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72 pages of results. 211. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Ages Still in Chaos'] and found David Salkeld's dissertation fascinating for two reasons. The first reason is for the information on the electrical charge generated in clouds (in thunderstorms presumably, although he does not say so) and the second, for the possible applications to the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites. If you remember ... daughter refused to marry Necho [of Egypt] in view of the god's obvious disapproval. Fifteen years before that, in 612 BC, Mars was the Weather God whose thundering caused Nabopolassar's stroke and a further fifteen years earlier, in 627 BC, it was the damaging approach of Mars that persuaded Nabopolassar to lead a rebellion against Ashurbanipal, ...
212. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and clapped him in irons. Jupiter became the next ruler of the gods and was worshipped by the Romans as lord of the skies, the power of the storm and thunderbolt and the embodiment of kingship and justice. Yet he, like Saturn, was also believed to be a planet. The Roman orator Cicero (102-43 BC) described ... and there may have been more than one Baal but the principal Phoenician god of that name, Baal-Hadad or Baal-Zaphon was conspicuously the same deity as Greek Zeus. These two thunder gods were explicitly identified by the ancient writers. The conflict between Zeus and Typhon also shows a wealth of similarities to the combats between Baal and his major adversaries - ...
213. As Worlds Collide [Journals] [Kronos]
... the electrical energy of a charged Earth to be 2.14 x 1036 ergs. 10. Velikovsky devotes several sections of Worlds in Collision to interplanetary discharges (or cosmic thunderbolts). See particularly "The Spark", pp. 85-88. 11. Michelson, op. cit, p. 20. Michelson computes the energy required to ... one and four decades was required for recovery, further indication that an eruption of global proportion probably occurred. Violent volcanic eruptions are generally accompanied by great heat releases which produce thunderstorms, hail, heavy rains, and in some cases tornadoes (Tambora, Java, 10 April 1815).(20) At Mersina, Turkey, frogs rained ...
214. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times Part I [Journals] [Kronos]
... has Mt. Ida behaving in peculiar ways when the gods of heaven enter the battle of Greeks and Trojans: "From high above the father of gods and men made thunder terribly, while Poseidon from deep under them shuddered all the illimitable earth, the sheer heads of mountains. And all the feet of Ida with her many waters were ... the threefold mass of mountains fell . . . These arms let loose and hurl your fires."(24) Could there have been a qualitatively different kind of Jovian thunder-bolt playing about the world in mythical and prehistoric times? A ramified bolt of hundreds of strokes is not impossible to imagine. The myriad lightning and fire effects in the ...
... really need a little respite; but considering that I wish to publish in succession- Ages II, III, Before the Day Breaketh, Saturn and Deluge, Jupiter of the Thunderbolt, Letters to a Heretic, Stargazers, The Orbit, and s[e ]veral more, I do not see how I can do less than two books ... decade- and his book, The Firmament of Time- with a sharp attack. (14) In his view, "Man is at heart a romantic. He believes in thunder, the destruction of worlds, the voice out of the whirlwind." The success of Velikovsky's work was "a formidable indication" of human susceptibility to "the ...
... , coming from the core of Jupiter, would carry a part of Jupiter's large electromagnetic energy. Thus, when Venus approached the Earth, it would have discharged great planetary thunderbolts. Velikovsky devotes a chapter in Worlds in Collision titled "The Spark" in which ancient people describe immense lightning strokes loosed from the comet to the Earth. These ... . Overhead, sheets of flaming-red northern lights flashed in the night sky, bright enough to be seen through overcast and clouds. Electric lights flickered in farmhouses as if a thunderstorm raged, yet the air and sky were clear and silent. "For more than a week, such chaotic conditions continued. They were clearly the results of our ...
217. Thoth Vol I, No. 1: January 25, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... appearance. Then there is the self-contained plasmoid, a corkscrew within an overall football shape which forms the interplanetary equivalent of lightning and appears to have been depicted as Zeus' thunderbolt.- I have looked in some detail at chondritic meteorites which I expect to be left-overs from a planetary discharge event. They show all the characteristics to be expected ... a celestial "king of the world" whose life inspired the ancestral leap into civilization. Descriptions of the gods as luminaries of immense size and power, wielding weapons of thunder and stone. The universal claim that the ancient world evolved by critical phases or cycles, punctuated by sweeping catastrophe. Global traditions of gods and heroes ruling for a ...
218. Thoth Vol I, No. 4: March 2, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... some evidence of layered, non-radial ejecta just outside the crater rim, burying the rays which a few seconds earlier had pin-pointed the target for the return stroke of the interplanetary thunderbolt. Such a dark ring of ejecta around Tycho is easily visible from Earth, but may require an on-site inspection to detect the effect. However, while I wait ... severe blizzard. The Pioneer lander recorded 1000 radio impulses. Thirty-two minutes after landing, Venera 11 detected a very loud (82 decibel) noise which was believed to be thunder. Ted Holden adds: The Venera also noted "gloom" in the middle atmosphere, and then, finally light which appeared beyond some point in its descent and ...
219. Thoth Vol II, No. 10: June 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... that Saturn's epoch was "neither hot nor cold," the implication is that human experience is contributing to the interpretation. In the same way, the accounts of heaven-shattering thunder, associated with the lightning of the gods, surely implies reverberating sounds on earth. And in all likelihood, the outpouring of cometary material associated with the "deluge ... its roots below the photosphere. So the fact that the waves in the photosphere were 10 times stronger than expected is not surprising if there was the equivalent of an almighty thunderclap from beneath the photosphere rather than above it. In comparison, the corona being extremely tenuous would not be expected to couple much, if any, mechanical energy from ...
... (Macdonell trans., vol. 2, pp. 82-85).], and out of whose bones (the bones of the horse's skull) Tvashtri forged the thunderbolt for Indra, thus enabling him to slay "the 99 vritras" [n9 Cf. RV 1.84.13; Mbh. 12.343 (Roy ... such a size and weight that it cannot be attacked here. A particularly relevant and revealing case of inseparable "twins" comes our way in Cherokee mythology, where the thunder-boys are called "Little Men." At the beginning we hear of one boy only, born in proper wedlock by "The Lucky Hunter" and "Corn, ...
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