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119 pages of results. 941. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... line of sight could be to track the western or evening star aspects of its ellipse, such knowledge indicating a continuance of the elliptical orbit or indicating that the orbit was compressing. I discussed this with Ev Cochrane, Wal Thornhill and Alan Beggs. As convention dates these circles or ovoids to somewhere around 2000 to 1000 BC, could these strange alignments indicate a disrupted sky? Another matter I brought up to our little Australian' Conference was that the stone configuration at Callanish, Outer Hebrides is an image of the Saturnian polar configuration, set out on the ground. J. Eric Aitchison, N. Lambton, NSW, Australia Wood fragments below basalt flows The discovery of wood ...
942. Stonehenge: Temple of the Moon [Journals] [Aeon]
... , where he stated that "knowledge of this... [was] carried across into Gaul," that is to say, disseminated throughout the Celtic family. News Flash COMETARY X-RAYS, ETHANE, AND METHANE- A FIRST In July of 1996, Comet Hyakutake put on a spectacular display. More than that, the comet exhibited strange properties which were anything but comet-like. Through the use of a German X-ray satellite known as Rosat, physicists detected X-rays being emitted from the comet's nucleus. Long believed to be composed of nothing but dust and ice, such emissions were not expected. Michael Mumma, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was heard ...
943. The Saturn Thesis (Part 4) [Journals] [Aeon]
... ; and its teeth are likened both to "rays of light" and to "daggers." It means power and authority, as we should expect. And, in its archaic form, the teeth are not aligned in the fashion of our familiar combs, but radiate from a center. So what are we to make of this strange array of symbols? When examined in isolation, the symbols will yield only a heap of contradictions, reducing the ancient goddess to random, incomprehensible, and irrational superstitions and little more. But when seen in concrete relation to the Radiant Venus, they will point with remarkable integrity to universal underpinnings in natural experience. So, in brief ...
944. Lucid Dreaming and Visualization Techniques in The Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides [Journals] [Aeon]
... bed, extended his fingers and calculated (sullogisamenos) the time, and said "you have ten years from me and three from Sarapis." [95] Several points warrant mention. First, Aristides seems quite confused as to the identity of the visitor by his bed. It might have been a priest. More important is the strange reference to calculating time with the fingertips. Ostensibly this referred to the years Aristides had spent in devotion to both Asklepios and Serapis, respectively. But such an act would also necessarily involve some maneuvering, even gesticulating, of the hands. Hence, one detects overt similarities between this specific incident and methods of hypnotic induction extensively employed during ...
945. The Last Supper [Journals] [Aeon]
... ordinance known as the Qiddush (or Kiddush). It was during the Qiddush, and not Passover, that the cup of wine was blessed by the head of the group and then given to the other members to drink. There was also a similar blessing and breaking of bread just as is described in the Lord's Supper. What is strange is that while the Synoptist accounts describe the Last Supper as a Qiddush, it is there stated to have been a Passover festival; whereas in the Gospel of John, where the Last Supper is not said to have been a Passover festival, the offering of the wine and the breaking of the bread is omitted. It seems obvious ...
946. Back to Instantaneous Polar Shifts [Journals] [Aeon]
... of the equatorial bulge. In Salkeld's test, the weight of the valve is overwhelming with respect to its centrifugal momentum so, inevitably, it always moves down. In any case, whatever conclusions Salkeld could have drawn from his experiments with a rotating beach ball, they are not applicable to gyros and, in particular, to Earth. Strangely enough, it seems that Salkeld himself realized this, so that when he wanted to evaluate the effect of an impacting body, he was forced to apply an "equatorial band" to his beach ball in order to stabilize it. "With the ball spinning," wrote Salkeld, "I dropped a small pellet into its periphery ...
947. Megalithic Lunar Observatories – A Critique (CONCLUDED) [Journals] [Kronos]
... great savings of time, manpower, and stones while, at the same time, showing the cleverness of Megalithic man. However, it can be seen from Figures 9a and 9b that an even smaller grid could have been used to give the same results. If Megalithic man was as capable and economically minded as Thom contends, it seems strange that he did not devise this smaller grid. VISIBILITY IN THE MEGALITHIC PERIOD One of the main obstacles to the acceptance of Thom's lunar hypothesis is that Megalithic man required much better observing conditions, at least in Scotland, than those prevailing today. Some of Thom's supporters(47) have implied that his thesis depends upon there having been ...
948. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Either of these Palestinian adventures could be the Gezer expedition of Shishak. In Ages in Chaos (p . 104) Velikovsky tells us that the father of the Egyptian princess given to Solomon was the third king of the XVIII Dynasty and names him as Thutmose I. Thus Velikovsky identifies Thutmose I as Shishak, the despoiler of Gezer, that strange dowry payment to Solomon. There appear to be several Shishaks if this identification is upheld. We have three distinct actions by Shishak': 1. he destroyed Gezer for Solomon's benefit prior to or close to his marriage to the Egyptian Princess, 2. he was the person to whom Jeroboam fled, received succour and a royal bride ...
949. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... northern superiority. Fossils of a large flightless bird indicate that it lived contemporaneously with dinosaurs of similar form, which probably occupied the same ecological niche; competition between such similar forms is usually supposed to ensure that only one type survives at any one time. Over in Argentina the Patagonian dinosaur finds continue to amaze with their huge size and a strange new one was found to closely resemble one found in Mongolia. The trouble is that they both come from the late Cretaceous, long after the northern and southern land masses are supposed to have drifted far apart. As now, so then Scientific American Dec. 97, pp. 48-53 The Paluxy River tracks of dinosaurs were well recorded ...
950. On Morrison: Some Final Remarks (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... ). The latter is an inveterate defender of orthodox geology and geochronology. He too discounts the possibility that "there is something seriously wrong with the radiometric clocks or our readings of them" (see Velikovsky Reconsidered, pp. 217-220; EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 60:617-618, 1979; Cf. William Corliss' Strange Planet E2- A Sourcebook of Unusual Geological Facts, 1978, pp. 31-42). At McMaster University in June 1974, Dr. Morrison and Dr. York worked hand in glove to discredit Velikovsky at every turn. They did not succeed; and the reason for their failure is left for the historians of science to discover. ...
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