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182 pages of results. 311. Senmut and Phaeton [Journals] [SIS Review]
... "astronomically correct, so that Orion precedes Sirius in the westward motion of the southern sky" (p . 315). The Ramesseum ceiling shares his objections to the Senmut one and could equally well have been cited by Dr Velikovsky in support of his point; as Pogo puts it: "Mythologically, both the Senmut-Ramesseum and the Seti traditions may be equally valuable; astronomically, the Seti representation is far more satisfactory." (p . 316) It does not take a great deal of inspection of the layouts of these ceilings to suggest that all three have a great deal in common and that the similarities between them considerably outweigh the dissimilarities. They differ in detail but ...
312. The Oedipus Legend and the Amarna Period [Journals] [Kronos]
... (6 ) is most easily accounted for by assuming a confusion with that image at Luxor.) Amenhotep II boasts repeatedly of having killed prisoners with his own hands; and the same can be inferred for Thutmosis IV from the fact that, on one occasion,(7 ) his wife is depicted as handing him the weapon in the traditional scene of clubbing enemies, which at other periods of Egyptian history may have been purely symbolical. These human sacrifices were made in honor of Amen, whose image the Sphinx of Luxor was. The peculiar and rare emblem of the female sphinx (sphinge) with broken wings, best known from the "Carnarvon Plaque",(8 ...
313. An Ancient Celtic Water Cult: Its Significance in British Prehistory [Journals] [Kronos]
... , the extension of this cult to dry pits and shafts in lieu of actual wells seems to have spread in both locales. As Anne Ross stated: "Apart from making votive offerings in pools and lakes, the Celts put objects of a similar kind into wells and springs and into pits and shafts clearly having a comparable significance in their traditions. "( 3 ) Archaeological investigation has shown how extensive and deeply ingrained was this cult in Celtic ritual. With this fact firmly established, it is of interest to single out for special attention a shaft recently discovered in Holzhausen, Germany, which has been dated to the La Tene phase of Celtic culture, dated roughly from about ...
314. The Worship Of Mars, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... preface to his history of Rome, "the mightiest of empires, next after that of Heaven": "The Roman people . . . profess that their Father and the Father of their Empire was none other than Mars." Placing the time of Mars' activity as late as the foundation of Rome indicates that the Romans had a tradition that the city on the Tiber came into existence during a generation which witnessed some great exploit of their god-planet. The founding of Rome took place close in time to the great perturbations of nature in the days of Amos and Isaiah. According to the calculations of Fabius Pictor, Rome was founded in the latter half of the first year ...
315. The Location of Punt/Ophir Part I [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... 980/960 B.C ., a difference in time of around 500 years. None of the scholars who tried to solve these problems seems to have looked for corroboration from African sources, yet such evidence is available: the book, Indaba, My Children, by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa,[1 ] written from age-old sacred oral tradition by an African witch doctor from the Zulu tribe. Mutwa describes- among many other things- the coming of the very first White colonizers ever seen by the Black people at the Zambezi. In the oral tradition these were called the "Ma-Iti," i.e . "the Strange Ones," which Mutwa thinks was a ...
316. Cuneiform Astronomical Records and Celestial Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and historical astronomy, but the fuse was not lit because the general public did not understand what was implied, and those who were competent to understand the implications were not psychologically ready to draw the inevitable conclusions. The pressing warning' that Kugler wanted to communicate to the public was summed up by him as: the momentous doctrine that ancient traditions, even when they are dressed as myth and saga, cannot be dismissed lightly as fantastic, or worse, meaningless fabrications. It is particularly proper to avoid this pitfall when dealing with serious reports, especially those of religious nature such as those that occur in large number in the Old Testament. He applied this general theory to the ...
317. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... clearly does not lie with the Hebrews....Of late, too, it has been much argued, and often somewhat confidently maintained, that Hebrew monotheism is derivative from Babylonian monotheism. (2 ) 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 the19th century would itself have initiated the process." (3 ) This multi-pronged attack on the Jewish Bible, this rejection of Biblical history, religion and ethics, was a vast creation of19th-century Europe, an attack on the Jews led almost exclusively by German scholars like Eichorn ...
318. IN THE BEGINNING [Books]
... disciple' for obvious reasons. Another regulation was that the student had to crouch, with his face covered. According to the Sumerians a rigorous selection among those thirsting for knowledge was practised. The knowing one shall tell the knowing one, but the unknowing one shall not be told. ' Note 2 - Frazer was of opinion that all traditions which preserve reminiscences of floods which really happened . . . are legendary; so far as they describe universal deluges which never happened, they are mythical'. Compare with this opinion what constitutes a myth' my definitions, or re-definitions, in the introductory sections of my books, Moons, Myths, and Man, and The Book ...
319. Untitled [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Cardona's claim that: "There is nothing about kikkar' that connotes a flat' or low' land" is simply false. The only "source" Mr. Cardona claims for his interpretation, which flatly ignores, is wilfully ignorant of and flies in the face of the entire enormous canon of both mainstream Hebrew and Biblical scholarship and traditional Jewish sources, is his personal interpretation of the readings in Strong's Concordance, published in 1890. To claim this as a "scholarly" argument is pitiful. Mr. Cardona has no evidence in his support for his position except for his personal mis-translation of a Hebrew word, when he does not read Hebrew. Mr. Cardona claims ...
320. Sagan's Folly Part 1 [Journals] [Kronos]
... the Nahuatl word "Teo" as "a clear cognate of the common Indoeuropean root for god, preserved, among other places, in the words deity' and theology' " turns out to be a most inept diffusionist argument against the thesis of Worlds in Collision and can scarcely account for the striking parallels found in Pre-Columbian catastrophic and legendary traditions and those of the Old World. On p. 10, Sagan refers to "the fact that the Toltec name for God' seems to have been Teo, ' as in the great pyramid city of Teotihuacan ( 'City of the Gods')." Nominally, Teotihuacan had nothing to do with the Toltecs, as Sagan ...
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