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119 pages of results. 351. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Review]
... History." Published irregularly: $10.00 for four issues (airmail $3 .00 extra). This journal has published a number of interesting papers on geological and general questions (see past issues of SISR for details), and preserves an open if sceptical mind on Velikovsky's work. FORTEAN TIMES, A Contemporary Record of Strange Phenomena, c/o D.T .W .A .G .E ., 9-12 St. Annes Court, London W.1 . 1 year (4 issues): £3 .00/$6 .00 (air $9 .50). Highly recommended and remarkable value. In No. 25 ...
352. S.I.S Review Vol. V Number 2 1980/81: Contents [Journals] [SIS Review]
... its first English publication. Malcolm Lowery: What's in a Name? Venus "The Newcomer" 46 An examination of Velikovsky's assertion that the name of the planet Venus means "The Newcomer" and thus reflects its postulated late birth. Michael G. Reade: An Introduction to the Evidence of the Panchasiddhantika 50 A preliminary study of the "strange synodic periods" in this ancient Hindu astronomical manual reveals possible evidence for a past 360-day year. Victor J. Slabinski: A Dynamical Objection to Warlow's Inversion of the Earth 54 Quantitative criticism of Peter Warlow's axis-inversion proposals from a fellow-scientist. V. Axel Firsoff: The Anomalous Condition of Venus and the Origin of the Solar System 57 Similarities ...
353. Venus and the Jubilee [Journals] [Aeon]
... the two cycles. But let us look at the Israelite jubilee. Leviticus 25 relates how God gave Moses instructions on Mount Sinai regarding the jubilee. This took place during the forty years of wandering in the desert following the events of the Exodus. Moreover, it occurred at a time when there was no settled agriculture. Now this is strange, for the Leviticus jubilee is primarily concerned with agricultural preparation. But this was a time of lawmaking, and many of the laws were formulated to serve the Israelites through the coming centuries. Those pertaining to agriculture, although agriculture could not yet be practiced, were also intended to be the pattern for the future. The laws state ...
... The narrow Straits of Messina must have been full of dangerous currents and whirlpools, besides being seismically disturbed. One of the most striking myths preserved in the Tale of the Argonauts is that which deals with the creation of the island of Kalliste (Thera, Santorin). The hero Euphemos, himself a son of Poseidon, had received the strange present of a clod of earth from the sea-god Triton. After a great sea-storm' he threw it into the waves, and before the astounded crew of the vessel it grew to the dimensions of an island, the most beautiful (kallistos) the Argonauts had seen on their long voyage. Subsequently it became the home of Euphemos and ...
355. Fissures In The Rocks. Ch.5 Tidal Wave (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... , all these animals had fled [there] to escape the rising waters."8 On the Mediterranean coast of France there are numerous clefts in the rocks crammed to overflowing with animal bones. Marcel de Serres wrote in his survey of the Montagne de Pédémar in the Department of Gard: "It is within this limited area that the strange phenomenon has happened of the accumulation of a large quantity of bones of diverse animals in hollows or fissures."9 De Serres found the bones all broken into fragments, but neither gnawed nor rolled. No coprolites (hardened animal faeces) were found, indicating that the dead beasts had not lived in these hollows or fissures. The ...
356. Science-Fiction and Collective Amnesia: "Dragon's Egg" [Journals] [Kronos]
... a process of "cognitive estrangement" - a willing abandonment of the norms of common-sense reality and an acceptance of new norms suggested by the world the science-fiction writer creates.(5 ) It is no accident that at the heart of all science-fiction stories lies a journey which takes the characters out of a comfortable, predictive environment into what is strange, unknown, and often chaotic. On such a journey, only the mentally agile survive. Like all fiction, science-fiction, though its subject matter is the empirically-observable universe, is bound to the catastrophic demands of fiction. Lyell's aeons of gradual geological development, Darwin's almost infinitesimal biological changes over millions of years, or Wegener's continents drifting ...
357. History, Proto-history, and Synchronisms [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... . One example of such candor is provided by Alan Gardiner, who declared (Egypt of the Pharaohs, 1961) that "what is proudly advertised as Egyptian history is merely a collection of rags and tatters." Another comes from Leo Oppenheim, who wrote (Ancient Mesopotamia, 1964), "The cuneiform texts have given us a strangely distorted picture of more than two thousand years of Mesopotamian civilization . . . torn to shreds again and again by immense gaps in time and space. . . ." The fragmentary nature of all ancient documents dating from pre-Achaemenid times led nineteenth-century scholars to vary immensely in their reconstructed chronologies for the early Near East. The first dynasty of ...
358. Flavius Josephus Against Apion Book 1 [Books]
... I, out of ignorance, or out of favor to any side, either had given false colors to actions, or omitted any of them. 10. There have been indeed some bad men, who have attempted to calumniate my history, and took it to be a kind of scholastic performance for the exercise of young men. A strange sort of accusation and calumny this! since every one that undertakes to deliver the history of actions truly ought to know them accurately himself in the first place, as either having been concerned in them himself, or been informed of them by such as knew them. Now both these methods of knowledge I may very properly pretend to in ...
359. Preface to the Antiquities of the Jews [Books]
... for he did not obtain all our writings at that time; but those who were sent to Alexandria as interpreters, gave him only the books of the law, while there were a vast number of other matters in our sacred books. They, indeed, contain in them the history of five thousand years; in which time happened many strange accidents, many chances of war, and great actions of the commanders, and mutations of the form of our government. Upon the whole, a man that will peruse this history, may principally learn from it, that all events succeed well, even to an incredible degree, and the reward of felicity is proposed by God; ...
360. Sicily, Carthage, and the Fall of Troy [Journals] [Kronos]
... the objects found inside. Little pots with geometric and Orientalizing designs indicated a period not earlier than the beginning of the seventh century.(18) Among them the excavators discovered two "splendid gold rings with animal figures incised in their settings".(19) One of these "shows a cow suckling a calf, the other a strange feline animal, or perhaps a wolf",(20) depicted in a way clearly descended "from remote Mycenaean traditions".(21) Not only the rings, but gold bowls found in the same tomb "derive from Mycenaean gold-work".(22) "Perhaps here again we have a far distant echo of the ...
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