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75 pages of results. 511. The Mars-Earth Wars Theory: A Critical Analysis [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... and largely unsupportable) assertions" (p . 32), and that "Velikovsky fails to consider (1 ) the Sumerian sexagesimal system, (2 ) the theory of mythological diffusion, and (3 ) the relationship of ancient man's numerology to his overall mythoaesthetic needs" (p . 40). Ferte argues that invariably a 360-day calendar was accompanied by the addition of five epagomenal days, something Velikovsky eschewed and discounted. Suffice it to say, Velikovsky was not pleased with Ferte's analysis and Kronos deigned not to print it. In A Guide to Velikovsky's Sources (Santa Barbara: 1987), p. 58, Bob Forrest cites several early Egyptian references to a 365-day ...
512. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... sacred kings who are put to death annually, there may be "sacred smiths" who have to be lamed in order that they behave like the god whose skills they possess. "Smith-god" surrogates, like "sacred kings," were also anciently killed in sacrifice, every 20 years, says Graves, to correspond with a solar-lunar calendar conjunction; we are entitled to question whether it may be a Venus-Moon conjunction, the 20 years being a playback of time of modern calendar reckoning, but we find no grounds presently to challenge the periodicity and its source. Which leads us to the general problem of the lameness of Hephaestus, the god and the Planet. There is ...
513. Sinking and Rising Lands [Books] [de Grazia books]
... sample of books and articles on quaternary geology, paleontology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology, most authors will be found to use the "end of the ice age" as a general synonym for catastrophe. From pole to pole and all around the world "the Pleistocene ended in disaster." The reader might examine the two contrasting hypothetical calendars that follow after the text of this book. To claim a known sinking for a known time invites error. The help that one can get from geologists and prehistorians is mainly inadvertent. The calendar of events and dates could be readily improved were a quota of careful scientific attention granted to quantavolutionary hypotheses. Even conventional geologists of the holocene ...
514. Encounters and Collisions [Books] [de Grazia books]
... question? To the last question, the author has to apologize for a general ignorance. The Bermuda astrobleme may be an illusion, for example. The thousands of faint circles or cycloliths may be how the Earth swells and expands. As to how the growing inventory of astroblemes may be placed in time, the author refers to a hypothetical calendar, carried here below and in Chaos and Creation. The ladder of associations between time and events will be better and better constructed as the calendar is investigated. To the first question, on the inconceivably large scope of the disastrous falls and their bisopheric effects, the author again pleads the general ignorance. On one issue, he feels ...
515. Chapter 4 Scientific ? Radiocarbon Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... that followed it. And that is exactly what has been found. As Paul Dunbavin writes: "Back to about 1000 BC, radiocarbon dates closely support historical dating. But beyond this point the results appear to be too young'. The margin of error then increases steadily. An artefact which could be dated to about 2500 BC in calendar' years would yield a radiocarbon date of only about 2000 BC. A discrepancy of some 500 years! At 3000 BC, the margin increases to about 700 years."66 66 Paul Dunbavin, The Atlantis Researches (London 1992), pp. 118-119 150 VELIKOVSKIAN Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 2, 3 What ...
516. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... to do with assaulting Rose's integrity. This is clearly a blatant attempt to castigate Rose in the eyes of his colleagues, not an attempt to present a balanced account of the evidence. So, too, with Ronald Wells in his criticism. He falsely accused Rose of failing to report the names of the months in the Greek and Egyptian calendars while, as a matter of fact, Rose gave the names of these months in both the Egyptian and Greek calendars. He claimed Rose did not give analysis or criticisms to the relevant bibliography in the endnotes or footnotes. We were able to demonstrate that Rose did not employ endnotes or footnotes, but instead discussed, analyzed, and ...
517. The Third World of Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the room tending to her visiting family. Deg conveyed his belief that the catastrophic sequence of Schaefer could slip forward nicely, using the same intervals, to fit the scale that he had drawn back to the neolithic age, which included V. s fifteenth and eight century disasters. Thus Schaeffer's sequence could serve both the conventional and the quantavolutionary calendar. Deg sought funds for the research from the American Geographical society, without success. [The proposal is carried in The Burning of Troy.] He tried to reach Schaeffer in Paris in 1983. Schaeffer had just died. With the appearance of Stargazers and Gravediggers in 1983, a reader might see how barren was Velikovsky's personal and ...
518. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... on experiences that prehistoric man' should never have had and expressing notions he should never have been able to formulate." (8 ) If the "aged ones" who encircle and revolve around Ra are reference to the planets orbiting the Sun, such Copernican knowledge bespeaks access to astronomical expertise far in advance of third millennium science. The calendar of Egypt, an admitted legacy from the archaic gods, included the curious Sothic cycle- the heliacal rising of Sirius, the star of Isis, which appears before dawn on the same day each and every year for at least a century and a quarter. It so happens that the precession of the equinoxes, and the proper motion ...
519. Ritual and Sacrifice [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of cosmic breakdown are a feature of the focusing of rites upon controlling the world against chaos, as in the case of the Aztecs. The New Year is ignored by no culture, because it stands for the end of one age and the beginning of another; the usual rationalizations are afforded, that harvests are now gathered, that the calendar now repeats itself, etc. Nonetheless, beneath the considerable excitement, stirs the anxiety that the year may not repeat itself, the sun may not turn backwards to reenact the seasons, that once upon a time the world went out of control and could not provide assurances of the repetition of its orderly cycles. The bacchanalia were orgies ...
520. The Enclosed Sun-Cross [Books]
... practice! Consistent with the global iconography of the central sun, the American Indians revered the sun-cross and enclosed sun-cross as emblems of the unified domain, the Holy Land. Among the Mexicans "the cross and the circle" are a "native symbol for an integral state, '" writes Nuttall. Illustrating this symbolism is the famous Mexican Calendar Wheel, displaying four principal and four secondary rays (or "arrows"), signifying the four quarters and their four subdivisions. This wheel of Time, states Nuttall, (49) portrays the ideal habitation, and the prototype lay in heaven, not on earth. The wheel is "as clearly an image of the nocturnal ...
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