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60 pages of results. 431. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the response of peoples witnessing approaching planets, as cited in Worlds in Collision, where we are given instance after instance of non-specific, non justified anger, resentment, and violence directed indiscriminately, especially at those closest. Joshua recorded that: Nations raged from fear of Thee, Kingdoms tottered because of thy wrath.(45) The ancient Chinese wrote that when the planets abandon their orbits and the seasons become disarranged, then . . . all living beings harass one another.(46) Egypt of the fifteenth century B.C .E ., the time of the earlier Venus catastrophes, bewailed . . . the land upside down; the sun is veiled and shines ...
432. Precursors [Journals] [Kronos]
... : it was inspired by the chapter in the Book of Joshua where it is told about the stasis of the Sun and Moon, and the stones that fell from the sky. In a few weeks the major part of the theory presented in Worlds in Collision was conceived. The first impulse after reading the Book of Joshua was to investigate Chinese records in order to see whether anything is known about the stasis of the Sun; then I addressed myself to authors who narrate the ancient history of the New World. In the Friar Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874), I found an author who was very much impressed by the constant references in old sources to the fact ...
433. On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors [Journals] [Kronos]
... cover up to 60 degrees of the sky. For months the great comet, a fiery celestial apparition, attracted the gaze of mankind, and everyone could observe - with the naked eye - the great changes which this star underwent. The most famous of all comets, Halley's Comet, can be documented as having been first observed by the Chinese in the year 239 B.C . Well accounted for (according to Polanski) are appearances of the year 12 B.C ., and the years A.D . 66, 141, 451, 530, 684, 760, 837, 898, 1066, 1145, 1222, 1301, 1378, 1465, 1531 ...
434. The Heavenly Host [Books] [de Grazia books]
... " One notes the psychic need, that science cannot fill, to displace blame to a divine party, to turn punishment by the God back upon the self, and to propitiate and thank the divinity for not exerting its full powers if bestowing evil. Divinity has often been assigned to kings and emperors. Egyptian, Assyrian, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, and the rulers of other cultures were considered gods, and worshiped in life and death. They have been pronounced by themselves and their associated elites as a relatives of gods or even one of the gods. This practice, so repulsive to democrats, is a means by which an elite and the people it rules can ...
435. Newton's World View [Journals] [Kronos]
... comets is possible without the use of these records. It must be observed that many of the critics of Velikovsky have claimed that historical data are irrelevant to astronomical science, but even today every study on comets is based on a collation of the available historical data. In fact, specialists of the theory of comets give particular importance to the Chinese historical records** which began to be scrutinized for these very purposes in the age of Newton. Once one started to examine the ancient records one began to pay attention to the texts that mention that catastrophes on Earth were caused by the impact of a comet. [* See "On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors" ...
436. Cosmic Instability [Books] [de Grazia books]
... The initial impact penetrated to a depth of 12 km and amounted to 350 km in diameter. The rebound explosion and the collapsed rim enlarged the crater to a diameter of 700 km. The estimated kinetic energy of the event was ten billion times greater than that of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the Alaska earthquake of 1964 or the Chinese earthquake of 1976 [5 ]. The fall, in a different time and place, could have obliterated France or Germany. And from the explosion would have emerged a catastrophic typhoon that would have towered into outer space. It would have darkened the globe with dust, caused universal seismism, and brought worldwide floods from the concussion and ...
437. San Francisco, February 25, 1974 [Journals] [Pensee]
... "Venus was known shortly after -3000 and was in an orbit between the sun and the earth at least by - 1900." 2) "In the 16th century B.C . ( -1580 to -1560), the observed motion of Venus agrees satisfactorily with that calculated from the currently accepted orbital elements:" 3) Ancient Chinese eclipse records show that the Earth's rotation was not disturbed by catastrophes in the seventh century. 1) Specifically, Huber contended that the Sumerian Goddess Inanna was the goddess of the planet Venus from ancient times. One text, dated ca. -1900, "casts King Iddindagan of Isin . . in the role of her mate Dumuzi. ...
438. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in the Milankovitch theory from the astronomical viewpoint. The precession of the equinoxes was detected by Hipparchus in 150 BC. About 300 years later, Ptolemy produced a star chart which shows a 1-degree discrepancy from that expected using Hipparchus' figure for the precession - quite a large difference. Also, early measurements by Ptolemy, the Greeks and the Chinese of the tilt of the Earth's axis do not agree with the figures used in the Milankovitch calculations. What is more, the ancient figures all err in the same direction. Two independent researchers, Needham and Dodwell (who was the government astronomer of South Australia from 1910 to 1952), have studied the ancient figures and arrived at ...
439. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and the Milky Way by his armpit (Betelgeuse). Directly above his head is the kid (Capella). The fire-brands tied to foxes' tails are the particularly bright stars Sirius and Procyon in Canis Major and Minor respectively, Orion's dogs, recalling the excessive heat of the dog-days... And so on. ii). Chinese Yu Shih' was some kind of rain god, and his throne was in the Hyades. ' [54] iii). Celtic [sic] In a myth the monster which Heracles fought was a bull. ' [55] The identification of Heracles with a son of Zeus = Phaethon (as with Samson, there is ...
440. Could an Explosive Volcanic Eruption be Produced by the Nearby Passage of a Cosmic Body? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... either single sizeable ones, or showers of little ones. As Dr Clube has pointed out, even bodies that explode in the air without striking the ground create effects that may have become the stuff of catastrophic myth in the past, and the traces they leave (as at Tunguska) or the records that have survived (such as the Chinese annals) can still enable deductions to be made regarding, for instance, the masses and velocities of the cosmic bodies. An object passing close to but not striking the Earth can leave mute evidence of its passage only in the stresses it produces within Earth's crust. We have such descriptions in the Bible: The Earth trembled .. ...
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