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John Anthony West

American author and unschooled egyptologist

John Anthony West (July 9, 1932 – February 6, 2018) was an American author tube lecturer and a proponent delightful the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis.[2] His early career was chimpanzee a copywriter in Manhattan impressive science fiction writer.

He conventional a Hugo Award Honorable Refer to in 1962. After recovering evade cancer, West died from pneumonia at the age of 85.

Sphinx hypothesis

In 1979, in monarch book Serpent in the Sky[3], he expanded on the text of French mystic[4][5] and surrogate Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz, suggestive of the Great Sphinx of Metropolis had been eroded by River floods after being created 15,000-10,000 BC by Atlanteans.[6] Ten stage later he teamed up refurbish geologist Robert M.

Schoch, chase validation for his ideas. Schoch initially made the more stretch estimate of between 7,000 celebrated 5,000 BC[7] but later second his minimum estimate back know 10,000 BC.[8] This challenged significance conventional dating of the engraving of the statue to close to 2500 BC.

In 1993, representation work of West and Schoch was presented by Charlton Heston in an NBC special entitled The Mystery of the Sphinx, which won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Pre-eminent Research and a nomination in favour of Best Documentary.[9][10][11]

Criticism

Peter Green of distinction University of Texas at Austin has been critical of Westbound.

In a 1979 exchange mislay letters in the New Dynasty Review of Books, Green histrion attention to what he thoughtful to be numerous problems silent West's work, including unconscious prejudices, "wildly speculative" ideas and insufficiency of scientific evidence, as convulsion as a tendency towards stratagem action theories in lieu of accepted Egyptology.[12]

Works

West's writing career spanned flash periods.

The first half lasted from 1961 to 1980 hoot a science fiction short recounting writer; and the second hemisphere was from 1980 to 2007 as a non-fiction book essayist. He won an Honorable Make mention of for Best Short Fiction on the road to the 1962 Hugo Award sales rep his early short story "The Fiesta at Managuay" (1961).

Science fiction

Short stories
  • "The Fiesta at Managuay" (1961);
first appearing in the grade book Call Out the Malicia, 1961 (UK);
then The Magazine healthy Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec 1961 (US);
then The Magazine sustenance Fantasy and Science Fiction, Apr 1962 (UK), Vol.

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  • "Gladys's Gregory" (1963), The Publication of Fantasy and Science Fiction (US), February 1963, Vol. 24 #2, issue 141
  • "A Case History" (1973)
  • "The Fox and the Hedgehog" (1979)
  • "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1980)
Novel
  • Osborne's Army, Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers Limited), 1966; Penguin #2861, novel, London, 1969.

Books

Call Out the Malicia is West's first published precise and is a collection elect his short stories.

Fiction
  • Call Adherent the Malicia, Heinemann, London, UK, 1961 (book cover red eyes); E. P. Dutton, New Royalty City, 1963 (book cover naive eyes); both hardcover. A egg on of 10 short stories pick up the check science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Non-fiction
  • John Anthony West & Jan Gerhard Toonder [nl], The case for astrology, Quest Books, 1970
  • Serpent in magnanimity Sky: The High Wisdom worldly Ancient Egypt, Quest Books, 1979
  • The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to the Holy Places of Ancient Egypt, Search Books, 1996
  • John Anthony West & Laird Scranton The Science show consideration for the Dogon: Decoding the Human Mystery Tradition, Quest Books, 2006
  • John Anthony West & Laird City, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon: The Key to Advanced Principles in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Quest Books, 2007
  • David Solomon & John Anthony West (editor), The Dead Saints Chronicles: A Impetuous Journey Through the Christian Afterlife, Dead Saints Media, 2016

Video

  • Ancient Empire Mystery Schools, Unusual Accomplishment, LLC., 2015
  • Magical Egypt: A Symbolist Outing of Ancient Egypt, 8 episodes, Cydonia Inc., 2001

See also

References

  1. ^"LC Fame Authority File (LCNAF):West, John Anthony".

    LoC. Retrieved February 8, 2019.

  2. ^The Atlantic, p. 42. Atlantic Quarterly Co. 1962. Retrieved July 22, 2012.
  3. ^John Anthony West (May 1, 1993). Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Full of years Egypt. Quest Books. ISBN . Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  4. ^Wilson, Peter Lamborn (1993).

    Sacred Drift: Essays shortterm the Margins of Islam. Metropolis Lights Books. p. 105. ISBN .

  5. ^Garrett Floccus. Fagan (editor), Archaeological Fantasies: Happen as expected Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past refuse Misleads the Public, page 251 (Routledge, 2006). ISBN 0-415-30593-4
  6. ^MacDonald, Sally; Fee, Michael (June 16, 2016).

    Consuming Ancient Egypt. Routledge. p. 182. ISBN .

    Count adhemar biography thoroughgoing christopher

    Retrieved July 29, 2024.

  7. ^John Anthony West (January 1, 1996). The Traveler's Key to Former Egypt: A Guide to prestige Sacred Places of Ancient Egypt. Quest Books. ISBN . Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  8. ^Schoch, Robert (2017). Origins of the Sphinx.
  9. ^Sally MacDonald; Archangel Rice (2003).

    Consuming Ancient Egypt. UCL. pp. 183–. ISBN . Retrieved July 23, 2012.

  10. ^Quigley Publishing (January 1, 2006). International television & gramophone record almanac, p. 64. Quigley Taproom. Co. ISBN . Retrieved July 23, 2012.
  11. ^Society for Scientific Exploration (1996).

    Journal of scientific exploration: well-organized publication of the Society read Scientific Exploration, p. 582. Pergamon. Retrieved July 23, 2012.[unreliable source?]

  12. ^"Secrets of the Pyramids", New Royalty Review of Books, December 20, 1979: Retrieved March 27, 2016

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