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119 pages of results. 861. Reconciling Celestial Mechanics and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... the moon, to name only a few major bodies in the solar system, are electrically charged. Yet the very precision with which gravitational theory accounts for the planetary motions seems to belie this evidence. Perturbations due to repulsive electrical forces, for example, are nowhere in evidence today-not even, I hasten to suggest, in the strange behavior of comet tails, about which I shall have more to say later. This impasse between celestial mechanics and the notion of cosmic electrical interactions was recognized long ago. A reconciliation seemed so unlikely that physical scientists of half a dozen successive generations felt compelled to devise all sorts of exotic theories to explain away the most obvious evidence for ...
... feast on his royal ship. The captives of Jerusalem were ordered to sing their sacred songs: ". . . they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying. Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief Joy" (Psalm 137:3-6). The pious writer of the Book of Chronicles says that ...
863. Cultural Aspects of the Libyan and Ethiopian Dynasties [Journals] [Kronos]
... of correct classic' orthography. '( 3 ) Spiegelberg concluded that, because of this similarity in the art of writing in these two periods, separated by half a millennium and more, Erman's argument was unfounded and the stele must have been carved in the days of the pharaoh whose name it bears, Thutmose IV. Is it not strange that the style and epigraphy of two periods, thought to be separated by such a large span of time, are so similar as to engage two specialists in such a dispute? The Eighteenth Dynasty and the Libyan period in Egypt produced very similar literary works. In no language, ancient or new, would four to seven hundred years ...
864. Janus: Corrigenda et Addenda [Journals] [Aeon]
... . It will not do to brush it away simply because the source is considered late. As Lydus himself stated, the knowledge he imparted still preserved "a trace of the ancient belief." The fact that Janus and Saturnus were separate deities has nothing to do with the issue. As has been recognized by others, there is nothing strange about having different deities, even within the same pantheon, as personifying the same celestial object. This was succinctly stated by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend through the following words: "The real actors on the stage of the universe are few, if their adventures are many. The most ancient treasure'- in Aristotle's word ...
865. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 12.90, pp. 34-37 Some astronomers are so sure that there is another planet that they are actively searching for it. They think its presence is indicated by deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune from that predicted. Others, however, think these deviations are only the result of inaccurate measurements during last century. It seems strange in the light of such lack of faith in such recent observations that they can at other times happily accept records from 3000 or 4000 years ago to prove that the Solar System has not varied during this time. Greenhouse for Triton New Scientist 27.10.90, p. 22 Until the visit by Voyager, astronomers thought that ...
866. Myth and the Origin of Religion [Journals] [Pensee]
... seems to escape all of these men is that the ancient sources and accounts which we have in hand today may simply be the way people wrote about the events that affected their lives. Even with Watts' encompassing definition of myth, we find the old Boas "hidden meaning" or quasi-philosophy about the nature of the universe. It seems strange indeed that the ancient peoples would spend so much time writing about the inner mysteries of life and find little time to record the events and incidents of their times. Using the definitions of the various thinkers discussed above, we cannot and will never be able to make any significant statements about the history of the planet, because these thinkers ...
867. New Chronology Issues, continued from Workshop 1991:1 [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... for Egypt is used to construct a fictitious dating system for Greece. For Robinson then to hold up this evidence for an Olympic festival predating 776 BC is mere sophistry. On the alphabet, Robinson states that my comments show complete ignorance' of what he describes as the copious evidence' showing that the Greek alphabet long predated 800 BC. Strangely, however, Robinson names not a single authority who would place the invention of Greek letters earlier. The only evidence he advances is once again dependant on Egyptian chronology. Cylinder seals contemporary with Nikmed of Ugarit, who employed an alphabetic cuneiform, were found at the Kadmeion in Thebes. These seals are also contemporary with the end of ...
868. The Devil's Advocate [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Again on the matter of accepting "half a loaf," most scientists might today accept your description of the universe, the skies and even the solar system as more unsettled, explosive, threatening and damaging than is generally believed. But why go to extremes? There could have been solar disturbances so extensive as to cause Venus to behave strangely- as if alive- at one time, perhaps even light up if its rotation were slowed down. Jupiter might have exploded some brilliant gases under solar influence, too. It's quite believable from your evidence, also, that the Earth may have suffered a disaster from a comet tail on some occasion, and from a large meteoroid ...
869. Man's Divine Mirror [Books] [de Grazia books]
... is a fringe around hysteria. The divine identification and imitation justified and provided morale for survivors to revive and conquer. A newly-acquired super-mammalian aggression abetted the profits of survival. Those who survived could move out, reinforced by grace of the gods, and in imitation of the gods, readily loot, kill, or enslave whoever remained alive and strange. The material gains of aggression were thenceforth regarded in the category of gifts of the gods, and regularly some portion of them was returned to the gods by means of sacrifices. From old Mexico Brundage gives us a song composed by the Emperor Axayacatl: "The flower death (for sacrifice and cannibalism) came down to Earth. ...
870. Legends and Miracles [Books] [de Grazia books]
... SISR I (1977), pp. 2-3, Where radiation disease is discussed as causing abrupt stoppage of childbirth at time of Exodus in Egypt. 19. Francis II. Baker, "Comet Lord," 189 Living Age (June 27, 1891). pp.818-23, repr. in W. Corliss, comp., Strange Universe, A2-ALC-001. 20. See also their book Lifecloud, Harper's and Row, New York, 1978. 21. Ex. 33. 22. VII Encycl. Britannica 1964, hereafter referred to as E.B . 23. VII EB p.962. 24. Ibid. 25. (1975), 136, ...
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