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82 pages of results. 411. Soddom and Gomorrah 'Found At Bottom of Dead Sea'? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... that the story was symbolic, a warning to erring humans of the divine punishment they faced for wickedness. But there has been speculation for centuries that the cities existed in the region of the Dead Sea. A growing number of experts, including Mr Sanders, are now convinced that "the cities of the plain" were destroyed by an earthquake, which threw up flaming pitch, about 5,000 years ago. Since the 1960s, archaeologists have discovered mass graves on a peninsula jutting into the Dead Sea which contain human bones dating from the Old Testament period. And sulphur, or brimstone, have been found in nearby cliffs. More recently, Mr Sanders unearthed a map ...
412. Environmental Catastrophes and Recoveries in the Holocene [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Earth Sciences, Brunel University Uxbridge, United Kingdom. An inter-disciplinary conference on past geological and environmental catastrophes, and their impact on our society. This conference will involve not only the Quaternary community but also biologists, archaeologists, historians and economists. Including: (a ) Geological catastrophes and their impact on society e.g . megalandslides, earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions (b ) Environmental causes of civilisation collapse (c ) Epidemics, plague, haemorrhagic fever (d ) Climatological impacts on society, e.g . historical droughts (e ) Extinctions, biodiversity, and ecological catastrophes. Abstracts and conference programme available online. ...
413. Evidence of a Tunguska-type event in the year 1178 AD [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... circular orbits quite away from Earth (but there is still discussion about a planet in a possible highly elliptical orbit). However there have been a number of catastrophical events, among whom: the explosion of a cometary small body over the Tunguska river in Siberia, in the year 1908 possible cometary impacts in the year 536, when great earthquakes destroyed cities and the so called Justinian plague destroyed a large part of the world population, led to migrations and political changes; according to a recent study by Keys a huge volcanic explosion, perhaps triggered by the impacts, blew up a large piece of land in what was once a unique island connecting Sumatra and Java; the caldera ...
414. Velikovsky, Brasseur, And The Troano Codex [Journals] [Kronos]
... The nations of Culhau. or Mexico, says Gomara, who wrote about the middle of the sixteenth century, believe according to their hieroglyphical paintings that, previous to the sun which now enlightens them, four had already been successively extinguished. These four suns are as many aces, in which oar species has been annihilated by inundations. by earthquakes, by a general conflagration, and by the effect of destroying tempests. After the destruction of the fourth sun, the world was plunged in darkness during the space of twenty-five years. Amid this Profound obscurity. ten years before the appearance of the fifth sun, mankind was regenerated. The gods. at that period, for the ...
415. The Birth of Vahagn: An Armenian Vision of Celestial Catastrophe? [Journals] [Kronos]
... of "natural revolution", the term Velikovsky prefers to "catastrophism". 1) "Heaven and the earth were in labor" refers in Armenian to the pangs of childbirth, but also suggests a cosmic catastrophe involving simultaneous cataclysms both in the heavens and upon the earth, i.e ., neither a celestial phenomenon nor an earthquake but some sort of combination of both. 2) "And in labor was the crimson sea," shows the ocean's involvement in the disaster and recalls the waters reddened with blood Or turned to blood in this catastrophe which Velikovsky associates with the approach of the planet Venus (c . 1500 B.C .) . The word ...
416. Velikovsky And Establishment Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... Venus and Mars erupted into the sky and .. . finally, the two giant comets [sic] settled down into their present harmless orbits and became peaceable planets. - ." Then, Mulholland conceded that "if a planet-sized object were to pass close by the Earth, then giant tides would be raised, there would be global earthquakes, the north pole would change direction. The day, the month, the seasons, the year would all change . . . . these are unavoidable consequences of the laws of motion as we presently know them. We must accept that the dynamical aspects of Velikovsky's visions of hell on Earth are largely acceptable." After these opening ...
417. The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin [Journals] [Kronos]
... and pelted the pillar with thunderbolts, the imagination of the people saw in this the planet-god Jupiter-Marduk rushing to save the earth by killing the serpent-monster Typhon-Tiamat" [p . 174]. Another conflict concerns the exhortations of the biblical prophets. Sitchin uses the biblical prophecies of Amos, Joel, Isaiah and Zechariah, which refer to destruction, earthquakes, melted mountains, the Sun going down at noon, etc., as support for their knowledge of the coming of Marduk: The Day of the Lord [pp. 220-221, 362]. According to Velikovsky, these prophets lived at the time of the Mars-Earth events. Their words were inspired by the tradition of past cosmic ...
418. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... identified by Velikovsky with the catastrophic near-collisions of Earth, Mars, and Venus in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C .E ., at which time Rome was founded.(34) As such, Romulus is associated not with civilized and natural stability, but with frightening celestial displays, planetary disturbance, solar eclipses, plague, earthquakes, thunder, blasts and storms, altered poles, deep clouds, flaming skies, and bloody rain. He is understood to be a celestial figure, the son of Mars, who returned to the stars at his death. Romulus thus has a double personality. His public Roman personna, whitewashed to provide comfort, is that of ...
419. A Note On Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery [Journals] [Kronos]
... well aware that the depth and power invested in images of catastrophism in Shakespeare and his contemporaries cannot be explained merely and solely by the many catastrophes which occurred during Shakespeare's time. The Elizabethans and Jacobeans thought catastrophically as a matter of course- Professor Wolfe's argument. The fact that celestial anomalies such as comets (13 in 145 years), earthquakes (18 in 65 years), a change in the climate toward colder conditions, massive resulting storms and floods, tornadoes, two supernovas within 32 years, and frequent eclipses of the Sun and Moon also occurred during the time provided the Elizabethans with contemporary evidence that their notions about the catastrophic nature of the universe were correct- for ...
420. Miscellaneous [Journals] [Pensee]
... is estimated at no more than one minute. The movement of the true pole over a 4500-year span "is far too small, and is of the wrong sign." Continental drift components suggest, in one case, a rotation in the wrong sense, and in a second case, a rotation of only 0.1 minute. Earthquakes are considered, "but a single quake of unprecedented magnitude would be needed to move the pyramids by strain release." The scientists conclude that "continental drift is the most likely explanation, although somewhat implausible, especially as relevant measurements have been made over a 50-year period, whereas geophysical measurements of sea-floor spreading relate to million-year time scales ...
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