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11. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... he abandons himself to his nature, destroying friend as well as foe...By virtue of these very qualities of furor and harshness, Mars is the surest bulwark of Rome against every aggressor." [72] The intimate connection between Mars and fire in Pawnee lore likewise finds an exact counterpart in the Old World, as the red planet is everywhere regarded as the "Fire star." [73] In China, Mars was also known as the fire-star, [74] said to portend "bane, grief, war, and murder." [75] A Hellenistic name for Mars- Pyroeis, "Fiery Star"- confirms that similar conceptions prevailed ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 302  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0503/049star.htm
12. Stairway to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... ) was the red feverishness of the summer that destroyed crops." [10] The ad hoc nature of Aveni's surmises is readily apparent. Our view stands in marked contrast to that of Aveni. Rather than derive Mars' various mythical characteristics from a host of different causes, we would trace the vast majority to ancient conceptions surrounding the red planet, these conceptions ultimately deriving from long-term preoccupation with the planet's behavior and appearance throughout the ages. But how does one go about proving this point? Simply documenting that Nergal-like characteristics are ascribed to Mars in other Old World cultures- China, Greece, India, etc.- will not suffice, as archaeoastronomers can always point to ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 274  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0501/069stair.htm
... depth probes become possible on Mars, it should not be surprising to find heat flowing out of Mars. RED The reddish atmosphere of Mars may be caused by an iron oxide called limonite. Binder says that this mineral could not have formed under present conditions on Mars, and conditions must have been different in the past.82 Perhaps the Red Planet acquired this characteristic by the same process that brought about the name change to the Red Sea (see Worlds in Collision). Dollfus proposed that the red material was limonite. 83 Sharonov agreed that large portions of Mars are covered with silt consisting of very fine particles of limonite. He also noted that "The broad abundance of ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 255  -  28 Nov 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/age-of-v/age-5.htm
... newer evidence indicates "that abundant liquid water existed at some time during the history of Mars." [53] The once-popular canals were not found, but "hundreds of ancient channels apparently carved by flowing water" were discovered. [54] Not only rivers, but an entire ocean is believed by some to have once covered the red planet. It was estimated that "one-fifth of the planet's surface may have been covered by an ocean more than 2,000 feet deep..." [55] But then the ocean disappeared- not through a cataclysmic event, but through the diligence of geologist Ken Edgett and geomorphologist Michael Malin. Scrutinizing several images snapped by ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 242  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0506/029ant.htm
... river valleys exist, nor small, crisp features exist; but they do. The problem is that no one seems to know how if water flowed as rivers on Mars it then disappeared. In the journal Space World for Feb. 1986, Ray Spangenberg and Diane Moser state on page 14 that, "like the Mona Lisa, the Red Planet is tantalizing us with mysteries. Perhaps the biggest-the story of water-keeps taunting experts with a jumble of apparent contradictions." There is also the question of when the water on Mars disappeared. On page 15 Spangenberg and Moser report: "While just about everyone agrees that water-a lot of it-must once have flowed on the surface of Mars ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 241  -  26 Mar 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/books/ginenthal/sagan/s05-fifth.htm
... circular orbits is strong evidence against Velikovsky's contention that Mars collided with Venus and repeatedly had close encounters with Earth. If such near-misses had occurred, the orbits of the moons would have been severely disturbed and the probability is that Mars would have lost them to either Venus or Earth, both of which are larger [in mass] than the Red Planet. (39) What Stiebing and Mulholland have left out of this discussion is that there is no scenario based on gravitational theory to explain the orbits of Deimos and Phobos. They have, over the years, also failed to explain the evidence that meteorites found on Earth are attributed to have come from Mars! (40) ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 234  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/velikov/vol0102/william.htm
... as Kronos ruled the Golden Age. Zeus, in fact, is said to have destroyed the Silver Age and created the Bronze Age, so it is difficult to see why he should be especially linked to the former rather than the latter. Hesiod's mention of Ares in association with the Bronze Age is entirely devoid of any reference to the red planet, the god's name being used simply as a metaphor for war, a common practice among Greek writers of antiquity. During the Epic period, weapons were typically made of bronze and thus Ares, being the god of war, was frequently equipped with the epithet bronzen' [10]. In support of his theory about the ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 229  -  10 Jul 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v2002n1/27forum.htm
18. Sky Woman [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the celebration that the god "having lost his old age in fire obtains in exchange his youth." [50] That Melqart was specifically identified with the Babylonian god Nergal supports the hypothesis that the immolated god personified the planet Mars. Arab authors, in fact, speak of the god's Tyrian sanctuary as being specially consecrated to the red planet. [51] It is Melqart's identification with the Greek hero Herakles- abundantly attested in the ancient sour-ces- which seals the case. For Herakles himself, in addition to suffering immolation on Mount Oeta, was explicitly identified not only with Nergal but with the planet Mars as well. [52] Walter Burkert, upon surveying ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 227  -  04 Feb 2007  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0603/089sky.htm
19. Heracles and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... recent commentators (the Mayan codices, for example, are hardly well understood, particularly so the so-called "Mars-tables"). That errors have crept into the ancient traditions has been the usual explanation employed by modern scholars. Stephenson and Sawyer, for example, supporters of a Martian identification of Reseph, nevertheless attempt to dissociate Reseph from the red planet when that god is involved with ecliptic phenomena. (20) Another explanation, however, is to assume that the order of the solar system has only recently been established. This possibility was first raised by Immanuel Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision (the identification of Heracles with the planet Mars was also known to Velikovsky although it played ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 219  -  30 Jul 2008  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/aeon/vol0104/089herac.htm
20. The Saturn Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... By speaking and waving her hands she could perform wonders. Through this star and Morning Star [Mars] all things were created. She is the mother of the Skiri' [18]. As the Pawnee traditions attest, the planet Mars played a prominent role in ancient myth and religion. Wherever one looks, one will find the red planet accorded a numinous power wildly out of proportion to its present modest appearance. The Sumerian war-god Nergal, early on identified with the planet Mars, forms a pivotal figure in comparative analysis. Thus, it can be shown that war-gods and warrior-heroes from every corner of the globe share numerous characteristics in common with the Sumerian god, including ...
Terms matched: 1  -  Score: 207  -  05 Mar 2003  -  URL: /online/pubs/journals/review/v2000n1/087sat.htm
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