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27 pages of results. 211. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... spools, a corn mother and jaguar figures and there are signs of mass sacrifice. By AD 1200 deforestation was a probable cause of flooding and erosion of agricultural areas and they may have been superseded by another culture for which a bird figure was more important than the corn goddess. The area was deserted by 1400. In the heart of Mayan country in Guatemala, the ruins of a new complex have been found, known as Cancuen, or Place of Serpents and dating to the 8th century. The site rivals Tikal 80 miles to the north but does not have major pyramids or ceremonial attributes, appearing to be entirely a trading and crafts centre. South America Horizon BBC2 TV ...
... time is presented in researches now completed by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, an international scholar. He has assembled into a monumental work evidence from all the early civilizations that in the first and second millennium before Christ tremendous terrestrial cataclysms took place. In a magnificent piece of scholarly historical research he has correlated Sumerian, Chaldean, Hindu, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, Islamic, Egyptian and Hebrew records showing that the times of cataclysms described in all of them correspond. In the light of this record and the data he has assembled about the cataclysms, there unfolds a most exciting picture of terrestrial events that raises world history to a level of superlative interest. Obscure allusions to events in ...
... from "a number of different centuries, usually with no effort to determine whether the events they are said to describe can be shown to belong to the same period, and with no apparent attempt to evaluate the writers' accuracy." Kubler preferred to quarrel with specific details in Velikovsky's reconstruction, noting in particular that the old Mexican and Mayan days for the New Year ranged over a wide span of individual dates, so that Velikovsky was being quite arbitrary in selecting one of them (February 26) just because it corresponded with an Old World date. Wildt, in common with his brother astronomers, chose to pursue the path of invective rather than that of rational investigation: ...
... be rich in argon and neon. He had suggested both conditions in Worlds in Collision, but he told the scientists that he expected their proposed neon ratio of 666 particles per million to be too low. (45) After a January 30 lecture at the University of Alabama, Velikovsky went on to Mexico, where he could contemplate the Mayan ruins and concentrate on making his case to the AAAS. On January 14, Lynn E. Rose wrote to Talbott concerning recent and future developments: It is rather awkward to bring the originator of a theory to a scientific gathering, and then let it be known that the theory is not under discussion. Velikovsky's presence at the AAAS ...
215. Natural Catastrophes in the Ninth Century AD C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . 18. P. James & N. Thorpe, Ancient Mysteries, Ballantine Books, New York, 1999, 76-95. 19. R.B . Gill, The Great Maya Droughts, Univ. New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2000, 318-320, 368-387. 20. T. Radford, How the sun god frowned on the Mayan civilisation', The Guardian, 18 May 2001, 5. 21. D.A . Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H . Curtis and T. Guilderson, Solar forcing of drought frequency in the Maya lowlands', Science, 292, 2001, 1367-1370. 22. A.L .Martin del Pozzo, ...
216. The Jupiter Order [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ice caps are increasing or decreasing (compare Kukla and Matthews with Gribbin, 1976; A. Brown). The solar year under Jupiter may have had a succession of different lengths. First occurred the Saturnian year, to which we have assigned a 64-day duration [100]. Then it increased to 156 days when Jupiter receded. The Mayans possessed a 260-day sacred calendar that was central to their religious and cultural life, even while using a more modern and exact calendar (Coe, p9). We attribute this sacred calendar to the Jupiter-Earth synods of this era, to the time before 4 400 years ago [101]. At the Saturnian Deluge we suspect the Earth ...
217. Atlantis (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... written against Babylon'. Plato's Timaeus and Critias and Revelation (besides the other shorter Biblical references) are not the only reports of the end of Atlantis and her immediate island dependencies. Another report, as striking as it is important, comes from the western hemisphere. It has come down to us in the famous Codex Troano, a Mayan pictograph manuscript, whose rebuses have been interpreted as follows: In the sixth year of Kan, in the month of Sak, on the eleventh of Muluk, earthquakes began, of a violence not hitherto experienced. They continued, without interruption, till the thirteenth of Chuen. The island of Mu, the land of the mud-mountains [ ...
218. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... acknowledged by students of ancient religion. First, it appears that traditional lightning lore is completely inconsistent with the modern-day phenomenon of lightning, however that may be explained. Second, the images share a common archetypal symbolism and often overlap each other, thus confirming their coherence and the intricate interweaving of mythical motifs. An old verse relating to the Mayan deity Cucumatz neatly summarizes the archetypal reconstruction defended here: "In seven days he took upon himself the nature and form of a serpent, and again of an eagle, and of a tiger; and in seven days he changed himself into coagulated blood." [51] Third, all of these motifs are mirrored in the mythical ...
219. Commemoration Of The 2300bc Event [Journals] [SIS Review]
... honour the dead. A lamp was lit for each deceased and kept burning until it was over [139]. Olcott draws attention to a curious item: US national elections are held in early November, a date taken from the ancient convocation of American Indian tribal leaders commemorating the culmination of the Pleiades [140]. Central America The Mayans held a great festival for the dead on 1st Nov., when many candles were lit [141]. Sources describe a great ceremony, the Chickaban, honouring Kukulcan, a meteoroid deity, on Nov. 8th, corresponding to the Maya month Xul, meaning end, termination'. Five days were spent fasting and worshipping. ...
220. A Reading of the Pyramid Texts [Journals] [Pensee]
... of the Egyptians' deluge account has always been the belief that their story of Atum alone in the watery abyss was exclusively a creation myth, which for standard anthropological thinking must be in a different category from a deluge myth. In fact many peoples believed that every time the world was destroyed it had to be recreated (as in the Mayan and Aztec accounts). In Hindu mythology Brahma, originally the planet Saturn but later simply the one being that contains all others, is said to re-absorb all created being into himself whenever he destroys the world by water. "Catastrophes occur in time, and yet they also transform it, on the most literal level by changing the ...
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