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55 pages of results. 241. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... explodes internally. Gases building up from a rising plume of molten magma could eventually create so much pressure that it finally bursts through an area of continental crust, blasting out rocks which could fall to Earth and cause the same sort of catastrophic damage that objects from space are credited with. The Deccan traps could be the site of one such ... several species of whale as early as 6000 BC An article by Paul Devereaux suggests that cave paintings were associated with special acoustic effects and over in southern India a huge rock art site shows evidence that depressions in boulders were designed to be struck to produce musical sounds. Many of the motifs at this Neolithic site were of cattle. Pits have ...
242. A Personal Report on, and Irreverent Look at, the World Conference 'Planetary Violence in Human History' Portland, Oregon, January 3-5, 1997 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... an objective standard by which to evaluate ancient tales. For example, both the Mayas and Babylonians worshipped Venus; their records need to be compared. He showed examples of rock art from North America depicting the Sun with an eye and a picture from Val Camonica in the Italian Alps with the sun set upon a pillar. In Babylonian images ... compiled a list of over 100 firsts' for it, including the wheel, the calendar, the measurement of time, the division of the circle, the hours, art, singing, music, dance, sculpture, brick, the kiln, courts of law, etc. Sumerian geometric shapes anticipated Greek mathematicians by thousands of years. ...
243. The Great Father [Books]
... world" from the giant's body- "from his blood the sea and lakes, from his flesh the earth, from his bones the mountains." His teeth become rocks and pebbles, his skull the sky, and his brains the clouds. The sparks and burning embers produced by his dismemberment become the stars. (27) Compare ... epoch of peace and plenty was the Universal Monarch, who founded temples and cities and taught humanity the principles of agriculture, law, writing, music, and other civilized arts. This Golden Age, however, ended in the god-king's catastrophic death. What is most puzzling to modern commentators is that the king of the world, "ruling ...
244. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Pensee]
... were not persuaded by that firebrand, Giordano Bruno, of the truth of the Copernican doctrine. Even much less man wishes to face the fact that he travels on a rock in space on a path that proved to be accident prone. The victory of Darwin's evolution by natural selection over a six-day creation less than six thousand years ago made ... , Assyrian, Babylonian, Hitto-Chaldean, Israelite and Egyptian records; the Etruscan, Attic and Roman theogonies and philosophies; Scandinavian and Icelandic epics; Mayan, Toltec and Olmec art and legends- all, with no exception, were dominated by the knowledge of events and circumstances that only the most brazen attitude of science could so completely disregard. ...
245. My Challenge to Conventional Views in Science [Journals] [Kronos]
... were not persuaded by that firebrand, Giordano Bruno, of the truth of the Copernican doctrine. Even much less man wishes to face the fact that he travels on a rock in space on a path that proved to be accident-prone. The victory of Darwin's evolution by natural selection over a six-day creation less than six thousand years ago made it ... , Assyrian, Babylonian, Hitto-Chaldean, Israelite and Egyptian records; the Etruscan, Attic and Roman theogonies and philosophies; Scandinavian and Icelandic epics; Mayan, Toltec and Olmec art and legends- all, with no exception, were dominated by the knowledge of events and circumstances that only the most brazen attitude of science could so completely disregard. The ...
246. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... sockets are moved forward, making for energy efficient long distance walking or running. Two Australian puzzles Echoes of the Dreamtime by Ainslie Roberts, pp. 56 and 114 Owl rock, 300km NW of Alice Springs, is an unexplained wedge of stone more than 10 metres high and balanced on a very narrow base. Although the surrounding strata are ... nearly 7000 stars could be seen scattered across the centre, proving that no black hole exists. How long before astronomers give up this extraordinary belief in science fiction? Hallucinogenic art New Scientist 8.6 .91, pp. 30-34 The representational art from European caves in the Upper Palaeolithic, between 35,000 and 10,000 years ...
247. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... within one million years and even during that period extremely violent episodes may have occurred separated by long periods of quiescence. Such vast outpourings (one near Java contains enough igneous rock to cover the US with 5 metres of basalt and would have elevated sea levels by 10 metres) may have drastically affected the oceans and atmosphere, leading to environmental ... . The surrounding buildings lay symmetrically along an axis 8 degrees west of north, a common orientation for Olmec sites. Here they seem to have buried their monumental works of art almost as soon as they had made them. The site was abandoned by 400 BC. In 1986 an 8 foot high stela was discovered, bearing a carving of ...
248. Chapter 17 Corroboration, Convergence, Analysis [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... M.: "Sphinx Links," Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 1 (Jan/Feb 1995) Schoch, Robert M.: Voices of the Rocks (NY 1999) Schoch, Robert M.: Voyages of the Pyramid Builders (NY 2003) Schultz, Gwen: The Ice Age Lost (NY 1974) ... . (London 1998) Archaeology, The Oxford Companion to: Brian Fagan, ed. (NY 1996) Artamonov, M.I .: The Splendor of Scythian Art (NY 1959) Artzy, Michal and Hillel, Daniel: "A Defense of the Theory of Progressive Soil Salinization in Ancient Southern Mesopotamia," Geoarchaeology, An ...
249. From the Death of Saul to the Death of David [Books]
... tricks of his enemies; yet will he leave his own soldiers in the evening, and will either hide himself in some valley, or will place an ambush at some rock; so that when our army joins battle with him, his soldiers will retire for a little while, but will come upon us again, as encouraged by the ... Abner, and would not turn in the least out of the straight way, either to the one side or to the other. Hereupon Abner turned back, and attempted artfully to avoid his violence. Sometimes he bade him leave off the pursuit, and take the armor of one of his soldiers; and sometimes, when he could not ...
250. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Pole Star [Books]
... of that system was Sirius. His notion was that all the elements or the Milky-Way system of the stellar Universe should tend in a common fall towards this foundation-stone or fundamental rock, as to which Wright of Durham (in his An Original Theory of the Universe: London, 1750) had, as Kant records, been in front or ... the preparations for archaic animal-sacrifice in the Satapatha brahmana 82a priest " sews the hurdles to the four doorposts with cord, by means of a wooden pin. With ' Thou art Vishnu's Dhruvah, ' he then makes a knot lest it should fall asunder." The gloss to dhruvah here is "the firm one? the pole-star?" ...
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