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114 pages of results. 91. Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual, by Aubrey Burl (Review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:1 (Apr 2001) Home | Issue Contents Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual by Aubrey Burl (Shire Publications, Cromwell House, Church Street, Princes Risborough Bucks, HP27 9AA, £4 99) Reviewed by Phillip Clapham Aubrey Burl has written plenty of big books on stone circles, stone rows and megalithic anomalies. In this handy little booklet he condenses an awful amount of data. He looks at the theories of Thom and Hawkins and in a down to earth way points out that many alignments' are difficult to envisage as astronomical orientations. Chap. 1 looks at the puzzle of Ballochroy' and the Kintyre peninsula, in ...
92. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... cannot be questioned amiss in this inquiry; and the first thought which comes up at the sound of the name is one of utter wonder how man ever gave a mountain that name, and we settle down to the emphatic refusal to believe that any terrestrial mountain was ever so named, save as a sacred memorial of a mountain of infinite circles or curves in perpetual rotation around a single turning point. Bocatia's divine mountain of the gods and the home of the Muses was no terrestrial mountain. The ineffable order and harmony of the celestial pole gave men licence to use the name as a memorial. Helicon as first seen by the human family was but a whirling or spinning " ...
93. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... and caused the aborigines to create the myth of a universal flood. [See Lyell, Principles of Geology, I, p. 89, p. 270] "Not so long ago an explanation of the mystery of Lake Titicaca and of the fortress Tiahuanacu on its shores was put forward in the light of Horbiger's theory: A moon circled very close to the earth, pulling the waters of the oceans toward the equator; by its gravitational pull, the moon held day and night, the water of the ocean at the altitude of Tiahuanacu. [H .S . Bellamy, Built Before the Flood: The Problem of Tiahuanacu Ruins, (1947), p. ...
94. Corals Of The Polar Regions. Ch.4 Ice (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... and is now almost continuously buried under snow and ice, we can realize the difficulty of the problem in the distribution of climate which these facts present to the geologist."1 There must have been great forests on Spitsbergen to produce a bed of coal thirty feet thick. And even if Spitsbergen, almost one thousand miles inside the Arctic Circle, for some unknown reason had the warm climate of the French Riviera on the Mediterranean, still these thick forests could not have grown there, because the place is six months in continuous night. The rest of the year the sun stands low over the horizon. Not only fossil trees and coal but corals, too, were found ...
95. Cuban Prehistory [Journals] [Kronos]
... peoples of the North American continent.(8 ) Printing from Cave No. 1 "Punta del Este" Isla de Pinos Ciboney Culture. Of further interest are the pictographs of the earliest Cuban cultural horizon, here illustrated with reproductions of paintings from Cave No. 1 at Punta del Este, Isla de Pinos. Geometric motifs predominate: Circles, open curves, and stepped rectangles. The circles are concentric, alternately red and black, and the curious cruciform figures branch outward from the centers of the designs- all of which leaves us with the impression of a certain complexity, not to mention a peculiar developmental inversion, with regard to the Old World, where anthropomorphic and ...
96. The ISCBM Newark Earthworks Conference [Journals] [Horus]
... the river valleys and fertile fields of North America. Long attributed to the American Indian, though the Indians themselves lay no claim to the achievement, these moundworks and artifacts found within them have characteristics suggesting that there may be far more to the story. The earthworks at Newark bear remarkable resemblance to those found in Northern Europe. The Great Circle Mound forming part of the Octagon Mound complex is very similar to the shape and orientation of the earthworks which surrounded Stonehenge. Research in the field of archaeoastronomy [cf. R. Hively & R. Horn, "Geometry and Astronomy in Prehistoric Ohio," Archaeoastronomy, no.4 , (JHA, xiii, 1982)] ...
... held by many to mean the Pleiades, and not the Great Bear; but this, I think, is very improbable. Much is to be hoped from the study of the Babylonian records in relation to the Egyptian ones. This is a point I shall return to in the sequel. In observing stars nowadays, we use a transit circle which is carried round by the earth so as to pick up the stars in different circles round the axis of the earth prolonged, and by altering the inclination of the telescope of this instrument we can first get a circle of one decimation and then a circle of another. The Egyptians did not usually employ meridian observations. Did the ...
98. Celestial Records of the Orient by Isaac Vail [Books]
... Greece or Rome. In India and Egypt it would assume more nearly a circular form, but always to an observer on the equator it would appear as a vast semicircular arch in the polar sky, leaving the earth's rotundity out of the calculation. Could the observer stand at the pole of the earth he would see the opening as a circle directly overhead, provided it was not too vast; and the same would be its shape seen from the centre of the earth. In all other parts of the earth where the line of vision fell angulary upon it, as at Rome, it could not be seen as a circle. A vast circle thus inclined to the line ...
99. Merlin and the Round Temple [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ruined appearance of the structure in his time, Geoffrey stated that Merlin had raised Stonehenge as a monument to the British nobles treacherously slain by the Jute king Hengist, during the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions. This claim of Geoffrey was always viewed with some suspicion, since it seemed to contradict other local traditions which held that the numerous standing-stone circles, found the length and breadth of Britain, had been raised by the Druids, the ancient pagan priestly order. With the advent of the scientific age in the 18th and 19th centuries, scholars soon became aware that Geoffrey's explanation of Stonehenge had to be without foundation. Early archaeologists found that the standing-stones and related monuments were of great ...
100. Oberg's Unscientific Method [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ., he would have learned that these scientists said that a close passage of the Moon to a body such as the Earth would pull material to one side of the Moon. Here is what is contained in that citation: The circular maria- Orientale, Imbrium, Serenitatis, Crisium, Smythii, and Tsiolkovsky- lie nearly on a lunar great circle. This pattern can be considered the result of a very close, non-capture encounter between the Moon and the Earth early in solar system history. Of critical importance in analysing the effects of such an encounter is the position of the weightlessness limit of the Earth-Moon System....WITHIN THIS WEIGHTLESSNESS LIMIT, MATERIAL CAN BE PULLED FROM ...
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