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221 pages of results. 401. The Relevance Of The Velikovsky Scenario To The Homeric Question [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... altered or adapted by the main composer for his large-scale plan."19 At one extreme will be the regular formulas; at the other niceties of characterization over the whole, and one episode balancing another by analogy or contrast. Among the relevant considerations will be "the aims and limitations of oral singers, and the probable effects of new writing systems. "20 That the Greek epics were put together largely out of ready-made formulae seems to have been established once and for all by the work of Milman Parry. The poet or poets had 21 in memory . . . a stock of many thousands of interrelated formulas already adapted to his verse"; and, as a rule ...
402. The Kensington Runestone, John Whittaker and <Em>the Skeptical Inquirer</em> (Part II) [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... weekly Swedish newspaper, Svenska Amerikanska Posten, published in Minneapolis, hoping to find someone who could read and translate the inscription. (31) Ohman wanted to know what the stone markings meant, but the two books on runes and grammar in his personal library discussed and illustrated the same alphabet, and "would be of no help in writing the Kensington inscription because the latter contains no less than [16] runic characters...not found in the grammar book or in Rosander's book-[they contain, instead,] nine runic letters and seven runic numerals." (32) The runic character "AVM" and the description of Swedes and Norwegians traveling together were ...
403. Heinsohn's Revised Chronology [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Great Antiquity of Civilization In his Did the Sumerians and the Akkadians Ever Exist? Heinsohn claims "that the dating of advanced cultures in Egypt and Mesopotamia as far back as the third millennium BCE is supported only by connection with Abraham based on faith in the Bible." (1 ) He argues that our knowledge of the now lost writings of the Hellenistic historians Manetho (for Egypt) and Berossus (for Mesopotamia) comes only from ancient Jewish and Christian authors who already had adapted them to biblical chronology. (2 ) Because of belief in the antiquity of Abraham, the beginnings of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilization were stretched back to the beginning of the third millennium BCE and ...
404. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon Volume VI, Number 6 Home | Issue Contents Vox Popvli Mixed Praises Wolfgang Theil, from Bodelshausen, Germany, writes: I am becoming interested in some of the perspectives catastrophism offers on mythical traditions and have started to explore the KRONIA website. I found Dwardu Cardona's articles interesting and enjoyed their non-dogmatic style. I sympathize with the perspective catastrophism offers, but do not consider myself a believer of any sort, or truth seeker in the scientific sense (which I often find too dogmatic). I therefore found Cardona's style of writing particularly enjoyable. One thing that attracted me to the "Saturnist" perspective in particular, and made it more attractive as a ...
405. Untitled [Books]
... master of the revels Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth, Turn melancholy forth to funerals; The pale companion is not for our pomp. 1.1-11-15. In a country like Elizabethan England, which was given to dazzling and elaborate pageantry on state occasions, Shakespeare writes a play in which, four days before a royal marriage, the monarch must plead for youth to be merry, mirth to be awakened, and melancholy to be thrown out as more suitable to funerals. Things are not well in Athens. Titania, in a long speech, explains to Oberon the consequences of their discord. When ...
406. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... about the heavens, that they were unchanging. That was its turf, its sacred mission, and, when Velikovsky questioned it by presenting a rival vision, he was attacked as one would a poisonous, insidious, evil heretic. To understand the depth and religiosity of the Harvard belief in heavenly invariance, we need turn only to the writings of the Harvard group at the time Worlds in Collision appeared. To Harlow Shapley, its doyen, the human mind certainly has the ability "to comprehend the nature of the universe, its laws and reasons," (4 ) and what it finds is that "Nature is reasonably benign," (5 ) that "planetary ...
407. EARLY GLASSMAKING AND CHRONOLOGICAL PUZZLES [Journals] [Aeon]
... : "The origins of glass as an independent material and its early history are only vaguely known."(7 ) This essay will focus on chronology and deal with manufacturing procedures only in passing. Region by region, I will list the chronological problems confronting and often perplexing the historians. After this brief presentation- entirely drawn from the writings of experts- I will try to solve the central problems within an overall chronological reconstruction for the regions in question. This scheme, based on previously published work,(8 ) will not be repeated at length. Only its major results- dates, identifications of persons and nations, parallelism of epoches, etc.- will be ...
408. Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation [Journals] [Aeon]
... lowland Maya came into their own by 600 B.C . when they began raising sacred mountain-pyramids. By 300 B.C . they had started decorating their buildings with plaster sculptures depicting themes of extraordinary cosmic images. Maya culture eventually reached its peak in monumental architecture and society in the Classic Period. Buildings and art-objects were covered with glyphic writing that sometimes encompassed entire histories relating back to the Preclassic Maya world. Following that, the Maya civilization started to crumble, hanging on by the proverbial thread, only to be "saved" by the civilized Europeans of the Old World. HISTORY – LOST AND FOUND As is well known, the retinue of the Christian Church that accompanied ...
409. Forget Amnesia [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the contemporary worldview. Yet this entrenched judgment may perplex future generations of scholars. When the cultural structures that preserve our worldview are swept away by the next intellectual revolution, antipathy to cosmic catastrophism may no longer be comprehensible. Historians who study the archives of the past two millennia may well wonder: look at all the documentation, the writings, the monuments and the rituals- how could anyone deny their forebears witnessed and survived celestial catastrophes? Addendum I'd like to add a bit of scholarly muscle to my argument. Much of the erudition in the following was gleaned from a paper by George Gregory, "The Context of Kepler's Attack on Aristotle's Lie," 21st Century ( ...
410. In Memoriam: Immanuel Velikovsky, Livio Stecchini and Ralph Juergens [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , a beautiful and sublime reconstruction of man's ever complex role in world history, and an obstinate insistence that his documentation be made available to casual readers and scholars alike. His work and his example will be remembered long after his detractors have been forgotten. Marvin Arnold Luckerman Livio Stecchini and Ralph Juergens I have been asked by your editor to write a memorial for Dr. Livio Stecchini and for Ralph Juergens, both recently deceased. But how does one write a memorial to two such giant thinkers? I have known and respected them both for almost twenty years. Along with Al DeGrazia and Warner Sizemore, we, as the original group, worked long and hard to build a ...
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