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38 pages of results. 311. Radiohalos And Earth History [Journals] [Kronos]
... (nuclear fusion) on Earth. (The possibility that similar discharges to the Moon may be held responsible for concentrations of radioactivity on that body has been discussed elsewhere.(25)) Might we not imagine that new polonium (and uranium, too, for that matter) was created on Earth, and in place, by powerful thunderbolts? It seems unnecessary to speculate that all parentless polonium must date from recent (historical) electrical events. If fusion was achieved catastrophically in historical times, it undoubtedly was achieved in earlier times as well, perhaps under comparable circumstances or perhaps on vastly larger scales. The point to be considered is that electric discharges of cosmic proportions should ...
... that "a shower of meteorites flew toward the earth" (p . 51). That there rained from the sky, "a rain of bitumen" (p . 54). That there fell "strange rains and hails and showers inexorably and utterly consumed with fire" (p . 55). That there were exchanges of thunderbolts between the Earth and the comet. All of this fire and electric lighting bolts would have destroyed most of the available helium. In this regard, it was reported in the journal New Scientist that, "Physicists studying the upper atmosphere have to explain how the Earth came to lose nearly all its helium. They have tried to argue ...
313. Before the Day Breaks(1) -- A Perspective [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... who could dismiss Velikovsky's concepts with both physics and mathematics. In April, 1955, Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth L. Franklin's discovery of Jupiter's magnetic field was dramatically announced in the April 6 issue of The New York Times. For Velikovsky, this news was extremely important. It confirmed his view that Jupiter, the ancient hurler of thunderbolts in mythology, was electrified, that is, charged. With this confirmation in hand, Velikovsky made an appointment to meet Einstein and acquaint him with the discovery. Their meeting was arranged for April 8, 1955, in the late noon. At that meeting, Einstein said, "I have again read Worlds in Collision. It ...
314. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Joseph [Books]
... wouldst not have been sold twice for a petty sum." And then their fury against him increased, they beat him and maltreated him, and he wept bitter tears. Now God looked upon the distress of Joseph, and He sent darkness to enshroud the land once more. A storm raged, the lightning flashed, and from the thunderbolts the whole earth trembled, and the Ishmaelites lost their way in their terror. The beasts and the camels stood still, and, beat them as their drivers would, they refused to budge from the spot, but crouched down upon the ground. Then the Ishmaelites spake to one another, and said: "Why hath God brought ...
315. Sagan's "Ten Plagues" [Journals] [Kronos]
... gentle. In insisting that only impacts can produce enormous craters, Sagan ignores Velikovsky's descriptions of the powerful electric discharges that played between the head and tail of comet Venus. Certainly impact-cratering is now in its heyday as the explanation for practically every circular feature observed on planetary surfaces. But the time will surely come when the role of "Jovian thunderbolts" in producing many such effects in the solar system will be recognized. As noted before, electric discharge answers the argument that, if one planet suffers abundant cratering at a given time, the next planet, too, or its moon, must also become similarly scarred. The bombardment hypothesis is built on the statistics of imagined fluxes ...
316. Ancient Myths And Legends Of The African Bantu People [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... AND OANANUA AND THE MANTIS When Kanya slays Oananua, the Mantis reappears, a battle takes place as in the battle between Marduk and Tiamat, the dragon,(10) Vishnu and the Serpent,(11) and Isis and Seth.(12) When a ball of fire tore the pillar of cloud and pelted the pillar with thunderbolts, the imagination of the people saw in this planet-god Jupiter-Marduk rushing to save the Earth by killing the serpent monster Typhon-Tiamat.(13) The Egyptian Venus-Isis, the Babylonian Venus-Ishtar, the Greek Venus-Athene were goddesses pictured with serpents, and sometimes represented as dragons." These descriptions of the battles are almost identical in pattern to Kanya and ...
317. On Morrison: Some Further Remarks [Journals] [Kronos]
... what has actually been found at Volsinium, one may wonder whether the cinders and the lava and the columns of basalt could possibly be the remains of the contact Pliny mentions . . ." No scientist has even bothered to examine Lake Bolsena in this light, although one of Velikovsky's readers did so and reported further findings in support of the thunderbolt idea. Morrison (p . 169): ". . . The great age of the [lunar] crust can also be inferred, qualitatively, from the presence of a regolith of shattered and broken rock many meters thick. It requires a very long time since the crust was last molten to crush and stir that much rock ...
318. Confessions Of A Philosophical Velikovskian [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... sources, says that Typhon appeared at the time of the Exodus; and another associates the catastrophes brought by Typhon with the ten plagues of Egypt.28 It appears that a colossal electrical discharge made the heaped-up waters fall-as is commemorated not only in the book of Exodus 29 but in myths and legends worldwide-a god is said to have hurled his thunderbolt at an overwhelmed world in Greece, Iceland, Russia, Finland, Germany, and India.30 Probably no claim of Velikovsky's has excited more disbelief, not to say ridicule, than that the comet became the planet Venus. On what is this claim based? The early traditions of Mexico say that Venus smoked,31 provoking Alexander ...
319. Velikovsky and Venus: A Preliminary Report on the Pioneer Probes [Journals] [Kronos]
... course of great discharges, as narrated in ancient sources (Old Testament and Homer among them), resulted from smashing two oxygen atoms into one atom of sulfur. I assumed that, on Jupiter and on Venus, sulfur must be present; on Jupiter because it acquired much of the water of Saturn after Saturn exploded, and in great thunderbolts [see Science News, Vol. 115, 3/17/79, p.172; Ibid., 5/5 /79, p. 294; Ibid., 5/12/79, p. 312; New Scientist, 4/5 /79, p. 22] converted the oxygen of the ...
320. Night of the Gods: The Stone [Books]
... as charms and gri-gris of the diviners and astrologers. Creuzer quoted Moue's authority for the suspension of many aerolites in our day in the German churches.6 The fall of aerolites, generally accompanied by the visible luminousness of the meteor and an explosion, was confounded in past times with thunder,7 and the popular belief still is that the thunderbolt is a stone. Bottiger 8and F. Lenormant considered that the Cretan legend of the Kronos-swallowed divine Zeus-stone arose in an aerolitic baitulos there adored as an image of Zeus or as Zeus himself. The stone adored on Ida appears to have had the same origin.9At Pessinonte a stone fallen from the heavens was adored as the image of ...
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