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119 pages of results. 441. Gods and Giants (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... that the giants are called the Earth-born Ones'; for with the waning powers of the dying satellite the stability of the distorted geoid was at an end. Unceasing earthquake shocks convulsed the planet. The birth of the gods, very properly, takes place now: the beginning of the disintegration of the actual core. Chronos, it is strangely reported, swallowed his children. This swallowing myth very probably refers to the afternoon shape" of the satellite which seemed to rush among the fragments of the debris tail' with jaws wide agape, apparently devouring its own off-spring; the subsequent disgorging myth may be an intimation of the advancing disintegration of the satellite's core. As the youngest ...
442. The 1989 ISIS/SIS Nile Cruise [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... future excavation in progress. The next day saw a very small group of only the hardiest enthusiasts staggering across a desert strip, in the teeth of a wind which appeared to have just emerged from a blast furnace, in order to view a boundary stele of Akhenaton's short-lived capital of Akhetaten. We barely had time to take in the hauntingly strange depictions of the infamous Pharaoh and his family before the majority, waiting in the coach to continue to the officially scheduled destination, signalled their impatience - and democracy unfortunately forced our return. Those with a taste for the macabre enjoyed a torch-lit trip (the electric supply having failed) along underground galleries with the remains of long dead mummified ...
443. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... One example of such candour is provided by Sir Alan Gardiner, who declared (in Egypt of the Pharaohs, 1961) that what is proudly advertised as Egyptian history is merely a collection of rags and tatters'. Another comes from Leo Oppenheim, who wrote (in Ancient Mesopotamia, 1964); The cuneiform texts have given us a strangely distorted picture of more than two thousand years of Mesopotamian civilization... torn to shreds again and again by immense gaps in time and space... '. The fragmentary nature of all ancient documents dating from pre-Achaemenid times led 19th century scholars to vary immensely in their reconstructed chronologies for the early Near East. The first dynasty ...
... the Dark Ages: the invasion of the hordes coming from the east and north; the influence of the Church, which imposed dogmas and fettered the human spirit; and the scientific dogma that petrified itself in a thousand-year-long worship of Aristotle- through all the years of the Middle Ages, with their crusades, Scholasticism and Black Death. A strange amalgam of the Christian dogma and Aristotelianism became the credo of the Church, which regarded the world as finite, and earth as the center of the universe and immovable. The codification in the science of astronomy was performed by a distant pupil of Aristotle, Claudius Ptolemy, an Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician, the greatest authority in those sciences ...
445. The Knossos Labyrinth - a new view of the 'Palace of Minos' at Knossos [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to his own, with all the hard evidence being against its function as a dwelling place. He then points out the problems in Wunderlich's alternative and goes on to present all the manifold evidence that the Cretan palaces' were designed as temple complexes, with sanctuaries built for ritual and sacrifice. Seen from this viewpoint the Minoan civilisation loses its strangely unique graciousness and becomes shadowed by the darkness of the Bronze Age religions of its contemporaries. As Castleden assails us with the facts, perhaps a little reluctantly we hear the light feet of Evans's happy, carefree Minoans fade into dreams. In their place the Knossos site becomes peopled by priestesses to a cult that students of catastrophist mythology will ...
446. The Wabar Meteorite Crater in the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia [Journals] [SIS Review]
... but an impact crater. Desert legend had it that Wabar was destroyed by fire from the sky in the manner of Sodom and Gomorrah, and for much the same reason inhabitants were having too good a time and needed to be punished. One of Philby's guides knew enough of this legend to recall a song describing the event that created the strange structure in the desert. The song told of the ruins of old castles which still ringed the area and blackened pearls which were spread beneath the sand, evidence of the past wealth of the extinguished inhabitants of that city. The truth is perhaps more amazing than the legend. There never was a city at Wabar. Philby, and ...
447. Darwin's Unfalsifiable Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... undermined. This is because if the theory of evolution is false, then the principle of the uniformity of nature no longer holds true, and materialism's hegemony is ended (See Bethell, The American Spectator, March 1982, pp. 5-6, 40). So a lot rides on the preservation of the theory of evolution. In his strange new book Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (Simon & Schuster, 1981) Francis Crick shows just how much the plausibility of the theory of evolution in turn rests upon the foundation stone of natural selection. And indeed, we may recall that in Darwin's day the theory that evolution had occurred was not regarded as plausible until Darwin ...
448. Confessions of a Cenoist [Journals] [Aeon]
... He thundered in talks to college students: "Your textbooks are of Victorian vintage." Yet his most ardent wish was to be lauded by the scientific community. He cherished a place in the pantheon of great scholars, a status few thinkers attain without the approval of scientists. My experience of Velikovsky's grand vision turned out to be somewhat strange. His work under-cut my uncritical acceptance of established science and I became one of his followers, a believer. I learned that a mighty edifice of proof, supported by centuries of study and the prestige of the brightest scientific minds, could crumble when its founding assumptions are put in doubt. I knew of course that universally accepted theories ...
449. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... We do not want to be old enough to remember times that were different. This may even have something to do with our society's quest for youth: the old are those who remember when times were different, and that is precisely what we need to forget. I have alluded to the conflicting accounts of Empedocles' death. Many other strange and garbled stories are told about Empedocles. Most scholars doubt the Aetna suicide story, though Matthew Arnold and I, for different reasons, accept it. Many of the other stories that have been seriously entertained strike me as inventions by ancient fable-mongers who did not understand what Empedocles was driving at. In some cases these are loosely inspired ...
450. The Cosmology Of Tawantinsuyu [Journals] [Kronos]
... from Babylonia and China. We have gone as far as we could on the basis of the native evidence; now we need to see if the cosmologies of other ancient peoples may shed any light on the question. That a celestial body should be called "the sun" and yet be something other than the Sun may at first appear strange. But a close parallel is available in Babylonia. In Babylonian astronomy Alap-Shamash, "the star of the sun", was Saturn. Ninib, another Babylonian designation for Saturn, "is said to shine like the sun". In India the appellative of the Sun, arki, was also applied to Saturn.(2 ) ...
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