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95 pages of results. 521. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... This is where the above mentioned universal human propensity to seek reconciliation with the deceased enters the Bronze Age rituals. Worship of ancestors and worship of victims stood on common ground. For the purpose of reconciliation, the corpses- or parts of them- were elevated. This was often done by fettering or chaining them to pillars, posts, crosses, etc. Those asking forgiveness in front of the raised victims turned themselves into worshippers of idols representing cosmic powers. Simultaneously, they also sanctified the supports to which the corpses were fixed. The supports formed a constant element of the holy precinct whereas the carcasses sooner or later had to be removed to make room for fresh victims. ...
522. Neocatastrophism? [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... of facies. D.L . Stepanov (1959a) also mentions finds of Permian faunal elements in the lower Triassic of Trans-Caucasia and other regions. Conversely many Mezosoic species occurred already in the upper Permian. According to J.N . Popov Permian nautiloids would extend into the Triassic, and I have myself mentioned that a branch of cephalopods crosses the Permo-Triassic divide in unbroken development. All this is true and not contested by anybody. We know, more particularly from the work of A. Kieslinger and B. Kummel, that the Triassic nautiloids belong partly to stocks whose evolution had begun already in the Carboniferous. The decisive turning point for the nautiloids lies higher on the Triassic-Jurassic ...
523. SERVANT OF THE SUN GOD [Journals] [Aeon]
... . The Mars-column. It is the specificity of the polar column and its relationship to other forms of the polar configuration that gives the testing of the thesis a straightforward agenda. Not only the warrior-hero's identity with the column in all of its mythical forms, but the required relationships to central sun, enclosure and crescent, arms of the sun cross, and spiralling cometary curl afford a nearly endless opportunity to apply the theory and to challenge it wherever the predicted relationships are not confirmed. What must be clear to anyone reviewing the complex of warrior-hero themes is the extraordinary preponderance of images suggesting a visible column below the domain of the gods (the ancestral "homeland" of the myths ...
524. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... is assumed, the other visible planets as well.(28) North American Navajo "recognise approximately 37 constellations," particularly Orion, the Hyades, and Pleiades as well as others "which correspond roughly to those recognised by North American modern astronomers. . ." (29) They depicted these (generally by a variety of small crosses) and other astronomical gods (represented as birds, insects, animals, or geometric figures) at truly sacred sites, the significance known only to Navajo medicine men. . . These star paintings are precisely painted on the roofs of high overhangs or on the roofs of cave-like shelters. . . Many of the star paintings occur on ...
525. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... to earth. 6. The flames of Phaethon's fire also set fire to the earth.- Now, with all of these certain meteoric phenomena are completely in accord. Again and again, not only in modern times but also long ago in antiquity, meteors have been observed which resemble the sun in respect of size and brilliance, and cross the sky at great speed in various directions, not rarely exploding, to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning, sometimes setting fire to terrestrial settlements and fields with their glowing debris. That, according to the popular and poetic conception, such an unexpected apparition should bring the stars into confusion, can be readily understood.(15) ...
526. The Legends of the Jews: Volume III [Books]
... Joshua is proof against the pernicious influence of the spies, for Moses had prayed to God for him. Send up prayers now, my fathers, for me, that God in His mercy may keep me far from the counsel of the spies." [517] There had always been a clash between Caleb and his comrades during their crossing through Palestine. For whereas he insisted upon taking along the fruits of the land to show their excellence to the people, they strongly opposed this suggestion, wishing as they did to keep the people from gaining an impression of the excellence of the land. Hence they yielded only when Caleb drew his sword, saying: "If you ...
527. Towards a new Evolutionary Synthesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... so no apparent mechanism by which changes in the phenotype could cause changes in the genotype, as Lamarckism would seem to require. The RNA of some viruses can specify DNA synthesis, but the relevance of this to evolution is uncertain. (Illustration: Jill Abery) More Heat than Light Nevertheless, it must remain a possibility that RNA can cross the Weismann barrier'. If it does, though, is it evidence for Lamarckism and against Darwinism? The fact that the inherited mutation arose in the genome of a somatic cell rather than a germ cell would still be consistent with Taylor's definition of neo-Darwinism. However, that definition would have to be stretched to encompass the crossing of ...
528. Should the European Oak Dendrochronologies be Re-examined? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the same methodology and relied on Suess's curves and wiggle-matching techniques. For example, Linick et al. (1985) state: "From 1974 through 1982, the C14 contents of 575 European oak tree-ring samples were determined at the La Jolla laboratory. The samples came from tree-ring chronologies established by one of us (BB) from sub-fossil oak cross sections collected from South German river deposits. The C14 measurements on these samples provided a substantial basis for a preliminary estimation of the absolute ages of these then-floating Holocene oak tree-ring chronologies. This was accomplished by comparing their C14 variations with those obtained for absolutely dendro-dated bristlecone pine chronology using wiggle-matching methods (Kruse et al., 1980). ...
529. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... horses' manes may be a cometary metaphor, the wooden horse which destroyed Troy was in fact a comet (and the stone-roofed strong-rooms of Bronze Age citadels were really air-raid shelters' - particularly dangerous ones) [67]. This chain of associations is terminally fragile. The 15 meteor showers named in the text are here shown by large crosses indicating their radiants, except for those 5 which lie a number of degrees (up to 14 ) outside the chart: G = Geminids LG=Lambda Geminids NG= Nu Geminids O = Orionoids TA= Theta Aurigids BT= Beta Taurids AO= Alpha Orionoids 54P= 54 Perseids ZP = Zeta Perseids NT = Northern Taurids ST = ...
530. The Venus Tablets and Climate [Journals] [SIS Review]
... prepared by George F. Weinert about 1980. He found that a close approach of a celestial body of similar size to the Earth on the night side of our planet could, in theory, have driven back the waters of the Red Sea by means of a strong east wind, and held them there long enough for the Israelites to cross over. A smaller body would not have allowed time for the crossing. Presumably, his assumed object would be following a long-term cometary orbit, perhaps parabolic, with its perihelion just outside the Earth's orbit. One result of such an encounter would almost certainly be perturbations of the Earth and lunar orbits. However, the sequence of events ...
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