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* Provides new evidence from recent space probe missions to support
Velikovsky's theories on the formation of Venus * Presents recently
translated ancient texts from China, Korea and Japan that uphold
the comet-like descriptions of Venus cited by Velikovsky * Examines
evidence of major geomagnetic events in 1500 BCE and 750 BCE that
correspond with close passes of the comet Venus and its impact with
Mars * Worlds in Collision was the one book found open on Albert
Einstein's desk at the time of his death. Surrounded by controversy
even before its publication in 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds
in Collision introduced the provocative theory that Venus began as
a brilliant comet ejected by Jupiter around 1600 BCE, wreaking
chaos on Mars and Earth as it roamed through our solar system prior
to settling into its current orbit. Immediately dismissed without
any investigation and subject to vicious attacks, Velikovsky's
theory is now poised for reexamination in light of recent
astronomical and archaeological findings. Exploring the key points
of Velikovsky's theories, Laird Scranton presents evidence from
recent space probe missions and offers scientific explanations for
many disputed aspects of Velikovsky's theories, such as how Venus
transformed from a comet into an orbiting planet. By updating this
unresolved controversy with new scientific evidence, Scranton helps
us to understand how it was that Worlds in Collision was the one
book found open on Albert Einstein's desk at the time of his death.
How could multiple ancient cultures, spanning both years and
geography, have strikingly similar creation myths and cosmologies?
Why do the Dogon of Africa and the civilizations of ancient Egypt,
India, Tibet, and China share sacred words and symbols? Revealing
the existence of a long-forgotten primal culture and the world's
first center of higher learning, Laird Scranton shows how the
sophisticated complex at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is the definitive
point of origin from which all the great civilizations of the past
inherited their cosmology, esoteric teachings, and civilizing
skills, such as agriculture, metallurgy, and stone masonry, fully
developed. Scranton explains how the carved images on Gobekli
Tepe's stone pillars were the precursors to the sacred symbols of
the Dogon, Egyptians, Tibetans, and Chinese as well as the
matriarchal Sakti cult of ancient Iran and India. Scranton reveals
how Gobekli Tepe's enigmatic "H" carvings and animal symbolism,
symbolic of stages of creation, was presented as a kind of
prototype of written language accessible to the hunter-gathers who
inhabited the region. He shows how the myths and deities of many
ancient cultures are connected linguistically, extending even to
the name of Gobekli Tepe and the Egyptian concept of Zep Tepi, the
mythical age of the "First Time." Identifying Gobekli Tepe not only
as the first university but also as the first temple, perhaps built
as a civilizing exercise, Scranton definitively places this
enigmatic archaeological site at the point of origin of
civilization, religion, and ancient science.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES / AFRICAN STUDIES"The Dogon creation myth
reflects the nuances of cutting-edge scientific cosmology, and
finally this is being recognized. A quintessential read for anyone
wishing to learn the truth about this fascinating subject."--Andrew
Collins, author of From the Ashes of AngelsThe Dogon people of
Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced
cosmology. The Dogon's creation story describes how the one true
god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly,
the myths that depict his creative efforts bear a striking
resemblance to the modern scientific definitions of matter,
beginning with the atom and continuing all the way to the vibrating
threads of string theory. Furthermore, many of the Dogon words,
symbols, and rituals used to describe the structure of matter are
quite similar to those found in the myths of ancient Egypt and in
the daily rituals of Judaism. For example, the modern scientific
depiction of the unformed universe as a black hole is identical to
Amma's Egg of the Dogon and the Egyptian Benben Stone.The Science
of the Dogon offers a case-by-case comparison of Dogon descriptions
and drawings to corresponding scientific definitions and diagrams
from authors like Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene, then extends
this analysis to the counterparts of these symbols in both the
ancient Egyptian and Hebrew religions. What is ultimately revealed
is the scientific basis for the language of the Egyptian
hieroglyphs, which was deliberately encoded to prevent the
knowledge of these concepts from falling into the hands of all but
the highest members of the Egyptian priesthood. The Science of the
Dogon also offers compelling newinterpretations for many of the
most familiar Egyptian symbols, such as the pyramid and the scarab,
and presents new explanations for the origins of religiously
charged words such as Jehovah and Satan.LAIRD SCRANTON is an
independent software designer who became interested in Dogon
mythology and symbolism in the early 1990s. He has studied ancient
myth, language, and cosmology for nearly ten years and has been a
lecturer at Colgate University. He also appears in John Anthony
West's Magical Egypt DVD series. He lives in Albany, New York.
In 3200 BC, Orkney Island off the coast of Northern Scotland was
home to a small farming village called Skara Brae. For reasons
unknown, after nearly six centuries of continuous habitation, the
village was abandoned around 2600 BC and its stone structures
covered over--perhaps deliberately, like the structures at Gobekli
Tepe. Although now well-excavated, very little is known about the
peaceful people who lived at Skara Brae or their origins. Who were
they and where did they go? Drawing on his in-depth knowledge of
the connections between the cosmology and linguistics of Egyptian,
Dogon, Chinese, and Vedic traditions, Laird Scranton reveals the
striking similarities between Skara Brae and the Dogon of Mali, who
still practice the same cosmology and traditions they once shared
with pre-dynastic Egypt. He shows how the earliest Skara Brae
houses match the typical Dogon stone house as well as Schwaller de
Lubicz’s intrepretation of the Egyptian Temple of Man at Luxor.
He explains how megalithic stone sites near Skara Brae conform to
Dogon cosmology, each representing sequential stages of creation as
described by Dogon priests, and he details how the houses at Skara
Brae also represent a concept of creation. Citing a linguistic
phenomenon known as “ultraconserved words,” the author compares
words of the Faroese language at Skara Brae, a language with no
known origin, with important cosmological words from Dogon and
ancient Egyptian traditions, finding obvious connections and
similarities.
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