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72 pages of results. 101. Origins of the Red Dragon Symbol? [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the region of the summer stars" and "I have been on the Galaxy at the throne of the Distributor". The distributor of what? Comets? Meteors? Thunderbolts? Fireballs? I feel that with so many astronomical references in the poem they must have been intended by the composer, and most importantly, also understood by many ... but in times past it has also been used to refer to: Mellt Distaw' - (sheet lightning), and also Mellt Didaranau' - (lightning unaccompanied by thunder). According to this authoritative dictionary the most interesting common usage of the word draig' in earlier times was to refer to: Maen Mellt' - the word ...
102. Thoth Vol VII, No 2: Mar 15, 2003 [Journals] [Thoth]
... repeated on a grand scale in any attempt to stretch a conducting elevator cable from Earth into space. The power that drives regional thunderstorms will be concentrated into a single cataclysmic thunderbolt, destroying the elevator cable like a thin fuse wire. In the worst scenario, the 50km high ground station will be replaced by a neat, circular crater, ... holoscience.com/news/balloon.html ] Further evidence about discharges from space was actually provided by the ill-fated astronauts when they photographed a huge arc of light above thunderstorms in Africa. It is quite possible that conditions in the ionosphere led to a lightning discharge to Columbia, which may have damaged a critical component or surface of the ...
103. The Crescent II [Books]
... Hindu eagle Garuda, whose wings were so great as to affect the cosmic revolutions. According to the Athapascans of North America a raven hovered over the waters generating claps of thunder by the movement of his wings. (2 ) Natives of Hawaii say that at the beginning of time, when only the ocean existed, a great white bird ... its wings outstretched. Imdugud (the Akkadian winged dragon Zu) was a form of Ningirsu or Ninurta, the planet Saturn. (1 ) In this primordial wind-bird or thunder-bird scholars recognize the prototype of the Teutonic Hraesvelgr, the winged god of the storm, and the Hindu eagle Garuda, whose wings were so great as to affect the ...
104. The Mesoamerican Record [Journals] [Pensee]
... These gods were unquestionably worshipped in later times as the source of rain necessary for crops, but as with the Greek Zeus, sender of rain and wielder of clouds and thunderbolts, the earlier planetary nature of the deity lingered to create awe. In the Florentine Codex the separate functions are stated in the terse definition given of the nature of ... , is shown to have its first expression among the Olmecs. The serpent-motifs have also led scholars to recognize in the Olmec jaguar the predecessor of the omnipresent Mesoamerican gods of thunder and rain, the Tlalocs among the Nahuatls (Caso, 1942: 44) and Chacs among the Mayans (Thompson, 1951: 1, 36). These ...
105. The Area of Origin [Books]
... of the female principle, a symbol of conception and birth, an ancient trade mark, a mere ornament, a symbol of fire, a symbol of lightning, a thunderbolt, a symbol of water, an astronomical symbol, a symbol of the four castes of India, a religious or military standard or flag, a bird in flight ... been referred to as a "thunderbolt", but it is manifestly in the first place a symbol of the four cardinal points. The arrow-head projections suggest a connexion with thunder and rain. It should be compared with the so-called "Celtic Knot" similarly formed from the swastika, the points, however, being connected with curved instead of ...
106. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... variety. Then, in the past few years, lightning was discovered for the first time above the cloud level. Dubbed a SPRITE' (Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification), this appeared to originate within the cloud as a point which spread upwards as a series of twisted tendrils; sometimes as far as the ionosphere. Recent ... shown that actually the reverse is the case; that the sprite is generated above the clouds, becomes focussed there and discharges within or below as positive lightning. The associated thunder is below the audible spectrum, in the ranges associated with nuclear explosions. The sprite has four times the power of normal lightning and there is both visual and sonic ...
107. The el-Amarna Letters (Concluded) (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... , "thundereth in the heavens like Adad." It should be noted here that this was the same attribute that Shalmaneser in his inscriptions applied to himself: "I thundered like Adad, the Storm-god." Shalmeneser also wrote, "Shalmeneser, the mighty king, the sun of all peoples." Akhnaton and Shalmaneser both claimed to ... last letter to the pharaoh Abimilki changed the manner he had used in writing his previous letters. He used to tell the pharaoh that he, the august overlord, "thundereth in the heavens like Adad." It should be noted here that this was the same attribute that Shalmaneser in his inscriptions applied to himself: "I thundered like ...
108. Canopy Skies of Ancient Man by Isaac Vail [Books]
... " of a promised "land" was the divine beverage front the udder of Almathea that nursed the baby god, who, as the years ran by, became the thunderer who now holds the throne on high. Forms fled from Egypt in the universal and inevitable fulfilment of the inviolable "oath" of Nature. The march was the ... , is a fossil name that affirms the fall of at least two lower heavens, and by all means we are driven to the rock of canopy evolution. If the thunderer's birth means anything; it his concealment by his nurses in a cave means anything, it means that the immortal tact of the reign and fall of ephemeral heavens is ...
109. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... with the wolf god. He notes that Apollo was regarded as a far shooter and a far dart thrower. He despatched missiles from afar (somewhat like Zeus and his thunderbolts) and was a god synonymous with archery. He had similarities in common with Robin Hood (a god with a veil and an aspect of Woden) which begs ... [6 ], i.e . in the air. Velikovsky's etymology is fascinating and conceivably could denote an atmospheric event such as an exploding bolide or loud clap of thunderous noise. This is also compatible with the idea of to destroy and the act of destruction (by the agency of blast). The term shafts (as in ...
110. Father Kugler's Falling Star [Journals] [Kronos]
... chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of ... been observed which resemble the sun in respect of size and brilliance, and cross the sky at great speed in various directions, not rarely exploding, to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning, sometimes setting fire to terrestrial settlements and fields with their glowing debris. That, according to the popular and poetic conception, such an unexpected apparition should ...
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