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70 pages of results. 551. Velikovsky And Cultural Amnesia [Journals] [Pensee]
... their datings might be brought down as low as -10,000, corresponding to a reduction of the development of language to a comparable period); 2) the universal appearance of a baseline ca. -4000; 3) the emergence among the Greeks ca. -600 of the conscious intention to beautify, as exemplified in the refinement of the column and entassis; and 4) the subsequent introduction into art of abstract causality. Rather than bring this general scheme of phases into any relation with Velikovskian dating of catastrophic events, Gowans twisted the parabola of his talk at the end to a detail of the revised chronology, pointing out that the artistic refinement of the Amarna period in Egypt ...
552. Hurricanes and Cyclones [Books] [de Grazia books]
... would have been scoured, not once, but 30,000 times by cyclonic action. In the short term, not all land would be affected equally, but in the long-term, given changing climates and drifting continents, an assumption of randomized strikes could be tolerated. Where then are the scars of 30,000 tornados in every geological column? Or even in any single one anywhere? From this we might conclude that we have a great deal of field research to do in geological history so as to obtain a realistic estimate of the number of events. This is also the situation, we may as well say, in respect of meteoroid falls, volcanism, and other ...
553. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... + 24, and provides an explanation for its puzzling characteristics. Polarization in Gamma-Ray Bursts Produced by Pinch Discharge http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501334 Authors: Mei Wu, Li Chen, Ti-pei Li. Journal-ref: Chin.J .Astron.Astrophys. 5 (2005) 57-64. Large-voltage and high-temperature plasma columns produced by pinch discharge can generate gamma-ray flashes with energy spectra and spectral evolution consistent with that observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The inverse Compton scattering (ICS) during the discharge process can produce high linear polarization. The calculation indicates that the observed polarization depends on the angle between the observer's line-of-sight to the GRB and the direction ...
554. VELIKOVSKY AND OEDIPUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... signifies the trunk' or lower limbs' of Saturn- a fact which explains the overlapping identities of the two powers in the earliest mythical astronomy."(142) Yet there is more. In "The Poem of Erra" it was suggested that a central episode in the career of the Martian hero involved an ascent of the polar column.(143) The movement of Mars up and down the axis produced the appearance of a "swelling" and "waning" associated with the red planet, and thus the image of a swelling leg or foot could easily be produced. It is in this manner that we would explain the root oidi, "swell" in ...
555. The Personal Tragedy of Albert Einstein [Journals] [Kronos]
... This work was done in the 1920's when the whole idea of relativity was still quite young. It did not make a splash in the scientific world until after the end of the first world war and then it made a very big splash. Everyone was talking about relativity, not only the scientists, but the philosophers and the writers of columns in the newspapers. I do not think there has been any other occasion in the history of science when an idea has so much caught the public interest as relativity did in those early days, starting from the relaxation which occurred with the ending of a very serious war.(10) The second of the recent reports came to ...
556. Apollo and the Planet Mars [Journals] [Aeon]
... 57) Pillars were also among the earliest images of Apollo. As Apollo Agyieus the god became synonymous with the supporting pillar. Farnell observes that this characteristic of Apollo's cult traces "to the most primitive stage of that cult when pillar and altar and divinity were not clearly distinguished, the same name Agyieus being given to the god and the column or the altar stone." (58) The Attic Greeks positioned these cone-shaped Agyieus pillars in front of their houses where they served as doorkeepers. (59) It was this feature of Apollo's religion which led Nilsson to identify the Hittite Apulunas as the Near Eastern prototype of the Greek god: "Among other gods there is mentioned ...
557. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... at least the time of the 4th Dynasty,(98) should have "enabled man to measure the [tropical] year with an error of less than 1 part in 40,000." But it is not until the 7th Century B.C . that the "ancient astronomer, by watching the varying length of a vertical column or gnomon [shadow] concluded. . . that the tropical day [sic] was equal to 365.25 days."(99) Around the ancient world neither the calendar, nor the celestial charts, nor the sundials, nor the water clocks of the time before-687 were adequate for their purpose after that time. Values ...
558. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]
... in the Odyssey (xi, 563) is in Ais, Aides or, Haides (= Hades), and in Plato36 forms one of a triad of Judges37 with AiAkos ( - bottom of Ais ?) and RhadaManthus, or a quartette is made up with TriPtolemos. In another place38 Plato put the judge at the foot of the Column. But the Draconian laws39 directed the Greek judges of the Heliaia, the roofless court of justice at Athens, to take their oaths of office by Zeus Boulaios, Athene Polias and DeMeter. Here we clearly have the Pole goddess joined to the Law goddess and the god of Counsel or of Decrees; and also evidence that the judge ...
559. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Eye of Heaven [Books]
... this is of course connected with the worship of horse-gods, and not of bull-gods. The naked skull of an ox with the horns on is figured in Saglio's Dictionnaire' from an antique vase, as hung against the side of the altar of Dionusos. On other vases they are seen hung-up, not far from an altar, on a column. In Cyprus also have been found, in archaic rock-tombs, gold earrings formed like the naked skull and horns of a ram. Mr. Hamilton Lang has already Suggested that these were charms against the Evil Eye, 70 and of course there need be little doubt that such was their purpose, although they must originally have been devout ...
560. Another Velikovsky Affray: the Histories [Journals] [SIS Review]
... body. Across this 21 year segment of Ramesses II's 67 year kingship, culminating as it does in the major treaty with the Hittite (or was it Chaldaean?) king, the comparison table reveals well defined periods of both elation and depression which would impact on the national psyche. The background portrayed by the non-aligned items in the second column of information provides key insights into these factors: at the close of a decade at home, we well appreciate the euphoria with which the offer of a permanent peace from the opposing king was received in Egypt. It is questionable whether Necho/ Ramesses could have won on the battlefield, so the unsolicited and unexpected offer was immediately accepted ...
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