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60 pages of results. 341. Thoth Vol II, No. 18: Nov 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... good introduction is OGS Crawford's classic work, THE EYE GODDESS.) On the other side of the world, the Maya knew Venus as _Nohoch Ich_ "Great Eye." In the Hervey Islands of the Pacific, Venus was called _Tamatanui_, the "eye of Tane" (ancestral great king). The ancient Chinese term for Venus is connected with a root meaning "Eye of the Ancestor." (This information came to me from Eric Miller, who spent many years investigating Chinese imagery of Venus.) And the Ringa-Ringaroo of Australia remembered the planet Venus as _Mimungoona_, "The Big Eye". This widespread identity of Venus as ...
342. Neocatastrophism in Geology and Paleontology [Articles]
... the time of Galileo, but how can we extend the observations further back before the discovery of the telescope? We can do that based on this aurora sunspot connection, and I have done just that. Here we have a graph of aurora frequencies dating back to the year 0 A.D ., based on recorded chronicles of the Chinese, most of the chronicles are Chinese, this work was done by Grey, I believe he is British and what I did very simply is, out of a list of these aurora frequencies I simply arranged them in 100-year patterns, I took the mean, I just simply drew the lines, and came up with a nice pattern ...
343. Thoth Vol III, No. 8: May 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... of interest in light of our recent discussion with respect to the "nova" of 1054 and the difficulty of distinguishing a comet from a "new star." As is well-known, a brilliant comet appeared in the skies during the funeral games celebrated shortly after the death of Julius Caesar. We know it to have been a comet since Chinese sources from the same year clearly describe a comet. Yet it not without interest that various Latin writers called it a "new star". Part of the confusion, perhaps, stems from the propensity of comets to undergo anomalous outbursts. Here's a quote from a recent book devoted to Caesar's comet: "The July sighting in 44 ...
... a period of Jovian instability-a possibility that soon grew into a firm conviction. Here, then, is Velikovsky's scenario: Some time before 1500 B.C . a brilliant, fiery object burst forth from the largest planet in the solar system, entering in cometary fashion upon a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. (Venus, a Chinese astro nomical text recalls, spanned the heavens, rivaling the sun in brightness. "The brilliant light of Venus," records an ancient rabbinical source, "blazes from one end of the cosmos to the other.") For an indeterminate period the Venus comet moved on its elongated path, intersecting the orbit of the Earth. ...
345. Early Historic Man -- Catastrophism and Calendars [Articles]
... the world, at least apart from America which later might be examined. And not only that, but those catastrophes, which were found in archaeology, were generally accompanied by periods of anarchy, disorders and plagues. This is written in the annals of the periods, if you take the Assyrian Annals, Luckenbill, if you take the Chinese, in all those periods we've found the same characteristics: destructions, layers in which you don't find any implements or very few, anarchy, revolts, plagues and migrations. It is at the end of the Middle Bronze that the Hyksos invaded Egypt, it is at the end of the recent Bronze that the Dorians intervened on the ...
346. Past, Present, and Future [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of theology and religion. Many scientists, including some great ones, had to be ignored or pushed aside. I have already indicate that in the early days of science, the prevailing view of history was catastrophic. Hindu science, Mayan astronomy, Mesopotamian and Egyptian science, and Greek science and philosophy generally adhered to catastrophic principles. The Chinese had probably the longest record of teaching uniformitarian principles. Two thousands years ago and more they began to bet the life of their emperor upon the stability of the heavens, and the emperor tried not to lose the bet. Yet the bet is itself proof that a catastrophic fear was present. The Chinese could predict eclipses but took no ...
347. The Creation of the Earth -- the Second Account [Books]
... into the mountains, his brains became the clouds, while his skull was heaved up to form the heaven. The myth of the dismemberment of a primeval being and the creation, or re-creation, of the Earth and the heavens out of its carcass is really worldwide, as can be gathered from a few more typical examples. According to Chinese mythology the primeval being, P'an-ku; gave substance to the Earth and the heavens. Out of the various parts of his body carne into being the different parts of the Earth, the seas were formed out of his fat his tears became rivers, his hairs turned into the plants. An Indian myth, preserved in the Rig-Veda, ...
348. Venus -- A Youthful Planet [Journals] [Kronos]
... with such a limitation, the existence of novae must be denied if none is seen at present or has been seen for some time. If we extend the principle of uniformity to include those seen by observers in earlier centuries, like the nova in Cassiopeia observed by de Brahe in 1572 to 1574 or even the one which was recorded by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054, then, consistently, we are dependent also on the observations of the entire recorded history. The principle of uniformity is followed better if a cosmogonical theory is built not on an assumption of what could have happened during "half an hour" (Gamow) six or nine billion years ago, but on ...
349. Revelation and Catastrophe during the Christian Era: a Basis for Historical Interpolation and Future Extrapolation. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... degassing becomes virtually complete, the stream becomes relatively less conspicuous and most of the debris encountering the Earth's atmosphere is at the level where it produces explosions in the kiloton to megaton range. A sustained but generally diminishing fall of sub-asteroidal rain from our interplanetary environment is thus the way of things for our planet: in the words of the proverbial Chinese philosopher, we (that is, several hundred generations of us) live in interesting times! The existence of this stream raises many questions, however. Can we be more definite, for example, how long has it been there and how long it will last? Perhaps more to the point, is the stock of meteoric inputs ...
350. The Succession of Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . The belief in sky-gods is attested to both by the most ancient sources of religious practice and by the studies of modern socalled primitive peoples (whom we prefer to call "tribal"). All of the "great" religions begin their stories in the skies: The Judaic complex, the Greco-Roman complex, the Egyptian, the old Chinese religion of Heaven, the Meso-American complex, the Teutonic, the Persian, the Hindu. "The Chinese T'ien means at once the sky and the god of the sly." Among the less familiar religions, the Mongol, the Sumerian, the Babylonian, the Celtic, the Baltic, and the Slavic have nominated the sky and ...
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