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76 pages of results. 321. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... events and not mere fantasy. The Quest for the Ark of the Covenant: The True History of the Tablets of Moses – by Stuart Monro-Hay. I B Tauris. £19.50. Yet another book which claims to answer all the mysteries of the Ark and its whereabouts, relying heavily on the Ethiopian connection. Climate Change in Prehistory – by William J. Burroughs. Cambridge UP. £19.99 A climate history from the last ice age until 10,000 years ago, and human adaptations to it. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom – by Sean B. Carroll. W.W ...
322. A new synthesis: Prolegomena (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... experiences. Indeed, these myths never tell of anything which is not geophysically and humanly possible. If this is really so-and what other explanation is possible? -then the cosmological myths provide us with a magic keyhole through which we can catch authentic glimpses of a world that existed long ago. The traditions of mankind are of the nature of factual prehistoric records. A comparison with Hoerbiger's theory shows there is no need to decry the `accuracy' of these reports. Though they were transmitted by word of mouth over vast gulfs of time they surely are in no way less `accurate' than historical writing in general is nowadays. Thus in the Atlantis myth, I contend, there ...
323. Dragon-Slayers (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... myth, is the fact that none of these monsters may continue its ravages with impunity for any length of time. Every dragon has George. And the fight of the hero of light with the terror of ancient night is the glorious theme of many eternal tales. The Indians and Iranians have many myths in common, a reminder of a prehistoric time when the tribes were much more closely united than by mere ties of language. One of the most striking is that which describes the fight of a sun god with a terrible monster of dragon or serpent form. In Indian mythology the god Trita who conquers the dragon Ahi; the Iranians tell of the battle of Thraçtaona with the ...
324. The Obliteration of Human Signs [Books] [de Grazia books]
... it that your accuse me of something for which I am not accountable? You ask me to provide records of an event whose great force was exercised precisely in the destruction of those records? Does this not make our scores even?" Both feel frustrated, but perhaps become a little more sympathetic, too. Nearly every work dealing with prehistory and antiquity must lament the paucity of evidence. If there is pride in this study, it comes from having made so much out of so little- a jaw fragment, an arrowhead, a doll, an artificial pile of stones, etc. Under evolutionary primevalogy, there seems to be little need to build lament into a missa ...
325. Ancient Astronauts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... been buried or destroyed. Moreover, the idea is eclectic. Much of the material that finds its way into the writings about "ancient astronauts" consist of exotica (" Did you know that...?" and "Believe it or not, but..."), or of questions aimed at needling archaeologists and prehistorians about their many anomalies, oversights and unknowns. Catastrophists and uniformitarians alike usually reject the theory indignantly. Von Daniken himself is excoriated for his meanderings, his lack of logic, pretentiousness, vagueness, unscholarly innuendos, and profit-taking in the market of ideas. Still it seems odd that scientists such as C. Sagan, who earned fame ...
326. Legends and Scripture [Books] [de Grazia books]
... myth and legend. He, too, fulminated at those who dismissed or, worse, corrupted history by their misuse of legends. In my skeptically minded exploration of the story of the destruction of Atlantis, the attitude of Plato mitigated my doubts. Plato goes out of his way to insist that the story be taken seriously, despite its prehistoric origins. Critias, his protagonist, is given to claim repeatedly that he heard and learned the story from his grandfather as a true and exact account. Significantly, to a modern mnemologist, Critias declared that although he had forgotten much of what he had heard of the previous day's discussions, he had forgotten none of what he had ...
327. The Saturn Thesis: Questions and Answers [Journals] [Aeon]
... witnessed by man not all that long ago. What do you mean by the statement that the planets appeared as "gigantic bodies in the sky?" At the core of the argument is the idea that several planets were once joined in a spectacular gathering of planets, together with gases and dust, smaller moons and cosmic debris. For prehistoric man- who witnessed all of this- the effect was a massive celestial display in the northern sky. I've called this celestial assembly "the polar configuration" because in its stable phases it was centered on the north celestial pole. In the beginning, the primary form was the planet Saturn, stationary but immense in the sky. ...
328. Editor's Page [Journals] [Aeon]
... on the way from the airport that Peiser first informed us of the above revelation. He also told us, however, that while astronomers had come around to seriously consider terrestrial catastrophism as having possibly been caused by asteroidal and cometary impacts, they were still adamant in their denial concerning the possibility of planetary catastrophism within the historical, and man's prehistoric, past. Not only that, Peiser, who seems to have no use for planetary catastrophism himself, also warned us that the persistence of belief in planetary "billiards" can only prove a hindrance to the eventual acceptance of cosmic catastrophism. Peiser sees this face-about by astronomers and their allies as a positive step forward. As I ...
329. In Memoriam: Roger Williams Wescott [Journals] [Aeon]
... the scholarly world at large and the Velikovsky camp in particular. A true polymath, Professor Wescott was a voracious reader and prolific author whose published works numbered in the hundreds. Equally at home in the fields of linguistics and anthropology, Professor Wescott was also eminently capable when it came to dealing with the subjects of catastrophism, myth, and prehistory. He was a consummate academician who founded various departments and programs along with serving as an officer or editor for several distinguished organizations. His penultimate work, Predicting the Past, appeared only four months prior to his death and serves as a summation of a lifetime's work regarding the disciplines mentioned above. In the words of Richard Heinberg, ...
330. Saturn's Sacred Mountain [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... datum in the above model that Velikovsky adhered to, and which in in fact originated with him, was that Saturn turned "nova" at the time of the Deluge. [3 ] That the planet was in a fixed position in Earth's north polar sky and that Jupiter was hidden behind it was something he entirely disbelieved. Saturn's age-long prehistoric immobility in Earth's northern sky, as reconstructed from the content of ancient universal lore, is a postulate that is common to both Talbott's model and mine. This discovery, however, had been published earlier by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend who, baffled by such a bizarre astronomical configuration, dubbed it impossible and relegated it to ...
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