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39 pages of results. 71. The Collapsed Sky, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... the sky which annihilated the human race. The Wanyoro in Unyoro likewise relate that the sky fell on the earth and killed everybody: the god Kagra threw the firmament upon the earth to destroy mankind.(10) The tradition of the Cashinaua, the aborigines of western Brazil, is narrated as follows: "The lightnings flashed and the thunders roared terribly and all were afraid. Then the heaven burst and the fragments fell down and killed everything and everybody. Heaven and earth changed places. Nothing that had life was left upon the earth."(11) In this tradition are included the same elements: the lightnings and thunderings, "the bursting of heaven," ...
72. The Birth of Athena [Journals] [Aeon]
... and that her name is the same as the Vedic Ahana, is as certain as anything can be in comparative mythology. (8 ) More recent scholars have been reluctant to accept a "naturist" interpretation of Athena's birth. (9 ) Farnell's criticism is typical of the modern position on this matter: Whether Athena is regarded as the thunder or the lightning, the aether or the dawn, she can leap from the head of Zeus with equal appropriateness. But let any one take whichever he pleases of these various hypotheses and then work it out rigorously through point to point of the myth, and he will stumble on hopeless inconsistencies. (10) The truth is, ...
73. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... tremble and the earth to quake, By the gleam which lightens in the sky, By the blazing fire which rains upon the hostile land, I am Ishtar." (39) Ishtar finds a well-known parallel in Sumerian literature, where the warrior-goddess Inanna personified the planet Venus. In one Sumerian hymn the goddess was invoked as the Loud Thundering Storm: "You make the heavens tremble and the earth quake. Great Priestess, who can soothe your troubled heart? You flash like lightning over the highlands; you throw your firebrands across the earth. Your deafening commandsplits apart great mountains." (40) The Exaltation to Inanna associates the planet-goddess with a rain of fire, ...
74. Aphrodite Urania [Journals] [Aeon]
... described in conjunction with storm-like imagery. Witness the following passage: "Devastatrix of the lands, you are lent wings by the storm...you fly about the nation. At the sound of you the lands bow down. Propelled on your own wings you peck away at the land. With a roaring storm you roar; with Thunder you continually thunder." [62] Now I ask: Would anyone viewing the planet Venus in its current manifestations ever be moved to describe it in such terms? It is also noteworthy that storm-like imagery attaches to the mourning goddess' hair. Witness the passage from Dumuzi's Dream describing Geshinanna's lamentations, quoted here in full: " ...
75. Collective Amnesia: A Brief History of the Concept [Journals] [Kronos]
... which, in turn, finds reinforcement in Vico's concept of imaginative universals. Whereas Velikovsky contends that any conscious recollection of the global cataclysms he describes has been thwarted by the psychological trauma induced by the events themselves, Vico maintains that many of man's key myths are the result of his primal ancestor's awe when confronted by fearful natural phenomena such as thunder.(10) And if both Vico and Velikovsky are correct, the great catastrophes depicted by the latter would be a far more logical trigger for the collective repression indicated in their studies than localized natural phenomena related to ordinary floods, storms, and vulcanism.(11) Unlike Vico's New Science, Donnelly's Ragnarok: The Age of ...
76. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... stone that Muhammad took off for heaven on his horse El Baruq. The Hebrew baraq means lightning. Muhammad is not the only person of whom it was said that he ascended to heaven in a miraculous way. The prophet Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. Romulus was said to have disappeared during a storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, when he was holding a meeting with the people on the Goat's Fen. It is possible that we have a clue to these occurrences in the Etruscan word prezu, Greek prester, tornado. A tornado is associated with turbulent electrical conditions in a severe storm. There may also be a link with stories about the world ...
77. Typhon and the Comet of the Exodus: Rockenbach's Lost Source [Journals] [Aeon]
... . As before, Typhon fled, this time to Mount Nysa, and from there to Mount Haemus in Thrace. Uprooting entire mountains, he flung them bodily at Zeus as he fled, but Zeus interposed his thunderbolts and the mountains rebounded, hitting Typhon and wounding him more badly than before. [37] Jupiter/Zeus- the thunderer. (From a bronze statuette discovered in 1830 beside a spring in Verona.) Athena- who taunted Zeus for his cowardice. The fury of the battle is described by Hesiod in these words: "[ Zeus] thundered mightily and fiercely, and the earth rang terribly. Broad heaven above, the sea, and Ocean's streams ...
78. Solar Eclipses and the Historical Record [Journals] [Horus]
... darkness all over the earth. The nearest visible eclipse in the vicinity of Constantinople occurred the year before. At the death of Roland at the battle of Roncevales, dated August 15, 778, Turoldus (ca. 1100) writes that the following events happened: ". .. great and marvelous trouble: a storm of wind and thunder, of immeasurable wind and hail; lightning strokes came close and fast, and there was truly a great earthquake from Mount St. Michael to Seinz... there was not a house where walls did not burst. About noon there was a great darkness; there was light only when the heavens were rent. . . " ...
79. CLASHING MAGNETIC FIELDS [Journals] [Aeon]
... to such a degree, that he caused it to tremble, and made them to shake, insomuch that by its trembling, he made some unable to keep their feet, and made them fall down, and by opening its chasms, he caused that others should be hurried down into them; AFTER WHICH HE CAUSED SUCH A NOISE OF THUNDER TO COME AMONG THEM, AND MADE FIERY LIGHTNING SHINE SO TERRIBLY ROUND ABOUT THEM, that it was ready to burn their faces, and he so suddenly shook their weapons out of their hands, that he made them fly and return home naked." Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book VI, Chapter II, p. ...
80. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... god who may be Pluto, god of the underworld. The name Summanus suggests the Manes or Di Manes, the Good Ones, spirits of the departed. The name would be suitable not only for a form of Zeus, but also for Poseidon, Velchanos, or Dionysus, all of whom were associated with lightning, and with subterranean thunder. There will be more later about Dionysus and his close relationship with Zeus. There are various accounts of the birth and upbringing of Zeus. According to one version he was brought up on the island of Naxos, where he had the name of Zeus Melosios. Another is that he was actually born in Crete. According to Antoninus ...
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