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72 pages of results. 441. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Williams. It opens for consideration many of the wilder ideas held by scholar and layman alike. The Grave Creek Stone, which Dr. Barry Fell deciphered as being in Phoenician from the first millennium BC is put firmly in place as, at best, wishful thinking. Some excesses of interpretation were due to the inability to accept that the Indians could have been cultured but largely it seems that appeals to consistency, context and chance all fall before the robust will to believe' in something a little fantastic. Fact faces theory New Scientist 18.5 .91, pp. 39-44 A detailed geotraverse across Europe to study the structure of the continental crust has come up with a ...
442. Chapter VII: The Earth [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... insects are rare. Most of the insects, like the plants and the higher-order animals buried with them, were torn apart at the moment of death. In Nilsson's opinion, the debris trapped in the coal was deposited by onrushing water from all parts of the world, but mostly from the coasts of the equatorial belt of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Velikovsky noted: "One thing is, however, evident: coal originated in cataclysmic circumstances." This view was defended by Wilfrid Francis, author of Coal Its Formation and Composition. 9 In the second edition of his book (the first edition was printed in 1954) he reviewed the ideas of Velikovsky and Nilsson along ...
443. Chapter II: The Events [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... only a day of liberation, but the fourteenth day of the month. It sounds repetitive to say that many ancient cultures had stories of a time when great tides existed, but this is the case. The order of events in these stories is also the same. After the darkness and earthquakes came the tidal waves. From the Choctaw Indians to the Chinese and from Peru to Northern Europe, the stories are similar. A Laplandic epic says that the sea gathered "together itself up into a huge towering wall..."16 The Indians of Yucatan had an ancient tradition about a time when their ancestors had escaped the pursuit of the opposition when a passageway was opened ...
444. The Polar Sun [Books]
... Huracan, the "Heart of Heaven" at the celestial pole. The Pawnee locate the "star chief of the skies" at the pole. He is the "star that stands still." Of this supreme power they say, "its light is the radiance of the Sun God shining through." (103) The American Indians also have a counterpart to the Egyptian Still Place and the Hindu Motionless Heaven. A Zuni account relates that long ago the heart of the great father Kian'astepe rested in a sacred spot called the Middle Place. Here, at the cosmic centre, the holy ancestors "sit perfectly still." (104) It does not take a ...
445. Geological Genesis [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a huge rift opened up, splitting northwards and then southwards, to form the Atlantic basin which eventually separated the Americas from the rest of the land masses. Where the western edges of the Americas were being thrust against the Pacific crust, massive crumpling of the continental crustal edges produced the Rockies and the Andes. Another rift opened up the Indian Ocean, with Greater India moving north and eventually impinging on Laurasia and throwing up the Tibetan plateau. An Australian Antarctic block moved southwards. Later a new rift developed, separating Australia from Antarctica and, splitting northwards, separated Arabia from Africa and formed the East African Rift. The later movements of Greater India and Africa, thrusting against ...
446. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... recall, published an extensive review of Archaeoastronomy, will be leading a panel on the widespread sudden destruction during the Bronze Ages, which Velikovsky and Claude Schaeffer have already discussed. Robert L. Raikes, an engineer living in Rome, will speak. He has recently provided ingenious explanations of the flood of Noah and the Mohenjaro destructions in the Indian subcontinent. He generally tends to the belief that extraordinary, but definitely uniformitarian and solely terrestrial kinds of disasters can explain the sudden destructions of the Mohenjaro and other Indian prehistoric civilisations, and of course the widespread floods and destruction in the Mesopotamian area. He resorts to the concept of the building up of silt dams, which hold back ...
447. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... floating gardens. In South America the Chimu people of the coastal desert constructed irrigation canals and aqueducts to bring water from the Andes, while elsewhere waterlogged areas high and low were cultivated by a system of raised fields and actually supported more people at the time Columbus discovered the New World than they do now. In the deserts of Arizona the Indians lived well by harvesting rainfall by means of miles of low walls, a similar system to that used in the ancient Negev-Sinai. The greatest dam in early times was the Marib Dam in the Yemen, built around 800 BC and which sustained the Sabean people for 1,300 years. The great Persian Empire was underpinned by qanats, ...
448. Senmut and Phaeton [Journals] [SIS Review]
... many potential manifestations of Ursa major, the following account of it by Sir William Peck (11) is offered: "The Egyptians called it the hippopotamus (the bear being unknown in Egypt), but it was recognised as a bear by the Greeks, Persians, &c ., and when America was first discovered, the Northern Indians knew it as the (Polar) bear, showing that they had either independently recognised it for themselves, or had been in some way connected with the Eastern world". The present writer suggests that what the Egyptians, the North American Indians and the rest recognised as a "great-bear" was not Ursa major at all but an ...
449. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , p. 82 The domestication of cattle is supposed to have started in a single centre in south-west Turkey between 8000 and 10,000 years ago. They were then thought to have moved east to India and southwest into Africa, with humped backed varieties being bred later in dry climates. Studies of mitochondrial DNA, however, show that Indian breeds are genetically so different from European and African breeds that they must have been bred separately. The fact that Africa contains both humped, zebu, cattle and the flat-backed taurine European type, could be explained if Arab invaders brought only zebu males to breed with the stock already present. Mitochondrial DNA is only passed down via the female ...
450. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... not merely the capital, but the whole kingdom of Judah, approaching even more closely the use of "House of Omri" for the kingdom of Israel. P. N. FRIEDMAN Bath Chronic Ailments FROM THE EDITOR, "KIDMA", ISRAEL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT Sir, The extended quotation following is from a recently published book by an Indian author which I did not have to hand when I composed the paper published in KRONOS II:3 . I believe the author's experiments with nomenclature are worthy of wider notice. "Before proceeding further, a note of caution in regard to what may be called the pathology of chronological ankylosis' is necessary. The disease arises as follows ...
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