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182 pages of results. 391. Abimilki, Azaru and Nikmed in the El-Amarna Correspondence and the Assyrian Annals [Journals] [Kronos]
... ultimately based. Feldman recognised the importance of chronology in the question of Abimilki's identity. Velikovsky provided a rough date for the el-Amarna archive of c. 870-840 B.C .( 5 ) though later studies indicate that Akhnaton may have still been on the throne as late as 832 B.C .( 6 ) Yet the most common traditional date for the foundation of Carthage, 814 B.C ., would allow a date no earlier than 821 B.C . for the accession of Pygmalion, since Carthage was founded in his seventh year. To resolve this problem, Feldman argued that the dates for Pygmalion could be raised by preferring one of the earlier traditional dates ...
392. The Conquest of Canaan AND THE REVISED CHRONOLOGY [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Jericho is given a place of major importance in the narratives of the Conquest (Joshua 5-6). This is a mystery which has been too lightly passed over by most writers on the problem. G. E. Wright remarks: ". . . at the moment we must confess a complete inability to explain the origin of the Jericho tradition." (3 ) This same problem arises at various other sites. Ai (Joshua 7-8) is also notoriously problematical, but, for a reason which will be mentioned later, discussion of this city will not be included here. But even excluding Ai from our list, we have four more cities which, like Jericho, ...
393. The Age of Reason: Some Insights [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the eighteenth century were deists who believed that once God had created his mechanical order, he was subjected to its laws himself. More radical thinkers were atheists, since they believed that beautiful and perfect order had come into existence by itself because of natural laws. Descartes had proclaimed that philosophy would be based on the sweeping rejection of all traditional concepts and beliefs, appealing only to reason as exemplified by the exact sciences. This gave origin to a movement which aimed at replacing all existing social institutions, customs, and practices by a new system based purely on scientific reason. This movement was called the Enlightenment because it believed that man should find his way merely by relying on ...
... ; its eastern frontier was along the Halys River (modem Kizil Irmak). Gordion's ruins are about fifty miles southwest of Ankara and eighty-five more miles from Boghazkoi (Hattusas). It was the seat of King Gordias, the founder of the dynasty, and of King Midas of legendary fame- everything he touched turned to gold. The Greek tradition has it that the Phrygians came from Thrace, crossing the Bosphorus. The time of their arrival is not known and there is nothing of archaeological nature to support the view sometimes expressed that they had already arrived in Anatolia in the thirteenth century: the only argument for such an early date is in the circumstance that Homer refers to the ...
395. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... wavelengths as the outer plasma shells become less opaque. In addition, the toroid tends to flatten with increasing current, a characteristic revealed by innumerable instances of the eye mask globally and as seen in the ancient Sumerian symbols of the goddess Inanna on the right. A Radical Approach to Rock Art Peratt's findings are particularly significant in their contrast to traditional explanations of rock art. The majority of rock art authorities, particularly those who have concentrated on Native American sources, argue that only images of the sun, moon, and stars reflect real celestial phenomena. Apart from such associations, most specialists claim that global patterns do not exist. Many attribute the more unusual elements in rock art ...
396. Beyond Bauer [Journals] [Aeon]
... planetary basis of ancient religion and, in any case, may well be irresolvable given the current state of our knowledge. A better strategy, perhaps, would be to pursue a systematic investigation of the historical evidence regarding Venus' catastrophic past. Such evidence is readily available and more amenable to immediate analysis. A systematic investigation of the written traditions pertaining to Venus' "infancy", moreover, might well reveal that certain aspects of Velikovsky's scenario- such as Venus' physical birth from Jupiter- were misinterpreted by Velikovsky, thereby rendering irrelevant the heretofore voluminous discussion of the physics of such an event. (10) In the second section of Beyond Velikovsky Bauer offers a lengthy ...
397. Avebury: The Biography of a Landscape, by Joshua Pollard and Andrew Reynolds (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... thought to be tombs for the dead. Hence, they have eagerly embraced the coincidence. I must admit that the discovery that our ancestors consumed large quantities of beef at what are thought to have been funeral feasts is an attractive analogy – but is it, when looked at more deeply? The anthropologists are really only recording those parts of tradition that have been preserved into the modern world. The original Madagascan beliefs go back equally as far as Neolithic European beliefs and, likewise, aspects have been lost or diluted along the way. Hence, a ban on eating beef in everyday life in southern Madagascar may simply be a facet that has survived the millennia – a little like ...
398. Velikovsky and the Problem of Planetary Identification [Journals] [Aeon]
... Marduk when making such a substitution? Should Marduk have been a relatively minor god in his native pantheon, say for the sake of argument one serving the role of messenger to the gods and identified with the planet Mercury, would we not be tempted to conclude that Mercury was originally the King of the Gods in Babylonian cosmogony, a role traditionally associated with the planet Saturn in other cosmologies? A more erroneous conclusion is difficult to imagine, yet analogous conclusions have been drawn by Velikovsky and others working in this area. How then are we to avoid the misconceptions which may arise from the chance evolution of particular cults and the erroneous interpretations of scholars, ancient and modern alike? ...
399. THE ROAD TO SATURN (EXCERPTS FROM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY) [Journals] [Aeon]
... man's memory, the planet Jupiter ejected from itself a smaller but sizeable body that careened across the solar system in the form of a giant comet. Coming into close contact with Earth, but avoiding an actual collision, this cometary body caused a series of catastrophic events which mankind remembered and passed on to his descendants in an oral and written tradition that eventually evolved into the well-known mythologies of the various nations. Thus the gods and goddesses of antiquity seem to have really been the deified planets of the solar system. Their divine actions were merely reflections of errant orbits in a cosmic drama which man witnessed and immortalized in his religious rites, his liturgies and, finally, his sacred ...
400. Natural Disasters Trigger Hysteria & Panic in Italy [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... blow, world's end. Furthermore, expressive and in many cases extremist and violent responses (which are often symptomatic for apocalyptic movements) are triggered by collective anger and tension following such catastrophes. Throughout history, outbreaks of end-time panic have been based on ancient texts reporting about past or predicting future natural disasters on a worldwide scale. Whether these traditions reflect actual global catastrophes in prehistoric times or whether local/regional disasters were perceived as the end of one's world, is perhaps less relevant in this context than the fact that these ancient traditions have always been used to predict future "world" disasters. It appears even more interesting to me that a rather insignificant cosmic occurrance, said ...
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