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144 pages of results. 511. Holocaust for Lucifer [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... still, and will go on doing so) can only be sketched out here in a few simple phrases. But P.A .F is holding bibliographies and informational material available for all subject areas . The Natural History Background : From her "birth" from Jupiter until ca. -1480, Venus transits the solar system as a comet, on a stretched-out ellipse. Then she becomes entangled in the direct sphere of influence of the earth, which is ravaged by the physical forces and chemical effects of the cometary tail (Exodus catastrophe). Second encounter about -1430 (Joshua ben Nun), when "the sun stands still" or, in America, fails to ...
512. Site Destructions and Discontinuities in the Bronze Age [Articles]
... that, and when it came up to this area here, the rift parts, it goes one way and another, one goes here, and let out so much magma underneath this Atlantis that the continent sunk underneath the water and the remains he thinks are off the coast of Africa.- He thinks that this was caused by this comet or whatever it was, it wasn't a comet, I think it was a large planetoid. We have in Carolina, where I come from, a phenomenon known as the Carolina Bays. This is a series of ovoid depressions near and around Atlanta, Charleston, along that coast here, there are hundreds and hundreds of them, ...
513. Collisions and Upheavals [Journals] [Pensee]
... observations, likewise failed to notice Venus. But some time before 1500 B.C . Jupiter, for centuries chief among the deities, shattered the serenity of the skies. A brilliant, fiery object, expelled from that planet, entered upon a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. The feared god Jupiter had given birth to the comet and proto-planet, Venus. Terrified, men watched the "bright torch of heaven" as it traversed its elongated orbit, menacing the Earth at each pass. Venus, a Chinese astronomical text recalls, spanned the heavens, rivalling the sun in brightness. "The brilliant light of Venus," records an ancient rabbinical source, " ...
514. Krupp And Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... is attacked not for what he has written- for Krupp has patently not read the relevant works- but for what Krupp thinks he has written. Krupp's interpretation is presumably based on the hoary canards foisted on Worlds in Collision since its publication. His arguments against Velikovsky's thesis can be grouped into two parts: Those dealing with the nature of comets (Venus included) and those dealing with the effects of disturbances in the Earth's motion. The first section is positively banal. By comparison, similar asinine attempts by Asimov, Gardner, et al. appear as models of accurate scholarship. The other section at least has the merit of introducing some original arguments which may, however, ...
515. The Atlantis Researches by Paul Dunbavin (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by Phillip Clapham A few years ago it was popular to link the Atlantis legend with the eruption of the Thera volcano on the Aegean island of Santorini, at around 1400 BC, bringing the curtain down on the Minoan culture. Paul Dunbavin has reopened the debate. He claims Atlantis was drowned at around 3200 BC as a result of a comet coming close to the Earth, at a tangential angle. This caused a slight pole shift, or change in obliquity. Hence, what we have is a watered down version of Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. Dunbavin is at pains to distance himself from Velikovsky and the 1950's book - out of hand. However, this should not put ...
516. Ancient Mysteries by Peter James & Nick Thorpe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the point of deflation'. In their view, the reason for that was the development of the theory of coherent catastrophism by Victor Clube and Bill Napier. This had no requirement for wandering planets as a means of explaining Bronze Age catastrophes and the myths derived from them, proposing instead the more plausible mechanism of the disintegration of a large comet in the vicinity of the Earth. James and Thorpe conclude, With the advent of this model, produced by professional astronomers, Velikovsky's extreme model became redundant'. Indeed, another of the recurring themes of Ancient Mysteries is the likely role of disintegrating comets in causing Bronze Age catastrophes, particularly those around 2300 BC (including Tell Leilan ...
517. Metals, Salt and Oil [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and copper. Walter Sullivan has presented in the New York Times of Nov. 2, 1966 a map of the world's most productive gold field below Johannesburg, which shows a large primary "bulls-eyeformation" rimmed by gold-bearing formations and a much larger 200-mile-diameter, secondary, cratered, rim-like area, also bearing gold, and asks "Did a comet create a South African gold field?" Unless the gold was alchemized on the spot, it might have been part of the meteoroid that crashed. Most metals, in conclusion, may originate exoterrestrially. If an alternative must be found, it may be suggested, although hardly discussed directly here, that special thermo-electric events might produce the ...
518. Bedlam's Basement. Ch.6 Dreams And Hallucinations (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... forced witnessing of charred bodies, the bits of corpses hurtling through the air, the labyrinths which the survivors fled into beneath the earth (part of the unconscious obsession of the spelunkers), the fantastic scaffolds built above the deluge, the flying and soaring through the air when gravitational forces changed, the obsessive worshipping and propitiation of the violent comet gods, the goon squads picking the doomed and carrying out of terrible sacrifices, the decimations of other tribes in the name of comet divinities- the cruel tortures inflicted on those breaking the covenants and comet-cult taboos. How can you avoid the incontrovertible evidence for the truth of your findings- namely that all of us are descendants of the ...
519. An Interim Reply To Weir [Journals] [Kronos]
... any retrocalculation of disappearances and appearances would clearly be ruled out by some eccentricity-reducing event or process subsequent to the observations. These are the four ideas mentioned in Weir's letter in KRONOS XI:2 . A further idea of Weir's was mentioned by Ellenberger in Nature (21 November 1985, page 204). This idea is that a very bright comet periodically increased the brightness of the sky, and thereby altered viewing conditions. But this suggestion will not explain the Venus tablets. Such a comet might have made "seeing" more difficult, and might therefore have lengthened some of the periods of invisibility. In terms of the present orbits, however, many invisibilities on the Venus tablets ...
520. The Archangels [Journals] [Kronos]
... Cf.Ages in Chaos, pp. 69-70; KRONOS I:2 ,p . 74.] A clue comes our way from Slavonic lore. Among the anthropomorphosed denizens that populated the Slavic sky were "seven messengers' who flew across the universe in the guise of stars with tails'" (87) Could angels have been comets?** [* *Cf. KRONOS VIII:1 , p. 50, n. 51.] In following this belief we also find that the Araucanians of Chile believed in the Cherruve who, like angels, were spirits. These took the form of snakes with human heads. But comets and shooting stars were among ...
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