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27 pages of results. 151. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in parts of northern Europe, particularly the west of Britain, and a similar picture was presented in some of the Arthurian romances. In China at around the same time there were great falls of yellow dust and an environmental downturn, which triggered a civil war. Central America suffered a drought which caused a well-established hiatus' in the Classic Mayan civilisation, whilst cultures along the Pacific coast of South America were also disrupted by a prolonged lack of rainfall. Irish oaks showed evidence of a severe environmental downturn between 535 and 550 AD, which Mike Baillie thought was likely to have been caused by another encounter between the Earth and the disintegrating nucleus of the giant comet, proto-Encke. ...
152. Mulholland: "A Celestial Mechanician Whose Name is Almost Synonymous with High Precision" [Journals] [Kronos]
... No such thing. The "half a day" is in reference to those who, like Mulholland and Huber, claim that the month was always 29 1/2 days and that references to thirty-day months from the fourteenth to ninth centuries are just inaccuracies or approximations. Velikovsky then continued: When America was discovered in 1492 and later the Mayan calendars were studied, it was found that they are more exact than the Gregorian calendar that was introduced in Europe and this which we follow still - ninety years after the discovery of America, and Mayans were already at that time much closer to the true figures than we are today. So how to put on the ancient[s ...
153. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . 2002, p. 1, No. 143, Sep. -Oct. 2002, p. 1, No. 144, Nov. -Dec. 2002, p. 1, Lost Pyramids of Caral, BBC2, 31.1 .02 The limestone hill country of Yucatan, known as Puuc, supported around 150 thriving Mayan towns and up to half a million people at its peak of development from 800AD to about 1000. The soil is rich but the water table is deep; the water problem was solved by the construction of thousands of cisterns below plazas and courtyards. The largest and most powerful city was Uxmal, which began to flourish around 700AD and ...
154. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... common orientation for Olmec sites. Here they seem to have buried their monumental works of art almost as soon as they had made them. The site was abandoned by 400 BC. In 1986 an 8 foot high stela was discovered, bearing a carving of a figure with an extremely elaborate headdress surrounded by rows of hieroglyphs. It anticipates later Mayan art and the glyphs could be translated as including two dates, AD 143 and 156, using the Long Count system used by the Maya. Major sites have now been found over a huge area of southern Mexico and Guatemala with some having a history of occupation dating back to 2000 BC. and a new site with agricultural connections extending ...
155. Venus, Mars ... and Saturn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... an association with the death of great kings, the end of the world, eclipses of the sun, pestilence, earthquakes, etc. Such ideas are particularly apparent in Mesoamerica [15]: It is curious that the Mesoamerican peoples thought of the Morning Star so consistently as malign. He was to them, whether they were Aztecs or Mayans, the very father of calamity. The dates of his heliacal rising were forecast so that the dooms ahead could be adequately read and prepared for . . . Significantly, his malice could also be directed at rulers, for if he arose in the trecana opened by one-reed, then great lords sickened and died . . .The Mayas ...
156. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... on the evidence of a major catastrophe around 2,200BC. The sudden disappearance of the Maya 1200 years ago, after 2,000 years of history, was again explained by a sudden and drastic climate change, confirmed not only by analysis of lake sediments in Yucatan but also climatic records from around the world. Although the present day Mayan area lies in rain forest, ancient ceremonies indicate that the essential rainfall has not always been constant. Probably millions died as a result of drought and there are indications the people lost faith in their religious leaders and may have turned on them, with the despairing survivors becoming brutalised. Back to around 2,350 BC and the Early ...
157. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . It may help those investigating links between ancient languages. Musical monuments New Scientist 10.10.98, p. 7, Science Frontiers No.123, May-June 99, p. 1 We have reported previously about the theory that some rock art was deliberately made in areas of special acoustics. Now an acoustics engineer has suggested that Mayan pyramids were also designed so that sound reflected from their stairways sounded like the cry of the sacred quetzal bird and some of the paintings in Europe's decorated caves may have been placed in areas where sound resonated. More stones and circles Science Frontiers No.122, Mar-Apr 99, p. 1, No. 123, May-June 99, ...
158. Transcript of the Evening Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... hundreds of sources, references, to the change of the position of the terrestrial axis in relation to the sky. So it is not so simple to explain everything: the ancient did not know anything, they did not care, half a day does not count. No such thing. When American was discovered in 1492 and later the Mayan calendars were studied, it was found that they are more exact than the Gregorian calendar that was introduced in Europe- and this which we follow still- ninety years after the discovery of America. And Mayans were already at that time much closer to the true figures than we are today. So how to put on the ancient this ...
159. Velikovsky And Cultural Amnesia [Journals] [Pensee]
... . Mullen (Hodder Fellow in the Humanities, Princeton University). "Structuring the Apocalypse: Old and New World Variations," Continuing Doran's use of specific cultural examples, Mullen attempted to explore the syntax of apocalyptic compulsion in four Old World civilizations (Egyptian, Hebrew, Christian, Islamic) and four New World ones (Teotihaucano, Mayan, Hopi, Aztec). The effort was to establish a common language describing the various misplacements of syntax by which religions interpret catastrophic alterations of space and time as divine events. The basic misplacement is the apocalyptic: from stating that "heaven and earth were once remade, and we lament the destruction but celebrate the reestablishment of stability ...
160. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... , just eleven and a quarter minutes longer than the standard solar year of 365.2422 days. From the days of Pharaoh Unas to our own time, Sirius would have advanced slightly over a month. Again, such knowledge bespeaks astronomical lore that requires protracted observation by the progenitors of the Egyptians, and exceeded only by that of the Mayan inheritors. The question remains as to why any hypothetically earlier civilization would leave a legacy of such time-consciousness. Hancock's answer is that the deluge which terminated the last ice age some eleven thousand years ago was a disaster that overwhelmed a sentient culture and, to preserve a shred of immortality for themselves, the survivors, who had been abruptly ...
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