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60 pages of results. 381. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... a meaning beyond the symbol as a thing in itself? It was not just any comet but the mythical Great Comet that provided the ruler with his headdress! All of the connecting links we would anticipate will be found if one will utilize the planetary model as the predictor. And the connections are not limited to one region alone. The Chinese, for example, employed feathers as a symbol of radiance and authority, while remembering the comet as the tail feathers of a pheasant or peacock. In Europe, too, the comet was remembered as the spread peacock's tail, while peacock fea-thers served as an archaic symbol of authority. Nor can we fail to notice the association of ...
382. The Quantavolutionary Scan [Books] [de Grazia books]
... may not the method be unreliable? In 1973, chemist Harold Urey, a Nobel prizewinner, conjectures that a cometary encounter with Earth could explain the abundant tektites from extra-terrestrial sources that are strewn about the world. Several scientists have collected and studied these small glassy stones and estimate their amount in the billions of tons. Since time immemorial the Chinese have called them "pearls of the dragon" and collected them. And Urey thought that the cometary collision might have annihilated the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs looked like the Chinese dragon. Perhaps Urey is right in principle, wrong in time. Quickly the quantavolutionary puts on the cap of a mythologist. All heavenly animals (the Zodiac for ...
383. Trisms and Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , in their escape from Typhon, radical changes in position. Also, by lumping all the planets together, the narrative seems to assume that Venus was a member in good standing of the planetary system, not an intruder. Typhon is the intruder and Venus joins her comrades in flight, disguised as a fish. An account of the Chinese emperor, Yao, sustains this interpretation. A contemporary witness of this celestial show, according to Velikovsky, Yao identified the seven known planets of antiquity as the seven governors. Venus was not excluded. (21) My own scenario presents the third problem. Having connected Typhon by wire electromagnetically between Jupiter and Venus, would the planets ...
384. The Nature and Scale of an Exodus Catastrophe Reassessed [Journals] [SIS Review]
... or its various parallels in other mythologies) to the Exodus period. It was on this precise issue that Velikovsky referred to the difficulty of disentangling events which had occurred at different times: a Jupiter-Typhon battle had already occurred in connection with earlier catastrophes (pp. 173-174). When discussing the remarkable catastrophic events attributed to the reign of the Chinese emperor Yahou, Velikovsky argues for synchronising them with the Exodus-Conquest period (pp. 107-111). One reason is that The flood of Yahou is sometimes regarded as simultaneous with the flood of Ogyges', which Velikovsky dates to the time of Joshua. However, Velikovsky cites no sources, and offers no argument, for synchronising the floods ...
385. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... trying to elucidate the past history of Halley's comet have found that their calculations are only accurate for the last thousand years. Earlier than that the calculations become inaccurate, owing to the effect of Earth's gravitational pull having disturbed the comet's orbit. Richard Stephenson and Kevin Yau tell of how the early history of Halley's comet has been deduced from ancient Chinese observations, which were stated less accurately than medieval ones. It is clear, however, that the Chinese distinguished "bushy stars" (= tailless comets) from "broom stars" (= tailed ones). The illustration from the silk book of the 168BC Han Tomb at Mawangdui, Hunan Province, shows a series of objects ...
386. Myths of the Great Flood (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... at least some 12 800 feet since the town was founded. On the other hand, if our view is correct, the ruins must date from so distant an age that no figure can even approximately be determined; it must be several hundred thou-sand years, at the very least. To return to our myths of Type A. The Chinese have a myth : which tells that the god of fire conquered the demon Kung, who called himself the Lord of Water. This probably refers to the retreating girdle-tide after the beginning of the breakdown of the satellite. The chief myth of Kashmir says that originally the whole country was covered with water and that an evil demon caused much ...
387. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... No high concentrations of the rare earth metals (iridium etc) have been found at/near such large craters, so if they were present they must have been vaporised at impact. Double Dawn Explained source: New Scientist 15.1 .87, p.21 "Scientists in the US have explained a bizarre reference in an ancient Chinese text to two dawns in one day". They have used a computer program to retrocalculate total eclipses of the Sun, and they reckon that at a place called Zheng on 21 April 899 BC there would have been a total eclipse just after dawn. Following the eclipse the onlookers would have seen a "second dawn". The ...
388. Pharaoh Seti the (Great and His Foreign Connections - II [Journals] [Kronos]
... the Papyrus of Anhai* and the Cenotaph to note the manner of anthropomorphic creation by means of water. We shall find that all of these make the same statement. [* The Papyrus of Anhai is presently regarded as dating from the end of the 20th, or the beginning of the 21st Dynasty.] As in the most ancient Chinese documents, the Egyptians at Hermopolis found eight primordial elements at the base of reality. The Chinese, in the pre-Confucian classic I Ching, symbolized these as the Eight Trigrams and founded the binary number system in the process. The Egyptians, who also based everything on binaries, associated eight names with their earliest ontology (" ontology" ...
389. SERVANT OF THE SUN GOD [Journals] [Aeon]
... served as the pillar of the sky.(23) In the Japanese Kojiki an arrow launched to the sky "made a hole in the heavens. "( 24) But the arrow launched to heaven, or opening a hole in heaven, has acknowledged parallels in the Middle Eastern legends of the warrior Nimrod and in similar Indian and Chinese tales.(25) And there are no geographical limits to the motif. "He Shoots Arrows at the Heavens" is the literal translation of the Aztec Ilhuicamina.(26) The North American trickster Coyote, in numerous traditions, launches arrows toward heaven, and these become a ladder or pathway to the sky.(27 ...
390. On the Disproportion between Geological Time and Historical Time Part One - Of Apes and Men [Journals] [SIS Review]
... [47]. Meanwhile, to add to the disappearance of the ten human skeletons and the bone artefacts described by Breuil, in 1941-45 the fossil remains of Sinanthropus himself disappeared, except two teeth. Their loss was blamed on the Japanese. Hence all that remains of Peking Man today is Weidenreich's casts of his reconstructions. In 1978 the Chinese Academy of Sciences resumed exploration of Choukoutien. According to them, man first occupied the site about 460,000 BC and continued there for 230,000 years. As with other examples of cultural stasis, continual - or even intermittent - occupation of the same cave for 230,000 years is wholly beyond our experience to conceive. ...
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