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75 pages of results. 241. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 54 of DREAMTIME HERITAGE (Paintings by Ainslie Roberts, text by Melva Jane Roberts, published by Rigby, Sydney, New York & London 1975). It will, presumably, be difficult to establish what stage in Earth history is described here, but the authors may be able to supply further details. Elizabeth Gaudry, Eastbourne, Sussex Calendars - A Reply to Hennegin Dear Sir, With regard to Montgomery Hennegin's letter in WORKSHOP 5:2 , pp. 32-3, such terms as "balderdash" demean what should be a forum for the polite exchange of differing views. Just as the great Velikovsky's ideas require some amendment, so are we all subject to error. Confusion ...
242. The Rape of Helen [Books] [de Grazia books]
... orbits, now one and now both approached Earth and Moon with consequent devastation to the participating bodies. Awe-inspiring celestial phenomena accompanied the founding of the Greek Olympic Games in -776. Hercules is supposed to have organized the games, ushering in what later came to be a quadrennial all-Greek spectacle of religion, athletics, and poetry. The Greek Mythikon calendar ends in -776. The Historikon calendar begins. But Stecchini says that it may have actually begun, or soon was redone, in -748/7 [6 ]. And this would conform to those who say that Hercules did not enter upon the games until they had been operative on eight prior occasions. In the west, the ...
243. Shishak, the kings of Judah and some synchronisms [Journals] [SIS Review]
... appreciable subsequent changes, however, with Judah probably adopting Venus years in the time of Joash (II Chronicles 21:5-6 and II Kings 8:16-18 both report that Judah adopted the ways of Ahab's Israel in the time of Jehoram, or up to 9 years before the accession of Joash), followed 60-70 years later by a possible calendar reform in the time of Uzziah, after which Venus years were probably abandoned by both parties. By this time Venus would have become a much less conspicuous object than it had been earlier, its tail having first faded and then finally become extinguished, making Venus years just as difficult to count as solar years; under such conditions there ...
244. Quartered At Yale. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... reign of Yao for ten days the sun remained above the horizon; all the forests burned; a multitude of "abominable vermin" was brought forth; an immense wave that "reached the sky" fell on China and swept over high mountains, and thereafter the lower regions of the country remained inundated for more than two generations; the calendar was disordered, and it was also necessary to find anew the cardinal points- east, west, north, and south- which were difficult to locate because the land was covered with gloom for many years. It is said also that a new bright star was born in the days of Yao. All this, I demonstrated in my book ...
245. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... worried by the inflexibility of his [Trevor's] last sentence. I cannot see how the history revision that I, and presumably many other SIS members regard as essential, can be achieved without challenging information that is regarded as well-established'. Peter Fairlie-Clarke, Teddington, Middlesex Dear Reader Velikovsky identified the astronomical' dating system of the so-called Sothic Calendar' as a major factor in the construction of the basically fictitious Egyptian chronology accepted by mainstream academia. Bearing this in mind, it was with some apprehension that I found Professor Lynn Rose attempting a rehabilitation of the Sothic system. In his book Sun Moon and Sothis, Rose initially demolishes the credibility of Sothic dating as a whole, ...
... was built the year apparently consisted of 12 months of 30 days each. The extra 5 days were probably added by the Flood, or, as called in Scotland, the Drift, and we find in Great Britain, notably in Stonehenge, Keswick, and elsewhere, anxious researches in the times of the solstices and equinoxes to adjust the calendar. The Talmud says of this that the order of the universe was altered at the Flood and all knowledge of astronomy destroyed. The philosopher Anaxagoras says that "at the Beginning the stars were seen as if carried round in a vast dome, in such a manner that the constant apparent revolution of the heavens was vertical to the earth ...
247. Victor Clube: Scientific Revelations - the Origins of Catastrophe Myths and Legends [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Myths and Legends Victor is arguably one of the world's leading catastrophists. Yet he is also a renowned astronomer as well as an open-minded scholar who is happy to accept new ideas regarding our ancestors' understanding of impact events in former ages. He spoke much about time cycles of impact events that were realised by ancient cultures and incorporated into their calendars in order that they might be able to predict future catastrophes. He said that the most important cycle of all, and one which we have been denied knowledge of until fairly recently, recurs ever 2,500 years. This has been determined not just through the study of the orbits of comet, asteroid and meteor fields, but ...
248. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... intermediate descent, than the 12,000 years that have been conventionally allotted to them. Numerous older dates are now assigned; one authority, MacNeish, would allow 100,000 years to mankind in America [25]. Stone tools dated at 100,00 years were discovered in Western Australia lately [26]. By the quantavolutionary calendar, humans everywhere show indications of having participated in the earliest Uranian culture. We need not argue dates, but only cultures. Furthermore, no matter how complete a catastrophe, every subsequent period of our calendar can encompass both people and interacting cultures everywhere in the world. Regarding the similarities observed between American mythology and classical and Hebrew myth ...
249. Velikovsky, Mars, and the Eighth Century B.C. Part Two [Journals] [Kronos]
... by all the Chou rulers, and translates as "king" or "emperor". As attested by tradition, and as I have confirmed at least in general for late Chou times by an analysis presented in "On The Year -687' " (see KRONOS VI:4 (1981), pp. 4-27), the Chou calendar began with the month of the winter solstice. The first day of the tenth month of 776 B.C ., taken at conjunction, would be September 6 Julian, which fell on a hsin mao day. Modern calculations show an eclipse occurring near midday on that date at the longitude of China. Gaubil was the first European ...
250. Origins of the Zodiac and some Horological Problems [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... (or any other recognisable phase of the moon) occurs in each of the 12 zodiacal signs in turn (though only with certainty when the year is precisely divisible into 12 months of equal length), thus offering an alternative way of naming the month. In general, the lunar system is an easier and a more practical one for calendar purposes than the solar one, for it is obviously a sophisticated operation to identify a star directly behind the sun with any degree of precision; moreover; in a purely lunar system, one can also identify the days within the month by the shape and the size of the moon, for it changes sufficiently in shape and size from ...
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