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51 pages of results. 421. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... the U.S . played its ace in the hole, its A-bomb, and took the pot. Game over and the biggest gun in town had won. This final Allied victory in the air meant more than political victory, it meant that democracy had proved that its ideas were the right ones and, with fascism buried like a dragon deep in the ground, it could now relax and build a new democratic world to imitate the heavens, a world without sudden violent fascistic change. The earth was now safe and above all, the sky was safe. The U.S . had seen to it that no more death would rain down from heaven. If the ...
422. Astroblemes of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Tektites have been unearthed along with the fossil bones of Java man. Likely their falls were witnessed by prehistoric and ancient man and the spheres treasured as sacred. The experience would be remembered. In China, they were known as "fire-pearls"; and it is a "fire-pearl" that is pursued, in traditional representations, by the dragon, associated by Cardona (1976, pp42ff) with the memories of comets, possibly proto-Venus of circa 3,450 BP. Most of the meteoritic debris encountered by the Earth today is in the form of microscopic dust. Estimates vary a millionfold, but the Earth sweeps up a minimum of one tonne of dust per day (Singer ...
423. The Electrical Axis and its Gaseous Radiation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... first, and then might reach for and finally attain the Sun, with the axis blossoming at the Sun, thus "creating" it, or vice versa. The flickering of the arc, when slowed down enough to be noticeable, might resemble red coiled snakes, intertwining and crawling brokenly towards the great red god. The snake and dragon accompany very early gods and goddesses. "The Serpent of the Jupiter-type myth is always seen to be a creation of the proto-Saturn god" (Tresman and O'Gheoghan, p39), that is, Uranus. The Saturnian image with snakes from India and the Chinese painting of the espoused deities, shown in Figure 12 and Figure 32, ...
424. Encounters and Collisions [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , a serpent, huge, terrible, speckled, flesh-devouring. With her is another comet, Typhon; they beget the Chimaera, that breathes resistless fire, fierce, huge, swift. And Typhon, associated with both these, is the most dreadful monster of all, born of Hell and sensual sin, a serpent, a fierce dragon, many-headed, with dusky tongues and fire gleaming; sending forth dreadful and appalling noises, while mountains and fields rock with earthquakes; chaos has come; the earth, the sea boils; there is unceasing tumult and contention, and in the midst the monster, wounded and broken up, falls upon the earth; the earth groans ...
425. On Models and Scenarios [Journals] [Aeon]
... instance is no longer viable. For example: since the respective images have nothing in common, it is improbable enough that one tribe or nation would call the modest light of Venus (as if in a single breath) "the torch of heaven," "the star with hair," and a world-threatening "serpent" or "dragon". When the same incongruous convergence of symbols is discovered among widespread peoples, however, one is compelled to look for an objective, but previously unrecognized answer. In this case, of course, the common denominator is beyond dispute: Each of the "incongruous" symbols is an acknowledged pre-astronomical hieroglyph for the comet; hence, ...
426. The Foibles of Heretics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and dissected to the point of uselessness, Brian Moore's SISR review being perhaps the most nicely done of the valid commentaries upon the book. Perhaps a rebirth would come with the baptism of being "totally immersed in science" that would impel him to drive his own Cosmos TV series off the airwaves. Or to withdraw his book, The Dragons of Eden, from circulation, of which N.J . Macintosh wrote in Nature (27 April 1978): "It is inaccurate, full of fanciful and unilluminating analogies, infuriatingly unsystematic, and skims hither and yon over the surface of the subject, unerringly concentrating on the superficial and misleading... profoundly unscientific." ...
427. Ritual and Sacrifice [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of its Golden Age involves the destruction of a preexisting, ante-deluvian, "old world," and therefore comes long after the original creation. The dramaturgy of the Babylonian Akitu Festival is illustrative of "the abolition of lost time, the restoration of primordial chaos, and the repetition of the cosmogonic act." The god Marduk slays the dragon of chaos, Tiamat, and creates the cosmos from the fragments of its body, including man from the blood of a demonic ally of Tiamat. In the chaos all social forms are confounded, as in the Roman Saturnalia. It is probable that both creation and recreation are handled together in the drama; that is, Marduk ( ...
428. Thoth Vol I, No. 18: July 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... (star with flowing locks, mane, tresses, disheveled hair, beard, hairy tail); torch-star (ember, flame, smoke, smoking star, train of fire, spark, or train of sparks); celestial feather (winged star, soul-bird, bright feathers, feathered headdress, shining bird's tail); cosmic serpent, dragon, or similar monster. The remaining general hieroglyphs for the comet could be counted on the fingers of your second hand! They include: a sword, a bundle of grass or straw (whisk, broom), or a spiraling rope (cord, tie, or knot). At what point, then, does a " ...
429. pc (Psycho-Ceramics) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the visible cloud surface of the Cytherean planet has shown the presence of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and perhaps a little neon, but I am content to wait for the upcoming planetary probes to dip deeper into the atmosphere and radio back in situ information. Then, maybe, we might find out if Venus could have been Velikovsky's pet dragon, Typhon, or something more akin to Sagan's pet theory. Asimov believes that Velikovsky's work is swallowed whole, unchewed and undigested, by his supporters, and then spewed out as a great truth for the edification of humanity. There are a few who are such believers, to be sure. But those of us who do take ...
430. The Catastrophic Finale of the Middle Bronze Age [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ) on the shores of Triton is suspicious. It was said that she accidentally killed her playmate Pallas and took the name herself in remorse. This same Pallas, however, is in another story a monster whom the notorious virgin goddess dispatched when he attempted to rape her. Even more, this Pallas is elsewhere identified with Typhon, the dragon and would-be destroyer of the world whom Zeus finally struck down in the middle of the second millennium. Pallas Athena was present in this episode, too, in the form of the protoplanet Venus, now tailless or without a phallus, by the loss of Typhon. In Italy and Sicily at this time, abrupt cultural transitions are commonly ...
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