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119 pages of results. 461. The Electrical God [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Ark contradict the second commandment: it says "You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.." This is altogether strange since the Lord also commands that Moses make the Tabernacle and the Ark "after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain." And the Ark even carries two cherubim. The Ark itself was duplicated at a later time by a private person and carried off by the tribe of Dan. The answer is ...
462. Bronson Feldman, 1914-1982: A Biographical Note [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... - human artifacts- hold mirrors up to nature, particularly human nature: while they may distort, the actuality they reflect can be seen and studied. For Feldman, this was as true for the scribes who wrote the books we call the Bible as it was for the master dramatist who wrote Shakespeare's plays. It is not at all strange, therefore, to find Feldman writing an essay which identifies Sir Christopher Hatton of Elizabeth's court with the dramatis persona Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the same time that he was preparing an essay in which he identified Abimilki, king of Tyre, with Pygmalion (see Kronos, Vol. II, No. 1). It should ...
463. God's Fire: Moses and the Management of Exodus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... as a manager and scientist, and so I have reconstructed these his qualities as well. Furthermore, the Exodus and Wanderings, those operations that Moses directed, are generally misunderstood, both in their particulars as Jewish history and in their representation of what was happening throughout the world in those days. Part of the 3000-year misunderstanding stems from the strange environment in which Moses lived and worked. The Exodus was not a stroll through the desert by some truant slaves. The Exodus occurred in an extraordinary setting of great atmospheric and physical turbulence, a catastrophic world. Unless we comprehend precisely the natural and social upheavals of those days, we cannot grasp Moses. Nor can we fathom the ...
... , Kinosaki near by was devastated, and Kobe suffered great damage. A railway train was entombed by the collapse of a tunnel, buildings of size were thrown down or cracked, and at Toyooka 200 houses crashed and 1 200 were severely damaged. (Sunday Times, May 24, 1925.) The Times newspaper drew attention to the strange coincidence in time between the two events of the Biscay Tidal Wave and the Toyooka Earthquake, although so far apart in point of distance. But it is not in the least surprising that the two events, so dissimilar in outward appearance, may have been related. Meteors frequently split in two or more parts and fall separately, moving ...
465. Velikovsky and Historical Anti-Naturism [Journals] [Kronos]
... him to, Velikovsky was able to dispute the notion that myths could so easily be disseminated. The migration of ideas may follow the migration of peoples, but how could unusual motifs of folklore reach isolated islands where the aborigines do not have any means of crossing the sea? Peoples still living in the stone age possess the same, often strange, motifs as the cultured nations. The particular character of some of the contents of folklore makes it impossible to assume that it was only by mere chance that the same motifs were created in all corners of the world. If a phenomenon had been similarly described by many peoples, we might suspect that a tale, originating with one ...
466. Galileo's sharp new pictures of Io [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the big geologic picture of the moon and the jovian system. They'd like to discover the composition of Io's crust. They'd like to know if Io's interior holds a magma ocean- a question images alone won't answer. They use Galileo to explore how volcanoes erupt and modify the landscape, what the lavas are made of, and how Io's strange terrain forms and evolves. Contacts: Alfred S. McEwen, mcewen@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu, + 1 520-621-4573, Elizabeth Turtle, turtle@lpl.arizona.edu, 520-621-8284, Paul Geissler, geissler@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu, 520-621-621-2114, Jani Radebaugh, jani@lpl.arizona. ...
467. Magnetic Remanence in Lunar Rocks [Journals] [Pensee]
... supposed "curious and funny orbit" of Venus is not his own fantasizing but the verdict based on the surviving documents from all ancient civilizations, too many to enumerate here: ancient Rome's most celebrated man of science, Varro, wrote of what happened at an earlier age: "To the brilliant star Venus .. . there occurred so strange a prodigy, that it changed its color, size, form, course, which never happened before nor since." 7 Velikovsky's "crime" has been precisely not to "toss out all the excellent work of centuries." Instead he has preserved and sifted and explained the thoughts of great men since antiquity, retaining also from ...
468. The Lord Of Light [Journals] [Aeon]
... dispelled the darkness" (Buddhacarita I,28). The Star in the East As if to spotlight, reflect, and augment the radiance of the Nativity, at the moment of Jesus' birth a star, superior in brightness to all others, appeared overhead in the night sky. "Its light was unutterable...its strangeness caused amazement" and the star outshone the Sun, Moon, and all the constellations. (36) The Magi who came to pay homage to the Christ Child "saw a very great star shining among the stars and dimming them, so that stars appeared not" (Protevangelium of James, XXI, 2), while the ...
469. Yuddha, Part 2 Mars Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... ), the Surya knew that "above" and "beneath" are only relative: "And everywhere upon the globe of the earth, men think their own place to be uppermost- -but since it is a globe in the ether, where should there be an upper, or where an under side of it?"5 The strange chapter of Surya-Siddhanta dealing with the conjunctions of planets and with their conflicts when in close proximity made modern scholars think that this portion did not have the scientific value of the rest of the work, and was a product of astrological invention, or even an interpolation. We know now that this chapter has equal scientific value with other chapters ...
470. The Argive Tyrants, Part 2 Mars Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... , which has never bathed in the sea, shall be plunged beneath the all-engulfing waves." A commentator who wondered about this description of the position of the Great Bear wrote: "There was no mythological reason why the Wain- otherwise known as the Great Bear-should not be bathed in the Ocean."3 But Seneca said precisely this strange thing: the Great Bear- or one of its stars- never set beneath the horizon, and thus the polar star was among its stars during the age that came to its end in the time of the Argive tyrants. Seneca also says explicitly that the poles were torn up in this cataclysm. The polar axis now is turned ...
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