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59 pages of results. 101. Catastrophes: the Diluvial Evidence [Journals] [SIS Review]
... corruption had become so widespread that God brought about the Flood, when the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days', and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered'. However, Noah, who was an exception to the general rule of wickedness, had been warned about the coming deluge. This enabled his family to build a large boat, the Ark, to sail on the waters. Hence they survived the Flood, the only humans to do so [1 ]. The story of Noah is just one of over 500 flood myths from around the world, many of which similarly involve a man and a woman ...
102. Cultural Amnesia [Books]
... the Roman Saturnalia. If you read about the Roman Saturnalia you recognize immediately almost all of the rites of Hanukkah or Christmas, now celebrated at the end of December. They commemorate events of the days when the planet Saturn exploded into a nova, long before the events that I describe in Worlds in Collision, Seven days before the Universal Deluge began, the solar system became illuminated as brilliantly as if by a hundred suns. In the Deluge, not only the Earth but also other planets of the solar system were engulfed. Nature was wanton: the destruction was great, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon, as the space pictures now reveal, became flying cemeteries. ...
103. Precursors [Journals] [Kronos]
... successor but later opposed his being admitted as a member of the Royal Society of which Newton was the first president. In 1696 Whiston wrote a book, A New Theory of the Earth from its Origin to the Consumption of All Things, in which he tried to prove that the Earth had contacted a comet which was the cause of the Deluge. He did not explain how a comet could cause a flood, and apparently ascribed this to the displacement of the seas. The idea that the Deluge was caused by a comet was not his: it is mentioned in the Talmud and used by Rashi (Rabbi Isaac ben Solomon), a Mediaeval rabbinical author often quoted by Christian ...
104. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the manuscript of a book entitled New Theory of the Earth. The book was intended to replace the then popular Theory of the Earth (1681) by Thomas Burnet, and dealt with a theme with which Newton had been concerned for more than a score of years. This book contended that the cataclysm described in the Old Testament as universal Deluge was caused by the impact of a comet at the end of the third millennium B.C ., and that up to the Deluge the solar year had the duration of 360 days only, yet the new calendar of 365 days had to wait to be introduced by Nabonassar (in 747 B.C .) . These contentions ...
105. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , Many times in Worlds in Collision and Earth in Upheaval Dr Velikovsky equates the beginning of the Pleistocene or ice age with the time of the Exodus, circa 1450 BC. On pages 114-126 of Earth in Upheaval he gives a graphic description of what he thinks happened when the ice age began. The description however sounds more like the Noachian Deluge than the Exodus. We can therefore expect Velikovsky to run into problems with his placement of the Noah/Saturn Flood and the events of that time. Presumably Velikovsky must place the Deluge in the era prior to the Pleistocene (Glacial Age). A check of the chart on p.184 of Earth in Upheaval will show this ...
106. Intensity, Scope and Suddenness [Books] [de Grazia books]
... principal second sun was Jupiter (by many names), the others having retired into farther space as indifferent gods (becoming the deus otiosus of theology). 8. They assert that planets passed close to the Earth and that comets and debris both passed by and struck the Earth. 9. Early legends reported that the whole Earth was deluged with waters, fires, and other material fall-outs from the skies on at least several occasions. 10. Earliest man says, too, that the Earth exploded a great deal of material into the sky, including possibly the Moon, which, in any event, he claims to be a late arrival. 11. He claims that ...
107. Venus In The Folklore Of The Indians, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... flames, the terrible noise, the water that rose mountain high, and the appearance of a monster in the sky, like Typhon or a dragon, all these elements were not brought together in this Indian narrative by sheer invention; they belong together. The Wichita, an Indian tribe of Oklahoma, tell the following story of "The Deluge and the Repeopling of the Earth":(96) "There came to the people some signs, which showed that there was something in the north that looked like clouds; and the fowl of the air came, and the animals of the plains were seen. All of this indicated that something was to happen. The clouds ...
108. New Scenarios for Solar System Evolution [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... but more importantly for the consequences on the dating of the Homo Sapiens history on the Earth (radiocarbon, dendrochronological and radiometrical dating techniques). The problem of climatic variations and glaciations in the late pleistocene and holocene, so important to understand the Homo Sapiens past, is discussed. Two particular topics that have always fascinated man, namely the deluge traditions and the antiquity of the great Giza Sphynx, are discussed from the geologist point of view. The session on anthropology reviews work done by genetists and linguists, that shows a tree of evolution of human presence in the world from a very likely unique original source. Evidence of contacts before Columbus between America and Europe will be discussed ...
109. Myths of the Cataclysm Caused by the Breakdown of a Former Satellite (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... are all optic ones, as is to be expected, since the cataclysm, with its acoustic and, chiefly, physical impressions, has not yet started. For that reason I, suggest that the passages which refer to powerful acoustic impressions, the rage and roar of the cataclysm (lob) and the surge of the waters of the deluge (15b), as well as the hint at the world-wide destruction (18c) which is about to begin (19c), are, strictly speaking, out of place in this first myth, and only appear in it from literary and rhetorical considerations.14 This supposition is greatly strengthened by the fact that the observer is expressly ...
110. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... already seen that among the Australian Aborigines the great python is the most impressive representative of the polar column. It is therefore significant that this python is not only believed to tower up to the level of the clouds but that he also brings about rain and flood' [125]. The Efe pygmies of the Ituri forest tell of a deluge of water which gushed forth as a mighty river when their version of the Cosmic Tree, which was the polar column, was felled [126]. Similarly, the Arawak Indians of the Guinas tell of a wondrous tree which Sigu cut down. From its stump, water gushed out in such quantity as to cause a deluge [ ...
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