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38 pages of results. 161. Legends and Scripture [Books] [de Grazia books]
... culture to which a myth and legend belonged no longer exists to explain to us the difference between the two; myths and legends intermingle in a flow through time which we experience much later and find indistinctly composed of both. The famous myth of Phaeton, who drives the Sun's chariot, burns up the Earth, and is destroyed by a thunderbolt of Zeus, is by common standards today an entertaining myth, but appears upon investigation more and more as a legend supporting an historical intrusion of a cometary body upon the Earth's atmosphere. Sacred scripture consists of authoritative prescriptions of various compounds of legend and myth, frequently describing rites and commands for their recital, together with moral judgments. ...
162. Myths of the Great Fire (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... Brahmâ, by fire issuing from the mouth of the serpent Sesha. In Greek mythology we have the story of Phaëthon, the One', who, being allowed to drive the solar' chariot once, came so near the Earth that he would have burnt it, if he had not been speedily killed by Zeus by means of a thunderbolt. The Stoics and many other ancient philosophers taught that the world was doomed to destruction by fire. In the Old High German poem Muspilli the Great Fire figures prominently. In the Avesta, the Holy Book of the Aryan Persians, we find the story of a great fiery dragon which rose in the south and destroyed everything. It ...
163. The Love Affair as the Mask of Tragedy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the marriage was first consummated and we have not recovered from that marriage of the gods yet. Jupiter stays away. He is retiring more and more. He has claimed to set up the order of the skies, such as it is. He is scarcely responsible, it seems to us, for he should return to strike Mars with thunderbolts and drive him away. Instead of the conflict being adjudicated, it will have to be compromised. Other gods gather. Actually they do not. But memories of them do because of the terror of our experience. New terrors pile upon the old and explode them. Here we see Hermes and Apollo, the lucky and the wise ...
164. Society News: SIS Autumn Conference 2000 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fundamental attributes of matter. Electric arc machining' can explain the various features we see on planets and on asteroids; craters that would have destroyed a body had they been created by the impact of another, were in fact made by electrical discharges. The most striking such feature is the Valles Marineris on Mars which was excavated by a gigantic thunderbolt that threw immense masses of rock into space, some of which is probably still travelling and is occasionally deposited on Earth in the form of meteorites. The most obvious example of electric cratering is Jupiter's moon Io, though astronomers persist in describing the clearly electric activity as volcanic'. There were many lively questions regarding this magnificent presentation, ...
165. The Creation of the Earth -- the Second Account [Books]
... . Therefore the gods, meeting in council, decided upon her destruction. But none of the great gods was able to overcome her. Finally Marduk, the youngest of the gods, killed her, he entangled her in the meshes of a net, forced open her jaws and fiIled her body with a hurricane, and finally shot a thunderbolt into her heart. (Note 13) Having become supreme god through his great victory, he set about immediately to create a new heaven and Earth, the former heaven and Earth having been destroyed by Tjimat. Like a flatfish he split her body in two. Out of one half he formed the Earth, but the other half ...
166. Origins of the Red Dragon Symbol? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... in the Firmament with Mary Magdalene"; - all in the D.W . Nash translation. While in the Lady Guest translation we find "my original country is the region of the summer stars" and "I have been on the Galaxy at the throne of the Distributor". The distributor of what? Comets? Meteors? Thunderbolts? Fireballs? I feel that with so many astronomical references in the poem they must have been intended by the composer, and most importantly, also understood by many of those listening at the time - even if this were only so for the bardo-druidic initiates. We feel at the Morien Institute that all the above references in Welsh folklore ...
167. Untitled [Books]
... the clash of magnetospheres and electrostatic attraction and repulsion [21]. Velikovsky refers to such events in Worlds in Collision, where he discusses the transformation of Phaethon into the Morning Star. This transformation is related by Hyginus in his Astronomy, where he tells how Phaethon, that caused the conflagration of the world, was struck, by a thunderbolt of Jupiter and was placed by the sun among the stars (planets).[22] Helena duly appears in the clearing, shining indeed like Venus, and Demetrius awakens and sees her, and in an instant shifts his attention to her, or becomes attracted to her. Thus, she now exerts a strong attraction for both ...
168. A Concordance Of Disaster [Journals] [Kronos]
... 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 were, of a trumpet . . . which said, Come up here, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter . . . R 16: ...
169. The Ruined Face of a Classic Beauty [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , the negative electrons will "flee" from each other. Assuming that Mars, with an atmosphere, and a larger surface, more readily permitted its electrons to flee to regions far removed from the nearest points of contact, positive ions would congregate and set up an anode-cathode relationship, that is, a situation matured for an exchange of thunderbolts. The rilles ditches erupted by a rapidly moving and charge-accumulating current. Craters are the spots where the exchange of opposite charges, attracted for discharge, occurred, usually at prominences of the two bodies. A map of the major rilles of the moon shows a concentration of them in the general area of the great crater, Aristarchus. ...
170. Horeb: The Mountain of God [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Fire of God' which is said to have covered the peak of Horeb during the Israelites' sojourn there. For me, a student of the works of Velikovsky, the evidence was scarcely less sensational. What force could have melted the rocks at the Jebel's summit, leaving them resembling volcanic glass? The most immediate answer is the interplanetary thunderbolts which, Velikovsky insisted, were a fundamentally important (and terrifying) part of the phenomena surrounding the Exodus. An elevated spot like a mountain-top would of course be one of the prime targets of such divine' bolts. And this is fully confirmed by the Book of Exodus [3 ]. There we are told: Now at ...
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