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27 pages of results. 241. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , p. 10 An archaeologist has located a feature south of the citadel mound of Troy, which he thinks may be a fortification wall. Archaeologists have usually ignored the urban development outside the citadel walls. Destructive warfare National Geographic, February 1993, pp. 94-111 Excavators in Guatemala may have found the reason for the mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization in the ninth century AD. For 1,000 years the lowland Maya had lived without destroying their environment, building large temple pyramid complexes and developing astronomy, mathematics and a writing system. Warfare was part of a stereotyped religious system designed to capture victims for sacrifice to planetary gods. However, in one area at least, ...
242. CLASHING MAGNETIC FIELDS [Journals] [Aeon]
... . This means that the current Earth perihelion, occurring on January 3, is a slight modification of the ancient perihelion, a relic of the ancient system. 5. (p . 87, #3 ). The Romans, for instance, originally had a year of 10 months, each month made up of 36 days. The Mayans had 72 weeks of 5 days each. The Chinese had 24 semi-lunar periods of 15 days each. The Hebrews and Greeks had a 30 day month and 12 of them with no intercalary periods. The Persians had a calendar with two 180-day periods. All these systems were "changed" to 365 day systems within a few centuries after ...
243. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Asian ones are more recent at 700 years AD. They were first thought to be ancient fortifications but it is now suggested that they were used by hunters to trap herds of game and the idea for the Asian ones came about the time of the Muslim conquests. Maya get older Earthwatch Magazine Nov/Dec 1994, p. 9 A Mayan site at Colha was one of the largest stone tool making centres in the New World. Production lasted from 300 BC to 900 AD, when the lowland Maya civilization collapsed. Now an even earlier farming culture has been found beneath this site. Radiocarbon dating places this at 2500 BC, which pushes back evidence for the earliest Maya by ...
244. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... habits of rodents changed at this time. This had an important effect on European health as it brought relief, it is thought, from regular flare ups of the plague which had periodically broken out in the 14th to 17th centuries. It is interesting to note that a couple of best selling books, such as The Supergods' and The Mayan Code' have focused on sun spot activity as the agent of change and upheaval, combining science with astrology etc. Phillip Clapham \cdrom\pubs\journals\review\v1998n1\27east.htm ...
245. "The Seasons Alter": Catastrophism in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Continued) [Journals] [Kronos]
... 184-185. 57. Ralph Juergens, "Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism," Pensée 11 (Fall, 1972), pp. 6-12. 58. Worlds in Collision, p. 169. 59. Rome spoke of the stability which followed the birth of Romulus. Greece told of the new age after the Trojan Wars. The Mayans wrote of wandering and exodus leading to a new society. 60. Young, op. cit., 56. 61. See Marvin T. Herrick, Comic Theory in the Sixteenth Century (University of Illinois Press, Urbana. Paperback edn., 1961). 62. Worlds in Collision, pp. 110-114. 63. ...
246. The Year Of 360 Days, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... reckoned 360 days to the year. Plutarch wrote in his "Life of Numa" that in the time of Romulus, in the eighth century, the Romans had a year of 360 days only.38 Various Latin authors say that the ancient month was composed of th irty days.39 On the other side of the ocean, the Mayan year consisted of 360 days; later five days were added, and the year was then a tun (360-day period) and five days; every fourth year another day was added to the year. "They did reckon them apart, and called the m the days of nothing: during the which the people did not anything, ...
247. Comments: on the First Issue [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... terms of raining blood'. Now, legends from throughout the world describe the fall of blood from the sky (usually said to be the blood of wounded deities), and Velikovsky collected many examples of these in the chapter "The Red World" of "Worlds in Collision" (Part I, chapter II), from the Mayans, the Egyptian and Hebrew literature, Greek myth, and Finnish and Tartar legends amongst others. Some of these stories describe rivers turning to blood, or even the world turning red. Velikovs-ky associated many of these myths with his projected Venus disaster of c.1500 BC, but I would like to cite a few extra examples not ...
248. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... adequately with astronomical facts in general. Yet, scholars acknowledge that, from the beginning, they worshipped stars and planets and their astronomer priests, responsible for keeping the calendar, measured time by observing celestial cycles. "From the earliest history in virtually every centre of civilisation- China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, even the Mayan and Aztec civilisations in the Western Hemisphere- man kept track of the motions in the heavens to regulate his time and dated."(101) From the viewpoint of behavioural science these facts are particularly difficult, if not impossible to reconcile. "A culture, like a species, is selected by its adaptation to an environment: ...
249. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... will it be before someone queries these ever-increasing ages, which result whenever modern techniques are used? A skeleton found in a cave along the coast of Yucatan has been dated via associated charcoal to 10,000 years ago, 2,000 years older than previous finds in the Americas. This is at least 5,000 years before the Mayan culture in the region began building monuments. Early and Late (Current World Archaeology, No. 7, September/October 2004, p. 17) The earliest megalithic temple buildings in Malta have been dated to 3600 BC, which makes them the earliest stone buildings in the world. Yet the earliest occupation evidence is dated at 5000 ...
250. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... their gigantism is unknown, but it was later suggested that they may have been castrated as young boys, just as bas reliefs from Assyrian palaces depict attendants who were eunuchs. Myth Complex Lord of the Underworld (The Maya, Life, Myth and Art, p. 85) Many familiar attributes of classical gods are woven together in the Mayan lord of the underworld. He wore a netted head-dress; he was portrayed as a scribe; he was pulled from a shell by one of the Hero Twins; and he also held up the world. Thanks are due to Phillip Clapham, Bernard Delair, Laurence Dixon, Gordon Jonas, Roy McKinnon and David Roth who sent in ...
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