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17 pages of results. 301. Ice Fields of the Earth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was covered by ice, three times the area occupied by ice today; this was as late as 11,000 years ago, or so it is believed. When Emiliani discovered evidence that the Gulf of Mexico was for a time freshwater, he posited a rapid end to the Ice Ages and a flooding which may have drowned the mythical Atlantis culture, since the time (ca. 11,600 B.P .) conforms to Plato's date of the disaster. The surmise engendered sharp criticisms, allowing even historians to get into the act [1 ]. It seems that everyone believes that the ice cameth and each has an individual scenario, which is not complete unless ...
302. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . No uniformitarian theory provides for a force with a magnitude to do this. The mountain was sustained by the gravitational, not to mention electrostatic, pull of the planet Saturn stationed above the North Pole. With the demise of Saturn by its going nova approximately six thousand years ago, the mountain sagged and was called Atlas or the continent Atlantis. (The Mountain was called God; the one and only monotheistic God!) The nova explosion of Saturn knocked Venus out of the red spot of Jupiter, situated just behind Saturn in axial alignment, as a white hot ball of fuming sulphuric acid with a tail of blood' red iron oxide that brought in the iron age ...
303. On SIS and Insularism [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to manage publication of an article on that scenario so essential for Velikovskian research. Are we an open-minded society? Or are there hidden motives' at work? The above case seems all the more inexplicable, since Peter James, as he wrote me in one letter, had been instrumental in publishing the English edition of Spanuth's opus magnum (Atlantis of the North, London, 1979). In 1988 at last I ran out of patience and published my own amalgamation of Velikovsky's and Spanuth's scenarios, leading to an entirely new vision on western Europe's protohistory; and I take it as a good omen that, thanks to Derek Shelley-Pearce, this event has at least been mentioned in ...
304. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations [Journals] [Aeon]
... that a catastrophic event transpired in or around 2350 BC. The question we have to ask, he said, is: "What might have triggered this disaster?" Earth, Air, Fire and Water: The Archaeology of Bronze Age Cosmic Catastrophes Bruce Masse (University of Hawaii) Masse read out a relevant paragraph from Plato's Timaeus regarding Atlantis. Plato, he then informed his listeners, was fascinated by catastrophic concepts, whereas Aristotle tried to overcome them. The preponderance of data contained in myth, he concurred, point to celestial events having taken place. In these myths, he went on, there is generally a physical description of supernatural causes: a snake-like creature with ...
305. Index to "Pillars of the Past" [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... 454, 484, 485, 493-495, 501- Bird, W.R ., 15 503, 519, 523 Birket-Smith, K., 523 Aswan, 87 Bittel, K., 498 Aswan Dam, 51 Black Sea, 333-335 Atkinson, R.J .C ., 154 Blegen, C.W ., 465-466 Atlantis, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48 Bliss, F.J ., 159, 160 Attica, 442 Bloc, M., 2, 269 Ayres, A., 102 Blondlot, R.P ., 237 Aubert, L., 494 Bloom, A., 108 Boardman, J., 467 ...
... other standards also had to be affirmed. Besides McCarthyism there were at least two other cultural phenomena that characterized the period, "pseudo-science" and "Modern Art." It was indeed a golden age of quackery (as defined by the dominant societal values of the time). Besides a noted revival of interest in traditional occultist subjects (Atlantis, the Abominable Snowman, Nostradamus, astrology) and the new cosmography of Immanuel Velikovsky, there were also the writings of Wilhelm Reich and L. Ron Hubbard (whose Dianetics first appeared in the same year as Worlds in Collision), and the first flying saucer accounts, most notably those by George Adamski, who described his meetings ...
307. Night of the Gods: The Pillar-Axis as Tower [Books]
... . Balar of the Eye (of heaven) is also commemorated to this day by the high tower-like rock or Tor tnor (= Great Tower) in Tory Island, which is called Balor's Castle. A very fine and important Irish legend, which is in brief in the Book of Lecan, and has been translated by O'Curry in the Atlantis and by Dr. Joyce 28 is that of the three sons of Tuireann whose name obviously indicates a Tower, that is as I theorise an Axis, power. The three sons of Tuireann kill Cian, a De Danann the father of I,ugh, the Lochlanns invade Erin and are defeated, and a fabulous series of Eric-fines ...
308. Bibliography [Books]
... Giorgio de Santillana, Hamlet's Mill (Boston, 1969) Armand Delatte, Études sur la Litterature Pythagoricienne (Paris, 1915) Edouard Dhorme, Les Religions de Babylonie et d'Assyrie (Paris, 1949) Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology "Mythology of All Races," Vol. IX (New York, 1964) Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis, the Antediluvian World (New York, 1882) , Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (New York, 1883) M. J. Dresden, "Mythology of Ancient Iran," in Samuel N. Kramer, ed., Mythologies of the Ancient World (Garden City, 1961) E. S. Drower ...
... , in recording the folklore of his ancestors, is really speaking of the Giants of old, the men of renown. The charges he makes are in fact exactly on a par with those alleged against the Satans in the Book of Enoch. They are identical with those spoken of by Plato, which caused Zetis to destroy the island of Atlantis. Indeed, he identifies them as such, for he continues by saying that though the sons of Seth were warned by Noah they continued to be "slaves to their wicked pleasures", and he accordingly departed out of that land. What land? The most ancient seat of civilization in the North, the cradle of the Aryan ...
... Phoenicians, and the Thracians. But little of this worship is discoverable in the countries of the Mediterranean except in the remains of ancient Carthage. There is no surprise that Hermes was the principal deity in Britain, for his genealogical tree, as contained in Greek myth, shows immediately his relationship to the Ocean, the West, and to Atlantis. Mythologists made him the son of Zeus by Maia, a daughter of Zeus and Pleione, the latter a (laughter of Oceanus. Maia was one of the Pleiades or Atlantides, a daughter of Atlas, one of those islands apparently engulfed when Atlas was struck down by Apollo's Arrow. Nor is it surprising that Hermes was accorded ...
311. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... colonists from Canaan, it is located at a point apparently some distance to the west of Gibeon, for here the sun has only just risen, whereas Joshua places it in mid-heaven. Whether this was Crete, or further west, in Spain or even mid-Atlantic, would be worth investigation, for mythical Tollan or Aztlan is surely also legendary Atlantis. Other implications suggest themselves: with orbit changes in 1471 BC and axial tilt and wandering in 1431, dates and calendars before this period will show an increasing divergence from those afterwards and it could be expected that the Earth would show geological effects of gravitational stresses akin to those of the Moon. Perhaps the most marked effect was on ...
312. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... body coming on the scene, such as Jupiter) the gravitational pressure on that part of the earth which had been facing Saturn would greatly increase. Such changes would favour the survival of smaller forms of life, in contrast to the larger forms which would face extinction. The idea of different gravitational eras is also expressed in Denis Saurat's book Atlantis and the Giants , which was reviewed in Workshop no.2 . "Ocean Spill Caused Mass Extinction"- New Scientist , 13/12/79, p. 872. Stefan Gartner of Texas A&M University has recently suggested that a "freshwater Arctic Ocean flooded the world's oceans and lowered their salinity, killing susceptible marine ...
... . The Scandinavian antiquarians such as Baug, a disciple of the learned Rudbeck, claimed that the race of Adam was settled in Scandinavia. Some 300 years ago the educated world was paralysed by the publication of Atlantica, written by Professor Olaus Rudbeck, of Upsala University, one of the world's oldest cities. Rüdbeck contended that Scandinavia was the Atlantis of Plato, the country of the Hyperboreans, was the Hesperides, the Fortunate Isles, and the Elysian Fields, which Homer placed in the west, near the Ocean, the resting-place of favoured heroes. In these views I hold that he was justified except that he should have included the British Isles in his scheme of things. ...
314. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... description' [73] of the sky dominated by comet debris. An approach to this idea in Winter' is to relocate much mythological action in the sky. They suggest that seas, lands, rivers and islands (even with familiar earthly names, such as the Nile in the Zeus-Typhon legend) are celestial features [74]. Atlantis was so interpreted, despite its human inhabitants and its interaction with Athens. The Egyptian Black Land of the fertility god Osiris and the Red Land of the destroyer, Seth, are not even considered as the Nile strip and the desert: they are identified, it seems, with the two circles of Timaeus, and therefore with the ...
315. The British Connection [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . Have you sent Stecchini a copy? (. .. ) The material is rich and your commentaries and presentations of the source matter referred to by Kugler valuable. I would expect the whole, amplified even to the extent of a complete translation, would constitute a welcome book. Perhaps one for Kronos Press... Was the Atlantis item really August 61, as you write? I'd like to see it: perhaps you can confirm the citation next time around. The Tuareg are a mysterious people, you know, of undefined race and origins. The Fabrizio Mori reports, if locatable, would be more valuable... You do bring up surprises re Velikovsky ...
316. Collisions and Upheavals [Journals] [Pensee]
... the shifting Earth generated a global hurricane which destroyed forests and swept away the dwellings of men. In China waters "overtopped the great heights, threatening the heavens with their floods." Decades of labor were required to drain the valleys of the mainland. Arabia was transformed into a desert by the same paroxysms which may have dropped the legendary Atlantis beneath the ocean west of Gibraltar. With dulled senses, survivors lay in a trance for days, choking in the smoky air. The tilting axis left a portion of the world in protracted darkness, another in extended day. From the Americas to Europe to the Middle East records tell of darkness persisting for several days. On the ...
317. Bibliography (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... The Metropolitan Permanent Collection as Background to the Current Show." New York Times, (Dec. 16). Dolby, R. G. A. (1975). "What Can We Usefully Learn from the Velikovsky Affair?" Social Studies of Science, 5. Donnelly, Ignatius. (1974). The Destruction of Atlantis. Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel. New York: Multimedia . Dorson, Richard M. (1972). Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction. University of Chicago Press. Dubnov, Simon. (1973). History of the Jews from the Congress of Vienna to the Emergence of Hitler. South Brunswick, NJ ...
318. The Orion Mystery by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... constellation of Orion ( = Osiris), do they mirror the precession of the equinoxes? The authors are of the opinion that they do and claim the Egyptians retained knowledge of the sky as it was around 10,000 to 9,000BC. They are clearly impressed with Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery and Plato's date for the end of Atlantis etc., and they supply the graphs to illustrate their theories. On a more realistic level Alasdair Beal pointed out to me that if the ancient Egyptians understood the precession of the equinoxes they would hardly have proceeded to construct vast astronomically-aligned stone pyramids which would become obsolete soon after being built. It is more realistic to assume that the ...
319. The Age Of Man In America [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the Pope in 1512 officially declared them to be descendants of Adam and Eve. New England Protestant cleric Cotton Mather disagreed; he believed they were brought here by the devil. Others linked them with the `lost ten tribes' of Israel, with ancient Greeks, Trojans, Egyptians, Norwegians, and the inhabitants of the mythical continents of Atlantis and Mu."14 But the 12,000 year date was not conceived of until early in the 20th century. According to Roger Lewin: " The origins of American Indians is a topic that has occupied the minds of western scholars for nearly 500 years, ' explains Richard Morland of the Canadian Museum in Ottawa. In the ...
... . "Reverend Burnet's Dirty Little Planet." Natural History, 84 (Apr. 1975):26- 28. [129] . "Evolution as Fact and Theory." Discover (May 1981) Pp. 34- 37. [130] Greenberg, Lewis M. Pensée, 3:36- 37. [131] . "Atlantis." Pensée, 6:51- 54. [132] . "Sagan's Folly." Pt. I, Kronos, 3 (no. 2) (1977):62- 82. [133] . Editorial statement. Kronos, 3 (no. 4) (1978):2 . [134] . Editor's ...
321. Chapter 5 Pottery Dating, Faience, and Tin [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... 1000 years earlier, he decided to drop Naqada from his chronology rather than face the embarrassment of explaining how primitives' of an earlier [Egyptian] civilization could produce work of such excellence."16 15 William H. Stiebing Jr, Uncovering the Past (NY 1974), p. 81 16 Colin Wilson, Rand Flem-Ath, The Atlantis Blueprint (NY 2001), p. 114 Charles Ginenthal, Pillars of the Past 165 The germane point is that the pottery that Petrie found in the earliest stages of development of ancient Egypt was so sophisticated that he felt it was produced long after Egypt had flourished for a millennium or more. The pottery was so advanced that this ...
... coal [294]; Hawkins's [144, 145] interpretation of the alignments at Stonehenge [232, 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 ...
... be remarked that the comets of 1668, 1843, 1880, 1882 and 1887 all followed along the same track, coming from the direction of Canis Major (Sirius), and all of them appear to have become twin or tandem comets. This peculiarity recalls the myth of Phaeton, to which Plato refers in connection with the destruction of Atlantis, as the "declination of heavenly bodies," causing a vast conflagration and flood on the earth, and as recurring at long intervals of time. The story of Phaeton is undoubtedly the account of a very remarkable celestial event, which left behind it certain terrestrial effects. He drove the steeds of his father's chariot (i . ...
324. Quantavolution of the Biosphere: Homo Sapiens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... .expansion of regional cultures..rich technology... Saturn worship. IV. Jovea 5,700 to 4,400 1,300 Noachian shelf floods and high tides...lightning and cleared skies... new icecaps form... more severe seasons...dryclimates... eastward movements from "Atlantis" to Egypt and Mediterranean .. .empires form amidst widespread conflict... Jupiter worship. V. Mercuria 4,400 to 3,450 950 Separation of magnetic and geographic poles...axial tilt enhanced... pyramid age... large new civilizations in Mediterranean, China and Caribbean...Olympian ...
... often volcanic phenomena are produced without any volcano. The same cause that creates these islands in the ocean and Mt. Jorullo, with its astonishing accompaniments on land, may and undoubtedly does disperse its residue along the bed of the ocean. * Paul Termier, Director of Science of the Geological Chart of France, in a paper entitled " Atlantis," read before the Institut Oceanographique of Paris on November 30th,1912. 70. In the summer of 1894 an earthquake occurred in the neighbourhood of the Caspian Sea, and a small submarine volcano appeared which ejected mud and lava from a small crater less than 20 feet in diameter, but the peak by the next year was ...
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