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55 pages of results. 271. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... around the world. The Figured landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Picture in Place – Christopher Chippindale and George Nash. Cambridge. £24.99 New ways of investigating rock art from around the world. In Search of King Solomon's Mines- Tahir Shah. John Murray. £17.99 Legends, folklore and the Bible lead the ... on a journey through Ethiopia to the ancient land of Ophir. The following books are obtainable from the Sourcebook Project', PO Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057, USA. Sterling cheques payable to William R. Corliss' at the prevailing rate of exchange. Add on postage of US $1 .50 per book for USA ...
272. Eden's Flaming Sword by Isaac Vail [Books]
... all through the antedilivian period of more than two thousand years, a vapor heaven was rolling around the earth. Every feature of the great deluge forces us back upon this rock. The immortal declaration that it rained forty days and forty nights is no stretch of terms when, in scribed on God's page of rock, I read of many ... in check by Eden's vapor roof, secured long life to Eden's inmates, but at the very time Eden's physical change began, Eden's roof was changing too, and as art inevitable result solar power was growing. If sun power, held in check, made Eden's scene of rest and inactivity, then sun power let loose upon the earth ...
273. Homo Schizo -- the Catastrophic Evolution of Man [Articles]
... straggles about, the large animals hardly disturb them for they put on a brave front, screeching and gesticulating, baring small teeth, dodging adeptly. They are tree and rock climbers and swamp floppers. They are in effect too much of a nuisance to bother with, and not tasty to eat. That's my Hominid X, and it ... fight more than flight, so it communicates the sign of power and authority. As the batons of upper Palaeolithic man evidence, the club converts readily to a work of art, employing symbolism of lines, geometry, living things, carved depictions of the phallus. The club reaches into the sky to connect with shooting stars and comets as ...
274. Velikovsky & Saturnists & the Gods [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... : (1 ) impossible scenarios described in ancient astronomical texts (Mars being described as the agent of eclipses of the sun, for example); (2 ) ancient rock art depicting planets/suns in impossible positions (Venus being depicted set within the crescent of Sin, the latter conventionally identified with the Moon); (3 ) ... from ancient language impossible to reconcile with the current order of the solar system (see Talbott's The Saturn Myth for numerous examples); (4 ) the inordinate role played by the planets in ancient myth and religion, a testament to their decisive influence in ancient consciousness. Thompson's post continues: "these notions absolutely require that the behaviour of ...
275. The Sibylline Oracles [Books]
... Asia † ; truly groaning and endless blood shall be thy portion. 440 From thy peaks, Kragos, high mountain of Lycia, water shall gush out, when thy rocks split asunder, until it put an end to the oracular signs of Patara. Cyzicus, dweller on vine-clad Propontis, Rhyndacus shall dash his stream about thee in a ... by a stream of forgeries, a stream which continued to flow down to the nineteenth century.60 Of the mediaeval Sibyls and of the place of the Sibyl in Christian art this is not the place to write. Nor can we follow the traces of the Sibyl in the East. What one would like to know is how it came ...
276. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... are undeniably curious bodies. Compared to the inner planets (Mars, Venus, Mercury and Earth) they are colossal in size, and composed largely of gases rather than rock. Saturn is 764 times the size of the Earth, yet its mass is only 95 times greater. In fact Saturn is apparently so diffuse that it would float ... am using conventional archaeological dates here for convenience.) It was followed, of course, by the Iron Age. Iron requires extremely high temperatures to melt, so the art of working it into useable tools arrived last of all. So in their choice of metals to represent the successive Ages of mankind the Greeks (or whoever devised this ...
... . However, one scientist of little faith started, in the early 1960's, to review this work. Also, with modern equipment,he examined thousands of radio-halos in rocks from all parts of the world. Almost immediately, he discovered that too much faith and not enough science had gone into the early work, and all was not ... the museum had none from the Dynasties in question, so the circular attempts at obtaining samples began. A friend of Velikovsky asked William C. Hayes, Curator of Egyptian Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whether carbon dating had been done on objects from certain Dynasties of the New Kingdom. The reply was that in the light of ...
278. Afterword [Journals] [Kronos]
... . MULHOLLAND Two astronomers confronted me on the panel: Professor J. Derral Mulholland, whose field is celestial mechanics, and Professor Sagan, whose field is planetary atmospheres, rock compositions, and biological conditions. Mulholland said: .. . the celestial mechanics of Newton and Newcomb are no longer the ultimate measure. The celestial mechanics of 1974 ... misled by the simplistic theory that 360-day years were merely convenient approximations. Sagan moves to cave paintings (where he finds only a picture of a supernova) and to ancient art generally and asks: "If the Velikovskian catastrophes occurred, why are there no contemporary graphic records of them?" As a novice in the field, Sagan should ...
279. Monitor. C&C Review 2002:1 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... .01, p. 13, New York Times 6.9 .01, National Geographic Aug 01, p. 110 We have reported examples before of newly found rocks, fossils and artefacts breaking the age record. Here are some more and note that they always become older, not younger, yet it does not appear to make ... of the ice age' - but see The Extinction of the Mammoth reviewed elsewhere in this edition.) Around the same time it is alleged that people were painting exquisite art in a French cave. Carbon dating indicates the art work is over 10,000 years older than the more primitive art of Lascaux and Altamira. This is rather ...
280. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ). And successful deductions about the Moon: Hydrocarbons, carbides, and carbonates will be found (July 2 and July 21, 1969); strong remanent magnetism in rocks (May 19, 1969); pockets of radioactivity (March 14, 1967); excessive argon and neon in the regolith (leading to incorrect age estimate) ... , dated January 18, Shapley expressed gratification over a rumour that Velikovsky's book was not going to appear, and astonishment that Macmillan had even considered a venture into the Black Arts. ' In his second letter, written on January 25 after Putnam had answered the first, discounting the alleged rumour and assuring him that the book would appear on ...
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