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114 pages of results. 211. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]
... the probabilities are small, indeed, that any innovation at one hearth-fire, however ingenious, will work its way into land modify the narration at all the rest. There is no printing press to make the thoughts of one man the thoughts of thousands. While the innovator is modifying the tale, to his own satisfaction, to his immediate circle of hearers, the narrative is being repeated in its unchanged form at all the rest. The doctrine of chances is against innovation. The majority rules. When, however, a marvellous tale is told to the new generation to the little ones sitting around with open eyes and gaping mouths they naturally ask, " Where did all this ...
212. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... them. It is, finally, a book for people who are fascinated by human conflict, in this case a struggle among some of the most educated, elevated, and civilized characters of our times. These lines are being written a few weeks after the launching of a carefully prepared book attacking the growing position of Immanuel Velikovsky in intellectual circles [1 ]. The attack was followed promptly by a withering counter-attack in a special issue of the journal, Kronos [2 ]. The events reflect a general scene which, since the first appearance of this volume, has been perhaps more congenial to the temperament of war correspondents than of cloistered scholars. The philosophical psychologist, William ...
213. Cosmic Heretics [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Lake. To take a look at his stuff." "Maybe...What's his name?" "Velikovsky." "Never heard of him." A few days later Stecchini received a phone call from Deg. Deg had been to dinner at Sebastian's home. There was the usual babble and movement afterwards. He circled around the front room with its piles of papers and open bookshelves, pausing at the one where books of high mobility and heterogeneity sunned themselves for a few days. He picked out a forcefully jacketed book, Oedipus and Akhnaton, the author: Velikovsky. First the large photograph of the author, then the flyleaf, then the table ...
214. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... theory that some rock art was deliberately made in areas of special acoustics. Now an acoustics engineer has suggested that Mayan pyramids were also designed so that sound reflected from their stairways sounded like the cry of the sacred quetzal bird and some of the paintings in Europe's decorated caves may have been placed in areas where sound resonated. More stones and circles Science Frontiers No.122, Mar-Apr 99, p. 1, No. 123, May-June 99, p. 1, The Independent 24.3 .99, The Miami Herald 3.1 .99, New Scientist 20.2 .99, p. 22, National Geographic March 99, p. 25 An Iron ...
215. Thoth Vol III, No. 17: Dec 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... really a personification of Saturn rather than the Sun, it should also demand that the characteristics and motions ascribed to Ra will not be found to fit those of the Sun. Amy: Quoting from Jastrow, Boll, Budge, and the Pyramid texts, CARDONA describes the characteristics and motions of Ra, as a deity that reigned within the Circles, then further identifies this Circle as the "Duat" the "underworld", which, according to Budge, was located "away beyond the earth, probably in the sky." CARDONA: It is thus obvious that, whatever Ra once signified, it was a celestial body that resided within a circle or band or ring ...
216. In Memoriam: Dr Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Review]
... humanitarian Socialism, and the marvels of science. He grew into a doctor of medicine. He returned enthusiastically to Russia on the bright promises of the Revolution, only to be instantly repelled by the anti-semitism that has always cursed Slavic Byzantium. He never returned but found another life and social promise in Palestine, and intellectual promise in the psychoanalytic circles of Central Europe. He began a series of booklets on what we might call unified science. He studied; he worked; he watched the mad world like a comet thrashing its head with its tail. I have heard his reasons, and those which others give, for his next move. I think, however, that the ...
... mathematician of his time, the author of a planned calendar reform which turned out to be even more precise than the one that was adopted later as the Gregorian calendar, an intellect in whom trenchant skepticism could coexist with profound Sufi intellection. He knew full well that Jamshyd's seven-ringed cup is not lost, since it stands for the seven planetary circles of which Jamshyd is the ruler, just as Jamshyd's magic mirror goes on reflecting the whole world, as it is the sky itself. But it is natural to let them retain their iridescent mystery, since they belong to the living reality, like Plato's whorls and his Spindle of Necessity. Or like Hamlet himself. What then were ...
218. How Much Did They Know? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have thought them. Particularly it is becoming apparent that there was a great body of astronomical knowledge (together, indeed, with some pretty "advanced" theories) which was expressed verbally in the forms which we call "myths" (but tend to dismiss as "childish fantasies"), and concretely in constructions ranging from simple stone circles to elaborate temples. The books discussed here, very different in their approach and probably in their appeal, all contribute to our understanding of the subject, and also make us realise the extent of our ignorance. Hamlet's Mill is, one must admit, a heavy book, both physically and metaphorically. At the beginning - perhaps as ...
219. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... the great ones of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries searched through classical authors of antiquity for their great discoveries. Did not Copernicus strike out the name of Aristarchus of Samos from the introduction to De Revolutionibus before he signed imprimatur on his work? Did not Tycho Brahe find the compromising theory of the Sun revolving around the Earth- but Mercury and Venus circling around the Sun- in Heracleides of Pontus, yet announce it as his own? Did not Galileo read of the equal velocity of heavy and light falling bodies in Lucretius; did not Newton read in Plutarch of the Moon removed from the Earth by fifty-six terrestrial radii and impelled by gravitation to circle around the Earth, the basic postulate of ...
220. Ancient Astronomical Values Revealed in The Book of the Secrets of Enoch [Journals] [Horus]
... begins again from the beginning." Chapter XVI. verses 3. 4. & 8 And it [the Moon] goes through the western gates in the order and number of the eastern, and accomplishes the three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days of the solar year.... ' "Thus, too, the great circle contains five hundred and thirty-two years. "It [the Moon] has a sevenfold course in nineteen years." I have carefully analyzed these statements for their individual and interrelated mathematical and astronomical implications and have culled the following information from them: The length of the solar year was calculated at exactly 365.25 days. Twenty eight ...
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