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... godlike race. A great war ensued which lasted many years, the island being invaded by immense armies of Atlantean origin. In a last crucial battle, wherein we are told that the Athemans played a gallant but desperate part, the invaders were finally defeated. At the same moment an even worse blow fell, for in company with prodigious earthquakes there ensued immense floods whereby most of the island was submerged and most of the population was destroyed. The legend in all main details agrees with the Flood of Noah or Deucalion and the destruction of the invading Giants. It marked, in a word, the Great Catastrophe. Plato's authority for the story he unfolds in the Timaeus and ...
172. A Working Hypothesis. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... Earth in Upheaval" © 1955 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents A Working Hypothesis Let us assume, as a working hypothesis, that under the impact of a force or the influence of an agent -and the earth does not travel in an empty universe- the axis of the earth shifted or tilted. At that moment an earthquake would make the globe shudder. Air and water would continue to move through inertia; hurricanes would sweep the earth and the seas would rush over continents, carrying gravel and sand and marine animals, and casting them on the land. Heat would be developed, rocks would melt, volcanoes would erupt, lava would flow from fissures in ...
173. The Day the Sun Stood still [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... July 1991) Home | Issue Contents The Day the Sun Stood still Robert H. Chappell, Jr.Stones falling from heaven.., a disturbance in the motions of the Sun and Moon... devastating tsunamis... plagues and pestilences of unknown origin.., thunder and lighting from a cloudless sky... earthquakes of incalculable intensity... all these phenomena were crammed into a single day! It is no wonder that the story of "the day the Sun stood still" is so widely disbelieved! Living in a uniformitarian's paradise, the present age is happily oblivious to such unprecedented disasters. But there was a time, thirty-four hundred years ...
174. Thrusting and Orogeny [Books] [de Grazia books]
... here is thrusting. Coal fields are forests bulldozed and deep buried: this is a form of thrust. Mountains are piled upon one another, again a thrusting action. Tides and winds lay down field upon field of debris, of vast extent; are these not thrusts, too? It is fruitless to argue over definitions. As with earthquakes, which are moving earth, and shaking, so with thrusting: beyond a certain intensity, the vocabulary is inadequate to the quantity of cleavage, the quantavolutions. Then, too, earthquakes and thrusting can come to a marriage; in a discussion of even the relatively mild seismism of our times, Frank Lane writes that "where ...
175. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... all the current major theories, e.g . the Big Bang and the Expanding Universe. Looks like they're in trouble now that it is being suggested that redshifts occur when light passes through media of varying refractivity, and that such variable media occur out in Space. Obvious when you think about it! And such a simple idea! Earthquake Cycles?source: New Scientist 6.1 .90, p. 46 Earthquakes occur along the San Andreas fault in relation to the sunspot cycle, recurring on average every 22 years. Stable Solar System?source: New Scientist 25.11.89, pp. 60-63 In an article in the new science of Chaos' ...
176. A Brief Summary of the Evidence for a Gap in the Bible and Much Earlier Dates for Many of its Major Events [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... that none of the new archaeological evidence (which only comes to light piece by piece, fragment by fragment) has been able to shake it. It is firmly held, for example, that the Hebrews did not enter Canaan until after 1400 B.C . When it was finally determined that the walls of Jericho fell outward in an earthquake before 2000 B.C ., this important piece of archaeological evidence was promptly dismissed on the grounds that it took place too early to corroborate the biblical account of the fall of the walls of Jericho. This is only one incident among many. In each case the evidence to corroborate the Hebrew stories in the late period is negligible ...
177. Planets in the Bible: I -- The Cosmology of Job [Journals] [SIS Review]
... book of Job is the immense power of God as manifested in physical phenomena of the greatest violence and grandeur. Job describes a God "which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in His anger" (Job 9:5 ). Is it possible that this is a literal description of great seismic activity, earthquake and orogenesis, handed down from eye-witnesses? Throughout this paper we will follow the approach of Dr Velikovsky, with the credo that such descriptive passages, found throughout the Old Testament, "do not leave any room for doubt that by stones falling from the sky' were meant meteorites; by brimstone and pitch were meant brimstone and pitch ...
178. Thera and the Exodus: the Cause and the Effect [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... tidal waves, rather than a few, but larger ones' because the relation between eruptions and tsunamis is not completely understood'. It has been found that significant vertical movements of the sea bed cause masses of water to be physically impelled radially away from the point of origin of the seismic shock. Movements of this type, due to earthquake, submarine landslide or volcanic activity, occur most frequently in the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of Japan, the Aleutian Islands and South America. Normally, a tsunami in the open ocean has a barely perceptible amplitude and a very long wavelength. Successive waves travel at up to 643 kph and may be 5 to 60 minutes apart. ...
179. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , and in the light of our knowledge of plate tectonics, Dr Baity thought it noteworthy that the Palestinian rift, in which many Bronze Age cities were repeatedly built and rebuilt, is one of the major plate boundaries. Further afield, in China, not on a major plate boundary, legends suggest an early destruction by flood rather than earthquake. And the eruption of the volcano on the island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean must certainly have played some part in the decline of Minoan civilisation. On balance, the archaeological and geological evidence that many prehistoric and proto-historic cultures were struck down by massive natural catastrophes, rather than the action of man, is impressive. ...
180. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... immense historical obsession with the sky-god and planet Venus. The more insistent and persistent a legendary theme, the more forceful is the reality behind the theme. GLOBAL RUINATION AND ITS PERPETRATOR In 1948, Claude Schaeffer published his comprehensive review of the field studies of Ancient Near and Middle East civilizations. He concluded that all had been concurrently destroyed by earthquake or other cause on several occasions. The many cities shown on the map of Figure 33 suffered destruction by natural causes, twice or more in the Jovean, Mercurian, Venusian and Martian periods. He goes far towards demonstrating that the conventional divisions of the Bronze ages are in fact divisions by catastrophe. No existing settlement escaped. Rockenbach ...
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