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102 pages of results. 201. Polymathics and Catastrophism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Problems of Evolutionary Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... of most but not all subtaxa of a given taxon. An example of this evolutionary process is provided by the ginkgoales, an order of Mesozoic gymnosperms that appeared in the Permian Period, reached its peak in the Jurassic, declined throughout the Cenozoic Era, and is represented today solely by the cultivated Chinese ornamental plant Ginkgo biloba, the maidenhair tree. This, in turn, may be called tertiary extinction. A table of major extinctions during the 600,000,000 years of the Phanerozoic macro-era follows: PHANEROZOIC EXTINCTIONS* Era Period Epoch Taxon Rank Paleozoic Cambrian helicoplacoid (spiral echinoderms) class Ordovician protomedusan (earliest jelly-fish) class Silurian cystoid (spherical echinoderms) class Devonian graptolite ...
202. Velikovsky: Hero or Heretic? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... mountains disrupt the flow of air around the globe and often cause climatic changes. Volcanoes accompanying mountain-building also spew dust into the air, shielding the ground from the Sun's rays and cooling the climate. Is there any evidence of such sudden changes during the fifteenth or the eighth century BC? Students of ancient climates have found that the thickness of tree rings is a reliable measure of climate. In good years the rings are thick, and in bad years they are thin. Dr Velikovsky mentions that tree-ring measurements indicate unusual climate changes at the end of the eighth century BC, during the period when near encounters occurred between Mars and the Earth, according to his theory [9 ] ...
203. Tiahuanacu In The Andes. Ch.6 Mountains And Rifts (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... In Peru "aerial surveys in the dry belt west of the Andes have shown an unexpected number of old ruins, and an almost incredible number of terraces for cultivation.".17 When Darwin mounted the Uspallata Range, 7 000 feet high in the Andes, and looked down on the plain of Argentina from a little forest of petrified trees broken off a few feet above the ground, he wrote in his Journal: "It required little geological practice to interpret the marvellous story which this scene at once unfolded; though I confess I was at first so much astonished that I could scarcely believe the plainest evidence. I saw the spot where a cluster of fine trees once ...
204. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... epoch. How long did it last? It seems from the legends Cardona cited that people did, in fact, start keeping track of time in this period of continuous day. Also, at what point did the maelstrom at the North Pole appear? Did it visibly reach Mars? It seems clear that the legends about a world "tree" (i .e . a gnarled trunk), "serpent," "dragon," "chaos monster," and "mountain" are describing the same phenomenon, the maelstrom in the north. But I'm confused as to how Venus' "hair" comes into the picture. Isn't that supposed to be the cometary ...
205. The Revelation of John (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (12) And when he had opened the sixth seal .. . there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the Moon became as blood; (13)And the stars of heaven fell unto the Earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. (14) And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. (15) And the kings of the Earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and ...
206. A Maya Record of Two Thousand Years? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... study of glacial varves Schove (1978) found that the 11th century B.C . was indeed very cold, describing it as a "Little Ice Age." The Chinese record of other drops in temperature before our era was not sharp enough or deep enough to expect a useful correlation with climate in Mesoamerica, but the record of tree ring growth in California might be expected to reflect extraordinary fluctuations in temperature as far south as Yucatan. In principle, measuring the thickness of successive tree rings reveals climatic changes and also dates them if the series extends continuously to the present. In practice, climate reflected by tree-ring growth, specifically temperature, is best done with bristlecone pine ...
207. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... (84) This latter stipulation presents a problem, inasmuch as the current sun bears little relation to the north polar axis. And yet the Hindu sources are quite emphatic about this point: indeed it was said that the sun both rose and set upon Meru. (85) Other prominent images associated with the World Pillar include the World Tree or Celestial Spring. Eliade offered the following summary of this symbolism: "The symbolism of the World Tree is complementary to that of the Central Mountain. Sometimes the two symbols coincide; usually they complement each other. But both are merely more developed mythical formulations of the Cosmic Axis (World Pillar, etc.)." ( ...
208. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... an insubstantial column of inestimable strength, the tether by which the pendulum of a world was suspended. It would have been viewed by the ancients as a stairway to the stars in the manner of Jacob's ladder; an extension of the shimmering World Mountain- the Axis Mundi; as a land of fire and ice, and as a cosmic tree whose "ornaments" sparkled brightly in the mists which surrounded it- the prototype and eponym of our latter-day Christmas Tree. To the observers in the Orient it was the magnificent phallic lingam penetrating the celestial yoni, cosmically wrapped in a yin and yang embrace. It was many things to many peoples, but the symbolisms were unquestionably identical ...
209. Catastrophism and the Mammoths - I (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... mammoth provide an accurate profile of the vegetation in antiquity if the creature may be regarded as an indiscriminate feeder (were no plants unpalatable and hence avoided?). However, Cardona negates even this picture by implying that the habitat of the woolly mammoth was heavily forested, his evidence for which is limited to his quotation from Wrangell that petrified trees have been found in "strata, some 180 feet deep".(39) Geological strata at such depths are thousands of years older than the mammoth and have no bearing upon the subject under discussion. Heuvelmans, it is true, attempted to show that Mammuthus primigenius was a creature of the forests but it requires more than the ...
210. Odin [Journals] [Kronos]
... understood here as the same Saturnian coronal enclosure. The Eddas expressly state that Asgard was built "in the Centre of the World"(39) rendered by others as the "centre of the Universe"(40) - "where Odin sat on his throne seeing over the whole world".(41) The central or Cosmic Tree, which I have elsewhere presented as a manifestation of Saturn's Polar Configuration,(42) is here known as Yggdrasil and was directly connected with Odin.(43) Asgard itself, as is to be expected, was said to have been perched at the top of Yggdrasil.(44) On this tree, Odin was said ...
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