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171 pages of results. 331. Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age by Graham Hancock (Book review) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... known people anywhere in the world to make and use pottery. They even cultivated rice - not as an economic way of life but as a supplement to their diet, which was based mainly on fishing and seafood, including seaweed, very similar to the modern Japanese diet. In fact, Hancock ushers in evidence that a lot of Japanese myth may have roots in the Jomon culture and the Shinto religion too. His idea is that they venerated the landscape and the natural world, even engineering changes in the landscape to make its shape more agreeable. Landscape engineering is thought to have occurred in pre-farming societies in various other parts of the world, including Egypt, Britain, and ...
332. Comments: on the First Issue [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... geology" that ignores the possibility of extraterrestrial causes could itself become a kind of reductionism: it would run the risk of becoming as sterile as those 18th century "explanations" of meteorites that restricted themselves to purely terrestrial effects (1 ). In my opinion Velikovsky's greatest contribution to catastrophism is his demonstration of the value of human records, myths and traditions in questions of the past of the Earth and the solar system - for example of the value of the persistent traditions of bituminous materials falling from the sky. Velikovsky was the first to consider problems in geology and mythology together to develop valid models. He concluded from the human record that some of the Earth's petroleum deposits are ...
333. Magnetic Models of the Polar Configuration [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon IV:2 (Aug 1995) Home | Issue Contents Magnetic Models of the Polar Configuration Robert B. Driscoll INTRODUCTION In a tentative model for the Saturn Myth proposed earlier, the Earth was taken to have had essentially its present atmosphere and no significant net electric charge. Its stable position in that model of the polar configuration depended solely upon gravitation and aero-dynamic force of the circumsolar gas cloud deflected between two proto-Jovian gas giants dominating the configuration, with masses mj and ms. The two proto-Jovian members had planetary electrical charges whose product QjQs > Gmjms, with G the Newtonian gravitational constant, giving them net repulsive interactions balanced by the components of the attractive forces of ...
334. The Uranians [Books] [de Grazia books]
... But Indra appears between Heaven and Earth, the first sun, in an increasingly visible atmospheric space. Waters fall abundantly, running off the new wrinkles of the Earth. The sun arose out of southern waters. Creation was next, but humans were already created, else they would not be watching the chaos. Now we compare this Hindu myth with an analogous but distinct Hindu myth. The world was dark and asleep until the great Demiurge appeared and scattered the shades of darkness. He then laid the seed that became the golden egg, which, when hatched, gave forth himself, Brahma. It is the same creation. The metaphorical history of the Cosmic Egg [2 ...
335. Thoth Vol II, No. 15: Oct 1, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... , No. 15 Oct 1, 1998 EDITOR: Amy Acheson PUBLISHER: Michael Armstrong LIST MANAGER: Brian Stewart CONTENTS GRAVITATION AS FROG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Mel Acheson THE TWO FACES OF "PLAUSABILITY" . . . . . . . . . . Dave Talbott TWO MAORI MYTHS. . . . . . . . . . . . submitted by Ken Dietiker comments by Dwardu Cardona and Dave Talbott THE DOMES ON VENUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Wal Thornhill LICHTENBERG FIGURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . by Wal ...
336. Book Shelf [Journals] [Aeon]
... talking down to the science-illiterate. The clear English is a pleasure to read and, lacking any diversionary equations and formulas, the book is a delight for those who regard math as an unnecessary evil. As the authors make clear: Too much mathematics makes for a smoke screen. The Early Amazons: Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth by Josine H. Blok (E . J. Brill, N. Y., 1993) Reviewed by Tammy Jo Eckhart Just when it seemed that no one was doing any research on the Amazons anymore, this book caught my eye. Actually, the work reads more like two separate tomes: the first third being a synopsis ...
337. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... accordingly throughout the world." [1 ] The thundergod himself, according to this view, is an invisible Oz-like being acting behind the scenes to bring about the thunderstorm and its attendant visual and auditory phenomena. It is our opinion that such views are so wide off the mark as to be virtually worthless as a basis for understanding ancient myth and religion. In what follows we hope to offer a new interpretation of the thundergod as a visible planetary power. Aided by new discoveries in plasma physics, particularly as elucidated and reconstructed by Wallace Thornhill and Anthony Peratt, the curious mythology associated with the omnipresent thundergod suddenly begins to unravel, revealing a fascinating tale of interplanetary thunderbolts and ...
338. The End Of Atlantis (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... From: The Atlantis Myth by H. S. Bellamy CD Home | Contents Title Page | Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Ch. 10 | Ch. 11 | Ch. 12 | Ch. 13 | Ch. 14 | Ch. 15 | Ch. 16 | Ch. 17 | Ch. 18 | Conclusion | Notes | Bibliography | Index | The End Of Atlantis It is improbable that all Atlanteans - including those in the colonies (25a) and those in the conquered territories of Europe and Africa ...
... similar way. 2. Diffusion; the legend originated with one culture, but traveled to others with the wanderings of mankind. 3. Brain Wiring; psychologically human beings are so alike that their legends reflect the commonality of human hopes and fears. 4. Coincidence; purely by chance all cultures created the same (Venus) legend or myth. Sagan chose diffusion and coincidence while Velikovsky, of course, chose common-observation. Sagan states, "Velikovsky is clearly opting for the common-observation hypothesis, but he seems to dismiss the diffusion hypothesis far too casually; for example, he says (p . 303) How could unusual motifs of folklore reach isolated islands, where the aborigines ...
340. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... from the mythological record, but it would exceed the scope of the present article to include them all. The focus will be on a limited number of widespread traditions totally irreconcilable, but nevertheless associated, with the lightning flashes illuminating our heavens. As will be seen, lightning and fire are hardly to be separated in t he realm of myth, lightning often being considered the source of fire and, more than that, the first occasion of fire, it being described as having fallen down from heaven. Seeing that Ev Cochrane has already traced the origin of the god in question in a previous issue of this periodical, [1 ] I will here concentrate on two of ...
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