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... been made for the extreme antiquity and continuity of certain traditions concerning the heavens. Even if Amlodhi's Quern, the Grotte and the Sampo as individual myths cannot be traced back beyond the Middle Ages, they are derived in different ways from that great and durable patrimony of astronomical tradition, the Middle East. Now it is time to locate the origin of the image of the Mill, and further, what its alleged breakup and the coming into being of the Whirlpool can possibly mean. The starting place is Greece. Cleomedes (c . A.D . 150), speaking of the northern latitudes, states (1 .7 ): "The heavens there turn around in ...
252. The Scientific Mafia [Journals] [Pensee]
... wish to know more can best begin by reading "The Velikovsky Affair," ed. A. de Grazia. A book called Worlds in Collision was published in the USA in 1950. According to its author, Venus as a planet is only some 3,500 years old. The proto-planet, in effect an enormous comet, had originated, at some earlier time, by disruption from Jupiter. It moved for centuries on a very eccentric orbit, and about 1500 B.C . made its two closest approaches to the Earth. During the eighth and seventh centuries B.C ., the comet-Venus repeatedly approached Mars, and Mars in turn menaced our planet. Only ...
253. Late Paleozoic Tornadoes and Synsedimentary Brecciation of Chert Nodules [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... as the touch-down of a tornado system. This example of tempestite demonstrates the syngenetic generation of completely indurated and fragile chert nodules within an unconsolidated carbonate sediment and stresses the fact that only events of catastrophic nature and penecontemporaneous with sedimentation can provide such a demonstration. Other instances of similar conditions are reviewed and compared with the investigated example. The early origin of cherts is more widespread than generally assumed and a complete reconsideration of the problem of chertification is required. General description of outcrop Along Missouri Highway 79, 2.4 kilometers south of the Hannibal city limits (SE, SE., Sec. 28, T. 57 N., R. 4W., Marion County) ...
254. China's Dragon [Journals] [Pensee]
... matching the stature enjoyed by the Cross of the Church or by the Crescent of Islam (1 ). The iconographical significance is not so clear: different interpretations are given by the various authorities, so it is possible that by the time the West became acquainted with the Far East the Chinese themselves had lost all or some part of an original meaning or that they had attached other, and later, ideas. The literature on the dragon is extensive, and the only reason for adding to it is that it seems possible to recover the original meaning of the dragon as symbol. Evidence gained from pottery and from other sources indicates that the dragon motif appeared around the middle of ...
255. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... From: SIS Chronology and Catastrophism Workshop 1988 No 1 (May 1988) Home | Issue Contents Reviews Origins: Today's Science, Tomorrow's Myth (An objective study of Creationism, Evolution and Catastrophism by James E. Strickling, Jr. Published by Vantage Press, 1986 This book is an attempt to mount a critique of modern evolutionary theory and of the Creationist explanation of the past. The author does this by first outlining a number of criticisms of Darwinism, many of which have been used by Creationists. He then takes the Creationists to task by questioning their interpretations or reading of the parts of Genesis on which certain of their arguments are based. Having shown that both these ...
256. When Venus Was A Comet [Journals] [Kronos]
... appear to be totally out of proportion with respect to their celestial prominence.(1 ) It eventually became apparent that most, if not all, of the strange beliefs associated with comets could be traced to a prototypical body which dominated the skies in the not-so-distant past. Thus the ancient sources unanimously tell of a former age in which the original sun god was enclosed in a gigantic celestial band which bears all the earmarks of having been cometary in nature. According to our hypothesis, it was this celestial scenario which was commemorated by the universal symbol of the enclosed sun, most familiar as the Egyptian Aten (o ). There were, however, more surprises in store. ...
257. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Catastrophism Workshop 1992 No 2 (Jan 1993) Home | Issue Contents Society News The Autumn Meeting 1992 This was held on October 10th, once again in the comfortable venue at Nottingham. An increased audience this year was suitably rewarded for attendance by two extremely interesting and interdisciplinary lectures which dovetailed nicely together to give us some suggested explanations for the origins and causes of mythological and religious expression from Neolithic to historical man. Professor Irving Wolfe from Montreal, Canada, was originally advertised as speaking on A Catastrophic Reading of Western Cosmology' but, by one of those coincidences the Society is prone to, he had decided to work further on this subject for the 1993 conference and talked to ...
258. On the Disproportion between Geological Time and Historical Time. Part Two - of Earth, Fire and Water [Journals] [SIS Review]
... brief period by a series of massive cataclysms. Such vast layers of sedimentary rock do not resemble the gradual deposits of an ancient sea. The mineral composition of the rocks is too homogeneous, unlike the detritus at the bottom of the seas today. One naturally asks, where did the huge quantities of limestone (or whatever other rock) originally come from, if they accumulated by ordinary processes of erosion and sedimentation. What was eroded, if not the seabed itself - and where? The ordinary processes of marine erosion observed today produce nothing comparable, because the seabed is not only the product but the object of erosion, and sediments are merely recycled. As Ager puts it ...
259. The Death of Heracles [Journals] [Aeon]
... to a conclusion which is fixed in legend as a historical fact. (12) The obvious question which presents itself is what possessed a master like Sophocles to so dwell upon the agony of Heracles? And from whence did he get the inspiration for the bizarre imagery of the hero's "disease"? Greek Epic, Ritual, and the Origins of Tragedy It is well-known, of course, that the various tragedians chose their subject matter from the vast corpus of epic myths, which they then selectively molded to suit their particular purposes. (13) In the present play, for example, Sophocles adapts the traditional tale of Heracles' winning of Deianeira via his conquest of Acheloos ...
... is another "son of Kaleva," but his adventures seem to unfold separate1y,they tie up only at one point with Ilmarinen, and seem to belong to a different frame of time, to another world-age. It is time now to deal with the main line of events. The epic opens with a very poetical theory of the origin of the World. The virgin daughter of the air, Ilmatar, descends to the surface of the waters, where she remains floating for seven hundred years until Ukko, the Finnish Zeus, sends his bird to her. The bird makes its nest on the knees of Ilmatar and lays in it seven eggs, out of which the ...
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