The 1904 book The Worship of the Dead, or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing Upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia, by John Garnier (London: Chapman & Hall), makes an interesting connection between the holiday Halloween and the Great Flood of Noah’s day. Follow this link to The Worship [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Connection Between Halloween and the Great Flood
Posted in Ancient World, Bible, Great Flood, history, Pre-Flood World, tagged Ancient World, antediluvian world, Bible, chronology, dead, death, deluge, flood, Halloween, history, holidays, paganism, preflood world, Samhain, wicca on October 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
‘Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew’ great for beginners
Posted in Bible, Hebrew, Language and Linguistics, Resources, tagged ancient writing, Bible, Hebrew, language, linguistics, resource on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m having great success using Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew, by Ethelyn Simon and Joseph Anderson. The book provides an easy step-by-step process for learning to read and write the Hebrew alphabet. Highly recommended. I’m using it in conjunction with my first reading of the Hebrew scriptures in the original language. ARK — 29 Oct. [...]
Images of Pangaea
Posted in Ancient World, Bible, Great Flood, Pre-Flood World, tagged Ancient World, antediluvian world, Bible, deluge, flood, pangaea, pangea, preflood world on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I’ve read some serious discussions about the possibility that the continental breakup was caused by the global deluge. Under this scenario, the preflood earth was all one continent, called Pangaea (or Pangea) by earth scientists, some of who believe this supercontinent existed 250 million years ago during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic ages. Pangea is [...]
‘Origin of Speeches’ says Edenic language is programmed in our brains
Posted in Ancient World, Bible, Hebrew, Language and Linguistics, Uncategorized, tagged Ancient World, ancient writing, Babel, Bible, Hebrew, history, intelligent design, language, linguistics on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently finished reading The Origin of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language, a fascinating book by Edenics scholar Isaac E. Mozeson. Edenics is a linguistics project undertaken to study the original human mother tongue called Edenic, the language given to Adam in the garden of Eden. Mozeson is the leader of a group of scholars [...]