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221 pages of results. 521. The Alphabet and the Saturnian Configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... area of Egypt. Dated to 1800 B. C., they are thought to be the prototype of the Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, and Roman alphabets. P. Kyle McCarter, of the Johns Hopkins University, has stated that these petroglyphs are "as close as we have come to the invention of the alphabet." Alphabetic writing which had been discovered earlier in the Sinai desert had been dated to 1500 B.C . Previously thought to have been the work of Canaanite workers, the location of the new discoveries has now prompted the belief that these same foreigners developed the proto-alphabet while in Egypt. This, according to Darnell, means that "Egypt is really ...
522. Censors Appointed. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... among the astronomers on the East Coast, and seeing the violence of his opposition to the publication of my book, I was concerned for Atwater and his position at the planetarium, especially in view of the fact that This Week magazine (a weekly supplement to the Herald Tribune and numerous other newspapers in this country) had invited Atwater to write an article on the forthcoming book, to say nothing of his plan to stage Worlds in Collision at the planetarium. I went to see him to tell of the new developments, so that he would not act blindly when his own position might be endangered. I found him in his office at the planetarium; he had already been ...
523. Huitzilopochtli, Part 2 Mars Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... as their protector-god.1 Sahagun says that Huitzilopochtli was "a great destroyer of towns and killer of people." The epithet "blood-stained stormer of walls" is familiar to us from the Iliad, where it is regularly applied to Mars. "In warfare he [Huitzilopochtli] was like live-fire, greatly feared by his enemies," writes Sahagun.2 In his work on the Indians of America, H. H. Bancroft writes: "Huitzilopochtli had, like Mars and Odin, the spear or a bow in his right hand, and in the left, sometimes a bundle of arrows, sometimes a round white shield. . . . On these weapons depended the ...
524. Amos, Part 2 Mars Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... During all this time the world was afraid of the recurrence of the catastrophe at the end of every jubilee period. Then, starting about the middle of the eighth century before the present era, a new series of cosmic upheavals took place at intervals of short duration. It was the time of the Hebrew prophets whose books are preserved in writing, of Assyrian kings whose annals are excavated and deciphered, and of Egyptian pharaohs of the Libyan and Ethiopian dynasties; in short, the catastrophes which we are now about to describe did not take place in a mist-shrouded past: the period is part of the well authenticated history of the lands of the eastern Mediterranean. The eighth century ...
525. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Stonehenge Montage (Monash University) Nov.91, pp. 3-5 Dr. Neil Thomas, a retired engineer, goes even further than Professor Thom or Gerald Hawkins in his contention that the pre-Celtic Britons had a knowledge of mathematics and engineering far in advance of anything up to the present day. He reckons they developed a system of symbolic writing predating the Sumerians and established a solar calendar of 16 months and 365 days. Dr. Thomas has had the advantage of being able to interpret the meaning of ancient inscriptions, such as the circles, zigzags and spirals. At Stonehenge itself the erection of 4 bluestones around 2500 BC indicated a change from Moon worship to Sun worship. ...
526. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, "Freud's Moses" [Journals] [Aeon]
... are generally regarded as worthless, and with this assessment Freud's thesis is seriously undermined. And Freud's portrait of Akhenaton as a kind of Nietzschean Ubermensch, sublimating his sensual urges in the pursuit of spiritual and intellectual matters, is also problematic. As Schorske has shown, Freud's interpretation of Akhenaton was largely dependent upon a highly idiosyncratic reading of the writings of James Breasted: Freud's portrait of Akhenaton and his religious revolution is firmly grounded in Breasted's account, which stresses cultural characteristics Freud associates with Jewish Geistigheit: monotheism, rationalism, the construction of an ethical code, and even circumcision. But Breasted includes another aspect of Akhenaton's culture nowhere mentioned in Freud: a rich sensuality. No Egyptian ...
527. "Nemesis" -- A New Idea as Old as the Bible? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... , triggers an avalanche of comets that cause on Earth mass extinctions every 26 million years (as evidenced by fossil records). Later on, the possibility was raised that we are confronted not by a companion star but by the enigmatic Planet X. This latest suggestion brings the "Nemesis" issue into the realm of my own studies and writings, for in 1976 in my book, The Twelfth Planet, I had concluded that the ancient Sumerians knew, 6000 years ago, all the members of our Solar System known to us today- plus one more large planet. They called this "celestial lord" NIBIRU (and the Babylonians, "Marduk," in honor of ...
528. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Zeus lay with Metis and swallowed her. But she conceived Athena, and Zeus gave birth through his head. That Hephaestus' birth was a complement to Athena's, and connected with a quarrel between Zeus and Hera, is also implied in (Hesiod's) Theogony (924-9), but the logical order of events has been destroyed. So writes West in his Commentary on Hesiod's Theogony (pp. 401-3). We need not agree that Metis was the mother of Athena, because Athena is not only called parthenos (virgin) but also parthenogenous (the offspring of a single sex). West (with others) suspects that the quarrel may have arisen over the capacities of ...
529. The Great Terror [Journals] [Kronos]
... (4 ) Giambattista Vico and Nicholas-Antoine Boulanger two catastrophist forerunners of Velikovsky, likewise "unveiled a postdiluvian world that was a veritable apocalypse of violence. Eruptive, convulsive, threatening nature, overwhelming in its power, was the primary source of the impressions written upon the tabula rasa of the primitive mind."(5 ) In studying the writings of these eighteenth century theorists and others, Manuel concluded that "the one emotion pervading primitive life as portrayed by the psychological historians of religion was terror."(6 )! The psychology of fear which still absorbs the thought of the forum of the United Nations was already "an area of knowledge upon which eighteenth-century thought shed great ...
530. Our Universe: Unlocking its Mysteries [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... by mainstream astronomers – one that ancient man saw all too clearly. A group of astronomers, physicists, electrical engineers, and experts in the field of ancient mythology have begun to challenge some of the generally accepted hypotheses of the history of our solar system and conventional theories of cosmology. Many of these iconoclasts were influenced early on by the writings of the catastrophist Immanuel Velikovsky. Although there is general disagreement among this group with many of Velikovsky's specific scenarios, most of them agree with his thesis that Earth and our solar system have had a catastrophic past. Heavenly Bodies Were Worshipped as Gods - Why? In earlier times man worshipped heavenly bodies as gods. Myths proclaim, " ...
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