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27 pages of results. 171. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... forward to explain them away. ' They were not elephants at all, said some of the learned, but the enlarged heads of the giant parrot like bird of that country known as the macaw; or representations of turtles, or of a bat-god' Wearing a symbolic headdress, or such forth. All these things are well known from Mayan carvings, but each is invariably quite distinct, for the Mayas were very accurate in their animal representations. Anything seemed acceptable as long as it was not an elephant. "The Copan carvings are of elephants and they are perfectly executed with their trunks slightly curled to one side and backward, but nobody was prepared to admit the fact ...
172. The Saturn Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ruled the heavens. This belief was especially common in the New World: The idea that the sun was not eternal was shared by other American Indian tribes so widely that we consider it must have been part of their belief long before any high culture had arisen in the Americas' [6 ]. The Popol Vuh, lauded as the Mayan Bible', attests to the same idea. In it a previous sun' is described as follows: Like a man was the sun when it showed itself ? It showed itself when it was born and remained fixed in the sky like a mirror. Certainly it was not the same sun which we see, it is said in ...
173. Did the Sumerians and the Akkadians Ever Exist? [Journals] [Aeon]
... with his new capital. Sargon of Akkad wages war against Subartu, a place difficult to identify, which is perhaps situated in Anatolia; however, a mighty empire of that name, Sparda (= Lydia) is not known until the first millennium BCE. Sargon of Akkad and his grandson Naram-Sin are the victors over and occupiers of "Mayan and Meluhha," which in the first millennium, in which these texts originate, always mean "Egypt and Ethiopia." Mesopotamian rule over Egypt in the third millennium is thought to be impossible. The first Mesopotamian monarch to defeat Egypt in war was S argon of Assyria; its conquest was accomplished by his grandson, Esarhaddon ( ...
174. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... upheavals on a global scale in historical times; the grandiosity of the events inspired awe. From the Far East to the Far West- the Japanese, Chinese and Hindu civilizations; the Iranian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Hitto-Chaldean, Israelite and Egyptian records; the Etruscan, Attic and Roman theogonies and philosophies; Scandinavian and Icelandic epics; Mayan, Toltec and Olmec art and legends- all, with no exception, were dominated by the knowledge of events and circumstances that only the most brazen attitude of science could so completely disregard. The scientific community starts its annals with Newton, paying some homage to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, unaware that the great ones of the sixteenth and ...
175. Radiocarbon Dates and Cultural Change [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol III No 4 (Spring 1979) Home | Issue Contents Radiocarbon Dates and Cultural Change Euan W. MacKie Dr MacKie, author of "The Megalith Builders" and "Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain", is Assistant Keeper in the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow. He has excavated at Mayan and Scottish sites and published numerous articles and historic journals, and is a founder member of the Society. If severe natural catastrophes as suggested by Velikovsky affected a wide area in the past, this is likely to have resulted in marked cultural discontinuities - rise and fall of cultures, movements of peoples, etc. In its important role of ...
176. Venus' Atmosphere [Journals] [Pensee]
... atmospheric pressures. I also claimed that in historical times the trailing part of the protoplanet Venus became partly absorbed into the atmosphere and cloud covering of Venus and that quite probably till today there are hydrocarbons present or, instead, quite possibly organic molecules.(*) Venus, according to many ancient sources, poured naphtha on earth; the Mayan sources, for instance, are so insistent in their connecting the planet with "fire water" that a modern author, L. Sejourne, wrote an entire book on the subject, Burning Water (1956), without, however, a reference to the outpouring of naphtha on earth. Again, according to a number of ancient ...
177. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Pensee]
... on a global scale in historical times; the grandiosity of the events inspired awe. From the Far East to the Far West- the Japanese, Chinese and Hindu civilizations; the Iranian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Hitto-Chaldean, Israelite and Egyptian records; the Etruscan, Attic and Roman theogonies and philosophies; Scandinavian and Icelandic epics; Mayan, Toltec and Olmec art and legends- all, with no exception, were dominated by the knowledge of events and circumstances that only the most brazen attitude of science could so completely disregard. The scientific community starts its annals with Newton, paying some homage to Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, unaware that the great ones of the sixteenth ...
178. The Domination of Astronomy Over Other Disciplines ... [Journals] [Kronos]
... a whole- or we can restrict our areas of knowledgeability to fit our capacities, and thus continue to appear knowledgeable. Most scholars choose the course that is more self-flattering: since we cannot be experts on the panorama of nature, we instead become experts on solar prominences, or on Homeric epic, or on Bristlecone pines, or on Mayan sculpture, just so that there remains at least something on which we can be experts. This surrender to a short term temptation has become a long term tragedy. For departmentalized science' is pseudo-science: instead of being geared for discovery, it is programmed to self-destruction- for it is guaranteed not to discover the truth. Only an ...
179. Benoît De Maillet (1656-1738): A Forerunner of the Theory of the Desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea [Journals] [SIS Review]
... He is working on a PhD. Summary This paper analyses the basic ideas of the fall in sea-level theory of Benoît de Maillet (1656-1738). Starting from a worldwide ocean, the desiccation of the seas by evaporation caused the emergence of mountains. Similar ideas are also found in the framework of ancient cultures, from the Chaldaeans to the Mayans, through the Greeks and Egyptians. In spite of the rudimentary nature of his conceptions, Benoît de Maillet was the first to establish an explanation for the salinisation of the Mediterranean basin and we consider his ideas a forerunner of the theory of the desiccation of Mediterranean Sea. The Desiccation of the Mediterranean Sea After the discovery in 1970 of ...
180. Past, Present, and Future [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the prevailing scientific majority rejects them. Significantly, the present uniformitarian dominance was not achieved at the expense only of theology and religion. Many scientists, including some great ones, had to be ignored or pushed aside. I have already indicate that in the early days of science, the prevailing view of history was catastrophic. Hindu science, Mayan astronomy, Mesopotamian and Egyptian science, and Greek science and philosophy generally adhered to catastrophic principles. The Chinese had probably the longest record of teaching uniformitarian principles. Two thousands years ago and more they began to bet the life of their emperor upon the stability of the heavens, and the emperor tried not to lose the bet. Yet ...
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