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228 pages of results. 341. Nova of Super Uranus and Ejection of the Moon [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , he fed upon soma until he attained enormous size, whereupon he blew Heaven and Earth apart forever, filling the atmosphere by himself and exploding the Vitras in the process by thunderbolts. From the exploded belly of Vitra came the cosmic waters, acknowledging Indra (Super Uranus) as their new lord. Out of the waters came also the Sun. Varuna (Heaven as Super Uranus) presided, as order and truth emerged from primordial chaos. This narrative is but one culture's account of mankind's witnessing of the explosion of a celestial body. An alternative, from the Vedic period, has a Cosmic Egg (here Super Uranus) floating for a thousand years in the primordial waters ...
342. On Mars and Pestilence [Journals] [Aeon]
... traditions surrounding the planets. One wants to know, for example, what to make of the fact that the ancient Mesoamerican skywatchers- like their Babylonian counterparts- represented the planet Venus as a great warrior or as a fire-breathing dragon. (61) Or why the Babylonians together with several other advanced cultures described the planet Saturn as a "Sun." (62) Such puzzles of planetary lore, difficult to understand according to the central tenets of modern astronomy, could be multiplied by the hundreds. From a methodological standpoint, it is possible to investigate archaeoastronomy from several different vantage points. The most obvious, of course, is to collect and analyze the ancients' observations ...
343. Folklore, Part 2 Mars Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... The legends of classic peoples, first -among them the Greeks, also belong to folklore. As early as pre-Christian times these legends were subjected to interpretation, many interpreters recognizing the symbolic character of mythology. With Macrobius in the fourth Christian century, there begins a tendency to see in many gods of Egyptian and Greek antiquity the personification of the sun. Macrobius compared Osiris to the sun, and Isis to the moon, disregarding the opinion of earlier au thors. He also interpreted Jupiter as the sun. As the role the planets played in the history of the world retreated ever further into oblivion, the interpretation of nature myths as referring to the sun or the moon became more ...
... astronomy." DR. RICHARD LEPSIUS. HERMES was credited with the invention of astronomy, and, it was said, "mapped out the heavens", which really signified that the seers and sages among the Druids discovered the true movements of the earth, devised the Solar Ecliptic, designed the zodiac of the twelve constellations through which the sun passes annually, classified the principal star groups according them specified names, invented also the calendar and studied the movements not of the regular constellations alone, but those of irregular bodies like comets. We were taught long ago that the Magi of the Chaldeans, Phoenicians, and Egyptians were the earliest pioneers in the field of astronomy, and ...
345. Thoth Vol III, No. 4: Feb 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . . . . . by Wal Thornhill- THE BENEFITS OF CATASTROPHE ARE UNDERAPPRECIATED By Mel Acheson People who have never sailed on anything but perfectly calm seas will think it ridiculous that their decks or their stomachs could heave. So it's to be expected that people today, having never seen anything but the calm sailing of the planets around the sun, should dismiss as impossible claims of a stormy solar system. It's easy to interpret the testimonies of ancient peoples as the ravings of a febrile imagination that peculiarly afflicted them. It's only a bit more difficult to shrug off or to explain away the ruins and the scars of the storm as we and our space probes pick our way ...
346. The Recent Organization of The Solar System [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... history of the Solar System. This is the first of a series of four (or possibly six) outlining what they describe as a 70-Story Skyscraper of Cosmology' - their own version of the history and development of the Solar System. Central to this is the idea that rather than being formed out of a cloud of matter around the Sun, the planets (Earth included) originally orbited elsewhere in space and were brought close to the Sun by a body they call Little Brother. The Sun captured the planets from Little Brother as it passed, flared momentarily into a nova and the rest - it might be said - is history. The authors highlight some very curious features ...
347. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... orbital axis: "precession." It may apply to an orbital axis: it may also apply to a spin axis. Our immediate concern is the precession of the Earth's orbital axis, that is, the slow change in the direction to which that axis points. The Earth's orbital axis is under some non-canceling influences of the Moon and Sun and, to a lesser extent, Jupiter and Saturn. As a result of these gravitational influences, the Earth's orbital axis slowly moves, completing a 360-degree circle once every 27,000 years- if they are "uniformitarian years," when only the effect of the current alignment of solar system bodies is involved.1 All planetary ...
348. Thoth Vol V, No 12: November 30, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... picture of instability in our solar system- of planets run amok within the memory of human beings. Unlike me, Cochrane talks about it first, on page one of the introduction to _The Many Faces of Venus_. Here is the summary, in his own words "The slow and steady movement of the respective planets about the sun is frequently lauded as a sign of the clock-like regularity and order which distinguishes the solar system. Yet it can be shown that this much vaunted regularity is a comparatively recent development. As we will document in the pages to follow, the ancient sky-watchers describe a radically different solar system. If we are to believe their explicit testimony, ...
349. Early Attempts At Rationalizing. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... can come to be paraded as miraculous, rather than involving a derangement of the imperturbable order in the solar system. Thus in Worlds in Collision, in a later chapter, I narrated a tale told by the Menomini Indians, an Algonquin tribe: "The little boy made a noose and stretched it across the path, and when the Sun came to that point the noose caught him around the neck and began to choke him, until he almost lost his breath. It became dark." The Sun cried for help, but no one who tried could help- "the thread had so cut into the flesh of the Sun's neck that they could not sever it" ...
350. Some Implications of Saunders' Lunar Hypothesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... possible alternative to some parts of that thesis in Saunders' ideas expressed in ELD. Pictographs like those on stones at Newgrange are just as much part of the mytho-historical record as those found in written form on stone, clay tablets and papyri. Moreover, the mytho-historical record certainly includes the biblical account of the Beth-horon event when Joshua commanded, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still and the Moon stayed' [4 ]; so there is at least one account of the Moon behaving in a highly anomalous manner. Saunders makes a good case that Newgrange, Stonehenge and Avebury were first built as ...
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