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95 pages of results. 471. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the Northern hemisphere and forwards (eastward) in the Southern hemisphere. Its fracture, relieving the strain, moved readily eastwards, along the longitudinal Mediterranean on the east. It is marked by a welt, more than a cut; the welt takes the form of volcanoes, mountains, deeps and fractures. From the Mediterranean this Tethyan welt crossed over the new north-east fork of the Indian fracture at the Aegean area and Red Sea- Dead Sea axis; it carried through the middle of the Near East and then through the southern borders of the Asian continent. There it was to be over-ridden by the Indian subcontinent moving northwards. But it continued and appears in what was becoming ...
... the inland-dwellers was a X or a +. And just like the conspicuously placed water-symbol, 111, was misunderstood to be the `number' 666, the equally well visibly applied protective amuletic bar-symbol, X or +, was erroneously interpreted as the `letter' taw. We ourselves would, as erroneously, interpret it as a `cross', a crux decussata, X , or a `Greek' cross, -f-. The redactor of the Book of Revelation seems to have had this in mind when, in verse 1, he likened the form of the protective charagma to something which was intimately connected with the worship, -f-, or the name, ...
473. On Comets, Comet-Like Luminous Apparitions and Meteors [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the hurrying Athene in The Iliad. On a stele from Gebel Barkal the following is written concerning the same pharaoh intervening in the battle: "who . . . rushing as a crocodile (rushes) like a (falling) star (i .e ., a meteor) between the two bows (of heaven) when it crosses the sky. . . "( 13) And in the "Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor," on a Middle Kingdom papyrus, the snake, which itself is depicted as a comet-like apparition (with a beard and golden skin - "and the earth shook as it approached, and the trees broke" - ), told ...
474. Some Implications of Saunders' Lunar Hypothesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... is familiar, through the sequence by which day follows night, follows day, and so on. Another type of rotation - precession - has been known since ancient times. Terrestrial precession (or the precession of the equinoxes, to give it its full title) appears as a slow displacement of the star sphere relative to where the Sun crosses the celestial equator at each equinox. It is caused by a combination of two relatively small gravitational torques exerted on Earth's equatorial bulge by the Moon and Sun, the action being opposed by Earth's rotation. It is somewhat akin to a gyroscope being torqued about an axis at right angles to the spin axis of its flywheel, precessing it ...
475. The Perception of Continuity and Discontinuity [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... step-like displacements of fracture cleavage laths produced by vegetation, Fig 2B (ABOVE). the older, more gently dipping vein seems to be displaced upwards on the right of the younger more steeply inclined vein. The offset is, however, illusory (after Chadwick 1976). Figure 3 a-d a) kink band showing irregular discontinuities of slope crossing layers of markedly different ductilities and mechanically effective thicknesses. b) and c) schematic and natural wedge-shaped kink bands showing increase in shear to the wedge apex. and in c) the commensurate breakdown of the kink as the more calcareous (stippled) layers are approached. (From Loch Leven, Dalradian schists). In c) ...
476. The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika [Journals] [Aeon]
... , at times, these gases appeared in more complex forms) that would eventually have given rise to an ogee-like manifestation, that is a curved swastika. Sagan and Druyan themselves have reasoned that the swastika in a comet's head is derived from four "symmetrically placed jets" which, in a non-rotating cometary nucleus, would look like a four-armed cross. And it is the rotation of the comet's nucleus that turns this cross-like stream of jets into a curved-armed swastika. (32) The description of the method by which a stationary cross turns into a rotating swastika would be just as valid for turning the four-armed cross-like stream of gases in the Saturnian configuration into a rotating ogee. But ...
... can do! This island of Mona is now remote from the land 23 miles, which in old times was scarce one mile distant from Anglesey and joined unto Wales." Yet today, Douglas is distant 57 miles from Holyhead, and 50 miles from Amlwych, the nearest point in Anglesey. The accounts of Tacitus, whereby the troops crossed a shallow strait, swimming and fording their horses, implement the statement of Polydore Vergil that the distance between it and Anglesey was scarcely a mile, whereas today it is at least 50; and that as late as 1538, it was only 23 miles distant, or 37 miles closer than at present. Surely nothing can be more ...
478. Celestial fireworks [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... . Thus the killing of the dragon is the emergence from the labyrinth is the rise from death is the resurrection of the dead deity. A whole chain of associations belong here. The picture is from Val Camonica Italy. Frame 2 of 7. The spirals and concentric rings are often richly decorated. Among the commonest forms of decoration are crosses and eight-armed stars in the centre, as well as dots and spirals in or attached to the rings. Little attention is paid to these features in standard works of literature. This is unfortunate, as it can be demonstrated that such features were no products of the artist's fantasy, but were part and parcel of an established and universal ...
479. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... made (Hindley 1976, Hughes 1976), and as a first approximation of the likelihood of a near miss by, for example, an Earth-sized body we might extrapolate these data to Earth mass, allowing for an increased cross-sectional capture' area out to a radius of 6.6 x 104 km, or about 102 times the Earth's cross section. From Hughes' data the simple average curve would yield an event about once in 1016 or 1017 years. The Solar System has been in existence for a period of only 109 - 1010 years according to present estimates, so even a single event would seem unlikely on this basis. However, the data do not form a ...
... visitation, namely from northeast to south-west, as shown by what the geologists term striations on the stones, of which I shall have more to say in the chapter on the Drift. One vast invading wave from the heavens struck Scotland on the north-east about the site of the present Peterhead (from Petra, a rock or crag), crossed Highlands and Lowlands discharging material and hurled the last remains where we find the Antrim Plateau and that strange and significant dump of basaltic pillars, the Giant's Causeway. The explanation of this great fall of basalt, with all the accompanying phenomena, is that at a certain date - I have before suggested on the evidence of the Golspie Stone ...
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