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228 pages of results. 141. The Day the Sun Stood still [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History XIII:2 (July 1991) Home | Issue Contents The Day the Sun Stood still Robert H. Chappell, Jr.Stones falling from heaven.., a disturbance in the motions of the Sun and Moon... devastating tsunamis... plagues and pestilences of unknown origin.., thunder and lighting from a cloudless sky... earthquakes of incalculable intensity... all these phenomena were crammed into a single day! It is no wonder that the story of "the day the Sun stood still" is so widely disbelieved! Living in a uniformitarian's paradise, the present age is happily oblivious to such unprecedented ...
142. Origins of the Zodiac and some Horological Problems [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Problems Michael G. Reade THERE is a distinct similarity between the signs of the zodiac and the face of a modern clock. The 12 zodiacal signs are equally spaced around the zodiac, which consists of a belt of stars sited close to the ecliptic, marking a single complete great circle on the celestial sphere formed by the heavens. The sun passes once through each of the 12 signs in the course of a year; the moon passes through each of 13 signs in the course of a month (or did, when the year was precisely divisible into 12 months of equal length). The sun and the moon therefore have many of the attributes of the hands of a ...
143. Electric Stars in a Gravity-Less Electrified Cosmos [Journals] [SIS Review]
... had no reason to question the notion that a star was the equivalent of a hydrogen bomb, although at the time he wrote hydrogen bombs had not been made. Nevertheless, in 1944 the notion existed that some nuclear process was the source of energy liberated deep within the body of stars. Some long-lived process was necessarily the generator within the Sun, because the geological requirements forbade a short-lived Sun. The Sun had to have radiated constantly over hundreds of millions of years, if not for thousands of millions of years, to allow the Earth to attain its present form after a long, slow metamorphosis of its original surface. Biological evolution required an equally long time to allow living ...
144. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the origins of Indra's cult, much of which has been lost or otherwise obscured with the passage of untold millennia. A summary of Indra's career would include the following mythological motives: (1 ) his unusual birth and rapid rise to power; (2 ) the defeat of the dragon Vritra; (3 ) the winning of the sun and initiation of the dawn; (4 ) the deliverance of the waters/cows from the mountain-like prison of the dragon; (5 ) the ordering of the cosmos and the support of heaven; (6 ) the discovery of Soma, the beverage of the gods. We will summarize each of these events in short order. ...
145. The Crescent II [Books]
... -- IX (Part b) THE CRESCENT-SHIP All ancient sun gods sail in a celestial ship. In the oldest ritual the ship appears as a crescent revolving around the circle of the great god's dwelling, while the god himself remains stationary. The ship's "mooring post" (and, by extension, its "mast") is the cosmic mountain. One of Saturn's most extraordinary possessions is the ark of heaven. Saturn is "literally represented as sailing over the ocean in a ship," remarks Faber. (1 ) Ovid tells us that because the planet-god traversed the entire sphere of the "earth" in his primordial voyage, his special token was a ...
146. Thoth Vol IV, No 5: March 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Brian Stewart CONTENTS ON SEEING SPECTACLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Mel Acheson WORLD MOUNTAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Dave Talbott PARADIGM PORTRAITS II: GALACTIC CENTER. . . . . . . by Amy Acheson ELECTRIC SUN SKEPTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Wal Thornhill- From a skeptic: The following press release, issued today, describes interesting new results in the study of the solar wind & the sun's magnetic field. Scientists analyzing a 38 year data set of solar wind and solar magnetic field data ...
147. The Rotational Resonances of Mercury and Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... " is the interval between the time when one face of the planet is turned toward a given point among the fixed stars and the next time when that same face is turned toward that same point. The mean solar "day" of a planet is the average interval between the time when one face of the planet is turned toward the Sun and the next time when that same face is turned toward the Sun (after having turned all the way around with respect to the Sun). MERCURY The Sun-Locked Mercury Model. For many years, astronomers believed that Mercury completed one rotation on its axis during one revolution around the Sun- in other words, that Mercury always kept ...
148. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... to be totally out of proportion with respect to their celestial prominence.(1 ) It eventually became apparent that most, if not all, of the strange beliefs associated with comets could be traced to a prototypical body which dominated the skies in the not-so-distant past. Thus the ancient sources unanimously tell of a former age in which the original sun god was enclosed in a gigantic celestial band which bears all the earmarks of having been cometary in nature. According to our hypothesis, it was this celestial scenario which was commemorated by the universal symbol of the enclosed sun, most familiar as the Egyptian Aten (o ). There were, however, more surprises in store. A ...
149. Observations of Venus by James I [Journals] [Horus]
... in about a fourth of the records . . ., the date listed is not that of an eclipse visible in China .. .. further, of all the solar eclipses recorded in the annals of the Han Dynasty .. . only four are correct to within a degree of Right Ascension (the expected celestial longitude of the eclipsed sun)..." Given the reputation for accuracy of ancient Chinese astronomical observations, Newton's remark is surprising. Were these observations of eclipses an accurate description of a past reality? If one examines the entire record of astronomical observations from China and other areas of the world from ancient times through the 20th Century A.D ., ...
150. Thoth Vol II, No. 11: June 30, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... "divine perfect circles" of his mythical/religious heritage. Copernicus' new viewpoint was based on the same assumption that there is something sacred about "celestial spheres". He tossed out Ptolemy's math and painted a new picture using a concept he imagined would replace the cumbersome epicycles with perfectly circular orbits. See? If you put the Sun here, at the center, the planets fall into order according to the lengths of their periods. The Earth naturally fits between Venus and Mars, because its year is longer than Venus' cycle and shorter than Mars'. In addition, putting it there neatly explains the difference between the behavior of the inner planets, which never ...
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