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92 pages of results. 211. Velikovsky: The Open Minded Approach [Journals] [SIS Review]
... record. He examined the century-old principle of Lyellian uniformity by comparing its tenets with anomalous findings from all quarters of the globe: - frozen muck in Alaska that consists almost entirely of myriads of torn animals and trees; whole islands in the Arctic Sea whose soil is packed full of unfossilised bones of mammoths, rhinoceroses, and horses; unglaciated polar lands and glaciated tropical countries; coral and coal deposits near the poles; bones of animals from tundra, prairie, and rain forest intimately associated in jumbled heaps and interred in common graves; the startling youth of the world's great mountain chains; the shifted poles; reversed magnetic polarities; sudden changes in sea level all around the world ...
212. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... many of the latter's conclusions. An exhaustive review would be impossible due to the diverse nature of the contributions but a few highlights under subject headings are offered below. Mythology Familiar favourites from the pages of Kronos feature in the first four issues: David Talbott, Dwardu Cardona and Ev Cochrane. Readers are treated to further implications of the Saturnian Polar Configuration and relevant mythological identifications. The articles by Cardona are interestingly autobiographical and illustrate the development of this thought over the years. If there is an overriding theme or message from these perennially exciting, informative and insightful writers it is that the mythological record contains the undeniable facts of our celestial history and that maintaining faithfulness to these facts is ...
213. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... to people gazing up at the dark region centered around the Pole Star? Although the hypotheses of Krupp and Eliade fail to explain the unique constellation of traditions associated with the ladder-to-heaven, we can agree that they were right to seek a celestial prototype. How, then, are we to understand the ladder-to-heaven if not by reference to the familiar polar axis or Milky Way? The Ladder to the Sun Traditions reporting that ascent along the ladder leads to the house of the Sun are of paramount importance in understanding the nature of the mythical motif in question. We have already encountered this belief in South America, yet it is hardly confined to that continent. Similar traditions will be found ...
214. In Early Ages. Ch.13 Collapsing Schemes (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... freshwater animals preserved in the Devonian rocks of the two regions, "which are so much alike on both sides of the Atlantic that it seems clear they were free to migrate across an easy land bridge." In the Carboniferous period mountains were made, seas invaded land, corals built reefs on the arctic coast of Alaska and on the polar islands of Spitsbergen, volcanoes erupted, and glaciation took place, especially in Australia. Land animals left their records beside those of rich marine life. Coal beds were formed. In the coal basins of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick "the coal measures reach a thickness of a few thousand to 13 000 feet." Extensive continental glaciation ...
215. The Problem Of The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... critics, with Asimov, studiously ignore or brush aside. But even in Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky discussed the extinction of the mammoths and the change in climate that accompanied this catastrophe. "The sudden extermination of mammoths was caused by a catastrophe and probably resulted from asphyxiation or electrocution. The immediately subsequent movement of the Siberian continent into the polar region is probably responsible for the preservation of the corpses. "It appears that the mammoths, along with other animals, were killed by a tempest of gases accompanied by a spontaneous lack of oxygen caused by fires raging high in the atmosphere. A few instances later their dying or dead bodies were moving into the polar circle. In ...
216. Ice Core Evidence [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... actually have to deal with the subtleties of the ice cores. To begin with, there is far too much mixing of gases, over time, to allow for Ellenberger's simplistic assumption. I refer the reader, for example, to the December 23, 1988, issue of Science and the article "Gravitational Separation of Gases and Isotopes in Polar Ice Caps," by H. Craig, Y. Horibe and T. Sowers, pp. 1675ff. What will be absolutely clear to the objective reader of this article is that the atmospheric gases left in deposited layers [of snow] do not remain in those layers. Rather, due to gravity, they are diffused downward ...
217. The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet by Graham Hancock [Journals] [Aeon]
... of Khufu) when at the meridian, while the south vent of the Queen's Chamber- if opened to the exterior- would have pointed toward Sirius, the star of Isis. And, based on these measurements, it is conjectured that the north vent of the Queen's Chamber- when its position is finally ascertained- would have centered on polar Kochab (beta Ursa Minoris) when it was at its meridian zenith at the moment that Alnitak appeared on the eastern horizon. [4 ] If the mythic memory of mankind sensibly extends back to the end of the last ice age, the age of Leo, Hancock argues that during that time a celestial battle played out with a ...
218. Focus [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... our old friend the greenhouse effect is brought in as a possible explanation. The fossil sites show a mixture of early Tertiary swamp forests and the later Tertiary floras which are typical of boreal forests today; this is interpreted by some as indicating that the swamps somehow held out for a long time while the global climate gradually changed, chilling the polar regions and drying the interior of the North American continent. By 15 million years ago boreal forest was established throughout the high latitudes but three million years ago the great ice sheets of the ice age began and the area has been frozen ever since. Two researchers, however, have formed a different theory to account for the mix of ...
219. Thoth Vol I, No. 14: May 21, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... back issues.- In this investigation we will see that many threads of evidence lead to the same unified conclusions. In preceding segments we have reviewed these unexplained associations- € Helios as Saturn; Helios as central sun, and Helios as axis of the celestial revolutions. € Assyrian Shamash as Saturn, Shamash as central sun, Shamash at the polar "midst" and "zenith." € Egyptian Atum-Ra as central sun, Atum-Ra as Saturn, Atum-Ra atop the world pole. There is a way to test the integrity of the ancient ideas we have reviewed. Are there any independent astronomical traditions enigmatically connecting the outermost visible planet to the celestial pole? This would be particularly significant ...
220. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... an unlikely event, moreover he then would not use descriptions such as "stars fell like rain" (ibid., p. 228), for other stars on the opposite horizon would simultaneously be "rising like rockets". An observer resident in the middle latitudes, accustomed to checking the direction of North or South by observation of polar stars, might have the best chance of deducing an inversion of the poles; the polar stars he knew previously would have disappeared out of the sky, but he should eventually have been able to satisfy himself that they had slipped under the horizon, with identification of the part of the horizon concerned, and this might lead him to ...
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