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... as such cannot possess any orbit other than a purely temporary revolution. That these bodies, once drawn in, can perform two or three elliptic revolutions to a distance far beyond that of the earth and even of Jupiter may seem surprising in view of their comparative smallness and lack of solidity. The reason for it is that they approach the sun at a momentum of tremendous speed and this same momentum carries them on, like a shell from a gun, until gravity at length supervenes. Records exist of certain comets and their vagaries which should be mentioned to avoid any possible misunderstanding. They confirm in every particular the importance in the solar system of these bodies and their role as ...
162. The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... a kind of "crude" calendar.(1 ) However, my studies show that, far from being merely a "crude" calendar or"primitive" observatory, the site actually constituted a sophisticated and effective device for keeping track of the days, weeks and months and for correlating these time increments to the visible movement of the sun along the horizon. Indeed, it formed a perfect solar calendar (among other things) far more exact and efficient than the calendric system in use at the present time. Since the top of the circular dirt bank was about eye level, it would have served admirably as a uniform, artificial horizon by eliminating the irregularities of the ...
163. Stars in an Electric Universe [Journals] [Aeon]
... assumption is unrelated to actually observed phenomena, chances are that the result will be the same as over thousands of years: a model which, by definition, is a myth, although it may be adorned with differential equations in accordance with the requirements of modern times." [2 ] The Electric Universe model does not assume that the Sun and its planets are genetically related. The conventional argument that capture is highly improbable does not apply in the new model because our understanding of gravity is flawed. It attempts to avoid being another modern scientific myth by the paradoxical use of comparative myth to provide information about how the sky looked many thousands of years ago. Comparative mythology is ...
164. ABC's of Astrophysics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... who had studied the Orphic Hymns and derived certain conclusions about Greek astronomy in the second millennium B.C . The Hymns, he asserted, had originated between -1841 and -1382, but probably in the 17th century. They showed the Greeks to understand heliocentricity and the sphericity and rotation of the Earth, and spoke of the attraction of the Sun as the source of orbital movement, and named the planets, the seasons, the atmosphere, and the ether beyond. Their calendar was of twelve lunar months; they identified Saturn with time; and they referred to a universal law that regulated the universe and stabilized the Earth. Stecchini, Santillana, and Von Dechend, among historians ...
165. The Holy Land [Books]
... earth was laid out according to a cosmic plan, revealed in remote times. On this priority of the cosmic dwelling all major traditions concur. A celestial Sumer and Akkad preceded the organization of the actual Mesopotamian kingdoms. And such settlements as Eridu, Erech, Babylon, and Lagash took their names from a heavenly city occupied by the central sun. Every Egyptian town- Heliopolis, Herakleopolis, Memphis, Abydos, Thebes, Hermopolis- mirrored a prototype, a "city in which the sun shone forth in the beginning." So did Egypt as a whole, according to the ritual, reproduce the dwelling gathered together and unified by the creator. Hebrew tradition knew a heavenly ...
166. Celestial Records of the Orient by Isaac Vail [Books]
... that. It is more properly the vast illumination, or universal shiner. O'Neil says the name means "All shine", and I can see nothing but the wide shining canopy or sunregent, the same as the Greek Posiphae, of which more later on. Amaterazu, then, which the mythologists say was an ancient name for the sun, was originally the vapor heaven by which the true sun was concealed as her own child and the grandchild of Izanagi and Izanami, and this Amaterazu, from utter necessity, had to give birth and power to this true sun through her own fall. Now a canopy fall means confusion or the breaking up of the old order, ...
... how our Earth came into being has not been solved with absolute certainty up till now. It remains a matter of speculation, of theory, and many hypotheses have already been advanced. The better theories are those which regard the Earth not as an independent self-sufficient unit, but as a member of the shoal of orbs which swing round the Sun, dependent on, and indeed influenced by, its fellow planets.One such cosmosocial' theory of the history of our Earth is that propounded by the Viennese scientist, Hans Hoerbiger (1860-1931). It is from this theory that I want to summon aid for the ensuing considerations and investigations. According to Hoerbiger's Cosmogonic Theory, briefly ...
168. Varves And Bok Globules (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... this cycle as recorded in published tables are completely false, the 11-12 year cycle has shown up in a few places. The 11.2 year period is only the cycle's average calculated for the past 250 years which is not very long. The cycles closely, but not exactly, follow the calculated tidal influence of the planets on the Sun. (I suspect that it is the omission of the gravitational effect of the galaxy's centre that causes the discrepancy.) The centre of the Solar System's rotation varies with the positions of the planets. When all the planets are on one side of the Sun, the centre of rotation moves right outside of the Sun. The effect ...
169. Our Electric Sun [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 2001:2 (Sep 2001) Home | Issue Contents Our Electric Sun Don Scott DON SCOTT is a professor of Electrical Engineering, and became interested in the idea of an electrical sun after reading an article in Industrial Research magazine by Ralph Juergens, on plasmas; the Sun is a plasma (cloud of ionized gas), there are ionized particles (hydrogen ions) in space, but astronomers say this can't happen. But it appears that stars and galaxies tend to form strings: Birkeland currents, with stars being formed where the Z-pinch effect occurs [see "Electromagnetic collapse, problems of stability, emission of radiation and evolution of a dense ...
170. "King Living in Truth". Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... "Oedipus and Akhnaton" © 1960 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents "King Living in Truth"SOMETIME after ascending the throne Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhnaton. This action was a consequence of his religious reform of replacing the supreme god Amon by the god Aton. The usual interpretation has it that Amon-Ra was the sun god and that Aton was also the sun god, but in a different aspect: the solar disk, or the material substance of the sun. These theological subtleties on the part of modern scholars, who ascribe them to the ancient Egyptians and see in the change a great religious reform, are not convincing. Anyway, Amon was ...
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