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51 pages of results. 301. A Catastrophist Reading of Religious Systems [Journals] [SIS Review]
... individual, the species and the world), and it is in this light that I will carry out my analysis of world religion. If the Triple Terror does exist, it raises three concurrent questions; is personal death final? is the death of humanity probable? and is the death of the world a possibility? These are the dragons we would be most obsessed with, and I will look at each religious system to determine to what extent it aims in its own way to answer these three questions, and for what purpose. If these three fears turn out to be the essential concerns of every major faith, and if every religion ultimately placates them in the same ...
302. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 3) [Journals] [Kronos]
... accept the packaging of the book at its face value, I was; and it turned what should have been a luminous reading experience into a comparatively pale one.(151) CHICAGO SUN-TIMES In his review, "Celebrity Science: Smug and Banal", Sydney J. Harris was more caustic. He observed that in contrast to The Dragons of Eden, the first of a four-book contract with Random House, BB "is the second and seems to be merely a commercial spinoff". Velikovsky was not mentioned by name. . . . this is a highly uneven collection of older essays published in such wildly diverse organs as American Scholar and Playboy, Natural History and Holiday ...
303. Child of Saturn (Part II) [Journals] [Kronos]
... be identified with Venus. Indra also battled a celestial serpent(12) but, according to Velikovsky, Indra was Mars(13)- although that, too, I contest. In fact, why is it that celestial serpents must necessarily be identified as manifestations of the cometary Venus? Saturn, too, was once described as a dragon.(14) The Axis Mundi, or World Axis, which is the Saturnian appendage I described elsewhere,(15) and which has now been given more substance by Talbott's analysis of Saturn's Polar Configuration,(16) was also described by the ancients as a celestial serpent monster(17) as was also the ring ( ...
304. The Loss of Paradise and the Fall, of Man [Books]
... head of the satellite with its gleaming train must have offered a magnificent heavenly spectacle. No doubt the kinship of the new satellite with the former one was recognized (Note 42) and the old myths of the great cataclysm were remembered and gained a new and real meaning. Like the former cosmic monster also the new one was called a dragon'. This lunar tail of ice-crystals swished across the face of the Earth twelve or thirteen times a year, when the new satellite was between our planet and the Sun, that is, at every new moon. The ice-dust which then entered the atmosphere caused increased precipitation, both in the form of snow and of rain. Together ...
305. The Cosmic Winter by Victor Clube and Bill Napier [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the Alphonsine tables c.1250 AD, revising al-Zarqali's tables c.1150, based ultimately on al-Battani's tables, c.900 AD). In June 793, "fierce foreboding omens came over the land" .. . ' In 793 AD the Vikings plundered Lindisfarne. "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that terrifying omens - lightning and flying dragons - which were witnessed that year were followed by famine" [36], interpreted by the authors as a Beta Taurid event despite the fact that, on their own admission, the alleged portents occurred earlier in the year than the June raid of the Norsemen, and the perhaps fatal objection that the June Taurids, being a daytime ...
... creation. In the National Museum at Naples may be seen a basaltic statue of the goddess Ashteroth, the Astarte of Tyre (who, traditionally, fell as a star on the site of that great city), Diana of the Ephesians, also known under other names. The statue depicts a female adorned with grotesque emblems of rams, dragons, lions, stags, and the bee, all of which in their various degrees were related to Cometary imagery. She wears a necklace of grape fruit of a double symbolism), and on her torso she sustains a number of paps or teats, like the turbid clouds hanging over from the meteoric impact, and indicative of fecundity ...
307. The Archangels [Journals] [Kronos]
... Velikovsky's identification of the archangel Michael as the planet Venus was based on the traditional role that Michael is made to play in the events of the Exodus.(22) But, without wishing to go into too much detail, Michael is not there made to play a destructive role. The "familiar image of the Archangel Michael slaying the dragon," which Velikovsky presented as a depiction of "the celestial struggle at the Sea of Passage,"(23) is not acceptable, for nowhere is it stated that Michael's slaying of the dragon (his overthrow of Satan, actually) took place at the Sea of Passage, let alone during the Exodus. In fact, ...
308. Pandemonium [Books] [de Grazia books]
... be made of this, aside from its entertaining aspect, is that the sounds of nature are legion; that these join the centurions of electrical sounds; and that a record is to be had of all these sounds in these mild times of the Earth that can be used to identify ancient and legendary metaphors of sound. So that when dragons hiss and flaming rays dart from their nostrils, one does not simply say here is an especially exciting auroral display, but assigns to the dragon hypothetically the electrical qualities and sounds of the aurora or of bolides whose "sounds are described as hissing, swishing, whirring, buzzing and crackling" when they have the "brightness of the ...
309. The Sibylline Oracles [Books]
... the bear shall lie down with the † herds of calves, † and the devouring lion shall eat chaff at the stall as the ox, and little chil- dren shall lead them with a halter, for He shall make the wild beast harmless (lit. helpless) upon earth. And the 795 babe shall lie down with the dragon and the asp, and shall suffer no hurt : for the hand of God shall be on them. I will tell thee an unerring sign, whereby to know when the end of all things shall come on earth. When by night in the starry heaven swords are seen westward 800 and eastward, then shall a dust fall from ...
310. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Job [Books]
... a minute earlier or later than the appointed time, the little gazelle would perish. It hath never happened that the proper minute of time was missed. Should I, then, have mistaken Job for another? The hind has a contracted womb, and would not be able to bring forth her young, if I did not send a dragon to her at the right second, to nibble at her womb and soften it, for then she can bear. Were the dragon to come a second before or after the right time, the hind would perish. It hath never happened that I missed the right second. Should I, then, have mistaken Job for another? ...
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