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92 pages of results. 351. Indra's Theft of the Sun-God's Wheel [Journals] [Aeon]
... together with his wagon, the latter called margidda su. (120) In Babylonian astrological lore, however, the planet Venus was called margidda, "wagon, or van". (121) Although during its phase as the "pupil of the eye" Mars appeared in relative close proximity to Venus, it periodically descended along the polar axis, whereupon it assumed a position ominously close to the planet Earth. It was during this latter phase that Mars presented the appearance of a giant upholding heaven, or of an immense polar column spanning the skies. It is to this scenario, apparently, that traditions identifying Indra as an Atlas-like figure properly relate. (122) ...
352. The Not So Stable Sun [Journals] [Kronos]
... recognized, but the connection of the solar atmospheric phenomena to the energy-generating process of the Sun is not generally recognized. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Charles Poor published a series of papers on the figure of the Sun.(50) He concluded that the Sun's shape was non-spherical and variable, albeit the differences between the polar and equatorial radii were probably not more than 0".25.(51) The ratio between the Sun's polar and equatorial radii is variable, with a period of variability following that of the sunspots. As the sunspot number decreases, the equatorial radius of the Sun decreases relative to the polar radius. As the sunspot number increases ...
353. The Argive Tyrants, Part 2 Mars Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... about this description of the position of the Great Bear wrote: "There was no mythological reason why the Wain- otherwise known as the Great Bear-should not be bathed in the Ocean."3 But Seneca said precisely this strange thing: the Great Bear- or one of its stars- never set beneath the horizon, and thus the polar star was among its stars during the age that came to its end in the time of the Argive tyrants. Seneca also says explicitly that the poles were torn up in this cataclysm. The polar axis now is turned toward one of the stars, the North Star, of the Little Bear. In the face of the cataclysm, ...
354. News from the Internet [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of plasma. Although plasma physicists saw completely novel and unintelligible things happening in their test tubes as well as the deepest corners of space plasma once was a familiar occurrence here on earth. Just a few thousand years ago, towards the onset of civilisation, plasma controlled the entire firmament. At that time the auroras were not confined to the polar regions, but were visible all the way down to the equator, being endlessly more powerful and extensive than at present. As the earth went through an exceptionally unstable period in her existence from an electromagnetic point of view, all of mankind witnessed the development of a plasma column under strong electrical current. The size of this plasma column ...
355. Venus In The Folklore Of The Indians, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... .... When the time comes for the ending of the world, the stars will again fall to the earth." In this narrative of the Pawnee Indians, elements are brought together which, as we know now, actually belong together. The planet Venus established the present order on the earth and placed the north and south polar stars in their places. The Pawnee believe that the future destruction of the world depends on the planet Venus. When the end of the world will come, the North and South poles will change places. In the past the South Star left its place a few times and came up higher, bringing about a shifting of the poles ...
356. A World with One Season: Part II [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... rings. Some tropical trees do not grow rings, some grow 3 or 4 rings per season. In the dry season, rings may be missing. What all this shows is that tree rings are not determined by seasons, but by water and growing periods. How did proto-Saturn warm its southern pole as effectively as it warmed the north polar region? One possibility is a large enveloping atmosphere... but this might hinder man's view of proto-Saturn (although maybe there was a hole in the atmosphere). In 1976, Ralph Juergens suggested that the proto-Saturnian system may have been surrounded by a plasma-sheath [Dec 19, 1976, private communiqué]. In 1981, Roger ...
357. The Birth and Odyssey of Halley's Comet: From 2484 B.C. to the Present Time [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... /21 locations. Mars had a 720-day orbit then, while Earth's was 360 days. (The two planets were in 2:1 orbital resonance.) It was essential to understand this in order to understand the source of the Earth's geomagnetic field. Mars' flybys were the collective generator of the field and were the cause of Earth's polar (magnetic) reversals. Since the ancient Mars flybys have ceased, the Earth no longer has a generator and, quite logically, its field is decaying at a rate of 4.5 percent per century. Recently, this same catastrophic theory was invoked to explain the sudden and turbid rivers that Mars once experienced. We have long ...
358. Ice Ages, Prologue Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... the future reader of earth's riddles."(1 ) Not only are the causes of the appearance and later disappearance of the glacial sheet unknown, but the geographical shape of the area covered by ice is also a problem. Why did the glacial sheet, in the southern hemisphere, move from the tropical regions of Africa toward the south polar region and not in the opposite direction, and, similarly, why, in the northern hemisphere, did the ice move in India from the equator toward the Himalaya mountains and the higher latitudes? Why did the glaciers of the Ice Age cover the greater part of North America and Europe, while the north of Asia remained free? ...
359. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... The following report has been received from David Fairbairn, convenor of the Glasgow Study Group: "Scots S.I .S . members and friends met on 21st June to discuss the Warlow paper in a recent issue of the REVIEW. A lot of discussion concerned the clarification of the mechanism of reversal itself. It was explained that the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field was related to the direction of spin, and since this did not change, the magnetic polarity would not change. Dr. Fermor, who has expert knowledge of climate, suggested that a search could be made for evidence of climate changes in countries bordering oceans. He gave the North Eastern Seabord of North ...
360. Arctic Muck [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... by Adolph Erman. "This is one of those phenomena which were formerly thought to be confined to a narrow locality, but are now recurring in all parts of the globe. The attempt to explain them [by gradualism], however, is not thereby rendered more easy, for the explanation must apply equally to the coasts of the Polar Sea [the Arctic Ocean and south to] the region of the Ohio, and, besides to all the valleys in the plains of Europe, Northern Asia, and America, with hardly any exception.129 In addition to muck located in circumpolar regions, I recently learned of large sand deposits that overlie muck which are, in ...
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