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182 pages of results. 261. The Sea Peoples and the Philistines [Articles]
... to achieve greater effect. To examine this in greater detail, I have prepared this take-away [attached]- the text is on the left, I have used the two standard translations by Breasted, and Edgerton and Wilson. They differ in some respects, and I am going to contrast this. To the right I have given the traditional interpretation, hopefully realistically, although perhaps stressing some of its worst excesses. To the extreme right are some very speculative alternatives, mostly my own and most of which should be suffixed with large question-marks. I should stress at this point that I don't read Egyptian hieroglyphics, but on the other hand, neither do most of the Aegean ...
262. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... .. Of late, too, it has been much argued, and somewhat confidently maintained, that Hebrew monotheism is derivative from Babylonian monotheism." [Encyclopaedia Britannica, XI, 3, p. 865] Not only that, but the historical sciences appeared to lead to the same conclusion: "if criticism had not already disintegrated the traditional theories of the Old Testament, archaeology in the latter half of the 19th century would itself have initiated the process." [ibid] This multi-pronged attack on the Jewish Bible, this rejection of biblical history, religion and ethics, was a vast creation of 19th-century Europe, an attack on the Jews led almost exclusively by German scholars ...
263. Thoth Vol I, No. 9: March 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Old Scottish Prayer- THE MYTH OF THE UNIVERSAL MONARCH (3 ) By David Talbott (dtalbott@teleport.com) In exploring ancient images of the Universal Monarch, we now enter the realm of classical thought. Our own civilization owes its greatest debt to Greek and Latin poets, philosophers and historians, who received and interpreted countless mythical traditions of nations throughout the Mediterranean and beyond, often drawing on literary sources that were later lost and are now unavailable to us. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, the present age is but a shadow of a former epoch- called the Golden Age of Kronos. "First of all," Hesiod writes, "the deathless gods who ...
264. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... comments on the "Saturn theory." New readers are referred to earlier installments in issues of THOTH posted on the Kronia website (address listed at the end of this newsletter). Go to the THOTH page and click on the image titled "Thoth: the Egyptian God of Knowledge" to access the back issues.- To the traditions of a polar power, previously cited, should be added the following: In the Persian Zend Avesta the creator-king Ahura Mazda rules from atop the world axis, the fixed station "around which the many stars revolve." Iranian cosmology, as reported by Leopold de Saussure, esteemed the celestial pole as the center and summit of heaven ...
265. Velikovsky and his Critics by Shane Mage [Books]
... by fierce fire". Plato, Timaeus, 22 C-D "These words of Plato received the least attention, though they deserved the greatest." Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision.. p. 148. The story of Phaethon is but one of a vast number of myths related in the sacred books of all civilized, and the sacred traditions of all non-literate, peoples, purporting to tell of awesome catastrophes visited by the Heavenly Gods upon sinful mortals and their hapless world. Not once, but repeatedly, humankind was pictured as devastated, virtually wiped out, by fire and flood, wind and cold, darkness and earthquake on a scale immeasurably beyond the worst natural disasters recorded ...
266. Forum Part Two [Journals] [SIS Review]
... archaeological evidence for natural catastrophes [14], climatic data [15] and written evidence [16]. I am simply unable to accept the argument - which is, moreover, based on most dubious chronologies - that the last cosmic catastrophe of global extent occurred during the 3rd millennium BC. I am extremely doubtful that all major catastrophe traditions and rituals around the world, monotheistic movements and apocalyptic writings in Europe and Asia, that new calendars and new religions on all continents, new civilisations, new architecture and the beginning of historical consciousness among the ancient nations emerged with a delay of 1500 years. In my view, it is no coincidence that at this time, between ...
267. On the Nature of Cometary Symbolism [Journals] [Kronos]
... the death of kings, the end of world ages, and universal conflagrations.(1 ) But since none of these beliefs accord with the modern experience of comets, one is left with three ways of explaining the disparity: 1) The ancients simply made up their ideas about comets without any basis in natural experience. 2) Their traditions combined various actual experiences, perhaps adding purely imaginative elements. 3) The strange mythical imagery attached to comets derives from the dramatic character of a particular comet active in a former epoch. In this and later installments, we will present evidence for a single, prototypal comet: the unique behavior of one spectacular, fear inspiring, and ...
268. Homer in the Baltic [Journals] [Aeon]
... diaspora and the origin of the Greek civilization from a new perspective. * * * * * * * Greece (Map by John Green.) Ever since ancient times, Homeric geography has given rise to problems and uncertainty. The conformity of towns, countries, and islands which the poet often describes with a wealth of detail, with traditional Mediterranean places is usually only partial or even nonexistent. We find various cases in Strabo (Greek geographer and historian, 63 bc - 23 ad), who, for example, does not understand why the island of Pharos, situated right in front of the port of Alexandria, in the Odyssey inexplicably appears to lie a day's sail ...
... . Only the catastrophic phenomena have left their impression upon the human mind, only the working of supernatural- what in German are called Ueberirdisch, over-earthly-powers has found a place in man's memory and expression in his myths. And many stories of a moonless age must have died out because it was difficult to believe, without a very definite and strong tradition, that the Moon was not always in the heavens. In Greek literature we find several passages which refer to the moonless age. No less an author than Aristotle tells us, in his Constitution of Tagea, that the barbarous Pelasgian aborigines, who inhabited Arcadia before the coming of the Hellenes, quoted, as their chief title to ...
270. The Sun Ages, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Sun Ages An oft-repeated occurrence in the traditions of the world ages is the advent of a new sun in the sky at the beginning of every age. The word "sun" is substituted for the word "age" in the cosmogonical traditions of many peoples all over the world. The Mayas counted their ages by the names of their consecutive suns. These were called Water Sun, Earthquake Sun, Hurricane Sun, Fire Sun. "These suns mark the epochs to which are attributed the various catastrophes the world has suffered."(1 ) Ixtlilxochitl (circa 1368-1648) ...
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