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27 pages of results. 221. Astronomy and Chronology [Journals] [Pensee]
... traditions of the Mayas. See E. Seler, Gesammelte A bhandlungen zur amerikanischen Sprach-und Alterthumskunde (Berlin, 1902), I, 624 49. E. Nordenskiöld, The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus (Goteborg, 1925), Pt. II, p. 35. 50. J. E. Thompson, A Correlation of the Mayan and European Calendars, publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, Vol. XVII (Chicago, 1927); C. Ricci, Las Pictograffas de las Grutas Cordobesas y su interpretación astronómico-religiosa (Buenos Aires, 1930), p . 22. 51. See notes of W. Gates to his translation of Yucatan ...
222. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... BC and is thought to have been worn by Bronze Age astronomer priests. The decorations cannot be deciphered but may be some sort of calendar. If so its mathematical achievement would precede the Greeks by more than five centuries. More on the Maya (Current World Archaeology, No. 1, Sept. 2003, pp. 36-43) A Mayan site, named La Milpa, in British Honduras, shows a settlement gap between the Early Classic period (AD 250-600) and the middle of the Late Classic period (AD 700-840). It appears to have been abandoned for about 200 years but then achieved a later period of prosperity in the 8th and 9th centuries AD. The ...
223. Noah's Vessel: 24,000 Deadweight Tons [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... knowledge of Mars' two satellites (" Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift and Hesiod's, "The Shield of Herakles"). Neither can we explain why ancient people couldn't count, judging from the fact that all calendars before 70 B.C .E . employed a 360 day year (Rome's 10, 36 day months, the Mayan 72, 5 day weeks, the Chinese 24, 15 day periods, Judah's 12, 30 day months, the 360 degree circle... etc.)7 If Wishes Were Horses (Beggars Would Ride)One would hope that the Turkish government finds the funds and interest to move the "chip" and anchor stones either ...
224. Intensity, Scope and Suddenness [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of change peculiar to a given organism or natural process when the rate is affected by a disaster produced by a specified high-energy expression. Similarly, when speaking of energy of high intensity, the quantavolutionist is describing known natural forces proceeding at abnormally high rates. A recently discovered ash layer in E1 Salvador covers 1300 square miles and a once flourishing Mayan civilization. (The fall of ash was dated much earlier before the culture was unearthed.) Some 45.000 of such eruptions would be needed to blanket the Earth. The volcanoes, mostly extinct to be sure, are present; how many of these were ever exercised simultaneously? One more, when speaking of scope, scale ...
225. Mars Gods of the New World [Journals] [Aeon]
... in the traditions surrounding Tezcatlipoca, Helel, and Erra. As a result of such reports, Gossman concluded that "Mars [was] the star of the Darkness/Eclipse." (123) Similar concepts appear to have been common to the sky watchers of Mesoamerica. R. W. Willson, a pioneer in the investigation of Mayan astronomical lore, claimed to have found evidence in the Mesoamerican codices of a Mars-table. It is curious to note, moreover, that the glyph which Willson identified as that of Mars is frequently associated with glyphs and tables thought to record ecliptic phenomena. (124) Tezcatlipoca drawing blood from his ear. (From a carving at the ...
226. Common Sense About Ancient Maps [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... One more point before continuing. Just because we do not know who originally made these maps nor how they were made, we cannot argue that they are fraudulent. We cannot assume, because it took until the18th century to make precise maps, that ancient man must have lacked the knowledge and skills to execute these charts. The Babylonian and Mayan civilizations, though primitive compared to modern civilization, carried out astronomical research with an accuracy that was not attained until the19th century, when highly precise and technically advanced telescopes and other measuring devices made modern man the equals of these past cultures. We still do not know how ancient man in South America moved and raised stones of immense weight ...
227. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the kinematics of this situation is such that Venus will regularly almost collide with Earth every 52 to 54 years, unless or until an extremely close encounter destabilises the resonant or phase-lock stability." This, said Dr Bass, was particularly intriguing in view of the evidence provided by Dr Velikovsky (W in C I, viii) for 52-year Mayan calendars and the importance of a 52-year period to the early Hebrews, and also "utterly refutes Sagan's outrageously disingenuous or incompetent falsehood... that chances of multiple near-collisions are less than one in 10^23". (Bass' arguments against this ploy of Sagan can be found in Kronos I:3 , p.60 ...
228. "Heaven and Earth": Catastrophism in Hamlet [Journals] [Kronos]
... , to emerge in legend, religion, myth, and art, as Dr. Velikovsky says. [* In Part II and Part III to be published in KRONOS- The Ed] (A large number of the similarities which have been established between Hamlet and Orestes, and which will be established with Oedipus and Norse, Roman, Mayan and Egyptian myth, may derive from a set of catastrophes earlier than the Venusian and Martian interactions of the fifteenth and eighth to seventh centuries B.C .E . reconstructed in Worlds in Collision. These earlier catastrophes involve the much larger planets Saturn and Jupiter. They occurred much earlier and over a longer period of time and are ...
229. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... papers in Archaeoastronomy X (College Park, 1987-88). C. Trenary: Universal Meteor Metaphors and Their Occurrence in Mesoamerican Astronomy', on pp. 98-116, writes: "The importance of spectacular meteor showers in world mythology, and especially with regard to Mesoamerican mythology has gone unrecognized." Trenary comes to the important conclusion that certain Mayan glyphs which had previously been associated with Venus actually relate to meteor showers. This work is clearly highly relevant to our Forum discussion, in which the question of the identification of Venus and/or meteor showers in ancient times arose. Ellenberger notes that: "Trenary's discovery implicitly supports Clube & Napier's model in which spectacular Taurid showers radiated ...
230. A Catastrophic Reading of Western Cosmology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... very important to us and we have therefore put it into these important ideological structures to help ourselves believe that it is true. This desire is the forest that never changes. Within this forest, what Confucius said or Elijah did or Krishna saw, these are the trees, interchangeable at will, but whether you start with Hindu tales, Mayan tales or Islamic tales, it makes no difference - you reach the same forest, you find the same message. To answer the question put earlier concerning what is fundamental and what peripheral in these metaphysical systems, it seems to me that what these systems do for us equally in their generality, as opposed to what they specifically contain ...
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