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119 pages of results. 951. Imaginary Worlds: The Debate Heats Up [Journals] [Aeon]
... ." [15] That is the full extent of Mewhinney's analysis of Mallery's work on this region. Here, then, is what Mewhinney omitted in his discussion of Mallery's analysis from the very same source he cited: "During the first systematic examination of the map, I [i .e . Mallery] glanced again at the strange tail hanging off the southern extremity of South America, across the location where the Drake Passage [which separates South America from Antarctica] should have been. Suddenly unwilling to dismiss this tail as a distortion, as scholars had done, I pondered several possibilities, rejecting each of them. Then an astonishing idea came to me: the ...
952. In Defence of Higher Chronologies [Journals] [SIS Review]
... unsubstantiated reports), rather than analysis, sifting, explanations etc. The early Greeks drew no sharp line between muthos and historia. Herodotus has historiai that nobody believes and Plato and others have muthoi that capture truth. Our modern tendency to take myth as false and history as true is an error. Peiser's discussion of the octaeteris contains some strange and weak arguments. The octaeteris was an 8-year cycle of the Sun and the Moon, based on the fact that 8 solar years and 99 lunar months are almost equal. Peiser also discusses another well-known 8-year cycle, that of the Sun and Venus, reflecting the fact that 8 solar years and 5 mean synodic periods of Venus are ...
953. Paradise -- The Lost Frontier: Early Voyages to the Forbidden Isles [Journals] [Aeon]
... previously crossed the equator in company with Jacobus Carnus of Portugal where they had discovered the Antipodes. Bartholomew Colon acknowledged that the Antipodes was a Roman term for what was then regarded as the Mundus Novus or New World. This is the same New World that Gerhard Kramer (a .k .a . Mercator) identified as South America. Strangely, this Antipodes was not included in Behaim's public globe which was on display in Nuremberg in 1492. Behaim's neglect to include a new land that he had found in the southwestern Atlantic on a public map betrays his collusion in the Portuguese effort to mislead the public regarding the existence of a new continent. It also helps explain why King ...
954. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Journals] [Aeon]
... found among aboriginal peoples of South America. Thus, the Desana of the Colombian rain forest hold that lightning is "a glance the Sun casts upon the earth." [48] How are we to understand this widespread belief whereby lighting is thought to emanate from a celestial eye? The aforementioned Desana tradition offers an important clue, for strange as it must appear to the modern mind, lightning is intimately connected with the ancient sun-god, as we will discover. But why should this be? In the current Solar System, needless to say, lightning does not emanate from the Sun. That cultures around the world associated the ancient sun-god with an "eye" is well ...
955. Index of Titles
... The Stonehenge Nineteen Year Sun-Moon Calendar Wall, Alban: Stonehenge: Temple of the Moon Wall, Alban: Stonehenge: What Was It? Wall, Alban: The Aubrey Holes Of Stonehenge Wall, Alban: The Calendar of Coligny Wall, Alban: The Planetary Order Revealed in The Book of the Secrets of Enoch Wall, Alban: The Strange Phenomenon of Solar Prominences Wall, Alban: THE AUBREY HOLES OF STONEHENGE (CONCLUDED) Warlow, Peter: Geomagnetic Reversals? Warlow, Peter: Return to the Tippe Top Warlow, Peter: The Birth of Planets Warshawsky, Walter: The Exodus in the Pyramid Texts? Web Words and phrases: World Wide Web focus Weir, John ...
956. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... The cosmic dust theory for extinctions has now been refined. Regular extinctions every 100,000 years are supposed to occur when the Earth's orbit takes it through a sun-blocking dust plane. This is no longer considered to be when the Earth's orbit tilts but when it becomes more circular. Lunar impact Astronomy Now Dec 98, p. 61 A strange observation of the Moon by some monks in 1178 has been suggested to be the result of an impact which caused the crater Giordano Bruno, which appears to be recent. Additional evidence has now been provided by the discovery that the Moon has a 3 year oscillation period, consistent with the idea that it was hit less than 1000 years ...
957. The Ocean [Journals] [Kronos]
... figures closely resemble the date of the last cosmic catastrophe fixed in Worlds in Collision as 27 centuries ago. In 1960 Bruce C. Heezen of the Lamont Geological Observatory made known the results of an expedition that, in the previous months, had traversed all the longitudes and, going up and down the latitudes, had discovered a huge and strange formation twice encompassing the globe. The structure has the form of a large and high ridge, split along its length by a deep canyon. In a preliminary report published in Scientific American of October 1960, Heezen described it thus: "It is a submarine mountain ridge that runs for 40,000 miles across the bottom of all ...
958. Heretics, Dogmatists and Science's Reception of New Ideas (Part 2) [Journals] [Kronos]
... issue, Del Rey reviewed Worlds in Collision in just under 200 words on the occasion of the appearance of the Pocket Books edition which he identified as "the first paperback edition". His April 1978 column acknowledged readers pointing out this error while maintaining that "to those who insist that the problem of angular momentum can be dismissed because the strange orbits of the planets in the theory have all been explained, I can't accept your argument. You see, when Joshua was around, the world- the whole Earth- stopped rotating, right? (Forget about starting it again.) What do you think was involved in the sudden change from rotation to nonrotation? Torque conversion ...
959. Catastrophism and the Compulsion to Meaning [Journals] [Kronos]
... for the rest of the environment in anything but terms borrowed from man. In general, it does this by reference to a host of spiritual agents who share qualities intermediate between man and his environment, and whose activities are invoked as the only true cause why anything we perceive with the senses should be as it is. It is the strange contribution of Velikovsky to propose that at some phase for all peoples the primary among these agents were planets. One of the most common but also the most revealing complaints against Worlds in Collision is that again and again it merely assumes that a deity playing a central role in some catastrophe myth was believed by the culture in question to be ...
960. Society News [Journals] [SIS Review]
... , to show that the history of both is the same. Sennacherib is the Assyrian title of Xerxes. Both were murdered by their sons, both conquer Babylon twice. After the first conquest both are lenient. After the second conquest both are harsh, murdering many inhabitants. Sennacherib carried away the sacred golden statue of Bel Marduk and, strangely, so did Xerxes 200 or so years later. Sennacherib explains that he was harsh because the inhabitants had murdered the Assyrian Viceroy. Xerxes explains his harshness by saying they murdered his Viceroy, who was his brother. Sennacherib suppresses the Babylonian gods and Xerxes does so in favour of the one true god. John Crowe asked how Emmett ...
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