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72 pages of results. 131. The Opening Of The Mouth Ritual - Part III [Journals] [Aeon]
... .; see also idem, Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion (Ames, Iowa, 1997), pp. 69 ff. and "Thundergods and Thunderbolts," AEON VI:1 (February 2001), pp. 121-122. [5 ] K. Moss, "The Popol Vuh: Testament of ... , were caused by an enormous electrical discharge. "Mars was called Scarface by the [Blackfoot] Indians of the Americas, after it had been struck by an interplanetary thunderbolt. Can it be their myths have something to tell us?" he asks. [53] What if Thornhill is right about the Grand Canyon, that it ...
132. Snowball Mini-comets [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... order of magnitude required to explain the diameters of ionospheric holes. My proposed mechanism of formation of blue jets and red sprites sees them resulting from ionospheric discharges to ground via thunderstorms in the troposphere. In other words they form part of an electrical energy input from the solar plasma to weather systems, quite distinct from solar insolation. So the ... to the rounded summit of the Puy Mary, 1770m, in central France. He could see a storm in the valley below him about 3km away and he heard the thunder. A few seconds later he felt a blast of hot air, so powerful that he had to lean against it, and this occurred three times in the next ...
133. Thoth Vol I, No. 6: March 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . You don't see much lightning in fog'. [TT's response] This is absolute hogwash. Lightning is very well understood, and the charge separation mechanisms in terrestrial thunderstorms are subject to intense scrutiny. Thornhill is talking through his hat. See references 8-12. Lightning on Venus was not expected, but this kind of surprise is not ... D21): 26641- 26668 (Nov 27 1996) [10] "On the Initiation of Lightning Discharge in a Cloud .1 . the High-Field Regions in a Thundercloud" M.D . Nguyen & S. Michnowski Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres) 101(D21): 26669- 26673 (Nov 27 1996) [ ...
134. Thoth Vol V, No 4: Mar 15, 2001 [Journals] [Thoth]
... : Amy Acheson PUBLISHER: Michael Armstrong LIST MANAGER: Brian Stewart CONTENTS WHEN LOGIC FALLS SLOPPY DEAD . . . . . . . . . . by Mel Acheson THE THUNDERBOLT IN MYTH AND SYMBOL. . . , , , . by Dave Talbott BIG BANG GENESIS . . . . . . . . . . . .a Kroniatalk ... will bring us into direct liaison with leading experts in plasma science, and the convergence appears to be more powerful than anything we had previously hoped for. NEXT: "Thunder Gods and Celestial Marvels" EDITOR'S NOTE: The Intersect 2001 conference: "Electricity, Cosmology, and Human History" will include the first public presentation of this story ...
135. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the spirit moved, the wind rose, a drop of rain fell acid in the dust, fire flared in the nerve, and drums rolled to produce what we call thunder and lightning in the heavens, and chance and change in human society and personality." \cdrom\pubs\journals\workshop\vol0501\04focus.htm ... energy could perhaps throw more light on the process than any of the more conventional approaches to the subject. It seemed that species, society, and individuals behaved more like thunder-clouds than scrubbed, neatly clothed, and well-behaved children of reason. Throughout the ages life appeared to build up great invisible charges like clouds and earth of electricity, until ...
136. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... hammer, lost to the Aesir now and forever unless we bring him Freyja to be his bride." [23] With the Norse Olympus in dire peril because the thundergod does not have his death-dealing weapon, Thor dons the clothing of Freya in order to enter giantland undetected: "Thor was clad in linen clothing, they gave him ... discussion in E. Cochrane, The Many Faces of Venus (Ames, 2001), pp. 29-30. [40] E. Cochrane, "On Thundergods and Thunderbolts," AEON 6:1 (2001), pp. 95-123. [41] E. Cochrane, Martian Metamorphoses (Ames, 1997), pp. ...
... were. The populace, naturally enough, regarded the destruction of men who had offended the gods -really the priests-and were suddenly killed by magic means, such as the "thunderbolt" of Zeus, as due to the personal intervention of the Deity. Moses used the same tricks when he led the people into the wilderness and they rebelled. ... he had access to sacred and ancient records for his work. Something had fallen, something which created a great commotion and with it a "Voice from heaven" - thunder. We are told that the "command had gone forth" from the Lord, and the ruin of the dwellers on earth had been accomplished "because they had ...
138. Northwest Indian Myths of Catastrophe [Articles]
... the Agate Quarry in northeastern Nebraska which Velikovsky cited as evidence of a planetary catastrophe. The Sioux story involves a massive earthquake, preceded by a tremendously darkened sky and extensive thunderstorms and torrential rains. The location, now a barren but spectacular erosive canyon about 60 miles long, was originally a grassy prairie but suffered complete destruction, in the ... people our size but most tribes reported that they did some wonderful things. The Sioux stories are quite detailed. The tall ones lived during a time when there was no thunder and so rivers, the ground appeared to be moist, and the tall ones were credited with establishing many new things. Then climatic conditions were changed, this group ...
... the desert to account for these appearances. In fact, all the expressions used in the sacred writers are those which are usually employed in the Hebrew Scriptures to describe a thunderstorm."45 45: Dean Arthur P. Stanley, Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church (New York, 1863-76),1 ,167. Beke ... of his pamphlet. The day of the lawgiving is described in these words: "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled ...
140. Planets in the Bible: I -- The Cosmology of Job [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of the book of Job knew that the earth had suffered great global catastrophes, encompassing ice and water deluges (the Flood from Saturn), meteorite bombardments, earthquakes and thunderbolts, tidal waves and tides, orbital change, spin axis shift and mountain destruction. He further knew that these colossal events were connected with the movements of the planetary ... with Kimah (Venus) and Kesil (Saturn). Here one would expect Jupiter, a figure of great importance in the early pantheons - displacer of Saturn, terrible Thunderer and Bringer of Lightning and Rain (perhaps through precipitating the Flood disaster?). The four major moons of Jupiter, discovered (or rediscovered) by Galileo, ...
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