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119 pages of results. 831. The Identification of the Biblical "Queen of Sheba" with Hatshepsut, "Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia" (Part III) [Journals] [Kronos]
... Egyptian records used by Velikovsky, the so-called Punt reliefs. The reliefs, sculptured on the southern wall of the middle colonnade of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, opposite Karnak, have been repeatedly excavated, read, and interpreted. Their special value lies in the vivacity with which they picture the incidents of the voyage and sojourn in a strange land. Unfortunately, two-thirds of the wall on which was sculptured the description of the Land of Punt is destroyed.81 The remaining third contains the command of the god Amon to undertake the expedition, pictures of the ships, details of the harbor where they landed- its inhabitants, fauna and flora, the houses of the settlement ...
832. The Personal Tragedy of Albert Einstein [Journals] [Kronos]
... atomic and nuclear science. As will be shown below the final pieces of the puzzle fell into place in mid-1975. If one wishes to study the thinking of those who early opposed the relativistic theories (and there were many!) it-becomes a major research project even to learn of the authors of such heresy. The usual abstracting services are strangely silent. Between the years 1905 and 1930 the doctrines of relativity and of n-dimensional and non-Euclidean geometries had a "good press." The theory was publicized by the most astute, adroit application of subtle "soft sell" techniques ever to be devised. Modern day advertising executives could learn much of psychology in studying the showmanship by which ...
833. The Problem of the Frozen Mammoths [Journals] [Kronos]
... in the same article, he also stated that "their broad, four-toed feet. . . were advantageous in marshy pastures."(39) --(Italics added). Now, it has been pointed out to this writer that the above statements by Farrand do not constitute a contradiction. Perhaps they do not but it is strange that so many of these animals lost their footing precisely in that type of terrain for which "their broad, four-toed feet. . . were advantageous." Moreover, enough mammoth cadavers have been found standing in an upright position to dispel all illusions of their having slipped(40) --unless they happened to regain their legs after slipping ...
834. Thoth Vol II, No. 9: May 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... natural world our ancestors experienced several thousand years ago is a mirror of our world today?" SKEPTICS MIGHT SAY THAT YOU CAN "PROVE ANYTHING" BY RESORT TO MYTH. Well, you certainly do hear that statement a lot, and the statement is obviously not intended to be taken literally. The skeptic is saying that all sorts of strange and exotic ideas have been proposed on the basis of myth, and he is saying you could argue for anything under the sun if all you have to do is select a few myths for support. The answer to this perfectly natural objection is to adopt investigative groundrules which exclude all selective use of historical testimony. In the approach I've ...
835. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... name of this comet is Morehouse. Ever since I first read about the Tunguska event I have believed that the comet Morehouse was responsible, and that the comet must have crossed over Earth's orbit earlier in 1908 on its way to perihelion. The story told by Kulik thirteen years later about a light coming from the east and changing course is strange. Literature on the Morehouse comet is rare, and in later times the comet is not even mentioned. The disappearance of the comet should no longer be a mystery since the fact that comets do fall into the Sun was reported in WORKSHOP 4:3 , p. 23, confirmed in WORKSHOP 5:1 , p. 34 ...
836. Paleo-Calcinology: Destruction by Fire in Pre-historic and Ancient Times -- Part II [Journals] [Kronos]
... site of his work. His excavation of the Minoan culture of Thera-Santorini, from beneath the effects of the plinian explosion of the island, called international and interdisciplinary attention to the destruction of a critical portion of Mediterranean civilizations. But Blegen of Cincinnati was also an exception; he was disposed to a cautious empiricism, but was piqued by the strange events that had befallen Minoan and Mycenaean civilization. In the voluminous published records of the Cincinnati expedition, we find the following lines: "A large collection of earth samples was also made this year. [1937] Specimens were taken from all strata of all main layers in the principal areas of digging, and the number of small ...
837. Devi And Venus [Journals] [Kronos]
... peace, and the sky grew clear. Flaming portent clouds that were in evidence before, became tranquil, and the rivers kept within their courses when Sumbha was stricken down there .. . And the band of nymphs danced; likewise, favourable winds blew; the sun became very brilliant; the sacred fires blazed peacefully and tranquil became the strange sounds that had arisen in different quarters of the sky" (Emphasis supplied).(4 ) There follows another superb hymn of praise to the goddess. She is implored to protect the universe. She agrees to do so, saying that there will indeed be further assaults on the "three worlds" but that she will once ...
838. Thoth Vol II, No. 6: March 31, 1998 [Journals] [Thoth]
... said was most unusual, and was remembered by the police interviewer. He had laughed about the robber wearing two different running shoes. On his left foot he was wearing a Nike, and on his right foot he was wearing an Adidas, the man said. The second witness said nothing about the shoes, and seems to have heard strange voices and seen things reported by no one else. But he did mention that when the robber started to leave the bank, several bills fell from the paper bag, which the robber bent down to pick up. That was when the witness noticed that the tag on his tee-shirt was on the outside; his shirt was inside out ...
839. Alexander At The Oracle [Journals] [Kronos]
... any person, of whom they shall report before thee, A slayer of living -- thou shalt destroy him, thou shalt slay him." Then the great god nodded exceedingly, exceedingly. The combination of words in the question referred by the high priest to the oracle of Amon, concerning the "slayer of living," appeared strange, and its meaning was asserted to be obscure; it caused difficulty to its first (Brugsch) and later (Breasted) translators and resulted in the strained passage just quoted. Before the last question and the answer of the oracle to it, the text contains a sentence that appears to be unrelated to the context: "While ...
840. Thoth Vol I, No. 22: August 31, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... comets threat to kings? When Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan encountered the "death of kings" idea, they offered the usual explanation, calling such ideas "the triumph of superstition" and assuming the fear arose from the random coincidence of certain kings dying at the time comets appeared. Velikovsky's critic Bob Forrest was even less impressed with the strange idea. While noting that the death of kings is "perhaps the commonest" theme of all, he adds- Certainly I see no pressing need to postulate cometary "collisions" on the basis of the "evil" reputation of comets any more than I need to invoke cometary/planetary exhalations to explain good wine years. But again ...
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