Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

331. Mother Goddess and Warrior-Hero (Part One) [Journals] [Aeon]

... , 96, 457, 509, 702. Except where stated otherwise, all translations of the Pyramid Texts are taken from R. O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Oxford, 1969). 22. Budge tells us that representations of the ab-heart were "made of many kinds of red stones, and jasper, red glass, red porcelain, red paste and red wax." Amulets and Talismans, (New York, 1970), p. 138. 23. Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary (New York, 1978), p. 37. 24. All of the interconnected meanings noted here, for example, will be found wrapped around ...

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332. Epilogue: Questions And Answers (Ramses II and his Time) [Velikovsky]

... (London, 1899), p. xviii. 39 J. G. Frazer, The Golden Bough (1911-35), I, 173,. 40 Wainwright, Antiquity, X (1936), 11. 41 Ibid., X (1936), 21. 6. Scarabs and Stratigraphy Scarabs or beetles of ceramics, of glass, semiprecious stones, or metal often have names engraved on them: the cartouches of the kings and sometimes the names of private persons. Apparently these were used as seals. It is doubted that scarabs were used as money: there is no known literary reference to their use as such, nor does any picture show scarabs being given ...

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333. The Heavens and Earth of Prehistoric Man by Isaac Vail [Books]

... aqueous and vaporous and that such a cloud mantle could not have existed without fixing the climatic conditions of the earth from polar circle to circle. It was a world-hood that not only kept off the cold of space, but also checked the radiation of the native heat of the sphere. Under this roof, solar heat accumulated as under the glass roof of a great semitropic plant house. We have all the evidence we need to prove that the earth in the most recent geologic times, and during the cradle time of the human race, had such a temperature and climate. The evidence is sufficient to put the last earth canopy before us as an all-visible, material "world-master ...

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334. Part III: The Legends [Ragnarok] [Books]

... , "lying upon skins, and appearing almost as if they would speak." Their death seems to have been due to a long period of terrible heat and drought. On a couch was a damsel more beautiful than all the daughters of Adam; she was embalmed, so as to preserve all her charms. Her eyes were of glass, filled with quick silver, which seemed to follow the beholder's every motion. Near her was a tablet of gold, on which was inscribed: "In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.... the Lord of lords, the Cause of causes; the Everlasting, the Eternal., '. ...

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