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34 pages of results. 211. Dragons and Serpents (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... causes wind and wintry weather. Chinese dragon-lore further says: The dragon of the sky may make itself dark or bright at will. It can assume nine colours. Its breath descends as a rain of water or of fire. Gold is the congealed breath of a White Dragon, but a Purple Dragon's spittle turns into balls of crystal; glass is regarded as solidified dragon's breath. On each side of its mouth are gills or whiskers. The dragon of the sky can see everything, no matter how small or how far away. It makes much noise, and is itself deaf. Though the dragon's usurped power is great, it is short-lived. There is no dragon without ...
212. Thoth Vol V, No 9: August 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... exemplified by Herbig-Haro objects, some of which "consist of highly linear chains or jets", and the accretion of material in a plasma Z- pinch, where "Most models of young stars and their immediate environments incorporate magnetic fields. Magnetic fields in the collapsing, rotating cloud core are advected with the accretion flow and form an hour glass shaped B field that is pinched inward by the forming disk." [See "The Birth of Stars: Herbig-Haro Jets, Accretion and Proto-Planetary Disks", John Bally and Jon Morse, in the book Science with the Hubble Space Telescope- II, Book Editors: P. Benvenuti, F. D. Macchetto, and E ...
213. The Personal Tragedy of Albert Einstein [Journals] [Kronos]
... George Greenhill illustrates: At the end of a session at the Engineering College, Coopers' Hill, a reception was held and the science departments were on view. A young lady, entering the physical laboratory and seeing an inverted image of herself in a large concave mirror, naively remarked to her companion: "They have hung that looking glass upside down. " Had the lady advanced past the focus of the mirror, she would have seen that the workmen were not to blame. If nature deceived her it was deception which further experiment would have unmasked. -Clement V. Durell, Readable Relativity (1938) In contrast to the theoretical methods which he had utilized in treating ...
214. The Cosmic Serpent by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [Kronos]
... of comet Encke. In its own way this all-encompassing thesis embraces much modern work and most of the latest fashionable catastrophic literature. It salutes the Alvarez et al. theory on the asteroid/meteor impact at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, the work of Hsü et al. on a comet impact at the same boundary, and the tektite studies of Glass and Swart relating such falls to major geological hiatuses- to name a few of the many. It also takes under its wing the unfashionable but meritorious work of Rene Gallant, whose Bombarded Earth (London 1964) has been largely ignored since publication. UNTESTED ASSUMPTIONS The assumptions of Clube and Napier's theory are worth scrutinizing. One major assumption ...
... agent than heat (caloric) alone. The lighter lavas are composed mainly of felspar or of an aggregation of crystals, and even scoriform dust is crystallised, which is an indication that although liquefied it has not been completely fused, for if a portion of such a lava is reduced to complete fusion by artificial heat it hardens into a glass without traces of lithoidal or crystalline structure. A certain element or elements must therefore play a part in the construction of lava rocks, and this peculiarity is an argument against the theory of geologists that the vast internal heat of the earth seeks an outlet and expels certain rocks in lava form, as in such case the lava might be ...
216. Ashton's Bedrock of Myth (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... as you know, Velikovskians have a nearly limitless talent for wasting everyone's time with convoluted crazy arguments. "Were Velikovskians a sane scholarly enterprise, such an article as mine would be published as soon as written for the purely practical reason that this could deflect valuable effort from useless channels. Just like a fly trying to buzz through a solid glass window pane, a Saturnist will hang onto impossible polarity with a stubbornness that increases with every rebuttal. Therefore, publication in a Saturnist periodical, were that possible, would not help much." [107] In another personal letter, Ashton elaborated on his "Bedrock" as follows: "When late devolution of myth includes substitution ...
217. Index to "Pillars of the Past" [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , 42, 54-56, 62, 64, 65, 68, 70, Harappan civilization, 443 72, 227, 232, 242, 526 Harrell, J.A ., 44, 58, 60-64, 70-72, 74, 536 Glanville, S.R .K ., 210 Harris, J.E ., 37 glass production, 473-476 Harris, J.R ., 223 glottochronology, 508 Harris Papyrus, 183 Goldman, H., 181 Hassan, F.A ., 34, 35, 152, 285 Gombrich, H.E ., 171 Hattusilis, 54, 225, 226, 499, 501, 502, 517 Gordion, ...
218. The Afar Triangle As the Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel [Journals] [Aeon]
... years ago. We found coral reefs of the Quaternary period (geologically the most recent) in the lava fields of the region. Scattered about on the floor of the triangle are ash rings, resembling the one at Diamond Head in Hawaii, such as are known to be formed under water; these consist entirely of the shards of volcanic glass called hyaloclastites, which are typical of underwater basaltic eruptions. We even discovered a flat-topped cone, now standing on the dry beds of the triangle, that bears every resemblance to the famous guyots, or flat-topped seamounts, of ocean floors. (page 139) Tazieff also mentions (on page 137) that the closed basin of the ...
219. Metals, Salt and Oil [Books] [de Grazia books]
... long by 9 miles wide." [14] As with iron, so with other metals: many legends have them falling from heaven. The Chinese sky dragon's "breath descends as a rain of water or of fire. Gold is the congealed breath of a White Dragon, but a Purple Dragon's spittle turns into balls of crystal; glass is regarded as solidified dragon's breath." (The tektite allusion is plain). "The dragons of mythology are often described (among the Teutons, for example) as guardians of hoards and givers of wealth." The dragons are wise in metallurgy [15]. Donnelly says the same. He describes "Beowulf, when ...
220. Forum [Journals] [Aeon]
... out of the atmosphere within a decade or two at the most. My guess is that the entire Solar System was travelling through a dark cloud or Bok Globule. The dust and gases would have filtered out the blue light before the illumination from the Sun reached Earth, and this could have ensued for centuries. Tests in greenhouses with pink glass showed that plants grew better in this filtered light. Leaves are green because they absorb the red end of the spectrum, while they reflect the yellow and blue. (Blue+ yellow = green.) This might confirm the darkness Cardona wrote about. The world must have been a rather dim place in those days. Dwardu Cardona ...
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