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60 pages of results. 451. Thoth Vol II, No. 1: January 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . Only the remembered, prototypal Great Comet will explain the recurring patterns of belief about comets in general, the planet Venus in particular, and the mythically-rooted "signs" heralding or calling for war and sacrifice. Around the world, comets were seen as harbingers of devastating invasion, war, and conquest. A comet, according to the Chinese, could mean that "there are uprisings and war continues for several years." "When a comet travels into the Constellation Taurus, in the middle of the double month, blood is shed...[and] dead bodies lie on the ground. Within three years the emperor dies and the country is in chaos. ...
452. Thoth Vol I, No. 24: October 20, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... noticed that one ancient culture after another spoke of former catastrophes so devastating that the "world" came to an end. This collective memory, in turn, seems to have given rise to the general notion of recurring cycles, or world ages. While Velikovsky noticed surprising parallels among far-flung nations, including the Babylonians, Greeks, Hebrews, Chinese, and Polynesians, he was particularly fascinated with the Mexican ideas: An old tradition, and a very persistent one, of world ages that went down in cosmic catastrophes was found in the Americas among the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayas. A major part of stone inscriptions found in Yucatan refer to world catastrophes. " ...
453. Thoth Vol I, No. 23: August 17, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... Zamora's report that the Mexican tribes held Venus in great esteem and kept a precise record of its appearance. "So exact was the book-record of the day when it appeared and when it concealed itself, that they never made mistakes," stated Zamora. In Velikovsky's interpretation, the carefully recorded observations of Venus by the Mexicans, Babylonians, Chinese and other cultures arose in direct response to Venus' cometary past. And for many centuries after the cometary disaster, the astronomers perceived closer approaches of Venus as a grave potential threat. If Velikovsky was correct, astronomy arose in response to UNPREDICTABLE planetary powers, but could only flower as a science after planets achieved their present predictable orbits ...
454. Thoth Vol I, No. 21: August 11, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... first instinct of stargazers was to look for a COMET to account for the occurrence of great disasters. Nor will the stargazer's haste to connect the comet and disaster explain the deeper theme of the WORLD-ENDING apocalypse. If one looks at comet lore more closely, it will be realized that what the stargazers feared most was no local calamity. Ancient Chinese comet lore held that "Comets are vile stars. Every time they appear in the south, something happens to wipe out the old and establish the new." In the language of myth that means the end of the world. Both the Sibylline Oracles and a Dead Sea Scroll (War of the Sons of Light and Darkness) ...
455. Index to "Pillars of the Past" [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ., 139 cheese, 435 Byblos, 177 Cheops = Khufu, 130, 142, 168, 173, 201, Byzantine(s ), 257 233 Chephren = Khafre, 68, 73, 201, 212 Chertomlyk, 341, 342, 343, 346, 378, 386 C China, 137 Caesar, J., 258 Chinese graves, 319 Cairns-Smith, A., 548 Choga Mami, 402 Cairo, 166 Chomsky, N., 106, 107 Cairo Museum, 208, 212 Christian, V., 292, 388 calcite, 205, 221 chrysoberyl, 199, 201, 202 Cambyses, 504 Churchill, Sir W., 18, 81 Canaan ...
456. Thoth Vol I, No. 13: May 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... work of others, among them the noted Finno-Ugric authority, Uno Holmberg (Der Baum Des Lebens), who documented the preeminence of the polar god in the ritual of Altaic and neighboring peoples, suggesting ancient origins in Hindu and Mesopotamian cosmologies; Léopold de Saussure (Les Origines de l; 'Astronomie Chinoise), who showed that primitive Chinese religion and astronomy honor the celestial pole as the home of the supreme "monarch" of the sky; René Guenon (Le Roi du Monde and Le Symbolisme de la Croix), who sought to outline a universal doctrine centering on the polar gods and principles of ancient man. In the nineteenth century and early twentieth century these revelations ...
457. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Cliffs of Dover was used to show a perfect evolutionary sequence, but as Gould pointed out, this is the exception to the rule. We were told the fossil record is imperfect. In explanation of the "living fossils" like the crocodile, horseshoe crab and coelacanth, viewers were expected to swallow the analogy of the wheelbarrow. The Chinese had invented the wheelbarrow over 2000 years ago, and it had changed little since. So long as it was useful, why change the pattern? Alternatively, the dogma was expressed as "genetic variability but nowhere to go". As explanation for useless appendages, redundant organs, etc. we were given the dictum "not everything ...
458. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... standard acknowledgement of having received my communication: but please also publish it. - Christoph Marx (Victor Slabinski's criticism of Warlow's inversion of the Earth on its axis is scheduled for reprint in Review Volume V.) Space Pebbles at Sea source: San Francisco Chronicle 26/9 /81 Jane Haight sends us the following intriguing titbit: "Chinese scientists have discovered thousands of tiny glassy space pebbles they call microtektites at the bottom of the central Pacific Ocean, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Xinhua said the pebbles were discovered by oceanographers in 1979 during the first global atmospheric mission in the central Pacific. The pebbles are currently believed to be from the Moon or from meteorites. ...
459. Thoth Vol I, No. 10: April 22, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , the consistency with which early astronomies identity Saturn as the former creator-king is extraordinary. The Zoroastrians of ancient Persia knew Saturn as the heaven-sustaining Zurvãn, "the King and Lord of the Long Dominion." The Iranian god-king Yima, a transcript of the Hindu Yama, founder of the Golden Age, was also linked to Saturn. The Chinese mythical emperor Huang-ti, first in a great dynasty of kings and mythical founder of the Taoist religion, was identified astronomically as the planet Saturn. Even the Tahitians recall of the god Fetu-tea, the planet Saturn, that he "was the King." Many ancient nations commemorated the era before the fall, the harmonious condition of the ...
... , 419]; the archaeology and history of the Middle East ~ 156, 157, 265, 295, 298, 386, 387, 422, 437, 442- 44, 446, 447] and of Mesoamerica [266]; Atlantis [131]; myth and the origin of religion [81]; the origin of the Chinese dragon as an actual picture in the heavens [397]: "a writhing, bright, elongated thing . . . irregular in outline; . . . apparently on fire. . . . This thing, the dragon, seemed to be driving off the terrible flaming globe and so to be benevolent as ~vell as powerful. ...
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