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144 pages of results. 701. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in this very attempt to cover all possible explorations for the legends that this book must prove disappointing to those who believe that Immanuel Velikovsky's book, Worlds in Collision' has shed new light on the subject and indeed to all Catastrophists' whether or not they have been persuaded to accept Velikovsky's Venusian hypothesis inter alia. Surely the possibility of large comets which may have come into close encounter with earth in ancient times and the dragon-like configurations of these comet/s which must doubtless have overawed the primitive observers who then inhabited our planet provides the most cogent explanation for the existence of so many legends concerning worms and dragons in Northumbria and indeed the world over. In spite of the failure ...
702. The Opening of The Mouth Ritual - Part II [Journals] [Aeon]
... Warrior-Hero," i.e ., a list of cross-cultural mythical themes of Mars and Martian gods. [46] Bolshakov, op. cit., p. 171. [47] Budge, Egyptian Magic, op. cit., p. 32 (emphasis added). [48] D Talbott, "The Great Comet Venus," AEON III:5 (May 1994), p. 21. [49] Ibid., p. 17. [50] Budge, The Book of the Dead, op. cit., p. 91. [51] Cochrane, "The Milky Way," op. cit., p ...
703. Lessons in Humility? [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... perpetrated review of his stable-companion in a German science journal. At a loss to understand the extremes taken by his American counterparts, he professes "enlightened tolerance"; this, however, does not prevent him from classing Velikovsky as "documentary science fiction", or from proclaiming that, according to Velikovsky, manna and vermin fell from the comet, or that the ideas that comets or the terrestrial planets could have originated from the larger planets have long been rejected (if we overlook Alfven, McCrea and Vsekhsviatskii, that is). For the well-turned inconsistency that a good scientist needs, however, we turn back to Breuer's book. On an early page, we are presented ...
704. When the Earth Nearly Died: Compelling Evidence of a Catastrophic World Change 9,500 BC [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... their geological case the authors then turn to the mythological record of conflagration, flood, celestial disorder, terrestrial chaos, darkness, hail, fire and ice. They conclude that all this could only have been caused by the close approach of another large, cosmic body which, though comet-like in appearance, was certainly not a mere ice-ball as comets are thought of today. They acknowledge that this line of thought has been pursued before by the likes of Whiston, Donelly, Beaumont and Velikovsky but, dismissing all their various identifications as non-viable and even describing Clube and Napier's giant interstellar comet as having no firm scientific basis, Allen and Delair elect for a highly dangerous supernova fragment as ...
705. Thoth Vol II, No. 18: Nov 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ) the appearance of a darker or reddish smaller body in front of (i .e ., visually inside) the sphere of Venus, this body being identifiable through comparative analysis as the planet Mars, the archetypal warrior-hero. The primary mythical forms (among a larger list of secondary symbols) are: 1) Great Star, Great Comet 2) Long-haired, fiery-haired goddess 3) Radiant heart, soul, or "life" of the primeval sun or universal sovereign god (Saturn) 4) Visible glory, radiance, majesty, splendor, power, or strength of the primeval sun 5) Nave (hub) and spokes of the "sun" wheel (Saturn's ...
706. Velikovsky's Mythology, Accepting the Premise... [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... I:1 (1976), pp.2-7; and I:3 (1976), pp.11-14,19 - BN.] Accepting the premise forces symbols into an avenue of interpretation so narrow that more problems are created than solved. To suggest, for example, that serpents always represent a celestial body such as a comet is demonstrably false. Certainly a serpent may sometimes symbolize a comet; but it was also used to represent the ocean (e .g . the serpent of Midgard), both in the way in which the ocean was thought to encircle the land and as an explanation of the eternal rippling motion of the waves, so similar to ...
707. Ice Cores and Catastrophism [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Canards", WORKSHOP 5:4 , pp.11-13 2. C.U . Hammer et al., NATURE 288 (1980), pp.230-35 (231) 3. Velikovsky accepted the (then) conventional date of c.1500 BC for Thera (see EARTH IN UPHEAVAL, IX, "Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Comets") but this was in error. He placed Exodus at the end of the Middle Bronze age: stratigraphically the Thera eruption comes later - in late Minoan IA. See KRONOS 1:2 , pp.93-99 for a discussion of when Thera should more properly be dated within Velikovsky's chronology. 4. WORKSHOP 5:2 , ...
708. Thoth Vol III, No. 10: July 30, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... or necklace, found by Howard Carter among the treasures of Tutankhamen. Carter thought the scarab was carved of greenish-yellow chalcedony. However, measuring its refraction revealed to Vincenzo De Michele that the gem consists of Libyan desert glass. This is a fused natural glass, formed by cooling molten sand. It results from the impact of a meteorite or comet or a low-altitude explosion in the atmosphere. What makes the scarab even more astonishing is that the nearest source of Libyan desert glass is 500 miles west of the Nile, in the Western desert. Half of this distance lies beyond any known oasis. The glass is scattered over an area 15 miles in diameter. However, no meteor ...
... increasingly clear that the course of evolution had been much less even paced and much more erratic than previously realised, the fossil record revealing episodic rapid bursts and abrupt transitions, which could no longer (as formerly) be dismissed as artifacts. Moreover, from 1980 onwards, neocatastrophism made remarkable advances so that, today, impacts of asteroids and comets have to be regarded as perfectly plausible agents of evolutionary change, and evidence for such an extraterrestrial involvement at any particular time considered on its merits. Something of a revolution in academic thought has taken place, but as with other paradigm shifts in the scientific world, there are those who deny that it has happened. As Archie Roy ...
710. Some Comments on "Still Facing Many Problems" (Vox Populi) [Journals] [Kronos]
... ancients? While some of these tales may be just that, there is still some leeway for impressive sightings and events. Most of the strange sightings in the heavens were probably supernovae, unusually large solar flares interacting with the Earth's geomagnetic field, and abnormal cometary activity. We do know that the 1600-1900 period had a lot of "great comets", the likes of which this century hasn't seen for decades. The simultaneous appearance of these in different orbits, the breakup of one as it rounds the Sun, or the very close passage to Earth of one with tail interacting with the magnetic field could cause many strange sightings that would leave powerful religious impressions on ancient civilizations. ...
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