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... , our earth, they go searching around to produce the most amazing and fantastic explanation to account for the circumstances confronting them. Perhaps they are less to blame than the professors of astronomy, who lag sadly behind in metaphysics and appear to be content to remain in a rut. The Americans, however, are taking a strong interest in meteorism and its results. These two forms of science, astronomy and geology, may be said with sorrow to lag deplorably. Another prolific source of misunderstanding of the past is related to the vexed question of chronology. Space again has prevented any close consideration of this very vital subject, but a few scholars have examined the classic and sacred ...
462. The Heavenly Host [Books] [de Grazia books]
... is neither female nor male.) The collective experience and interpersonal communication of an event that requires a naming - an event whose connection with the numerous high-energy expressions of nature is obvious but whose direct efficient cause is not a great god - is a final way by which many a demigod is produced. Thus the breezes are named, the meteors, the volcanoes, the erratic boulders, the deeps of caves and seas, the ancient trees, the animals of curious form and expression, and so on to many thousands. Then, too, the early kings, the kings of crises, their mothers, the sorcerers, saints, inventors, prophets, and so on to ...
463. Reconsidering Velikovsky [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... worldwide. Dr Robertson showed pictures illustrating small bole-shaped craters and large, complex ones and discussed the dynamics of their formation in detail. He referred to the impact melt due to shock rather than temperature; to the chemical evidence, and to the presence of exogenous (1 .6 % chondrite) materials, thus proving the extra-terrestrial origin of meteors. He gave as sizes between 100 metres and over 150 kilometres diameter, and as ages 450 million to 20,000 years BP. Asked afterwards about larger structures, such as those pointed out to members of SIS by the late Rene Gallant, including Hudson Bay, Dr Robertson thought these were caused by terrestrial geological phenomena, not ...
464. Earth Parturition and Moon Birth [Books] [de Grazia books]
... [Proper name]would have the outer portion of the moon melt from the heat of rapid accretion [18]. Here we are suggesting that the moon must be heterogeneously composed, like a stew of chunks and sauce. Further, subsequent to its overall melting, it has been subjected to additional destruction. It has been pelted with meteors, and exploded and ripped by numerous electrical charges. I assign all of this destruction to later encounters of the newly created moon. The Moon's turbulent history is evidenced in a list of effects recently discovered. These can be catalogued here [19]. An asterisk (* ) denotes items that perhaps originated with the original creation of ...
465. China's Dragon [Journals] [Pensee]
... as he proposes will seem to some to be justified. Study of the iconography, however, indicates an intimacy between the symbols requiring a better explanation than the mere fusion of motifs: the pearl seems to be the source of the sound and of the fire. Why associate them- so intimately- with the moon? A comet in company with meteors would have those associations. It is difficult to account for the moon's having them. The other chief element in the Urbild is the dragon. Attractive design as well as imperial connection ensured continuing use. The dragon strides in sinuous flight through clouds and fire in pursuit of the fiery sphere, moving in great coils, sweeping the sky ...
466. High Energy from Space [Books] [de Grazia books]
... . A large-body encounter would excite such volcanic activity in many places. FIRE AND GASES When the Earth changes motion, fires break out. When meteoroids fall, fires break out. When lightning strikes, fires erupt. When gases penetrate the atmosphere, fires explode. All of these accompany and occur in the aftermath of large-body encounters and significant meteoric fall-out. Persuasive accounts come down from legends of many peoples concerning the burning of the world. One of the most astonishing groups of legends, set forth by Velikovsky and others, treats of rains of burning oil [11]. It is difficult to put aside these reports, which are associated with the cometary tail of Venus in ...
467. Experiments with Time. I: 'Catastrophes and Chronologies' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ) souls and lay waste their land .. . their bones burn and roast within their limbs'. Another tablet records: The Nile dried-up and the land fell victim to drought'. From the foregoing, there can be little doubt that the primary agent of destruction was a comet on an earth-crossing orbit accompanied by its fragmentation debris and meteor showers. Such a visitation was described by Pliny: A terrible comet was seen by the people of Ethiopia and Egypt to which Typhon, a king of that period gave his name; it had a fiery appearance and was twisted like a coil and it was very grim to behold; it was not really a star so much as ...
468. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... may have been tectonic. Could this also explain mysterious holes in North America and Norway, or even Tunguska? Impact or endogenous, there are also 13 craters in Australia apparently formed about 5000 years ago and witnessed by aboriginals who mention fire and devil rock in their myth. Tunguska happened in June, a month that also saw an unusual meteor storm on the Moon in 1975 and an account of what appeared to be a major impact on the Moon in 1178. It is suggested that these events are linked to comet Encke and the related Taurid complex. Comet cataclysm forecast New Scientist 9.4 .94, p. 14 In 28,000 years time the Sun will ...
469. The Bedrock of Myth [Articles]
... what we now associate with the sky. [Alternatively, this imagery also seems compatible, in many ways, with what would be seen were Earth to acquire temporarily, and perhaps at more than one epoch, a number of nearly vertical, i.e ., highly inclined, rings of meteoritic debris from interaction with the then-youthful Taurid meteor stream, as Moe Mandelkehr has modelled and proposes in his manuscript The Answered Riddle: A Thesis on the Meaning of Myth, which is a major adjunct to the pioneering work of Clube and Napier and co-workers. The Taurid stream is the presumptive source owing to the ancient prominence of the Pleiades which is near the radiant of the Taurid ...
470. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... was seen to surround the planet Saturn during the Golden Age." [44] Is this an allusion to Saturn's ring(s )? If not, what was it? Finally (at least as far as this section is concerned), I would like to correct something else that Cardona misunderstood. When I mentioned that "Alvarez's meteor...[left] the mammals intact without a trace of the nasty dinosaurs who had kept us scurrying on the night-time forest floor," [45] I never intended to suggest that humans were around at that time! I haphazardly used the term "us" to connote our remote, common biological ancestors with the rest ...
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