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114 pages of results. 301. Thoth Vol I, No. 25: November 3, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , the solar or seasonal calendar and the 260-day ritual calendar, produced an extended sequence of sacred time, in which the two calendars concluded on the same day only once every 52 solar years- a cosmic cycle of extreme import. This 52-year cycle the Maya called the Calendar Round and the Aztecs a "bundle of years" or "Perfect Circle" of years. Interestingly, to Sylvanus Morley observes that the Maya "never indicated dates in hieroglyphic texts or historical documents by the solar year designation alone. Most often the date was specified by its designation in the Calendar Round." Among the Aztecs this extended cycle was intimately tied to the myth of Quetzalcoatl, who was born ...
302. Part I: The Drift [Ragnarok] [Books]
... and also by the facts connected with the geological distribution of plants and animals during the Glacial epoch.1 H. B. Norton says When we come to study the cause of these phenomena we find many perplexing and contradictory theories in the field. A favourite one is that of vertical elevation. But it seems impossible to admit that the circle located within enclosed parallel of 40o could have enclosed some seven thousand miles in diameter could have been elevated to such a height as to produce this remarkable result. This would be a supposition hard to reconcile with the present proportion of and water on the surface of the globe and with the present phenomena of contraction and gravitation.2 We ...
303. The Unworkable Polar Saturn [Journals] [Aeon]
... stasis by any nearby Moon, such as would cause a fatal libration, that slight daily alteration in the axis of Earth's alignment of facing toward Saturn, which in turn would cause a corresponding shift in the tidal deformation twice daily, with totally devastating results for even a minute shift. Earth's orbit around Saturn must therefore be an absolutely perfect circle. In this model, this small coplanar orbit, the face of the Earth that always faces Saturn is in night when Earth is at the sunward side of Saturn, and in day when at the spaceward side. For the Saturnward side of Earth, Saturn is fully illuminated by the Sun at midnight, at half phase at dawn ...
304. CLASHING MAGNETIC FIELDS [Journals] [Aeon]
... "in vogue" theories selectively ignore certain geophysical data and nearly all reported observances by ancient man. The model set forth in this essay is planetary, not asteroid, catastrophism as the significant fundamental of Earth history. Unfortunately, in our conformist society, rejection of the nebular hypothesis must be achieved in the privacy of the reader's own intellectual circle, and outside the halls of academia. Modern Science, in mistakenly advocating the nebular hypothesis, tends to cloud error with complexity in a desperate pursuit of faith in gradualism and uniformitarianism. Conversations in the language of buzz words such as "billions and billions of years" and specialty jargon discourage inquiry and relegates truth to the hinterlands of ...
305. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Five [Books]
... . Another such usage occurs in v.16, this time in the company of a similarly metaphorical honey': "16. These creatures (ie creatures of the earth) all together shall yield milk for us; do thou, O earth, give us the honey of speech!" This, of courses brings us back full circle to verses 7 and 9, quoted above, and which V assures us are indicative of the deposition of cometary carbohydrates. Turning to the verses V uses on WIC p.137 now, these occur in the following context: "22. Upon the earth men give to the gods the sacrifice, the prepared oblation; upon the ...
... in Pensee VI, 1974, and is fascinating reading for historians and sociologists of science as well as people interested in the "scientific' method. Velikovsky calls this the "ASH' correspondence, after the end product of the carbon dating process. While reading the series of letters, one sometimes feels as though one is caught in a circle or merry-go-around. The circle that is repeated is as follows: Velikovsky requests dating of objects from particular Dynasties. He is informed that the dates for those are so well known they do not need to be reconfirmed by radiocarbon tests. Velikovsky then responds that Libby mentioned the need for known samples to help determine the usefulness of carbon dating ...
307. The Role of Ancient Myths in Orthodox Natural Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... accomplished by transforming his homely experience into the intellectual vistas that his will (rooted inexorably in nature) can make clear to him. Consigned to merely adaptative, homely experience alone, an individual can be brought into relative harmony or coincidence through the emotional or psychological capture of his will by myths or repeated demonstrations. Those in analytical or social circles who controlled the myths and chose the demonstrations became as cosmic root to merely adaptative men. As lately as the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, ferocious intellectual battling for control of human cultures reached crisis dimensions. The controversies over realism vs. nominalism, transcendence vs. immanence, human immortality and the orthodoxy of various moral ideologies ...
... monoliths weighing many tons were arranged and stacked in a design for which the original purpose is not definitely known. The area has probably been used for everything from Druid religious ceremonies to seances and Halloween parties, but these activities were by people who found Stonehenge already in existence. What the builders used it for is still debatable. The main circle of stones is about 120 feet in diameter. The circular system comprising the stones, two inner circles of holes called the Z and Y holes, an outer circle of holes called the Aubrey holes, and the surrounding ditches and mounds is about 340 feet in diameter. Extending from the circle toward the northeast is a lane about 80 ...
309. Forum [Journals] [Pensee]
... "; Velikovsky's "on the basis of many conjectures" is far more accurate (line 4). The words "formain imperfecti circuli, & in se convoluti caputq; globi repraesentans" (lines 6-7) have been clearly misunderstood by both Velikovsky and Sutherland. They are to be translated as follows: "exhibiting the shape of a circle, incomplete and rolled in itself, and its top as that of a globe." In line 13 the words "ut aliqui volut" are troublesome. Velikovsky renders "certain (authorities) assert," Sutherland "as if rolling along another road." Comparing Velikovsky's excerpt from Hevelius, we read "according to certain authorities ...
310. Part IV: Conclusions [Ragnarok] [Books]
... other was raised as if in the act of striking. The figure wore a head dress, apparently made of quills. Around the border were undecipherable hieroglyphics. The figure on the opposite side extended only to the waist, and had also one hand upraised. This was furnished with long tufts like mule's ears. Around the border was another circle of hieroglyphics. On this side also was a rude outline of a quadruped. I exhibited this relic to the Geological Section of the American Association, at its meeting at Buffalo in 1876. The general impression seemed to be that its origin could not date from the epoch of the stratum in which it is represented to have been found ...
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