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327 pages of results. 161. Mars Gods of the New World [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon IV:1 (Apr 1995) Home | Issue Contents Mars Gods of the New World Ev Cochrane In previous articles in this series, we have investigated various gods of the Old World, including Heracles, Gilgamesh, Indra, Horus, Cuchulainn, Apollo and others, discovering compelling evidence that each of these figures originally personified the planet Mars, their cults reflecting ancient conceptions associated with the red planet. Throughout each step of the investigation, the cult of Nergal has loomed large, not only because of its antiquity but because it offers a solid link with the earliest astronomical traditions of Babylon. Nergal's well-attested identification with the planet Mars thus serves as a common ...
... by building their ark. Furthermore, the historian enters into an explanation to show that the venue of this event lay upon the Ocean, but that later it was called the Nile. Such a claim, apart from all else, definitely indicates that the Egypt we call by that name could not be involved, for "Nile" was originally the Ocean. To elucidate the circumstances of this unusual narrative, the first point to be cleared is that of Oceanus, for it signified always the boundless waste of waters, the Atlantic, as was known, moreover, to Homer and Hesiod. The Mediterranean, largely tideless, an inland sea, was never the Ocean, and ...
163. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... New Scientist 29.1 .00, pp. 44-45 Subjectivity is a common failing within science , although, not surprisingly, researchers are reluctant to admit this, and although a theorem has been around for some time which enables scientists to subject their beliefs to a hard mathematical assessment of plausibility, few actually use it. It appears that original ideas are almost bound to be hunches but if Bayes's theorem is applied to the results of subsequent research then scientific objectivity can eventually emerge. May we infer from the lack of use of Bayes's theorem that most researchers are seeking only to confirm their original beliefs and dare not take the chance of having to modify, or even reject them ...
164. The Reconstruction of Cosmic History [Journals] [Aeon]
... repudiation would undermine the very foundation upon which the record is based and therefore, in turn, the model based upon it. if these fundamentals cannot be believed in, then neither can anything else in the mytho-historical record. 2. The Saturnian Connection One of the, if not the, most fundamental aspects of the mytho-historical record concerns the original role played in the past by the planet Saturn as immortalized by the events attributed to the various deities who represented this celestial body. The literature dealing with this particular aspect of the universal record is now quite comprehensive. No researcher can honestly delve into ancient cosmic lore, mythology, and the origin of religion without coming face to face ...
165. New Fashions in Catastrophism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in Earth Science. Also more daring and provocative, and also highly professional in method, is geophysicist Melvin Cook's work that I already mentioned, Prehistory and Earth Models, published obscurely in England a decade later, which employed purely terrestrial forces in explaining Earth's features. Both books are superior in method to Velikovsksy's book, more complex and more original. Both books. I hardly need add, are practically unknown and not cited among geologists and general scientists; indeed, they were not common currency among cosmic heretics because V. neglected to admit them. When a true believer is excommunicated or goes apostate from a charismatic cult he is, if let go scot-free, inclined to start ...
166. The Polar Sun [Books]
... fifth and fourth centuries B.C .) , there is an enumeration of the planets, which, as customarily translated, entails this unstartling statement: "There remain, then, three stars (planets), one of which is preeminent among them for slowness, and some call him after Kronos." (9 ) Yet the original reading is not Kronos but Helios (10) which is to say that Plato (or his pupil Phillip of Opus, to whom some ascribe authorship of the Epinomis) gave the name Helios to Saturn. But copyists, who could not believe that Helios was anything other than the sun, "corrected" the reading to "Kronos ...
167. The Geological Record And Changing Forms Of Life. Ch.15 Cataclysmic Evolution (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... From "Earth in Upheaval" © 1955 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Geological Record And Changing Forms Of Life His thesis of the origin of species by natural selection Darwin supported by reference to (1 ) variations in domestic animals, especially when the breeder deliberately develops a certain desirable feature; (2 ) the anatomical similarity of many related species; and (3 ) the geological record. However, though breeders have created new races or variations, they have created no new animal species. In the anatomy of living creatures "the distinctness of the specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty ...
168. Paradigm Lost? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . He points out that proof is still lacking for some of the key elements of the theory, he argues that the long time-scale associated with Darwinism is far from being an established fact, he emphasises the difficulties in trying to reconcile the fossil record with gradualism and he highlights the failure of the theory to give a complete explanation for the origin of new species. Seven pieces of evidence that seem to contradict the neo-Darwinian view of evolution (at least in its gradualistic form) are listed on the inside of the front cover. These include claims for a very young Earth and for the inheritance of acquired characteristics, a feature of the alternative Lamarckian view. After this we read ...
169. The Nature and Origin of Comets and the Evolution of Celestial Bodies (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. IX No. 1 (Fall 1983) Home | Issue Contents The Nature and Origin of Comets and the Evolution of Celestial Bodies (Part I)J. M. McCANNEY Copyright (c ) 1981 & 1983 by J. M. McCanney ABSTRACT: This paper provides an alternate theory for comet behavior and shows comets to be planetary, lunar, and asteroidal bodies in their formative stages. It demonstrates that tail matter is attracted towards an asteroidal comet nucleus by strong electrical forces. Additionally, two charging mechanisms are identified, both of which produce a net negative charge on the comet nucleus. This is supported by data from recent space probes. ...
170. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... World- which offers the elusive common denominator necessary to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the goddess' mythical attributes. In this series of essays, we intend to show that the majority of the symbolic images and mythological themes associated with the mother goddess- including the various forms of the goddess personified by the Greek figures enumerated above- have their origin in ancient conceptions associated with the planet Venus. If indeed the cult of the mother goddess traces to the ancients' experience of the planet Venus- its appearance, behavior, and participation in a series of spectacular cataclysms- the possibility presents itself that the various faces of the goddess reflect significant phases or episodes in that planet's history. ...
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