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31 pages of results. 281. A New Theory of Celtic Festivals [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... hinges on which the solar year revolves' is satisfactorily explained. Conclusion It is not supposed that the Iron Age Celts of Europe were at all aware of the reasons for the timing of their festivals - only that from the remotest antiquity these seasons had been celebrated by their ancient Indo-European ancestors. Traces of the Arctic calendar can be found in Megaliths of much earlier date than the Celts. Gaynor Francis states:'. . . the long revered appearances of the early February, early May, early August and early November sunrises and sunsets, so important to the people of the Upper Palaeolithic period, would in like manner have been recorded by their Mesolithic descendants. ' [39 ...
282. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mounds could be representations of a comet and tail, common to the 5th and 4th millennia BC, and round mounds comets shorn of their tails and common to the late third and early second millennia BC (conventional dates). Even church spires point a finger towards the sky - abode of god. Pear shaped and egg shaped circles and megalithic tombs, the elliptical monuments of Alexander Thom, should also reflect an aspect of deity (also conical hills such as Silbury and Glastonbury Tor). A tor is a hill or prominence in the west country and is apparently sky orientated, which may indicate a connection with Taurus and Troy. Glastonbury, in tradition, is associated with ...
283. Variations on a Theme of Philolaos [Journals] [Kronos]
... hundred times as massive as Earth, and if the centers of Saturn and Earth were separated by only twenty-one Earth-radii, then people and objects at the sub-Saturnian point were virtually weightless!) Any significant weight reduction would have had dramatic ramifications: we might expect organisms of greater size in both the plant and animal kingdoms (including humans); megalithic projects would be much easier to execute; and, without all that weight to carry around, people and animals might even have lived longer. * * * There is a certain sloppiness about the way the words "eclipse" and "occultation" are used by astronomers and others. When the Moon blocks off the light of a ...
284. Thoth Vol IV, No 13: Aug 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... cataclysmic events to be wrong. However, his basic premise of planetary encounters has been confirmed and the details fleshed out to an extraordinary degree. Several pioneering researchers in this new field now agree that awe-inspiring planetary encounters did occur in pre-history. To the most ancient civilizations they were a culturally defining memory. They were the inspiration for pyramids, megaliths, statues, totems and sacred rock art. The survivors of global upheaval felt it imperative that the memory be preserved and passed down faithfully to future generations in the expectation that the "gods" would return. The memorialization took the form of architecture, ritual and story to re-enact the apocalyptic power of the planetary gods over human destiny ...
285. Velikovsky and the Decline of Medieval Cosmology [Articles]
... of argument that tells you it's 1369 BC based upon the Egyptian records; it may not be a good argument, but it's an argument. And in fact, if you go back further in time, there is another flurry of events round about 2100 BC which is almost certainly associated with the construction of the pyramids and a lot of megalithic objects all over the world. The significance of these broad dates that I give you is that these are the times of broad, but close encounters with the meteor stream that I've described to you, and there is a tremendous significance in these in that they have a broad periodicity of about 680 or 700 years. I'm aware that ...
286. Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... or something like it, may have been generally recognized in ancient cosmology. Thus, one may draw attention to the fortuitous encounter with "Mars" (687 BC), the Exodus events (which we date around 1369 BC) and another set of catastrophes around 2100 BC associated with the Great Deluge and the first construction of pyramids and megalithic astronomical temples. We suspect these times at roughly 700-year intervals may have had long-term significance corresponding to encounters with the densest part of the original meteor stream. If this is so, there can be no question of its being a truly exact cycle, for orbital precession will cause considerable deviations. Nevertheless, it is interesting to speculate whether ...
... Flood was incomparably later than chronologists reckon or that the Early Iron Age started very much sooner than they estimate. Mainly the Saturnian was the Bronze Age, although there was admittedly an overlap between the different periods. Mrs. Dobson, a noted archaeologist, says of these overlaps: "It is not easy to tell the implements of the Megalithic from those of the full Bronze Age, for in spite of the advantages of metal, flint tools were used even down to Roman times."7 In the case of the Giants there is no confusion, for we are told that iron was employed and the contiguity of copper and tin implies that bronze was also manufactured. The ...
288. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... ', we remain steadfast in our belief that the life of the mind and even human intelligence itself is a recent development, separating us absolutely from the primitive beliefs' of our ancestors. Yet the primitive' myths of our ancestors encrypt an ancient understanding of astronomical events. Message in a bottle. Like Alexander Thom's pioneering work on British megalithic stone circles, says Dr Sullivan, Hamlet's Mill remains one of those rare holes in the dike that three generations of scholars have felt resolutely compelled to plug. When this particular structure bursts, as one day it must, the vast sea of time upon which myth has been cast will find its proper shore and perhaps deliver to us ...
289. The Catastrophic Finale of the Middle Bronze Age [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Surveys are needed for the Western Mediterranean area and Northern and Central Europe generally. An abundance of legends of catastrophes is offered, and the shadow of catastrophe hangs heavily over prehistory. Vast forests may have swept into or been drowned by a Baltic Sea formed at this time. Offering themselves for mid-second millennium construction and abandonment are hundreds of megalithic monuments throughout the vast area. The astronomical interest of these peoples is now proven. But, even if one is not a psychologist, one cannot think it is normal for people to cut and lug 100-ton stones to do a job that a few sticks of wood would accomplish- watching the Sun and Moon. I think that around ...
290. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... crown is thought to represent the planet Venus, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has read Velikovsky. The civilisation came to an end at a time of flooding and earthquakes and possible climate changes. Knowth Misalignment ( www.mythicalireland.com/ http://www.mythicalireland.com/ astronomy/starstones) The megalithic structure at Knowth has long been regarded as built along astronomical alignments, but it has now been revealed that its western passage does not point exactly at the autumn equinox sunset; it is 7º out. Phoenician Heritage (National Geographic, October 2004, pp. 26-49) A recent genetic study of men in Lebanon, the area of ...
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