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89 pages of results. 391. Hereditary Monarchy in Assyria and the Assyrian Kinglist [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... but disappeared by this juncture in history, but the principle of hereditary monarchy, from this time and even before it, can still be supported, based on cultural and linguistic continuity. This is generally true throughout Europe, a region that also shares a common culture and essentially cognate tongues. But now we pass through the extensive period of Roman rule, and cross the threshold of the modern age and enter the Hellenistic world. Our journey carries on through Persian, Babylonian. Assyrian, and back to ancient Sumerian times. This last sequence represents an entirely different cultural-linguistic continuum. The slender thread of cultural-linguistic continuity with the west has been entirely severed. Can we now be as ...
392. The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin [Journals] [Kronos]
... Nor is his terrestrial history much more satisfactory. The Americas do not figure at all in Sitchin's narrative, despite the fact that some of the best evidence for ancient astronautics comes from aerial surveys of the desert near Pisco, Peru. Africa figures solely as a source of metals for Mesopotamians and Europe only to the extent that the Greeks and Romans absorbed Levantine ideas. Even the northern and eastern parts of Asia are slighted. Virtually all of the author's attention is focused on the Fertile Crescent and the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hebraic cultures that developed in and around it. Anthropologists would call his purview ethnocentric in the extreme; geographers might equally well call it topocentric. And, ...
393. Brhaspati [Journals] [Kronos]
... as Brhaspati Graha, or the planet Jupiter, but also as Indra Devta, or the god Indra.(4 ) At the time of the Alexandrian invasion of India, the Greeks seem to have seen this same association. The Indologist Heinrich Zimmer wrote that "the invaders identified Indra with their own Zeus".(5 ) In Roman mythology, Zeus is called Jove or Jupiter.(6 ) Both of the latter identifications tend to equate Indra, the Vedic god, to Brhaspati, the Vedic god whose name is shared with that of the cosmic object Jupiter. These direct identifications are strengthened by the fact that Brhaspati and Indra, as gods, share identical exploits ...
394. Humbaba [Journals] [Kronos]
... is depicted in art as being composed of winding entrails. De Santillana and von Dechend might have been the first to realize that this bears a striking similarity to the Aztec god Tlaloc's features which are shown to be formed from two winding serpents. These winding serpents they then compare to those which form the caduceus of the Greek Hermes and the Roman Mercury.(7 ) Thus they intimated that the serpentine features of Tlaloc, as well as the intestinal ones of Humbaba, could represent the continuous track of the planet Mercury's orbit around the Sun as it would have been drawn by an observer from Earth.(8 ) "The reason the caduceus, the face of Tlaloc, ...
395. Forget Amnesia [Journals] [Aeon]
... eventually fade from memory. Although nothing quite matches the impact of global catastrophes, a bit of historical digging uncovers many widespread reasons for the "forgetting" of past events. The Renaissance, for example, spelt the end of many ideas and practices that disappeared beyond time's horizon: time-honored memory system used by clerics, rabbis, Greek and Roman orators, and anyone else who wanted to recall great gobs of information. Today, these techniques are nearly forgotten. Dale Carnegie teaches an abbreviated version of the system in public speaking classes. Students are taught twenty-one "memory hooks," onto which they "hang" the key ideas of their speech. Francis Yates' charming book ...
396. Is Venus' Heat Decreasing? [Journals] [Pensee]
... the phenomenon in about five synodical periods of Venus, or eight terrestrial years at the most. The measurements need to be taken of the night and day sides of the planetary envelope and also of the terminator. The basis for this expected detection is in my maintaining that Venus is a newcomer to the solar system (which is what the Romans also intended to indicate by giving it its name). I argued (Worlds in Collision, 1950) that, under its massive envelope Venus, with a short but stormy history, must be very hot, even incandescent, owing to the presence of natal heat, and to the disturbance in motion with "a thermal effect caused ...
397. The Capture Of Luna (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... cataclysms was later superimposed. Eventually solar traits were introduced into this transformed myth.55 The fact that it was the capture of Luna which caused the great flood catastrophe must have been quite well known to the ancients, though it is not mentioned in Plato's Atlantis myth. Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC), `the most learned of Romans', as he was called without exaggeration, mentions in his scholarly treatise, De gente populi Romanz', an old tradition that before the flood of Ogyges happened `the evening star changed its colour, size, shape, and course'. 56 The expression `evening star' does not, of course, refer to the ...
398. Scientifically speaking... [Journals] [Pensee]
... (or "tropical") year now known accurately as 365.2421988 days. Suppressing three leap years in every period of 400 years, according to the Gregorian rule, compensates largely for the error introduced by taking each year as either precisely 365 days or as 366 days in the manner indicated. The astronomically-based lunar calendar universally employed before Roman times, and widely followed by large segments of the non-Western world since then, is also capable of counting the years perfectly well when suitably adjusted. Even though the numerical values of M and Y given above do not stand in any exact rational fraction ratio to each other using small enough integers to be directly useful, rules can be ...
399. Sacred Science Institute [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Constellations Of The Greeks, Phoenicians & Babylonians & The Law Of Kosmic Order: An Investigation Into The Physical Aspect Of Time by Robert Brown: I: 1899 2 Volumes 520p.; II: 1882 87p. Part I, Primitive Constellations. Contents: Primitive Constellations Of Greeks; Signs Of Zodiac; Mythology; Lunar Zodiac; Adoption By Romans, Persians, Indians, Arabs & Asians; Arabian Lunar Mansions; Chinese & Egyptian Constellation; Hipparcho-Ptolemy Star-List; Phoenician Constellations; Constellations In Greek Literature; Constellations & Coin Types; Homeric References; Unnumismatif Art Of Aigaion Seaboard; Gems; D'Arcy Thompson Babylonian Astronomy After Alexander; Euphratean Numbers; Circle-Cycle Of 10 Antideluvian Kings; Persian & ...
400. Legends based on meteorites [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... many meteorites anywhere in the Middle East. For meteorites in mythology, the best source of information is: Newton, Hubert A., 1897. The worship of meteorites. American Journal of Science 3:13, 1-14. Most of the meteors and meteorites he tells about are historical, but he include a few instances from Greek and Roman myth, including one meteor from Book 2 of the Aeneid. Mark Isaak From: Shane Henry Mage, shmage@nyc.pipeline.com Date: 3 Feb 1996 22:46:05 -0500 So, why does the quoted passage refer to "great stones" in the first iteration and call the same stones "barad" ...
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