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... Most especially if that man be Socrates, awaiting execution in his jail and conversing with Pythagorean friends. He has already left the world behind, has made his philosophical will and is now quietly communing with his own truth. This is the close of the Phaedo (107D-115A), and it is expressed in the form of a myth. Strangely enough, innumerable commentators have not taken the trouble to scrutinize it, and have been content to extract from it some pious generalities about the rewards of the soul. Yet it is a thoughtful and elaborate statement, attributed to an authority whom Socrates (or Plato) prefers not to name. It is clothed in a strange physical garb ...
282. Chapter IX: Other Similar Shrines Elsewhere [Books]
... temple to the equinoctial sun; but here the sunset, and not the sunrise, is in question- the temple faces due west. In the whole problem, then, of orientation as I have had to present it, and as it now stands, we seem for the moment to be face to face with two very remarkable and strange things; so strange that the argument may appear far-fetched and worthless, since, we are landed in a region apparently very far removed from our modern habits of thought. But is this really so? I assume the personification or the deification of the sun: I shall subsequently have to include the stars; I indicate special orientations of ...
283. The Great Terror [Journals] [Kronos]
... , the roaring of the cleft earth, and the loud hissing of tornadoes of cinders."(3 ) Nevertheless, the human mind is all too inclined to evade troublesome and fearful memories. Plato was already aware of this psychological problem when he states in the Laws (III) that "at any rate they seem to have been strangely forgetful of the catastrophe"; or when he narrates through the mouth of another that "you remember but one deluge, though many had occurred previously (Timaeus 23B)." A modern author and professor of history, Frank E. Manuel, also indicates that man is not yet cured from the traumatic experiences of yore. Quoting ...
284. Mulholland: "A Celestial Mechanician Whose Name is Almost Synonymous with High Precision" [Journals] [Kronos]
... morning session, created a, well, sensation - sensation of disbelief, if you wish - when in the summer of 1960 at the annual meeting of the Geophysical Union, that happened to be at Helsinki, he announced that after a flare of the Sun that rotation of the Earth lost something like [a ] few milliseconds, which strangely the day thereafter started again to accelerate by microseconds. And this happened more than once . [The] idea came from Harvard - Menzel - maybe [it is a] thermal phenomenon. No. Professor Schatzmann, collaborator with Danjon, published like Danjon in Comptes rendue de l'Academie de France, a calculation that it could not be ...
285. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... and symbols, not establish new ones. The human mind works from generalities to specifics, quickly seizing upon broad similarities. Given such tendencies, eyewitnesses to later cataclysms would automatically make mental connections between what they were seeing and the original traditions. For example, the Exodus comet-planet, standing vertically on the horizon as Velikovsky postulated, would be strangely reminiscent of the polar column associated with ancient Saturn- certainly similar enough to fulfill the symbolic expectations of tradition-oriented Israelites. So, too, any presentation of a crescent to earthly observers at that time would bring to mind the earlier Bull of Heaven tradition. Note that the ancients did not alter their view of the heavens for thousands of ...
... faces Mull on the coast, a Palaeolithic centre of habitation. Euboea was mythologically famed for two distinct reasons. Here, according to legend, did the goddess lo, of so great importance in mythology, after long wanderings persecuted by the jealous Hera, give birth to her "black" son Apis, or Epaphus, who became, strangely enough, the legendary founder of Memphis and was reincarnated in the black bull Apis so sacred in Egyptian eyes. Mythologists have never been able to explain the mystery of this legend, why Jo, regarded by the Greeks as the goddess Isis, should have selected Euboea as the birthplace of her Egyptian son, the most powerful magic deity ...
... a difficult problem for the ethnologists and anthropologists. The migration of ideas may follow the migrations of peoples, but how can unusual motifs of folklore reach isolated islands where aborigines do not have any means of crossing the sea? AND why did not technical civilization travel together with spiritual? Peoples still living in the stone age possess the same often strange motifs of cultured nations. " [Capitalization added] By omission of the conjunction, "and" Sagan limited the meaning Velikovsky intended. If as Sagan maintains the Venus myth traveled to the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands from China or Japan why didn't the technical achievements of these superior cultures also travel with the people? That would be ...
288. Support for Heinsohn's Chronology is Misplaced [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... I turned the hostile land into heaps and ruins. The Assyrian, who... his feet from Akkad I turned back" [14]. The Chronicle of Early Kings tells us that "Subartu attacked [Sargon of Akkad] in full force.... Sargon set an ambush and completely defeated them." Isn't it strange that Subartu which Heinsohn and Sweeney require to be Lydia features so often in wars involving southern Mesopotamian rulers! However, the annals of Sargon II of Assyria fail to record any conflict with Lydia; neither is it clear why Heinsohn refers to Lydia as Nebuchadnezzar's "well-known adversary" [15]. Where is this conflict recorded? In ...
289. The Queen of Sheba (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... "a Punt" in the garden of Amon, the queen issued a new edict: "Ye shall fulfill according to my regulations without transgression of that which my mouth has given," and this "in order to establish the laws of his [Amon's] house...." 76. "Mariette, struck by the strange appearance of the edifice, thought that it betrayed a foreign influence, and supposed that Queen Hatshopsitu [Hatshepsut] had constructed it in the model of some buildings seen by her officers in the land of Puanit." (Deir el Bahari [Leipzig, 1877], pp. 10-11, cited by G. Maspero in The Struggle ...
290. Flavius Josephus Against Apion Book 2 [Books]
... had been seized upon, and put to death, if he had not fled away immediately. Nor need we at all wonder that they thus treated such considerable men, when they did not spare even women also; for they very lately slew a certain priestess, because she was accused by somebody that she initiated people into the worship of strange gods, it having been forbidden so to do by one of their laws; and a capital punishment had been decreed to such as introduced a strange god; it being manifest, that they who make use of such a law do not believe those of other nations to be really gods, otherwise they had not envied themselves the advantage ...
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