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- Subject: Ages in Chaos
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:53:47 GMT
- Organization: HTE
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- This one is going to have to be brief, since it's from memory and since it
- involves the one aspect of Velikovsky's studies which I'm least familiar
- and/or comfortable with.
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- Velikovsky discovered that, given standard chronologies, Egyptian and Isrealite
- history do not match up at all; nowhere do accounts from the two nations
- appear to be describing the same events at the same time, despite their being
- close neighbors. Egyptian chronologies, as I understand them, are pieced
- together from dynastic lists and other historical documents which were
- common in Roman times. Velikovsky figured there might be some flaw in this,
- and attempted to synchronize the two histories using the big catastrophe
- of 1500 BC and descriptions of it as a timing point.
-
- He discovered that moving Egyptian accounts forward several hundred years
- produced total harmony, producing many generations in which the two
- histories were in lock-step.
-
- This introduces several problems immediately. Number one is that many
- sites in the near east are dated by Egyptian artifacts, and that an error
- of several hundred years in dating in Egypt introduces errors all over.
-
- Two is ghost and double images. Assume some historian in the year 4500
- were to lose track of 500 years worth of British history, and figure that
- documents (British) from the 1940's were from the 1440's. He would then
- have to deal with two Adolph Hitlers, the one Americans warred against in
- the 1940's and the one the British fought in the 1440's, and they couldn't
- be the same guy, since there would be a 500 year time span between them.
- Two Nazu Germany's, two Stalins, two Tojos... That would make the study
- of history pretty difficult.
-
- More recently, a brilliant German archiologist, Heinsohn, who I believe is
- from Bremen, has written at least one book along similar lines, backed
- by extensive archeological work. A team of more traditional German scholars
- set out to disprove the thesis of the recent book by actually demonstrating
- the existence of an archeological layer (intervening), the non-existence
- of which was crucial to Heinsohn's thesis, and they discovered that this
- layer did not exist and, thunderstruck, they called in an internationally
- recognized expert who confirmed this finding.
-
- This is the gist of one article in the first issue of the VELIKOVSKIAN
- journal.
-
- Another article along similar lines is by Ginenthal himself, and concerns
- the great Babylonian king Hammourabi who is thought to have lived around
- 2500 years before Christ. Scholars have long noted striking similarities
- between Hammourabi and Darius; both were sixth in lines of eleven kings,
- and the careers of the two appear in many ways to have been nearly
- identical. They should appear nearly identical; Hammourabi turns out
- to be a ghost image of Darius; other than that, he never existed.
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- Ted Holden
- HTE
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