| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: deluge in all categories
585 results found.
59 pages of results.
... Exodus [i io] --cf. numbers 1,9 . William Whiston, in A New Theory of the Earth [461], considered that a comet could become a planet. He drew from 218 Beyond Velikovsky the Bible and from legends of many cultures the inference that the close approach of a comet to the earth had caused the Deluge and changed the earth's orbit and rotation. He postulated electric and magnetic effects during the encounter [i 13:32- 35]. Whiston dated the Exodus to 1489 or 1490 B.C . [461:142]. His evidence that the year was at one time 360 days in duration was similar to Velikovsky's, for example ...
172. The Cataclusm (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... of the cataclysm had arrived among them for even the most universal catastrophe is a blind agent sparing one here and another there and some of these were perhaps very learned survivors and leaders of men-traditions had not been started. For life was hard in the mountains, and was presently to become harder still (109e). No special `Athenian deluge myth' has been preserved in Greek mythology, but there can be no doubt that such a myth existed at one time, for there are many vestiges in religious rites. For instance, there is that Athenian festival, which had evidently been one of the most important but eventually fell almost into abeyance, the Hydrophoria, or Water-carrying ...
... thrown down by a mighty unseen arm; a big garage was blown 300 yards; the town of Borkulo with 5000 inhabitants was left a mass of ruins. In one village 60 houses were totally wrecked. A little later in Norfolk and Lincolnshire farms and houses were struck by the vivid lightning, the storm was preceded by darkness and a deluge of water fell. On August 21 the new seismic-volcanic occurrences took place in Santorin and also the fresh eruption of Vesuvius, and again on the 22nd, about one day later, England was afflicted with violent thunderstorms coming from the east and stretching from Newcastle-on-Tyne to the Channel Isles, and from Lincolnshire to Shropshire. The Evening News reported ...
174. Ice Cores and Common Sense Part 1 [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... in Collision look pretty tame by comparison. Some day his executors may release the manuscripts of Jupiter of the Thunderbolt and Saturn and the Flood. In the meantime, some articles in Kronos provide a few details. Ice cores also have implications for claims of these earlier catastrophes, which I will review here. Chief among catastrophes was the biblical Deluge, which Velikovsky ascribed to an explosion of the planet Saturn that he called a "nova." "It is conceivable that the earth was, at that time, a satellite of Saturn, afterwards possibly becoming a satellite of Jupiter."[31] Shortly after the explosion the earth was enveloped in clouds of water or of ...
175. Thoth Vol IV, No. 1: Jan 15, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... : . . . 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. ' 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. 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. This tale is ...
... the most rigorous checking and cross-checking procedure possible. Two of these volumes are now [1973] near publication: Ramses II and His Time and Peoples of the Sea; the former may come out this summer and the latter shortly thereafter. None of the other works Velikovsky has been preparing, including Mankind in Amnesia and the story of the Deluge, are currently scheduled for publication. In 1973 Pensée published [149] a chronology for the period from about iooo B.C . to about 300 B.C ., based on the unpublished sequels to Ages in Chaos, which were said to be Assyrian Conquest (830- 612 B.C .) , Dark Ages of ...
177. Solar System Studies [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon I:1 (Jan 1988) Home | Issue Contents Solar System Studies Fred Hall INTRODUCTION Prior to this century arguments raged over the implications of the geological record and the subject of evolution of life forms on Earth. Some argued that Earth had been fundamentally altered by the Universal Deluge and that the biblical record should be taken literally. Others argued that uniformitarian processes and slow evolution by adaptation of species could explain the geological record as we find it. The latter school gained the day and their premises came to be widely taught. A corollary result was a loss of interest in biblical descriptions of catastrophes and a general disregard for tales of other ancient cultures regarding ...
178. Evidence that the Earth has Suffered Catastrophes of Cosmic Origin in Historical Times: the Conclusions of the 2nd SIS Conference [Journals] [SIS Review]
... woolly mammoths snap-frozen with buttercups and other temperate flora still between their teeth? There is much to know. I will suggest here one important area of research. Benny Peiser draws our attention to the widespread nature of flood' myths. But do we know that these all refer to the same event? Must there necessarily have been a universal deluge? In his book The Reversing Earth, Peter Warlow has suggested Earth inversions as a possible cause of flooding and noted that some areas of the globe would have been unaffected by floods so caused. Is it possible to find archaeological or geological evidence compatible with all or most deluge accounts? It is probably too soon to talk about lasting ...
179. The Lesser Light [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... earth.7 The truth of this argument might only imply that the term as used in Genesis describes more recent conditions. However, in conjunction with the lack of a reference to months, we see a strong suggestion that the Lesser Light was not the moon. The first biblical reference to months is in relation to the chronology of the Deluge. This implies that the moon was no stranger to man at that time, and there appears to be no earlier biblical allusion to its introduction. We must look elsewhere for a more definitive contrast between the Lesser Light and the moon. A Diminished Light The connection we seek resides in various traditions suggesting that the nature of the moon ...
180. ALL Honorable Men [Books]
... ". . . I found that W. Whiston, Newton's successor at Cambridge and a contemporary of Halley, in his New Theory of the Earth (the first edition of which appeared in 1696) tried to prove that the comet of 1680, to which he (erroneously) ascribed a period of 575 ½ years, caused the biblical Deluge on an early encounter." (31) "W . Whiston, in New Theory of the Earth, (1696), expressed his belief that before the Deluge the year was composed of 360 days. He found references in classic authors to a year of 360 days, and as he recognized only one major catastrophe, the ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.039 seconds |
