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182 pages of results. 461. EBLA -- A New Look at History (Review) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Ever since the excessive claims made of the Ebla archive in the late 1970's I have chosen to wait until the rhetoric settled before beginning to personally and professionally deal with Ebla and its rich archives. The following review is my first public statement on this important subject. I shall organize the review along the following topics: language, geography, traditions, chronology and history. With regards to language Eblaite can now, after fifteen years of intensive investigation, be classified as neither East nor West Semitic, but rather as Old Semitic. Its only connection with Biblical Hebrew is that it is Semitic. By way of general analogy the relationship between Eblaite and Hebrew is akin to Latin of ...
462. The Secret of Baalbek (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Winnefeld, Baalbek, Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen von 1895-1905, ed. by Th. Wiegand, Vol. II (Berlin, 1923), p. 110. 4. C. F. Volney, Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte, pendent les années 1783-1785 (Paris, 1787), p. 224. SOLOMON'S BAALBEK Local tradition, which may be traced to the early Middle Ages, points to a definite period in the past when Baalbek was built: the time of Solomon. Idrisi, the Arab traveler and geographer (1099-1154), wrote: "The great (temple-city) of astonishing appearance was built in the time of Solomon."(1 ) ...
463. The Comet Venus, Part 1 Venus Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Comet Venus During the centuries when Venus was a comet, it had a tail. The early traditions of the peoples of Mexico, written down in pre-Columbian days, relate that Venus smoked. "The star that smoked la estrelle que humeava, was Sitlae choloha, which the Spaniards call Venus."(48) "Now, I ask," said Alexander Humboldt, "what optical illusion could give Venus the appearance of a star throwing out smoke?"(49) Sahagun, the sixteenth century Spanish authority on Mexico, wrote that the Mexicans called a comet " ...
464. Holy Dreamtime in Wonguri Land [Books] [de Grazia books]
... : The Burning of Troy, by Alfred De Grazia Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Holy Dreamtime in Wonguri Land Towards the Napier Peninsula of Arnhem Land in Australia, there dwell a native people of the stone age, whose singing is the most developed of their arts. They are of the Wonguri linguistic group of the Mandzikai clan. Their traditional songs are rich in myth and often very long. They are arranged in groups to form particular cycles. Although complete in itself, each song is related to a central theme. It reconstructs some event or portrays some happening of the traditional post. There are sacred and secular song cycles, songs known only to the men or to ...
465. Thoth Vol II, No. 12: July 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . While I am not aware of any major mythological themes that have not been "assimilated" to the Saturn theory- dragon combat, deluge, dying god, warrior hero, ancient sun-god, clown, etc. --it stands to reason that there must be some. ERIC: I am assuming that if the answer is that most important mythological traditions have indeed been considered it is because those are regarded as the oldest and most reliable ones to testthe theory on. DWARDU: Correct. EV: Again I would agree with Dwardu with the caveat that myths first committed to writing in relatively recent times- such as the Irish traditions surrounding Cuchulainn- often preserve very old themes, while some traditions ...
466. ...more Myths Monuments and Mnemonics: A Photographic Tour of Egyptian Antiquities [Journals] [Horus]
... (Photos by the author) The mountainous stone pyramids at Gizeli have withstood the erosive forces of time, natural and human, to reveal the essentials of their original outer dimensions and generally preserve the internal chambers and passageways. Their antiquity alone is cause enough for wonder though older examples show them to be particularly grand structures in an already established tradition - one that continued generally throughout the Old Kingdom of Egypt. About eighty are known, but the sheer mass of the Gizeli group has added to the sense of mystery associated with pyramids and served to remind travelers since ancient times that a major wave of human achievement was commemorated here. The Great Pyramid of Khufti [Cheops] itself ...
467. Metallurgy and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 40.00]. Part III, which discusses the archaeological evidence for the trading of minerals and metals and the spread of glazing and metallurgical skills, will probably cause the book to be promptly whisked off the departmental shelves, and ceremonially pulped before its heresies can contaminate unwitting students. Dayton, a mining engineer turned archaeologist, assesses the traditional structure of ancient Near Eastern history and European prehistory from a broad interdisciplinary standpoint, and pulls no punches in revealing its faults: ". .. archaeology in the Near East has built up a card-house of interrelated "facts" by the stylistic comparison of artefacts from one area to the next, each system building upon the flimsy evidence ...
... by mainstream, American science, the impressive amount of evidence, especially from the space probes, which has accumulated in mainstream science since 1950 in support of Velikovsky's theories and predictions, and catastrophist science, or research by Velikovsky's supporters in a number of fields, published in hundreds of scholarly articles, which constitutes a parallel universe to mainstream, traditional, uniformitarian science. This book will deal only with Item 2, the Velikovsky Affair. It means we will not debate whether Velikovsky is correct, or how much the new evidence may support him, or what his followers have produced, for such issues, (however interesting they are in themselves), are irrelevant here. What ...
469. Our Universe: Unlocking its Mysteries [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... in the heavens and catastrophic changes in the cosmic order itself. Early man built temples to the heavenly figures that he worshipped as gods. The myths and pictographs of antiquity clearly show that, at one time, our eyes saw a vastly different sky from the one astronomers view in their instruments today. Were ancient myths merely fantasies? Many traditional astronomers and mythologists dismiss these early stories and drawings as the fantasies of primitive cultures lacking an understanding of what they saw. However, comparative mythologists David Talbott, Ev Cochrane, and Dwardu Cardona have found that there is a consistent pattern in these stories. When many different, widely separated cultures tell the same story, the probability exists ...
470. Velikovsky: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [Journals] [SIS Review]
... though it is found in the earliest pages of his earliest book. In the preface to Worlds in Collision Velikovsky tells us the essence of what he hopes to accomplish. Can we, out of this polymorphous material, extract historical facts? .. .In a few cases it is impossible to say with certainty whether a record or a tradition refers to one or another catastrophe that took place through the ages; it is also probable that in some traditions various elements from different ages are fused together. In the final analysis, however, it is not so essential to segregate definitively the records of single world catastrophes. More important, it seems, is to establish 1. ...
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