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... walls of edifices thus built would be both extremely solid', and yet exceedingly elastic', and hence practically impervious to earthquake shocks. Indeed, the closer we investigate into the architectural remains of the Second Period of Tiahuanaco, the more we gain the impression that at the time when the buildings were planned the world was somehow different, strangely different. The surmise that the builders of Tiahuanaco constructed their edifices with a definite intention to make then quake - and tremor- proof is strengthened by the other peculiarities of the buildings which all fit into the same picture: Edifices were built of a few big elements, not of many small ones; there were no two or more ...
392. Sun 13 July Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... Bronze Age civilization in East Asia. 11:45 Prof Gunnar Heinsohn, University of Bremen The Catastrophic Emergence of Civilisation: The Coming of The Bronze Age Cultures Throwing of barley grains or small stoned showering of ashes, public defecation and obscene exhibition, panic yelling as well as manic romp and frenzy, mortal duels of humans and animals in strange costumes making them look like snakes or mixed creatures, entire burning of slaughtered beings - these and similar activities took place in extremely carefully choreographed blood rituals which emerged at the beginning of the Bronze Age. The holy precincts in which these sacrificial ceremonies were staged provide the archaeological markers by which the Bronze Age can be told apart from the ...
393. Aster and Disaster: The Golden Age - II [Journals] [Kronos]
... times. Great oceans play no part in paradisial tales. But traditional narratives do contain attempted explanations of the taste, odor, and color of sea-water today - attributing these to God's perspiration, urine from the sky, or the rotting of huge snakes.(46) What these accounts strongly suggest is that salt water was regarded as something strange and recent, requiring explanation. Equally absent from stories about the Golden Age are powerful breakers crashing on shorelines and the rise and fall of tides. What these lacunae further imply is not only a lack of spanking sea-winds but, more strikingly, the absence of any such massive Earth-satellite as the Moon.(47) An almost invariable ...
394. Velikovsky and Venus: A Preliminary Report on the Pioneer Probes [Journals] [Kronos]
... of Michigan physicist who designed the 30 experiments carried out in the Venusian atmosphere) Thus ran some of the reactions of the scientific community in the wake of Pioneer Venus 2's descent to that planet last December 9. The initial influx of data from the Venus probe was virtually overwhelming. At Mountain View, California, a computer line-printer disgorged "strange numbers onto a white roll of paper". Scientists anxiously and excitedly scanned the reams of computer printouts. By late afternoon of December 9 came the realization that "the numbers would radically alter accepted thinking about the formation of the solar system". "What the numbers demonstrated was that the atmosphere of Venus, the planet nearest to ...
395. Fire From Heaven [Journals] [SIS Review]
... dragons, are also mentioned by McBeath. Truffles too are thought to be produced from lightning strikes and jelly-like fungal slimes were known as star jelly', or star-slime'. European fungal fruits are most common from later summer to early winter. These coincide, he notes, with prominent meteor showers such as the Perseids and the Leonids. Strangely, he doesn't mention the Taurids, hence it is unclear if the Taurids were as active as Clube and Napier claim in their book [9 ], especially within the last few hundred years. It would be logical for the November Taurids to be involved in some way, as many fungi can be found at this time. All ...
396. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Joseph [Books]
... .[159] Pharaoh's heart beat violently when he called his dreams to mind on awaking.[160] Especially the second one, about the ears of corn, disquieted him. He reflected that whatever has a mouth can eat, and therefore the dream of the seven lean kine that ate up the seven fat kine did not appear strange to him. But the ears of corn that swallowed up other ears of corn troubled his spirit.[161] He therefore called for all the wise men of his land, and they endeavored in vain to find a satisfactory interpretation. They explained that the seven fat kine meant seven daughters to be born unto Pharaoh, and the ...
397. Megalithic Circles and Star Charts [Journals] [SIS Review]
... across their silence. The fires are out. The midsummer sun has for years risen above empty, fallen rings. The people and their fears are gone. There are only the stones and they have no message for the visitor. ' A. Burl - on the stone circles of the British Isles. This paper discusses a couple of strange patterns associated with 2300 BC – the construction of huge megalithic monuments around the world and the creation of star charts in four cultural areas. The justification for the enormous efforts to build the monuments are not clearly understood; and the star charts appeared without significant evidence that the four cultures had any prior interest in astronomy. Megalithic Monuments The ...
398. The Miracles of the Exodus by Colin Humphries and The Moses Legacy by Graham Phillips (Book reviews) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... plumps for the Thera volcano on the island of Santorini in the Aegean. Phillips appears to keep closer to biblical numbers than Humphries, plumping for an Exodus date around 1400 BC. However, this is essentially derived from his preconceived Exodus synchronism with the Thera eruption. An ice core anomaly at 1390 BC may lend support to this date but strangely he rejects Hans Goedicke's reference to a text from early Dynasty 18 recording a great and unusual storm event. Instead, he plumps for an Exodus shortly before the Amarna period - seeing parallels between the god of Moses and that of Akhenaten. The theory involves the demise of one of the sons of Amenhotep III – otherwise unrecorded. He ...
399. Disarranged Months, Part 2 Mars Ch.8 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... when the week had been of nine days' duratio n.7 The change from a seven-day phase to a nine-day phase is found in the traditions of the peoples of Rumania, Lithuania, and Sardinia, and among the Celts of Europe, the Mongols of Asia, and the tribes of West Africa.8 In order to explain this strange phenomenon in time reckoning, obviously connected with the moon, the suggestion was made that, in addition to the seven-day phase of the moon, a nine-day phase was also observed, which is a third of the month.9 But this i dea must be rejected, because a third part of a month of twenty-nine and a half ...
400. Spall Ankh in eastern Wyoming [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... well as size. The rocks forming the figure were covered with lichens of slow growth and everything indicated that it had been made ages ago. Twenty miles east of the Diggings, on the summit of a plains butte, I found the figure of a serpent made of stones piled in much the same manner..." Taken from Strange Artifacts: A sourcebook on Ancient Man Vol 2 (item MST-006) by William Corliss reporting on Gilder, Robert F.; Putnam's Monthly, 2:277-284, June 1907. Michael Armstrong, mikamar@e-z.net ...
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