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39 pages of results. 171. Falls of Blood from Venus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... due to colloidal silica from the glass. The red colour is due to organic compounds absorbed on the silica."(8 ) The details of Miller's experiment need not concern us here for other workers used different methods and obtained similar results. The amount of heat and the duration of the electrical discharge are not critical to the argument because thunder, lightning, meteorites, micro-meteorites and shock waves have all been considered equal to the task of synthesising the amino-acids.(9 ) Nor is the silica a problem, for, in a catastrophic contact, much siliceous dust would be raised up into clouds on Earth; equally, to judge from Venus' present day appearance, it ...
172. Tao, Part 2 Mars Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... , belong together: "When the sky, hostile to living beings, wishes to destroy them, it burns them; the sun and the moon lose their form and are eclipsed; the five planets leave their paths; the four seasons encroach one upon another; daylight is obscured; glowing mountains collapse; rivers are dried up; it thunders then in winter, hoarfrost falls in summer; the atmosphere is thick and human beings are choked; the state perishes; the aspect and the order of the sky are altered; the customs of the age are disturbed [thrown into disorder] . . . all living beings harass one another." Hoei-nan-tze, a Taoist author of ...
173. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 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 suddenly in a sultry hour 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 ...
174. The Terrible Ones, Part 2 Mars Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... a hail of meteorites that bombarded walls with hot gravel and flew into windows; simultaneously cities were turned into heaps by the leaping ground. "The multitude of the terrible ones" is "like small dust," their invasion "shall be at an instant suddenly," says Isaiah.25 The Lord shall send his host "with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouri ng fire." These Maruts are men brilliant with lightning, they shoot with thunderbolts, they blaze with the wind, they shake the mountains.26 Isaiah (25:4 ) says that "the blast of the terrible ones ...
175. Planetary Worship [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Y ., 1982), pp.59-60 13. T. Henry, ANCIENT TAHITI (Honolulu, 1928), pp.363-364 14. G. A. Dorsey, unpublished notes, Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Chicago, 1922. These notes were later compiled by R. Linton and published as THE THUNDER CEREMONY OF THE PAWNEE and THE SACRIFICE TO THE MORNING STAR 15. LINGA PURANA I:57:39 16. Ibid. , I:60:3-5 17. H. Maccoby, " 'Worlds in Collisions' and the Birth of Monotheism", SIS REVIEW II:1 (Autumn 1977), p.18 18 ...
176. Mythopedia [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... cycle: the Hero and the deluge; • the Hero's appearance; • appendix: the enclosing goddess; • appendix: the Axis Mundi. (d ) The elements of nature: • celestial phenomena (sky, stars, planets, Milky Way, moon, Northern Lights); • atmospheric phenomena (sun, rain, rainbow, thunder, lightning, clouds); • geographical phenomena (water, mountain, stone, desert); • plants (trees, herbs, corn, flowers); • animals (worms, insects, spiders, fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, mammals); • body parts (head, eye, ear, nose, ...
177. The Two Babylons: The Great Red Dragon [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... historian Castor, traced up to the very time of Saturn or Belus, the first king of Babylon, and when we learn that Jupiter (who was worshipped in the very same character as Ninus, "the child"), when fighting against the Titans, "received from the Cyclops aid" by means of "dazzling lightnings and thunders," we may have some pretty clear idea of the magic arts derived from the Chaldean Mysteries , which Ninus employed against the Bactrian king. There is evidence that, down to a late period, the priests of the Chaldean Mysteries knew the composition of the formidable Greek fire, which burned under water, and the secret of which ...
178. Bob Kobres' Research Menu [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... King and The She King). Legge's translation of these ancient texts is biased toward a gradualist interpretation. Discussion Part D: Interestingly: "A curious phenomenon occurred at the farm of Balvullich, on the estate of Ord, occupied by Mr. Moffat, on the evening of Monday last. Immediately after one of the loudest peals of thunder heard there, a large and irregular-shaped mass of ice... ...
179. Spectres [Books] [de Grazia books]
... who had granted plenty but had decreed peace, and there was no peace. Warriors prepared for battle: At last all were assembled and the day had come for the advance. And now the Great Spirit took matters into His own hands. Dark clouds hid the sun from the face of the world. Lightning streaked across the blackness and thunder rumbled high over the hills. From the ground flamed forth fire, and the earth shuddered and rocked. A wide gulf opened and into it sank the mountain tribe - all their people - all that they possessed. With them sank all life - the waving grass - the clear springs - the animals. As suddenly as it came ...
180. Tree Symbols [Books]
... vulture form: the two vultures with long hair and hanging breasts; they draw their breasts over the mouth of King Pepi, but they do not wean him forever.9 When Osiris himself was called to the sky, milk was provided for him, the milk of the mother cow (Pyr. Ut. 337): The sky thunders, earth trembles, for fear of thee, Osiris, when thou makest ascent. Ho, mother cows yonder! Ho, suckling mother cows yonder! Go ye behind him, weep for him, hail him, acclaim him, when he makes ascent and goes to the sky among his brethren, the gods.10 Milk, ...
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