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182 pages of results. 251. The Problem of Adjusting the Date Limits of the Archaeological Ages to Meet Velikovsky's Revision [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... was divided opinion. When it was pointed out that to prove such a concept would require a re-examination of the archaeology of many Palestine sites, my thinking has produced a modified form of that proposed in my published volumes. The purpose of this revised paper is to (1 ) analyze the errors that have been made in arriving at the traditional chronology of Egypt as they pertain to the problem of redating the archaeological ages, (2 ) to clarify the reasons that have prevented the unequivocal acceptance of Velikovsky's revision, and (3 ) to offer an evaluation of the variant proposals for meeting this demand for revising the dates for the archaeological ages. Errors in Egyptian Chronology To all ...
252. Velikovsky's "The Dark Age of Greece" [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... was at its apogee in the days of Amenhotep III and Akhnaton of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Since this period of Egyptian history was dated to the14th and 13th centuries BCE, scholars concluded that Mycenaean Greece must be far older than was previously imagined. But the history of Greece provided no events to fill such an expanse of time. There were traditions and memories of a time when the Argive Tyrants ruled in the 8th and 7th centuries, but beyond was shadows and silence. "Thus," Velikovsky writes, "by the 1890's, the Hellenists were coerced by the evidence presented by Egyptologists to introduce five centuries of darkness between the end of the Mycenaean Age and the beginning of ...
253. The Fifty-two-year Period, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Fifty-two-year Period The works of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, the early Mexican scholar (circa 1568- 1648) who was able to read old Mexican texts, preserve the ancient tradition according to which the multiple of fifty-two-year periods played an important role in the recurrence of world catastrophes.(1 )He asserts also that only fifty-two years elapsed between two great catastrophes, each of which terminated a world age. As I have already pointed out, the Israelite tradition counts forty years of wandering in the desert; between the time when the Israelites left the desert and started the difficult task ...
254. The Bedrock of Myth [Articles]
... priori rules at every step to justify conflicting standards of interpretation of myth. In conclusion, it is clear that in Sumer as in India, corruption of myth led to the Sun and Saturn arising from items of a formerly identical nature, the original north celestial polar crescents. Incompetent Sumerian priests identified Sun-Shamash with Shamash-Saturn instead of leaving the incomprehensible traditions as they were. Thus it was, doubtless, that the later Greeks came to call Saturn Heelion Asteer, and the Romans came to call it Stella Solis. A presumed sunlike Saturn is not even arguable from myth, let alone the basis of objective material for a purported lost celestial history. In or at least seemingly in the ...
255. Introduction (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... utility of the theories or methodologies of Immanuel Velikovsky, although Part One of this work is a rather detailed summary of his approach. Rather, based on the nature and scope of his challenge to the paradigmatic assumptions of his age, I propose to present him as a useful case study of how certain personal and environmental factors (culture, tradition, family, occupation, avocation) may have helped influence the development of one particularly creative though iconoclastic ideational structure, and how those factors tended to predispose the nature of that structure's content. Undoubtedly, there are other factors to be considered: the mechanics of mid-life crisis, for example, but these will not be examined here in ...
256. The Woman Who Wondered (Prof. Dr. Hertha von Dechend) [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... most of her efforts in the study and teaching of the history of science. Some of her critics have alleged the significant influence of Frobinius in an attempt to somehow diminish her bold accomplishments, but such minor attacks are usually regarded as petty attempts at character assassination and dismissed. That Frobinius possessed a natural curiosity, believed in the sharing of tradition and technology by ancient people, and dared to put his ideas into writing is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, Frobinius is still cited in a number of different areas of research. Frau Von Dechend may well have been inspired by Frobinius, however the direction and method of her work was entirely her own. Her major ...
257. A Potential Historical Connection for the Death and Burial of Jacob in Genesis [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... it. The purpose of this study is to suggest that there may be an event in history recorded outside the Bible which shows promise for such a correlation. If one is going to look into the records of ancient history for a possible correlation one must deal first with the issue of chronology. The present study adopts and utilizes a rather traditional chronology for both the biblical record and the ancient Near East. At the very least this kind of correlation can be taken as a working hypothesis to see what might turn up at this point for study in detail. The patriarchal period in Genesis and Exodus is dated, as noted above, 430 years before the Exodus event. The ...
258. Catastrophe, Collective Trauma, and the Origin of Civilization [Articles]
... world influence, wealth, the need to build more ingenious bombs, or the need to exercise control over everything." It should be noted that Berman is not merely offering a cynical commentary on our society's more egregious failures, using the word "addiction" metaphorically; he is pointing to specific addictive symptoms that are not shared by many traditional cultures, particularly those of hunter-gatherers, wherein the compulsive search for wealth, power, novelty, and gadgetry is, if not completely unknown, certainly comparatively rare. Trauma victims frequently suffer from psychic numbing-the decreased ability to feel joy or sorrow, or to empathize with the feelings of others. Native peoples wonder how civilized Europeans can treat ...
259. The Crescent II [Books]
... . Ancient history is filled with legends of floating, paradisal islands, of which the Greek Delos and Hindu "island of the Moon" are noteworthy examples. The Italian floating isle of Cotyle; the Egyptian floating island of Chemnis, described by Herodotus; and the Celtic floating island of Snowdon suggest a common theme. (55) The tradition of the island-ship receives remarkable expression in the Roman island of Tiber, which, as a monument to Asclepius, was fashioned with a breastwork of marble into the form of a ship, its upper part imitating the stern and its lower part the bow. (56) Fig. 94, taken from Carl Kerenyi's Asklepios, shows the ...
260. Sun 13 July Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the same elemental processes (transformations of water, rarefaction and condensation of air, separating out of fire, air, water and earth, periodic reabsorption of these elements into a state of dynamic equilibrium) as it invoked to explain the orderly arrangement of the earth and the heavenly bodies. In so doing, it implied the baselessness of the traditional Olympian religion which attributed lightning and earthquakes to whims of Zeus and Poseidon and world-destructions to battles of the sky-gods. The ultimate Milesian agenda may therefore have been to liberate people from paralysing fear of the immediate recurrence of celestial disturbances in the recent past. By insisting that world-destructions occurred only in vast cycles of time (such as a " ...
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