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119 pages of results. 831. The Age of Purple Darkness [Journals] [Aeon]
... ). [5 ] Shatapatha Brâhmana, VI:1 :1 :10. Note: the translation used here is that by J. Eggeling (Delhi, 1966). [6 ] Ibid., V:12; XI:1 :6 :1 , 2; see also here, D. Cardona, "The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg," AEON III:5 (May 1994), pp. 52-70. [7 ] Ibid., IV:295; X:1 :4 :9 . [8 ] e.g ., ibid., V:14; XI:1 :6 :13; see also, ...
832. THE SURFACE OF VENUS--"A NEWBORN BABE" [Journals] [Aeon]
... flows, rather than through large volcanoes and rift valleys that geologists have known for some years. In the plains the researchers found dozens of small vents, which oozed lava without forming volcanic cones. The researchers say, "The large number and wide distribution of vents in the lowlands strongly suggest that plains volcanism is an important aspect of surface evolution and contributed to heat loss on Venus". (12) Thus, there is a basic similarity that strongly suggests that Venus is venting its internal heat through plains volcanism. This implies that Venus, like Io, has a thin crust and is extremely hot not far beneath that crust. The Nature of Io's and Venus' Craters ...
833. Empedocles, Healer of the Mind (Part I) [Journals] [Kronos]
... his theories must inevitably strike us as primitive. He explained the variety of things by the mixture of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water. He held that all nature was animate, and he believed in the transmigration of souls. But he also included in his theoretical body of knowledge such modern ideas as the gradual evolution of living creatures, the survival of the fittest and a recognition of the part played by chance [Greek text] in that evolution. 1. What follows is based upon Wilhelm Capelle, Die Vorsokratiker, Alfred Kröner Leipzig, 1935. [This is Freud's footnote, which I have restored in full from the German version.] ...
834. Did Worlds Collide [Journals] [Pensee]
... proceed to compute the orbit of Venus, in a very well-accepted approximation procedure. (This procedure is powerful enough to have predicted the precise location of the Kirkwood Gaps, or zones of orbital instability in the asteroid belt.) The point of the preceding paragraph is that for a body of the mass of Venus or smaller, the orbital evolution would be in all cases identical. It remains only to specify an initial state for Venus (or any smaller body) that would lead to the Velikovskian scenario postulated above. Nature has supplied the answer! Remember that for Venus one can, with negligible error, substitute any smaller mass. Now turn to an article by A. ...
... massive wooden bridge. It consisted of four lines of oak beams in three spans, with rock abutments 100 feet long and 23 feet wide. "The level of the roadway was no less than 14 to 15 feet below the level of the high tides, and was found covered with river silt." (W . Ashton, The Evolution of a Coast Line, p. 128.) The Welsh legends are full of accounts of destruction by the sea, but none more dramatic than the submersion or the loss of Llys Helig, the Palace under the sea near Conway, opposite Anglesey. It was prophesied that Helig ab Glanawg should be overtaken with vengeance for the crimes ...
836. "VELIKOVSKY AND THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM" [Journals] [Pensee]
... ejected into interplanetary and interstellar space. Since the time it was formed, the system of planetary bodies has lost a total amount of matter comparable to the total present mass of the planets. The amount of energy lost in this process should have been more than 1042 to 1045 ergs.... "As a result of the eruptive evolution of the planets, the solar system should have ejected from one-thousandth to one-hundredth of its initial matter into interstellar space. But precisely this portion-in relation to the total mass of the stars-is made up of gas and dust in our galaxy. It is therefore impossible to rule out the possibility that all such matter in the galaxy resulted from the ...
837. Night of the Gods: Disputatio Circularis [Books]
... little or no admittance' even on business. The world is wide, though nest so wide as it was; there is still room for all and no cosmic myth is asked whence it came on the map of the world, but only on the chart of the imagination of the human race. Given a small planet, and an evolution of life and living things thereon; and of men who, wherever they lie on that planet, see the same heavens, and the same phases of those heavens-not, may be at the same precise hour of the twenty-four, nor on the same exact day of the 360 and odd, nor even in the same year of the ...
838. Puzzles of Prehistory [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... goes back at least to Sumerian times, between religion (expressed in myth and manifest in ritual) and science (applied as technology and practiced as engineering). During the past century, this split has widened to chasm-like proportions. Under the influence of uniformitarian theory, the scientific picture of our past as one of historic progress and prehistoric evolution has become incompatible with the picture, provided by the mythologies of every continent, of a human past divisible into the principal periods- a relatively changeless Golden Age, followed by a highly changeable Time of Troubles, itself divisible into subperiods. My response to this contradiction is to follow the scientific picture of our past, with respect to the ...
839. The Succession of Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... became peaceful and the world stopped shaking; people turned to the supernatural manifestations of their closer environment. In this case, we may surmise also that the sterner the institutions of memory (records, graphics, priesthoods, bureaucratic churches, holidays) the longer the sky-gods will persist in a culture. Faced with embarrassment, the idea of long evolution of religion (but then perhaps, too, of the long evolution of man) might be dropped. Then at least, we see man becoming human and sky-religious concurrently. But another embarrassment occurs. If this occurs at one place and one time, as we have asserted, how do all people settle upon the sky and often ...
840. Velikovsky and Catastrophism: A Hidden Agenda? [Journals] [Aeon]
... origin of Europe's cultures and languages, and, being the first, it would be the greatest. By putting the issue in this light, by referring to the historical conditions of the19th century, we can see in social terms that the Indo-European theory was a combined attack on the Jewish language by the Germans at a traumatic period in their evolution and is similar to the German attacks upon the Bible and the Jewish race to which I have already referred. This must lead us to wonder whether the theory is more of a cultural than a philological phenomenon, a racial urge prompted by desire rather than thought. A close look leads one to suspect that its longevity is due more ...
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