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221 pages of results. 571. The Ice Age and the Antiquity of Man, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... . At a time when in Europe, close to the ice sheet, man was still in the later stages of neolithic culture, in the Near and Middle East- the region of the great cultures of antiquity- he may already have progressed well into the metal age. There exists no chronological table of neolithic culture because the art of writing was invented approximately at the advent of the copperthe earlyperiod of the Bronze Age. It is presumed that the neolithic man of Europe left pictures but no inscriptions, and consequently there are no means of determining the end of the Ice Age in terms of chronology. Geologists have tried to find the time of the end of the last glacial ...
572. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... their reading of passages of Genesis. He comments on the two accounts of the Creation, and gives different interpretations of the word day'. was it an age, or did it represent 7,000 years? He analyses the statements about the firmament to show that the "water vapour canopy theory" is not soundly based in scriptural writings. Again, by comparing the Biblical and non-Biblical accounts of Noah's flood, he concludes by the diversity of these accounts, that global or near global flooding has occurred on more than one occasion, or, that there were more survivors of the Deluge than one group. He is surely correct in the statement that the record of the ...
573. Mammoth Update: A Reply to Ellenberger (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... The age and spread of radiocarbon dates for mammoths would seem to indicate that no single event exterminated them. Contrary to Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval, these datings cast doubt on the mammoths having been killed and frozen during the last, or even any, of the catastrophes described in Worlds in Collision This issue concerned Cardona writing in KRONOS I:4 , pp. 77-85,and was taken-up by John White in Pole Shift, pp.21-22, 131-133. The reliability of radiocarbon dating is certainly questionable. Typically, when a frozen mammoth is discovered, its initial "guesstimated" age is later shown by radiocarbon dating to be too young. Upon discovery ...
574. On Dragons and Red Dwarves [Journals] [Aeon]
... maidens in distress. Held in the highest esteem, these ancient bards were deemed to be mortal repositories of sacred knowledge and hence their tales constitute an enduring record of mankind's earliest thoughts and concerns. The ultimate appearance of advanced civilizations had a profound influence upon the medium, if not the message, of ancient myth. With the development of writing and other graphic systems capable of preserving sacred traditions, storytellers gradually ceased to form such a vital function in evolving societies. The great myths, hitherto committed to memory and preserved orally for untold generations, now became the common possession of all who could read and write. At the same time, ancient myths became increasingly subject to the ...
575. Was Hatshepsut the Queen of Sheba? [Articles]
... in fact right at the end of the paper I want to suggest to you one piece of indirect evidence which supports his dates for the XVIIIth Dynasty which derives from the understanding of the Punt reliefs which I am going to propose. I ought to say a little bit about how the paper came to be written. I wasn't asked to write it for this meeting, in fact I wasn't asked to write it at all. I was asked in 1980 by a Dutch television company to take part in some TV programmes about the history of Israel in which they proposed to incorporate Velikovsky's revised chronology. The making of these programmes involved two weeks of filming in Egypt, in January ...
576. Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism Through the Ages by Trevor Palmer. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... contributions made by many scientists on both sides. To have gathered all this information in one book is a major achievement. There were, for me, many surprises. To give but one, Lyell was a creationist! On page 53 we read When discussing the replacement of one species by another, Lyell again referred unequivocally to creation, writing of his assumption "that single stocks only of each individual animal and plant are originally created, and that individuals of new species do not start up in many different places at once." Nevertheless, in Lyell's view, God did not intervene directly to create new species'. Through the arguments presented it is shown why the accepted ...
577. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... as possible, to mean that period of the past which has been recorded by historians rather than by chroniclers. Chroniclers, the journalists of antiquity, wrote about who did what and when but rarely covered any span of time longer than a year. Historians, by contrast, tried to tell their readers how and why events occurred. Their writings were not merely descriptive but explanatory, in that they sought to trace causal links between events that were decades or more apart. The earliest writers whom I would acknowledge as historians in this sense are Hecateus of Miletus in Greek Anatolia and Yen Ying of Chou China, both dating no earlier than the late 6th century BC. In these ...
... the temple of Caesar. 3. "Caesar to Norbanus Flaccus, sendeth greeting. Let those Jews, how many soever they be, who have been used, according to their ancient custom, to send their sacred money to Jerusalem, do the same freely." These were the decrees of Caesar. 4. Agrippa also did himself write after the manner following, on behalf of the Jews: "Agrippa, to the magistrates, senate, and people of the Ephesians, sendeth greeting. I will that the care and custody of the sacred money that is carried to the temple at Jerusalem be left to the Jews of Asia, to do with it according to their ...
579. Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? [Books]
... of the archaeology, the art history, and the customs and beliefs of a variety of peoples and cultures widely separated in space and time. Some antiquaries regard the problem as a simple rather than a complex one. They consider the spiral to be nothing more than an ancient "art motif', which, as we gather from their writings, pleased the fancy of the early craftsmen who "decorated" pottery, woodwork and stone, and made very special appeal to those who, it is assumed, were as anxious as are modern tradesmen to produce new and attractive forms of jewellery so as to induce patrons to make purchases. Some, indeed, go to the length ...
580. Ancient Astronauts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... is not catastrophic (although scholarly catastrophists fear it will be catastrophic to the reputation of their work). It enlists catastrophes merely as a convenient means of explaining why the evidence of visitations is almost totally lacking: it has been buried or destroyed. Moreover, the idea is eclectic. Much of the material that finds its way into the writings about "ancient astronauts" consist of exotica (" Did you know that...?" and "Believe it or not, but..."), or of questions aimed at needling archaeologists and prehistorians about their many anomalies, oversights and unknowns. Catastrophists and uniformitarians alike usually reject the theory indignantly. Von Daniken ...
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