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119 pages of results. 661. Thoth Vol I, No. 21: August 11, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... 5 eons required by current theories of solar system evolution? And why, if the planets and moons were formed from the same primordial cloud of gas and dust, are they such a fruit salad of physical characteristics, axial tilts, rotation rates and orbits? Why do many of the moons show sharp hemispherical differences? What really caused the strange pristine scars seen on the inner planets and moons? How is it that many of these scars are of such colossal size? In several cases we see, smaller moons, craters so large that the moons should have been pulverized by the impact, if indeed the craters were formed by impacting bodies. The ad-hoc nature of most expert ...
662. Thoth Vol II, No. 14: Sept 15, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... mother Leda was also the mother of the "heavenly twins", Castor and Pollux. (Indeed, more than one scholar has recognized Helen as a local transcript of Aphrodite, astronomically identified with Venus). It was said that the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon. Cassandra, foretelling the destruction of Troy, is strangely reminiscent of the ancient lamenting goddess, roaming about with wildly disheveled hair and disturbing the land. In truth, there is not a shred of historical evidence that such personalities originated as flesh and blood figures. It is not my purpose here to merely suggest that there are archetypal themes and connections yet to be discerned by historians. Our ...
663. Book Review [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... camel-like ungulates. These apparently adapted to fill ecological niches. However, Simpson indicates several problems in this evolutionary story. While some early lines became more specialised, the majority became extinct. This cannot be explained in terms of survival of the better adapted because in many cases it is the least specialised lines which survived the longest. It seems strange that while evolutionists happily postulate random, chance mutations for their basic evolutionary material, they do not consider chance as playing any part in subsequent survival! Yet rapid events, environmental catastrophes, involving chance as the main selection mechanism, would explain many anomalies. One such is the increased odds against survival of giant size, as evidenced by ...
664. A Note on the Term "Hyksos" [Journals] [Kronos]
... to the real origin of the name in making it mean Rulers of the Uplands, ' or of Countries. ' Whatever it means, though, it is probable that these hordes from Asia were of a race largely Semitic in origin and, according to the natives of Egypt, barbarous and uncivilized in their manners and customs and in their strange sounding names."(20) In a discussion of the Fifteenth Dynasty and its rulers, Albright remarked that "in later times the Egyptians applied the term Hyksos, literally princes of the shepherds, ' to them, but this designation is probably a mistake for a phrase with nearly identical pronunciation, meaning foreign chiefs, chiefs of ...
665. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... bones lie strewn thickly on the mud', can really be explained by creatures of the surrounding forests that had accidentally fallen down swallow holes' and been carried down by floods of a subterranean river that has long since disappeared. ' Even on Attenborough's time scale, they are recent at 40,000 years, and their demise bears a strange resemblance to the extinction of the northern hemisphere Pleistocene mammals - huge animals suddenly dying out in unexplained circumstances, with piles of remains washed up in caves. For simplistic explanations, however, it must be hard to beat that of the jellyfish impressions in the Ediacara Sandstones of the Flinders Ranges in southern Australia - stranded on the beach, ...
666. Fire and Ash [Books] [de Grazia books]
... ]. There the lowest level is calcinated. It is located below a thick wall. The burning occurs over the whole area of settlement. The debris contains burnt bitumen and "black masses," producing radiocarbon dates of 19,000 to 36,000 B.P . (in my opinion, valueless). There are "strange" sand "fill" intrusions at this level that carry various artifacts and bits of copper. Below the calcination occurs a meter of sand with shards, and below that, bedrock. The ruined mysterious city of Tiahuanacu, 18000 feet high in the southern Andes mountains, is believed to have once rested upon the shores of the ocean ...
667. Limitations of Astronomical Dating Methods* [Journals] [Kronos]
... seem almost certain that Theon did not possess information which would permit him to place the date 1320 B.C . in the reign of any particular king with certainty. We have here then only a situation where two statements, each uncertain in its interpretation and in its validity, provide a questionable corroboration of each other. It would seem strange, if astronomers are able to calculate backward in time and date eclipses centuries before Christ, that they would not be able to calculate back and determine whether or not the star, Sirius, was on the horizon at sunrise in Egypt on the Egyptian New Year's Day in the year 140 A.D . Actually, this calculation has ...
668. Tektites and China's Dragon [Journals] [Kronos]
... one which contains descriptions (or allusions) of cosmic events that Velikovsky ascribes to 1500 B.C . and earlier times. None of this would constitute history to Mary Stewart- but then neither would Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos. Meanwhile, a multitude of correct predictions have vindicated Velikovsky on many counts while archaeology in Great Britain strangely keeps unearthing evidence of Geoffrey of Monmouth's alleged fancies.(34) NUMBER 2 The second objection to my article, I myself raise. Mention was made of the Chinese Tang Annals as cited by Richard J. H. de Touche-Skadding. Although he claims to have studied them in person while he was in Hong Kong,(35 ...
669. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to "Velikovsky has been discredited", etc. Consequently (not being a scientist but a mere layman) I left the issue alone for several years only occasionally mentioning it. It was as recently as five years ago that I "discovered" that many of the major points in W-I-C had in fact been proved by space probes. Strangely at this stage I had not been aware of his later publications such as Ages in Chaos and Earth in Upheaval. Naturally I based my knowledge on W-I-C and had always assumed that following from the theory was not only the fact of the great heat of Venus but also the heat of the planet Jupiter (in all probability much greater ...
670. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The Navels [Books]
... (Mass.). The second of Britain's names was Isle of Honey. Meath itself, "the beautiful seat of brave Niall's sons" 52 where this Kilair navel stood, was anciently the central one of the five divisions of Ireland, and is called Media by Giraldus Cambrensis! and it would thus be the Middle-Kingdom. Furthermore the strange words connected with it-medi-tullium and medi-tulles-can only be made sense (for me here) by calling in the third fabulous rex of Rome, Tulles Hostilius (grandson of Hostus Hostilius by Hersilia). The explanation of Hostus and Hostilius as "enemy" and "inimical" is most unsufficing, and the statement that Hostilina was a goddess who ...
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