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82 pages of results. 141. The Capture Of Luna (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... the oceans. Already at the numerous pre-capture conjunctions the oceans of the Earth had swelled towards the equator and caused inundations of the tropical coastlands. The inhabitants of the interior of the continents probably knew little or nothing of these conjunction tides; for them the passage of Luna meant something else: at such times more or less considerable earth-tremors and earthquakes occurred, and those who lived near active volcanoes might notice an increased activity. Plato's myth mentions all these types of disturbance, and stresses that they occurred periodically `after certain long intervals' (22c-d, 23b). It should go without saying that these various happenings refer to the world in general, and not to Grecia or ...
142. 1990 ISIS Fellowship Lecture Meeting [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... about then, but that there could have been a multiple or sequential eruption, Thera in combination with another, as yet unidentified, volcano elsewhere. Professor Warren began his talk by outlining the nature of Minoan civilisation, a culture of considerable artistic achievement and one highly devoted to religion. He told of the destruction of Middle Minoan Crete by earthquake and of the rise of Late Minoan IA. Archaeologists date the eruption of Thera to the middle of Late Minoan IA: Professor Warren, with his considerable expertise on the subject, outlined some of the pottery chronology evidence which indicates this dating. He also told of the evidence relating to mainland Greece in the Late Helladic IIA (corresponding ...
143. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... charcoal about 150,000 years ago and fire resistant eucalyptus species replace conifers as dominant vegetation. As climatic fluctuations previously had not affected the vegetation this is interpreted as evidence that man had arrived in Australia and was deliberately starting fires. The oldest concrete evidence for early man is between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. Jericho's earthquakes National Geographic January 1992, geographica A geophysicist studying the 10,000 year record of earthquakes in the Holy Land reports that Jericho has been repeatedly destroyed by earthquake. There is evidence of residents fleeing leaving food behind. The Jordan is also frequently briefly dammed by collapsing banks as in biblical references to it ceasing to flow. Akhenaten's many ...
144. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a mystery as to what is generating the intense heat in the Earth's core, but one geophysicist thinks he has the answer. He thinks that enough uranium could have sunk to the centre of the Earth when it was young and molten to form a huge natural nuclear fission reactor. But induced electric currents will also produce heat. Ice and Earthquakes (New Scientist, 14.8 .04, p. 13) Shrinking glaciers relieve the land of the pressure of the ice, allowing tectonic plate movement and rebound, and causing earthquakes. Alaska's glaciers are melting fast and may have caused a large earthquake in 1979. There is also evidence that Scandinavia suffered large earthquakes 10, ...
145. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Six [Books]
... of portents, if you like. I do not think that the events referred to can be taken as causally related to each other, and nor do I think they are interconnected facets of an ongoing catastrophic scenario. Rather, they are scattered, independent signs' relevant to the prevailing political scene. The Mount Tai Chan event (an earthquake or landslide ?) and the River Lao event (a drought ?) are geophysical portents. The two suns (sun- dogs ?- see Part 2, p.118) and the agitation of the five planets (see above) are celestial portents. Finally, the barbarian invasion is very similar to the activity of the ...
146. The Cataclusm (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... . The consequences of that sharing out of the Earth were dire. While the spoils of battle won by the Athenians were being piled into a great trophy, there came (to borrow Euripides's line) `from the earth's womb a thunderous rumbling, a muffled warning, a most blood-curdling sound', and the land was writhed by an earthquake such as had never been experienced before (25c). And, worse still- upglancing they saw a surge, unearthly, up-columned to the sky, swelling higher, ever higher, spurting forth a cloud of spume and sea-blown spray',52 rushing on in terrible career, and in a very short time the victors and the vanquished ...
147. Forum Part Two [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the emergence of megalithic buildings around the world occurred gradually over a period of several thousand years, unrelated to any single catastrophe. In his paper on Bronze Age Multi-Site Destructions, Bob Porter rejects the idea of cosmic catastrophes closing the Middle Bronze Age and the Late Bronze Age. In his view, the Middle Bronze Age civilisations were destroyed by earthquakes. Relying exclusively on Geoffrey Gammon's summary of Claude Schaeffer's stratigraphical analysis of Near Eastern destruction layers [28], Bob Porter, on the other hand, links the final destruction of Late Bronze III to the so-called Sea Peoples who used to be held responsible by mainstream historians for the collapse of the Bronze Age civilisations in the Near East ...
... human faces with beards of bristling The monk may have allowed his fears to govern his description, but none the less he confirms Hevelius and helps to a new light upon the past. A so-called Halley's Comet of 1835 had horns like a bull, and bull's horns were a symbol of the god Saturn, who himself was born as an earthquake, the son of Uranus and Gaea. Swift's Comet of 1892 had a tail that developed into the semblance of an open fan, like the Winged Globe of Egypt already mentioned. Brooks' Comet of 1893 was like a fiery torch, like that of 1875 which was seen in the north-east of that year and was followed by the ...
... Penmarch Cyclone of May 23, Here also there seems to have been some huge deposit up a considerable area from between 2 000 – 2 500 fathoms, shoals in places of a few fathoms only. In 1918 a similar change in the sea depths was discovered to have taken place off the coast of Spain. Shortly after the New Zealand Earthquake of February 3, 1931, found that the sea floor about Napier (North Island) had changed considerably. The Daily Telegraph (February 4) said the harbour bottom had been raised 18 feet. The Daily Mail (Feb 3) reported it was "lifting." "The steamer Northumberland which had been in Napier Harbour, ...
150. Floods and Tides [Books] [de Grazia books]
... escape were opened through the sea to let pass certain peoples from the East. Can tides behave to create passages? The answer must be "yes." Not only is there a typical shore withdrawal before a tsunami; the tsunami can occur in a series. Further, the immense expressions of energy in tides, as in winds and earthquake, sometimes act to spare the most incongruous as well as precious things. Cows have been picked up by cyclones and set down miles away without injury. When Krakatoa exploded, the people of Batavia a few miles away braced for a gigantic tidal wave that never came. Yet the wave wiped out other villages not far away and raced ...
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