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39 pages of results. 151. Primate Perception of Celestial Events [Journals] [Aeon]
... they are much like humans. Thus, for instance, wild chimpanzees have been known to sit quietly with fixed attention while observing colorful sunsets throughout their entire duration. Thunderstorms seem to affect them the same way in which they must have affected our long departed hominid ancestors. Male chimpanzees have thus been known to rush up hillsides waving sticks at thunder and lightning during storms as if trying to scare away the responsible demons. More recently, in an article appearing in the June 2004 issue of Astronomy, Bob Berman reported that "even monkeys notice eclipses." I wonder how similar apes and monkeys would have reacted to the past cosmic upheavals so beloved of neo-catastrophists. Tania ta Maria ...
... of snow, as also Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark, but not Sweden and Norway. France suffered intense cold in the east, centre, and south, snow even falling in Nice. Austria was plunged in snowstorms. In England a blizzard struck the country on the Saturday, causing deep snowdrifts in places and disorganising railway traffic. Thunder and lightning accompanied the blizzard in Yorkshire and Norfolk, thus giving it a magnetic character. If we assume that a meteor which fell to earth off the coast of Italy brought with it these atmospherics which condensed from the time it approached earth's air above Denmark, the condensation of its gases, containing much oxygen, would descend upon the ...
153. Confessions of a Cenoist [Journals] [Aeon]
... belongs to science- and why not? Greek philosophers never sped along an autobahn, and medieval popes never hopped a transcontinental flight to the realm of angels. Science churns out tangible results, a big bang of artifacts, processes, and wild ideas that impress even its most churlish critics. Velikovsky raged at the teachings of scientists. He thundered in talks to college students: "Your textbooks are of Victorian vintage." Yet his most ardent wish was to be lauded by the scientific community. He cherished a place in the pantheon of great scholars, a status few thinkers attain without the approval of scientists. My experience of Velikovsky's grand vision turned out to be somewhat strange ...
154. The Sulfur Connection [Journals] [Kronos]
... . 47 2. Ibid., Part III, KRONOS VIII:1 (Fall 1982), pp. 63-64. 3. Bob Forrest to D. Cardona, Feb. 19,1984, private communique. 4. Symmons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, Vol 7 (1872), p. 98 5. M Arago, "On Thunder and Lightning," Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 26 (1838), pp. 85-86 (emphasis added) 6. The Athenaeum (1848), p. 833. 7. Homer, Odyssey, XII:415 8. Anonymous, Nature, 46 (Oct. 6, 1892), p. 548. 9. ...
155. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... land. When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding, the flood was a war- struggling with itself like a woman writhing (in labor)." (35) Another hymn may suffice to illustrate the catastrophic prominence of Ishtar in ancient Mesopotamia: "Proud Queen of the Earth Gods, Supreme Among the Heaven Gods Loud Thundering Storm, you pour your rain over all the lands and all the people. You make the heavens tremble and the earth quake. You flash like lightning over the highlands; you throw your firebrands across the earth. Your deafening command, whistling like the South Wind, splits apart great mountains. You trample the disobedient like a wild ...
156. Myths of the Great Fire (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... , the Fatherly, meditated on a mode of destroying Xulater, the Devil. He caused a holy fire-flood to sweep over the Earth for seven winters and summers, which killed everything- except Xulater. Even the raft of the few men who were saved became quite charred. Guamansuri, according to one tradition the father of the Peruvians, produced thunder and lightning by hurling stones with his sling. The Australians at Western Point, Victoria, have two versions of the fire myth. According to the first, Karakorok, the daughter of Old Man Pundyil, and a culture heroine, discovered fire when engaged in destroying serpents. According to second, Old Man Pundyil opened the door of ...
157. Tower Myths (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... of California say that the divinity Montezuma' (literally: he who shakes his spear against the heavens), who had escaped the Great Flood in an ark, had differences with the Great Spirit. To spite him, Montezuma built a house which was to reach up to heaven. It was almost finished when the Great Spirit sent his thunders to destroy the High House. The myth also relates that the Great Spirit, to punish Montezuma, took the Sun with him into heaven'. As this term is also used to describe a solar eclipse, we shall probably not go far wrong if we regard this eclipse as the first ever caused by the newly captured satellite Luna ...
... much less for the utterance of propitiatory praises. The new power enforced its stern will regardless of anything but cold, cosmic necessity. A sudden shock sent the trembling crowds to their knees, a series of tremors and throes flung them prostrate, grovelling in the dust. And from above, from below, from all round, came a thundering, rumbling, roaring, raging voice, uttering great words in a dark tongue. The houses heard it and crashed; trees shivered into splinters at its accents; the hills reeled and bowed their heads at its sound; the Earth opened its womb and fire flashed forth. Blinding dust storms swept over the stricken multitudes. But the ...
159. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... claimed Apollo has the meaning = to destroy'. According to Velikovsky, Apollo has the meaning = to meet or gather', or a collision or meeting in space [6 ], i.e . in the air. Velikovsky's etymology is fascinating and conceivably could denote an atmospheric event such as an exploding bolide or loud clap of thunderous noise. This is also compatible with the idea of to destroy and the act of destruction (by the agency of blast). The term shafts (as in arrows and darts) [7 ] almost always occurs in the plural and they were regarded as the specific weapons of deity in Greek religion. Shaft has the meaning in ...
160. Myths of Floating Islands (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... of a floating mountain called Ancasmarca has already been given. In another Peruvian myth two brothers escaped by taking refuge on a high mountain which floated on the waters. The Araucanians of Chile tell of a flood which came after a violent earthquake and great volcanic activity. Very few escaped to a high three-peaked mountain whose name was Thegtheg, the thundering or flashing one. This mountain floated on the waves. Compare with these the story of the Okinagans quoted on a myth of the Ojibways, however, points to the ebbing off of the girdle-tide. The manitou Menabozhu blew some grains of sand, which a muskrat had obtained for him by diving down to the submerged Earth, over ...
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