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60 pages of results. 41. 1421: The Year China Discovered America (Book Review) [Journals] [Aeon]
... berth on one of the junks then currently plying the Seven Seas as well as access to navigation charts used by these intrepid traders in the Orient. One is led to think that Venetians had a special place in oriental esteem since the excursions of Marco Polo in the late 13th Century. For, at the time of Zhu Di, the Chinese already had at least eight centuries of seafaring experience. (In ad 499 the Buddhist priest Hoei-Shin returned from a land twenty thousand li (8000 nautical miles) east of China, naming this continent Fusang, after the red-fruited maguey trees that grow in Central and South America.) Prince Henry himself had a special heritage in seafaring. ...
42. Quartered At Yale [Journals] [Kronos]
... . S. Latourette, Sinologist, George Kubler, Mexicologist, and Rupert Wildt, astronomer. Professor Latourette, who, as a missionary, spent many years in China, put forth this argument against my book: Velikovsky has generally preferred older sources, and according to modern views Emperor Yao (Yahou) belongs to the legendary period of Chinese history (which is usually divided into three periods: mythical or fabulous, legendary, and historical). It can hardly be called an argument, still less an "exposure," since in my treatment I deliberately use legendary material of ancient origin. King Yao is not my invention. "Every Chinese schoolboy is familiar with the ...
43. Quartered At Yale. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... other authors were Kenneth Latourette, Sinologist; George Kubler, Mexicologist; and Rupert Wildt, astronomer. Professor Latourette, who as a missionary spent many years in China, put forth this argument against my book: Velikovsky has generally preferred older sources, and according to modern views, Emperor Yao (Yahou) belongs to the legendary period of Chinese history (which is usually divided into three periods: mythical or fabulous, legendary, and historical). It can hardly be called an argument, still less an "exposure " since in my treatment I deliberately used legendary material of ancient origin. King Yao was not my invention. "Every Chinese schoolboy is familiar with the names ...
44. Worlds In Collision. File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... by the rarest chance have brought the two phenomena together unless there was a true relation between them. I thought: If these were natural phenomena, observed as the standstill of celestial bodies, they must also have been experienced in other parts of the world. The next morning, in the Columbia library, I examined ancient texts of the Chinese in the East and of the Mexicans in the West. I did not find then what I was looking for in the books on ancient Chinese history- in the months and years that followed I came upon many references in ancient Chinese sources to the halting of the sun- but that morning, while making a list of books to read on ...
45. The Celestial Ship of North Vol. I [Books]
... resemble a Pointer, like the hand of a clock- a Time Teller. "Typhon in the north and Sut in the south were likened to the two hands of a clock, the Bear being the pointer hand, and Sut the Dog-Star the hour hand. Pythagoras calls the two bears the two hands of the Genitrix." The Chinese named this constellation "A Bushel," which was a measure of time. In the writing of Hoh-Kwantsze we are told that the Chinese determined their seasons and months of the year by the revolutions of the Great Bear,- "When the tail of the Bear points to the East (at nightfall) it is Spring to all ...
46. Open Forum, chaired by David Fairbairn [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ! Eric Aitchison: I don't know about that but we do know that Caesar did it in 45, if you multiply 5 128 2 in 45 BC, you get 687 BC, which was when Sennacherib's army was destroyed outside Jerusalem by some indefinable agent. Eugen Gabowitsch: You can prove nothing with calendar calculations, as for example the Chinese calendar was created at a very late time, as Chinese astronomers saw three, four, five times that Saturn and Jupiter are at the same place in the sky after sixteen years, so they decided that this was a regular thing, and they made a calendar and quoted sixty and more cycles back. However if you go thirty ...
47. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... back to camp, joined the discarded fish vertebrae end on end to make a long ladder and climbed to the sky, pulling the ladder up after him so that no one could follow." [5 ] Catasterized into a star or planet, Inua is said to have lived happily ever after along the banks of a celestial river. Chinese lore recalls a time when a ladder spanned heaven, thereby allowing regular trafficking between the two worlds. Yuan Ke summarized the various traditions as follows: "In those days there was a ladder between heaven and earth. The gods and fairies and witches all came and went easily between the two places." [6 ] That the ...
48. Dragons [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... One, ken61175@singnet.com.sg Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:49:45 GMT jchong1111@aol.com (jchong1111) wrote:>Hi all, I am writing a research paper comparing the > dragon of asiatic mythology with that of the western > dragon. Need sources/info!! In Chinese mythology dragons are usually benevolent. I stress usually. The four main dragons are the dragon kings of the North, South, East and West. The reside in their own realm under the sea and are part of the group of gods who bring rain to the people. But they can be vicious and evil, sometimes it is ...
49. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... maintained, that the ancient's may have preserved in their sacred traditions some memory of the catastrophic propensities of comets? The Mythology of the Comet That comets were universally regarded as harbingers of natural disasters of one form or another is well-known. For many ancient skywatchers the appearance of a comet portended the end of an age or dynasty. The ancient Chinese, for example, held that "comets eliminate the old and inaugurate a new order." (9 ) Lucan, similarly, spoke of the "comet that changes kingdoms on earth." (10) Shakespeare drew upon this archetypal symbolism with great effect in Henry the Sixth: "Comets importing change of Times and States, ...
50. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Five [Books]
... has reached this conclusion; but I have indicated its whereabouts, and future students nay be granted a further insight into this new labyrinth and the subtleties of its industrious Daedalus." Bancroft refers particularly to "Quatre Lettres" pp.155- 6. Note 10. a) In contrast to the four elements of the Greeks, the Chinese had five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Note the absence of air and the inclusion of wood and metal. b) The theory of the four elements does not appear to have originated in Greece, but seems to have been adopted by them from more ancient sources. Thus in "Through Alchemy to ...
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