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38 pages of results. 251. The Hebrew Patriarchs in Greek Tradition (Part I) [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in the environs of Sodom, which was a city displeasing to God. To wreak vengeance on it, Raphael the archangel of the Sun and Gabriel the archangel of the Moon [18], came and "the rain that was streaming down upon the two cities was changed into brimstone... [19] God then cast a thunderbolt on the city and set it on fire with all its inhabitants" [20] Figure 1: Greek and Hebrew Genealogies Superimposed +---+ | Melia = Haran (Inachus) Abraham = Sarai | | (Brahma = Sri) | |+ Asterion | | | | | ---+ Reumah = Nahor = Milcah Idith = Lot | Ishmael ...
252. Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... sheaths would actually be more likely to take place than a direct, bodily collision, and in any case it would occur first. When the moment arrived for the inevitable encounter, sheaths would make contact. Unleashed electric fields would clash. Almost instantly, forces immeasurably greater than gravitation would be brought to bear on the charged bodies. Cosmic thunderbolts would flash between the bodies in an effort to equalize their electric potentials. The list of unthinkably disastrous effects that would result could go on and on. The point to be made, however, is that Worlds in Collision- at least in my opinion- documents historical evidence to indicate that phenomena associated with spacecharge-sheath destruction were actually suffered and survived ...
253. Reconsidering Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to that of Newton and Halley. Evidence of natural disasters in historical times was found by Claude Schaeffer in all the excavation sites in the Middle East. Victor Clube drew to our attention many past events which could be associated with comets. Pictures were shown from the Middle Ages connecting Armageddon with fire from heaven, armies in the sky, thunderbolts, etc. In addition, Chinese astronomers have kept comet and fireball records for a long time. The Dark Age in Great Britain in the 5th century AD was caused, in Clube's view, by a fireball striking East Anglia. Only in the last 20 years the scientific paradigm of most disciplines has been changing to take account of ...
254. Crazy Heroes of Dark Times [Books] [de Grazia books]
... would be affected when this madness was presented to it as normality and for inspiration. We shall proceed now to enumerate and describe briefly a number of psychological and social indications that we are dealing with human beings behaving in the aftermath of catastrophe. The Homeric Greeks developed a pantheon of skygods and assumed that these gods would continuously manifest themselves by thunderbolts, showers of arrows, tidal waves, earthquakes, meteorites, and so on. They venerated all sky signs and objects from the sky, such as meteoric iron and stones. The earth itself was a living animal and thoroughly animated in its parts [17]. A number of gods and demi-gods contributed to a continual geological and ...
255. The Past Comes Down [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... architecture, the existence of which we had been unable to suspect because of the confusing influence of our hitherto reigning chronology (101). At the same time a thesis is put forward, which understands the erection of menhirs in a cataclysmic context, namely as a re-enactment, re-establishing harmony of some threatening cosmic phenomenon (113). The thunderbolt, hurled from the sky, is first raised by man, in an imitating-anticipating manner, and later undergoes a metamorphosis and becomes the stake for human sacrifice, the venerated sacrificial column, and the dependable support of the sky (115). In this view the dolmens have originally been shelters, the erection of which continued well into ...
256. Plato (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... . Take, for instance, the story, current also among you, of how once upon atime Phaethon,18 the son of Helios, attempted to drive his father's chariot, but was not able to keep it to the wonted track and so set fire to everything on the face of the earth, till he was annihilated by a thunderbolt. [22d] This sounds very much like a mere fable-but as a matter of fact it describes a deviation from their courses of the heavenly bodies which revolve round the 19 earth, such as occurs after certain long intervals and causes destruction upon the earththrough a great conflagration. At such occasions those who live high up in the mountains ...
257. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations [Journals] [Aeon]
... a Newtonian mind-set in which the skies are considered to be safe because the cosmos is thought to function like clockwork. As Matthews said, children tend to be frightened by thunder and lightning, but once the mechanism of these phenomena is explained and understood, that fear tends to disappear despite the fact that one may still get zapped by a thunderbolt. Like previous and present catastrophists, Matthews, too, invokes worldwide myths of a great flood and a judgment day which seem to indicate that something colossal must have ravaged the Earth in historical times. Answers as to what this earth-shaking catastrophe could have been need to be sought in archaeology, anthropology, geophysics, climatology, and celestial ...
258. Jupiter in Collision: In Search of Velikovsky's Comet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... mention of a glowing body with a tail. It is no wonder then that Velikovsky calls on the mysterious pillar' for help. Yet it is not Exodus he turns to in reconstructing the days of Exodus and Joshua but to the great Greek tradition of the fight between Zeus and Typhon. He inserted this account of a central god throwing thunderbolts and great balls of fire at an encircling deity as an explanation of how a comet loses and regains its tail: Some saw the pillar of cloud - Typhon defeated by Jupiter, the ball of fire that emerged from the pillar and battled with it. Others interpreted the globe as a body different from Jupiter. .. . the ...
259. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... story that is told in your country [Greece] as well as ours [Egypt], how once upon a time Phaeton, son of Helios, yoked his father's chariot, and, because he was unable to drive it along the course taken by his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth and himself perished by a thunderbolt- that story, as it is told, has the style of a legend, but the truth of it lies in the occurrence of a shifting of the bodies in the heavens which move around the earth by fierce fire, which recurs at long intervals." (40) A universal flood most probably was not on Plato's mind ...
... was Cronus-Saturn, the Baal of the O.T ., who was worshipped by Cha]deans, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Edomites, Greeks, Egyptians, and Britons under one name or another. He represented the Sun, and although he was conceived as the donor of life also was he a deity who when displeased slew with his thunderbolts and required to be propitiated in various ways, mainly by human sacrifice, It is uncertain whether he was Baal Molech, the "King", as some scholars contend perhaps with justification that Molech was the Tyrian Hercules, but we read of his smoking altars, and again he is regarded as Zeus Laphystios, "gluttonous for human ...
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