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72 pages of results. 61. The Cause of Gravitation [Books]
... . The United States Weather Bureau advises: "In general, in middle latitudes (in both hemispheres), thunderstorms usually move from a westerly direction. The direction of movement is usually determined by the larger scale flow, in ... the ocean waters, the suspended detritus in rivers, the high-low barometric pressures, the winds, the atmosphere, thunder storms and freely falling bodies to travel from west to east. In the study of ocean currents made by " ... and their positions in the heavens as exerting some effect on global life. Large masses of summer clouds-known as "thunderheads" grow bigger while moving slowly in a sideways direction. But once they begin to precipitate rain, they move ...
62. The Two Faces of Love [Books] [de Grazia books]
... falling of Typhon (the cometary tail of proto-Venus) into the sea (after Zeus had struck him with a thunderbolt, according to the Greeks), this according to Plutarch. There are in sum numerous reasons to explain the ... form and function. The Moon, which heretofore had played an important part in this program (of cloud, thunder, and lightning) was also relegated to the background. But Aphrodite was too powerful to be lightly brushed aside ... (the dropping of threads upon the Earth), the turning of the vault of Heaven, the forming of thunderhead on her distaff with the help of Ares, lunar calendars. She was "worshiped as the dispenser of the ...
63. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... our sun had each a father and a grandfather. A vapor heaven necessitated the absence of rains and tempests, thunder, etc. This thought also comes down from the remotest times. Ancient Greek, Roman and Hindu legends tell ... " of the Norsemen comes from this source. In this "Ash", Odin, the predecessor of the thunder-god Thor, sat and "taught men letters from its branches". Then, too, this "Ash" ... inseparably linked with the "Bifrost Bridge", the "floating bridge of Heaven", over which they say Surt, the sun, led his fiery legions in Eheir march against the serpent of darkness and disorder, and which ...
64. Golden Age Canopy by Isaac Vail [Books]
... words, the watery foe of the Chaldee and Assyrian sun- god Bel, who finally slew the monster with a thunderbolt, was in Hebrew thought the Great Deep and I see no possible way of avoiding the proof that that " ... , a mortal foe of the sun-god Pel, who, it is said, "slew the dragon with a thunder bolt". It is now well known that the dragon Tiamat is the same as the Hebrew Tehom the " ... great Midgard Serpent, the water dragon of Scandinavian classics, made a deluge of waters and met Thor, the thunder-god, on a battle field in the heavens, and was slain by that celestial deity at Ragnarok. In short ...
... . They shut-up their father Elenas king of Albania in the mountain of Brundelois, which may belong to bronte, thunder. This duplexity it may have been that gave its signification of duplicity as an "impostor."18 There ... three strokes of his copper hatchet. The oak is in this " Epic " called pun YamaLa = tree of thunder-land.43 Skade, the daughter of the giant Thjasse, bore many sons to Odinn. She was also called ... . Si Wang-Mu brought seven peaches when site visited the Emperor Wu Ti. The Japanese god Izanagl repels the Eight thunder-gods in the infernal regions by throwing at them the Three fruits of the Peachtree that grew at the entrance of the ...
66. The Ark in Action [Books] [de Grazia books]
... too, opposed the Assyrians), at a city called, significantly, Letopolis, meaning "City of the Thunderbolt." At least two Greek towns were named Leptopolis (" Mouseville"). Josephus said that "Moses ... charged a Leyden jar by attaching to it a silk thread that could conduct electricity from a kite that entered a thunderstorm. He was taking a great risk. He drew up a list of ways in which the "electrical fluid ... of Science, on the 6th of August, 1753, when his ear caught the sound of a very heavy thunder clap. He hastened away in company with his engraver, M. Sokolow, and upon their arrival home they ...
67. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Peratt's research was inspired by Dave Talbott, author the Saturn Myth, and Wal Thornhill whose articles on The Electric Universe have appeared in SIS publications. Their forthcoming book, Thunderbolts of the Gods, is under preparation, but a draft chapter has appeared on the Internet (Web address below) summarising their work. Due to space limitations, ... the more familiar voices amidst a chorus of ancient witnesses. In archaic texts the planetary gods were a quarrelsome lot. They were giants in the sky, wielding weapons of thunder, fire, and stone. Their wars not only disturbed the heavens but threatened to destroy the earth. Driven by reverence and fear, ancient cultures from Mesopotamia to ...
... wearing a round cap and a long garment. Between them are a crescent and a small crouching "monkey." Behind the worshiper is a walking bull supporting a two-pronged thunderbolt. At the end of the scene is a staff with a large triangular head. 185. Serpentine. Cylinder seal with a boss at each end marked with concentric ... one hand and in the other, close to his chest, a "saw." Between them is a disk with rays, set in a crescent. Behind the thunder-god is a goddess wearing a kaunakes and a headdress resembling the city crown. The other deities wear elaborate horned crowns, long skirts open in front and held by broad ...
69. KA [Books]
... The Etruscan and Greek prutanis was a stoker who waved a brand to make it blaze; from pur, fire, and tanuo, brandish, as Zeus did with the thunderbolt. The Greek aisso means brandish, and suggests the Hebrew waved offerings, when the priest raised an offering and waved it over the altar. Hebrew nasa = raise ... . If, as before, we replace z' with sd', we have sdac'. The suffix -ac indicates the agent; e.g . frontac, thunderer (Greek bronte, thunder). The combination sd' or st' appears in the Greek zo, I live, and Latin sto, I stand. In ...
70. Odin [Journals] [Kronos]
... planet represented by this deity? Of Odin/Woden as Jupiter/Zeus, Velikovsky supplied absolutely no evidence beyond the fact that both sets of deities were gods of the thunderbolt.(7 ) This is the same meagre evidence he supplied in favor of his identification of the Hindu Shiva as the same Jupiter/Zeus.(8 ) ... not necessarily to be identified as Jupiter. Granted that Jupiter seems to have been the prime wielder of thunderbolts,(9 ) other planetary deities were also vigorous in their thunderings. In an earlier paper I have shown that the attributes, characteristics, and mythology of Shiva properly fit the planet Saturn and not Jupiter.(10) Velikovsky's ...
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