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... or the sons of Bör or Bur. It was the sons of this first race of mankind, the Aletae or Titans, who first worshipped divine phenomena like volcanoes, and then the sun under the name of Cronus-Satum, also called Baal or Bel. They were the stone-worshippers who blazed a trail over the Oceans of the world except, strangely enough, in the Near and Middle East and in Egypt, in short in those very regions supposed to have been the cradle of sacred and classic history, and the putative home of the Phoenicians. I have drawn conclusions from the worship and veneration of these sacred stones, of which the British Isles are the centre, sanctified by ...
772. Monitor. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... tsunami caused by a volcanic landslide had drowned all the coastal inhabitants. Survivors would have been mountain people who had forgotten their maritime heritage. Could Bubbles Sink a Ship? New Scientist 29.9 .01, p. 12 The mysterious disappearance of ships at sea might not only be explained by the occasional monster wave but also by, strangely, rising bubbles. Methane reserves in both the Bermuda Triangle area and the North Sea might occasionally give rise to a rush of rising bubbles which would lower the density of the water and cause a ship to sink. An experiment carried out with floating steel balls appears to have confirmed the possibility. Buckyballs Science News, 24 Feb 2001 ...
773. Is the Universe Finite? [Journals] [Aeon]
... as the Local Group, which is also comprised of 90-odd globular clusters and other nebular objects that number some 120 separate constellatory bodies, and which in turn forms a fragment of an even larger supergalaxy comprising perhaps hundreds of separate galaxies, each of which contains hundreds of millions if not billions of individual stars. The number of planets and other strange bodies in this milieu may be almost incalculable. And among these bizarrely variegated bodies, without theoretical doubt, are postulated numerous black holes. We won't even address the possibilities of other lifeforms. Those two-dimensional slices of the galactic universe depicted in the PBS program, each showing one thin quadrant of the sky, were compiled by estimating the ...
774. The Military Strategy of Sheshonq/Shishak in Palestine [Journals] [SIS Review]
... an equivalence between these two names on linguistic grounds. The Political Factor Jeroboam, who later became the first king of the northern kingdom, fled to exile in Egypt to escape from the threats of Solomon against him. While there he resided under the care and protection of Shishak, according to I Kings 11:40. Bimson finds it strange, therefore, that Shishak should attack Jeroboam's kingdom. This he must have done if he was the same person as Sheshonq of the Karnak inscription, for the upper registers of the toponyms listed there identify locations in Israel. Place names from Judah appear in the lower registers. In addition, the Bible does not mention any attack upon ...
775. The Albrecht/Glueck-Aharoni/Rothenberg Confrontation [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... same time in Palestine proper, thus providing an unequivocal correlation with Palestine chronology. Samples of pottery were evidently not prevalent. Yet the total evidence was deemed altogether adequate for correlating Level C with the era of the late XVIIIth dynasty in Egypt. Late Level Cand Level B then belonged to the era of dynasty XIX.16 It would seem strange, to say the least, that both Glueck and Albright could be confused in the transfer of their knowledge gleaned at Beit Mirsim to the situation in the Negeb. III. Aharoni's Observations and Contentions Aharoni conducted a series of excavations at sites located along the river bed of the northern Negeb noted above.17 The sites examined included those ...
776. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... and from there to China. [47] This would be in line with the well-established fact that astronomy as a whole was largely borrowed by Greece and India from Babylonia. We are therefore dealing with a widespread and remarkably persistent, but not with a universal tradition. Even so the central question remains as to where the Babylonians derived these strange ideas? Is it conceivable that the five planets, together with the Sun and the Moon, once really aligned themselves like beads on a string in a configuration that was amply visible to our ancestors? This subject has generally been treated with a sonorous silence, which ostensibly indicates that interpreters of the ancient texts are completely at a loss ...
777. The Saturn Thesis: Questions and Answers [Journals] [Aeon]
... at the evidence from a new vantage point, one is guided by little else than inertia. Skeptics might say that you can "prove anything" by resort to myth. Well, you certainly do hear that statement a lot, and obviously it's not intended to mean what it literally says. The skeptic is saying that all sorts of strange and exotic ideas have been proposed on the basis of myth, and not one of them is any more reasonable that any of the others. He is saying you could argue for anything under the sun if all you have to do is select a few myths for support. And he is saying there is no reason at all to ...
778. Charting Imaginary Worlds: Pole Shifts, Ice Sheets, and Ancient Sea Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... features around and change the scale and projection- he still obtained remarkably bad fits, and I cannot regard his attempts as having been inspired by anything but self-delusion. Piri Re'is Map Mallery's treatment of other early maps, and his ideas of glaciation, isostatic loading, the causes of climatic change, and the shape of the Earth are equally strange. Nevertheless, he did influence a few other people, including several officers of the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office, who came forward to endorse his reconstructions. He also made a powerful impression on Charles Hapgood, when the latter read the transcript of a radio broadcast on Mallery's interpretation of the Piri Re'is map. Drawn in ...
779. Neo-Assyrians and Achaemenids – A Test of Beards [Journals] [SIS Review]
... what are clearly semi-mythological ones. One version dates from the time of Tiglath-Pileser III, and another from that of Shalmaneser V [26]. Of course, it was common for ancient civilisations to give themselves artificially extended histories [27]. However, regardless of how much of the information in these inscriptions is accurate, it seems very strange that, if Sennacherib, Tiglath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V were Achaemenids, they should have wanted to give the impression that Assyria had a long and impressive history, particularly since they produced nothing similar in their own country. Cyrus II and Darius II both left inscribed genealogies, but these only traced their respective ancestries back to Achaemenes, the ...
780. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... with his daughter...The Sun's daughter is the Evening Star." [25] The same general idea is found among the Desana Indians of the Colombian rain forest, who know Venus as "Daughter of the Sun." [26] According to the Desana, Venus suffered incestuous advances at the hands of her father. Strangely enough, however, it is reported that she continued to live with him as his wife. Among various Slavic peoples, Venus was viewed as the sister of the sun, whereupon she became known by the name of Danica, "day-star." [27] This same planet-goddess was elsewhere recalled as a great king's daughter. [ ...
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