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... D . 1010) is still today the national poet. At the time Firdausi wrote, his protector, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, had shifted the center of his power to India, and the Iranian empire had long been only a memory. With prodigious scholarship, Firdausi, like Homer before him, undertook to organize and record the Zendic tradition, which extended back from historic times into the purely mythical. The first section on the Pishdadian and Kaianian dynasties must be considered mythical throughout, although it does reach into historic times and encompasses four of the nine volumes of the Book of Kings in the English translation. Khusrau (Chosroes in Greek) is also the name of a ...
442. The Lesser Light [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... We might reasonably infer that it was if we can find some assurance that it and the moon did not coexist in earth's sky. A Moonless Night In May 1973 Velikovsky published a short article citing several alleged references (including biblical) to an ancient era in man's memory when there was no moon. In summary, he states "The traditions of diverse people offer corroborative testimony to the effect that in a very early age, but still in the memory of mankind, no moon accompanied the earth. Since human beings already peopled the earth, it is improbable that the moon sprang from it; there must have existed a solid lithosphere, not a liquid earth. Thus it ...
443. Venus In The Folklore Of The Indians, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents Venus In The Folklore Of The Indians Primitive peoples often are bound by inflexible customs and beliefs that date back hundreds of generations. The traditions of many primitive peoples speak of a "lower sky" in the past, a "larger sun," a swifter movement of the sun across the firmament, a shorter day that became longer after the sun was arrested on its path. World conflagration is a frequent motif in folklore. According to the Indians of the Pacific coast of North America the "shooting star" and the "fire drill" set the world aflame. In the ...
444. Ur of the Chaldees -- Once Again [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... This need not be so, however, and Ur of the Chaldees need not have been anything more than one of many minor settlements loosely associated with Abraham's clan, a few of which, for one reason or another, became major towns and cities in the ensuing centuries. A recent contribution to the literature on Abraham and the greater Amorite tradition [23] prompts me to make a few brief and tentative observations of my own. I have suggested above that Abraham was tied into the same overall Amorite tradition that associated the early Assyrian kings with the ancestors of the first Babylonian dynasty. If this is granted, then Abraham is further linked with the general region of northwestern Mesopotamia ...
445. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... were physical upheavals of a global character in historical times; (2 ) that these catastrophes were caused by extraterrestrial agents; and (3 ) that these agents can be identified. There are many implications that follow from these conclusions." [2 ] Now when we recall that Velikovsky approached the Exodus catastrophe via the Beth-horon event and ancient traditions suggesting intervals of around fifty years between catastrophes, we realise that Velikovsky's third conclusion is really two: (3 *) that these agents are periodic (i .e ., of cometary character); and (4 *) that these cometary bodies can be identified. Because we are today almost overwhelmed by the number of articles ...
446. Sodom and Gomorrah's Location and Destruction [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History IX:2 (July 1987) Home | Issue Contents INTERACTION Sodom and Gomorrah's Location and Destruction Rene Andrew Boulay Sodom and Gomorrah and the other infamous cities of the Valley of Siddim, which were destroyed in the days of Abraham, have never been physically located, although tradition places them under the waters of the shallow or southern part of the Dead Sea- that body of water the Jews call Yam Hamelach or the Salt Sea. A second assumption, which we will also address here, is the age of the Dead Sea, that it is hundreds of thousands of years old and that it existed in its present configuration since recorded time ...
447. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... his predecessors' again shows the scientists' perspective: anyone who had previously dealt with cometary or planetary encounters had priority over Velikovsky, whose extensive and painstaking researches counted for nothing. Since it is of fundamental relevance to Clube and Napier's work, we should note here the underlying principle of Worlds in Collision. If a penetrating search of ancient traditions from a variety of cultures yields numerous different but consistent accounts of an event not previously admitted by conventional Science, then Science has a prima facie case to answer [15]. Velikovsky's own answer proved unacceptable to the vast majority of scientists and historians. In part, the Clube-Napier thesis is an answer to and thus a product of ...
448. The Restoration of Ancient History [Articles]
... empire of Ninos [pre-Alexander period (3 )] was not even mentioned. Yet, its Medish successors were extensively dealt with-to no great avail. In 1988, one of the organizers of the eight conferences, stated the simple absence of an empire of the Medes [pre- Alexander period (2 )] : "A Median oral tradition as a source for Herodotus III 95106 is a hypothesis that solves some problems, but has otherwise little to recommend it .. . This means that not even in Herodotus' Median history a real empire is safely attested. In Assyrian and Babylonian records and in the archeological evidence no vestiges of an imperial structure can be found. The ...
449. Comments: on the First Issue [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... that ignores the possibility of extraterrestrial causes could itself become a kind of reductionism: it would run the risk of becoming as sterile as those 18th century "explanations" of meteorites that restricted themselves to purely terrestrial effects (1 ). In my opinion Velikovsky's greatest contribution to catastrophism is his demonstration of the value of human records, myths and traditions in questions of the past of the Earth and the solar system - for example of the value of the persistent traditions of bituminous materials falling from the sky. Velikovsky was the first to consider problems in geology and mythology together to develop valid models. He concluded from the human record that some of the Earth's petroleum deposits are of recent ...
450. The Charisma of Moses [Books] [de Grazia books]
... priests of the high places [50]. The age of the Delphic altar technology is uncertain. It may well go back to Mosaic times. Here again, we await archaeological and mythological studies that are illuminated by appropriate hypotheses. We will question later how the god Thoth (Hermes) and Moses were connected. There is an old tradition both flattering and uncomplimentary, that pictures Moses as a magician, a sorcerer, a medicine man, and a seer. From the presumptuous modern perspective, these words are insults and invitations to disputation. I see no reason for defining and distinguishing them, and fitting them well or illy to Moses. Buber barely skirts the "our ...
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