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119 pages of results. 421. Our Universe: Unlocking its Mysteries [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... to digest, and people tend to end up seeing the trees, but not the forest. An overview would go somewhere towards helping us out, and this is what Annis sets out to do. Annis asks: What kind of sky did the ancients see? The ancients were long fascinated with the sky, and their myths tell of strange and violent events. Were ancient myths merely fantasies? Myths tend to be dismissed by astronomers and even mainstream mythologists. But Dave Talbott, Ev Cochrane and Dwardu Cardona have found that there are consistent patterns, with widely separated cultures telling the same story. Now Kronia have begun to challenge some of the generally accepted theories, and includes ...
422. The Mount of Salvation [Books]
... of mankind (Note 89). From this fire-rain the hero of our myth escaped by hiding in a cave' another new line. The deluge itself is not directly mentioned, but many be inferred from, the necessity of seeking safety high up the mountains and from the peculiar mishap that caused the death of the hero's wife. The strange and apparently inexplicable reference to, Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt? because she looked back' is probably due to a section of the myth having become telescoped. The waters of the deluge, as we know from certain-myths (cf. pp. I33 f ), were excessively salty; and the myths which tell that ...
423. Horizons [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Completing the issue: letters (including a welcome reference by ERIC CREW to his model for a Velikovskian expulsion of Venus from Jupiter), and a provocative Apophoreta by AXEL FIRSOFF Suggesting that the Earth's core is not solid, but gas. (Summaries and comments supplied by Roy D. MacKinnon.) FORTEAN TIMES, The Journal of Strange Phenomena, c/o D.T .W .A .G .E ., 9-12 St Anne's Court, London W.1 1 year (4 issues): £3 .00/$8 .00 (airmail £4 .75/$12.00). Without a doubt the best-written and most ...
424. The Third Degree. File II (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... day at the spring solstice in one system, the geographical position of Babylon would have to be two and a half degrees farther to the north. Could the Babylonian astronomers have made such a mistake? he asked, and he answered that "it is hardly believable." Therefore, he concluded; "With this we stand before a strange enigma" (" Wir stehen damit vor einem merkwürdigen Rätsel"). Kugler considered the possibility that in accordance with System II, Babylon was actually situated farther to the north, almost 300 kilometers from its identified ruins. Kugler also found that the position of the sun in relation to the fixed stars at the solstices and equinoxes differed ...
425. CANEPA: BOOK REVIEW [Journals] [Aeon]
... the recent Halley flybys. One can only wonder if the black potato detected by the Giotto mission actually confirms the same theory. Weisman concludes his review with a statement that there are other books on the subject which the reader should find much more rewarding, even though he admits that he hadn't studied these other works in detail. What is strange about Weisman's review is that his own work is cited not less than 20 times in the references listed in the Bailey, Clube, and Napier book. Could it be that Weisman was upset because one of his works was shot down by the authors? Among the authors' disagreements with him, one can enumerate the velocity of comets ...
426. Letter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Mass. However it is not just the interpretation that is so questionable in the Bayside literature, but also the condemnations so typical of this fundamentalist kind of thinking. An example of this is the description of test-tube babies as being soul-less' monsters. That a medical advance which must have brought happiness to many couples should be so castigated seems strange to say the least! Apart from this, I suspect that the idea of a soul-less' monster derives from a much earlier and now largely-discarded theological understanding, of what is meant by the word soul' anyway. There are affinities between the fundamentalist and the supernaturalist viewpoint and one of these seems to be to view modern technology with ...
427. Venus An Interim Report [Journals] [SIS Review]
... removed all notions of a flat, eroded desert, strewn only with sand dunes." There is nothing new in finding a popular science writer to be ignorant (or to evince apparent ignorance) of the fact that, to one man at least, several of the data mentioned in this paragraph were "suspected", and the "strangeness" was foreseen. Even a reading of Velikovsky's opponents makes this evident: in a register of successes reading like the familiar statement of Velikovsky's friend Harry Hess, William J. Slummer wrote (Science, 14.3 .1969, p. 1191): "Some of the least expected discoveries made by planetary astronomers in recent years ...
428. "The Day The Sun Stood Still". File I (Stargazers and Gravediggers) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Stargazers]
... and they approached the author without the knowledge of his editor at Macmillan, who had gone abroad. It so happened that I did not even answer this letter from Frederick Allen. I was not eager to have my story retold in condensed form with all its documentation omitted. Only by presenting all my evidential material could I make acceptable the strange story of what happened to our world thirty-four and twenty-seven centuries ago. Not until the summer had passed, in September or October (or half a year later), did I agree to see Eric Larrabee, one of the editors of Harper's. He came together with James Putnam. When I opened the apartment door, I saw ...
429. The Antiquity of the Egyptian Decans [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , 1940, pp. 120-126 and Vol. 27, 1941, pp. 149-152, can be recommended. The present writer considers it certain that the decans were already recognised in Old Kingdom times and that this hypothesis can be proved, irrespective of whether the extant records of that era mention them or not. The proof lies in the strange behaviour of individual decans . A few decans change the order of their appearance in individual lists, but only a few, and these decans have something in common. The possible causes of such changes of order appear to be (a ) scribal errors, (b ) the precession of the equinoxes, and (c ) an inversion ...
430. The Hittites in Israel [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... will raise up thy lovers against thee, .. . the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: .. ." (Ezekiel 23:22-3). [Emphasis added] If the Hittites were part of the Chaldean Empire, as Velikovsky claims, it is strange that Ezekiel omits them, as he clearly knows who they were. However, if Hatti had ceased to exist as an independent political state over a century before the prophet's time, as Glasgow Chronology requires, it can be understood why he only referred to it in a historical context. Far different is the picture for c.820-750 ...
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