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... of the trouble. The explanation, as stated, is that an earthquake or eruption or tornado or tidal waves are set in motion by a meteoric body from outer space, this body either striking the earth and causing a catastrophe great or small according to circumstances, or it may pass on shedding only some of its gases. It is strange that as yet official meteorologists seem to be quite indifferent to these facts or to evince the slightest inclination to associate meteors with the very phenomena I shall prove they set up. The fact that a meteor, even of comparatively small size -say even a few tons- approaches the earth at a stupendous rate of speed, generates electricity on ...
562. On Dragons and Red Dwarves [Journals] [Aeon]
... implicit identification with the planet Mars, the very planet we recognize behind the mythology of Indra (We will have reason to refer to Murukan's brilliant red color later in this article). (18) A giant tree is also the eclipsing agent in a fascinating tale preserved in the Kalevala. There the hero who eventually frees the sun, strangely enough, is a homunculus by the name of Sampsa. The Finnish account reads as follows: A man rose out of the sea, a hero from the waves. He was not the hugest of the huge nor yet the smallest of the small: he was as big as a man's thumb..." Confronted with this ...
... . The remains of the extinct red deer have been found in it, and Hull Museum possesses an antler of a reindeer from the same deposit. (Thos. Sheppard, F.G .S ., in Geographical Rambles in East Yorkshire, p. 18.) Withernsea is interesting for its Drift traces in what Sheppard calls "strange striated pavement," near the pier, consisting of a number of boulders embedded in the boulder-clay. They are all oblong or rounded, all on the same level with their longer axes all parallel to each other in the direction of NE by SW, and in nearly every instance the upper surfaces are striated and polished in the same ...
564. Plato (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... according to tradition it had pictured scenes from another page of Greek legendary history, one that was all but forgotten in these latter days: the War of the Athenians with the Atlanteans. Those peplographical reminiscences had set a long-muted chord vibrant in Critias's soul-and later, on their way to his home, he had started to tell his friends a strange tale. And now, as we have said, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias had met in the guest-room of the house of Socrates. There was also present a tachygrapher, ready to ply his swift style on a stack of wax-coated wooden tablets. It was not the first time that this philosophical circle had met. Yesterday Socrates ...
565. On Saturn At the North Pole [Journals] [Aeon]
... attack first? Will it perhaps be Talbott, for refusing to pay any attention whatsoever to physical problems? Will it perhaps be Cardona, for paying inadequate attention to physical problems? No, Ashton begins his alleged attack on the northernists with an attack on me! He never does get around to attacking Cardona or Talbott, which is very strange, to say the least. This attack on me rather than on the northernists may be seen as a further indication that Ashton himself is allied with the northernists. Apparently he is trying to persuade anti-northernists to direct their fire at me rather than at the northernists themselves. After all, if problems can be caused for me, that ...
566. On Comets and Kings [Journals] [Aeon]
... beliefs, found that "a widespread superstitionassociates meteors or falling stars with the souls of the dead. Often they are believed to be the spirits of the departed on their way to the other world." (30) The question facing the investigator of these widespread traditions is not only how to account for their origin, but for their strange specificity. Why would a comet be envisaged as the soul of a great king? Astronomers and students of ancient myth seem at a loss to explain the curious mythology of the comet. Brandt and Chapman, in Introduction to Comets, are among the few astronomers to even attempt an explanation: "Memorable events in human existence occur constantly ...
567. Metals, Salt and Oil [Books] [de Grazia books]
... or gathers a charge, so as to render it less attractive to the Earth its velocity would diminish. Theoretically, it could waft down in a soft landing in one piece. If it crashed upon landing, it would possibly assemble itself into the form of an iron ore deposit as deluges of water and dust would fill the interstices. Strange objects have been found in the midst of iron ores being mined, such as wood of recent date [10]. Much that is meteoritic may not be discovered. On an Antarctic ice field, Japanese explorers found over 1000 meteorites, of which only one was composed of iron [11]. Were the field of stone, ...
568. Spectres [Books] [de Grazia books]
... rolled and shaken. There was only a barren waste on which nothing has ever grown or can grow [3 ]. After a catastrophe, the sights of doom are only partially capable of recall. They are personalized, humanized. Then they tend to fade over time. They are sublimated in many ways. The history seems to us strange; it is literal, detailed, yet surreal, as in the Bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah. I discussed the geology of the story in Chapter 22. When the family of Lot, warned by an angel, was fleeing the doomed Cities of the Plain, it was forbidden to look back. The Cities were utterly destroyed ...
569. The Scientific Reception System [Books] [de Grazia books]
... moreover serve to bind to the group unsuspecting sympathizers in a common cause of science. This is conjectural, yet it would be improper to eliminate it entirely from consideration, even at the cost of arousing hostility in readers who, until this page, might have been in full sympathy with our presentation. To illustrate further, there occurred a strange incident that can perhaps be best understood as a network problem. Shapley was among a group of progressives and more extreme left-wingers who, when the New York newspaper PM failed, backed its successor, Compass. On February 19, 1950, it reprinted the original Harper's article on Velikovsky's book, the very article which, appearing before book ...
570. Catastrophism and Evolution [Journals] [SIS Review]
... so far as to argue that catastrophism is uniformitarianism [10]. James Ussher (1581-1656), the biblical scholar and Archbishop of Armagh who has become almost legendary for his pronouncement that the Creation took place at 9 a.m . on October 26th, 4004 BC His calculations are still accepted by some biblical fundamentalists, and, although strange by modern standards, his thinking was in keeping with 17th-century scholarship. (c ) The Bodleian Library, Oxford.) Immanuel Velikovsky has argued at length that extraterrestrial catastrophes must have caused many of the features of the evolutionary and geological records [23]. The chemist Harold Urey, although highly antagonistic to the views of Velikovsky, ...
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