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153 pages of results. 611. Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the sky, falling on the earth; " Are these lines from Book V of the Sibylline Oracles eschatological nonsense? Contemporary astronomical evidence suggests a historic basis for words describing cosmic calamity. British astronomers, Victor Clube and Bill Napier, in The Cosmic Winter (1990) and other recent works, provide students of the past with newly discovered celestial clues which indicate that Earth has been periodically pelleted with comet fragments throughout the Holocene period. The evidence for the break-up of a large (> 50 km), short period (approximately 3.3 years), Earth-orbit-crossing comet is substantial and should be considered as hard as anything a trowel might turn up. What astronomical information cannot ...
612. More Myths, Monuments, and Mnemonics: A solstice visit to Machu Picchu [Journals] [Horus]
... June solstice Sun would rise in the northeast opposite this view so that the post itself could have served in observing and ceremonially marking both events. Some have suggested that the post served as a mount for ritual objects - perhaps a large gold sun-disc or a special gnomon used only during the solstice ceremonies. That Inca astronomer-priests might have designed other celestial alignments into this multifaceted "abstract" sculpture seems a likely possibility. The other structure believed to have a direct relation to the winter solstice rests on the floor of the oddly shaped Torreon. It is apparently a ceremonial altar whose general form resembles a less damaged example in another location at the site. Hiram Bingham, who discovered Machu ...
613. Synodos, Part 2 Mars Ch.4 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... who regarded this as an explanation of the nature of comets, questioned it, reasoning that "planets cannot remain for a long time in conjunctions, because by necessity of the law of velocity they would separate." Plato, on the authority of the Egyptian sages, ascribed the deluge and conflagration of the world to the action of a celestial body that, changing its path, passed close by the earth, and he even pointed to the planets as the cause of periodic world catastrophes9 The Greek term for the collision of planets is synodos, which, in the words of a modern interpreter, requires a meeting in space and also a collision of planets.10 The Romans ...
614. Mythopedia [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... prior to the onset of civilisation. (h ) Plasma science: This series of events can be reconstructed in great detail with the help of the mythical record and may be explained by reference to plasma phenomena operating when a giant comet or planet approached the earth. (2 ) Mythomatics (essays on structural mythology). (a ) Celestial Fireworks: a graphic model proposed to explain the origin of myth, ritual, and symbolism, including a general slideshow, a comparison of the model with traditional art, and an approach to the anatomy of the configuration. (b ) Introductory: a listing of themes and motifs of a universal mythology. (c ) The life ...
615. The Dawn of Astronomy: A Study of the Temple-Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians [Books]
... 218 Forms of Ptah, the God of Memphis 38 Hathor, "The Cow of the Western Hills " 219 Apparent Movement of the Stars to an Observer at the North Pole 40 The Annual Rise and Fall of the Nile 228 Apparent Movement of the Stars to an Observer at the Equator 41 Hapi, the God of the Nile 229 The Celestial Sphere viewed from a Middle Latitude 42 Different Forms of Thoth 232 A Terrestrial Globe with Wafer attached to show the Varying Conditions of Observation in a Middle Latitude 43 Scale of the Nilometer at Rôda 235 Showing Amplitudes reckoned from the East or West Points to N.P ., North Point of Horizon, and S.P South Point ...
616. The Thunderbolt in Myth and Symbol [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... a flower, the celebrated plant of life. #18: Lightning is fire and brimstone (sulfur). The lightning of the gods gives rise to a sulfurous stench. #19: In their violent wars, the gods blast each other with lightning. Chaos monsters are destroyed by lightning. #20: Lightning leaves its mark on celestial heroes and chaos monsters, who are "lightning scarred," or "thunderstruck." #21: The lightning-scar or wound of the warrior-hero is the mark by which he is identified or recognized. [. .] Weapon of Planetary Gods: There is one more lightning motif that must be mentioned. This theme is perhaps the ...
617. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Six [Books]
... signs' relevant to the prevailing political scene. The Mount Tai Chan event (an earthquake or landslide ?) and the River Lao event (a drought ?) are geophysical portents. The two suns (sun- dogs ?- see Part 2, p.118) and the agitation of the five planets (see above) are celestial portents. Finally, the barbarian invasion is very similar to the activity of the brigands and robbers, mentioned by way of a sociological portent' in the passage from Yang Yu in Part 5, p.415. For other types of portent see Part 2, p.117-8 and below in b). I do not think ...
618. Comets -- the Cause of Historic and Prehistoric Catastrophes [Articles]
... described comets. He said it was an exhalation which was continually dissolving at the edges and which was being continually ignited by its motion. Remember this was a time when people still thought of the world going round the Earth and Aristotle had this succession of rings with the Ring of Fire round the Earth which was in continual rotation with the celestial sphere. This idea was one that led him to think that comets, for example, were produced in the Ring of Fire and some of them were deflected down to the Earth and became perhaps shooting stars, others were shot up into the ether beyond and they were the ones we recognised as comets. A theory of course that ...
619. The Merlin 'Vision' and the 6th Century 'Event' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... could the vision' of Myrddin (Merlin) have been of a comet - later depicted as a red dragon - that caused what Gildas recorded as'?a memorable plague'? Morien Morgan [4 ] gives dates for St. Kentigern's birth and death as 514 and 601. So Merlin's vision' could well refer to a temporary celestial event' that caused the climatic downturn evident in the narrow tree-rings for 536-545. The French archaeologist, Marie-Agnès Courty, gave a paper to the 1997 SIS Cambridge Conference about findings from Tell Leilan in northern Syria [5 ]. This was the first archaeological excavation initiated to look for evidence of scorched earth' due to a suspected extra-terrestrial ...
620. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... myths in a post to the K-list: "[ I ]n all likelihood, the outpouring of cometary material associated with the deluge' involved a descent of a horrendous cloud of ice on the Earth, helping to prompt the mythical interpretation. But the mythical figure who rides out the storm of the deluge is, beyond question, a celestial player in the original story." Today I can't even walk along the beach on a sunny day without noticing that the gravitating nuclear fusion factory that once warmed my back has become an electrical arc in the sky. It's more stimulating than espresso; it's more satisfying than sex; it's more challenging than Everest .. . and I ...
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