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27 pages of results. 231. Revelation and Catastrophe during the Christian Era: a Basis for Historical Interpolation and Future Extrapolation. [Journals] [SIS Review]
... By the eighth century, extreme maleficia seem no longer to have been commonplace though laws were apparently still necessary to counter protection rackets, which seem to have been operated on the assumption that airborne disasters of this kind were expected to recur. (Incidentally, on the other side of the world this period saw the first major collapse of the Mayan civilisation, comprising the people of an advanced nation with a singular skill in astronomy and an as yet unexplained concern for sky-borne danger). As time passed, however, the traditional maleficia gave way to all manner of lesser bad deeds, many of them quite fanciful, so that the official wrath of the late medieval period was mainly ...
232. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . In this case, it cannot be argued that the Mesoamerican were incapable of planning their settlements and public buildings with accurate reference to north or any other cardinal point. In a letter describing a study trip to Central America, Patrick Julig writes:[37]. .. . I observed changes in the orientation of the foundations of Mayan buildings between the Archaic and Classical periods. Sometimes there were changes within the same building by as much as 10 in later additions to the structure such as in the Palace at Palanque. This could possibly be a way to date the structures, or at least the foundations, as being pre-687 B.C . One must tentatively conclude ...
233. "Worlds in Collision": Reviews and Reviewers [Journals] [Aeon]
... 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: ...
234. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... 57] A primeval deluge, it will be noted, is said to have followed the "vanishing" of the celestial rope. This tradition mirrors the Papagoan report that a flood accompanied the catastrophe that marked the end of the Golden Age. It also recalls the Sikuani narrative wherein a flood followed the collapse of the World Tree. The Mayan belief that a giant rope served as a "road" to heaven finds a close parallel in the Old World. Thus it is that, in Manchuria, Tungus shamans refer to the celestial rope as a "road" to heaven. [58] Analogous beliefs are attested from aboriginal Australia. "Ropes" descending from the planet ...
235. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... by the Space Shuttle (see Workshop 5:2 , p. 26), that Schliemann discovered Troy in 1867 only by taking myths at face value, and that Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos had succeeded in solving problems in chronology by treating the Bible as an historical document whose accounts were not merely mythical and symbolic. Much of what the Mayan Indians had recorded was treated as mere folklore until, in modern times, it was discovered how wonderfully accurate their astronomy had been. Leins argues that there is much to be learned from myths and legends, and asks: "How many discoveries from space pictures will be needed before more serious attention is given to these cryptic clues from ...
236. A Personal Reminiscence [Journals] [Aeon]
... , observable on a grand scale) impact on the geological history of the earth and whose epoch and span of time coincided with the global catastrophes described in the bible (e .g ., the Exodus, Joshua's command that "the sun stand still," etc.) and in folklore and tales from all over the globe (Mayan, Egyptian, Greek, Finnish) of similar events, such as fires, earthquakes, and floods. He buttressed his arguments for the need of a non-Newtonian Solar System dynamics by pointing to the many questions about the sun and planets that were still unanswered. In particular, he emphasized the present apparent conflict between modern theories of gradual ...
237. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... in the Exodus in this spirit. The problem of the great ages of Moses and others by modern standards continues to baffle one. One possibility is some electrical and/or atmospheric effect upon life duration. Another possibility is the calculation of ages by a different calendar, perhaps one of 260 days such as obtained in earliest times among the Mayans and other Meso-Americans and persisted as a sacred calendar after they knew and practiced a contemporary calendar. Then at 120 years of age, Moses would have lived 31,200 days. Measured on the year base of 365 days, he would be 85 years old. I prefer this solution. There is much rhetorical exaggeration in the Bible ...
238. Catastrophes in the period 5th cent. BC to 14th cent. AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ) have a connection with a dust veil event; in Scotland Presbyterianism appears to have flourished [26]. World population has continued to escalate to giddy numbers from the 17th century to the present. As we approach the millennium all kinds of weird sects are coming out of the woodwork and books are being written about the end of the Mayan world age in the early decades of the next century and .. .. . of course, Comet Hale-Bopp. Notes and References 1. MGL Baillie, A Slice Through Time, Batsford, 1996. 2. MGL Baillie, Patrick, Comets, and Christianity, in EMANIA13 (1995), bulletin of the Navan Research Group ...
239. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... call themselves Atlanteans. He dated the fall of the early Maya civilisations to 10,000 BC. Velikovsky, being a theologian, said he could have known that a similar description was in the Bible at very much later dates. David Fairbairn said there was an argument that after the Atlantis civilisation some people went to America and founded the Mayan civilisation and others to Egypt - hence the similarities between Meso-American and middle Eastern pyramids and burials. There was discussion about diffusion versus similar reactions to global events. Benny commented that from a Velikovskian point of view similar features could easily be explained by people around the globe witnessing similar events - the dragon for instance. Velikovsky argues that everywhere ...
240. The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I) [Journals] [Aeon]
... 199-205. Cochrane has also demonstrated in the pages of AEON that the Aztec name for Venus, Ehecatl, also signifies the "soul." D. Brinton, The Myths of the New World (New York, 1968), p. 273. Additionally Cochrane has noted the same connection of Venus and the "soul" in the Mayan language. See Thompson, op. cit., p. 73; D. Kelley, Deciphering the Maya Script (Austin, 1976), p. 150. 57. (p .44 #1 ). Robert Schilling, La Religion Romaine de Vénus (Paris, 1952), pp. 230 ff. 58. ...
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