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8 pages of results. 126. Beliefs Connected with the Cross and the Swastika [Books]
... sometimes a symbol of a god of a cardinal or subsidiary point. Other symbols used in like manner were the "face" symbol, the Y-shaped symbol, the "spear-head" symbol, the "four-leafed" symbol, the triangle symbol, the "double axe symbol, the "walking animal" symbol, etc. On an Egyptian scarab (the second last figure on Plate III) the U-shaped symbol is used as is the swastika on the next figure, a Trojan whorl. The Egyptian U-shaped symbol apparently represents the double serpent of the "Two Lands "that is, the serpent-goddess of the South and the serpent-goddess of the North united as one. These serpent goddesses ...
127. The Sea Peoples and the Philistines [Articles]
... To discuss this in great detail would take me all afternoon, so I'll really just have to refer you to the already published discussions in the Review, in particular John Bimson's paper on the revised stratigraphy in the Glasgow Proceedings. Put very simply, the point made by Dr Bimson there is that material from the reign of Ramesses III, scarabs and so forth, occurs often several meters below the Persian strata in Palestine. There is absolutely no way, short of invoking Dr Who, that one can make Ramesses III coeval with 4th century Palestine under the occupation of the Persians, however attractive the arguments put forward in Velikovsky's book may seem. I am sure that some of ...
... , Semitic Mythology, MAR 5, 1931. Tlaloc , the so-called "rain-god" of Mexico. Courtesy Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz. The movements of the planets Mercury and Saturn . Courtesy Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart. The Egyptian goddess Serqet , or Selket. Courtesy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge. A green jasper scarab of Greco-Phoenician origin shows the Scorpion lady. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 3.11.14, New York. The Scorpion goddess in the Maya Codex Tro-Cortesianus Courtesy Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz. The Mesopotamian cylinder seal shows in the upper part the between 300-301 " God Boat ." Courtesy Centre National ...
129. Chapter 6 Egyptian Stratigraphy [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... dynastic times, sites with artefacts that came from four different dynasties from the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms. Speaking of other materials found at the main Old Kingdom deposit of Hierakonpolis, Dayton points out further anomalous artefacts: "Mrs. Adams was able to study Green's diaries in Cambridge, wherein Green privately admits that an XVIIIth Dynasty scarab was found with part of the archaic objects of the Main Deposit. Green 2 Dayton, op.cit., p. 195 190 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 believed he had good reason for his private view* (* Dayton's footnote: It is not always politic if one needs to eat ...
130. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... like the excavator, specifically cite a 25/26th Dynasty inscribed urn fragment found in Str. III (Centuries p. 108). The 26th Dynasty continued to 525BC, so the urn does not necessarily support a date around 700BC. The authors also cite comparisons to the pottery of Ayia Irini in Cyprus, which was found associated with scarabs of the 26th Dynasty - again potentially as late as 525BC for those who would prefer a greater down dating (as the present writer would). The Egyptian TIP section begins with a strong attack on the length of the 21st Dynasty, proposing to reduce its independent reign from 125 years to just 25. The causes of the over-extended ...
131. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... there is no sign of an actual impact zone. It has therefore been suggested that a bolide exploded before contact, just as it is thought happened at Tunguska. Whatever the explanation, a tremendous amount of heat must have been produced. The glass was obviously discovered and used by prehistoric people almost 100,000 years ago and a green scarab found in Tutankhamun's tomb has proved to be of the same material, although the site is 700 km into the desert. In southern Australia lies Lake Acraman, a salt pan surrounded by a ring of faults and bearing all the hallmarks of a catastrophic impact. That happened about 590 Myrs ago. Much closer in time was an event ...
132. Carbon 14 Dates and Velikovsky's Revision of Ancient History [Journals] [Pensee]
... 10 m. thick "clayey deposit" (see note 18 above), for how else could they have gotten there? Two sets of pottery are involved here: a group dating to the 7th century on internal grounds, and a group dating to the 13th century on external grounds- the time of Ramses II of Egypt, with whose scarabs Mycenaean III B and C pottery is found (20). Though the two groups were found together in the same strata, because of the supposed passage of 600 years, the "late Geometric" pottery was branded part of "an intrusive deposit" (21) and the Mycenaean was used as a dating criterion for the fire ...
133. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... suggest, therefore, that the chronology of the Iron Age in Palestine has been stretched' by the conventional scheme to fill what would otherwise have been roughly the same Dark Age' period as we encounter elsewhere. "But it must be said before closing that Velikovsky's placements of the19th and 20th Dynasties still face major difficulties....Scarabs of Ramesses I and Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty are found most regulary in Late Bronze contexts, and I find it absolutely impossible to date the end of the Late Bronze Age any later than about 700 BC at any site. The revised stratigraphy envisaged here would therefore require an 8th century date for Ramesses II and therefore for most ...
134. The Lion Gate at Mycenae [Journals] [Pensee]
... an Egyptian basis" is a somewhat bare one. Besides, even Petrie's work has been superseded in the realm of Egyptian chronology (27). Actually, Petrie based his conclusions upon Mycenaean objects found with Egyptian ones in the Fayum, dating from the reign of Amenhotep III and his successors, as well as Egyptian items such as a scarab bearing the name of Queen Tiy, wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhnaten, found at Mycenae. The assumption was made that the Egyptian works should be dated between the years 1400-1100 B.C ., but Velikovsky (28) has argued the incorrectness of these dates, suggesting a ninth century B.C . date for ...
135. Sirius and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 36 II 3ht 24= Jan. 10= Jan. 10, -346 (2 ) III 3ht 6= Jan. 23= Jan. 23, -350 (2 ) What about all of those New Kingdom references to Middle Kingdom kings? What about the king-lists themselves, whether inscribed in stone or written on papyri? What about the scarabs and other materials that refer to Middle Kingdom kings? I do not have all the answers but let us look at what might have been going on. One issue is how these various items are to be dated; a related question is whether we might be dealing with much later restorations'. Art History can sometimes be a subject ...
136. Three Views of Heinsohn's Chronology [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Yet the Hyksos are never considered as teachers of cuneiform. This comes as quite a surprise because there is hardly anything else in Egypt that at one time or another was not assigned to the Hyksos. The Hyksos were good for vertical looms, composite bows, lyres, harps, man-shaped coffins and body armour, board games, glazed steatite scarabs, scimitars, horse-drawn chariots, weighty daggers, and glacis fortifications etc - but they never qualified for Akkadian. The perception of them as speakers of a Mesopotamian language appeared chronologically too horrifying to come to the minds of Egyptologists and Assyriologists alike. Why is the question of Thutmose III's teacher of Akkadian a problem at all? Because the ...
137. Si-Amon. Part 2 Ch.4 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... el Bahari, but not before he had placed among the mummies of ancient pharaohs the remains of Peinuzem II, who himself had rewrapped some of the mummies of ancient kings. It was probably again Si-Amon who replaced the remains of Psusennes' queen with those of "King" Amenemope in the tomb in the temple precinct in Tanis. A scarab of green stone with Si-Amon's name was found in the tomb's vestibule and it "amounts to a signature" (Montet). Peinuzem II, son of Menkheperre, flourished under Ptolemy I (Soter), and Si-Amon must have lived under the same king or, more probably, under his successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus ( -285 ...
138. The Problem of Adjusting the Date Limits of the Archaeological Ages to Meet Velikovsky's Revision [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... purposes, and provides no indication that the traditional scheme contains no errors. Even evidences of construction and destruction in themselves do not constitute proof sufficiently unique to serve as a basis for synchronism. Individual structures and even entire cities have all undergone destructions, usually repeatedly, during the periods of their existence. Too much confidence has been placed on scarabs and other items kept as keepsakes as a basis for dating. The use of the same or similar names to those found in other datable sources can be misleading. Depth of debris is also no measure of elapsed time, and neither is the rate of increase of knowledge. Even evidence of earthquake is not sufficiently unique, standing alone ...
139. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 4) [Journals] [Kronos]
... % are real Velikovsky deserves serious attention, Sagan, without analyzing a single one, merely states his belief that all can be explained by coincidence this, after denying in earlier versions the preeminence of coincidence. Next, Sagan's distortion of the story of manna was corrected, followed by the correction of five of Sagan's misrepresentations: the plague of scarabs, earthquake proof Hebrew dwellings, that all Hebrews crossed the Red Sea safely, grazing collisions, and collective amnesia explaining missing concordances. Sagan's comments about the extreme antiquity of geomagnetic reversals and mountain building were countered with the example of 8th century B.C . Etruscan vases possessing reversed polarity and the conditions attending the present height of Tiahuanaco ...
140. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... rectify it with any degree of certainty. The insignia found at Lachish and Megiddo by John Bimson clearly belongs to an early Ramesses III, presumably in the direct line of descent from Ramesses II (say, c. 720 BC). Even here, however, there is an apparent anomaly in that a similar stratum at Aphek yielded a scarab of Ramesses IV, who appears to be inextricably tied by the Harris Papyrus to a much later Ramesses III who dates from shortly after the times of the Persian Xerxes and Artaxerxes (dated c. 485-430 BC), as is well argued by Emmet Sweeney. This alone suffices to suggest that both the provenance and the detail of the ...
141. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... for a 2 degree C increase in monthly average temperature. Radioactive mummies The Times 27.12.91, p. 1 A medical professor at Cairo University claims that 17 mummies in the Egyptian museum show the presence of radioactivity. Mummified animals do not last as long as humans and the one element missing in their mummification is the heart scarab'. Radioactive mutants Daily Telegraph 29.4 .92 Babies born within a large radius of Chernobyl frequently show large birth defects, including the lower half of the body like a fish tail or short wing-like arms. Ancient lights National Geographic October 1992, p. 86 and August 1992, p. 11 In Paraguay a union of ...
142. Night of the Gods: Disputatio Circularis [Books]
... directly figured forth in the Winged Sphere, which it is here maintained is the true significance of what has been viewed by a greatly too limited interpretation, as merely a winged "disc," in the Egyptian, Assyrian, and other mythologies. With the Winged Sphere too are connected all the divine birds and man-birds, and the winged scarab, and all the divine feathers worn by Egyptian deities. To this category, and also to that of the triple emblems, belongs the Prince of Wales's plume. The Universe Egg can scarcely be separated from the consideration of the divine Bird. The.Dance of the Stars is another figure for the revolution of the heavens; and ...
143. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the Israel Exploration Journal 1990, p. 28, Ephraim Stern says the Stratum III gate in Megiddo must be down dated from -600 to -350 to match findings in Tel Dor. No one has challenged this. Gunnar said that Bietak had distorted his dating of strata at Tel el Daba by inserting a date ( -900) for a scarab found elsewhere on the site into a stratum covering the Ptolemaic time. Also Herbat Gash, who could not find evidence of the Persians in Ashakan in Erevan in Armenia, had found a Persian house in Abukubur in Babylonia similar to the Sargonid houses in Assyria, both under the Alexander stratum. Heinsohn was keen to reinstate the Persian Empire ...
144. "Crowned with Every Rite". Part 2 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... richly decked with jewels, and every sort of trinket which had delighted the boy king in life was permitted to accompany him in the tomb at death." Gold sandals were on his feet, and each finger and toe had "its individual stall of gold. His fingers were resplendent with gold rings, many of which were adorned with scarabs engraved with the name of the king. Broad armlets graced his arms, while his neck and breast were heavy with tastefully fashioned and arranged chains, collars, pectorals, amulets, and beads of gold, semiprecious stones, and fayence." Every one of these articles was "an outstanding masterpiece of artistic workmanship and a magnificent credit ...
145. The Dark Age Gap: An Open Letter to John Bimson, Peter James and David Rohl [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and I emphasis that it is a small sample) of the evidence, either missed by Velikovsky and his supporters, or not yet published, which fully supports the 500 year gap. a) In the palaces of Calah (Nimrud), the capital built by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (c . 860 BC), were found scarabs and other artifacts of 18th Dynasty kings of Egypt, especially of Thutmose III and Amenhotep III (c . 1480-1380 BC) [1 ]. Gap of 500-600 years. b) Cavalry first shown in the Memphis tomb of Horemheb (c . 1340 BC) and in action on the Hypostyle Hall of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Seti I ...
146. Discussion on Velikovsky, Victor Clube's book [Articles]
... the XXIInd Dynasty must occupy a period of something like the first half of the 6th century to about the first half of the 4th century. However, there is a tremendous amount of evidence which seems to indicate that they were ruling no later than the 7th century. There is evidence, for example, from Spain of pottery with the scarabs of two or three XXIInd Dynasty Pharaohs, which is in architecture that has been dated on stylistic grounds to no later than about the first quarter of the 7th century, and among the loot that was found in one of the Assyrian palaces you find a monument or something which is marked with one of the Takelots, one of the ...
147. New Archaeological Dates for the Israelite Conquest Part II [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... occupation at the site can be dated from the first reign or two of the Eighteenth Dynasty to the reign of Horemheb, when the reoccupation of Stratum B occurred. The dates for Strata D/2 and B at Tell ed-Dab'a are much more secure than the dates for the MB II phases in Palestine, which are largely based on Egyptian scarabs and destructions which are hypothetically related to Egyptian military campaigns. Thus, despite William Dever's opposition, [321 Palestinian Middle Bronze chronology must be modified to fit the evidence from Tell ed-Dab'a. If bichrome ware does occur in Tell ed-Dab'a Stratum D, then this is evidence that bichrome pottery began to circulate before 1550 B.C ., ...
148. The 1552 Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , Bethshemesh, Gibeon(?), Shiloh, Taanach, and possibly Tell el Maza. Southern sites with destruction levels at about the end of the Middle Bronze Age include Tell Ed Duweir (Lachish), Tell el Hesi (Eglon), and Tell Beit Mirsim (Hebron). These were reportedly destroyed by Joshua. Based on scarab distribution, the Hyksos heartland was in central and southern Canaan. This area was almost totally destroyed and depopulated. The Hyksos did not destroy themselves; many had fled north to escape the Egyptians. Joshua's destruction of those remaining towns is accurately described in Scripture. The coastal plain controlled by the Egyptians was not ravaged, and there was ...
149. A Note on the Term "Hyksos" [Journals] [Kronos]
... of Sharuhen. The capture of the latter is described in the Ahmose inscription cited by Velikovsky in Ages in Chaos.(68) [* See the article "A Note on the Location of Avaris" elsewhere in this issue.] The Hyksos apparently retreated to Sharuhen after the fall of their capital Avaris. On the basis of certain scarabs and fortification typology, Sharuhen has been tentatively identified with Tell el-Fara.(69) According to the revised chronology, King Saul played a decisive role in the Hyksos demise which Velikovsky evidentially supported through a juxtaposition of Egyptian and Scriptural source material.(70) The case might be strengthened still further, however, on nominal and geographical ...
150. Limitations of Astronomical Dating Methods* [Journals] [Kronos]
... interval as 1600-1700, and he entirely abandoned the Sothiac cycle as a clue to the period elapsed. Petrie has now also abandoned the Sothiac cycle and substituted a theory that the dates of the Twelfth Dynasty were quoted in terms of a seasonal calendar. On cultural grounds, more particularly basing his conclusions on the variations in the types of Hyksos scarabs recently discovered by him, he now estimates the interval at about 800 years. Baikie, who has evidently made a special study of the artistic side of Egyptian life, thinks that arguments based on estimates of length of time for a change to have taken place in the arts of a nation are based on a slender foundation and that ...
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