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IN THE BEGINNING

by

Immanuel Velikovsky

Come, weigh me the weight of the fire
or measure me the measure of the wind
or recall me the day that is past.

IV Ezra

A Technical Note
Introduction

PART I: THE EARLY AGES

The Hebrew Cosmogony
Planet Ages

Sabbath

Deification of the Planets
Uranus

The Earth Without the Moon

A Brighter Moon
The Worship of the Moon

The Pre-Adamite Age

Giants
Nefilim
Astronomical Knowledge Before the Deluge

PART II: SATURN AND THE FLOOD
Deluge
William Whiston and the Deluge
Deluge and Comet
Khima
Saturnian Comets
Saturn and the Deluge
The Light of the Seven Days
Nova
“Star of the Sun”
Arrival of the Waters
The Deluge in Rabbinical Sources

Hydrogen and Oxygen
The Origin of the Oceans

Saturn the God of Seeds

The Worship of Saturn
Seventeen
Festivals of Light

Saturn and Jupiter

The Rings of Saturn

Saturn’s Golden Age

Rainbow

PART III: MERCURY AND MEMORY
The Confusion of Languages Mercury
PART IV: JUPITER OF THE THUNDERBOLT
The Overthrow of the Cities of the Plain
The Age of the Dead Sea
The Great Rift and the Jordan

The End of the Early Bronze Age

Zedek

The Change in Jupiter’s Motion
The Worship of Jupiter
Jupiter of the Thunderbolt

Where a Planetary Bolt Struck the Ground

The Origin of Nitrate Deposits

The Transmutation of Oxygen into Sulphur

Jupiter, Gold and the Birth of Athene
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