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60 pages of results. 121. Planetary Observations of the T'ang [Articles]
... greater competence is as whimsical poets, in effect downgrading their competence as observers of precision. Schaefer transcribes about 70 to 80 of these observations, and at least in this book, does not try to analyze the reliability or veracity of the observations. He just reports the date of the observations and the planets' positions in terms of the Chinese zodiac, and helpfully, correlates their positions to approximate Western asterisms. These observations mostly appear in tabular form. An example of one of Schaefer's transcriptions follows: "March 17 through April 15, 755: Mars and Venus fight in the hsius Pleiades and Net, and then into the hsius Well and Ghost." The hsius, ...
122. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... end of the world. The inhabitants of Nuguria, in the Solomon Islands, employ the term hetu for the words star' and comet' alike, and so do the Mâori of New Zealand. 6 The Polynesians, again, are renowned for their astronomical skills and would have had their reasons to admit this homonymy. Likewise, the Chinese, who were prolific astronomers, called the planet Mars Tchí-p'iao-nou, berserk of the red meteor', a name that betrays a relationship with meteors, if anything. 7 Examples where comets are described as stars with a particular feature, such as tail stars', smoke stars', or hair stars', finally, can be ...
123. Exodus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the Thebaid were bypassed and naturally reacted against this. They conducted a war against the foreigners, who were defeated, but at no stage can the foreigners be likened to the Israelites, or the Arabs. At the same time there is no evidence of a great catastrophe in the mid 2nd millennium BC, along the lines of Velikovsky. Chinese sources indicate that the Hsia dynasty came to an end because it had ceased to have the Mandate of Heaven' [3 ], who were replaced by the Shang dynasty, which survived until the late 2nd millennium BC, = end of LB age, when a similar set of events caused them to be replaced [4 ]. ...
124. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... became committed to collecting an impressive array of reports of unusual phenomena occurring shortly before earthquakes. Perceiving the crying need for the development of an earthquake early warning system in the West (in order to save lives and prevent unnecessary tragedies) he was spurred on by the all too familiar hard scepticism of western science, and the knowledge that the Chinese do have a successful earthquake warning system based on an open-minded respect for the accumulated wisdom of thousands of ordinary people. Of prime concern in pre-earthquake phenomena is unusual animal behaviour, and the book abounds in interesting anecdotes which are also summed up in useful tabular form. But the author also investigates a variety of other phenomena, recorded for ...
125. A Catastrophic Calendar [Books] [de Grazia books]
... different while being the same. The Greek "Aphrodite" had traits of an original moon goddess and had many alternative names in many cultures; furthermore she later become confused with Venus, the goddess, and also the planet Venus, which had its scores of god-names too [5 ]. Jupiter was himself but partly Saturn too; the Chinese "Saturn" was a thunderer who announced time by great noises, whereas the Greek "Saturn" gave time and was called Kronos (Chronos) and the Greek "Jupiter" was especially Zeus, the Lightning-hurler, who was also called the Thunderer. The Calendar is but a rough path chopped through the dense thicket of early history ...
126. A Comprehensive Theory on Aging, Gigantism and Longevity [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... can easily observe, looking back through history, great differences in the level of scientific advancement in different cultures. Contrast the state of technology of the American Indian with the arriving European settler in the 17th and 18th centuries. Contrast the scientific stagnation of the Dark Ages with the explosive investigative virility of 17th-century Western Europe. Contrast the rather extensive Chinese technology of the first 1200 years A.D . with the relatively backward state of affairs in other areas of the world, Europe included. The point is that these severe differences in scientific progress are seen as arising out of radically different climates of thought. Dynamic conditions of thinking are differentiated from static climates on issues precisely like the ...
127. On Saturn And The Flood [Journals] [Kronos]
... was also reflected and perpetuated in political institutions in many parts of the world. In ancient Egypt the ruling king was identified with Horus, or Jupiter, as the earthly analogue of the reigning heavenly power. Upon his death he came to be regarded as Osiris, or Saturn, a departed but still highly venerated heavenly body. In the Chinese concept of kingship, which persisted till the early years of this century, the Emperor was the earthly representative of the ruling planet Saturn. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, the great Chinese historian of the second century before the present era, in his treatise on The Rulers of the Heavens wrote that Saturn is the planet of the Sovereign, or the ...
... contest with Sirius in mythical significance. We know mulKAK.SI.DI , the "Arrow-Star" from Sumer, as well as "Tishtriya," the arrow from Ancient Iranit is shot from a bow built up by stars of Argo and Canis Major (Sumerian: mulBAN). The very same bow is to be found in the Chinese sphere , but there the arrow is shorter and aims at Sirius, the celestial Jackal, whereas the same Egyptian arrow is aimed at the star on the head of the Sothis Cow, as depicted in the so-called "Round Zodiac" of Dendera Sirius again. In India, Sirius is the archer himself (Tishiya), and his ...
... usage is misleading. Today, a learned man is usually one who understands what it is all about. Dante was certainly one. But was it so in remote ages? There is reason to doubt it. An esoteric doctrine, as defined by Aristotle, is one which is learned long before being understood. Much of the education of Chinese scholars was until very recently along those lines. Understanding remained something apart. It might never come at all, and at best would come when the learning was complete. There were other ways. One can give an extreme case from Rome. Athenaeus [n6 Deipnosophistai 1.20d. See also Lucian's De Saltatione 70.] says ...
130. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... or to provide the mythically-required divine signal of impending catastrophe). Nor will the ease with which the stargazers found a catastrophe to associate with a comet's arrival explain the deeper theme of the world ending apocalypse. If one looks at comet lore more closely, it will be realized that what the stargazers feared most was no local disaster. Ancient Chinese comet astrology held that "Comets are vile stars. Every time they appear in the south, something happens to wipe out the old and establish the new." (96) In the language of myth that means the end of the world. Both the Sibylline Oracles and a Dead Sea Scroll (War of the Sons of Light ...
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