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144 pages of results. 531. Venus In The Folklore Of The Indians, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... have been given to its ancestors by one of these heavenly beings." The ceremony of sacrifice to the Morning Star is the main ritual of the Pawnee Indians. It is a "dramatization of the acts performed by the Morning Star." A human offering was sacrificed when Venus "appeared especially bright or in years when there was a comet in the sky." The act of appeasing Venus when a comet was seen in the sky takes on clearer meaning in the light of the present research.(104) The sacrificial procedure took the following form. A captive girl was turned over by her captor to a man who would howl like a wolf. She was kept ...
532. Still Facing Unfair Criticism (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... "We need therefore to keep all factors in mind and develop an integrated theory." Fairbridge devotes much space to the possibility of geodetic changes as causes of sea level changes and writes (Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, p. 108): "The possibility of sudden polar shift or rotation changes due to near collision with a comet or other extra-telluric body has been considered by several writers." When summarizing this section on "Geodetic hypotheses" he mentions the guyots (Hess) and submarine canyons as "key areas in this field of reasoning"; the work of Runcorn (1956) which "has brought the concept of major (relative) pole changes into ...
533. Folklore, Part 2 Mars Ch.6 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... change occurs in the order of the universe, all looks are fixed on the sky."4 Even local catastrophes, regarded as very violent, do not serve for the creation of cosmic myths. First in power to impress the races of the earth are the cataclysms of the past, and on this we have dwelt at length. Comets, because of their casual relat ion to world catastrophes, and also because of their terrifying appearance, were the kind of phenomenon to kindle the imagination of peoples. But for some reason, the impression they must have made on the peoples of antiquity is not considered in explanat ion of myths and legends. Since the invention of the ...
534. Discussion on Wal Thornhill & Ev Cochrane's papers [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was recently hit by several large pieces of rock, could such impacts happen to Earth? Secondly, in Lerner's book The Big Bang Never Happened, the author claimed astronomers could now see into space further than the Big Bang theory admits - is this true? Wal said that Earl Milton looked at the results from the various spectra of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with the planet Jupiter and he showed they fitted better with the effects of electrical discharges between the bodies and Jupiter before they actually struck the planet. So those strange, violent outbursts which soaked the detectors on earth and sent them over their detection limits would be explicable in terms of electrical discharges. Also there were auroral ...
535. Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science [Journals] [Aeon]
... Mars as participating in spectacular cataclysms involving the Earth and various neighboring bodies: "When Mars clashed with Venus, asteroids, meteorites, and gases were torn from [Venus' comet-like tail], and began a semi-independent existence, some following the orbit of Mars, some other paths. These swarms of meteorites with their gaseous appendages were newborn comets; flying in bands and taking various shapes, they made an uncanny impression. Those which followed Mars closely looked like a troop following their leader. They also ran along different orbits, grew quickly from small to giant size, and terrorized the peoples of the earth." (5 ) Velikovsky's thesis, needless to say, met ...
536. Three Views on Orbital Circularisation [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... actually bounce off the atmosphere (like a skipping stone) into space. To predict this the programmer would have had to identify this phenomenon and feed into the computer the additional aerodynamic information it would need to analyse it. The thing is that, whether or not Ragnar and Eric's computer's agree, the eccentric orbits of cosmic bodies such as comets do get circularised* - and maybe Venus did, too. The possible explanations are many: from tidal deformations of the planetary body, interactions with clouds (or rings?) of gas or debris, to electromagnetic interactions with cosmic fields, or current flows, or the local fields around other planetary bodies. My own feeling is ...
537. Could an Explosive Volcanic Eruption be Produced by the Nearby Passage of a Cosmic Body? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... volatiles which, together with changed heat characteristics and responses to pressure compared to regions below the chamber make it impossible to predict how the magma will behave. However, magmas containing less than 50% silica usually flow freely from dome-shaped shield volcanoes which have a more gentle slope than the conical type. Cosmic Bodies - Insiders or Outsiders? All comets ever observed have belonged to the Solar System (i .e ., they were originally on elliptical orbits) [9 ]. Where a hyperbolic orbit is found it has been induced from within the Solar System by dynamical interaction between the comet and a planet. Thus whether or not one subscribes to the Oort cloud hypothesis of comet ...
538. Afterword [Journals] [Kronos]
... civilizations are dismissed in this casual fashion, hundreds of pages, thousands of references. There are also several chapters in Earth in Upheaval dealing with evidence of the changing position of the terrestrial axis. Mulholland, who on the first page of his paper refers to how both Venus and Mars "erupted into the sky" as "two giant comets", cannot be counted among careful readers. He did not refer to Earth in Upheaval; and all the evidence from deserts, polar lands, jungles, once habitable countries, are also disposed of in this two-word verdict, though he agrees and stresses that "if a planet-sized object were to pass close by the Earth", ...
539. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]
... catastrophic interplay of planets; and that these events occurred in geologically recent times, producing a great array of myths that cannot be unravelled by any appeal to our familiar sky. More specifically, he identified Saturn as the ruling celestial power of the Golden Age and Jupiter as Saturn's successor. Venus, he claimed, was once a world-threatening "comet;" and Mars, the ancient war god, engaged other planets in disastrous celestial combat. Considering Velikovsky's work in this fundamental sense, his place in history will depend on few if any of the questions catastrophists and conventional scientists have debated over the past 15 to 20 years. The proposed hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of Venus, a ...
... . The A.A .A .S Symposium on Velikovsky 3. The A.A .A .S . Affair From Twenty Years After 4. Henry H. Bauer And Immanuel Velikovsky 5. Beneath Bauer 6. All Honorable Men, Journalists and Scientists as Misrepresenters 7. Cometary Venus 8. Bob Forrest and Venus As A Comet In World Mythology 9. Asimov in Absurdity 10. Pompous Asimov 11. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky 12. A Rage to Deny - The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair 13. From Calendars to Chronology The Original Velikovsky Affair: An Idea That Just Would Not Go Away By Irving Wolfe The Velikovsky Affair is one of the blackest ...
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