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177 pages of results. 451. Thoth Vol IV, No 9: May 31, 2000 [Journals] [Thoth]
... remained unchallenged. Undoubtedly that underlying supposition constrained the thinking of historians as they began to explore the world of our early ancestors and to offer translations of previously unknown ancient texts. Antiquarians- ethnologists, archaeologists, and students of the archaic languages- assumed without question that the celestial forms celebrated in the great "sky religions" answer to the Sun and Moon and other bodies as they appear in our sky today. But what would happen to our understanding of the myth-making age if we set this supposition aside just long enough to ask the question: What were the sky-worshippers seeing in the heavens when they invoked the prodigious forms of the gods? And what did they mean by the gods' ...
452. ABC's of Astrophysics [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , Chassapis also maintained, evidenced an early knowledge to lenses. This, too, rankled with Deg. He had worried over a mention of a lens-like object found in Ninevah's earliest levels, and had discussed the general question with Stecchini. If the Bronze Age peoples had been able to magnify the stars, meteors, planets, sun and moon, they might also have derived proportions and distances among the planets, this making Jupiter the King and Saturn the retired king. Too they might thus have perceived the rings of Saturn and bands of Jupiter. They might then for religious reasons, and because humans are anxious animals, have created a body of legends ascribing to the heavenly ...
453. Geomagnetic Reversals? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a source is needed to provide the torque, which must increase and decay rapidly to achieve the fast form of precession. The equatorial bulge provides the means. This small asymmetry is sufficient to permit the application of torque, as is shown by the precession of the equinoxes - a slow precession caused by the slowly changing torques exerted by the Moon and the Sun. To produce the torque required for fast precession we would need a large cosmic body on a near-miss course. The torque, to a first approximation, obeys an inverse cube law of distance, so there would be a rapid rise and fall as the body passed by, as required. Norman and Chukwu-Ike have suggested ...
454. Crustal Distortion in the Holocene [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... arrangement at Stonehenge occurred in the same general time frame – and a Bronze Age disk found at Nebra in Germany had some kind of calendrical function. Gerald Hawkins, in 1963, claimed he had decoded Stonehenge. Selecting a series of lines and stone alignments, and by feeding into his computer the extreme seasonal positions of the Sun and the Moon around 1500 BC, he found that ten of his lines pointed to solar azimuths and fourteen to lunar. Somewhat later he put forward the idea that the 56 holes in the Aubrey circle at Stonehenge were used to predict eclipses. This was criticised promptly by archaeologists who pointed out the holes had been filled in shortly after they had been ...
455. Worship Of The Morning Star, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... II Kings (23:5 ), King Josiah in the seventh century "put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven." Baal, the sun, the moon, and the planets, is the division used also by Democritus: Venus, the sun, the moon, and the planets. In Babylonia the planet Venus was distinguished from other planets and worshipped as a member of ...
456. The Baalim [Journals] [Kronos]
... No. 3 (Summer 1985) Home | Issue Contents The Baalim Dwardu Cardona Copyright (c ) 1985 by Dwardu Cardona 1. Baal In describing the religious reformation of Josiah, King of Judah, in the 7th century B.C ., Immanuel Velikovsky stressed a verse in the Old Testament which mentions Baal, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets - in that order.(1 ) He then drew attention to the fact that Democritus used a "division" that was identical, except for the replacement of Baal with Venus - i.e ., Venus, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets.(2 ) On that meagre evidence ...
457. Discussion [Journals] [Aeon]
... such as the 100,000 year old marine deposit 326 meters above sea level on Lanai (KRONOS X:3 , p. 4). The most efficient way to exert a torque on Earth would be to set a large mass on the surface. To give another idea of what it takes to turn Earth over, if the Moon were somehow to be placed, not impacted, on the Arctic Circle, the ensuing toppling would take two weeks to reach 180 . As a point of reference, it takes one eighth of a moon mass placed on the Earth's surface to counterbalance the moment of inertia of the equatorial bulge. This is 400 times the mass of Antarctica's ...
458. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Pensee]
... work? Did not Tycho Brahe find the compromising theory of the Sun revolving around the Earth- but Mercury and Venus circling around the Sun- in Heracleides of Pontus, yet announce it as his own? Did not Galileo read of the equal velocity of heavy and light falling bodies in Lucretius; did not Newton read in Plutarch of the Moon removed from the Earth by fifty-six terrestrial radii and impelled by gravitation to circle around the Earth, the basic postulate of Newton's Principia; and did not Halley read in Pliny about comets returning on their orbits? Then why does modern science disregard the persistent reports of events witnessed and recorded in many languages in the writings of the ancients and ...
459. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... again to concede that suns grow cold, and that annular or ring-formation is another and inevitable stage of world-growth that all worlds, in passing from the sun-state, must possess ring-systems, and that the earth can be no exception to the universe plan. Searching still further, but nearer home, we find worlds whose outer rings have formed into moons, and whose inner ones have broken from their moorinqs and sunk to their primaries, and thus we find a third stage of world formation and still we have to concede that our planet can be no exception1 unless we place it under the beck of accidental conditions. In postulating then, that the Earth once had a ring system, ...
460. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... and consultant to the space science industry and broadcasting media, and for the following two years would be heavily involved in space programs relating to "The Golden Age of Planetary Exploration." Hoagland had already achieved some prominence for suggesting a "Galileo" experiment (in which astronaut David Scott subsequently dropped a hammer and a feather simultaneously on the Moon during the Apollo 15 excursion in a symbolic reenactment of Galileo's fabled experiment at the Tower of Pisa) and for his "Europa Proposal" advocating prebiotic organic matter under the massive ice cover of Jupiter's second satellite. Along with author Eric Burgess (who himself was prominent as a co-founder, with Arthur C. Clarke, of the British ...
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