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39 pages of results. 61. Old Testament Tales [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , where it stayed until David was king (2 Sam. 6). Samuel called the people together at Mizpeh, preaching that if they forswore idols and served only the true Lord, God would deliver them from the Philistines who were massing to attack them (7 :5-8). When Samuel sacrificed a burnt offering: the Lord thundered with a great thunder .. . upon the Philistines .. . and they were smitten before Israel' (7 :10). God's hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel', cities they had taken were restored to Israel, and Samuel judged Israel – on circuit and from his house at Ramah – all ...
... Interdum scopulos avolsáque viscera Montis Erigit eructans, liquefatáque saxa sub auras Cum gemitu glomerat, fundóque exæstuat imo. Fama est Enceladi semustum fulmine corpus Urgeri mole hâc, ingentémque insuper Ætnam Impositam, ruptis flammam expirare caminis. Et, fessum quoties mutet latus, intremere omnem Murmure Trinacriam, & cœlam subtexere fumo.-Ætna, whose ruins make a thunder; Sometimes black clouds of smoke, that rowl about Mingled with flakes of fire, it belches out. And sometimes Balls of flame it darts on high, Of its torn bowels_ flings into the Sky. Within deep Cells under the Earth, a store Of fire-materials, molten stones, and Ore, It gathers, then spews ...
63. Venus In The Folklore Of The Indians, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... world is endangered by the planet Venus plays an important role in the ritual of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of Nebraska. Next in rank to Tirawa (Jupiter) stands the Morning Star. "Tirawa gave most of his power to the Morning Star."(103) "Through her four assistants, Wind, Cloud, Lightning, and Thunder, she transmitted the mandates of Tirawa to the people upon earth." Next in rank to the Morning Star "were the gods of four world-quarters, who stood in the northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest and supported the heavens. Next in rank was the North Star. Below these in turn were the Sun and Moon ...
64. Vox Popvli [Journals] [Aeon]
... is the author of On Earth as it is in Heaven- The Truth of Ancient Myths and Legends is Written in the Stars. ' He claims to have discerned the stars forming Ursa Major as ca. 5 cathedral towns in France, with the extreme "right hand" member located in Germany on the Donnesberg- i.e . Thunder Mountain. This would be very appropriate if the dislocation of Saturn from the Polar Configuration by thundering Jupiter caused those seven stars to become visible and take on a new mythical role for themselves. I was therefore wondering whether these factors could yield a viable benchmark for determining the chronological order of events following the break-up of the Polar Configuration. ...
65. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... also became the route by which electrostatic potential might be transferred from the body in the north to the Earth in maintaining an equidistribution of electric charge, by means of a current flow through ionized conducting layers within the column and massive arcing across dielectric strata. This was by no means a quiet phenomenon, this music of the spheres. The thundering hammer of Thor, the lilting lyre of Orpheus, or "the sounding of brass and the tinkling of cymbals" are all images cast in the mold of myth. Music and dancing permeate the pictures of ancient literature, and are even an integral part of Hindu legends through their thematic ragas. Some sounds were apparently melodious and harmonic ...
66. When Was The iliad Created?, Part 2 Mars Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... gods at the walls of Troy. [Athene] would utter her loud cry. And over against her spouted Ares, dread as a dark whirlwind, calling with shrill tones to the Trojans. Thus did the blessed gods urge on the two hosts to clash in battle, and amid them made grievous strife to burst forth. Then terribly thundered the father of gods and men from on high; and from beneath did Poseidon cause the vast earth to quake, and the steep crests of the mountains. All the roots of many-fountained Ida were shaken, and all her peaks, and the city of the Trojans, and the ships of the Achaeans. And seized with fear in ...
67. A Concordance Of Disaster [Journals] [Kronos]
... 4:2 years of noise. There is no end to noise. PI 6: 1 Oh, that the earth would cease from noise, and tumult (uproar) be no more. T 973 With distance [from the hypocenter] the noise grew perceptible, then shattering. From three miles it sounded like the rumbling of unworldly thunder; at four miles it was a distant moan which crew into a jarring boom . . . several miles offshore, salvagers . . . heard a deafening "thunderbolt" clap. R 4:1 . . . and, behold, a door was opened in heaven; and the first voice that I heard was, as it ...
68. Natural Catastrophes in the Ninth Century AD C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the night sky and for 837 AD and the transition to the following year, they continued: A mighty whirlwind kept breaking out, and a comet was seen, sending out a great tail to the east, which to human eyes looked as it was three cubits long … The winter was wet and windy, and on 21 January thunder was heard, just as on 18 February loud thunder could be heard. And the excessive heat of the Sun scorched the Earth, and there were earthquakes in some parts of the land, and fire in the shape of a dragon was seen in the air...and the distress and misfortune of men grew daily in many ...
69. Catastrophe: An Investigation Into The Origins Of The Modern World (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... , and unripened fruits that withered on the vines. All bemoaned the distress of the times. The Javanese author and poet, Ranggawarsita III, from a familial legacy of generations of authors and poets, compiled The Book of Ancient Kings in the nineteenth century, the 1869 manuscript portion of which describes an event in the Shaka calendar of tremendous thunder, furious earthquakes, tornadic winds, and torrential rain that ripped apart the once integral island of Java-Sumatra, the mountains and plains of which sank into the sea. A later version written in the 1880s is descriptively colored by the 1883 modern eruption of Krakatoa. Chinese annals of the earlier period also speak of distant thunder and, in ...
70. The Spark, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken.... He bowed the heavens also, and came down .. . he did fly upon the wings of the wind.... At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire .. . and he shot out lightnings. . . . Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered."(3 ) "The voice of the Lord is powerful. . . . The ...
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