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119 pages of results. 941. The Polar Sun [Books]
... explain Saturn's ancient connection with the pole by reference to the present arrangements of the planets than one can explain, within the uniformitarian framework, Saturn's image as the Universal Monarch, the Heaven Man, or the primeval sun. Yet the fact remains that throughout the ancient world these images of Saturn constituted a pervasive memory which many centuries of cultural evolution could not obliterate. The Unmoved Mover In the sixth century B.C . Xenophanes of Colophon offered this definition of the true god: "There is one God, greatest among gods and men, neither in shape nor in thought like unto mortals .. . He abides ever in the same place motionless, and it befits him ...
942. The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
... to narrow the spectrum of meanings, contributing to the fragmentation of an originally unified idea. I know of no exceptions to this rule, which has never been adequately appreciated by the specialists. In fact, the common approach imagines that the symbolic object was first venerated animistically, and then the meanings were progressively expanded to cosmic proportions with the evolution of the ancient religions from totemism to more macroscosmic systems. In truth this approach has done more than any other factor to direct attention away from the archetypal roots of ancient memory. While, mythically, the fan really belongs to the same category as the whisk, broom, or flail, only the fan has preserved the archetypal form ...
943. Transcript of the Morning Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... KING: Dr. Mulholland. MULHOLLAND: I would like to reply to the last question. I think, [laughter] I think two examples that can be brought to answer that question are the discovery of mass concentrations on the Moon and the internal heat in the Moon, which have been thrown the discussion of the history, the evolution of the Moon, into a state of extreme excitement, and has totally rejuvenated the entire subject. [applause] KING: I should mention that, with the lights shining in our faces here, it's a little bit hard for me to see people's hands, so raise them high. QUESTIONER: May I ask- KING: ...
944. Indra and Brhaspati (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... sense- we cannot always be content with what mythologists generally accept and/or reject. As catastrophists in a uniformitarian world, we are often forced to go against accepted tenets in the search for truth. One of Velikovsky's prime lessons was to dig beneath the surface of mythology. Fortunately, like almost everything else, mythology has progressed through evolution. We therefore can, in most cases, retrace its evolutionary steps to recapture its origin. And if we wish to have the truth, it is this origin that we should be concerned with. Thus, for example, as Ashton has indicated, whatever Indra's epithet of Brihaspati-Purohit can be made to mean, it is what it ...
945. Water [Books] [de Grazia books]
... must rest on the ocean floors, hence no evidence is thereby offered of what the waters may have been like. Surely there has been water so long as life has existed, but not necessarily salted water nor much water. One may assume little water to begin with and little for long after. Swamps and shallow seas are best for evolution and quantavolution of species; thick atmospheric soup might be even better, at least in the beginning. Even now, life seems to reject the oceanic abyss. This is a sign of youth, for the abyss is not without nutrients, and forms of life exist that require little or no sunlight. The oceans do not carry all ...
946. Book Review/Thorne [Journals] [Aeon]
... 19-year-old Chandrasekhar began meshing the principles of special relativity with those of the just four-year-old field of quantum mechanics by postulating the maximum mass of a star capable of forming a so-called white dwarf. This endeavor would ultimately, and belatedly, garner him a shared Nobel Prize some fifty-odd years later (1983) with Caltech's William A. Fowler on stellar evolution- but not until after decades of a protracted struggle with what amounted to astrophysical indifference. Lev Landau himself spent a year in prison (1938) during Stalin's reign of terror, which broke his political spirit despite being an ardent Marxist, and almost destroyed his scientific confidence. But, with the help of experimental physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, ...
947. The Inconstant Heavens [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of a comet, but had not printed it lest by some unguarded expression he might incur the censure of the sacred order, ' reacted to Newton's gesture by publishing with thirty years of delay a memoir in the acts of the society [17]. Historians of science gloss over this incident, which is vital for the understanding of the evolution of Newton's thought. After 1710, when Whiston was dismissed from his teaching position because of heresy and then formally brought to trial before the body of bishops of the Church of England, he assumed more radical positions and came to disagree with Newton who was becoming more and more conservative. Whiston's contention was that the creation story told in ...
948. The Saturn Myth: A Tentative Physical Model [Journals] [Aeon]
... plane maintained the proto-planet in the orbit. The two aerodynamic forces balanced the component of the net repulsive force in the orbital plane of each proto-planet, as will be treated more in detail below. Subscenario II Alternatively, the proto-planets became mutually repulsive before they became a binary, and reached the static binary configuration without going through a binary orbital evolution based on mutual attraction. In this sub-scenario, the differential shrinking and rounding of the orbits continues while the static polar configuration is reached, with perturbations depending on growths of charges and atmospheres, as well as on ambient cloud densities and orbital elements. 3. The Capture of Earth When the perihelia of the still-shrinking and rounding orbits approached ...
949. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... Some fragments struck the Earth during the second and third millennia BC. A number of biblical episodes, in particular the Exodus events and the Flood, describe the consequences of one or more powerful impacts." (79) REDEMPTION FOR "THE BECLOUDED PEOPLE" On the basis of the references from "The Deluge" epic, following the evolution from "destructions" to "cult-centres," it should be possible to reconstruct the original connection between the catastrophes suf-fered by Bronze Age man and the deadly sacrificial rituals he performed under the guidance of priests during this first period of high culture. (80) "Destruction," according to "The Deluge" epic, preceded the ...
950. Graham Hancock [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... his life under house arrest and was forced to recant' his theories in front of the Bishops of Rome- this after having been taken in the dark and damp dungeons of the Vatican and shown the instruments of torture that would be used on him. And more than two centuries later in 1859, when Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species, he was immediately and viciously attacked by the Church and fellow scientists'. Also in Darwin's case, the attack came from that entity we now loosely call the media. Darwin was ridiculed, insulted and his theory debunked' by experts' of the day. But all this is now a thing ...
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