| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: circle in all categories
1138 results found.
114 pages of results. 391. The Saturn Thesis (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... to the Radiant Venus will be missed only because the possibility of concrete references would be inconceivable to the modern observer. In Egyptian representations of Akhenaton, we see the rays of the celebrated Aten as extended arms bringing the gift of life. Now the Aten, usually interpreted as the disk of the Sun, is generally represented as a red circle or orb surrounded by a turquoise or gold band, which band is frequently interpreted as either an enclosing serpent (Uraeus) or an enclosing rope (the Shen bond). Hopefully, the reader will have no difficulty recognizing our own interpretation of the disk in terms of the juxtaposed orbs of Mars and Venus. (This mythical interpretation ...
392. Ballochroy, Kintraw, and Mackie (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... . The question remains whether Neolithic man utilised such a technique. No independent evidence has been offered to support the hypotheses that Neolithic man had the organization, the ingenuity, and the will to undertake such a project. Ironically, the only evidence of a scientifically motivated community is Thom's contentions that they employed esoteric mathematics for the layout of stone circles and had sophisticated astronomical knowledge not improved upon for three thousand years. This fundamental dichotomy, between Thom's claims and orthodoxy, has been termed the "Thomist Paradox". Conventional archaeology describes prehistoric Scotland as a land having a low density of population, combined with a harsh debilitating climate. These factors mitigate severely against the rise of a ...
393. The Trouble With Aztex [Journals] [Kronos]
... primitive Dogon of Mali, the former Sudan, have also known this fact? They do not present their knowledge in the form of a myth but explicitly affirm that "there is a permanent halo around the star, different from the one sometimes seen around the moon". When asked to draw a picture of Saturn, they trace a circle with a ring around it.(71) No ring around Saturn can be seen today with the naked eye. Why would the Efé pygmies of the Ituri Forest explicitly allude to Saturn as Bibi Tiba Abutsiua'ani- "the star of nine moons"(72)- unless they had knowledge of the planet's satellites? Is nine not ...
394. Response to Bimson [Journals] [SIS Review]
... between the two forms. A search was made for anything that could in any way be described as transitional' between the two. Sure enough, a species of rough pottery labelled sub-Mycenaean' was decreed to mark the decline and transformation of the formerly splendid culture. On the other hand another variety of inexpensive pottery, often characterised by concentric circle designs produced by the compass (as opposed to the hand-done spirals of Mycenaean/Minoan work), was designated as Proto-Geometric. It will be apparent then that the whole concept of an evolution from Mycenaean to Geometric, as well as the existence of so-called transitional forms, is something which has been forced upon historians by the Sothically dated ...
395. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the programme, the few photos of this phenomenon inevitably suggest an alternative (or supplementary) explanation for the Tree of Life' motif. Paul Standring, Bolton Dear Reader In the book Earth Memory, the author, Paul Devereux (Foulsham & Co. Imprints, Slough, 2000, cat. no. 0-572-02593-9) claims that some stone circles possess at least one stone with electro-magnetic properties. This might be a factor in a rarefied and electrified atmosphere, the sort of thing envisaged by Velikovsky and some of his adherents. For instance, at Castlerigg in the Lake District, only one of the 38 stones has enough magnetism to affect compass needles. It is situated at the ...
396. Common Sense About Ancient Maps [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... old map. It would have been exceedingly improbable that such a ratio would have been found if the Oronteus Fineus was simply an invention. However, Hapgood, by applying latitudes to the old map, discovered that Antarctica was so large it would intrude on the tip of South America, a clear impossibility. He also found that the Antarctic Circle on the Oronteus Fineus map was almost exactly the same as the 80th degree of latitude on the analyzed copy of the map. This indicated that, when the old map was reconstructed by Oronteus Fineus or his forerunners, the 80th parallel of latitude had been mistaken for the Antarctic Circle. It was this mistake that had enlarged the size ...
397. Thoth Vol II, No. 12: July 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... - Mars of the Pawnee in Nebraska. And incidentally, theirs is the only Indian culture of North America I know of that practiced human sacrifice - but not anywhere near on the scale of the Aztecs - and only when Mars rose in the East. Funny thing is that there are polar configuration pictographs and petroglyphs all over the place - circle within a circle within a circle with radiating spokes (the radiant Venus) as well as spirals and crescents, so Saturn was presumably depicted in this, but I don't know of any evidence that the planet itself was worshipped by itself. EV ADDS: Typically the ancient sun-god in American Indian legends is to be identified with Saturn. ...
398. Return to the Tippe Top [Journals] [SIS Review]
... backward in the opposite direction,.... Now this reversal of its motion is an inevitable part of its nature .. . it moves .. . so far as it is able to do so, with a single motion in the same place and the same manner, and therefore it has acquired the reverse motion in a circle, because that involves the least deviation from its own motion.... of all the changes which take place in the heavens this reversal is the greatest and most complete." ". .. at that same time the greatest changes come upon us who dwell within the heavens.... there is at that time ...
399. Thoth Vol III, No. 2: Jan 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... made dimensionless points. Those are the kind of "of course" assumptions that are easily recalled. But there are more subtle- and more pernicious-ones: That the underlying theory is a law that's universal and ahistorical. That there are no consequences to our unawareness of the vast ignorance we have of the complex real world frolicking just beyond the circle of our assumptions' illumination. An apt symbol of this stumbling over neatly drawn lines is Einstein's assertion that time is an illusion. The simplified equations are solved; the simplifying assumptions are forgotten; and people begin to believe nature is as simple as the math. Because the idealized deductions work "close enough" in certain carefully-selected situations ...
400. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... was standing at noon,(i ) disdained half the gleam of her face, made herself dark,(k ) and jumped aloft; for she would not use rays borrowed from the light-bearer of the male sex, nor drink sisterly brilliance from her opposite, Phaethon. From the flock of the Pleiades, who stand screaming in a circle, there surged across the seven-belted heavens a sevenfold, intertwined cry of complaint. Raising an echoing noise from as many throats, the stars raced against each other, and seemed insane in their aimless running. Venus pushed Jupiter, Mars Saturn; my star (Mercury) came close to the springtime Pleiades in its motions, and after ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.079 seconds |
