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221 pages of results. 461. Devil's Advocates [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in New Scientist dubbed him the "Arch-Catastrophist" and certainly no other catastrophist in this century has had so much written about his ideas. Too variegated to be termed a School of Criticism (though much of it might be aptly ascribed to a Kindergarten of Criticism) the bulk of it conveniently divides into three categories: (i ) uncritical writing inspired by Velikovsky as guru, (ii) - the largest category - critical but uninformed writing consigning Velikovsky to the realms of "pseudoscience" and making him the scapegoat for every intellectual aberration of the general public from astrology to Biblical fundamentalism, and (iii) - by far the smallest category - informed analysis of Velikovsky's work in ...
462. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol IV No 1 (Autumn 1979) Home | Issue Contents Forum Pot Plant?Sir, In his recent letter to the S.I .S . REVIEW (III:4 p. 84), Geoffrey Gammon is not completely candid when he writes about Year 13 being the highest regnal year to have been definitely attributed to Horemheb. As it happens, a Year 16 pertaining to the reign of Hor-em-heb has been published and known since October 1973. This reference appears in an article written by Donald B. Redford for the BASOR, No 211 pp 36-49; and while certain British scholars may have their doubts about the authenticity of Redford's published ...
463. The Case for Catastrophe in Historical Times [Journals] [Kronos]
... to present new evidence and to reinterpret old evidence to gain a fair hearing for geological catastrophism: here it will be shown that some hitherto neglected evidence will suffice to reopen the case for historical catastrophe. A NEW APPROACH There are two kinds of evidence which could create a case for historical catastrophe: archaeological and literary. To judge from the writings of the majority of the world's top men in the field of archaeology, there is no case. It can be objected, however, that this verdict is negative only by presumption, since most archaeologists have not been aware of the possibility of catastrophes on a global scale when conducting their excavations and in compiling their reports. This objection ...
464. Velikovsky & Saturnists & the Gods [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1996:1 Home | Issue Contents Newsgroups: talk.origins Velikovsky & Saturnists & the Gods From: Tim Thompson, tim@uzon.jpl.nasa.gov Date: 23 Sep 1995 23:51:56 GMT Ian Tresman writes:[ .. . ] > Why identify a god with what appears to be an > insignificant point of light in the sky.. unless there were > times when they planets where not as insignificant as they > are now. This one point strikes to the very heart of Velikovskian thinking, and is the major motivation for the Saturn Myth. These notions absolutely require that the behaviour of the ...
465. Velikovskian Catastrophes in the Revelation of St. John [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... discussed in Worlds in Collision. The second group will consider the Book of Revelation a product mainly of Jewish tradition, preserving reminiscences of historical Velikovskian catastrophes. The beliefs of both groups being of equal value, scientifically (science does not and can not judge supernatural matters), I will present my opinions first and use the future tense when writing about the events described in Revelation. Anyone who has read the books of Velikovsky and knows about comets, rains of meteorites, clouds of dust, shifts of the earth's axis, earthquakes, rising mountains, and so on, will find familiar words in some passages of Revelation we will discuss: And I beheld when he had opened ...
466. Twelfth Or Fourth Century?. Part I Ch.1 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... , Greek letters had a pre-existence in Egypt.[8 ] This presupposes that the Egyptians, who used hieroglyphics, also had an alphabetic system which they used only on rare occasions to cut on jars or tiles and bricks. This script presumably was known in Egypt for a thousand years or thousands of years; it was never used to write down an Egyptian text. Later on the Phoenicians and the Greeks received this script from the Egyptians. This theory has long been forgotten. Nothing that is known from archaeological and epigraphic study supported it; everything was against it. The development of the Hebrew-Phoenician script, its transplantation to Greece, the further development of the script down to ...
467. 'Worlds in Collision' and the Birth of Monotheism [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the Israelites' view of man and the universe, enabling them to abandon the worship of nature and embrace monotheism, and of incalculable influence on the development of religious thought. Recent work on the origins of monotheism has tended to erode the older view that monotheism grew gradually out of polytheism. Frank M. Cross, for example, writes, "Israel's religion appears, even in our earliest sources, as a new construct. Its God, its characteristic covenant law, its system of land-tenure, and its political organisation are in radical contrast to the religion and social forms of its neighbours." (1 ) (This judgment applies particularly to the older elements in Israelite ...
... (or possibly historians). In fact, the critics' efforts might well have caused people to side with Velikovsky: "Chesterton was converted to Christianity by reading the denunciations of the Nineteenth century atheists, reasoning that anything which was attacked for so many, and such diverse and contradictory reasons, must have something good in it. The writings of some of Velikovsky's opponents must have a similar effect on many fair-minded people" [252]. The goal apparently sought by Velikovsky's detractors was an impossible one: to disprove him decisively, absolutely. Within the scientific community something of a consensus generally rules as to what degree of probability or improbability is sufficient to justify taking action- ...
469. Notes on the Androgynous Comet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by the ancients and hence for the prevention of neuroses based on misconceptions resulting from distortion of the past. The collective therapy advocated by Velikovsky depends above all on a valid structuring of the history of mankind. Several methods of recovering the conceptual world of the ancients have been tried. 1. By interpreting the literature, in particular the sacred writings, of the ancients - but this method often founders because of the very cryptic nature of some of these texts. Further, despite the fact that Velikovsky has extracted the cogent history of the last changes in the solar system from these sources (1 ), his interpretation still meets with resistance. 2. Investigation of the collective unconscious ...
470. KA [Books]
... The owl, glaux, was sacred to Athene, who is called Glaukopis, with owl-like appearance. Some owls are called horned owls, but in the case of Athene the staring eye is likely to be the reason for the epithet. Sufferers from jaundice were advised to look at the stonecurlew. This bird has large golden eyes. Plutarch writes: "The bird draws out the malady, which issues, like a stream, through the eyesight." The wryneck, iunx, was used by witches for spells. This bird's magical importance may owe something to the fact that it makes a hissing sound, suggestive of a snake. A bronze eagle and a bronze dolphin were ...
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