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70 pages of results. 641. Plato's Atlantis and Prehistoric Europe [Articles]
... to be exaggerated. Of course anyone who accepts Velikovsky's revised chronology will know that the date for the destruction of Thera is around 1000. SLIDE 9 : The explosion on Santorini certainly was a cataclysmic event and without a shadow of doubt, it did destroy a very important Minoan colony on Thera. Here's a picture of part of the enormous column of ash and lava that covers the island. SLIDE 10 : This is a map of Santorini, or what's left of it. According to volcanologists when the volcano blew up, the centre dropped right out of the middle of the island, leaving the roughly circular shape or caldera, of the present islands. The gap left in ...
642. Stairway to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... to be found in these myths of a hero's ascent along a celestial staircase. Rather than an invisible theoretical construct like the polar axis, it seems clear that the ancients had a more substantive image in mind when they spoke of a ladder spanning the heavens and serving as a road to the sacred homeland of the ancient sun-god. The polar column as a ladder, or stairway, leading to the primeval Saturnian sun. (From a petroglyph near the San Marcos Pass in California.) If we approach the mythology surrounding the celestial staircase from the vantage point of the Saturn thesis, it will be found that each and every theme is readily explainable. According to that thesis, ...
643. Stonehenge: Temple of the Moon [Journals] [Aeon]
... the same basic cause, the difference in concept arising from the difference in time frames. In my opinion, we can actually reconstruct the relative scenario: there was first set up on the broad, flat meadows of southern England a data gathering observatory that subsequently evolved into a grand scale operational calendar, and ultimately into the temple whose massive columns still bear silent witness to the genius of its builders. It is interesting that the Greek historian, Diodorus Siculus, (9 ) referred to a "sacred precinct of the Sun" and a "notable spherical temple" that existed in an island opposite the land of the Gauls. Diodorus also made the statement that the Moon " ...
644. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and .. . a catastrophic rise in calcite-compensation depth in the oceans after the detoxification of the cyanide". PEARS ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MYTHS AND LEGENDS: OCEANIA AND AUSTRALIA, THE AMERICAS by Sheila Savill (Pelham,1979: £7 .50). The fourth and final volume of this series, which has been previously noted in this column, retains the high standard of its predecessors. Any attempt to compress the world's mythology into four volumes must run up against severe problems of selection and condensation, and material is sure to be omitted (in this case, for example, there is no mention of the legends of the Hopi, which we hope to look at in ...
645. Whence Homo? [Journals] [Aeon]
... kingdom. Terrestrial Upheaval and Biological Transmutation I am of the belief that major biological changes occurred suddenly in the past, and that most of them seem to have been in the midst of terrestrial cataclysm. The available evidence suggests that man was created in the same way. I also maintain that the eras and periods reflected in the standard geological column were actually relatively short periods of global upheaval, separated by (geologically unrepresented) periods of time of unknown duration. Thus, among others, it is appropriate to refer to the Tertiary Disaster, rather than the conventional Tertiary Period (which would have preceded the disaster). The biological organization, reorganization, and complexification that were apparently ...
646. Venus An Interim Report [Journals] [SIS Review]
... producing by this means "almost10,000 times more heat than the Earth - and it is inconceivable, according to present theories of planetary formation, that Venus should have thousands of times more of the radioactive elements than the Earth does". Over recent months New scientist has published various critical comments on Velikovsky's ideas, whilst closing its letters column to any reply. Where the informed reader might have expected comment, such as in the discussion of Jupiter's radio noise - one of Velikovsky's most spectacular predictions - or in the present report - concerned with one of Velikovsky's "crucial tests" - a coy silence descends. No doubt some of the editorial staff (and particularly John Gribbin ...
647. A RENAISSANCE SATURN [Journals] [Aeon]
... its numismatic prototype, embodying similar concepts of tranquillity and freedom from care experienced under Saturn's benign and beneficial reign- a kind of Securitas Saturni. Correggio's Saturn is followed by an image which has been designated as the Temple of Jupiter [Fig. 5]. The frontal view of a classical temple, with four Do- ric/Tuscan columns supporting a triangular pediment and framing a seated statue through its doorway, was initially identified by Padre Affo in the late eighteenth century. Affo's designation was substantiated by both Panofsky and Ricci, the latter providing images found on a coin of Domitian as confirmation (see Fig. 4). (19) The image of the Temple of ...
648. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a most welcome gesture and expression of both objectivity and fair play were you to prevail upon Mr Warlow to write an appropriate correction for Workshop. .. .. I commend to your reading David Lindley's commentary in Nature of 29th March, 1990, The embarrassment of cold fusion', pp. 375-376, with special emphasis on the last column for its applicability to Velikovskian and other pet, fringe theories. .. .. Would a measure of unrestrained mockery, even a little unqualified vituperation, have speeded cold fusion's demise? ' Owning the presses helps. C. Leroy Ellenberger, St Louis, United States Editor's Note. I have been asked by the other members of ...
649. Lamarckism: Still Alive and Thriving [Journals] [Aeon]
... very clever job that they did. That's how sensitive they were to the embarrassment. AEON: That's amazing. Of course, their version of the story is on record. Steele: Well, what happened, as you know, is that a week or so after my New Scientist article appeared, they published a response in a Monitor column of New Scientist but there was no mention of the names of the scientists. And no one signing the article! That meant that they realized they made a mistake, but did not want to be associated with even having to respond to me in public. So that was the end of an absolutely traumatic 15 months for me and ...
650. Thoth Vol VII, No 4: Jun 15, 2003 [Journals] [Thoth]
... rest of what he has observed, he does not observe." Henry D. Thoreau Throughout the ancient world the star between the horns of a crescent was an important religious symbol. Yet it is physically impossible if the crescent represented the Moon. What is more, the apparition was universally reported to have occupied the top of a tapering column of light in the motionless center of the northern sky ? the north celestial pole ? where the Moon never goes. It was often pictured as a figure with arms stretching upwards. The north celestial "pole" was commemorated by all ancient cultures as the home of the prehistoric sun and the planetary gods. A true history of the ...
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