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72 pages of results. 111. A Concordance Of Disaster [Journals] [Kronos]
... unworldly thunder; at four miles it was a distant moan which crew into a jarring boom . . . several miles offshore, salvagers . . . heard a deafening "thunderbolt" clap. R 4:1 . . . and, behold, a door was opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard was, as ... ) be no more. T 973 With distance [from the hypocenter] the noise grew perceptible, then shattering. From three miles it sounded like the rumbling of unworldly thunder; at four miles it was a distant moan which crew into a jarring boom . . . several miles offshore, salvagers . . . heard a deafening "thunderbolt ...
112. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... represented as a raging warrior-goddess receives scant attention from scholars. Jacobsen, in introducing Inanna's warrior aspect, remarks: "In the process of humanization, gods of rain and thunderstorms tended...to be envisaged as warriors riding their chariots into battle." [77] Why this should be the case is not addressed. Another leading ... nation. At the sound of you the lands bow down. Propelled on your own wings you peck away at the land. With a roaring storm you roar; with Thunder you continually thunder." [62] Now I ask: Would anyone viewing the planet Venus in its current manifestations ever be moved to describe it in such terms ...
113. The Love Affair as the Mask of Tragedy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to set up the order of the skies, such as it is. He is scarcely responsible, it seems to us, for he should return to strike Mars with thunderbolts and drive him away. Instead of the conflict being adjudicated, it will have to be compromised. Other gods gather. Actually they do not. But memories of ... war... death sun... red dogs, blood...Aphrodite... sex... moon... darkness... thunder...trumpets... golden... Ares... Zeus... sword...stretched fireballs... moon rape. ...
114. The Primordial Light? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... capacity as a Jupiter deity (77). The cause of Indra's troubles was his killing of the son of a Prajapati, one Trisiras, by striking him with a thunderbolt. The effect on Trisiras is to make him "shine with energy"; Indra was "blinded and scorched by Trisiras's energy" (78). Indra got ... ). Other indications lie with the identification of Jupiter deities as rain and storm gods. Thus the origin of the epithet Jupiter Pluvius, who is Marduk, Thor the thunderer, the Storm-god of the Hittites and Indra god of rain (106). In this context we may refer to the Hittite and Hattic myth of "The Moon ...
... the dragon and "makara" were not merely complex manifestations of the group of ideas connected with the "air of life " the whirlwind. The dragon was a "thunderer". In Asia the thunder god, in human, animal or reptile form, caused the "birth "of the year by bringing fertilizing and nourishing rain. ... Hindu Indra with Vayu, and also with Rndra, and with the Rudras and Maruts. The spiral, as a "life-giver", was thus a symbol of the thunder-god, as well as of the whirlwind in China and Japan, as is shown, in the "thunder bolt" and the "dragon-roll" (the whirlwind) ...
... the dragon and "makara" were not merely complex manifestations of the group of ideas connected with the "air of life " the whirlwind. The dragon was a "thunderer". In Asia the thunder god, in human, animal or reptile form, caused the "birth "of the year by bringing fertilizing and nourishing rain. ... Hindu Indra with Vayu, and also with Rndra, and with the Rudras and Maruts. The spiral, as a "life-giver", was thus a symbol of the thunder-god, as well as of the whirlwind in China and Japan, as is shown, in the "thunder bolt" and the "dragon-roll" (the whirlwind) ...
117. The Cyclic Nature of Ancient Catastrophes [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... ; Thiele says David died in 971. The October 25 timing- apparently in the autumn. The anniversary theme, "even to the time appointed." The cosmic thunderbolt striking Ornan's threshing floor, located on what became the temple mount. (Heights tend to attract lightning.) The casualty list, here 3 to 4 percent of ... Jupiter) to restrain his son (Mars). Pestilence. Cosmic casualties, particularly among the Argives' camp. Trembling of the ground. Celestial swords and scabbards. Thundering- apparently cosmic thundering. Renewed attention addressed to the cosmic seers who accompanied the expedition. Paradigm II For the year 917 B.C . our model predicts a ...
... icy, with a bitter north-east wind, snow and hail were experienced in various parts of the country, and on the moors round Sheffield snow fell m Conjunction with a thunderstorm. What caused the north-east wintry gale? Was it related to Plymouth's seismic record? The Sunday Express of the 21st it would seem solved the mystery. "A ... (d ) The new Beam Atlantic Wireless to Montreal from England was interrupted until night by an electric storm. (e ) Polar air currents experienced in Great Britain, thunder and lightning, torrential rainstorms and gales which began at night-time. The electric storm set up a series of brilliant flashes which lit up the heavens for miles and were ...
... . I recollect myself living in a tent on the Maidan, Bombay, India, where there had not been a blade of grass for months. One night a tremendous thunderstorm flooded the countryside, and that same night my friends and I heard the croakings of innumerable frogs. Next day thousands were hopping about everywhere, and little frogs as ... to millions, of the small wasp-like hover fly. The next day a correspondent of the Field, on a steamboat off Margate, encountered millions of this pest. "Thunderbugs" some called them, and a good descriptive name too, appeared at Windham, Adisham, Southampton, and London, where the inhabitants turned out with buckets of ...
120. Horeb: The Mountain of God [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the evidence was scarcely less sensational. What force could have melted the rocks at the Jebel's summit, leaving them resembling volcanic glass? The most immediate answer is the interplanetary thunderbolts which, Velikovsky insisted, were a fundamentally important (and terrifying) part of the phenomena surrounding the Exodus. An elevated spot like a mountain-top would of course be ... ' bolts. And this is fully confirmed by the Book of Exodus [3 ]. There we are told: Now at daybreak .. . there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, dense cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast; and, in the camp, all the people trembled. Then Moses led ...
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