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182 pages of results. 541. The Founding of Rome [Books] [de Grazia books]
... true historical reality adumbrated in the legend; joined to this suggestion is the hypothesis that various manufactures of the oldest Latium civilization reflect Cretan models and finally the theory that the Latin language reveals Mycenean traces. In consequence, the coming of Aeneas to Latium my not be an artificially created myth, but instead, in a certain sense, a tradition, that is, the echo of real occurrences, the arrival of Aegeans in Latium during the period of the Trojan War. This certainly does not go far enough to suit our views, but will do for a start. At the magnificent bimillennial exposition honoring Virgil in the beautiful setting of the Campidoglio in Rome in 1981, the ...
542. The Egyptian Prince Moses [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... religious careers- both of which were spectacular. In his first career Moses served the gods of Egypt; in his second career he ardently served Yahweh, the God of Israel. If we treat this dichotomy seriously, and if we desire to identify Moses' early efforts, then we shall have to search for a spectacular priest-prince in Egyptian tradition whose name was Hermes. If we can identify this Hermes as an historical character in Egyptian records we shall be able to identify the pharaoh of the Oppression and the pharaoh of the Exodus. If we can make such identifications, then we shall be able to relate the histories of Egypt and Israel to each other. The Sources for ...
543. Resurrecting Genesis: Displacing the Failed Theory of Naturalistic Evolution, by John R. Hadd (Book Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was the degree of delegation? ' Hadd's assumption and questions impose their own agenda. Theistic and naturalistic evolutionists believe delegation was virtually complete', he writes. Uniformitarianism then allows time for the mechanisms of microevolution to be extrapolated as far as necessary to account for any macro-evolutionary changes. But chapter 2 goes on to summarise the scientific arguments against traditional Darwinism and neo-Darwinism, stressing the vital role of informationencoded in DNA as the blueprint of design. DNA molecules are material, and so are susceptible to natural processes; yet information encoded in them is non-material, so those processes do not affect it. Hadd asserts two foundational principles' of communi-cations science – that information does not, and ...
544. Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Earth, the Babylon reports become easier to understand. And the same is true with regards to the presence of Martian meteorites upon terrestrial landscape. Is there any ancient testimony associating Mars with meteorites, or with the hurling of stones from heaven? Indeed there is, and it is quite compelling. The most extensive analysis of the ancient traditions surrounding meteorites is that of Judith Bjorkman. Bjorkman showed that the ancient Babylonians, among others, held surprisingly sophisticated views about the nature of meteorites. Bjorkman summarized her findings as follows: "The texts show that the peoples of the ancient Near East knew of and were able to describe shooting stars, meteors, fireballs, meteor showers ...
545. Independent Confirmation of a Catastrophic Event [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Ramayana and Rgveda is also presented to interpret the Puranic text in a possible historical perspective. It is inferred that the above texts taken together, have references to brightening of a star in the Pleiades cluster and also to ground impact due to falling objects, presumably fragments of an asteroid. ' Summary and Conclusion - Prabhasa-khanda (PK), traditionally considered as a part of Skanda-purana, contains interesting information about natural disasters, which should have affected the northwestern part of India in the remote past. Even though the narration is mythological in format, the contents are such that the narrated events should have actually taken place and the memory passed on from generation to generation in the form of ...
546. Introduction - Ages in Chaos? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the newly-created gap between the Mycenaean and Geometric periods. Thus, the Greek siege of Troy, supposedly led by Agamemnon of Mycenae, would have taken place around 1200 BC, rather than around 800 BC as previously supposed. Another area whose history is linked to Egypt is Palestine. On the basis of information in the Old Testament and Jewish tradition, the chronology of the kings of Israel (in the north) and Judah (in the south) back to the time of Solomon, David and Saul around 1000 BC, before the kingdoms split, seemed reasonably clear. Although some doubted whether the information given in these sources had any basis in fact, many scholars were content ...
547. King Ay and a "Tumult of Hatred". Part 2 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... his brother. Then Tutankhamen was encouraged to meet his rival-brother in combat. No one who cared for the seventeen- or eighteen-year-old king would have sent him to the front lines, or even into a duel, but it served Ay's purpose perfectly. The succession of kings in Egypt was through the female line. Amenhotep III broke with this tradition by marrying Tiy, who was not a royal princess. However, Amenhotep III was himself of royal blood, whereas Ay was not and could not claim origin from Ra. He was concerned with this problem and he solved it. Tutankhamen died childless, after his wife had borne him two stillborn children, both found mummified in his ...
548. Forum [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . David Rohl replies: I'm glad Bob has raised this point because it gives me an opportunity to bury this particular objection to our chronology once and for all - an objection based on a completely misleading interpretation of the Talmudic passage used by Dr Velikovsky in his Thutmose III/Shishak arguments. Thanks to David Roth's location of the un-referenced Talmudic tradition used by Velikovsky, I can now quote the passage in full, to show that the argument for two Shishaks is unfounded and erroneous. The passage we are interested in is a dissertation concerning the throne of Solomon, found in the MIDRASH RABBAH (commentary on the Book of Esther, ch.1 , v.2 ), ...
549. Epilogue to Ramessides, Medes and Persians [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... in the textbooks. With the advantage of hindsight we now see however that the need to challenge biblical dates should have been glaringly obvious from the beginning. Jewish genealogies, as for example that of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel, show the Babylonian Exile to be an event occurring in the mid-4th century, not the early 6th century, as "traditional" chronology insists. The same genealogy would place Abraham around 1,050 BC, in contrast to the traditional date of c.2 ,000 BC. In my Genesis of Israel and Egypt (1997) which may be regarded as the first volume of my own, smaller, "Ages in Chaos" series, I demonstrated ...
550. The Third Degree. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... I invoked "collective amnesia to explain the lack of documents" - - this despite the fact that I presented evidence based on documents numbering in the hundreds, if not the thousands, and in disregard of what I wrote on page 300 of Worlds in Collision: The memory of the cataclysms was erased, not because of lack of written traditions, but because of some characteristic process that later caused entire nations, together with their literate men, to read into these traditions allegories or metaphors where actually cosmic disturbances were clearly described. Neugebauer, after characterizing my book in the opening paragraph as a "389-pages-long list of absurdities" and stating that "in its attempt to explain Biblical ...
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