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38 pages of results. 211. The Cosmic Double Helix [Journals] [Aeon]
... due to a transformation of the stemmata or scrolls which hang beneath the Circle. Now...these latter, in the Winged Globes of Western Asia, are themselves a metamorphosis of the Egyptian uraei." [60] D'Alviella later changed his mind, saying that the caduceus "has alternately been considered to be an equivalent of the Thunderbolt, a form of the Sacred Tree, a contraction of the Scarab, a combination of the solar Globe and the Crescent of the moon, and so forth." [61] "All these derivations may have some foundation in fact. I once attempted to connect it with the Winged Globe, as a mere hypothesis, to ...
212. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Six [Books]
... resound; not with thy gentler hand/ That tempers its assault upon the homes/ Of innocent men, but with that hand of wrath/ Which overthrew the triple-mountained pile./ Ay, and the mountain- topping Giants too,/ Prepare thy weapons and discharge thy fires./ Avenge the darkness of this stolen day./ Send thunderbolts and lightnings to supply/ The place of this lost sun. Thou hast no need/ To weigh the issue; count us guilty, both;/ Or else on me alone pronounce thy sentence./ Strike at this head, let triple forks of fire/ Impale this breast- how else should I expect/ To give my ...
213. The Sibylline Oracles [Books]
... his anger the immortal God who dwells on high shall hurl from the sky a fiery bolt on the head of the unholy: and summer shall change to winter in 300 that day. And then great woe † shall befall mortal men: for He that thunders from on high shall destroy all the shameless, with thunderings and lightnings and burning thunderbolts upon his enemies, and shall make an end of them for their ungodliness, so that the corpses shall 305 lie on the earth more countless than the sand. For Smyrna shall come, lamenting her Lycurgus (? shepherd), to the gates of Ephesus, (? ) yet shall she perish all the more. Foolish Cyme ...
214. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... eastern United States Indians' vivid memory of the mammoth? The Indian descriptions are very graphic. They surely were describing elephants. (mammoths, mastodons and elephants are lumped together) One legend says that the agricultural Indians complained bitterly to the Great Spirit against the mammoth damaging their corn fields. The Great Spirit then killed them off by hurling thunderbolts at them. This was told to Thomas Jefferson in Washington and Cotton Mather in New England, and that is just what is portrayed [on relics found] in the Bucks County and Holly Oaks specimens. Now why would the Indians invent a tale like that? And how could they describe the elephant as to size, trunk, ...
215. ALL Honorable Men [Books]
... arrived at another theory of recent extraterrestrial catastrophism. In 1982 British astronomers S. V. M. Clube and Bill Napier wrote a book, The Cosmic Serpent which is advertised on the inside cover blurb with the following, "The cosmic serpent was a giant comet that terrorized mankind in prehistoric times. As a fiery dragon and hurler of thunderbolts it wrought destruction and disaster upon the Earth. Comets have been the object of superstition and fascination since cavemen looked up at the night sky and saw shooting stars. ' In the intervening millennia, much information about comets has been gathered, but even today we do not properly understand these cosmic phenomena. "In the Cosmic Serpent, ...
216. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... , and he was dreadfully hungry. But after a time all this catastrophe passed away, and the earth was once more populous and beautiful. In the Peruvian legends, Apocatequil was the great god who saved them from the powers of the darkness. He restored the light. He produced the lightning by hurling stones with his sling. The thunderbolts are small, round, smooth stones.4 The stone-worship, which played so large a part in antiquity, was doubtless due to the belief that many of the stones of the earth had fallen from heaven. Dr. Schwarz, of Berlin, has shown that the lightning was associated in popular legends with the serpent. of Berlin ...
... tag "the rainy Hyades" it is because Hyades meant "watery." In the Babylonian creation epic, which antedates Samson, Marduk uses the Hyades as a boomerang-like weapon to destroy the brood of heavenly monsters. The whole story takes place among the gods. It is known, too, that Indra's powerful weapon, Vajra, the Thunderbolt made of the bones of horse-headed Dadhyank, was not of this earth (see appendix # 19 ) The story is so universal that it must be seen as spanning the globe. In South America, where bulls were still unknown, the Arawaks, the Tupi, the Quechua of Ecuador spoke of the "jaw of the tapir, ...
218. Maya Cosmos: A Saturnian Interpretation [Journals] [Aeon]
... the proper context intended by the ancient Maya, we will be obtaining mundane translations that refer to the ecliptic, the Milky Way, and the Zodiac. [4 ] More will be said about this later in the Appendix. Actually it amazes me that mythologists can read myth after myth about cosmic battles, featuring decapitated bloody bodies and blazing thunderbolts and earth-shaking catastrophes, and conclude that people around the world intended the account of this destruction to be understood as an analogy of the slow movement of the planets and stars. To me, it is far easier to believe that ancient peoples, every bit as intelligent as ourselves, actually saw something tremendous than it is to think they ...
219. Stars in an Electric Universe [Journals] [Aeon]
... observation, extending the present state step by step back in time to unravel the history of the Sun and its planets. The crucial lesson to be learned from comparative mythology is that we would not recognise the sky seen by our prehistoric ancestors. In their firmament, Saturn shone as a sun while the planet-gods fought frighteningly and catastrophically with celestial thunderbolts. It is the electrical dimension of the recent history of the solar system [3 ] that has been absent from all prior cosmogonic models. [4 ] The physics of the Electric Universe model arose out of a need to explain how the arrangement of planets can show no sign of recent major disturbance. The polymath, Immanuel Velikovsky ...
220. The Laughing Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , the literary critic would say, if Zeus should appear. Besides, Zeus was in truth absent. In the tragic setting of the Trojan War, Zeus had been engaged, acting to preserve the balance of power so as to work out the preordained plot, arbitrating, mediating. Still he is remarkably aloof, even there, his thunderbolts remembered by gods and men alike, but held in a kind of nuclear-missiles reserve. His deeds were deeply etched upon human memory but physically he was receding into the far skies. Why then, would Hermes, Apollo, and Poseidon make an appearance? MERCURY Hermes does not enter upon the action, As the planet Mercury, he ...
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