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182 pages of results. 601. Dr Immanuel Velikovsky TRIBUTES [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of nature and the world of our personal feelings, few have been able to understand the radical and irreversible nature of this discovery insofar as it enables us to connect all previous human experiences into a larger and transcendent unity. Although Immanuel Velikovsky could not realise the importance of his theory for Third World and Natural peoples, the use of oral traditions and ancient sources in the articulation of a new vista of scientific understanding of the universe meant that non-western peoples were freed at last from the stranglehold which the European mentality had held on planetary history. New sciences such as psycho-history, archaeoastronomy and geomythology, (while subsidiary to Velikovsky's main thesis, yet deriving almost all of their validity from ...
602. The Beaker Folk, Survivors of Catastrophe? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Europe". This is all very well but does not explain why the status objects were specifically the beakers and the archery equipment, nor does it suggest any reason why these people should have been engaged on some kind of mystery tour of Europe in the first place. Discussing "ambrosia" in WORLDS IN COLLISION Velikovsky quotes the Norse tradition of a world fire when only one human pair remained alive in the north. "This human pair lie hidden in the holt during the fire of Surt. Then came the terrible Fimbulwinter at the end of the world (age); meanwhile they feed on morning dew, and from them come the folk who people the renewed earth ...
603. Introduction to (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... scientists must regularly remind themselves of how fragile their institutions of free and open discussion are unless unorthodoxy is tolerated, if not protected. In this instance, despite repeated protestations of open-mindedness and high principle, it was not. Large numbers of intelligent men and women who prided themselves on their enlightenment and decency behaved very badly. They betrayed the tradition they professed to serve; they undermined the foundation of trust on which intellectual dialogue depends. My copy of the first (Macmillan) edition of Worlds in Collision is inscribed to "the torchbearer," a gesture on Velikovsky's part that gave more credit than I deserved. A considerable amount of accident brought it about that an article of ...
604. The Date Of The Loss Of Atlantis (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... Mars canal' fame), once made a calculation which was merely considered as curious at the time, but to which we may now attribute real significance and importance. The day on which Jesus was `presented' in the Temple, that is, `brought to the official notice of the world for the first time', is traditionally February the 2nd. It is also called the `Day of Purification', and, as another name, `Candlemas', shows, it is a day on which a `Festival of Light' may once have been celebrated. The officiant in the Temple on that day was a certain Simeon, a man of great age ...
605. The Role of Ancient Myths in Orthodox Natural Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... in order to keep the domestic peace, spearheaded an orthodox position, a socialized academia. Francis Bacon's work best exemplifies this cultural truce. Bacon distinguished between the role of theology and the role of natural science in the kingdom. These separate roles would be coordinated by the Vicar of God (the King). Today, in the Baconian tradition, most of academia maintains the same posture. However, the myth of the Phoenix is especially interesting. During the Renaissance, Giordano Bruno used this symbol as his woodcut. For Bruno, the burning of human beings on the charge of heresy (academic, religious, or social) was a paradoxical affair. Liberation of the son ...
606. East and West, Part 1 Venus Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... of the second book of Herodotus which so strained the sagacity of the commentators."(3 ) But this is also a violation of the meaning of the words of the priests, for during the period of spinning, orient and occident do not exchange places. One may doubt the trustworthiness of the priests' statements, or of Egyptian tradition in general, or attack Herodotus for ignorance of the natural sciences,(4 ) but there is no way to reconcile the passage with present-day natural science. It remains "a very remarkable passage of Herodotus that has become the despair of commentators."(5 ) Pomponius Mela, a Latin author of the first century, wrote ...
607. The King Deposed. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... casually wed one of his daughters. Akhnaton followed his example. The influence of the Mitannian code of marital relations could have been responsible for these liberties unknown in the royal house of Egypt in earlier generations, prior to intermarriages with the royal house of Mitanni. The union of Akhnaton with his daughter may be the basis of the ancient Greek tradition that, besides his mother-wife Jocasta, and the younger wife Euryganeia, who bore him several children and whom he sent away in disgrace, Oedipus wedded also a "virgin Astymedusa."4 Students of ancient lore wondered at this complicated order of events5; the Greek tragedians, however, omitted these traditional elements to make the story great ...
608. Disarranged Months, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... to read that in many sagas dealing with the moon, the number nine is used in measures of time.1 A series of scholars found that nine days was for a while a time period of many ancient peoples: the Hindus, the Persians,2 the Babylonians,3 the Egyptians,4 and the Chinese.5 In religious traditions, literature, and astrological works, seven days and ni ne days compete as the measure of the month's quarter. In the time of the Homeric epics, the nine-day week became prevalent in the Greek world. The seven-day week and the nine-day week are both found in Homer.6 The Romans, too, retained the recollection of ...
609. Homer in the Baltic (Omero nel Baltico) by Felice Vinci (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... e .g . the boar's tusk helmets) which Homer vividly describes, and which were always believed to be fictitious, were dramatically verified by the excavations in Mycenae, Tiryns and elsewhere. Vinci fails completely to mention that some of Schliemann's most dramatic discoveries (including the Shaft Graves at Mycenae) came to light because he trusted the ancient traditions - unlike the scholarly establishment, which did not. The Linear B texts, it is true, do not mention the Trojan Campaign - but they are business and accounting documents, so why would they? Nevertheless, individuals mentioned on them bear names identical to many of those in the Iliad. Even more to the point, at ...
610. The Creation of the Earth -- General Remarks [Books]
... subject. These cosmogonic myths of the various peoples of our Earth, and those of the Jews themselves, are not only most interesting but also eminently helpful. For one thing, they may describe aspects which are missing in the Genesis account, either through peculiarities in the observation of the reported phenomena, through the natural, wear-and-tear of the traditional material in the course of vast reaches of time, through the, system of selection practised by the redactors, and finally, through toe peculiar process of sublimation' which they applied to their raw material. The peculiarities in the reportage of the phenomena observed are due to the latitudinal position of the original observer and reporter. To mention ...
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