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119 pages of results. 711. The Legends of the Jews: Volume I - Noah [Books]
... very full of light.[1 ] And when he was taken from the hand of the midwife, he opened his mouth and praised the Lord of righteousness.[2 ] His father Lamech was afraid of him, and fled, and came to his own father Methuselah. And he said to him: "I have begotten a strange son; he is not like a human being, but resembles the children of the angels of heaven, and his nature is different, and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious.[3 ] And it seems to me that he is not sprung ...
712. A Catastrophic Reading of Western Cosmology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... even though she may at times appear to be. Notice too what Nature then does. Having decided for male over female and for permanence over change (or for stability over catastrophe), she then simply disappears from human perception. The serene and just lawgiver is said by the poet to simply hide herself. I see in this a strange anticipation of the dilemma which faces modern physics. Spenser had to bring the personification of Nature onto the scene because only Nature knows what the natural world is like and the decision had to be authoritative, yet he then makes her disappear, leaving behind only her effect. Those physicists aware of the consequences for knowledge of relativity and quantum ...
713. The Hero's Garment [Journals] [Aeon]
... brilliant sceptre." [12] From a comparative approach, it must follow that the Hero decked in his garment embodies an image of the Hero covered by the Mother Goddess, the garment being one of the goddess' widespread images. This follows basically from four different lines of evidence. The Mother Goddess As Garment Hathor, who, strange as it may sound, was believed to have served as the kilt of the deceased king. (From the capital of a column in the temple of Dendera In the first place, the Mother Goddess is explicitly described as a garment. In the Pyramid Texts, the deceased king is made to proclaim: "My kilt which is ...
714. In Defense Of The Saturn Thesis [Journals] [Aeon]
... ..However myth may be a different matter: we should proceed very slowly in offering interpretations of myths. The defenders of the Saturn theory' flaunt the dependence of their case upon myth. I do not see that as a plus." [7 ] Coming from a staunch supporter of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, this is strange indeed. Did not Velikovsky base the theory propounded in that work mainly upon myth? Was Rose himself, among others, not affronted when Velikovsky's critics branded Worlds in Collision as nothing but a collection of myths and legends? And did he not take up pen and sword in his defense of Velikovsky? Why, then, is it ...
... , told me that after a violent storm along the Argyllshire coast he was shown a quantity of giants' skulls and bones of considerable size exposed to view by a fall of cliff. They also crumbled into dust. Incidents of a like nature could be multiplied many times. While speaking of giants I do not think we can ignore the strange connection of Gog and Magog with the British Isles. The story told by Geoffrey of Monmouth may be fabulous when he relates how the Trojan Corineus wrestled with the giant "Goemagot", whom he vanquished after a life-and-death struggle by picking up the "deadly monster" and hurling him over a cliff where Plymouth now stands on to the ...
716. Martian Meteorites in Ancient Myth and Modern Science [Journals] [Aeon]
... in rejecting the possibility that rocks could fall from the sky. (2 ) Confronted with a report of a meteorite-fall in Connecticut in 1807, Jefferson is said to have quipped: "It is easier to believe that Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven." Reviewing the history of meteoritics, Dodd commented upon this strange turn of events: "That meteorites came from beyond the Earth is both a very old and a new idea...The ancient Greeks and Chinese also regarded meteorites as objects from the heavens, but this perception, like so much else of value, was lost to Western culture during the long intellectual night that we call the ...
717. The Secret of Baalbek (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... lie the ruins of Baalbek. "When we compare the ruins of Baalbek with those of many ancient cities which we visited in Italy, Greece, Egypt, and in other parts of Asia (and Africa), we cannot help thinking them to be the remains of the boldest plan we ever saw attempted in architecture. Is it not strange then, that the age and the undertaker of the works, in which solidity and duration have been so remarkably consulted, should be a matter of such obscurity. . .? "( 1 ) From the time when this was first written, in the fifties of the eighteenth century, and till today, nothing was added to ...
... 2 fly-by in 1986, all in the planet's equatorial plane, at right angles to its orbit [6-8]. Six of the minor satellites are so close together that they are likely to be fragments of a larger moon which has broken up. Voyager 2 also showed that four of the major satellites (the exception being Umbriel) have strangely twisted surfaces; in particular, the surface of Miranda seems to be a mosaic of rock and ice. There has been speculation that a single event might have caused Uranus to turn over onto its side, and given rise to the warped satellites [9 ], but a series of events is more likely. It seems probable that ...
719. Thanatos and Anastasis [Journals] [Aeon]
... on the day of Venus, descended into the Underworld on the day of Saturn (Saturday), and was resurrected on the day of Sol (Sunday). (2 ) In these events, and others, we may discern certain pagan parallels. The day of the Crucifixion was fraught with catastrophic signs and occurrences. First, a strange darkness descended upon all the land from the sixth hour to the ninth (noon until 3 p.m .) ; then the veil- i.e ., curtain- of the Temple, that divided the Holy of Holies from the rest of the sanctuary, was torn asunder; and, finally, there was an earthquake ...
720. The Origin Of Craters On The Moon And Large Lunar Boulders [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... only explanation that can account for the surface phenomenon well-known through lunar exploration to exist on the Moon. The exploration of the Moon by Apollo landers and Russian spacecraft has shown that the lunar surface is made up of a stony regolith. Its range of depth varies from site to site, but the average depth is several meters. However, strangely enough, lunar orbiting satellites have revealed the presence of innumerable large boulders between two to twenty meters in size, not only around the bases of mountains, but also far out in the great mare basins. It is quite probable that these boulders at the foot of a mountain rolled down their slopes. On the other hand, the ...
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