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114 pages of results. 31. Drayson's hypothesis: the Earth's tilt cycle [Journals] [SIS Review]
... year cycle, and do not represent seasonal positions of the globe during its annual march around the Sun. (From A. W. Drayson: Great Britain has been and will be again in the tropics, [London, 1859], diagram 2, plate IV) Drayson's first hypothesis states that the Earth's rotation axis, instead of circling the pole of the ecliptic, moves about an axis which lies in the plane of the equator and in the direction of stars having 6 and 18 hours right ascension' [5 ]. Upon this movement are superimposed precessional motion and nutation. Next, he discusses the effect of precession on the ascension and declination of the stars. ...
32. The Sacred Circuit [Books]
... Evil Eye customs - Top spinning - Serpent spirals - Left-hand circuit as Ceremony of Riddance - Egyptian example - Hindu movements explained - The Wishing Maidens - Borneo expulsion ceremony - Spiral on wand-Pig calls spirits - Women dance from left to right - Omens of Death - The Witches' dance - Ecstatic dances - Sun as magic tank " - Sacred circle - Palaeolithic dance - Sun cult in Palaeolithic times. The ancient custom of making a sacred circuit to the right appears to have been intended to stimulate the Great Bear (Ursa Major) constellation to revolve in the proper direction There was a danger-so it was believed-that it might jam, or else spin in the wrong direction. The stellar ...
33. The Sacred Circuit [Books]
... Evil Eye customs - Top spinning - Serpent spirals - Left-hand circuit as Ceremony of Riddance - Egyptian example - Hindu movements explained - The Wishing Maidens - Borneo expulsion ceremony - Spiral on wand-Pig calls spirits - Women dance from left to right - Omens of Death - The Witches' dance - Ecstatic dances - Sun as magic tank " - Sacred circle - Palaeolithic dance - Sun cult in Palaeolithic times. The ancient custom of making a sacred circuit to the right appears to have been intended to stimulate the Great Bear (Ursa Major) constellation to revolve in the proper direction There was a danger-so it was believed-that it might jam, or else spin in the wrong direction. The stellar ...
34. The Original Star of Dawn [Articles]
... age. An Evening Star and Morning Star were also worshipped by the Skidi branch of the Pawnee Indians, who formerly inhabited the valley of the Platte river in Nebraska-and here it is fitting to state that I owe some of what follows to my friend Milton Zysman, whose research into the lore of the Skidi Pawnee is well known in Velikovskian circles. To the Skidi, the Evening Star was female, the Morning Star male. That the Pawnee Evening Star was Venus there seems to be no doubt. The motions ascribed to this "star" tally with those of the planet. The Evening Star was described as appearing evening after evening as it slowly climbed half way up the ...
... them, and they erected their temples in places which were holy in their eyes. Cromlechs and dolmens are usually regarded as one and the same but there is an apparent difference. The cromlech (from Gael. crom, bent, crooked, inclined, and llech, a stone) stands uncovered, sometimes in the centre of a Druidic circle, and was properly an altar; a dolmen (from dol a table, and men or maen, a stone) forms often a cluster of un-hewn stones, not uncommonly a gallery of several blocks raised on pillars, and concealed under a covering of stones or soil, with an opening, sometimes leading to a chamber approached by ...
36. The Ship of Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... either contained wheels or were set on wheels and conveyed around dry land in the rites. (36) As symbols of the sun god's enclosure, ship and wheel merge as one. This same relationship of sun god's dwelling and cosmic ship can be confirmed in all mythical forms of the dwelling. The myths deem this band to be a circle of "land" brought forth by Saturn in the creation; and "the Barge of Earth" (the celestial land) is at once a name of the sun god's ship and the kingdom in the sky over which the god rules. (37) In both Egypt and Mesopotamia, throne, temple and city all appear as ...
37. Catastrophic Theory of Mountain Uplifts (A Crustal Deformation Theory) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... . Their concept was that the Sun somehow extruded a cometary tail from which gases cooled and condensed, with the condensation forming the planets, satellites (moons), meteor streams, etc. (caption) The mountain arcs which collectively compose the two zones of recent orogenetic uplift, together with the epicenters of those arcs, and the great circle alignments of the epicenters. The two zones are the Alpine-Himalayan zone and the Circum-Pacific zone. WILSON, J. TUZO: The Earth as a Planet. Ed., Kuiper, p. 153, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1954. Figure 2 A Capture Cosmology Today we know the nebular hypothesis to be theoretically impossible ...
38. Botanical Fantasies [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... these facts and makes sure that his readers are protected from them. However, to get around the fact that he knew trees grew in the high Arctic, Mewhinney writes the following: "` The point to stress, ' according to Ginenthal, `is that large trees should never be able to grow on islands north of the Arctic Circle. As explained by Ivan T. Sanderson, `pieces of large tree trunks of the types [found] do not and cannot live at those latitudes today for purely biological reasons. The same goes for huge areas of Siberia. ' Why does Ginenthal say `never'? The earth is several billion years old, and in ...
39. On Number as Artifact (Part 3: Conclusion) [Journals] [Horus]
... real sense the two horns of a mathematical dilemma that involved the concept of irrational numbers. By and large early scientists found irrationals abhorrent. In the effort to circumvent them set-theory calculations were often pushed to stratospheric heights. In astronomy these involved the notion of the Great Year. In acoustics the meganumbers were the result of computations like the 30 circlings of the scale 12 X 30 = 360) that piqued Edith Borroffs curiosity in 1976. Meganumbers were invariably preferred to fractional numbers. But the fractions, often highly complex ones, were there nonetheless. They could not be escaped. What lay behind the persistence? The answer is: closure was expected. In an orderly universe, ...
40. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... in Mesoamerica, with the lore of which we are here concerned, the Venus glyph is often found superimposed in the center of the kin sign, which is the most common symbol of the sun, (117) here understood as the Saturnian one. Due to a certain imbalance which developed in the orbit of Mars as the entire configuration circled the Sun, (118) Mars moved closer to the Earth and was thus seen from terrestrial perspective as growing larger in size while emitting, and/or attracting from the Earth, an outflow of iridescent material that was visualized as a cosmic mountain of vast proportions. So memorable was this event that, in the Near East, ...
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