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... the centre of this civilization lay principally in the British Isles, from the Shetlands to Cornwall. I would interpose a few further remarks about Asgard here, because these northern sagas throw a considerable light upon the past and are less corrupted than those from Mediterranean sources. Asgard was the "stronghold of the gods", its sacred city, traditionally built by the sons of Bör or Bur, a race endowed, we are told, with singular beauty, agility and power. Bur had three sons, Odin, Vili, and Ye, who slew the giant Ymir, whereby the entire race of "Frost Giants" was drowned in his blood except for a single survivor who ...
482. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... seasons to shift slowly through the year and, concomitantly, our view of the stars to change and shift with equal slowness. The Pyramid Texts, first discovered about 1879, dating from the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, were evidently stellar oriented rather than solar or lunar, but early interpretation relied on prior renditions that muddled the translations with hidebound traditional explanations. In 1879, an Arab reis penetrated a pyramid in the Saqqara complex southwest of Cairo and found no treasure, only peculiar inscriptions, and, perhaps being disgruntled, informed the authorities. The French senior archeologist, Auguste Mariette, who had achieved fame in 1851 by uncovering the underground galleries and sarcophagi in the Serapeum at Saqqara ...
483. A Survey of Archaeological Evidence for a Revised Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... outstanding difficulties. The evidence To provide a framework for this very selective survey, I have arranged the evidence in chronological order, beginning with the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. 1. Israel in Egypt Archaeological evidence for Israel's sojourn in Egypt has always been notoriously elusive, leading some biblical scholars to reject the historicity of both the sojourn and Exodus traditions (since there can have been no Exodus without a sojourn!). Those who assume the Israelite sojourn's historicity within the conventional chronology have usually sought to place Joseph and the descent into Egypt in the Hyksos period, with the oppression, Moses and the Exodus dated somewhere in the New Kingdom. Unfortunately, as Donald Redford points out ...
484. Precursors [Journals] [Kronos]
... very much impressed by the constant references in old sources to the fact that the continent of the New World underwent great catastrophes each of which terminated a world age. He was on an absolutely right track when he posed the principle which I had in my own mind, that of looking for references to a stasis of the Earth in Mexican traditions. "In order to rediscover the remotest history of the earth it is necessary to compare the ancient traditions of Asia and Egypt with those of the primitive peoples of America."(9 ) But, strangely enough, the reverend author did not feel that the Scriptures contain any parallels to the Mexican traditions; and the Egyptian material ...
485. A Catastrophist Reading of Religious Systems [Journals] [SIS Review]
... to develop that insight with the emphasis on human', to show that in this instance astrophysics and metaphysics are not essentially separable in origin or purpose. I will argue that both are in the fullest sense metaphysics, and that the origin of these parallel bodies of concepts is neither nature nor the divine, but ourselves. Contrary to the traditional view which has popularly persisted even into this century, I will assert that it is we who produce both religion and cosmology. We produce them instinctively, out of our collective subconscious, like a spider emits its web, and we do it for much the same reason - to survive. My raw data will be the existing great ...
486. SIS Study Group June 1995 [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... courts 900 BC. Quetzalcoatl was hit by an arrow, then burnt to death, then, when regenerated, was identified with the planet Venus, or a comet. In one case the diving god has been identified as a falling meteor. The Aztec description of comets is quite clearly similar to the cosmic serpent. Flood catastrophe in Mexican tradition is related in the codex Vaticanus. The flood comes from the sky. Two people are saved. In 1910 there was a re-enactment of Halley's comet at the carnival, with the sun and a moon goddess and stars. Therefore it is concluded that the Mexicans did the same, re-enacting a cosmic drama on the ball court, impersonating ...
487. Manna as a Confection [Journals] [SIS Review]
... from on high. That we attempt to elucidate the way in which it occurred does not detract from the miraculous nature of the event itself. If anything, the sheer rarity of the phenomenon adds to our respect for the forces which created it, a respect which can be the more properly directed when we recognise the way in which some traditional religious rites have become directed to honouring the symptoms as much as the cause (or the causer) of this potentially very significant event. Identification of Manna DR VELIKOVSKY'S COLLATION and interpretation of the historical records of antiquity in "Worlds in Collision", which first identified for moderns the general nature of this catastrophe, includes a summary of ...
488. A New Theory of Celtic Festivals [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... human sacrifice were observed for thousands of years at the commencement of each solar quarter. A better understanding may emerge from considering the remote past of the Celtic people. The Indo-Europeans The Celts are widely recognised to be a branch of the great Indo-European family of peoples. Powell states: The Celts in Ireland preserved a western peripheral fastness of Indo-European tradition as, at the oriental end of the range, did the Aryans of Northern India. These long survived the disappearance of their geographically intermediate common parentage. ' [9 ] The Celtic and Aryan traditions survived in largely uncontaminated form because they had come to rest in regions on the extreme periphery of the Ancient World, and so escaped ...
489. Egyptian Language Anomalies [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , it cannot withstand objective evaluation [1 ]. Several lines of evidence suggest the need for a substantial compression of Egyptian chronology. Indeed, I have suggested c. 1700 BC as the earliest possible date for literate, Egyptian civilisation [2 ]. Since then I have documented additional evidentiary conflicts, some of which indicate that what is traditionally treated by both the conventional and New chronologists as New Kingdom' is mostly, or all, Ptolemaic material [3 ]. Similarly, an analysis of potters' marks on 1st Dynasty' wares suggests that a number of tombs now dated to the 1st Dynasty' are probably from around the Persian period give or take a few centuries ...
490. Deluges [Books] [de Grazia books]
... on the vapor cloud canopy. At some point the gravitational grip relaxed and the rings and clouds descended. Jordan was not concerned with the speed of drop or the basins required to collect the waters or with the recency of the translation from sky to Earth. However, the skydrops may not have been so long ago. Rich and specific traditions of great celestial waters and deluging of the whole earth convey a strong presumption of truth. Prehistoric floods are believed in by many peoples who have suffered in historical times floods of only trivial consequences. Not even psychoanalytic theory, which is the most penetrating critic of delusions, can locate a psychic source of the flood complex; the waters ...
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