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89 pages of results. 421. Menkheperre Thutmose, A.K.A. Shishak Melech [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... are both "vocalic consonants", representing long i and long o or u respectively, and they also look quite similar; so we can take one of them as being a mis-copy which, once entered into sacred writ, was jealously preserved. The Masoretes - later making the vocalic consonant redundant by vocalising Siysaq = Sisaq and leaving the anomalous Siwsaq, clearly had no doubt that the first was the right one; and this is the pronunciation we know. But supposing they were wrong? If the correct form is Swsq , how nicely that seems to match the cuneiform Swsk and the extender swsh ! The problem is that we have three different letters at the end of the ...
422. Velikovsky: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [Journals] [SIS Review]
... I called my editor, told him the article could not be finished for technical reasons and pledged to wash my hands of Velikovsky. However over the next few months, as information filtered back from the moon landing and related scientific discoveries, I could see the flow of evidence moving in Velikovsky's direction: rising thermal gradients; hydrocarbons; magnetic anomalies. Most importantly, now that I had viewed human history through catastrophist eyes there was no turning back. Prior to reading Velikovsky, I had often wondered how the uniformitarian scenario I learned in school could have produced the militant cultures and frenzied, blood-rite sky religions that characterise much of human society. Velikovsky explained it all. I wrote ...
423. The Electric Universe: Part I: Electrical Scarring [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... [eg see Giotto's image of Halley's Comet at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/giotto.html], but Wal suggests that the jets are actually cathode arcs, due to the comet moving radially to the Sun in which the comet's voltage is changing. Meteorites often contain crystals, condules and isotopic anomalies which Wal suggests were due to them being struck by cosmic lightning bolts in space. Meteor Crater in Arizona [www.meteorcrater.com] shows features associated with electrical arcs, including: fulgarites [eg see www.minresco.com/fulgurites/fulgurites.htm], and two sinuous rilles which Wal crossed during his trip ...
424. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... Sluijs Introduction It has become a habit among mythologists and students of religion to systematically ignore oddities and irregularities in ancient testimony, stressing only what is deemed sound and intelligible from a modern point of view. A prime example of this unspoken principle, which has in fact been attested since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, is the explanation given to anomalous superstitions in lightninglore. No one will deny the central place lightning and thunder storms occupy in the everyday experience of the godly realm. As a matter of fact, the concept of the storm god, who wields his thunderbolts over a world eclipsed by heavy clouds, is deeply entrenched in the superstitious imagination of man-kind and seems to have ...
425. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... atmosphere, creating a greenhouse effect which would raise the Earth's temperature sufficiently to melt ice, leading to evaporation and rainfall. This rain would combine with atmospheric carbon dioxide to produce carbonic acid which, on falling to earth, would break down rocks, isolating calcium which then combines with the carbonic acid to produce calcium carbonate, explaining the geological anomaly noted above. (No allowance seems to be made for water vapour produced in the eruptions; presumably this would delay, but not prevent, temperature build-up.) This model is one way of explaining the visible geology - it is now up to the sceptics to provide alternative models. Eve's Seven Daughters According to Prof. Brian Sykes ...
426. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... life for the common man. These people would obviously not be open to ideas of cosmic catastrophe, which is a pity because they may see some of the evidence but ignore it. One point I found especially interesting was that the six centuries of high Mayan civilisation appears to coincide with the European Dark Ages. Could there be a dating anomaly here? The Mayan Prophecies by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell Element 1996. £16.99 Michael Coe (above) wrote: The Maya, both ancient and modern, have had many curses laid upon them, and fantastic theorising by the lunatic and near-lunatic fringe is one of them'. He may well consider this book to ...
427. Problems of Continental Drift [Journals] [SIS Review]
... entrenched paradigms of modern science. There are still, however, a few dissenters, and many problems concerning the theory can still be raised. One outstanding area of doubt still concerns the mechanism (or mechanisms) behind the postulated plate movements. Recent work by a number of physicists has suggested a new speculative model which attempts to account for anomalies in the present scheme by explaining the separation and drift of the continents in terms of an expansion of the earth, perhaps involving a change in gravity. (See Peter Smith: "Journey to the Edges of the Earth", The Guardian, 12th February 1981.) And while most geologists and geophysicists in the western world are ...
428. H. H. Hess and My Memoranda [Journals] [Pensee]
... faculty members of the department. I do not remember my first contact with Hess, but from our first meeting something in both of us attracted each other. Hess was the chairman of the department. Once when I mentioned the Vening Meinesz submarine expedition for gravitational measurements in the Caribbean in the 1930's, during which, paradoxically, a positive anomaly was regularly detected and the greater it was the deeper was the sea, or the less mass there was, Hess surprised me by telling that he participated in that expedition. Another highlight of his career took place during World War II. In command of a naval vessel in the Pacific with certain exploratory assignments, he utilized the opportunity ...
429. Society News: 1999 SIS AGM & SIS Study Group Meeting 19th June 1999 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by Clark Whelton at last year's autumn meeting. If the 700 years Fomenko thought did not exist do not stand close examination, perhaps a mere 300 years removed from the AD period was more possible? However, a more detailed examination of a paper by Niemitz, Did the early Middle Ages exist? ', showed that, although the anomalies cited appeared impressive, the picture was in fact distorted, with crucial facts missing. Trevor considered Niemitz's evidence of Charlemagne's 9th century chapel at Aachen and, far from finding it anachronistically 200 years too early, suggested that art historians thought it to be an inferior copy of an Italian model from the 6th century. Neimitz's arguments concerning the ...
430. The Pentagram of Venus [Journals] [Horus]
... eight solar years of the five synodic revolutions of Venus, which is confirmed by the eight-pointed star on countless Mesopotamian seal cylinders, borderstones, etc., which every time means Ishtar/Venus. In his comparison of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems, Wm. Stahlman mentions Ptolemy's use of the fact "that Venus makes five complete cycles of anomaly in about eight Egyptian years." He notes that although the eight year period for Venus is well attested from many sources in antiquity, including usage in a completely different context in Babylonian astronomy, little is known about its origin. The eight-year period is also the basis of the oktaeteris, which was introduced into Greece by Eudoxus. ...
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