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119 pages of results. 931. Thoth Vol I, No. 6: March 16, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... ." The golden age of Ra was, for the Egyptians, the Great Example setting a standard for all later ages. A surprising fact emerges. The legend of the Golden Age is as old as civilization. And the implications are well worth pondering. A coherent set of ideas has survived all of the twists and turns of cultural evolution for at least five thousand years- and on every continent. Now that's an astonishing verification of the durability of myth! Many of us had always thought of myth as the outcome of reckless invention- illiterate savages entertaining themselves by contriving magical stories out of nothing. Imagine such a process going on for thousands of years, and ask yourself if ...
932. Thoth Vol I, No. 2: February 5, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... our own. The mission of THOTH is to offer for discussion a new view of our cosmic history, based on the universal testimony of ancient sources, buttressed by the most relevant information coming from the hard sciences. Our contention will be that ancient sources and solar system physics make possible an entirely new way of seeing planetary history and the evolution of human consciousness. Below is a preliminary list, as promised, of themes you will find explored in this and subsequent issues of the THOTH newsletter: ^À New models of planetary history based on systematic cross-cultural comparison. Global myths and symbols of an alien sky. ^À Scars of planetary violence in the solar system, as ...
933. Were the "Sumerians of the Third Millennium" in Reality the Chaldeans of the First Millennium? [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... (i .e .stratified) as follows: Chaldean/Neo-Assyrian Kassite Isin-Larsa Ur I Jamdet Nasr Uruk IV This is in fact the whole idea behind excavation; the earliest levels are the lowest. In a number of these levels tablets were also found which date the levels to certain periods, and sometimes, specific kings. For the evolution of cuneiform script see Samuel N. Kramer, The Sumerians and also First Empires. These provide reasonally accurate dating criteria, much as subtle changes in our alphabetic script can be used to date an inscription and identify a king in the first millennium. Historical Texts As mentioned earlier, the Sargonic kings from Akkad are recorded in the Sumerian ...
934. The Origin and Decay of the Earth's Geomagnetic Field [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... for Creation Research, 1973, 74. We have added a fourth column for the conversion from Tesla to Gauss. Some 25 measurements are presented between 1835 and 1960. Barnes' table has been criticized primarily because Barnes is a "fiat creationist."[6 ] He uses these data to make a dual claim that (a ) evolution is mistaken, and (b ) his alternative- fiat creation- must thus be the case. We do not agree with Barnes' application, but his data are (1 ) impeccable, and (2 ) astounding. Had Larmor been aware of the decay of the Earth's geomagnetic field he would probably have withdrawn his theory. ...
935. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Journals] [Kronos]
... survival of our species by sheer accident. "We are descendants of survivors, themselves descendants of survivors," he states laconically in the last paragraph of Earth in Upheaval. And yet the same last pages of that book provide the notion by which this appearance of randomness might be controverted. It concludes by proposing the possibility of "cataclysmic evolution", that is, the massive generation of new species through mutation under catastrophic circumstances. From this hint it is difficult not to extrapolate the possibility that man himself was "created", i.e . differentiated as a species, by such mutation. It then requires only an appeal to the natural narcissism of our species to ...
936. SIS Silver Jubilee Conference: Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... involving planetary bodies occurred in ancient' historical times. 3. Venus was a comet observed and recorded by our ancestors. 4. A nova-type disruption of proto-Saturn, the binary of our Sun, initiated the sequence of major catastrophes 5. The Universe is driven, governed and controlled electrically. We Saturnists have now reached a point in our evolution where we can virtually present our own scenario. There are a number of later speakers capable of presenting their understanding of events based on their own carefully researched ideas that, when combined with specialists in similar disciplines, have resulted in a cogent presentation of a not-so-far-in-the-past catastrophic history. None of these ideas fit the mould of current scientific thought ...
... , Fulton Oursler, a senior editor at Reader's Digest, chose to interpret part of Velikovsky's thesis as a defense against Clarence Darrow's famous cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." Darrow had used Bryan's Biblical literalism regarding Joshua's stopping the sun and the moon in the sky to belittle the fundamentalists' opposition to Darwinian evolution; but now Velikovsky, "[ like] a detective among the sciences...has put together by deductive reasoning a chain of circumstantial evidence that may deeply affect the world of thinking men." On Feb. 19 the New York Times and the Herald Tribune each ran full-page ads announcing the appearance of "The Heavens Burst ...
938. Saxl's Pendulum Convection of Electric Charge Revisited [Journals] [Aeon]
... , mass loss, and the like." He might have added tidal friction, a gravitational consequence of non-spherical mass distribution.(3 ) Ginenthal is concerned that close binary stars with weaker magnetic fields achieve circular orbits in a few thousand years. Here, I think, he succumbs to the fallacy of the false dichotomy. With the evolution of binary stars, it is not a matter of either gravity or magnetism, for Ginenthal has overlooked the role played by the other non-gravitational effects mentioned by Warwick. The behavior of real binary stars does not invalidate the comparative strength of gravity over magnetism, as Ginenthal seems to think. Before he can justifiably claim a significant role for ...
939. A Chronological Note on the Kassites [Journals] [Aeon]
... H ] and from Isin II [ -1900] and early Neo-Babylonian texts [ -600]. This is not an easy task, both because the development of the Babylonian script between Old Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian has not been sufficiently studied and because, even when one has dated a text, it is often difficult to determine the age or evolution of the tradition behind it .. . Here it is worth noting that script may well differ between classes of contemporary documents as well as between documents of different times and places. Among the textual fragments from Dur-Kurigalzu for example, it is easy to distinguish at least three standard MB scripts (or perhaps, more accurately, ductuses) ...
... view that Calypso's isle was Gigha, the small green isle lying off the west coast of Kintyre. Let us come to some understanding about Prometheus, the "Fore-Thinker", one of the Titans of Uranid fatne. Eschylus, who wrote his stirring plays on the sufferings of this god, makes him perform a most important role in the evolution of mankind, and who, for the adoration he obtained, acquired the jealousy of Zeus. He was-like Atlas, his Titan brother-regarded as a creator of mankind, as such worshipped, and was finally hailed as its saviour when angry Jupiter determined to destroy the entire race of humanity. The legend that Zeus was jealous of Prometheus because ...
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