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225 pages of results. 281. The Celestial Harmony, Prologue Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... The moon circles around the earth, changing its phases- crescent, full, decrescent. The terrestrial axis points in the direction of the polar star. After winter comes spring, then summer and fall. These are common facts. Are they invariable laws? Must it be so forever? Was it so always? The sun has nine planets. Mercury has no satellites; Venus has no satellites; the earth has a moon; Mars has two small trabants, mere pieces of rock, and one of them completes its month before Mars ends its day; Jupiter has eleven moons and eleven different kinds of months to count; Saturn has nine moons, Uranus has five moons ...
282. Sagan's second problem: Repeated collisions among the Earth, Venus and Mars (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... I An Improbable Tale The Historical Evidence Velikovsky's theory Part II Sagan's Problems First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eight Nine Ten Problems Appendices Conclusion Sagan's second problem: Repeated collisions among the Earth, Venus and Mars "Most short period comets may have achieved their orbits by multiple gravitational encounters with Jupiter, or even by multiple encounters with more distant planets and eventually, with Jupiter itself." Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Comet, (NY 1986) pp. 95-96. 30 thousand, 10 million, 30 million Before dealing with this problem in its printed form in Scientists Confront Velikovsky and Broca's Brain, it seems proper to relate the process by which Sagan derived the figures of ...
283. The Primordial Light? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Review Vol II No 2 (Dec 1977) Home | Issue Contents The Primordial Light?Harold Tresman & B. O'Gheoghan Harold Tresman, a Home Counties businessman, is co-founder and founding Chairman Of the Society; Mr O'Gheoghan is a professional physician. The planet Saturn, "encircled with A RING, donned of SERPENTS", a plate in Vol. VII of "Indian Antiquities" by Thomas Maurice (London, 1800). Testimony for the serpent motif in ancient cosmologies - and for an early knowledge of the rings? What is the reality behind Saturn's place as the original deity in cosmogonic myth? What is the significance of the "Golden Age ...
284. The "Bulk Chemistries" of Venus and Jupiter [Journals] [Kronos]
... . . consider the bulk composition of Venus. From its mean density alone, which is nearly the same as that of the Earth, it is clear that Venus must be composed of refractory or rocky materials with the addition of a metallic component. But such a composition is entirely at odds with the known chemistry and structure of the Jovian planets. Jupiter, with a mean density only one quarter that of Venus, has a composition of basically the solar sort, with the bulk of its material made of hydrogen and helium, which together account for at least 90% of the mass of Jupiter. The amount of rocky and metallic material in Jupiter today is no more than ...
285. Planetary Identities: II The Mythology of Homer [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , that the majority of the world's major deities were all personifications of the sky. On the other hand, using the meaning of the name alone, one should be allowed to deduce that, since a whole series of related words in the various languages of the Indo-European family' is also used to denote such items as stars' and planets', it can safely be inferred that Zeus was called "the Bright One" ' because he was the god of one of them: ergo - Zeus personified one of the planets. But am I so naive as to rely on such slim evidence? While the Bright One' accords well with Zeus's identification as the planet Jupiter ...
286. Samson Revealed [Journals] [Aeon]
... looking to the heavens for the origins of ancient myth. Even Payne-Gaposchkin acknowledges "their point that a keen perception of the heavenly bodies was a factor in the genesis of ancient myth." (20) Perhaps the most significant insight of Hamlet's Mill is the claim that the central characters of ancient myth are to be identified with the respective planets: "The real actors on the stage of the universe are very few, if their adventures are many. The most ancient treasure'- in Aristotle's word- that was left to us by our predecessors of the High and Far-Off Times was the idea that the gods are really stars, and that there are no others. The ...
287. Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion [advert] [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon V:2 (Apr 1998) Home | Issue Contents Advertisement Martian Metamorphoses: The Planet Mars in Ancient Myth and Religion by Ev Cochrane STILL AVAILABLE Earthlings have long been fascinated by the planet Mars. Well before modern science fiction speculated about advanced civilizations upon Mars and the dire threat of invasion by little green men, the red planet was regarded as a malevolent agent of war, pestilence, and apocalyptic disaster. In an attempt to appease the capricious planet-god, various ancient cultures offered it human sacrifices. What is there about this distant speck of light in the night sky that could have inspired such bizarre conceptions culminating in ritual murder? And how do we ...
288. Planetary Observations of the T'ang [Articles]
... related to how the Sun and the stars shine, or procure their energy. These forces seem to appear sporadically, present either manifestly or implicitly during episodes of celestial anomaly. A certain class of these anomalies includes cases of conventionally inexplicable planetary observations. Assuming the credibility of these observations (and admittedly such an assumption is crucial) by retrocalculation planets appear so far out of their wonted spots, that new forces must be invoked to explain the phenomenon. Surprisingly, I have found that planetary positional anomalies are not as rare as I had thought them to be; rather, they often appear in the literature with more uniformitarily acceptable observations. However, while the latter are enthusiastically accepted ...
289. Hoerbiger's Theory [Books]
... theories which have offered to explain, or which have declined to explain, the various myths in the Book of Genesis. I shall instead offer only the interpretation of the cosmogonic myths at the beginning of the Bible which is made possible by an interesting new theory of the life history of the Earth, Hoerbiger's teachings regarding the satellites of our planet. This theory has been used to form the basis of a new school of explanatory mythology. The chief representatives of this school are the German mythologists, Hans Fischer and Georg Hinzpeter, who elaborated foundations laid by the, Austrian scientist, Hans Hoerbiger, and the German astronomer, Phillip Fauth. I myself, a student of mythology ...
290. The Capture of Luna (Life History of Our Earth) [Books]
... . For man, very definitely, lived through the Tertiary period, and fully as homo sapiens, too. The terrestrial axis had been reared up to a practically vertical position relative to the ecliptic by the close satellite which had revolved round our Earth practically in the ecliptical plane. The ecliptic is the plane of the terrestrial orbit. Every planet has an ecliptic' of its own, that is to say, its orbital plane deviates more or less from the Earth's. This tilt of the planetary orbital planes, relative, let us say, to the direction of the translatory movement in space of our Sun (to have a fixed term of reference), is individual for ...
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