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225 pages of results. 211. THE YOUTHFUL ATMOSPHERE OF VENUS [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon I:6 (1988) Home | Issue Contents The Youthful Atmosphere Of Venus Charles Ginenthal In Worlds in Collision Immanuel Velikovsky claimed that Venus is a new planet.(1 ) Analysing mythological and historical evidence, Velikovsky concluded that less than ten thousand years ago Venus was expelled from the gas giant Jupiter, roamed the solar system as a comet, nearly collided with the Earth around 1500 B.C ., and only later settled into its present, highly circular orbit. While subsequent research by other catastrophists has raised questions about certain specifics of Velikovsky's theory, this research has, on the whole, only reinforced Velikovsky's original and most fundamental claim that Venus ...
212. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... atmosphere and exhale carbon dioxide in a benign symbiotic relationship. Earth has a thin lithosphere of about 40 km thickness of low density silicates underlying the oceans or rising above them as islands and continents. The lithospheric density is about the same as the density of the Moon as a whole, but Earth in its entirety is the densest of all planets. Surface strata have been worked over many times due to violent tectonic motions and remanent magnetism in surface rocks sometimes lines up with Earth's magnetic field and sometimes does not. Non-Uniform Processes Earth has a triaxial spheroidal shape like some satellites of gas giant type planets and many asteroids, and this may be an indication of a planetary past never ...
213. The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg [Journals] [Aeon]
... collated from various snippets of Egyptian liturgy and somewhat tainted by the mythologist's philosophical rendering, we nonetheless recognize some of the motifs we had encountered and explained in an earlier article. (3 ) We had there shown that man's earliest memory goes back to a time during which the sky seems to have been dominated by the close proximity of the planet Saturn, which glowed feebly in a darkened heaven through a nebular cloud which bore a shimmering likeness to a celestial ocean. Sun, Moon, and stars do not seem to have been visible while the cycle of day and night seems to have been unknown. It seems to have been out of this celestial apparition that the cosmic egg ...
214. The End, Part 2 Mars Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... comparison with Mars; and judged by the state of civilization at which mankind has arrived, conditions for life processes have been improved in some respects. But if events of this kind happened in the past, they may happen again in the future, with perhaps a different - fatal- result. The earth has come in contact with other planets and comets. At present no planet has a course that endangers the earth, and only a few asteroids- mere rocks, a few kilometres in diameter- have orbits that cross the path of the earth. This was disco vered, to the amazement of scholars, only recently. But in the solar system there exists a possibility ...
215. He Who Shines by Day [Books] [de Grazia books]
... woman when he lives in the court of Omphale, Queen of Libya. More strikingly there is the beautiful Aphrodite who sports a beard as the so-called Cyprian Aphrodite. A major role is intended. In the Love Affair, there is only one such role for her that is logical: that is Hephaestus. Athena, the goddess of the Planet Venus is Hephaestus, also the planet Venus. No one appears to have said so, but the evidence is strong to that effect. Velikovsky and the scholars associated with him have presented evidence that Pallas Athene was the god of the planet Venus, that the planet appeared in the sky sometime before 1500 B.C ., that ...
216. On Models and Scenarios [Journals] [Aeon]
... - the story of the overwhelming of that celestial land in a "world-destroying" cataclysm. Alongside these elementary principles of the theory must be included: The presence of Venus as a spiraling comet- the old sun god's beard or sidelock; the position of the warrior-hero Mars at the apex of the polar column; the original position of the planet Jupiter behind Saturn. These essential ideas, to which numerous details must be added, constitute the foundation of an original and now-comprehensive theory of myth. It should be obvious, however, that others now contributing to the discussion are not bound by the confines of my own model, and many variations on the theme of the polar configuration ...
217. Response to Critique by Leroy Ellenberger [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... forum by Catastrophism and Ancient History and its editor. Mr. Ellenberger's objections and my defense of planetary catastrophism are here elevated from private correspondence to public debate. Second, I wish to express appreciation to my support group. My expertise is primarily in geography, and secondarily in history and astronomy. However, even in the realm of the planets and in history I think like a geographer, with a mind-set to analyze location, not dynamics, equations, mathematics, or motion. My support group includes Alfred Braithwaite (physics and mathematics), Ronald Hatch (physics and orbital mechanics), Jerry Redfern (science consultant), Loren Steinhauer (physics and mathematics), and ...
218. Thoth Vol III, No. 2: Jan 31, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... over a few of Piet Hein's neatly drawn lines. In order to solve the equations of motion, a few simplifying assumptions had to be made: The Earth's orbit was made circular. SOHO was made massless. The coordinate system was put into rotation. These assumptions were stated, but others weren't: The Moon (and all the other planets) were ignored. The Earth and Sun were made dimensionless points. Those are the kind of "of course" assumptions that are easily recalled. But there are more subtle- and more pernicious-ones: That the underlying theory is a law that's universal and ahistorical. That there are no consequences to our unawareness of the vast ignorance we ...
219. Heracles as Cross-Dresser [Journals] [Aeon]
... sacred duties. Similarly at the vernal mysteries of Hercules in Rome the men were draped in the garments of women." [13] With Frazer we would understand Omphale as but a historicized version of the great Asiatic goddess, the most famous example of which was known as Inanna or Ishtar. The Sumerian Inanna, explicitly identified with the planet Venus and known as the Queen of Heaven, plays a prominent role in the earliest attested examples of the so-called sacred marriage rite. It is our opinion that this archaic ritual, believed to rejuvenate the king and ensure fertility throughout the land, offers a decisive key to understanding the traditions surrounding Heracles' transvestism. The Sacred Marriage Rite ...
... ), pp. 359-60 Science writers, if they do it well, both inform and entertain, but the task of informing is primary. They must under no circumstances, misinform. If they do, their work is worthless and even harmful-A the more worthless and harmfiW if it is entertaining and attracts readers. ' Isaac Asimov, The Planets, (1985), p. 20 An Improbable Tale Some forty years ago, Immanuel Velikovsky triggered a venomous scientific controversy when he claimed that, within the past few thousand years, errant planets have nearly destroyed life on Earth. Though his book, Worlds in Collision, was highly successful commercially (becoming a number-one best seller in ...
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