Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

“Nebuchednezzar Syndrome”: dreams, illness-madness, Egyptophobia   Part Six: Illness of Emperor Hattusilis     by   Damien F. Mackey             “… Hattusilis fell dangerously ill, and because of his feeble health he was thought to be doomed”.   Dr. I. Velikovsky           Hattusilis (so-called III), with whom Dr. I. Velikovsky had identified King Nebuchednezzar ‘the Great’ in Ramses II and His Time (1978), had likewise suffered a debilitating illness early in his life (career). In his Chapter 5 “The Autobiography of Nebuchadnezzar” (Climbing the Throne), Velikovsky wrote:   The autobiographical record of Hattusilis was prepared to be kept in a temple of Ishtar. It is a confession and justification of his behavior in coveting the imperial crown. The autobiography … covers the period of his life from childhood to his accession to the throne of the empire.   When a child, Hattusilis fell dangerously ill, a

“Nebuchednezzar Syndrome”: dreams, illness-madness, Egyptophobia   Part Five: Emperors Mursilis and Nabopolassar     by   Damien F. Mackey        “Inside my mouth the word became scarce, and the word came out somewhat stumbling. And the years came and went and this condition began to play a part in my dreams. And god’s hand struck me in the time of a dream, and the ability of speech I lost entirely”.   Mursilis         Lately, in the course of this series, I arrived at the conclusion that the Babylonian king, Nabopolassar ( c. 626 - 605 BC, conventional dating), thought to have been the father of Nebuchednezzar ‘the Great’ ( c. 605 BC - c. 562 BC, conventional dating), needed to be listed amongst the other “Nebuchednezzar Syndrome” types, indeed as Nebuchednezzar himself.   Now, I had completely forgotten over the years that Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky had proposed, in his controversial book Ramses II and

  by Damien F. Mackey     “The first march of Necho-Ramses II toward the Euphrates is related on the obelisk of Tanis and on the rock inscription of Nahr el Kalb near Beirut, written in his second year. The rock inscriptions of Ramses II are not as old as that of Essarhadon on the same rock”.  Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky     Thus wrote Dr. Velikovsky in # 211 of his: https://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm   T HESES FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT HISTORY   He, retaining the potent king Esarhaddon in his conventional place following Sennacherib, but dramatically lowering the mighty Ramses II of Egypt’s Nineteenth Dynasty by some 700 years, from his conventional date of c. 1280 BC down to the time of Nebuchednezzar (so-called II), conventionally c. 580 BC, now saw Ramses II as being “not as old as … Essarhadon”.   This was in stark contrast to the conventional structure of things which has Ramses II (1280) ante-dating Esarhaddon (c. 680 BC) by

    by   Damien F. Mackey          “At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar)”.   Genesis 14:1-2        Jewish tradition identifies Nimrod with the biblical “Amraphel” king of Shinar who accompanied “Chedorlaomer” (var. Kedorlaomer) on the somewhat ill-fated campaign as recorded in Genesis 14. According to this tradition, Nimrod had formerly been “routed” by Chedorlaomer before now joining him as his “vassal” in his war with the kings of Pentapolis: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11548-nimrod   … according to one opinion, that Nimrod was called "Amraphel" ( = "he said, throw in"; Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Gen. xiv. 1; Gen. R. xlii. 5; Cant. R. viii. 8). …. … later

  "<img src="https://r.hswstatic.com/w_907/gif/mad-royals-3b.jpg" width="907" alt="" border="0">"            by   Damien F. Mackey        “[Nabonidus] saw in this sacred enclosure [Ebabbar] a statue of Sargon … half of its head was missing …. Given his reverence for the gods and   his respect for kingship, he … restored the head of this statue, and put back its face”.     According to a late chronographic document concerning Babylon emanating from either the Seleucid or Parthian age, King Nabonidus had found a damaged statue of Sargon of Akkad the head of which he had carefully restored by his artisans. In this particular document, Sargon of Akkad is distinguished from his “son”, Naram-Sin - though I believe, and have written to the effect (e.g. article below), that Sargon and Naram-Sin were one and the same powerful king. We read from this late docu