“Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon” by John Martin, 1816. Oil on canvas, 150 × 231 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Paul Mellon Fund 2004.64.1
Immanuel Velikovsky in his Worlds in Collision noted that in the opposite side of the world…
In the Mexican Annals of Cuauhtitlan* —the history of the empire of Culhuacan and Mexico, written in Nahua-Indian in the sixteenth century—it is related that during a cosmic catastrophe that occurred in the remote past, the night did not end for a long time. The biblical narrative describes the sun as remaining in the sky for an additional day (“about a whole day”). The Midrashim, the books of ancient traditions not embodied in the Scriptures, relate that the sun and the moon stood still for thirty-six itim, or eighteen hours.
* Known also as Codex Chimalpopoca. “This manuscript contains a series of annals of very ancient date, many of which go back to more than a thousand years before the Christian era” (Brasseur)
- I. Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, Paperback 2009 ed., Paradigma Ltd, 1950.
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