| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: roman in all categories
884 results found.
89 pages of results. 321. The Identification of the Biblical "Queen of Sheba" with Hatshepsut, "Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia"" [Journals] [Kronos]
... 7 ) But the problem continued to haunt scientists. Weill (1926) was followed by Neugebauer (1938), who published an important and provocative study of the Egyptian calendar,(8 ) and Winlock (1940), who seriously doubted the validity of the Sothic theory. "The ancient Egyptians, from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period, have not left a single trace of such a fixed calendar. Out of the thousands which have survived from dynastic Egypt not one document gives equivalent dates in the known wandering' year and the hypothetical fixed' year. Furthermore, by the time that relations with the outside world were such as to result in unprejudiced foreign evidence ...
322. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that the Norman invasion and the Crusades are similar cases of aggressive migrations triggered somehow inevitably by cometary activity [40]. Much more mundane causes have been well explored! The authors provide one further piece of mediaeval evidence. The monk Gildas wrote in the mid-6th century AD of events a hundred years earlier in Britain [41]. The Roman Legions had been withdrawn as the fragmenting Empire became the target of power-hungry warlords from within and without. Saxon mercenaries served British kings in their wars against invading Scots and Picts. Eventually the imported warriors turned on their hosts and ravaged the island, destroying, according to Gildas (who only describes the West country), all the towns ...
... . See also Plato. Creuzer, Friedrich. Symbolik und Mythologie der Alten Volker, besonders der Griechen, 3rd ed. Leipzig-Darmstadt, 1837-42. Cutin, S. "Chess and Playing Cards," AR U.S . National Museum for 1896 (Washington, 1898), pp. 667-842. Cumont, Franz. After Life in Roman Paganism. New York, 1959. Cumont, Franz. "Adonis et Sirius," Extrait des Melanges Glotz, vol. 1 (1932), pp. 257-64. Curwen, E. Cecil. "Querns," Antiquity, vol. 11 (1937), pp. 135-51. Dahnhardt, Oskar. Natursagen. Leipzig-Berlin ...
324. The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... " - translated as "revolution" - actually means "to move in a circle, " "to go round." The same idea is also expressed in the Book of Second Chronicles by the phrase "in the revolution [tequwphah] of the year."(7 ) Most striking of such ancient round devices was the pre-Christian Roman stone calendar in which a circle of 24 holes represented 24 half-months. (Drawing 5) Every 15 days a peg was advanced one hole. Thirty other holes, ranged along each side and appropriately numbered, were used to keep track of the date while an additional 7 holes at the top indicated the days of the week.( ...
325. Aphrodite The Moon or Venus? (Continued) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... allocated, and vice versa. The interplay of names and epithets is part of this process, but more unconsciously, the neural equivalents must function. Basically such is the meaning of the practically universal theological belief: "God cannot exist without the Devil." How did Aphrodite finally work her way on to the planet Venus, displacing the Romans' Minerva and Greeks' Athena? That she was originally the Moon-Goddess is unquestionable. Minerva had the military and craftswomanlike traits of Athena. But Homer and Hesiod already had liberated Athena from her planet and had her as a free-flying goddess. So, in the Iliad (IV, 74), she swoops down upon the Trojan plain ...
326. A Concordance Of Disaster [Journals] [Kronos]
... back to the time of the Sixth Dynasty, about 2200 B.C . It was a time when the Old Kingdom' . . . was in decay, and when Egyptian society was breaking down into feudalism, confusion and misery. Ipuwer didn't like the situation and described it very much in the tones with which Tacitus described the decaying Roman society of his time and the New Left describes the decaying American society of our own time."(3 ) Asimov then went on to question the very reality of Ipuwer's lament. . what are we to make of Ipuwer's words, which go on and on in their wailing? Is it possible, is it just barely possible ...
327. Were the "Sumerians of the Third Millennium" in Reality the Chaldeans of the First Millennium? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Sippar, and others show striking similarities with the Sumerian' city names of the third millennium [cf. Dietrich, 9-18; Malbran, 15-37)." This information is correct. Larsa, Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Kish, and Sippar were occupied at various times. However, various European cities have occupation levels going back to Roman times, but the peoples of England, France, and Germany are not Romans because they lived in the same territories and cities conquered and occupied by the Romans 2000 years ago. So too the Sumerians were not the Chaldeans of the first millennium because the Chaldeans lived in their old cities and territories. 48a The fact that not a ...
328. Binomial Coefficients, Permutations and Combinations in Elam and Babylon [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... the various permutations of straight and broken lines taken three at a time. This arrangement of lines is seen on amulets and charms in China and India, and it is also used as an ornament on objects where it can have no mystical significance whatever. Interest in the subject of permutations was relatively slight among the Greeks, but in late Roman times Boethius (c . 510) gave a rule for the number of combinations of n things taken 2 at a time.(5 ) The development of the Binomial Theorem, beginning with Euclid's formula for (a+ b)2 and culminating in Abel's proof of the theorem for any value of the exponent, covers a period ...
329. A Glance at Compartive Mythology by Isaac Vail [Books]
... Mythology Isaac N. Vail "Far away in the twilight time of every people in every clime Dragons and griffins and monsters dire Born of water and air and fire Crawl and wriggle and foam with rage Through dusk, tradition and ballad age" We are so accustomed to think of mythology in its connection with the poetry of the Greeks and Romans that we forget, if indeed we have realized with our poet, that every people in every clime has a myth system of its own. To make our glance at comparative mythology comprehensive, we must keep this fact in view, for we shall find that nations most widely separated often have traditions very similar in character. In considering ...
330. 1421: The Year China Discovered America (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Europe was relatively unaware of any lands in the Western oceanic expanse and traded overland to Middle Eastern and Asiatic marketplaces, paying baksheesh and bribes to the wealthy and avaricious Mongol and Persian potentates along the Silk Road, while complaining over the ever-increasing prices in such trades and looking for alternate passages. This was a very old complaint, as the Roman statesman Seneca in the First Century ad had also bemoaned the high costs of goods and spices from the Orient and predicted that another route across the Western expanse beyond the Pillars of Hercules would some day be found. But, until the Portuguese Prince Henry "The Navigator" sent a paltry few, but successful, lanteen-sailed fleets to explore ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.043 seconds |
