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228 pages of results. 201. Chapter XV: Temples Directed to the Stars [Books]
... and west, so that any temples facing more northerly or southerly are precluded from having the sunlight enter them at any time in the year. It is imperative to be perfectly definite and clear on the question of the amplitudes above 26 at Thebes. I repeat, therefore, that any amplitude within 26 means that up to that point the sun at sunrise or sunset could be observed some day or days of the year- once only in the year if the amplitude is exactly at the maximum, twice if the maximum is not reached. But in the case of these temples with greater amplitudes than 26 , it is quite clear that they can have had nothing to do with ...
202. Solar Eclipses and the Historical Record [Journals] [Horus]
... the sun's disk. In another location, where the obscuration is not 100%, the observer will see a partial eclipse. (At the same time, observers on still other areas of the earth will see nothing happen to the sunlight at all.) Figure 1 shows why our observers see different events. When the moon obscures the sun it creates a shadow on the earth (ABCD). This shadow has two sections; the penumbra or partial shadow (the triangular sections ABE and CDF) and the umbra or actual shadow, the wholly darkened area between the penumbral segments. During the eclipse, the umbra's length measured across the earth's surface is relatively short, at ...
203. Antiquated Textbooks: Redesigning the Solar System [Journals] [Aeon]
... discoveries of the Space Age altered what had been believed to be the well-known characteristics of each. Mercury Mercury, for instance, had been well-known to move in such a way that its period of rotation equaled its period of revolution. This meant that, like the Moon in relation to Earth, Mercury always turned the same face toward the Sun. From this, astronomers could deduce that a little less than half the planet's surface was an infernal boiling caldron due to its perpetual orientation toward, and proximity to, the Sun. Meanwhile, the other less-than-half surface, because the Sun's heat never reached it, was a bleak and darkened frozen wasteland. [5 ] Only in ...
204. Appendices [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... Title Page | Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 | Ch. 6 | Ch. 7 | Ch. 8 | Ch. 9 | Appendix | Notes The Age of Velikovsky Appendices APPENDIX 1A There are historical indications that the Sun once rose in the west. Some of them are not vague and do not need interpretations for this result. In fact just the opposite is true. They need to be interpreted if you do not want them to say the Sun rose in the west. Egyptian sources make it clear that the Sun rose where he now sets", and "set where he now rises ...
205. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... a third in the second, and so on until they form a long chain of arrows upon which the hero mounts as upon a ladder to heaven." [9 ] In a Kwakiutl tale from British Columbia the ascending hero is the notorious trickster Mink, alleged to have been conceived when his mother became impregnated by the rays of the Sun. Mink's playmates make fun of him for his apparent bastard status and, upon being informed by his mother of his father's identity, the youth resolves to ascend to the house of the Sun. At that point Mink begins shooting arrows at the sky: "Then Born-to-be-the-Sun shot one of the arrows upward. It is said it struck ...
206. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Journals] [Aeon]
... Observatory in Australia. The pulsar was detected in the southern constellation Vela and thus received the popular designation Vela X. The stellar explosion that gave birth to this pulsar occurred somewhere between 1300 and 1500 light years away and must therefore have appeared in Earth's sky for many months as a prominent light that might even have shone as a smaller second sun by day. Searching in Sumerian documents for a possible reference to this ancient stellar outburst, Michanowsky believed he found it in a cuneiform list of star names. The item that matches the event reads: "The gigantic star of the god Ea in the constellation Vela of the god Ea." As seen by the ancient peoples of ...
207. The Calendar of Kalasasaya (Built Before the Flood) [Books]
... chance, or if it be the design of a higher Entity, we can cite an unimpeachable witness of distinct and insistent speech-a Calendar'. Upon the ruin-field of Tiahuanaco, half buried in hardened grey mud, riven but resolute by dint of its mass, there was found the great Gateway which probably led originally to the Sanctissimum of the Sun Temple of Kalasasaya. This pylon is not only a triumph of megalithic architecture, being hewn out of one block of almost glass-hard andesite, about 10 feet high, 122 feet wide, 12 feet thick, and weighing about ten tons,1 it is also a marvel of sculpture, for the upper part of the front of this ...
... and it would seem as if genealogies en bloc were never propounded, hence it was a commonplace either that a god should be the father of his mother, or that he should have no father. Thus, in one sense, Ra is father of all the gods; but in another Ptah is the creator of the egg of the sun because Capella setting heralded sunrise at a particular time of the year, and Isis is the mother of Horus because Phact== a Columbae, Serk-t, a Centauri, Mut = g Draconis, and other stars (Isis) did precisely the same, while in another connection. Isis is the sister of Osiris, and therefore the ...
209. The Enclosed Sun-Cross [Books]
... theme there are corresponding signs (though this truth is still to be acknowledged by most authorities). The signs of the four rivers are the sun-cross and the enclosed sun-cross , the latter sign illuminating the former by showing that the four streams belong to the primeval enclosure. Issuing from the polar centre (i .e ., the central sun), the four rivers flow to the four corners of Saturn's Earth. The sign of the enclosed sun-cross , observes Cirlot, "expresses the original Oneness (symbolized by the centre)," and "the four radii .. . are the same as the four rivers which well up from the fons vitae .. ." ...
210. THE ROAD TO SATURN (EXCERPTS FROM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY) [Journals] [Aeon]
... in 1950. At that time, having been raised in one of Roman Catholicism's most impregnable strongholds, I was still being taught that the world had been created in six consecutive days. During our science courses at Stella Maris College, Gzira, on the island of Malta, we were informed that the Earth came into existence long after the Sun. But in the course of our religious upbringing during the same semester at the same college, we were also expected to believe that the Earth was created shortly before the Sun. Upon questioning this inconsistency, we were told that in matters of science we were to follow the teaching of the scientists, but that in religion, honoring ...
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