of Venus. Next, we look at Cleopatra's effect upon Antony. It was generally considered, Davidson tells us, that Antony's attraction to ...
319. Flavius Josephus Against Apion Book 1 [Books]
... , I have composed a true history of that whole war, and of all the particulars that occurred therein, as having been concerned in all its transactions; for I acted as general of those among us that are named Galileans, as long as it was possible for us to make any opposition. I was then seized on by the Romans, and became a captive. Vespasian also and Titus had me kept under a guard, and forced me to attend them continually. At the first I was put into bonds, but was set at liberty afterward, and sent to accompany Titus when he came from Alexandria to the siege of Jerusalem; during which time there was nothing ...
320. The Riddle of the Earth [Books]
... was not, I suggest, our Sun, but the star Sirius, regarded by the Egyptians and Phoenicians as the central sun of the universe (145).It is at least noteworthy that this cycle of legends points to those very regions in the Atlantic indicated by the volcanic linear belt, particularly to the British Isles, famed in Roman days as the Celtic Underworld, the legendary scene of a world catastrophe, where, too, we discover both amber and tin. Be this as it may, the Phaeton account does definitely propose that at some past date a comet, like that of 1880 [a ], coming from the direction of Sirius, broke into a ...
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