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119 pages of results. 641. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... again Buber stretches time with an uncontrolled imagination; Moses is a kind of spook who haunted Pharaoh's court for years while the plagues went on at large intervals [15]. Buber analyzes the passover feast as an old shepherd festival of spring [16]. (Why each family should stay in its own home during a fiesta is rather strange.) His scenario of Moses talking with Yahweh is a fine example of reductionism, himself, quite unbelieving, yet letting his reader believe: In our vision, we see this man Moses at times, following some new and wearing experience with his people, entering the leader's tent, sitting down on the ground and for a long ...
642. From Ramses III To Darius III. Part I Ch.5 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... settle in Egypt; how he freed Egypt from Assyrian hegemony; how, now as an ally of his former overlord Assurbanipal, he made war in Syria? Nothing even remotely like such events was found in the relics carrying the name Psamshek in hieroglyphics. The other puzzle was in the very name-Psamshek as it is written in hieroglyphics looks rather strange for a royal name. Gardiner mused: "The name, for all its outlandish appearance, is an Egyptian one meaning the negus-vendor'."[7 ] But a pharaoh would not adopt the name "vendor of negus [lemonade]." Ptah and Maat in the royal name and cognomen of Seti are Egyptian deities and ...
... serve "our man," as he said. Thinking he had fallen among cannibals, the stranger ran as fast as his feet could carry him from his entertainer, who sought vainly to restrain him. Afterward, he found out that there had been no intention of regaling him with human flesh, but only with the flesh of the strange animal called "man."[146] As the "man of the mountain" is fixed to the ground by his navel-string, so the barnacle-goose is grown to a tree by its bill. It is hard to say whether it is an animal and must be slaughtered to be fit for food, or whether it is a ...
644. Worlds In Collision And Recent Finds In Astronomy. Ch.17 Supplement (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... on the position of planets in the solar system. He drew graphs and wrote: "It can be readily seen from these graphs that disturbed conditions show good correlation with planetary configurations. . . . It is definitely shown that each of the six planets studied is effective in some configurations." The press reported: "Evidence of a strange and unexplained correlation between the positions ofjupiter, Saturn and Mars in their orbits around the sun and the presence of violent electrical disturbances in the earth's upper atmosphere . . . seems to indicate [that] the planets and the sun share in a cosmic electrical-balance mechanism that extends a billion miles from the centre of our solar system. Such ...
645. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... idiosyncratic fancies and expressions of ideas of varying utilitarian possibilities, and, of course, rations for weeks of time, including tons of unleavened bread. The collecting process had gone on for months. The Bible mentions almost none of this effort. In a number of passages, both in the Bible and the legends, we are offered a strange picture - of the Hebrews first borrowing valuables from their Egyptian neighbors for the trip and then being given them, with a strong implication of blackmailing and looting the frightened people - both Egyptian and Hebrew - who were staying behind, and stripping the ruined houses and settlements. The implication, too, is that these activities were ordered by ...
646. Scarabs [Journals] [Pensee]
... same level of the excavations as the handmade Canaanitic ceramics" (8 ). According to the last observation, then, genuine scarabs were used in Palestine after centuries of disuse, and also they were not found in the Canaanite level contemporaneous with the time of the pharaohs who made these scarabs. This is, to say the least, strange; and no less strange is the fact that the Israelites did not use as amulets the scarabs of their own time, but only old scarabs. "We are compelled therefore to assume that it was a custom in Palestine to use old scarabs .. . at a time when there was no longer any understanding of their original meaning ...
647. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... are still no plans to publish any of the long BC chronologies, as far as I am aware, but there is a possibility that all the raw data from tree ring laboratories around the world will be made available on the internet. The End of the Early Bronze Age Other scientific work has been gradually building up a picture of some strange event about the time of the end of Early Bronze (EB), probably the cause of its end. SIS contributors (notably Moe Mandelkehr, serialised in SISR V:3 [1980/81], C&CR 1987, 1988) and conventional academics (e .g . C Schaeffer, Stratigraphie Comparée, 1948) ...
648. The Birth of Athena [Journals] [Aeon]
... 3 ) The spectacular nature of Athena's birth has long intrigued scholars- and with good reason. Not only are the physiological details of the goddess' birth patently absurd, the cataclysmic imagery attending her epiphany is difficult to imagine under any but the most abnormal conditions. Yet as Walter Burkert observes, the birth of Athena continues to exert a strange fascination upon modern readers in spite of these incongruities: "This birth myth is as popular as it is puzzling." (4 ) There have been numerous attempts to explain the bizarre circumstances attending Athena's birth. Indeed there are as many explanations of this particular myth as there are of myth itself, ranging from socio-cultural to meteorological to ...
649. Jericho [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Egypt in 1567 B.C . [sic], when Egypt drove the Asiatics back and began to recover their control over Syria. The destruction of the walls which she determined were later than the latest of Garstang's last town, therefore, was caused by the Egyptians following the expelled Hyksos into Palestine. But Jericho is in a very strange location for such an Egyptian invasion. Yes, it guards the entrance to Palestine from Moab, but it is not on any main north-south route. It is very unlikely indeed that an Egyptian invader would bother with its destruction. At Jericho, the evidence for the destruction is even more dramatic. All the middle bronze age buildings were ...
650. O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , according to Catlin's functionalist interpretation, considered to ensure the food supply for the following year. The festival was thirdly held for the purpose of initiating young men into adulthood through an ordeal of bodily torture. One morning before sunrise, at the start of the ceremony, the leading medicine man told the Mandans that he had discovered something very strange on the horizon. He told them that during the rising of the sun a white character would enter the village and open the medicine lodge, the main building in which the ceremony was going to take place. The lodge, 75 feet in diameter, was considered a sacred building, built and used solely for the four-day festival and ...
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