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119 pages of results. 851. Thoth Vol I, No. 8: April 5, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... a mirror of the life and personality of the great celestial king whose rule brought abundance and cosmic harmony. Hence, the same state of things should accompany that king's successors who share in the blood-line and charisma of the great predecessor, whether that predecessor is called Ra or An, Quetzalcoatl or Itzam Na. Perhaps it will seem a bit strange that an ancient god identified as the creator would be so intimately associated with the idea of kingship, or remembered as having ruled on earth during the Golden Age. There is a fascinating paradox here: In the earliest traditions, as we've already noted, the Universal Monarch is a celestial power through and through. He is, in ...
852. Pandemonium [Books] [de Grazia books]
... that accidents, absenteeism and other factors indicating degradation of human performance can be correlated with infrasonic waves arriving from storms 2000 miles away [5 ]. Infrasonic waves cause nausea, disequilibrium, disorientation, blurring of vision and lassitude. All of these have been described as accompanying earthquakes, ball lightning and volcanism [6 ]. Some thunderous and strange sounds accompanying the passage of meteorites are attributable to the friction and collapsing vacuum of passage, but others have been theorized as products of the conversion of kinetic energy into electromagnetic radiation. Romig and Lamar have studied this problem. The high velocity of such waves would explain why some meteoric sounds are heard during and even before the visual sighting ...
853. Quantitative Aspects Of Ancient Cosmology [Journals] [Kronos]
... + 10 cm/sec and multiplied by the square of that velocity at which it is moving has exactly the same total energy as the same mass at rest multiplied by the square of the free space velocity of light.(16) This is a result which brings our usual notions of energy due to motion into coincidence with the intuitively strange fact given by E = mc2 . It cannot be countered that this is a kind of symbolic trick. Take a mass, move it at 2.36E + 10 cm/sec, make a relativistic correction (the mass will increase with its velocity), then multiply this corrected mass by the square of 2.36E + ...
... not speculative but is a certainty because of the "continuous literary tradition preserved by the Egyptian priest Manetho." 5 Hall then said that this basic scheme has been filled in and supported by archaeology. However, the archaeologists did not solidify this scheme by analysing monumental inscriptions and correlating them with Manetho's list. As Velikovsky noted, "The strange fact is that long before the heiroglyphics were read for the first time, the kings of Egypt were placed in the centuries in which conventional chronology still keeps them prisoner." The few changes have been relatively minor compared to the chance for error provided by Manetho. Perhaps this is part of the basis for Gardiner's 1961 statement that " ...
855. "Just Plainly Wrong": A Critique of Peter Huber (Second Installment) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the time he has finished rewriting and purging the Ninsianna observations, in an effort to make them come out in harmony with the present arrangement of the solar system, it does not really matter what he claims to be comparing them to; he has long since ceased to deal with the data anyway. His statistical manipulations lead to some very strange results, such as arcus visionis values that are negative: when the Sun is so many degrees above the horizon, it will be dark enough for us to see the planet on the horizon! This means that the event - appearance or disappearance - would have to be on the wrong side of the actual conjunction! These results in ...
856. Five Years (Immanuel Velikovsky's Jewish Science) [Books]
... ). Only eight days after Velikovsky went public with his predictions, the Times reported that "between one third and one fourth of lunar soil examined" was composed of glasslike balls (similar to tektites) and other samples "contained cavities created by bubbles of gas from condensing lava flow." On September 21 the same paper reported "strange magnetic properties in lunar rocks," which later turned out to be the effects of remanent magnetism. Two weeks later, on August 7, the Times featured an article describing the discovery of hydrocarbons in two separate samples of moon dust. The radioactivity, the moonquakes, the temperature gradient, and a high concentration of argon-40 were all ...
857. The Correct Placement of Haremhab in Egyptian History [Journals] [Kronos]
... has two forelegs raised, thus charging in a gallop, and differs in every detail from the horse under the rider on the Bologna fragment from Haremhab's bas-relief. The Assyrians are credited with the development of cavalry; in the words of a Hebrew prophet, "Assyrians .. . horsemen riding upon horses".(16) It is strange that throughout the texts the name of the king is not given. This does not follow established practice, or, as one may say, an otherwise unalterable rule: in Egyptian texts the native Pharaoh is always named by his royal nomen and cognomen, not just as "His Majesty". This, together with the presence of ...
... , drama, music and literature;" had he been allowed to proceed with it, the skyshow program that he envisioned would have promoted better planning for the space age and would have saved large sums of government funds misspent on faulty assumptions about the nature of the solar system. (14) Other old Velikovsky-baiters also emerged, sometimes in strange places. In a high school publication, for instance, Martin Gardner called Velikovsky's idea "bizarre cosmological fantasies" that were "so far out that not even John Campbell," the science fiction editor who had previously promoted Dianetics and other "pseudo-scientific" fads, --"not even John Campbell has been able to work up ...
859. Shapley, Velikovsky And the Scientific Spirit [Journals] [Pensee]
... denounced as crackpots, charlatans or frauds. And this is what the establishment has done to Velikovsky and his reconstructions of astronomical processes and human events. On the record, Harlow Shapley was the initiator and instigator of this exemplification of scientific fair play. The Ureys, the Whipples, the Gaposchkins, the McLaughlins and the rest but followed his strange, unpredictable lead. Reading the exchanges between the emeritus Harvard astronomer, the Kansas chemist and the Ohio high school girl, I began to feel that I may well have made a mistake in trusting time and the authentic scientific spirit to dissipate the Shapley infection. Maybe only court action would stop Shapley and clear Velikovsky's name and fame. ...
860. The Rape of Helen [Books] [de Grazia books]
... an adulteress in the most complete sense. For Paris there was no atonement .. . But Helen received no punishment, and scarcely any reproach. She ended her days back in Sparta, administering magical drugs obtained in Egypt, interpreting omens, and participating in the life of the palace much like Arete [queen of the Phaeacians and a strange, powerful figure] and not like a proper Greek woman [2 ]. The "enigmatic" and "complicated" image of Helen, that Finely alludes to, has a simple solution. Helen of Troy stands for the Moon. She represents the goddess Aphrodite. Paris-Alexander, Prince of Troy, represents the god Mars-Ares. The ...
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