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60 pages of results. 391. Chapter20_21
... . Again it is the same whether it was Marduk who first "crossed the heavens and surveyed the regions. He squared Apsu's quarter, the abode of Nudimud [= Ea]. As the lord measured the dimensions of Apsu," and then erected his palace as the "likeness" of Apsu, or whether it was Sun the Chinese Monkey who fetched his irresistible weapon from the "navel of the deep" an enormous iron pillar by means of which, once upon a time, Yu the Great had plumbed out the utmost depth of the sea. In any case, whether the description is sublime or charmingly nonsensical, it is literally the "fundamental" task of ...
392. Anomalous Occurrence of Crocodilia in Eocene Polar Forests Part Two [Journals] [SIS Review]
... It is not unusual for crocodilians to undertake long trips overland when in search of new quarters. Some crocodilian species hibernate buried in the mud during the colder parts of the year. American alligators pass the coldest time of the year in mud holes, about 2 to 5 feet deep, which they dig themselves. Clifford H. Pope found Chinese alligators hibernating in shallow burrows. It was by digging A. sinensis out of these hiding places that Pope collected a few specimens for the American Museum of Natural History [111]. Aestivation is widespread among the world's crocodilians, and reveals the similarity of adaptation in a variety of ecosystems. The black caiman, Melanosuchus niger, in ...
393. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... civilisations in coastal Peru were probably affected by massive flooding associated with strong el Nino events in AD 600 and 1100. In a much earlier epoch, the explosion of Thera may have affected not only the Minoan civilisation but the Shang dynasty in China. Irish bog oak rings were very narrow for the decade of the 1620s BC, and the Chinese records show volcanic activity in 1600 BC at the beginning of the Shang dynasty and 1100 BC at its end, which was caused by sudden crop failure. These dates don't seem to tie in well as global catastrophe events, but it should be borne in mind that the Chinese dates are based on the assumption that a report of the ...
... may be explained by their haying seen a sky different from what was seen in his time .. . [378] --cf. numbers 1, 4. Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (1722- 1759) . . . analyzed the cosmogonies and mythologies of several farspread peoples of the Earth, such as Germans, Greeks, Jews, Arabs, Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, Peruvians, Mexicans, and Caribs, concluding that rites, ceremonials, and myths reflect the fact that the human race was subjected to a series of cosmic convulsions for which he also considered the geological and paleontological evidence. He argued that these catastrophes shaped the human mind, causing among other things a deepseated psychological trauma. ...
395. Early Historic Man - Catastrophism and Calendars [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 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 [records], - 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 Early Bronze that the ...
396. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... thinner cometary dust would remain longer, resulting in 500 years of ocean cooling. The last Ice Age was caused by an Apollo asteroid. Dr S.V .M . Clube (Oxford) on Giant comets and short-term catastrophes' gave a summary of the talk he delivered at the 1993 SIS Cambridge conference. He stressed the importance of Chinese fireball observations in the 11th century AD. Sometimes the Taurid stream fireball flux is 10-100 times more than usual. He suggested a 2,500 year cycle for cosmic catastrophes, starting with the collapse of the Sumerian civilisation in 2000 200 BC, then the fall of the Roman Empire in 500 200 AD and predicting a third in the ...
397. Golden Age Canopy by Isaac Vail [Books]
... waters". This "Regent" is a fossil word that tells the tale. The sun could not have a regent except he was kept as a power behind a canopy. Some of the eastern as well as the western Asiatics placed the serpent or dragon as the chief or their pantheons - "the God of Waters". The Chinese dragon was a water genius and yet a "God of the heavens". The Chaldee-Syriac demon Tiamat was a water spirit and yet a celestial power, a mortal foe of the sun-god Pel, who, it is said, "slew the dragon with a thunder bolt". It is now well known that the dragon Tiamat is ...
398. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... more rare. Now an experiment with flies has shown that, although inbreeding certainly does produce weaklings which rapidly die off, it also combines good genes to produce super-flies'. This certainly helps to explain bursts of evolution among survivors. Among animals which have obviously gone through a bottleneck in their evolution is, of course, Homo sapiens. Chinese Snapshots of Evolution (New Scientist, 21.5 .05, pp. 40-46) The rock formation in Yixian, China, is proving to be a window on the evolution of birds and other small dinosaurs. The area appears to have been covered in freshwater lakes 125 million years ago, with nearby volcanoes which periodically erupted, ...
399. The Bedrock of Myth [Articles]
... discussed. Here, the crescents are deformed, consistent with the conceivable variations of the auroroid phenomenon. That three different animals of this sort were periodically suggested int he course of the shifting forms of the image is reflected in the Roman sacrifice, suovetaurilia, of a pig, a sheep, and a bull, and also a similar early Chinese sacrifice. In 1938, in a cave at Teshik Tash, Uzbekistan, a Neanderthal child's skull was found, surrounded by a ring of 6 pairs of ibex horns whose cores were rammed into the soil. The circular arrangement evidently substitutes for 3 crescentoid components on one side of the celestial polar circle, faced by the 3 perhaps slimmer ...
... second century A.D .) were checked against dates when eclipses would have occurred if planetary and lunar motions had remained unchanged. This could not test Vehikovsky's contention that those motions had changed [429]. Stewart [385] rejoined by referring to three eclipses before 687 B.C ., attested in Greek, Babylonian, and Chinese records. In reply, Velikovsky [430] showed that he was thoroughly familiar with the relevant literature: the century in which the Babylonian eclipse occurred was still a matter of debate, and one authority regarded the ancient descriptions as being not of an eclipse but of the earth's movement through a cloud of meteoritic dust. For the Chinese ...
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