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72 pages of results. 491. Poleshifts, Catastrophes, And Myths [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... the early catastrophists. For example, Cuvier, ". .. cites references from ancient Chaldean, Hindu, Persian, and Chinese records to prove his point, [of recent global catastrophe], and mentions [Alexander von] Humboldt's suggestion that references to a deluge may also be found in the `barbarous hieroglyphics' of the American Indians."1 Louis Agassiz stated: "We have as yet no clue to the source of this great [Ice Age] change of climate. Various suggestions have been made- among others, that formerly the inclination of the earth's axis was greater."2 As was pointed out earlier, even Benjamin Franklin was driven to suggest ...
492. Thales: The First Astronomer [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... Thales in particular, who flourished in the first half of the Sixth Century B.C .E .3 The second obstacle has to do with how one defines "astronomer." Even granting a single, temporal horizon for the emergence of the textual records of complex civilization among the Greeks, Egyptians, Mews, Mesopotamians, Persians, Indians, and Chinese, is there not clear evidence that astronomy was practiced in more than the first of these cultures? It depends here on whether you define an astronomer as someone who studies the heavenly bodies in order to understand fate or divine intention, or someone who studies them in order to show that their motions are law-governed and not ...
493. Cosmology And PsychologyY [Journals] [Kronos]
... model in the star Anunit and the Euphrates in the star of the Swallow." Other areas of the world also possessed a comparable cosmological "religio-philosophical" attitude regarding the creation of terrestrial cities. "A celestial Jerusalem was created by God before the city was built by the hand of man .. . ; in India: all the Indian royal cities, even the modem ones, are built after the mythical model of the celestial city where, in the age of gold (in illo tempore), the Universal Sovereign dwelt." "In Iranian cosmology of the Zarvanitic tradition, every terrestrial phenomenon, whether abstract or concrete, corresponds to a celestial, transcendent invisible term ...
494. Cosmic and Terrestrial Lightning [Books] [de Grazia books]
... with his bolts [4 ]. The Bible says the same of Yahweh, all this and more. Psalm 97 gives us : "His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles. The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth." The Babylonians speak so of Marduk, the Indians of Shiva, the Persians of Mazda. Other gods played with lightning and fire - Hephaistos, Apollo, Hermes, etc. but Jupiter was the overwhelming lightning god. Giambattista Vico believed that lightning was less on Earth in the damp age of Saturn, before Jupiter, because of deluges. It is noteworthy that satellite maps of terrestrial ...
495. Myths of the Cataclysm Caused by the Breakdown of a Former Satellite (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... . also p. 70). The Book of Zechariah features a `horse myth' (i . 8 and vi. 1-5) which has interesting and valuable individual traits. (Cf. p. 176) With these highly coloured mythological reports of the breakdown of the satellite the bald matter-of-fact statement of a strangely isolated passage in the Indian Khandogya-Upanishad (vi. 4. 3) forms a striking contrast: `The white colour of the moon is the colour of water, the red of fire, the black of earth. Thus vanishes what we call the moon . . . . ' It is hardly necessary to stress the value of the fourth myth, this ` ...
... danger from the waters of the spreading girdle-tide, a danger from which those who had settled in the mountains, those very `dwellers in heaven', were practically exempt. Ancient belief did not originally favour the later notion that the gods lived in vacuous cosmic space. The Ouraniones of the Greeks dwelt on Olympus, the gods of the Indians lived on Mount Meru, Yahweh of the Jews revealed himself on sacred Sinai and was present in other high places. For the early gods and goddesses were not moral abstraction's, but men and women of flesh and blood. Verses 10-12 tell of the further developments of the cataclysm from the standpoint of the mountain dwellers. Verses 13-17, ...
497. The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge [Journals] [Kronos]
... the sunrise to specific parts of the superstructure on a temple that stood directly to the east of him. (Drawing 3) (Drawing 4) Drawing 2. The Stonehenge 13 Month Solar Calendar. Drawing 3. Maya Astronomical Observatory- Guatamala. Drawing 4. Natural Horizon Calendar using irregularities in the horizon as azimuth markers. The Hopi Indians of the southwestern United States are known, even up till recent times, to have used a similar system wherein significant sunrises were related to specific features in the visible horizon. (Drawing 4)(5 ) Marking sunrises along the horizon for calendric purposes was clearly then a primitive and natural way of keeping track of the seasons. ...
... Speeding away from the sun the crescent phase looked like the sharp-fanged, wide-gaping jaws of a `dragon', or a `wolf'; or like a `sickle'. When only half above the horizon, or when half eclipsed by the earth's shadow, other peculiar forms could be observed, like the `horned fish' of Indian mythology, the `sword of Surtr' of the Edda, etc. Occasionally glimpses of even very much more fantastic aspect could be obtained.8 When all the white brittle glaciosphere had come off the `earthy' top-layer of the actual mineral body of the satellite was exposed to view, or, with other words, the sediment ...
499. Notes (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... the passage Rev. x.2a, 8-11 (cf. p.37). Note 22. `Ram' rather, not `lamb'. Horned lambs do not exist; but another `horned' cosmic phenomenon is really referred to. This is probably echoed in the word, which is significantly assonant with Greek Ouranos and Indian Varuna, both of which mean `coverer, protector', and are described as many-eyed, and with the name of the watchful hunter or pursuer, Orion, and with Urian, a name of the restless devil. Note 23. For that is what the new phenomenon actually is, mythologically speaking. The religious-symbological, soteriological, ...
500. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... on the way [11]. During the past 400 Myr, there have been several episodes of massive vulcanism over extensive geographical regions. For example, there were huge outpourings of lava in Eastern Europe around 365 Myr ago; in Siberia around 250 Myr ago; in the Central Atlantic region around 210 Myr ago; in the Pacific and Indian Oceans around 100 Myr ago; in India around 65 Myr ago; and in Ethiopia around 30 Myr ago. Such vulcanism, even if of a non-explosive nature, must have caused considerable destruction of living organisms. The contamination of the atmosphere with volcanic dust and gas would have blocked out sunlight and reduced average temperatures for a considerable period ...
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