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51 pages of results. 331. Conclusion (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... NY 1982). The authors, Victor Clube and Bill Napier are astronomers at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. They have published articles in many scientific journals, and are well respected establishment scientists. From the blurb of their book we read, "The cosmic serpent was a giant comet that terrorized mankind in prehistoric times. As a fiery dragon and hurler of thunderbolts, it wrought destruction and disaster upon the Earth. Comets have been the object of superstition and fascination since cavemen looked up at the night sky and saw shooting stars. ' In the intervening millennia, much information about comets has been gathered, but even today we do not properly understand these cosmic phenomena. " ...
332. The Quantavolutionary Scan [Books] [de Grazia books]
... 1973, chemist Harold Urey, a Nobel prizewinner, conjectures that a cometary encounter with Earth could explain the abundant tektites from extra-terrestrial sources that are strewn about the world. Several scientists have collected and studied these small glassy stones and estimate their amount in the billions of tons. Since time immemorial the Chinese have called them "pearls of the dragon" and collected them. And Urey thought that the cometary collision might have annihilated the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs looked like the Chinese dragon. Perhaps Urey is right in principle, wrong in time. Quickly the quantavolutionary puts on the cap of a mythologist. All heavenly animals (the Zodiac for instance) represent recognizable species; perhaps the ...
333. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... only possibility? A major difficulty with any such identification is that the planet Venus would have looked vastly different at that time, and thus may have been regarded as different from the planet Venus of later times, e.g ., Isis, Astarte, Aphrodite, etc. Thus we find that Typhon, Tiamat, the Great Red Dragon of China, Mazzaroth etc. were never identified with Isis, etc. As Velikovsky himself pointed out, the ancients spoke of Typhon, Tiamat, etc. (all dragons, serpents, etc. of monstrous size) having been seen in violent conflict with Zeus, Marduk, etc. (all names for the planet Jupiter) ...
334. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... thought and one, a tarsier with relatives still living in south-east Asian rain forests appears to be 30 Myrs older than previously accepted. Have they got their dates wrong yet again? 30 Myrs later in China vast numbers of the inhabitants of a temperate forest, tapirs, primates, sabre-toothed cats, shovel-tusked elephants, piled up to form the Dragon Bone Hills, mined for over a century by villagers for their well preserved fossils, thought to be the bones of dragons and therefore of medicinal value. ANTHROPOLOGY A rift in the evolution of man Scientific American May 1994, pp. 62-69 and New Scientist 4.6 .94, pp. 24-27 The excavations of fossils of several ...
... sulphur, iron vapour, magnesium, silicon, calcium, and the deadly blue cyanogen, all identifiable by their colour and action, red predominating but white, yellow, pink, blue, bluish-green, and violet all being present. Some of these gases assume remarkable Contortions, giving the appearance of a vast fabulous monster, such as a dragon or a fiery serpent breathing fire and lashing wildly with its tail caused by the action of certain gases. Having no protective atmosphere and no consistent orbit-an impossibility as each moment it loses weight-the effect of solar rays upon the wanderer is seen in constant change in shape and size. It twists and contorts itself arches its back, sometimes throws ...
336. Apollo of the Wolf, the Mouse and the Serpent [Journals] [Kronos]
... about the Diasia but, in its time, it was the primary Attic ceremony dedicated to Zeus. Concerning this rite, Harrison states: "We are brought face to face with the astounding fact that Zeus, father of gods and men, is figured by his worshippers as a snake."(40) Snakes, serpents, and dragons have long been associated with comets.(41) Moreover, the Jovian snake is shown to have had a beard. Bearded snakes do not exist in nature; but the term "beard" was an ancient appellation of the planet Venus(42) which was also depicted in the form of a snake.(43) Could ...
337. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and] wondered whether the sources for the events of 540 AD included any reference to those quoted in Adrian Gilbert's book The Holy Kingdom. This is a discussion on the real King Arthur, using what he claims are Welsh sources, not acknowledged by the main English academia. In chapter 16, as a sub-section entitled The Coming of the Dragon', Gilbert quotes Alan Wilson, who claims to have used ancient historical records to report on the effects of a close approach of a comet, or Dragon Star, on the erstwhile thriving nation of pre-Saxon Britain. There is a very vivid description that seeks to explain the [resulting] devastation, that has some similarity to the ...
338. Thoth Vol II, No. 20: Dec 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... And strangely, on its departure, the Glory took the form of a female chaos monster, remembered as "that most powerful, fiendish Drug, that demon baleful". This turns out to be a key, for we are reminded that the goddess Inanna, the Sumerian star of terrifying glory, was also transformed into a world threatening dragon. "Like a dragon you have deposited venom on the land... Raining the fanned fire down upon the nation...With a roaring storm you roar; with Thunder you continually thunder". The Hindus remembered the Face of Glory, called _Kirttimukha_, said to have been born from the EYE OF SHIVA ...
339. Thoth Vol II, No. 13: Aug 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , which was at its peak during the Roman empire, a typical product was Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the tutor of the Emperor Nero. Seneca's plays abound in every mannerism and conceit imaginable. His version of the legend of Medea concludes with the heroine, having murdered her little children before he husband's eyes, escaping in a chariot drawn by dragons. Should we expect Seneca to preserve an accurate memory of early history? Apparently, for Velikovsky tells us that Seneca had a profound knowledge of natural phenomena. '. .. Since this statement about Seneca is the weakest point in Pitton's presentation, I will not labor through an extended response. The truth is that Seneca is the ...
340. Thoth Vol I, No. 26: November 15, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... . "Like most ancient peoples, the Maya considered eclipses of the sun to be a time of dire peril," Cochrane writes. "It was commonly believed, in fact, that the world might end during a solar eclipse. In the eclipse tables contained within the Dresden Codex, an eclipse is symbolized by the figure of a dragon descending from the glyph of the sun." On the relationship of the "eclipse" -dragon to Venus, Cochrane gives us the verdict of the eminent Mayan scholar, Sir Eric Thompson: The head of the monster is hidden by a large glyph of the planet Venus. One is instantly reminded of the Aztec belief that during ...
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