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144 pages of results. 521. Introduction to Velikovsky [Articles]
... In the solar system we see the several planets moving around the sun in the same direction in orbits which are approximately circular and which lie nearly in the same plane. Dr. Velikovsky asserts that this was not always so, but that in past times their orbits intersected; collisions between major planets occurred, which brought about the birth of comets. He states that in the time of Moses, about the fifteenth century B.C ., one of these comets nearly collided with the earth, which twice passed through its tail. The earth experienced the disrupting effect of the comet's gravitational pull, .. .. intense heating and enormous tides, .. .. . ...
522. Sun 13 July Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1997:1 (Sep 1997) Home | Issue Contents 2nd SIS Cambridge Conference Abstracts Sun 13 July Abstracts 9:00 Dr Victor Clube, Armagh Observatory Predestination and the Problem of Historical Catastrophism Comets passing through the Solar System from the Oort cloud which have lost angular momentum due to planetary close encounters include a significant proportion of sungrazers. Continuously near the ecliptic such bodies are also especially prone to orbital energy loss thereby enhancing the prograde cometary population under Jovian control. Such control extends to "Jupiter avoiding" resonances and an expectation on this account of tidally weakened, giant sungrazers which remain long enough in cis-Jovian space to be physically destroyed. We therefore ...
523. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Edith Tollmann, Droemer-Knaur, Munich, 1993. Dr. Horst Friedfriech has sent copies of his reviews of this book, which he hopes will soon appear in an English language version. Professor Tollman and his wife are Austrian geologists who are describing Lyellism as an obsolete thought pattern. In the light of the recent discoveries of cataclysmic asteroid and comet impacts they are advocating a return to Cuvier's catastrophism. They suggest that the most recent catastrophe has been the Universal Deluge around 7552BC, caused by oceanic impacts by fragments of a great comet. The scenario of after effects of the impact are just those described by Velikovsky for his world-wide catastrophes. New World - Old World Contacts Books based ...
524. The Genesis of Religion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... when other "non-responsible" people, like science fiction writers or humanists or philosophers, make such claims in their name. "We are approaching the time when we will be able to control..." - and every human anxiety has its assurance - "our anxieties," "climate," "earthquakes," "approaching comets," "plague," "birth defects," "war," "governments," and ultimately "the challenge of death itself." This wealth of promises emerges from the instruments and procedures of scientific method, a process finding its way only through provably material entities. For those who doubt the fulfillment of these promises ...
525. Thoth Vol II, No. 10: June 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... clear to all serious students of Mesoamerican culture that there was an intimate relationship between astronomical knowledge, the calendar, and religious beliefs and rituals." Much the same point could be made with respect to all ancient cultures. Wherever one looks, one finds the same fascination with the heavenly bodies. Throughout the ancient world, for example, comets were looked upon as objects of terror and ominous portent, their appearance said to herald the downfall of kingdoms and the death of kings. The opinion of Synesius, an author of the fourth century A. D., may be taken as typical: "And whenever these comets appear, they are an evil portent, which the ...
526. Planetary Motions, Egyptian Unit Fractions and the Fibonacci Series [Journals] [Horus]
... long-term psychological and behavioral cycle of around 700 years (coinciding with a proposed interval between two great catastrophes) reaching even into medieval times; according to Victor Clube, it certainly does seem to provide a plausible background to widespread messianic predictions around the year 0 of the common era, and the general atmosphere of terror (sic) generated by comets at this time. Victor Clube, "Cometary Catastrophes and the Ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky," Journal of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, V:4 , (1984), pp. 106-111. Clube, while urging that numerology is dangerous stuff to get too excited about, interestingly notes that Halley's comet and Mars have such an ...
527. Ice Core Evidence [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... to catastrophic evidence- like throwing away the hipsithermal melting data. Dust evidence is fundamental. According to Ellenberger and Mewhinney, the dust in the Greenland icecap shows no definite spike where they require it to be. First, let me remind Ellenberger and Mewhinney about Venus' dust. What must be borne in mind is that Venus was never a comet! It was, as Velikovsky proposed, an incandescent planet that looked like a comet on a cometary orbit. The dust, of course, has to do with the period of darkness that ensued. Velikovsky proposed that there were years of darkness associated with his 3,500-year-old Venus catastrophe. As I pointed out in KRONOS long ago ...
528. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Lawgiving: Mount Har Karkom in Israel's central Negev desert. Apparently, the path to Mount Har Karkom is marked by several stone pillars and the remains of a building consistent with the description in Exodus 24:4 , where Moses "builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel." Comet Swift-Tuttle source: ASTRONOMY August 1983, pp. 16-22 We can recommend this very interesting article telling of the probable link between a comet last seen in 1862 (named Swift-Tuttle after its co-discoverers) and the Perseid meteor shower which visits Earth each August. Much has been made of the probable past history of comet Encke and the fragments it ...
529. A Personal Reminiscence [Journals] [Aeon]
... Velikovsky, only with the onset of the catastrophes. Moreover this literature, taken from hundreds of sources by Velikovsky, describes Venus not as one of five known planets but as a strange extended object. From these descriptions and the datings he concluded that Venus is a new planet, born about 1500 B.C ., first as a comet that, in that form, produced all the recorded catastrophes in a series of encounters with the earth. Only some hundred years later, in this Velikovskian history, did Venus shed its comet trappings to become a well-behaved planet. From this "birth of Venus," with incredible ingenuity and disregard of basic scientific principles, did Velikovsky ...
530. Worship Of The Morning Star, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... , a fire, a heavenly dragon, a torch, and a blazing star, and it rained naphtha on the earth. Assurbanipal speaks of Ishtar-Venus, "who is clothed with fire and bears aloft a crown of awful splendour, [and who] rained fire over Arabia."(66) It has been shown previously that the comet of the days of the Exodus rained naphtha over Arabia. In the attributes and in the deeds ascribed to the planet Venus-Isis, Ishtar, Athene- we recognize the attributes and deeds of the comet described in the earlier sections of this book. 35. See the Section, "The Shadow of Death." 36. Isaiah 9 ...
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