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182 pages of results. 321. Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art [Journals] [Aeon]
... suddenly leaving its current orbit and resuming a comet-like appearance would it take to convince conventional scholars that that planet recently moved upon a different orbit- that the ancient skies were vastly different than the ones we see today? It is apparently not enough that ancient peoples from around the world said as much. For example, a survey of ancient traditions reveals the following recurring motives: (1 ) in ancient times different "suns" dominated the visible heavens; (2 ) the world was once plunged into darkness and brought to the brink of destruction when the sun was eclipsed as a result of being swallowed by a giant dragon; (3 ) on one occasion, it is ...
322. The Hamon-Gabriel-Mars Connection (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... most authoritative edition of his complete works was published in Verona in eleven volumes ( 1734-1742) by Vallarsi. Rather than asking "just what does Jerome say?" why didn't Forrest look it up? I do not have the Latin in front of me but, following Ginzberg, Velikovsky correctly paraphrased what Jerome had to say - that Jewish tradition considers Hamon to be another name of the angel Gabriel and that the words of Isaiah 33:3 should accordingly be made to refer to that angel.(4 ) Aggadat Shir 5:39 merely offers the same disclosure. After what has already been divulged, none of this is paricularly illuminating. But I hope to have made ...
323. O-Kee-Pa: Catastrophe Myths and Rituals of the North American Mandan Indians [Journals] [SIS Review]
... American natives were evidence of an ancient cataclysm [1 ]. During the 19th century, some authors started to become more sceptical about the universality of the biblical Flood. George Catlin, on the other hand, found that among more than 100 Indian tribes he visited in North and South America, not one existed which was unfamiliar with the tradition of a past flood disaster: Indian traditions are generally conflicting and soon run into fable; but how strong a proof is the unanimous tradition of the aboriginal races of a whole continent of such an event! - how strong a corroboration of the Mosaic account. ' [2 ] However Catlin was far from being a bible fundamentalist. ...
... the scene in the Queen's hall, with its heaped straw 19 on the floor, its simmering caldrons, its open sewer, and the crude manner of disposing of "Polonius," all befitting the rude Middle Ages. The whole sad, somber story of the lonely orphan prince is turned by Saxo into a Narrenspiel, yet a strong tradition permeates the artless narrative. Hamlet is the avenging power whose superior intellect confounds evildoers, but his intellect also brings light and strength to the helpless and ill-begotten who are made to recognize their misery. There is nothing pleasant in the revelation brought home to the English king, yet he humbles himself before the ruthless insight and "adores" ...
325. Eastern Anatolia and Velikovsky's Chronological Revisions I [Journals] [Kronos]
... power between Egypt and the "Hittites". The empire was on the best of terms with Egypt and Mitannian princesses married pharaohs of the eighteenth dynasty. Culturally, however, the Mitannians were under heavy Sumero-Akkadian influence although they blended the writing, literature, religion, law and science of these earlier peoples with their own, native, Hurrian traditions and then passed this blend on to the other peoples with whom their far-flung migrations brought them into contact. Their principal beneficiaries were the "Hittites" but also it would appear, the Syrians and Canaanites as well. Altogether, the scope and impact of Hurrian influence is most impressive.(11) III Now, according to Velikovsky's ...
326. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... and structural in nature. Thus, if peoples in distant corners of the world agree on ideas which are not directly understandable from observation of the current natural world, evidence of an original observation that was common to all, but different from what we now observe, is supplied by the geographical spread of the beliefs in question. Diffusion of traditions, especially between the Americas, Oceania, Africa, and other parts of the world, cannot here be assumed. Needless to say, the antiquity of the lore itself bespeaks the antiquity of the concepts behind it and, therefore, also the antiquity of the events which led to these concepts. Dozens of such anomalous beliefs can be ...
... earth's crust, with its associated minerals, in the fact that it was once surrounded by rings of agueous vapor, containing much of its present solid matter, which fell as mighty deluges. The last of these rings descended at the time of the Noachian deluge and caused that catastrophe, which is so graphically described by Moses, and which tradition has sung in the ears of every tribe of Adam's race. The formation of these rings was caused by the intense heat, which drove to an immense distance every substance which could be reduced to vapor, and where they formed as annular bands or rings similar to those surrounding the planet Saturn at the present time. After long ages ...
328. F. X. Kugler -- Almost a Catastrophist [Journals] [SIS Review]
... has now completed the first English translation of this work, and offers below a digest of the content. WRITING IN KUGLER in Astronomical Theory and Historical Data (3 ), Stecchini cites the following passage from Kugler's introduction, taking it as a leitmotiv for the whole work: "Our monograph... conveys the urgent lesson that ancient traditions, even in the form of myth or legend, cannot be lightly dismissed as fantastic or even meaningless constructions. And this caution is particularly appropriate when we are dealing with serious reports especially of a religious nature, such as are offered in abundance in the Old Testament." Stecchini then goes on to explain that Kugler, in this ...
329. Big and Little Science [Articles]
... After supergravity, inflation, theories of everything, wormholes, superstrings and the strong and weak anthropic principles, the big bang is still unproved. Each of these speculations had for a short time seemed to be the "final theory" but none were well related to the real world. Superstrings in particular were allowed "to escape utterly the traditional confrontation between theory and experiment" and were consequently described by a leading American physicist as "a medieval scholasticism in which pure thought alone defined nature. The problem was that the new ideas were untestable-"There was no prospect for experimentally or observationally verifying them" -and therefore "cosmology seemed to be becoming less scientific .. . ...
330. Hereditary Monarchy in Assyria and the Assyrian Kinglist [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... real problems vis a vis the family relationships expressed in the AKL. J. A. Brinkman expressly outlined seven misstatements of genealogical fact concerning the list. In addition, Benno Landsberger in his now classic treatment of early AKL portions also showed the same inclination, although more indirectly. Because of the relatively high number of variations, the genealogical tradition of the AKL is quite faulty. This conclusion is bolstered by Landsberger's analysis of generations for kings 48-71, which shows that half of the genealogical attributions of this section of the AKL are likely to be erroneous. For these reasons it is probably unsafe to accept genealogical statements of the AKL as true without supporting evidence.4 Now, ...
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