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144 pages of results. 541. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Light phenomena, or gas balls, are occasionally a feature of fault lines. During catastrophic incidents this must have increased considerably. Mountains on fault lines exhibit, even nowadays, great sheets of light, like blankets floating in the sky, gushing forth in many colours. It is, perhaps, simplistic just to think in terms of comets and meteoric firework displays. Catastrophic too. These factors seem to be wholly relevant to the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. The folklore attached to St. Columba and several other early saints of the Celtic Church is explicable in terms of enhanced sun activity, increased electro-magnetism at the poles and auroral phenomena. Sacred sites may have ...
542. The Steeds Of Mars, Part 2 Mars Ch.5 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... From "Worlds in Collision" © 1950 by Immanuel Velikovsky | FULL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE Contents The Steeds Of Mars THE CASE OF Abraham Rockenbach and David Herlicius,who wrote about the year 1600, and who were informed on the matter of the comets of antiquity,1 shows that the contents of some old manuscripts were known to the scholarly world then, though not to modern scholars. A scholar and pamphleteer, Jonathan Swift, in his Gulliver's Travels (1726), wrote that the planet Mars had two satellites, very small ones. "Certain astrologers . . . have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, wh ereof the innermost ...
543. Senmut and Phaeton: Supplementary Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Phaeton: Supplementary Notes Michael Reade D.S .C , for many years a marine navigator, now a confectionery technologist consultant to industry. The author's paper in our last issue concluded that the astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Senmut records the event remembered by the Greeks as the "Fall of Phaeton", involving the passage of the comet Venus and an inversion of the poles. Some further thoughts are appended here. 1. The Crocodiles on the Egyptian Monuments The two crocodiles (sometimes more) which appear on the astronomical ceilings appear to represent the constellations Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda. The one which climbs up the back and peeps over the head of the hippopotamus ( ...
544. Ice Cores and Common Sense (Part II) [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... present is not a surprise. Meteoritic dust is constantly falling on the Earth. Everyone already knew that. But to recover one cosmic particle directly from the ice of Greenland, the investigators calculated they would have to melt 50 kilograms of ice.59 It takes a perverse sort of imagination to transform this into a conspicuous dust layer from Velikovsky's comet! A small but devoted army of Velikovsky supporters is scanning newspapers and popular science journals for items which, in their letters, they confidently claim somehow prove Velikovsky right. Almost invariably, these letters demonstrate the failure of the writers to understand what they have read or to cheek their information. Addendum III: Unclear Thinking on Thera Quite ...
545. Aeon Volume II, Number 4: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... Nether Reaches of Eden and Babel Beginning with Immanuel Velikovsky's identification of Aden (the present capital of Yemen) and Eden, Lynn Rose explores the possibility that the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia and Djibouti may have been the site of the mythical "world mountain," caused by a massive tidal distortion of Earth. PAGE5 The Mythical History of the Comet Venus Seeking to reconstruct the early events of ancient myth, David Talbott launches a series of articles on Venus and the mother goddess, showing that the history of "the comet Venus" begins with Venus as the eye, heart and soul of the ancient sun zod. PAGE29 Indra: A case Study in Comparative Mythology Continuing his series ...
546. Spatters And Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Trojan War. The "lady" appears trismatic: she is guarded by two fowls with serpentine necks. Spatters appear on the plate, with the smaller and more primitive ones on the "lady's" arms. Figure 64 is my sketch of spiral and omega motifs on a Minoan urn used by Victor Clube and Bill Napier to prove their comet thesis.(2 ) Upon close examination, one can see the spatters. The flower-like spatters and trisms make gardens and parkland a common artistic theme. These forms also appear in depictions of the Garden or Bower of Venus, portrayals of the Flower and Fruit Mountain of the Chinese monkey god, Wu Kong, art showing the proliferation ...
547. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... lists a number of theories put forward at different times to explain this event, such as cultural decadence, invasion by outside barbarians, internal conflicts, domino' collapse, over-centralization of authority, economic collapse, drought-induced famine, volcanic eruptions or widespread earthquakes. Only the last two come anywhere near Velikovsky's prime thesis of multiple near-collisions by an errant comet. Nevertheless, in an Appendix James refers to the inconsistencies of radiocarbon dating in the middle of the first millennium BC. Carbon-14 is formed continuously in the Earth's upper atmosphere by the action of cosmic rays on nitrogen, and in dead tissue constantly changes back into nitrogen by the emission of an electron. Unfortunately the amount of Carbon-14 in ...
548. Effects of Atmospheric Dust on the Arcus Visionis [Journals] [Kronos]
... alone of the thirteen is affected by conditions of the Earth's atmosphere and therefore this parameter by itself might indicate "upheavals of the Earth", if such upheavals are associated with large amounts of dust loading of the atmosphere, e.g . from volcanic eruptions, strong winds blowing over dry areas, from extraterrestrial sources (meteor dust, comet tail dust), etc. The effect of atmospheric dust loading on the sighting of Venus (or any other heavenly body except the Sun) when the Sun is illuminating the upper atmosphere is easy to understand qualitatively. The basic idea is that the atmospheric dust (and air molecules themselves) scatters sun rays in all directions and creates ...
549. Past, Present, and Future [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Earth was only temporarily undisturbed. Isaac Newton, for all that he laid down the laws that founded the dogmas of uniformitarianism in astronomy, nevertheless gave a good part of his later life to research in the chronology and authenticity of the Bible, with attention to the great Deluge. It was his assistant, Whiston, who introduced a great comet as the force that brought on the deluge. Therefore Whiston may be properly called the first modern astrophysical catastrophist. Over a century later, Giambattista Vico wrote in his New Science (1744) that after the Deluge, Jove reorganized the world with his bolts of lightning: all the nations arrived separately at the worship of Jupiter and called ...
550. Naptha, Part 1 Venus Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... . 2. The organic theory: Both the hydrogen and carbon which compose petroleum come from the remains of plant and animal life, in the main from microscopic marine and swamp life. The organic theory implies that the process started after life was already abundant, at least at the bottom of the ocean.(1 ) The tails of comets are composed mainly of carbon and hydrogen gases. Lacking oxygen, they do not burn in flight, but the inflammable gases, passing through an atmosphere containing oxygen, will be set on fire. If carbon and hydrogen gases, or vapour of a composition of these two elements, enter the atmosphere in huge masses, a part of ...
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