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82 pages of results. 391. The Worship Of Mars, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... the sun was totally eclipsed. According to Latin historians, on the very day of Rome's foundation, the sun was disrupted in its movement and the world was darkened.4 In Romulus' time "a plague fell upon the land, bringing sudden death without previous sickness," and "a rain of blood" and other calamities. Earthquakes convulsed the earth for a long period. Jewish tradition knows that "the first settlers of Rome found that the huts collapsed as soon as built."5 The death of Romulus occurred when, according to Plutarch, "suddenly strange and unaccountable disorders with incredible changes filled the air; the light of the sun failed, and night ...
392. Sword-Time, Wolf-Time, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... pelting rain of blazing coals With blood and bones of dead men mingled in; Smoke and weird flashes horrified their souls; The sky was dusty grey like asses' skin. The elephants stumbled and the horses fell, The footmen jostled, leaving each his post, The ground beneath them trembled at the swell, Of ocean, when an earthquake shook the host.8 Lightning is usually discharged between two clouds or a cloud and the ground. But if for some reason the charge of the ionosphere, the electrified layer of the upper atmosphere, should be sufficiently increased, a discharge would occur between the upper atmosphere and the ground, and a thunderbolt would crash from a cloudless ...
393. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in the sky in 312 AD. This is now supported by the discovery of impact characteristics around a circular lake in the Apennines with many smaller craters nearby dating to the 4th or 5th century AD. Small amounts of recent contamination could make the dating of the event appear later than it actually was. It would have produced shock waves, earthquakes and a mushroom cloud. SARGON II AND SENNACHERIB - COULD THEY BE THE SAME PERSON? Damien Mackey certainly thinks so and believes he has enough evidence to support his case. If his theory were correct could this, perhaps, explain anomalies concerning the chronology of the 25th Ethiopian Dynasty in relation to Assyria at the time of Sargon and ...
394. The Geological History of the Earth [Books]
... the bottom. Thus, atmospheric agents slowly change the landscape, cutting deep valleys into plateaux, wearing down the mountains and depositing layers of sediments in deltas and on sea-beds. The action of these external farces is called weathering and the resulting disintegration of the rocks is known as erosion. (b ) The internal agencies compose volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and slow changes in the level of land and sea. The first two may be catastrophic, but their effects are only local. Slow changes in the level of land and sea may be observed at the present day: they are known as isostatic movements. The existence of raised beaches and submerged forests shows that such changes have ...
395. Introduction: The Saturn Myth [Books]
... cosmic orders. Indeed, we are so accustomed to the catastrophic character of the stories that we hardly give it a second thought. When the myths tell of suns which have come and gone, or of planetary gods whose wars threatened to destroy mankind, we are likely to take them as amusing and absurdly exaggerated accounts of local floods, earthquakes, and eclipses- or write them off altogether as expressions of unconstrained fancy. How many scholars, seeking to unravel the astronomical legends and symbols of antiquity, have questioned whether the heavenly bodies have always coursed on the same paths they follow today? In the past three hundred years barely a handful of writers have claimed any connection between ...
396. The Science of Catastrophism [Articles]
... we fear. What are the results? Most of us believe that something very vast occurred in the heavens and on Earth and to us in the past few thousand years, not once but many times, not identically but equally traumatic and horrifying. At different moments, oceans overflowed the land, tidal waves tore across continents, volcanoes and earthquakes erupted everywhere, winds shrieked and hurricanes ravaged and forests were set on fire as destruction came from a sky ablaze with heavenly bodies in disordered motion. There was dazzling light or sudden darkness, immense heat or rapid frost, rivers changed their courses and cracks appeared in the earth, mountains rose or fell. In the human sphere there ...
397. The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain [Books]
... arrived when the closely guarded secrets of their magic arts in the use of fire and even of the air were betrayed to kings afar off and led to savage wars of invasion, where rival creeds and ambitions fought one another with bitter hatred. Meanwhile, threatened for some time by untoward meteorological happenings, such as strange plagues of insects, earthquakes, and volcanoes going into eruption, of a sudden the most terrible catastrophe afflicted this erstwhile happy land, struggling desperately against its invaders from the east. It was what we call the Flood of Noah, to the Hellenes the Deluge of Deucalion or Ogyges, and had other names besides. This prodigious event was by no means local ...
398. Volcanic Systems Ch.3 (The Riddle of the Earth) [Books]
... VOLCANOES SITUATED ON OR NEAR SEAS 22. It is observable that active volcanoes are almost invariably found on islands or in lands bordering on the sea, and, indeed, except for an alleged volcano in the Tian Shan Mountains of Asia, no inland continental active volcano is known. The volcanic lines follow, as necessarily they must, the earthquake belt, which means that most particularly we see a system stretching from Spitzbergen, through Bohemia, to Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli, and all their group (19B (0 ) ), embracing everything westward until we come to the Kuriles, Japan, Philippines and Moluccas in the west (19B (j )) ), that ...
399. The Descent Into Barbarism (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... one of the myths which assert the same thing. Some of those who survived when `the gods shared out the earth among themselves' (109b), that is, when the continents and the seas of our planet were given their present distribution at the capture of Luna-found refuge in elevated regions which, though shaken by the `violent earthquakes', had remained unscathed by the `great flood'. One of these regions and its inhabitants had been the special charge of the goddess of dry land, Gaea, and the god of vulcanism, Hephaestus (23d), who jealously guarded it against danger from the waters; another region had been placed under the protection of ...
... of the atmosphere): the whole world was submerged, and those who escaped drowning died of a terrible heat-wave; those who escaped the heat-wave were soon shivering under a keen frost. In one of the versions of the Deluge of Deukalion it is affirmed that the south wind alone blew when Poseidon loosed the waters upon the Earth and caused earthquakes by prodding the Earth with his trident. A very significant allusion to the sudden change of temperature from a cold or cold-temperate to a warm-temperate or subtropical climate is given in one of the old tales of the Jews. In that it is reported that, at the time of the deluge hero Enos, worms and maggots appeared in the ...
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