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60 pages of results. 471. The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
... somewhat from its central position- and "sweeping" or "clearing" the sky as it churned visually around the polar center, with the rotation of the Earth. Inseparably connected to the idea of radiating "feathers" is the ancient image of a goddess displaying a "fan." In Egyptian, Greek, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and other eastern cultures, the fan possesses an enigmatic significance in relation to power (life-strength, authority, charisma, protection), and this significance has never been explained. On its own, the inconspicuous symbol does not suggest any of its symbolic connotations, except in the feeble sense that we associate the fan and shade ...
472. The Two Sargons and Their Successors (Part II) [Journals] [Aeon]
... , and pottery, not to mention "entire armories of elaborate weapons" and "enough musical instruments for an entire orchestra," were buried with the Shang monarchs. Moreover, similar to the rituals that must have taken place at Ur, human sacrifice, "sometimes on an awesome scale," was often part and parcel of the Chinese burials.(64) Needless to say, these similarities are merely superficial. We are comparing two entirely different peoples who only exhibited a certain amount of similarity in the manner in which they buried their royal personages. The actual construction of the tombs as, naturally enough, the nature of the funerary items, are entirely dissimilar. ...
473. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... the creation legends. The original Zion is esteemed as the "joy of the whole earth" and identified with another obviously cosmic mountain, Tsaphon, in the farthest reaches of the north. Besides, every nation remembered the same cosmic column. The Babylonians called it the Mountain of the World. The Hindus knew it as Meru; the Chinese, Kwen-lun; and the Mexicans, Colhuacan. Always it appears as a heaven-sustaining column serving as the axis of celestial revolutions. And always will be found on the summit, as if held aloft by the great column, the famous world wheel, the ancient kingdom ruled by the central sun. (23) To what experience were ...
474. The Velikovsky Centenary Conference, New York, 1995 [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... The calendars begin with a passage of Halley's comet; to predict its return the 260 day one was used. Returns were feared: each new flyby brought catastrophes, eclipses, sometimes new year lengths. The 260 day system lasts 465 standard years, the 360 lasts 400 years and the 364 lasts several centuries. In 1993 the origin of Chinese religion was identified - an alignment of sun, moon and 5 planets in 1953 BC, when comet Halley passed close by. The date is near Mandelkehr's 2200 BC. Was Halley the harbinger of catastrophes, or was the culprit Encke? The period 7326 BC to 573 BC saw uncertainty over year lengths: 260 days was used till ...
475. Nova of Super Uranus and Ejection of the Moon [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Authority to do something about the falling skies, are ancient and widespread and are not to be neglected as reflections of the ancient traumas imprinted upon the collective memory and sublimated into the first fictional literature alongside the sacred religious myths (de Grazia, 1978, 1984a). When the heavens were broken open, as by P'an Ku, the Chinese creator god, Super Uranus appeared in the north, immense and egg-shaped, probably resembling a giant eye, too, atop the sky. At first the white of albumen, it became yolk-red, and radiated heat. It was probably the primordial light of the beginning lines of the Hebrew Genesis; as noted above, the present celestial ...
476. Instability of Super Uranus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... to scatter the shades of darkness". Coelus, or "Heaven", was the most ancient Latin god of the sky. His name means "covering". Ouranos was "Heaven" and the first god of Greek legend; this Heaven was at first a calm and settled person, married to Mother Earth, Gaea. The Chinese legend pictures Heaven as T'ien, at first a marble-like ceiling, unbroken. According to the Iroquois of north Eastern America, the Chief of Heaven was persuaded into marriage by "Fertile Earth" (Awenhai) and impregnated her by his breathing. The Hebrew Book of Genesis, a creative compilation, probably by Moses, of earlier legends ...
477. Afterword [Journals] [Kronos]
... I also discussed in some detail. Mulholland asks: "Does Velikovsky's evidence provide reasonable proof that the axis shifted abruptly and catastrophically 27 centuries ago?" His verdict is in two words: "Absolutely not". No careful reader of Worlds in Collision would agree. All of the evidence from Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Sumerian, Chinese, Hindu, Hebrew, Egyptian, Mayan, and Toltec civilizations are dismissed in this casual fashion, hundreds of pages, thousands of references. There are also several chapters in Earth in Upheaval dealing with evidence of the changing position of the terrestrial axis. Mulholland, who on the first page of his paper refers to how both Venus ...
478. Hurricanes and Cyclones [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was imagined. Then, west of Peking, an area larger than France exposed its loess to geological inquiry. Loess can occur at high elevations as well as on great plains. It breaks down into excellent thick soil in China and its cliffs degrade into natural terraces [19]. Old roads cut through it, sometimes passing through the Chinese countryside thirty meters below the houses and farms on the loess above. In Indiana, the highest lands and ridges in particular have the thickest yellow clay (called drift or loess) and it is free of sand and gravel [20]. The loess is not stratified, nor does it contain marine fossils, and land fossils of ...
479. The Great Flood -- the Myth in Genesis [Books]
... Great Rain are equally universal. Of -the violence of the downpours at that time it is difficult to get a clear conception (Note 63) Some mythological reports are helpful the Bundahish (vii. 5 and II) tells of prodigious rain, in drops like bulls' heads, and men's heads rain as big as a bowl. A Chinese myth relates that at first drops, then torrents, whole sheets of water, one solid mass of rain, an ocean, descended'. The Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa and, Oklahoma report rain each drop of which was as big as a wigwam'. In the Book of' Revelation (xvi. 21) we ...
480. The Repeopling of the Earth [Books]
... such exceptional expedients, the race would have died out. The myths frequently stress that this mating was not a matter of love, and in some cases even give details regarding the precautions taken by the parties concerned to prevent the rise of intimate feelings. We shall only give a few typical myths of the brother and sister type. A Chinese myth tells that after the cataclysm a brother and a sister agreed to have children, but only after they had spent a long time making many distant journeys to establish the fact that they were really the sole human survivors. The Kamars, a Dravidian tribe of the Central Provinces of India, tell that a man and a woman had ...
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