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6 pages of results. 76. The End of Mitanni and Some Related Problems [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Hatti (Ages in Chaos, p. 313). The second raid is about two centuries later. It is as yet unclear whether Velikovsky saw this raid as being launched from Babylon or northern Syria, inasmuch as he considered the Hittite king Suppiluliumas I to be II (Ramses II, p. 218) and also identified him as Shamash Shum Ukin King of Babylon, and brother of Assurbanipal (Velikovsky's Theses, 174, 189). 6. Samuel Mercer, Ed., Tell el-Amarna Tablets. Although reference should be made to the individual letters, Excursus III, p. 826, lists the main references to Mitannian encroachment on Syria, during the reign of Rib-Addi-Jehoram ...
77. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... instructive at this point to review the evidence from prehistoric rock art. Consider the pictograph shown in Figure 7. As we have documented [50] , this image was commonly thought to depict the sun-god's "eye." This very image, in fact, is depicted on countless cylinder seals from ancient Mesopotamia, where it serves to symbolize Shamash, the Semitic sun-god. Closely related forms are depicted in Figure 8. Here the inner "eye" of the ancient sun-god is associated with a number of radiating filaments, suggesting streaming or radiant energy of some sort. However we are to understand the "lightning" from a physical or energetic standpoint, it stands to reason that ...
78. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Four [Books]
... to seize the ewes art thou; 13.A lioness who goes up from the plains art thou. 15.The spirit- maid glory of heaven; 17.The maiden Ishtar glory of heaven; 19.She who is adorned with the well worked waist- band, glory of heaven art thou; 21.Twin sister of Shamash glory of heaven art thou. 23.To mediate oracles I stand, in full power I stand. 25.For my father Sin to mediate oracles in full power I stand. 27.For my brother Shamash to mediate oracles in full power I stand. 29. She whom Sin my father has placed, to nediate oracles ...
... , the circle. This, if true, relieves the swastika from all relation with the circle as a symbol of the sun. Besides, it is not believed that the symbol of the sun is one which required rotary or gyratory motion or was represented by it, but, as will be explained, in speaking of the Assyrian sun-god Shamash, it is rather by a circle with pointed rays extending outward, D'Alviella62 presents several figures in support of his contention. The first (a ) is on a fibula from Etruria (fig. 190 of this paper). His explanation is that the small circle of rays, bent at right angles, on the broad shield of ...
80. In Search of the Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... in Palestine (much as Christianity absorbed pagan festivals and saints). In addition, the Deuteronomist has interpreted the material in terms of punishment and reward, using forty-year units to reinforce the ideology that Yahweh interfered directly in the affairs of his people- and has invariably omitted more than he has included. Beth-Shemesh (a dialectal variant of Babylonian Shamash, probably Amorite) may be connected with the Samson cycle and in turn with the Labors of Heracles. [21] We may note the long hair of Samson (Shemesh) has cometary parallels, and the twelve labors of Hercules is sky oriented through the Zodiac. Samson in addition is associated with the tribe of Dan and the ...
81. The Crescent [Books]
... the Egyptian symbol of the cleft peak is that it finds strikingly similar parallels in other lands. The Mesopotamian sun-god rests upon a twin-peaked world mountain of identical form (fig. 60), and the same dual mount occurs also in Mexico- here too revealing the sun-god between the two peaks (fig. 61). 60. Assyro-Babylonian Shamash standing between the two peaks 61. (a ) Mexican twin peaks, with central staff; (b ) Central sun between two peaks The Delaware Indians recall a primeval land- "the Talega country," where long ago "all kept peace with each other." The pictograph of the lost land is an extraordinary counterpart to ...
82. Index of Titles
... : Supplementary Notes Senmut and Phaeton Senmut's Ceiling and the Earth as Tippe Top Sennecherib & Esarhaddo Sequence and events Servant Of The Sun God Sethosis: the Seti II from the Kinglists? Seti's Foreign Connections Setting And Using The Stonehenge Nineteen Year Sun-Moon Calendar Seven Year Famine in the Reign of King Djoser with Other Parallels between Imhotep and Joseph, A Shamash and Sin Shamash The Sun God Shameless Promotion of Pet Paradigms Shamir Shamir Shamir Shapley, Velikovsky And the Scientific Spirit Shapley's Scientific Record Shiloh a Central Cultic Israel Site Shiloh Ship of Heaven, The Shishak - Ramesses II or Ramesses III? Shishak, the kings of Judah and some synchronisms Short Biography, A Short Biography of Immanuel Velikvosky, ...
83. From Myth to a Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... great civilizations, it is not even possible that the respective names of the creator-king could all be acquired by the Sun. That the Egyptian Atum Ra corresponds in countless ways to the Akkadian Anu is easily demonstrated. But the name Anu was never attached to our Sun. Rather, a counterpart of Anu or an aspect of Anu, named Shamash, gave his name to the Sun in Mesopotamia, and that name was carried into modern times as a name of the Sun by the Mandaeans of Iraq. Anu was therefore not the "sun god" in Mesopotamia. But both Anu and Shamash were identified with Saturn, according to the most perceptive experts. And both were associated ...
84. Venus in Ancient Myth and Language [Journals] [Aeon]
... peoples the world over, one would expect to find that planet described as sun-like, in direct contradiction to its present appearance (and one might also add, in direct contradiction to the best opinions of modern astronomy with regard to Saturn's recent history). And this is exactly what one finds. Thus leading scholars have found that the Akkadian Shamash, Greek Helios, Latin Sol, and Hindu Surya were all originally names of the planet Saturn, only later transferred to the Sun. (3 ) Given Saturn's present inconspicuous appearance, how can one understand such a widespread phenomenon? The same logic should apply to the ancient language associated with the planet Venus. For if our thesis ...
85. Neo-Babylonians and Achaemenids [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of Darius II, was the son of Artaxerxes' (Esarhaddon's) Babylonian concubine. That Esarhaddon favoured Babylon is shown by the fact that he re-instated the city after its destruction by Sennacherib, and gave the kingship to one of his favourite sons, Shamash-shum-ukin. The pro-Babylonian policy continued throughout the reign of Ashurbanipal, even after the defeat of Shamash- shum-ukin's conspiracy. Far from destroying the city, Ashurbanipal appears to have taken the hand of Bel, and ruled the metropolis under the name Kandalanu.(3 ) After the death of Ashurbanipal the Neo-Assyrian kingdom was rent with civil discord. It was in the midst of this strife that Babylon was re-established as the true centre of ...
86. "Let There be Light" [Journals] [Kronos]
... hardly lost; it is merely "El" or "Eloah."(3 ) The Phoenician scholar Sanchoniathon, as quoted by Philo of Byblos, identified the Canaanite El with the Greek god called Kronos,(4 ) which is also the Greek name for the planet Saturn. W.F . Albright equated El with the Assyro-Babylonian Shamash,(5 ) which is likewise an alternate name for the planet Saturn.(6 ) Heidel also tell us that "Cronos [Saturn] is called El by the Phoenicians."(7 ) In Job 22:12-14, El is associated with Eloah,(8 ) while Morgenstern tells us that "in this role ...
87. Saturn's Children [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in splendor' signified the beginning of the archaic day. ' Saturn dominated the night and competed with the sunlight during the day. Mythical records are unanimous in saying that Saturn, during his reign, stood in the north.... The Egyptian Ra, Osiris, Horus...the Mesopotamian Ninurta, Enki, Anu, Shamash... the Hebrew, or Ugaritic El...the Hindu Brahma, Vishnu, Varuna, Surya...the Chinese Huang-ti or Shangti...the Greek Kronos- all appear as stationary suns... They are described as fixed at the polar summit... Ra comes forth and diminishes em hetep ...
88. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... two rampant lions [1 ] and a goddess with raised, crescent-shaped wings, also guarded by lions is found on a hydria from the Halstatt Period (Early Iron Age) in Switzerland [2 ]. A cylinder seal from Mesopotamia depicts a goddess, also with raised wings, standing on the twin-peaked mountain of myth from which the god Shamash rises. She is flanked by the god Ea and an archer guarding a lion [3 ]. A votive pin from Luristan at the end of the 2nd millennium BC (orthodox) depicts a horned figure with raised arms flanked by two standing figures [4 ] but perhaps most significant is the middle register of the coffin of Artemidorus ...
89. Index of Titles
... : On The Origin Of Tektites Cardona, Dwardu: Planetary Identities: I, The Concept of Deity Cardona, Dwardu: Planetary Identities: II The Mythology of Homer Cardona, Dwardu: Planetary Worship Cardona, Dwardu: Saturn As King Cardona, Dwardu: SATURN: IN MYTH AND RELIGION Cardona, Dwardu: Saturn's Flare-ups Cardona, Dwardu: Shamash and Sin Cardona, Dwardu: Tektites and China's Dragon Cardona, Dwardu: The Ankh Cardona, Dwardu: The Archangels Cardona, Dwardu: The Baalim Cardona, Dwardu: The Beginning of Time Cardona, Dwardu: The Cairns Of Kintraw Cardona, Dwardu: The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika Cardona, Dwardu: The Demands of the Saturnian ...
... to the left (south) "4 Fig 13. Crosses of Seasons, etc The Greek augurs looked North, and the Romans, like the Egyptians and Chinese, looked South, but also prayed to Jove's celestial seat among the northern stars.5 In Babylonia the East was in front, as indicated in a text which say: Shamash before me, Sin behind me, Nergal (south) to my right, Ninib (north) to my left Marduk (representing the equinox) was the spring or morning sun; Nebo the autumn or winter sun; Ninib the midday or summer sun; Nergal the winter or night sun. The North is also the full moon ...
91. The Enclosed Sun-Cross [Books]
... of heaven." (19) As in Egypt, the Mesopotamian four winds coincide with the four rivers of life. Instead of the simple sign , some images show four streams of water radiating from the central sun (fig. 24) (20) The best-known Mesopotamian figure of these streams is the famous "sun wheel" of Shamash (a god also identified as Saturn). Portrayed are four rays of light and four rivers flowing from the central god to the border of the wheel (fig. 15). 24. (a ) Mycenaean four rivers symbol; (b ) Four rivers symbol, Troy; (c ) Babylonian image presenting the arms of ...
... to the left (south) "4 Fig 13. Crosses of Seasons, etc The Greek augurs looked North, and the Romans, like the Egyptians and Chinese, looked South, but also prayed to Jove's celestial seat among the northern stars.5 In Babylonia the East was in front, as indicated in a text which say: Shamash before me, Sin behind me, Nergal (south) to my right, Ninib (north) to my left Marduk (representing the equinox) was the spring or morning sun; Nebo the autumn or winter sun; Ninib the midday or summer sun; Nergal the winter or night sun. The North is also the full moon ...
93. Thoth Vol I, No. 3: February 18, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... "ONE", the primeval, all-encompassing "Unity". This figure is, of course, the Universal Monarch, the subject of our ONE STORY (So our ONE STORY might be subtitled the "The Story of ONE'"). Examples would include: Egyptian Atum and Ra, Sumerian An and Utu, Akkadian Anu and Shamash, Hindu Varuna and Brahma, Greek Ouranos and Kronos, Aztec Ometeotl and Quetzalcoatl, to name a few. Our claim is that all others stories, all other archetypal figures, when investigated at the core, lead back to the ONE STORY, intersecting with this story in the most remarkable and explicit ways. Here are the other ...
94. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... see this for yourself - and abundantly so - in the birthplace of astronomy. The Babylonian goddess Ishtar, who gave "life" to the gods (and symbolically to the ruling king), was the planet Venus. Her star was not located in an ambiguous "sky", but precisely in the center of the great wheel of Shamash, the "sun" god, identified by Babylonian astronomers as the planet Saturn. But what was meant by the "life" -giving attribute of the goddess? Allow ancient words and images to mean what they say, and its significance is clear. It means the luminous material steaming outward to visually animate the larger sphere of ...
95. Thoth Vol III, No. 12: Aug 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . Conversely, Ra has virtually disappeared in connection with the Osiris story, as recounted in the Sed Festival ritual and numerous other accounts. This is a story of cosmic transition - death, dismemberment, resurrection, and transfiguration. For all intents and purposes Atum-Ra is not even around at the more critical junctures, any more than Anu or Shamash are involved in the cosmic ordeal confronting Marduk (Jupiter) in the Babylonian Akitu festival. (Anu has already fled the scene when Marduk confronts the dragon Tiamat.) Nor do any of the great "sun" gods - with whom the planet Saturn was identified - figure directly in this "second half of the story". ...
96. The Ark Myth [Books]
... later, ' they tell; it became very dark, and then the deluge happened. ' The nimble mouse' refers, of course, to the quick moving satellite (Note 78). Most myths do not tell when exactly the deluge hero entered his vessel. I believe only the Gilgamesh Epic contains a detailed reference. The god Shamash', says Utnapishtim there, had advised me of the time saying. The Power of Darkness will make a destructive rain-flood [alternative rendering, a great hails to fall .. . Then enter into thy ship]. ' Of late this translation has been improved upon at a certain point, though Assyrologists and mythologists are somewhat at ...
97. The Calendar [Journals] [Aeon]
... , but the several occurrences cannot refer to a single occasion." [14] Another indication that all was not well with the celestial sphere comes from the Esarhaddon ARAB sections: "The Stars of heaven proceeded to their stations, took up the proper course and kept from (lit, left) the improper path. Monthly Sin and Shamash (moon and sun), at their appearance, were in perfect agreement with each other about the restoration of the (images) of the gods, the complete restoration of the sanctuaries of the cities, the stability of my reign, the security of my priestly throne." [15] Of added support to the contention that ...
98. Samson Revealed [Journals] [Aeon]
... through which he passes to his death, corresponding to the two posts of the gate of the city of night through which he had issued triumphantly (xvi. 3), forcibly reminds us of a scene which is very com-monly depicted on the ancient Babylonian cylinders, and must have been well known to the early Hebrews. In these, Shamash, the sun-god, is shown making his exit with flaming streamers (equivalent to Samson's hair) through the pillars of the gateway of the East, to pass at evening through a similar gateway in the West to the darkness of death." (40) As numerous scholars have observed, the gates of Samson find a remarkable parallel ...
99. Thanatos and Anastasis [Journals] [Aeon]
... Lord of life, the all-seeing eye, the Ruler of the greatest gods. (21) It should be recalled once again that, in the religious thought of ancient Egypt and the Near East, nocturnal light was linked with the planet Saturn. The Egyptian Saturnian god Atum was a sun of night (22) as was the Assyro-Babylonian Shamash. (23) .. .the coming forth of Saturn inaugurated the archaic day, which began at sunset. So long as the solar orb was visible, the fiery globe of Saturn remained subdued, unable to compete with the sheer light of the former body. But once the solar orb sank beneath the horizon, Saturn and ...
100. The Sybil and Dr Stecchini [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the firmament is further enhanced by its connection with the frightening natural powers of the cloud region. The ancients, who were not aware of the immense distance of the stars from the earth's atmosphere, allowed the phenomena of the two regions to intermingle. This is particularly the case in Babylonian sky-watching. Thus the weather-god Adad and the sun-god Shamash appear side by side as two heroes on the same stage .. .A darkening of the sky by clouds in ancient times was set almost equal to astronomical eclipses, if it was rare for the time of year, and especially if it occurred along with the full moon. [SSP 5-6; cf. FKFS 7-8] Phaethon's ...
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