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75 pages of results. 571. The Cosmic Mountain [Books]
... calls the people to prayer. The worlds largest minaret is the Qutb Minar at Delhi, standing over 240 feet high and described by one observer as resembling "a cyclopean red telescope". Ibid., 206-8. The Quth (of Qutb Minar) is, as we have seen, the "pole" or "axis" of ... influence of a world-wide tradition. Mesopotamia I have argued that the Egyptian Atum, the solitary god in the deep, is the very figure whom Babylonian astronomy identifies as the planet Saturn. Atum, "the Firm Heart of the Sky," stands "fixed in the middle of the sky upon his support.". Here, on ...
572. The Prophetic Tradition [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... carry his father's torches. The Sun acquiesced. Unfortunately, this "Phaethon" kindled all the torches and did so too early. As a result, the earth became red hot, forests burned, rocks split, and waters boiled. Like Phaethon, this offspring of the Sun was hurled down to earth. Myth is history. Real ... It will be the premise of this home page, that the catastrophism of Immanuel Velikovsky and Joseph Smith provides a unique and accurate insight into the history and future of this planet and its inhabitants. We will explore the issues raised by these great thinkers and review the evidence for and against their viewpoints. We will also use catastrophic theory as ...
573. A question for Wal (and Amy and...) [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... canyons' floors. Circular craters will have walls far steeper, and floors much flatter, than can be accounted for by impact models. Mars is covered with a thin red dust which has even been called "loess". It may be that some chemical or isotopic signature will be found which is identical to that found on Earth. ... Mar 1999 15:33:21 + 1100 Ev Cochrane wrote: In Tuesday's New York Times there was a very good article on the recent discoveries vis a vis the planet Mars (someone swiped my copy, otherwise I'd offer some quotes). Numerous anomalous findings were cited. For many years now, I have claimed that anomalous examples ...
574. Comments: on the First Issue [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... memories of such ferralite events' would be a valuable first step in checking the probability of your deduction. We are fortunate in having several modern examples of local falls of red dust or hematoid pigment, which can give us a guide for the kind of feature we will be looking for in ancient accounts. Numerous accounts of recent falls of ... embracing physical description of the Universe", is, as I see it, the most important lesson to be learnt from Velikovsky's theories: he has reminded us that the planet Earth is not in splendid isolation from the rest of the solar system, nor the solar system from the rest of the Universe. Any philosophy of "catastrophist geology ...
575. Spectres [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , speaking of very ancient times: "In foretelling the future, it was taken into consideration whether the planet Venus was wearing a black, white, green, or red headpiece." It is to Velikovsky's credit that he not only uncovered the Venusian approach cycle, which put many peoples in terror of the destruction of the world even ... heavenly bodies, we know from Plato. That Phaeton was a comet, or a blazing star, ' we know from Cicero. That this blazing star' became a planet, we know from Hesiod. And that this planet was the planet Venus, we know from both Nonnos and Solinus [7 ]. Then Cardona takes up the ...
576. "A Silly Season". File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... Collision: "The first visit to the earth of this erratic comet was 1500 B.C ., precisely at the time Moses stretched out his hand and caused the Red Sea to divide." This would be an unbelievable coincidence. "Fifty-two years later the comet's return coincided with Joshua's successful attempt to make the sun and moon stand ... work of superstition. What served him as a basis for this conclusion he did not disclose. Possibly he thought so because the book discusses the Bible, miracles, and planets. It sounds like astrology, which is superstition. However, nobody protests against the publishers of astrological books. The emotion that carried the reviewer away impelled him to ...
577. Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Comets. Ch.9 Axis Shifted (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... high in East Africa, is circled with volcanoes and its bottom is of lava, with several volcanic isles in the middle of it. Along the Arabian coast of the Red Sea stretches a long chain of volcanoes; the numerous craters are all extinct, but it is not so long ago that they became inactive, the last eruptions having ... : in a single year during the Punic Wars (217 BC) fifty-seven earthquakes were reported in Rome.7 From all this it is apparent that seismic activity on our planet subsided very quickly in intensity as well as in the number of occurrences; and this again would point to a stress or stresses that took place not so long ago ...
... on the evidence of Prof. Suess, Canada was closely connected with Greenland. The geological formation of the North American land surfaces with their schists, clays, and old red sandstone correspond (says Suess) with the opposing regions of the old world. The fauna and flora Clearly suggest a prior contact. The mammoth, musk-ox, elk ... survive in records little understood in the Scriptures quite apart from Genesis agrees with the evidences of the Drift. The event in any case was occasioned by the crash on this planet of ours of a considerable celestial body, or bodies. As has been seen there is nothing very exceptional in such an event, for undoubtedly, apart from minor ...
... pieces, Cast it back into the furnace. The next day, Ilmarinen looks in anew, And a boat rose from the furnace, From the heat rose up a red boat, And the prow was golden-coloured, And the rowlocks were of copper. And the boat was fair to gaze on, But of evil disposition; It would ... , the ziqqurat, representing the planetary spheres [n16 Nine skies, instead of seven, within the sphere of fixed stars, result from the habit of including among the planets the (invisible) "head" and "tail" of the "Dragon," which is to say the lunar nodes, conjunctions or oppositions in the vicinity ...
580. The Catastrophic Substructure of the Samson & Delilah Myth [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Immediately a gale came up against the King." ' In the same work, Thor is said to appear to a Christian convert in a dream as big and red -bearded'. The interpretation given is that the beard denoted the lightning and that the colour of the beard was based on a red sky which, foretells a storm ... the nations again. All this could well refer to a comet which had been causing havoc in the solar system being captured into a stable orbit and settling down as a planet circling harmlessly around the sun. In the Samson story, Delilah tames Samson by cutting off his hair and this would seem to reflect the fact that a comet which ...
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