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119 pages of results. 921. The Hyksos Were Not Assyrians [Journals] [Aeon]
... 400. Obviously, then, Tsar Ivan was the real name of Stalin, the man of steel being, self-evidently, a ceremonial title. He died the very year after Elizabeth became queen of England; he swallowed Poland; allied with England; expanded to the east against Manchuria or the Mongols; had his wife and son die in strange circumstances; and tortured, killed and imprisoned in precisely the way Ivan did. As a clincher, we even have a film in two parts- "Ivan the Terrible" by Sergei Eisenstein, produced in Stalin's time, but glorifying Ivan! Obviously, then, applying Heinsohn's standards of scholarship and speculation, they must be the same ...
922. The Two Sargons and Their Successors (PART ONE) [Journals] [Aeon]
... to his son, Shar-kali-sharri, while naming his other son as heir-apparent to Shar-kali-sharri. Esarhaddon left the throne to his son Ashurbanipal, while also naming his other son as heir-apparent to Ashurbanipal. This needs some clarfication. Shar-kali-sharri, the son of Naram-Sin, inherited the Akkadian throne. His brother was named Bin-kali-sharri. Some have considered this somewhat strange, maintaining that the name Bin-kali-sharri should rightly have been reserved for the son of Shar-kali-sharri. It has therefore been suggested that Naram-Sin might have broken with tradition in nominating his second son as the heir apparent to his brother. (181) To be sure, Bin-kali-sharri did not succeed his brother. But that is besides the point since ...
923. Discussion Questions From the Floor [Journals] [Aeon]
... from any conventional vantage point, while the polar configuration proposed by David Talbott et all would anticipate such a displacement. In geological time, the period of the polar configuration would have been exceedingly brief, though the spin axis shift to the north would have obviously been considerably greater than presently observed. Since the proposed polar configuration does accommodate this strange data, I think Ellenberger should, in all good graces, see if he can produce an alternative explanation. I have assumed that the comparatively brief period of Saturn's northern presence was sufficient for the mantle to take some permanent set at maximum displacement and that Earth's pear shape is slowly fading away. Evidences for this are rising land in ...
924. CLASHING MAGNETIC FIELDS [Journals] [Aeon]
... a marine setting. The following is a description of Typhon, another pseudonym of Mars, as rendered by Apollodorus, a second century B.C .E . Greek historian of the Heroic Age. (The Heroic Age was also the catastrophic era.) He has a hundred SNAKY HEADS, his eyes flash fire, and he emits strange noises... "all kinds of voices", bellowings, yelpings and hissings. Earth, sea and sky resound with the din of battle. There is thunder, lightning, fire and burning hurricane; the whole Earth seethes, and the sky and sea likewise. Great waves rage along the shore and there is endless quaking ...
925. Planetary Observations of the T'ang Dynasty [Journals] [SIS Review]
... lists planetary observations from outside China that parallel the period of the T'ang dynasty. This list is not exhaustive; it is what I have so far uncovered and does not include solar and lunar eclipses. DATE OBSERVATION RETRO MATCH ? COMMENTS 1. Ca. 618 - 621 About the time of the Prophet's mission there were many meteors and other strange appearances in the heavens which tradition says, frightened the astrologers from the high observatories where they used to watch at night, and threw out all their calculations' [30]. Not applicable I found this remark in a commentary on the Koran. While not dealing in specifics, it implies observational difficulties, which might include the planets ...
926. The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I) [Journals] [Aeon]
... "ancestral spirits." Among the Japanese, "There was evidendy a belief that the souls of the dead were transformed into white birds and flew off."(68) In the same way, Slavic tradition holds that, at death, the soul turns into a dove."(69) And in the Americas, a strangely similar belief prevailed among the Aztecs: "On the death of a great noble, his soul was thought of as taking flight like a bird or a butterfly."(70) Other examples are noted by Theodor Gaster: The pre-Islamic Arabs entertained the same fancy, and it survives in the folklore of the Moslems of Abyssinia and ...
927. Redshift! [Journals] [Aeon]
... x-rays could be redshifted into ultrablue light by massive gravitation or the Compton-Debye effect, or even well beyond into the infrared. Typically, the powerful radio-quasars might have had their peak energy radiating in the microwave or shorter wavelengths, perhaps starting as bright white or blue suns before being drawn into the collapsar. For those otherwise shrieking radio-quasars which are strangely quiet, their electromagnetic frequencies could have been redshifted into stillness, for there are some suspected quasars which are radio-silent. But this merely adds another layer to the fascinating mystery to be solved, for there may be other unknown characteristics similar to Compton absorption, where the elastic scattering of photons by electrons are re-emitted as photons of lower energy ...
928. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... commonplace in the last century to interpret such accounts in a Euhemerist fashion- i.e ., as actual migrations led by men of flesh and blood- to do so today seems hopelessly naive. A mythical aura surrounds other aspects of the Exodus-account as well. The parting of the Red Sea, as several scholars have recognized, is strangely reminiscent of the symplegades-motive. (46) Here, it will be remembered, the hero barely succeeds in passing through some treacherous feature of the natural landscape such as clashing rocks, while his evil pursuer is caught and killed. (47) The slaying of the Pharaoh, similarly, given his explicit identification with the dragon Rahab in ...
929. Astral Kingship [Journals] [Aeon]
... the true meaning of the Sed festival was, the meaning of the very name of the Sed festival has not been totally resolved either. (123) Murray translated it as "the Tail-festival" (124) but conceded that: Though a great deal has been written about this festival no explanation has been given of...its strange name...but the peculiar name of the festival can only be explained on the supposition that it refers to the giving of the bull's tail to the king as part of his royal and divine insignia. (125) Murray also drew attention to the god Sed who was a god of the dead and probably an ancient form ...
930. Astronomical Dating and Calendrics [Journals] [Aeon]
... but, in fact, those of all other known cultures of antiquity. These reforms, enacted in what appears to have been a random fashion, resulted in an irregular number of days and even whole months being intercalated sporadically to fit the solar calendar. Confronted with this situation, the eminent astronomer and Assyriologist Franz Xavier Kugler reported "the strange fact, that at least in the last centuries BC the spring equinox was set 4-5 days too late" and asks: "How is this abnormality to be explained? From erroneous direct determinations?" To a uniformitarian scholar like Kugler, such an assumption was inconceivable. He was therefore forced to postulate an "almost complete neglect of ...
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