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Ancient Evidence -Earth's Doomsday

Friday, April 01, 2011 12:42

Ancient Prophecies

Immanuel Velikovsky in his 1950′s book Worlds in Collision proposes that many myths and traditions of ancient peoples and cultures are based on actual events: worldwide global catastrophes of a celestial origin, which had a profound effect on the lives, beliefs and writings of early mankind. After reaching the number 1 spot in the best-sellers list, Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision was banned from a number of academic institutions, and creating an unprecedented scientific debacle that became known as The Velikovsky Affair. Many scientists and historians have criticized Velikovsky’s works over the years, unfortunately, many have done so inaccurately resulting in the publics misconception that Velikovsky was “completely proved wrong”. His books use comparative mythology and ancient literary sources (including the Bible) to argue that Earth has suffered catastrophic close-contacts with other planets (principally Venus and Mars) in ancient times. Velikovsky arrived at a body of radical inter-disciplinary ideas, which might be summarized as:

Planet Earth has suffered natural catastrophes on a global scale, both before and during mankind’s recorded history. There is evidence for these catastrophes in the geological record (here Velikovsky was advocating Catastrophic ideas as opposed to the prevailing Uniformity notions) and archaeological record. The extinction of many species had occurred catastrophically, not by gradual Darwinian means. The catastrophes which occurred within the memory of mankind are recorded in the myths, legends and written history of all ancient cultures and civilizations. Velikovsky pointed to alleged concordances in the accounts of many cultures, and proposed that they referred to the same real events. For instance, the memory of a flood is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, in the Greek legend of Deucalion and in the Manu legend of India. Velikovsky put forward the psychoanalytic idea of “Cultural Amnesia” as a mechanism whereby these literal records came to be regarded as mere myths and legends.

 

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