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3 pages of results. 26. The MacCecht and Cuchulainn [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the people of the province of Leinster (which includes Dublin) and its etymology derives from Laigen = a spear'. Dames is convinced the spear is a benevolent sunbeam but an analogy with the destructive spear or sword of the MacCecht and Cuchulainn seems more exact - the meteoric remains of a fragmented comet, the Leotids, Perseids, the Taurids and various other meteor streams. Irish folk tale relates how the Laigin came across the sea out of the darkness (the sky) to conquer the night (bring light). The Laigen were like blades, spears of deep blue, green, gold, or silvery in hue. Early Laigin literature (myth) is obsessed with ...
27. The Ring About The Earth at 2300 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... : SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 2001:2 (Jan 2002) Home | Issue Contents The Ring About The Earth at 2300 BC Moe Mandelkehr Summary As postulated in earlier papers, dust in the Earth's North Polar region at 2300 BC initiated widespread geophysical changes. The dust was a result of the Earth encountering a massive meteoroid stream, the Taurids. The event was sufficiently traumatic that religions were formed in essentially all cultures on the Earth. Thunderbolts were a prominent theme of the religions, but a new theme appeared - a ring surrounding the Earth. A possible mechanism for the ring formation was capture of small particles in the Earth's upper atmosphere coupled with later particle fragmentation. Moe ...
28. The Impact of Impact! Notes on the implications and the reception of "IMPACT! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids" by Gerrit Verschuur [Journals] [SIS Review]
... saga of Chicxulub is among the best written on these topics'. Yet, David Morrison only recommends the first 94 pages of this book (. .. ). No one has covered this material better'. What, then, are the reasons for the half-hearted recommendation? Among other things, it is the ambiguous nature of the Taurid cometary/asteroidal/meteoric stream of debris which the advocates of coherent catastrophism have linked to the giant comet' theory. Morrison dislikes Verschuur's sympathetic treatment of this concept despite the fact that IMPACT! clearly presents it as a legitimate hypothesis which deserves further scrutiny. Indeed, it is a conspicuous feature of most critics of coherent catastrophism that ...
29. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of potent magic was involved. The teenage girl may either have died prematurely, or may have been some kind of foundation sacrifice – and the dog likewise. It is interesting that the NE direction is integral to the design of Stonehenge and various megalithic structures. The direction of the rising sun at midsummer coincides with the NE, but the Taurids also occur in June. Phillip Clapham ...
30. Old Testament Tales [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . And this comet was no distant streak of light in the sky, but one which passed close enough to lay a trail of pestilence which affected a substantial part of the country and killed 70,000 Israelites. Almost each month our planet encounters a meteor shower: prominent among those of the northern hemisphere are the Perseids in August, Taurids in November, and Gemenids in December. Each shower is genetically related to a comet, though the period of the parent comet is much longer than a year. The Leonid shower is connected with the orbits of the Tempel comet (period of 33.18 years); about 300,000 Leonid meteoroids per hour were seen from ...
31. A Maya Record of Two Thousand Years? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... P., Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramid. New York: Harper & Row, 1976, 355. Thompson, J.E .S ., A Commentary on the Dresden Codex. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1972. Whipple, F. L., and S. F. Hamid, "On the Origin of the Taurid Meteor Stream." Helwan Obs. Bull, Vol. 41. Woolley, C.L ., Excavations at Ur. New York: Barnes& Noble, 1955, 26-29. ...
32. The Avebury Cycle by Michael Dames [Journals] [SIS Review]
... that involved the sun and the moon. This curious fact coincides remarkably with the estimated disappearance of the goddess comet. From around this time, meteoric material, the remains of a defunct god (or comet), arrived abruptly and unexpectedly as there was no visible apparition to mark its periodic forays. In Clube & Napier's theory, the Taurid meteor streams impinged upon the atmosphere annually in June and in November. Alignments of sites towards samhain and midsummer would have become even more important - necessitating a precise method to predict them and the sun was perfectly capable of doing this. The second millennium BC is associated by neo-pagans with the eclipse of peaceful neolithic fertility goddesses and the arrival ...
33. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... were closely associated with the number 7 and Isis with 70. Indeed, the dance of the seven veils', now confined to strip joints, had roots in the ancient middle east and cultic rites associated with goddesses. In trying to rationalise the number 7 we may note its connection with the seven stars of the Pleiades from which the Taurid meteor stream emerges. A connection appears to exist with Snow White locked up in her castle (the inactive period of the stream and the prevailing view after her final disappearance) but let's not forget the seven dwarves, the seven sisters etc. See also Eric Crew's letter on p. 58 of C&CR 1997:1 , ...
34. L'Énigme de la Structure Elliptique [Journals] [SIS Review]
... end of the Late Bronze Age, 1159-45BC (in Greek terms, the end of LHIIIB). It was at this moment in time that a great destruction befell Greece and Anatolia involving a fiery apparition of the ' star Anat'. The Pleiades, according to Clube and Napier, are in that region of the sky from which the Taurid meteor complex emerges. Phillip Clapham ...
35. The Case for Retaining a Dark Age at the end of the Late Bronze Age. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... intense heat vitrified walls - especially where walls were built of timber and basalt. Great tracts of forest and woodland were set alight across Europe - even at altitudes as high as the Alps. Burnt stumps have been found in bogs all over northern Europe. It may be that the star Anat was a piece of cometary material orbiting in the Taurid meteoric complex. This may have interacted with the atmosphere of the earth and burnt up as it raced across the sky - with devastating consequences for the regions it passed over. The migration of peoples, widespread death and destruction - followed by famine and epidemics which also took a great toll - adequately explains why dark ages exist in the ...
36. Sky Dragons and Celestial Serpents by Alastair McBeath (Book Review). C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ring markings in NW Europe. However, he also points out that there are currently about 100 different explanations to account for cup and ring marks and some of them are equally attractive. On aurorae he mentions the International Auroral Atlas which is full of colour photographs. On meteors he describes the Leonids and other showers but fails to mention the Taurids. This is probably because they are not visible as the book is an encouragement to get out and view the night sky. I was lucky enough to see and hear a few Leonids a couple of years back but not everyone comes home from work in the early hours of the morning and takes the dog for a walk at 2am ...
37. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... regarded as a global event because traces of dust can be found in Antarctica. If scientists are now prepared to accept the idea of global catastrophes about every million years, perhaps by 2000 they may be able to accept that catastrophes could happen with even shorter intervals. Perhaps they might even be able to accept that comet Encke and its associated Taurid meteor stream were the result of the break up of a large comet about 20,000 years ago, causing frequent trouble on Earth as our planet passed regularly through the train of debris. Clube considers that the erratic disintegration is now nearly finished, but within historical times this debris was for short periods of catastrophic import with its giant ...
38. Jupiter in Collision: in Search of Velikovsky's Comet [Articles]
... the Exodus and Joshua episodes. It would not shock any scientist today to suggest that the Exodus and Joshua events were the result of an encounter with a great meteoric shower. The fact that the comet's nucleus was not sighted during the encounters could be explained simply by imposing a daytime event. Half of the meteoric showers, such as the Taurids, are not seen due to sunlight which obscures the classic radiation of glowing gas and dust that is seen during the nights of great Leonid and Perseid showers. It has been claimed recently in Icarus that the Tsunguska event was the product of this shower. Enter Shoemaker-Levy 9 At this point we may bring Shoemaker-Levy 9 into the equation. ...
39. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... This was unexplained. There is in China a 300m thick layer which has no striations or other indications of having been deposited over a long period. There must have been remains from earlier passings through the meteoric showers, with much larger amounts of debris and we should examine the particles. Milton suggested that the Leonids originated from Venus, the Taurids/ Pleiades from super Encke or Mars. The event at the time of Troy marked the occasion but did not actually destroy the city. Bob Porter said many Bronze Age sites were destroyed. Milton said that Velikovsky came across the work of Donnelly after he had done his own and so acknowledged him by putting him down. The next ...
40. Jupiter in Collision: In Search of Velikovsky's Comet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the Exodus and Joshua episodes. It would not shock any scientist today to suggest that the Exodus and Joshua events were the result of an encounter with a great meteorite shower. The fact that the comet's nucleus was not sighted during the encounters could be explained simply by imposing a daytime event. Half of the meteorite showers, such as the Taurids, are not seen due to sunlight, which obscures the classic radiation of glowing gas and dust that is seen during the nights of great Leonid and Perseid showers. It has been claimed recently in Icarus that the Tunguska event was the product of this shower [12]. Enter Shoemaker-Levy 9 At this point we may bring Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...
41. The Stream Surrounding the Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... - were modified, corrupted and finally replaced - the records of the mythologies remained, just like the smile ofthe Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The question addressed in this article is whether there are recorded mythologies relating to the ring around the Earth at 2300 BC, providing a further corroboration of the encounter of the Earth with the Taurid meteoroid stream at that time? And the answer is, yes'. The Stream around the Earth A starting statement is that the mythologies clearly indicate a ring around the Earth at 2300 BC. In an earlier paper [1 ], I presented a technical rationale for the possible formation of the ring. I found that the ring ...
42. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... I encourage all readers to examine The Cosmic Winter and see if it is not a satisfying alternative to Worlds in Collision. To those who believe one is not a catastrophist unless dealing with colliding planets, I offer the experience of our ancestors 10,500 years ago who witnessed the falling to Earth of over 20,000 fireballs from the Taurid meteor stream whose impacts putatively produced the Carolina Bays spread from Virginia to Georgia. The extraordinary thunder' associated with such deities as Zeus and Amun was, in all probability, the din of the sonic booms produced by such meteor bombardments! C. Leroy Ellenberger, St Louis, USA On Myth and History Dear Sir, Jill Abery's ...
43. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and witnessed by aboriginals who mention fire and devil rock in their myth. Tunguska happened in June, a month that also saw an unusual meteor storm on the Moon in 1975 and an account of what appeared to be a major impact on the Moon in 1178. It is suggested that these events are linked to comet Encke and the related Taurid complex. Comet cataclysm forecast New Scientist 9.4 .94, p. 14 In 28,000 years time the Sun will have a close encounter with the Alpha Centauri star system which could send hundreds of thousands of comets from the Oort cloud speeding into the Solar System - but they would take about 20 Myrs to reach the ...
44. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... caused by the global cooling produced by an approaching comet. The evolution into a dense meteor stream would bring periods of danger as they crossed Earth's orbit, followed by quiescent periods, predictable from the appearance of the sky. If this had been different 5-10,000 years ago then comet material should still be in evidence, just as the Taurid stream is today. We therefore appear to be living in the post break up period of a giant comet. Such recent events would have had a strong influence on religion and astronomy/astrology and in the long term massive destructive events by bombardment and resulting climate change would have affected evolution via random extinction and survival. Answering questions, ...
45. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... resin in nearby trees. They appear to have been melted and are likely to have come directly from the parent body. There is still no consensus as to whether this was a stony meteorite, a chondritic meteorite or even a comet. The date of the explosion being June, there is a strong possibility that it was material from the Taurid shower of cometary debris. More recently, in 1994 a huge fireball explosion over the Pacific which was sufficient to alert the Pentagon to the possibility of hostile action. Bouncing bolides and other impacts Science Frontiers 103 Jan-Feb 96, p.6 , 104 Mar-Apr 96, p.6 , Daily Telegraph 16.10.96, Discovery ...
46. Physics, Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... at 10 km in diameter would have been big enough to wipe out the dinosaurs. Hephaistos has an orbit which at some time is likely to cross the Earth's, and, interestingly, it has a very similar path to Encke's comet. Some years ago American astronomer Fred Whipple suggested that Encke's comet, together with the [beta] -Taurid meteor stream, once composed a much larger comet, formerly in an Earth-crossing orbit, which broke up around 2500 BC. Clube and Napier have taken the argument a stage further by calculating that Hephaistos is another chunk of this disintegrating comet, concluding that "almost certainly a 20-km comet was in an Earth-crossing orbit and breaking up, round ...
47. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... The blast effects took the form of a butterfly shape and this was experimentally reproduced, showing that it could have been produced by an object approaching 115 degrees from the north and at an angle of 30 degrees to the ground, which exploded 6 to 8 km above the ground. It looked suspiciously as though the event was linked to the Taurid meteor stream. A Russian biologist had found many chromosomal anomalies in plants in the area after 90 years. These appeared to be far stronger than similar affects after chemical and radioactive disasters but no one has an explanation. A mini Tunguska-type event was recorded over southern Ecuador in December 1995, when a bolide exploded. Witnesses described a streaking ...
48. Comets -- the Cause of Historic and Prehistoric Catastrophes [Articles]
... that's dying and if it's going to be an Apollo Asteroid, maybe it's going to be one fairly soon. We can calculate and track a great deal about it. What is now emerging is that there's a lot more besides Encke's Comet up there going around in something like Encke's Comet's orbit. We've long known of the existence of the Taurid Meteor Streams, for example, these are things that we run through a couple of times every year, producing shooting stars. Radio astronomers soon after the last war discovered a daytime meteor stream called the Alpha-Taurids, part of the same system, very similar orbit to Encke's Comet, and it's particularly interesting in that it's got lots of ...
49. Revelation and Catastrophe during the Christian Era: a Basis for Historical Interpolation and Future Extrapolation. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fluxes (iii) as a result of the rectification and normalisation of (i ) based on (ii) representing an intrinsically constant flux. The calibration is at best only approximate and takes no account of a possible limitation pre-1000 AD to only very bright (large) fireballs. Note the persistent July-August and October-November peaks, indicative of the Taurid Stream; and also the asterisks marking significant revolutionary epochs in Europe. Western Civilisation vs. Celestial Chaos: Seventeeth Century It now appears to be the opinion of an increasing number of historians that during the fateful years 1640 to 1660 England was taken over and run by an army of religious zealots in preparation for the millennium. Our general ...
50. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Palmer) An Ice Age could also be caused by a sustained period of smaller impacts, together with atmospheric dusting, perhaps linked to the disintegration of a giant comet, as in the hypothesis put forward by British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier (Figure 3). Clube and Napier believe that Comet Encke, the asteroid Oljato and the Taurid meteors are the remnants of a giant comet and extrapolations backwards from present orbits indicate that the break-up may have occurred about 9,500 years ago. However, the giant comet may have influenced the Earth for thousands of years prior to this, causing an atmospheric dust-cloud which had largely cleared by the time that Encke split from Oljato. ...
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