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182 pages of results. 431. Preface (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... - one of them known as the Deluge- will be the subject of another volume of natural history. The historical-cosmological story of this book is based on the evidence of historical texts of many peoples around the globe, on classical literature, on epics of northern races, on sacred books of the peoples of the Orient and Occident, on traditions and folklore of primitive peoples, on old astronomical inscriptions and charts, on archaeological finds, and also on geological and paleontological material. If cosmic upheavals occurred in the historical past, why does not the human race remember them, and why was it necessary to carry on research to find out about them? I discuss this problem in ...
432. The Case for Catastrophe in Historical Times [Journals] [Kronos]
... was too unwholesome to drink. What Enheduanna wrote is perfectly consistent with pollution on a massive scale: the pollutant would have to have appeared "bloody". It is also consistent with the "venom" or poison given out by Inanna, which caused the vegetation to "cease". d) There are, in fact, many traditions from around the world which tell of a phenomenon of "blood" all over the land.(29) There is even one from the First Intermediate Period in Egypt (and possibly contemporary with Enheduanna's "hymn") which tells of red ochre (described as being "like human blood") being spread throughout the land in ...
... about the causes of mountain building .111(1 of the Ice Ages, for example. The conflict is stressed between modern theories of gradual evolution (Lyell, Danwit) and the earlier one of catastrophic change (Cuvier). Velikovsky shows that the concept of ages brought to an end by violent natural changes can be found in the traditions of peoples the world over, in Armenia, China, Etruria, Greece, Iceland, India, Mexico, Persia, Polynesia, and Tibet, among others. Velikovsky's main argument begins with the biblical story that the sun stood still at Joshua's command "A departure of the earth from its regular rotation is thinkable, but only in ...
434. The Rebirth of Nature [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , we recognize that a part of us knew this all along. It is like emerging from winter into a new spring. We can begin to reconnect our mental life with our own direct, intuitive experiences of nature. We can participate in the spirits of sacred places and times. We can see that we have much to learn from traditional societies who have never lost their sense of connection with the living world around them. We can acknowledge the animistic traditions of our ancestors. And we can begin to develop a richer understanding of human nature, shaped by tradition and collective memory; linked to the Earth and the heavens, related to all forms of life; and consciously ...
435. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ; the use of expressions of salvation and deliverance in the 3rd episode of Moses in Midian, and so forth [3 ]. THE LIMITS OF DISTORTION There was a major difference, however, between the Exodus and other epic accounts. The Exodus began in writing, under the authorship and direction of Moses, then was carried by epic tradition in oral form, and then was revived in written form in the tenth century at which time there was no Homer to reassemble it. So it came together afterwards piece by piece for five hundred years, as sacred history and in writing. In inception and conception, the Exodus was modern; it was to be a sacred written ...
436. Man: The Past, The Present, and the Future [Books]
... civilization of old Egypt did not go through a period of infancy; it was mature when it first appeared on the stage of history. The legend of the great Flood was not current in historic times among the Egyptians nor among the black races, according to Ignatius Donnelly, but it occurs almost everywhere else. The Assyrians and Babylonians had traditions of a Flood. Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldeans, near the head of the Persian Gulf. His grandson, Jacob, with his twelve sons, moved farther westward into Egypt, so that the Egyptians of that period must have heard about the Flood, though they seem to have escaped it. The Egyptians were doubtless indigenous ...
437. The Levites and the Revolts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: God's Fire, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER SEVEN The Levites and the Revolts The "Hebrews" of Exodus were of various degrees of Hebrew-ness. Many were quite Egyptian. Many others were assimilated to Egyptian culture. The most important larger group were traditionally loyal Elohists. Few could have been Yahwist, inasmuch as Moses was only then expounding the new cult. In what would have been Goshen, at Tell ed-Dab'a, a town of the Middle Bronze Age has recently been excavated. It reveals a heavy non-Egyptian, Palestinian aspect. Skeletal remains, etymology, and artifacts disclose a heterogeneous population of Semitic and other backgrounds [1 ]. This would ...
438. Trisms and Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... holds a device that ends in a trism. In many works of art gods often appear holding such devices, their only significance- to me- appearing to be their configuration. Figure 5, above, is from an unpublished manuscript from the 16th century. The goddess Hope wears a headdress of trismatic reeds. While still retaining their more traditional forebears, allegories such as Love, Hope and Charity became important gods or goddesses of the Renaissance. Figure 6, is my sketch of the Mayan goddess of corn from the Dresden Codex or Codex Dresdensis, a pre-Columbian Maya hieroglyphic writing which illustrates well how the trism form proliferates in certain works of art. Both the ear of corn ...
439. Darkness and the Deep [Journals] [Aeon]
... Eloah), as I have elsewhere indicated, was one of the ancient names of Saturn. (38) "Shemayim" are "the heavens"- in the plural. "Eretz" is the word usually translated as "earth," but it more properly means "land." The words "tohu wa bohu" are traditionally translated as "without form and void" or "void and empty." The "tehom" is understood as a watery abyss- the deep. Ruach means "spirit" or "soul," but also "wind," while the mayim are merely "the waters," also in the plural. What the words ...
440. The Myth of the Goddess, Evolution of an image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mere woman and no goddess. In effect, wherever Christianity has spread and suppressed local pagan worship, the power of the universal goddess image has proved so great that Mary has been adopted in her place and clothed in all her ancient symbols. The suppression of the early Christian Gnostic groups by what became the orthodox section sent many ancient goddess traditions underground as a male priesthood came into power and excluded women from priestly office. Only in the twelfth century did the Cathar church arise which continued the earliest tradition of sexual equality. This was a time when the Gnostic tradition also resurfaced with the Order of the Knights Templar, Jewish Kabbalism and Alchemy, a time of legends of the ...
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