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182 pages of results. 551. Mount Sinai, Part 1 Venus Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness." Beke's idea was rejected by his contemporaries and ultimately by himself.(2 ) Modern scholars, however, agree with his original theory, and for this reason they look for the Mount of the Lawgiving among the volcanoes of Mount Seir and not on the traditional Sinai Peninsula where there are no volcanoes. Thus the claims of the rival peaks of the Sinai Peninsula for the honour of being the Mount of the Lawgiving(3 ) are silenced by new contestants. It is true that it is stated "the mountains melted , . . even that Sinai,"(4 ) but this melting ...
552. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the S.I .S ." Catastrophism, Old and New", was the title of a public meeting of the Society held at the Library Association, 7 Ridgmount Street, London on June 6th. Peter Warlow was the first speaker and his talk, given under the title "Astronomical Theories and Ice Ages", reviewed the traditional explanations for the Ice Ages and their inadequacies. In the main, these explanations which have centred around the work of Milutin Milankovich, involve three contributory factors: eccentricity of Earth's orbit, precession of Earth's poles and the obliquity of the ecliptic. Peter Warlow ably demonstrated that the main problem concerning the acceptance of these factors as a sufficient ...
553. Velikovsky and His Heroes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , he writes, "disclose the human nature of their author; he was a man with a heavy heart, sad and worried. .. . the events of his time in his land justified this state of mind.... He impressed his people, too, by his melancholy." [22] Even the rabbinical tradition, Velikovsky maintains, could not close its eyes to Ahab's patriotism and the deep emotions of his perjured soul [23]. Velikovsky's treatment of Ahab in history reflects this tangible sympathy. He argues that a contradiction exists between the accounts of Ahab in the Books of Kings, and the Books of Chronicles so that, he claims, ...
554. Atlantis, Part 1 Venus Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... ruled Africa as far as the border of Egypt and Europe as far as Tuscany on the Apennine peninsula and that in one fatal night was shattered by earthquakes and sank, never ceased to occupy the imagination of the literati. Strabo and Pliny thought that the story of Atlantis was an illusion of the elderly Plato. But to this day the tradition, as revised by Plato, has not died. Poets and novelists have exploited the story freely; scientists have done so with caution. An incomplete catalogue of the literature on Atlantis in 1926 included 1,700 titles.(10) Although Plato said clearly that Atlantis was situated behind the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar), in ...
555. Symbols of an Ancient Sky: Slide Presentation & Notes by David Talbott [Journals] [Aeon]
... notebook, Talbott's goal is "to provide just enough of an abstract of the Saturn theory to give a sense of the underlying coherence of the thesis." (p . 2.) He also provides an overview of the theories of other comparative mythologists who have been aware of the amazing global similarities in myth and symbol. Scholars have traditionally postulated various ad hoc theories to explain these congruencies- conjectures about seasonal fertility rites, basic human psychology of the primal family. But others have noticed two startling facts: the former gods were stars, which were planets, and "[ w ]henever ancient astronomies preserved detailed images of the planet Saturn, it seems that Saturn was ...
556. Were the "Sumerians of the Third Millennium" in Reality the Chaldeans of the First Millennium? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... van Seters, 264) "this can only have meaning in the Neo-Babylonian period, during the period of Chaldean dominance and the reign of Nabonidus in particular." But the excavator of Ur, Sir Leonard Woolley, had concluded that Abraham had been educated according to the old Sumerian code (Woolley, 65). Now, as biblical tradition for its part places Abraham some 400 years before the exodus- that is, around 1900- it seemed reasonable to ascribe the flourishing of his homeland to 2070 B.C . The Jews would even have developed their "consciousness of being special, as also so much else . . . [through] Abraham of Ur" ( ...
557. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ) Home | Issue Contents Letters Names for Venus Dear Sir, With 93% of the surface of Venus now mapped by Pioneer Venus I radar, astronomers are busying themselves giving names to the identified features. The policy decision of the Working Group on Planetary Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union regarding names for Venus shows a rare feel for pan-terrestrial tradition. Although the NASA press release supplying this information ( NASA News May 1980) mentions that Aphrodite was "known to the Romans as Venus" - thus suggesting a reason for the choice of nomenclature, by the "coincidence" of the same name being borne by both a planet and a goddess - it does not find room to ...
558. Plato's Atlantis and Prehistoric Europe [Articles]
... dated roughly back 10,000 years; and he marvelled at the fact that Egyptian art- as far as he understood it- hadn't changed a jot in all that time.) This impression of Greek youth and Egyptian antiquity is very much reinforced in Plato's Timaeus and Critias. Solon tried to tell the Egyptian priests about the oldest Greek traditions he knew, he told them about Phoroneus who he thought was the first man in Argos, the flood of Deukalion, and the attempts made by the Greeks to date these earliest memories by reckoning up the number of generations and estimating when these primeval characters lived. We know the kinds of dates he was talking about from later chronological ...
559. Review: <i>Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives</i> by A.R. Millard and D. J. Wiseman, Eds [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , Indiana, $9 .95). Altogether seven papers comprise this book. They run the gamut from textual criticism, archaeology, comparative customs, religion, to literary analysis. The work is essentially concerned with -redressing the imbalance created by two high profile works of the last decade- J. van Seters' Abraham in History and Tradition (1975), and T. L. Thompson's The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives (1974). Their studies were highly critical of Biblical traditions, but for essentially different reasons. The Essays for all intents and purposes succeeds in correcting the problem. Within its pages are found not only discussions of old theories and approaches to the ...
... the mountain tops above the waves as islands- the Cyclades, grouped round' Delos, and the Sporades, sown' broadcast elsewhere in the Aegean. And again, as in certain other deluge myths quoted in this book, those who escaped to the hills saw to their amazement that their refuges rode the waves like ships. According to a tradition current among the ancient Greeks, the island of Delos, to which Leto escaped, conducted' by wolves, drifted through the troubled waters of the newly formed sea till Zeus anchored it that it might serve as the birthplace of his children Artemis and Apollo. The Egyptian myth of the early youth of Osiris is similar and belongs to ...
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