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51 pages of results. 431. The Book of Revelation is History [Books]
... in which they are put before us offer a great challenge to curiosity and ingenuity. H. C. Hoskier, in his book, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse, says: `The Apocalypse .. . is difficult to understand .. . but it is certainly not a fairy tale', while Frederick Carter, in The Dragon of Revelation, stresses that `A treasury of an ancient far-off time lies here awaiting the digger'. The discussion of the peculiarities of the Greek of the Book of Revelation does not interest us here, nor am I enough of a Greek scholar to augment any of the most interesting and valuable findings in this respect, chiefly those ...
432. "Just Plainly Wrong": A Critique of Peter Huber (Second Installment) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Science and to advancing his television career (appearing with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, running Carl Sagan Productions, and so on). He is also available for lectures, at $3600 each. His recent bestseller - it is unlikely that Sagan, at least, will ever criticize Velikovsky for writing a bestseller! - is The Dragons of Eden, whose subject is the human brain.Astronomer Sagan would have no "credentials" to write such a book, according to the A.A .A .S . organizers (see also the review in Nature, Volume 272 (27 April 1978), pages 768-769). Finally, Isaac Asimov is hardly one ...
433. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the process, as their roots may lie in a sudden appearance of water out of the ground during tectonic disturbances. Christian holy wells seem to very often have origins in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. They were venerated for many generations after these signs of wonder and astonishment. Holy mountains are very often associated with light phenomena, or dragons – in the Americas, China, India, etc. Pendle Hill in Lancashire is a British example, having connections with witches and things that go bump in the night. It was also associated with visions and the beginnings of the Quaker movement and, in more recent years, with UFO's. This might add a further dimension to ...
434. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... Breutz, "Sotho-Tswana Celestial Concepts," in Ethnological and Linguistic Studies in Honour of N.J . van Warmelo (Pretoria, 1969), pp. 199-200. [5 ] C. Mountford, Arnhem Land: Art, Myth and Symbolism (Melbourne, 1968), p. 492. [6 ] Y. Ke, Dragons and Dynasties (Singapore, 1991), p. 33. [7 ] F. Boas, "Indianische Sagen von der Nordwesküste Amerikas," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 27 (1895), p. 498. [8 ] S. Thompson, Tales of the North American Indians (Bloomington, 1966), p. 132. ...
435. Sidelights on Velikovsky's 'Ages in Chaos' [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... where Niqmadu was a name of ancient veneration. European language wizards many decades ago explained the myth of Kadmos as a priestly and poetically transmuted memory of an early immigration of "Phoenician" culture into Greece. By-passing the tale of how Kadmos planted dragon-teeth to grow warriors, and how he, together with his wife Harmonia, changed into a dragon, they pointed to major features of the legend denoting the arrival of civilization on the barbarian ground of Thebes. They did not stress the resemblance between the name of Kadmos' queen and the highest mountain of the Canaanites, Hermon, nor the likeness between the name of her deity Semele and the Hebrew for olive oil, shemen. ...
436. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... red was a sacred colour. Also in China, excavations of the Gaomiao Culture, dated at over 7,000 years old, have revealed many items of religious and sacrificial nature, including a pottery jar with a depiction of two flying phoenix, with crests on their heads and with long tails – the phoenix is closely related to the dragon in Chinese myth. In Turkmenistan, a large pool, fed with rainwater via special gutters, has been found a short distance from a palace complex and has been dated to the 3rd millennium BC. The evidence of the importance of water in religious ceremonies is a bit of a surprise because the people of this area were presumed to ...
437. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - I [Journals] [Kronos]
... to represent the axis as an artifact or complex of artifacts, suggesting an illusory degree of solidity and rigidity. Taken together, however, these two types of representation have the virtue of depicting the world-axis as a self-renewing artifact, a living link between Heaven and Earth. The two commonest organismic representatives of the world-axis are a snake (or dragon) and an attenuated fish (such as a pike or eel), both of which are noted in folklore for their ability to help some sacred being cross a stream or other separating interval.(31) The axial representations which consist of isolated organs rather than of complete organisms, while equally vertebrate, tend to come from mammals ...
438. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... of human sacrifice or initiatory mutilation. There are, however, similar types of behavior which we do share, if only because they appear to have become human universals. One of these universals is chimeric imagery- a persistent tendency to visualize and (if only half-seriously) verbalize about creatures unknown either among living species or from the fossil record: dragons, unicorns, mermaids and the like. Although it is possible that chimeras of this type have made an ephemeral appearance on the Earth as teratogenic results of mutations induced by catastrophe, it is more likely that they are theriomorphic versions of nebular or cometary shapes seen in the sky during times of cataclysm. Another such universal is funerealism, ...
439. Orbits of Core Material Ejected from Gaseous Planets [Journals] [Kronos]
... rapid rate, so it will fall back and restrict the movement of the charged material approaching from below. There would be violent turbulence and large local variations in the voltage gradient. Streamers of material would be carried away and return. The spectacle of such luminously charged and rapidly moving material seems to be the likely cause of the legends of dragons in the sky. A charge on the Sun of 1E20 C would produce a voltage gradient at the surface of 9E9 x 1E20/(6 .96E8)2 = 1.86E12 V/m . If the charge is spread evenly, the charge density would be 1E20/1 .99E30 = 5.03E-11 C/kg ...
... the reinterpretation of his subject-matter This book is only interested in that class of myths which is generally described as cosmological'. This class comprises all the deluge and other destruction myths; the accounts of the creation of the Universe, the Earth, the Gods, and Man; the descriptions of lost lands and forgotten arts; the tales of dragons and other monsters. This class of myths is a natural, not an artificial, one. The cosmological myths are, indeed, the only ones which may be properly called myths', that is, master tales, or key stories. It is a significant fact that there are no specifically national cosmological myths. While many other ...
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