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102 pages of results. 121. The 360 Day Year: An Ambiguity Resolved [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... swiftly and unknowingly to daylength changes. The suggestion of a free running cycle as a vestige of past conditions is intriguing, but other explanations are at hand, such as tidal cues from the zenithal moon (the lunar day is also 24.9 hours). Most measurements of duration derive from the earth's motion- but not all. Tree ring data give dates in terms of orbits, whereas atomic disintegration rates are independent of orbital changes. Tree ring records go back to 5000 B.C . and the wood making these rings can be independently dated by the carbon 14 method. The latter is calibrated to present year length, so that any orbital alteration in the past ...
122. Spatters And Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ) Upon close examination, one can see the spatters. The flower-like spatters and trisms make gardens and parkland a common artistic theme. These forms also appear in depictions of the Garden or Bower of Venus, portrayals of the Flower and Fruit Mountain of the Chinese monkey god, Wu Kong, art showing the proliferation of all kinds of cosmic trees and works depicting garden paradises such as the Garden of Eden. Figure 65 is my depiction of the Bell-shaped Goddess, a Boeotian terra cotta statue. A large spatter appears between the two stylised ladies, on the right-hand section of the bell, as do smaller ones beneath their linked hands. The smaller spatters appear to be leaking. ...
123. Making Moonshine with Hard Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... hurled a discuss awfully far.) EXCERPTS FROM THE SPURIOUS JOURNAL OF KAKRATES Tablet ? . My friend Mikelson and I were drinking a bit heavily last night and I bet him that I could produce a good all-purpose calendar without the resources of a holy temple at my disposal. From a window of my house, I can see a skinny tree on the eastern horizon that I can use for orientation. Tablet ? . I have observed the sunrise every day. I noted that after 365.25 days (or was it 365.24 or 365.26?)[3 ] the rim of the sun peeks up at the edge of the tree again from the left ...
124. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... in the forked form that we see close to earth, or in the almond shape of the plasmoid for long range interplanetary exchanges [Greek amygdale, almond, is the sceptre of the god above']. The Zeus Velchanos, the Zeus of the caves and split rocks, gradually faded away. Perhaps the ritual uprooting of the sacred tree in a dance symbolises the failure of the poros, the column of holy fire from sky to earth. Several places in Crete claimed to be the home of the infant Zeus Velchanos. Hesiod suggests Goat's Mountain. This is probably Dikte, where there is a cave, Psychro. The Idaean cave on Psiloriti, the Kamares cave near ...
125. When The Comet Fell Ch.11 (The Riddle of the Earth) [Books]
... a mild, warm, and sub-tropical climate, experienced an age of violent storms, floods and bitter cold, whereby the British Isles and large parts of the Continent were buried under vast accumulations of ice. This Ice Age was succeeded by another period of warmth and sub-tropical produce, all the different varieties of animals, birds, insects, trees, flowering plants and vegetables having miraculously survived these extremes. Once more there fell- some say several times- the icey mantle over continents and once more the various types survived. Some geologists credit the Ice Age with three periods, others six or more, and some do not hesitate to spread this extraordinary period over hundreds of thousands of years ...
126. King Solomon's Mines? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Editor asked for more information on the book "My People". That book is in fact only a third (the middle section) of "Indaba, My Children" by Vuzumazulu Credo Mutwa, published by Blue Crane Books of Johannesburg. This fascinating book is a long history of Mutwa's tribe; after a wonderful poem on "The Tree of Life", a sort of Genesis myth, the first part contains the story of the "first red people". In the African tradition related by Mutwa, the "First Red Race" - the Amarire - became extinct after their crippled tyrant created "living metal locusts" (Spacecraft) and sent them into space to ...
127. Part I: The Drift [Ragnarok] [Books]
... I remarked that the irregular manner in which the stones were scattered through that deposit imparted to it a confused and tumultuous appearance. The clay does not arrange itself in layers or beds, but is distinctly unstratified."2 "The material consisted of earth, gravel, and stones, and also in some places broken trunks or branches of trees. Part of it was deposited in a pell-mell or un-stratified condition during the progress of the period, and part either stratified or un-stratified in the opening part of the next period when the ice melted."3 " The un-stratified drift may be described as a heterogeneous mass of clay, with sand and gravel in varying proportions, inclosing ...
... . Shamans and Smiths 113 IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top 137 X. The Twilight of the Gods 149 XI. Samson Under Many Skies 165 XII. Socrates' Last Tale 179 XIII. Of Time and the Rivers 192 XIV. The Whirlpool 204 XV. The Waters from the Deep 213 XVI. The Stone and the Tree 225 XVII. The Frame of the Cosmos 230 XVIII. The Galaxy 242 XIX. The Fall of Phaethon 250 XX. The Depths of the Sea 263 XXI. The Great Pan Is Dead 275 XXII. The Adventure and the Quest 288 XXIII. Gilgamesh and Prometheus 317 Epilogue: The Lost Treasure 326 Conclusion 344 Appendices 351 Bibliography 453 ...
129. Annotated Bibliography for Catastrophism [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... and that the 27,000 year old Blanchard plaque records lunar cycles. Brown continues with a discussion of the role of meteorites in early historic times, the "ley lines" of Alfred Watkins and others, as well as giving brief attention to pyramidology, Velikovsky, and the Pan-Babylonians. Butterworth, E. A. S. The Tree at the Navel of the Earth. Walter de Gruyter and Co., Berlin, 1970. Butterworth considers the mythology of the World Tree and the Tree of Life with emphasis on Asiatic variants. He also discusses important symbols (the lunar crescent, the bowl, the sun, the thunderbolt) and the relationship of the world tree ...
130. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... To summarize very briefly: palaces, royal cities, and even simple houses were believed to stand at the Center of the World', on the summit of the Cosmic Mountain." (43) As Eliade documents, the Cosmic Mount may take various mythical forms, some of the more common being a giant pillar, a heaven sustaining tree, or a great spring spanning the skies. Besides being the "Center of the World" and the dwelling-place of the gods, the Cosmic Mount also formed the link between the earth, heaven and the underworld (the axis mundi). Ancient Mesopotamia, in fact, provides some of the best examples of this symbolism: " ...
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