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119 pages of results. 361. Morning Star* [Journals] [Aeon]
... was an upright lance, (90) which weapon was originally addressed as the god incarnate. (91) To this might be added the negative evidence that, unless the Mesoamerican Morning Star was indeed Mars, this particular planet seems to be absent from the astronomical lore of those people, which should, at least, be considered somewhat strange. After all, even the Incas, further south, who were not as astronomically oriented as the Maya, recognized the planet Mars, which they called Aucayoc, and which they "charged with matters relating to wars and soldiers." (92) (Cochrane's comparison of Nanahuatl, also known as Nanautzin, to the Greek Herakles ...
362. Oceanic Impact may have Inspired (Australian) Aboriginal Legend: An Addendum# [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Impact may have Inspired (Australian) Aboriginal Legend", here is an addendum. There is another legend retold in the mythology of the Paakantji people of the Darling River (from around Wilcannia in western New South Wales). This tells of a foreseen falling star which brought fire and a following flood, killing many people and leaving behind strange stones. Sound familiar? The story is told in the (picture) book The Story of the Falling Star by Elsie Jones, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1989 (ISBN 0-85575-199-1). A speach bubble from a lady's picture on the back cover (perhaps Elsie Jones) says "This story is so old we don't even ...
363. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Joseph [Books]
... 345] Nevertheless he bade Joseph strew some Egyptian earth over his dead body.[346] Jacob expressed these his last wishes three times. Such is the requirement of good breeding in preferring a request. In the last period of Jacob's life, one can see how true it is that "even a king depends upon favors in a strange land." Jacob, the man for the sake of whose merits the whole world was created, for the sake of whom Abraham was delivered from the fiery furnace, had to ask services of others while he was among strangers,[347] and when Joseph promised to do his bidding, he bowed himself before his own son ...
364. The Chaldeans of Sumer [Journals] [Aeon]
... in Moscow's Pushkin Museum. Even the form of the Greek epic, the medium that produced the Iliad and the Odyssey, had its counterpart in the style of the Mesopotamian epics." Strikingly, "Several of Aesop's fables have Sumerian predecessors, and the instructions of an 18th century B.C . version of a Sumerian farmer's almanac are strangely like those in Works and Days, ' a farmer's manual composed some 10 centuries later by the Greek poet Hesiod. A number of Sumerian dialogues are now being pieced together and deciphered, and these, too, may turn out to be stylistic predecessors, precursors of such masterpieces as Plato's Dialogues. '" Since the "Sumerian" ...
365. The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain [Books]
... and slaves. The day arrived when the closely guarded secrets of their magic arts in the use of fire and even of the air were betrayed to kings afar off and led to savage wars of invasion, where rival creeds and ambitions fought one another with bitter hatred. Meanwhile, threatened for some time by untoward meteorological happenings, such as strange plagues of insects, earthquakes, and volcanoes going into eruption, of a sudden the most terrible catastrophe afflicted this erstwhile happy land, struggling desperately against its invaders from the east. It was what we call the Flood of Noah, to the Hellenes the Deluge of Deucalion or Ogyges, and had other names besides. This prodigious event ...
366. Cumberland Cavern. Ch.5 Tidal Wave (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... remains in a glacial and an interglacial period. However, the scientist who explored the cavern for the Smithsonian Institution as soon as it was discovered and who returned there in the following years for closer investigation, J. W. Gidley, contended that the animals were contemporaneous: the position of the bones excluded any other explanation. "This strange assemblage of fossil remains occurs hopelessly intermingled .. .. "2 The bones of the Cumberland cavern were "for the most part much broken, yet show no sign of being water worn."3 This would signify that the bones were not carried for any length of time by a stream; however, it is quite possible ...
367. The Latecoming Olduvai Gorge [Books] [de Grazia books]
... fossil assemblages connote disaster. Groups of mammals and primates or people do not congregate voluntarily to await death. An elephant skeleton without a skull was found. The method and motive for separating the two are found in natural forces. The hominid finds are not nicely segregated by time gaps (see v. III, 229, 234). Strange to say, a toe bone, possibly human and modern, was found in Upper Bed I (Tuff If), belonging to an "upright, bipedal, hominid possessing a plantigrade propulsive gait." (p . 230). Many years later, modern footprints of a three person-group were found at Laetoli by Mrs. Leakey ...
368. Ice Age In The Tropics. Ch.4 Ice (Earth In Upheaval) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Earth in Upheaval]
... , and the region must have gone through an ice period. What could have caused a tropical region to be covered by ice several thousand feet thick? Abundant vestiges of an ice age were likewise found in British Guiana, another of the hottest places on earth. Soon the same word came from equatorial Africa; and what appeared even more strange, the marks there indicated not only that equatorial Africa and Madagascar had been under a sheet of ice but that the ice had moved, spreading from the equator toward the higher latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, or in the wrong direction. Then vestiges of an ice age were discovered in India, and there, too, the ice ...
369. A PERSONAL MEMOIR [Journals] [Aeon]
... critic's view of Velikovsky's work? I can only speculate, of course, but in recent years I began to realize that there lay in the work of Nikola Tesla, nearly a century ago, a possibly overlooked clue for unraveling the mysteries of global history. The incredible genius of Tesla is without parallel in the history of science but, strangely, much of his work has been ignored. Among his many inventions he gave us alternating current and wireless communication. Had he been supported in his experiments we today would not be dependent on fossil fuels for energy. His understanding of electrical phenomena has yet to be duplicated. He proclaimed in 1904 that: .. .ere many ...
... track still called "The Street of the Dead," testifies to the memory of this melancholy distinction, and there are said to have been no fewer than sixty-four kings buried in Reilag Oran, besides many prominent chieftains and ecclesiastics. It is said that the kings and princes were influenced in their choice of this holy site especially by a strange prophecy relating to the destruction of the world and a flood from which lona would emerge unscathed. The words, translated from the ancient Gaelic, are these: Seven years before the end of the world A deluge shall drown the nations The sea at one tide shall cover Erin, And the green-clad Islay But Columba's Isle shall swim above ...
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