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6 pages of results. 51. SIS Internet Digest 2001 Number 1 [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Dechend .. 1 World Wide Web focus .. 2 Quantavolution and Catastrophes Series .. 2 Stonehenge: Restoration Work .. 3 Public History Discussion Group .. 3 Laura Lee Archives .. 4 Science Frontiers .. 4 Egyptian Cosmology .. 5 British Museum: Compass .. 5 ISIS: The Amarna Heresy Conference .. 5 Shamash The Sun God .. 6 The Two Babylons: The Great Red Dragon .. 6 Internet Universe: Free book previews .. 7 Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World .. 8 Sun and Saturn by Morris Jastrow Jr .. 8 Einstein In Need Of Update? .. 9 Lyall Watson Website .. 9 Taxonomic incommensurability . ...
52. The Prophetic Tradition [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Home | Issue Contents The Prophetic Tradition http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1592/This Web page is dedicated to the proposition that scripture and myth are authentic accounts of history and that science, religion, and myth can be reconciled within the context of the Prophetic Tradition. The Stele of Narum-Sin. Shamash, Saturn atop his thrown mountain, Venus is to the left The Prophetic Tradition is a system of symbolic types used by the prophets for the transmission of gospel truths, sacred history, and priesthood ordinances. This system is based on the historical cosmology of our universe, particularly the Interdiluvian Saturnian Configuration. The events of the Interdiluvian Period ...
53. C&C Workshop 1992, Number 2: Contents [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... C Workshop 1992, Number 2 Texts Home | SIS Workshop Home Society for Interdisciplinary Studies CHRONOLOGY & CATASTROPHISM WORKSHOP 1992, Number 2 Society News 1 ARTICLES Geological Genesis by Harold Tresman 4 Chronological Implications of a Proper Identification of the Labyrinth by Jesse E. Lasken 7 A Chronology for Mesopotamia (contra Heinsohn) by A. H. Rees 10 Shamash and Sin by Dwardu Cardona 16 Menelaos Darkness Over Sinai: (Where was Moses when the light went out?) by Emmet Sweeney 18 FORUM: New Chronology Issues (Lasken, Porter, Newgrosh) MONITOR 22 REVIEWS: The Lost History of Ireland: an enquiry into the pre-Christian History of the Gaels - reviewed by Alasdair Beal 27 ...
54. The Bedrock of Myth [Articles]
... how well the archaeological finds discussed herein may seem to attest that coalescence. 2. The Nonexistent Sunlike Saturn In "The Sun of Night," published in Kronos in 1977, Dwardu Cardona proudly flourished what seems to be an exception to the late dates of links of planets with gods. It is from a Sumerian source. Therein, Shamash the god, usually identified with the Sun, is identified with Saturn the planet. Cardona confidently asserted that the only possible interpretation was that Saturn was once a Sun of the night. Taking this source material at that sort of face value, however, is peculiarly naive. It is thoughtlessly inconsistent with an evidently warranted procedure of tracing ...
55. Velikovsky: The Great Debate (1) [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... a brief quote from a recent book on Mesopotamian astronomical traditions: "[ Saturn] was known as the night sun, or star of the sun. Parpola suggests that this identification may be due to an association of Saturn's Akkadian name, derived from the root kun, with kittu, justice', which is of course an attribute of Shamash. Another explanation offered by Pingree is that the sun's hyposoma sets as Saturn's rises. However, the earliest evidencefor the hyposomata is from the seventh century BC, and the association of Saturn and the sun is certainly older and far more entrenched in the tradition than warranted by such arcane speculations." (Ulla Koch-Westenholz, Mesopotamian Astrology, ...
56. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... mount from which the Babylonian sun-god "rises" is the same mount on which it "sets." The singular hill is "the mountain of the night [" sunset"], the mountain of the sunrise, the mountain of the centre." (66) Through the gate of the Mashu Mountain attained by Gilgamesh the sun-god Shamash comes forth. But the keepers of this mountain-gate are those who "guard Shamash at the rising and setting of the sun." (67) Similarly, in connection with a hymn to the "Fire-god," containing enigmatic references to "the mountain of the sun-set" and "the mountain of the sunrise," Sayce writes ...
57. Velikovsky's Sources Volume One [Books]
... foes. The armies of Uaite heard of the onslaught of the weapons of Assur and Ishtar, the great gods, my lords, how they were coming to my aid in battle, and they revolted against him. That one became frightened, and left the house into which he had fled. With the aid of Assur, Sin, Shamash, Adad, Bel, Nabu, Ishtar of Nineveh, the queen of Kidmuri, Ishtar of Arbela, Urta, Nergal (and) Nusku, my hands took him and I brought him to Assyria. Raising my hands, which I had received for the conquest of my foes, at the command of Assur and Ninlil, I ...
58. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a symbol of the humiliation of the Israelites. One by one the Philistine cities succumbed to a great plague - something invariably associated with the aftermath of meteoric incidents. The Philistines in the end deposited the Ark in the city of Beth Shemesh on the border with Israel, it was later claimed. Beth Shemesh is a Canaanite form of Babylonian Shamash, a bright shining deity that has been compared with the sun. It was also a city that was associated with Samson, the strong One, the giant who in a final heave of strength toppled and brought the temples of the Philistines crashing down, a story that may reflect the blast of a meteoric explosion. Returning to the ...
59. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes edited by Iona and Peter Opie [Journals] [SIS Review]
... back to Seth, son of Adam, at the gates of Paradise. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, is an incantation for the safety of children during the night, with particular emphasis on protection from the four quarters, a descendant of similar Celtic, Cabbalistic (Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael) and even Babylonian (Shamash, Sin, Nergal and Ninib) chants. Ladybird, ladybird fly away home, has sacred associations with our Lady' and the north European goddess Freya and, therefore, the Lady of Heaven. This beetle is sacred the world over and can be associated with the Egyptian scarab and Isis. Even more curious are rhymes about snails ...
60. Folklore, Part 2 Mars Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... but also king-heroes, like Oedipus, became solar symbols.2 This exclusive role of sun and moon in mythology is a reflection of their significance in nature. However, in former times the planets played a decidedly more important role in the imagination of peoples, to which fact their religions give testimony. Tr ue, sun and moon (Shamash and Sin, Helios, Apollo and Selene) were also numbered among the planetgods, but usually they were not the most important ones. Their enumeration among the seven planets sometimes startles the modern scholar, because these two lu minaries are so much more conspicuous than the other planets; the dominance of Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and ...
61. The Mystery Of The Pleiades [Journals] [Kronos]
... left with Saturn and/or Uranus as the bound or binding god (The bonds of Jupiter would more probably allude to the distinctive atmospheric bands around that planet.)(30) Saturn himself is not only represented as bound by Jupiter but, as Yama, the Hindu Saturn, also as the god who binds.(31) Shamash, whom elsewhere we have already identified as Saturn,(32) was also thought to have been armed with "snares and cords."(33) Tammuz, another name for Saturn, is called "Lord of the Snares," even though he himself is bound and prays to be saved from such bonds.(34 ...
62. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mind to report an eclipse of the Sun during the reign of Ashur-Dan III in the eponymy of Bur-Sagale. How fortunate and how convenient! It is this very eclipse, in the year 763 BC, that gives Assyrian chronology its supposedly firm scientific foundation. Students of Velikovsky (of which Aaronson is one) can only view Bur-Sagale's eclipse (shamash atalu) with extreme suspicion. The whole thing is just too neat, and too comfortably uniformitarian. It must be remembered that the astronomical foundations of Assyrian chronology were being established at the same time as the astronomical foundations of Egyptian chronology - erected upon the now discredited Sothic calendar. Bearing this in mind, we can only look favourably ...
63. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... planet Saturn. It is amazing how little attention scholars have given to this baffling equation, yet it has been established for some time now that both the Greek Helios and the Latin Sol were originally names for the planet Saturn, as pointed out by Franz Boll many years ago. (5 ) In the earlier Babylonian astronomy, the sun-god Shamash is, in the most straightforward of terms, held to be the planet Saturn. (6 ) And many years later, the alchemists still remembered Saturn as "the best sun." (7 ) Here is a ludicrous identity under any conventional explanation. Few people could even pick Saturn out in the night sky today. Why ...
64. Ebla and Velikovsky [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Anatolians) in the record. Perhaps not enough of the tablets have been translated. The presence of Hurrians in the tablets could show a connection between themselves and the Carians. Sipish Velikovsky has claimed that Sapash (Sipish) was Shemesh in Ages in Chaos.13 The Ebla tablets prove him right. Sipish is simply the north-west Semitic for Shamash, and refers to the Sun god.14 Many Velikovskians have tried to demonstrate that Shemesh (Utu) is Saturn and not the Sun, but this has not been proven. Additional translation of the Ebla texts may have a bearing on this problem. Apophis Velikovsky also theorized that Apophis of the Egyptians was Agag of the Amalkites. ...
65. The Lesser Light [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , and years are mentioned. Months are, of course, correlated with the moon's orbital period. Or a Familiar Planet?The idea of a second and smaller light-emitting body in our solar system in times past has more recently been suggested by Greenberg and Sizemore. "Now, as it hap pens, the planet Saturn was designated as Shamash or sun' by the Assyro-Babylonian astrologers; and as far back as 1910 M. Jastrow proposed the idea that Saturn was a steady or permanent mock-sun- performing the same function of furnishing light at night that Samas [Shamash-the Sun] performed during the day.". . . Furthermore, there is undeniable evidence that the concept of ...
66. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... zone, a previously unknown Sumerian city has been discovered, and this, also, is presently being looted by a team of some 200 illegal excavators. Several Iraqi supervisors have even been killed when they attempted to visit the area. Fortunately, the intact content of the great library- five rooms- which was discovered in 1987 near the Shamash Temple in Sippar has been taken out of the country to safety. Pettinato has been appointed to translate its contents. Purple Darkness Richard M. Smith, from Banning, California, writes: Concerning Roger Ashton's paper on purple darkness, [8 ] I like the idea behind the "Out of the Attic" section. Certainly, ...
67. Velikovsky & Saturnists & the Gods [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Greeks, and Indians. Tim, apparently, would have us believe that "the mere fact that Saturn moved at all would have impressed the heck out of them." Right. Saturn, like all the other planets, moved and thus the ancients were inspired to call it- alone among the planets- the "sun" (Helios, Shamash, etc.) if this is modern logic at its best, then it's easy to see why the logic of the Saturnist must seem "illogical" and unreasonable by comparison. Ev Cochrane ...
68. Symbols of an Ancient Sky: Slide Presentation & Notes by David Talbott [Journals] [Aeon]
... , are often found depicted within the crescent, just as the model predicts. But there's more. "The single most important key to the imagery of the revolving crescent is its relationship to the polar column," writes Talbott. (p . 159.) This relationship can be seen in the Zuni Thunderbird, the Mesopotamian wheel of Shamash resting on its pillar, the Scandinavian bull of heaven, and the Hindu mountain of the moon. And what is the ankh but a stylized image of the pillar and crescent? [3 ] Or consider the famous eye of Horus. Couldn't it be the stylized spiraling eye of the goddess within Saturn, topped by the eyebrow crescent ...
69. Vox POPVLI [Journals] [Aeon]
... , in modern Gaelic, means "sun" [22]- it would merely reflect the shifting of such names. This was definitely true in Greece where the name Helios, which was originally applied to the planet Saturn, [23] was eventually used to refer to the Sun. Likewise, for instance, among Semitic peoples where Shamash, originally a name for the planet Saturn, [24] was also eventually transferred to the Sun. Even so, whether grian had originally been used in reference to the planet Saturn is something I have not yet been able to determine. Notes [1 ] E. Cochrane, "The Milky Way," AEON IV: ...
70. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , characters and adventures narrated by mythology concentrate on the active powers among the stars, who are the planets. ' [8 ] In the period 1974-80, David Talbott developed his theory of the polar configuration [9 ]. This proposed that the planet Saturn was the sun-god of ancient myth and religion. Talbott pointed to the fact that Shamash, Helios and Sol were at one time names for the planet Saturn. One of his most important findings was that the ancient cycle of day and night originally referred to the phases presented by Saturn - specifically, to a crescent which circled it [10]. As Talbott documented, the circumpolar movement of this crescent - endlessly repeated ...
71. The River of Ocean [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a fine gaseous outflow, or a nimbus created by Earth's atmospheric filtering of Saturn's radiated light, is something that has yet to be ascertained. But that something of the sort existed there seems to be no doubt. Apsu as the heavenly ocean See cover photograph: stone tablet from Abu Habbah (BM 91000) depicting Nabuaplaiddin being presented to Shamash enthroned within his shrine. James B. Pritchard: The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, 1969) comments: "Within the shrine are the emblems of the crescent (Sin), sun-disc (Shamash), and the eight-pointed star (Ishtar), their identifications appearing in the inscription over the ...
72. Answer to Jonsson [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... his sons, Samash-shum-ukin in Babylon, Ashurbanipal in Assyria, sat down upon the throne..." This was their accession-year which consisted of the 8th to the 12th month of the same year that Esarhaddon died (670). The following year (669) in the month of Nisan, Ashurbanipal became the official king of Assyria. Shamash did not become the official king of Babylon, because the gods did not arrive until the 25th day of the 2nd month of 669 BC. For Shamash this was his 2nd accession-year, or we can also state that his accession-year lasted for some 17 months. The following year (668) he became the official king of Babylon. ...
73. The Rites Of Moloch [Journals] [Kronos]
... god was An,(62) and An was Saturn.(63) Although not the most telling one, this is one reason why the ancients did not find it difficult to transfer certain divine names from one "star" to another. In reality, the identity of Chemosh poses no problem. Chemosh is etymologically the same as Shamash, and the Assyro-Babylonians described Shamash as the Sun of Night which they themselves identified as Saturn.(64) The Athtar-Chemosh of the Mesha stele means nothing more than Sun-Star, which even the much later Romans knew as Saturn.(65) More correctly, it should be rendered as the Saturnian-Star. I will not contest the equating ...
74. The Holy Land [Books]
... may either appear alone or as the wheel of a celestial wagon. All ancient sun-gods seem to own such a wheel or chariot. The one-wheeled chariot of the Hindu Surya clearly answers to the same cosmic form as "the high-wheeled chariot" of the Iranian Mithra. (33) An early form was the famous sun wheel of the Babylonian Shamash. 15. The wheel of Shamash, held in place by a cord 16. Triptolemus riding on a single wheel. 17. The wheel of Ixion. 18. Hebrew Yahweh on a single wheel. Greek art depicts the great father Dionysus seated upon a one-wheeled chariot, much like that of the old god Triptolemos. In the ...
75. Saturn: In Myth and Religion [Journals] [Kronos]
... to the starry [sic] heavens was to the northeast."(39) Laden beneath their uniformitarian burdens, these mythologists could not conceive of Saturn having once radiated as a veritable sun, despite the fact that texts explicitly state this to have been the case. Thus, when the Mesopotamians spoke of the Mountain as the place where Shamash "came out", the translators could not help but render the phrase as "where the sun rises" - which to us, today, is the east. But that Shamash was Saturn, rather than the Sun, should by now have been accepted, especially since this was the belief of the ancients themselves.(40 ...
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