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119 pages of results. 681. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The North [Books]
... of the Egyptian title of the Four Cardinal powers, the "lords of the kebs (= angles) of the heavens, but it trust also be viewed as a (not identical but only) similar case to the posing of Babylonian temples, as we shall see later. This Umbrian ritual seems also to supply a clue to the strange proceeding in Gallican church-consecration, upon which we shall come immediately. [Indeed the boundary of the augur's templum seems to have been sometimes drawn in a circle (Guhl and Koner, ii, 410), whence, and originally from the roundness of the heavens, the magician's circle and, perhaps directly, round churches.] H ...
682. Velikovsky in America [Journals] [Aeon]
... , in order to research his new book Freud and His Heroes, a study of Moses, Oedipus, and Akhnaton in the light of psychoanalytic theory and Freud's own dreams. This book also he failed to complete, it being subsumed by the more grandiose ideas that came out of it. This period of Velikovsky's life was marked by a strange and uncharacteristic indecision. His last two nights in Palestine were sleepless despite his attempts to find serendipitous solace by randomly opening his Bible. Initially, he had planned to travel to Trieste for study, but there was no vacancy on the boat. Since he was already at the Tel Aviv harbor, he booked passage on the only ship ...
... shut the gates, and to place his own army round about them; and prayed to God to clear the eyes of these their enemies, and take the mist from before them. Accordingly, when they were freed from the obscurity they had been in, they saw themselves in the midst of their enemies; and as the Syrians were strangely amazed and distressed, as was but reasonable, at an action so Divine and surprising, and as king Joram asked the prophet if he would give him leave to shoot at them, Elisha forbade him so to do; and said, that "it is just to kill those that are taken in battle, but that these men ...
684. Towards a New Evolutionary Synthesis [Books]
... All six specimens have been classified as belonging to the same species, Archaeopteryx lithographica [50-52]. Nevertheless, it is abundantly clear that whatever the evolutionary status of Archaeopteryx, there is certainly no evidence of a continuum of forms linking it to reptiles in one direction and birds in the other. Hitching was quite correct (apart from a strange reference to `amphibian' dinosaurs) when he wrote: "The further point might be made that even if Archaeopteryx is in fact a half-way form from reptiles to birds, it is still not very enlightening about the process of evolution, nor in any way evidence of Darwin's hoped-for gradual transitions. For that, we would have to ...
685. The Third World of Science [Books] [de Grazia books]
... nursing of the constituency" ordinarily pursued among scholars in his circumstances? Or should he not now throw in his fortunes with a political party, Democrat or Republican, it mattered not, for in both he had "friends in high places." Close friends welcomed his participation in Barry Goldwater's camp and in Hubert Humphrey's; this would appear strange unless one understood that subjectively Deg was confident that he was his own man, and that he could find equal opportunities in both camps to exercise his skills and ideals, which, to put them in several words, were: decentralization, basic income guarantees, voluntarism, legislative rule at home, and representative government for the world. ...
686. KA [Books]
... Iliad' VIII:471. 5. Euripides: >The Bacchae= 1159 6. Ovid: >Metamorphoses' X:222 7 Old Testament: Psalm LXXIV:13-17 95 a. 96 follow. Q-CD vol 12: KA, Ch. 7: Sacrifice 100 CHAPTER SEVEN SACRIFICE THE Greeks (and many others) tell us that strange objects appeared in the sky, often with unpleasant consequences for the earth. If we assume that they were telling the truth as they saw it, then their reactions appear to have a certain logic behind them. I suggest that imitation, better still imitation with slight alterations to portray a safe outcome, was the reaction of the peoples ...
687. In Search of the Exodus [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... Earthquakes Helmut Tributsch [30] in a study of earthquake precursory phenomena, has traced the odd behavior of animals, as in the biblical story of Balaam's ass which refused to budge because it sensed a tremor, can be attributed to a build-up of static electrical charge of aerosol particles in the air; these cause discomfort in animals, prompting strange behavioral conduct that precedes the most elaborate devices of modern seismologists. Tributsch claims the incident where God appeared before Moses in a burning bush was also an earthquake sign, for although the bush seemed to be on fire it was not consumed- i.e . an electrostatic discharge. Similarly, the voice of God in the Sinai might ...
688. The Ramesside Star Tables [Journals] [SIS Review]
... " article (READE, 1977) can incidentally also be made to suggest that they record settings rather than risings. Experienced observers would soon have discovered that neither risings nor settings are really very practical from the observer's point of view, however, being subject to considerable distortions of position due to atmospheric refraction (also intermittent fading, shimmering and strange colour effects). Modern observers invariably take the meridian transit of a star, which occurs when the star is at its highest point in the sky, but it is a virtual certainty that the Egyptians of this era did not, for the simple reason that there is no known trace of any instrument in ancient Egypt which could be ...
689. Oberg's Unscientific Method [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... behind huge walled depresions- craters, in fact."(63) Firsoff calls the craters on the Moon "volcanic." He does not call them "calderas" because the process that produced them, he believed, is not impact. I share Firsoff's beliefs. Oberg is, again, playing the unscientific definition game. It seems strange that Oberg, who suggested that Io has "air" and that a definition made up by impact theorists is valid when, in fact, it is a misrepresentation, should accuse me of not understanding simple terms. Oberg asserts that "one of the most preposterous arguments in the paper deals with the bubble theory' of lunar craters ...
690. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... years d. Kitchen thought Pharaoh Shishak was Shoshenq I - first pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty (trad. dates 945 - 924). 0 years It would be nice to know what C14 dating would indicate, wouldn't it? Major A.J . James, Barry, South Glamorgan, Wales What's in a name?I own a strange little book published in London in 1927, The Mythological Astronomy, in Three Parts' by S.A .Mackey. It consists of 20 pages of dreadful heroic couplets, e.g . This was The Iron Age - twas Pythons reign, When polar suns burnt up the golden grain, And sudden thaws inundate every plain. ...
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