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119 pages of results. 981. The Celestial Whirlpool Lake [Books]
... on earth like the Egyptian djedsymbol. The setting up of the backbone of Osiris was one of the most important functions at the restoration of his body after its dismemberment. This was annually celebrated at Busiris on the 30th of Khoiak, at the end of that part of the Egyptian year devoted to the Osirian festivals, and was kept with strange rites; e.g ., the priests of the different sanctuaries fought together with fists and cudgels.32 The amulet not only gave steadfastness (backbone) to the mummy. Your user section may be symbols of the cardinal points and the seasons regulated by the four gods of the four quarters. The "gilded djed" brought ...
982. Ear Symbols [Books]
... were connected with the sky and especially with the sun in Syria and Palestine. When Jacob fled from his father-in-law his wives carried away certain gods which were so small that Rachel "put them in the camel's furniture and sat upon them "so that Laban "found them not "16 But later the wives "gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and their ear-rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.17 Solar symbols and ear plugs were worn by pre-Columbian Americans and their gods, by Melanesians and Polynesians in Oceania and by various peoples in Asia and Africa. Ear-boring and ear distension was ...
... word". The "ear" (helix) of Chaos heard the "word" and received the breath the "word" and "breath " being one. That was evidently why the ancient Egyptians believed that the "air of life" enters the right ear and "the air of death" the left ear; but that strange concept could not have possibly emerged until after "right" and "left" had assumed a definite significance in connexion with the cardinal points. Thus, as is found, the symbolism of the whorled murmuring shell-the first natural spiral which attracted early man's attention became exceedingly complex and profound in the course of time, and even before Democritus ...
984. Ever Since Darwin: A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... Gould's final comment is his most extraordinary: "But all these criticisms pale to insignificance before the most conclusive refutation of Velikovsky's examples - their explanation as consequences of continental drift and plate tectonics." Roughly translated this means: "But the real reason I believe he is wrong is because I happen to subscribe to a different theory." Strangely enough, the theory of continental drift was a heresy when Earth in Upheaval was written, and Velikovsky rejected it, a "victim", Gould thinks, "to this great revolution in scientific thought". In reply, one could warn against Gould's heavy-handed and reductionist use of continental drift and plate tectonics - certainly very popular theories ...
985. A New Interpretation of the Assyrian King List [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... are also aligned- given the brevity of the reigns of the Babylonians: Assyria: 6 years 41 years 5 years Babylon: 3 years 3 months 6 years- we need have no hesitation in rejecting the SKL as valueless with regard to questions of chronology. Its mere listing of every Assyrian and Babylonian monarch- in sequence- and yet strange division into paragraphs, defies explanation both conventionally and for our reconstruction. In cross-synchronizing with Babylon we note the following arrangement: the Kassite dynasty synchronizes essentially with the line ending with Enlil-kudur-usur. The notable exception is that between Ashur-dan I and Zababa-suma-iddina. The second dynasty of Isin- the fourth of Babylon- synchronizes essentially with the line from ...
986. The Palaetiology of Fear and Memory [Books]
... . The disaster occurs in successive kinds of turbulence, in all the various destructive -forms of earth, air, fire, and water, the primordial elements. Animals, both tame and wild, crowd in upon people, terrified, unsavage, unhungry. Eardrums are blown in or sucked out. Some are struck blind, others gassed. Strange objects and life forms drop from the sky. The sky reels. The waters gyrate madly and rush to and fro. The vista is one of universal destruction. There is nowhere to go. Cohorts disappear. Strangers appear. The survivors regroup after each incident. They are partially paralyzed with fear and despair, partly striving for survival ...
... time altogether. I now invite you to move across the Atlantic. In doing so I must admit from the start that what I have learned about the religions of the New World has inevitably been shaped by analogies conceived with those of the Old. As long as this is recognized it is possible to proceed. One cannot encounter something utterly strange without bringing analogies to it; on the other hand, one cannot make genuine progress in understanding until the power of the analogies has been separated out from the material itself. In the New World there are no cultures that have left extensive evidence of religious beliefs actually held before -1500. There are many Deluge legends, but no archaeological ...
988. Forum: In Defence of the Saturn Theory C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... no satisfactory uniformitarian explanation can be found to account for Saturn's peculiar mythical characteristics - and James' model is the latest of many to fail in this regard - ought we not at least consider the one model that accounts for the mythological evidence? Even James concedes the theoretical power of the Saturn theory: Theoretically the Saturnist model could explain the strange myths about Saturn's primeval importance, its Sun-like appearance, the myths of a Golden Age which ended in catastrophe, the associations of Saturn with the Pole and much more. ' [35] Conclusion Ordinarily, I do not make a habit of responding to critics. For several reasons, I decided to make an exception in the present ...
989. Nemesis for Evolutionary Gradualism? [Books]
... in many groups of organisms started before the end of the Cretaceous Period [2 ,17,65,67,84], a point which the Alvarez group came to accept, although they still maintained that the process was accelerated by the subsequent impact event [85]. Even so, an apparent anticipation of a catastrophe seemed rather strange. In the case of the dinosaurs, regardless of whether they had started to decline in total numbers, which was a possibility, there was evidence that they started to decrease in taxonomic diversity (i .e . there was a reduction in the number of dinosaur species in existence) over the last 10 Myr of the Cretaceous [ ...
990. A Question of Logic [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... of the events of the early Amarna Age as well. One other point: does Alshe still play a part in the end of Mitanni, and, if so, who were the rulers of this state? Velikovsky has yet to make his promised reply to Burgstahler28 and clarify his solutions regarding the Assyrian and Babylonian letters. I find it strange that no letters have been found from Shalmaneser III, which tends to suggest that correspondence from outside Syria-Palestine does not relate directly to his time. I now concede that his activities in Syria-Palestine appear as likely as those of Suppiluliumas I to be those of the dreaded King of Hatti. In Conclusion Our problems are multiplied by the fact that ...
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