Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

561. Kessinger Publishing [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... of Eden and its Origin and Antiquity; Festivals of the Sun at the Solstices, Baal Fires; Celestial Waters, Deluges and their ancient Traditions; Celestial Origin of Jewish Race and Hebrew Language; Jewish Serpent Worship; Jehovah, Elohim; Heavenly Measures, Poles of Heaven and Earth, Pole Star, Meru, The North Pole; The Seven Great Stars; Myths of the Birth of Time; ISBN 1-56459-265-0, 556 pages, $33.00. Warder, George Woodard, Universe a Vast Electric Organism (1903), Partial Contents: Electricity produces all the phenomena of nature; Electrical creation, it seems to solve the riddle of the universe; All light, heat ...

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562. The Egyptologist's Electronic Forum [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... . 3. Etymology and ankh symbol: etymological theories for _( w )S (3 )( w )btj_, _ 'nx_ and _wsjr_, and literature dealing with the ankh' and was' symbols. 4. Arks and priest: musings about the side-locks and leopard-skins worn by priests. 5. Seven Shining Ones: about these godheads and the Sons of Horus, with an excursus to the Pleiades. 6. IFA Symposium report: report of the IFA symposium "Cosmological and Contextual Approaches in Egyptian Art History". 7. Miscellaneous: about medicinal herbs, the Lund Papyrus, literature on Manetho and pyramids, Djer's mummy arm, ...

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563. The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... 24. The Discovery of A Barleycorn. Part Six: the Ancient Beginnings. 25. Astronomical Gleanings From the Sed Festival 26. The Sed Festival, Part Ii 27. Iwnw'- The Birthplace of Every God. ' 28. Scene in the Mummy Chamber 29. A Sense of Control: the Litany of Re & Other Texts. Part Seven: the Ancient Mysteries. 30. The Broad Hall of the Two Truths 31. Ritual Regicide? 32. Empty Tombs 33. More Dates and Akhenaten's Eclipse 34. The Consuming Interest in the Celestial Universe 35. The Promised Return 36. Rites of Osiris. Epilogue. Chronology. Reference Notes. ...

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564. Baal-Manzer the Tyrian: A Reappraisal [Journals] [Aeon]

... remainder of Hiram's reign (34 - 12 = 22 years), Baalbazer (17 years), Abdastratus (9 years), Methusastartus (12 years), Astharymus (9 years), Phales (8 months), Ethbaal (32 years), Baalazor (6 years), Mattan-Baal (29 years), and the first seven years of Pygmalion's reign. The sum is either 22+ 16 + 8+ 11+ 8+ 31+ 5+ 28+ 6= 135 years, or 22+ 17+ 9+ 12+ 9+ 32+ 6+ 29+ 7 = 143 years. 13. Albright, op. cit., p. ...

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565. Colin Wilson: Earth's Earliest Civilisation and the Giza Meridian [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... States. Until recently Neanderthal man had been thought of as a primitive near ancestor of the human race. Yet evidence shows how he made sophisticated breakthroughs in human development. Colin spoke of Neanderthal blast furnaces being found recently in Spain, while in Switzerland there is a cave in which was found 13 bear skulls in two groups - one of seven and the other of six. Paleontologists have dated the cave to 75,000 BC. Psychologist Stan Gooch alluded to the significance of this cave in his groundbreaking book Cities of Dreams (which I would recommend), which predicted as early as 1989 that Neanderthal man may indeed have created the first advanced human society. It is even ...

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566. Quotes [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... oldest.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) Kids' Quotes:Actual quiz answers Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he reached Canada. Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth. Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. ...

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567. Science Frontiers [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... to exist, were placed on maps, and then disappeared. The island of Brazil (or Hy Brazil) is one of these phantom islands. Babcock has written an engrossing, scholarly treatise, with many old maps, and hints of pre-Columbian contacts with the New World. Here follow some chapter titles: Atlantis; The Island of the Seven Cities; The Problem of Mayda; Estotiland and the Other Islands of Zeno; The Sunken Land of Buss and Other Phantom Islands. The Mammoth and the Flood: An Attempt to Confront the Theory of Uniformity with the Facts of Recent Geology by H.H . Howorth 1887, 498 pp., $23.50p. In ...

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568. Sky Disc of Nebra [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]

... the disc we can see 32 stars, two of originally three curved gold bands that follow the rim edge and two complete celestial forms which are probably representations of the sun and moon or alternatively various phases of the sun or moon possibly during a solar or lunar eclipse. [. .] Following Professor Schlosser's interpretation the astronomical representation shows the seven star Pleiades constellation which were of importance in antiquity described in Hesiod. [. .] The archaeological examinations of the disc are carried out by Dr. Harald Meller. ...

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569. Michelson And Meton [Journals] [Kronos]

... over 351 years, rather than "about 266 years". And with real lunar months of 29.530589 days, instead of the simplified "months" of only 29.53 days, the answer would have been just over 354 years. The main calendar cycle that Michelson treats is the Metonic cycle of 19 years, which contained seven intercalary months placed in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19. He says that these results were "announced at the Olympic Games in Athens" (page 52), and engraved in gold (hence the expression "golden numbers"). Michelson stresses the fact that 235 lunar months comes ...

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570. Precise Synchronization Involving the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Kronos]

... El-Amarna Letters and the Ancient Records of Babylonia and Assyria," Pensee V (Fall, 1973), pp. 13-15. 3. Gardiner, op. cit., p. 189. 4. See C. Desroches-Noblecourt, Tutankhamen (N . Y., 1963). 5. I have assumed the co-regency to have lasted seven years, since in Amenhotep's seventh year came the first campaign definitely his (Gardiner, op. cit., pp. 200-201). An earlier campaign came in year 3 (Ibid.) and with a seven-year co-regency this falls in Asa's 12th year; this fits in well with II Chron. 14:1 (" In ...

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