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60 pages of results. 541. A Catastrophic Reading of Western Cosmology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... as were Versailles and the Pentagon in Washington.) Is it not curious that three separate ideologies from three very separate times and cultures should produce what is to all intents the same picture of the cosmos in motion? When we look further, the parallels get even curiouser. For example, despite an awareness of natural irregularities like comets, meteors, giant storms, eclipses, hurricanes and tornadoes, all three systems choose the long view over the short and insist that on average the Universe is stable, always was and will be for ever. Is this mere coincidence? Similarly, all three systems equally picture a very imperfect Earth but emphasise in contrast a perfect heaven. This ...
542. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... middle of the orchestra, or dancing floor. It could be a useful hide for the prompter. An altar had horns; indeed, there was one to Apollo at Delos made entirely of goat's horn. The Greek word for goat is either tragos or aix. Aix, in Aristotle's Met.1 .4 .6 means a fiery meteor; a comet could easily remind one of a goat's horns and the aegis was a goatskin. The fact that the chorus moved round in a circular space, the orchestra, and that the main characters were on the stage (episodes = entrances) leads one to suggest that tragedy was a representation of the Solar System with a troublesome ...
543. Venus Before Exodus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the Star Battle: "The threat of a burning sun' amongst the stars I saw, and the terrible wrath of a moon' wrapped in lightning; the stars had battle in their faces; God let them fight. In place of the sun' long flames interwove." Kugler interpreted these lines as referring to "two enormous meteors of the apparent size and form of the sun and moon... with their characteristic accompanying features." Actually, we don't agree with Kugler. We suggest instead the writer is using a poetical form, searching for an adequate description of the approaching Venus - a fiery body. We can say this because the Sumerians used this ...
544. Conclusion [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the invisible dwarf white star, Sirius B, and it is important to them. Obviously they have held onto sound remnants of a lost scientific corpus [24]. Harken, also, to new scientific knowledge that may require old analyses of legends to be revised. Radioactivity was unknown or quite misunderstood until recently. The possibility of explosive meteoric "chemical factories" was ignored until recently and hence the manufacture of great quantities of manna in the atmosphere by natural means was not considered. Another area of recent scientific progress has been psychiatry. Even a century ago there did not exist the systematic, empirically tested categories of mental aberrations such as we here apply to Moses. Or ...
545. The Electrical God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... his Word, too, as life, intelligence and light striking upon mankind. We must observe closely and speculate cautiously: Moses as a "rational" cultist was Thoth-Hermes; Yahweh was Zeus-Horus-Amon. That is, when it came to projecting a god, Moses' personal need was for a stern, heavy father-figure, connected with lightning and meteors [59], admittedly more powerful than Thoth. Moses does not introject Zeus as well as he does Hermes, Horus as well as he does Thoth. This may explain why Yahweh is such a crude and simple power-directed god, so unidimensional. He provides the strength and will, the compulsion, and the brute force. Thoth-Moses ...
546. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... . Certainly, changes in the intensity of volcanism, operating through its production of sun-blocking aerosols, may have been an important variable." Stanley explains his reason for writing Extinction in these words: "Two controversial ideas have stimulated a recent surge of popular interest in mass extinctions. The first is the proposal that the impact of a giant meteor or comet triggered the crisis that ended the dinosaurs' reign. The second is the hypothesis that this and other crises have been spaced at regular intervals, owing to the operation of some periodic astronomical agent. Missing from the spate of popular accounts of these issues is any comprehensive evaluation of the record of great extinctions that is being read ...
... Jupiter, masculo-feminine. Tla, doctrine distinguished by this epithet is represented, by Damascius, as the fundamental principle of the Orphic philosophy. "But the most prevalent representation was that which divided the physical agencies of the universe into male and female.32 The more powerful movements of the elements, storms and winds, thunder and lightning, meteors, the genial showers ,Well descend from the, etherial regions on the bosom of the Earth, the rays of the sun, and the supposed influences of the stars, were the energetic or masculine powers of nature, and were regarded as the agencies of the male deity ; while the prolific Earth herself, the region of sublunary ...
548. Catastrophism and Anthropology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have held good for generations. The data regarding our Solar System and the history of the Earth, which has been collected by American and Soviet space probes over the past 20 years, no longer complies with Lyell's and Darwin's gradualist theory of evolution. Above all, the discovery of more than 120 hypervelocity impact craters' (craters caused by meteoric impacts on the surface of the Earth) have led to a renaissance of scientific catastrophism [50]. Since the end of the Second World War, experts have repeatedly attempted to estimate the extent to which the ancient reports and the archaeological documents about repeated destructions of the prehistoric highly developed civilisations are related to inter-regional or even global natural ...
549. Challenges to Evolutionary Gradualism [Books]
... impressive display of shooting stars (the Andromedid shower) in 1872 and on subsequent occasions, but causing no damage [5 ,6 ]. There was no knowledge of asteroids in Earth-crossing orbits until 1952, when Apollo was discovered by K. Reinmuth of Heidelberg [7 : p. 72]. On the ground, attention focused on Meteor Crator in Arizona from 1886 but, despite the finding of small metallic meteorites in the vicinity, the first main investigator, Grove Karl Gilbert, concluded that the crater had been formed by a steam explosion related to volcanic activity [8 ,9 ]. It was not then realised that a bolide would explode on impact. The next ...
550. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... and cables. On p. 173, discovery of a miniature portcullis slab, or sliding door. Note: the shaft is about 8 inches square. 3. Ibid: p. 19 and illustration on p. 20. 4. Ibid: pp. 93-94. Presumably when the object associated with Osiris broke up and came down as meteors all over Egypt, the priests invented the story of a reincarnation and ascension of the god to the constellation of Orion. It would not have suited their purpose to have the god written off. 5. Ibid: pp. 205-206, 221. 6. Ibid: pp. 242-249. 7. Ibid: p. 172 and ...
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