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72 pages of results. 191. Cosmology And PsychologyY [Journals] [Kronos]
... beginning. Intellectually, politically, morally, we are in a new age, a new climate. It is as if a series of rainstorms has ended in one final thunderstorm which has cleared the air and changed, permanently, the temperature of Europe."(68) Even the intellectual background of seventeenth century Europe shows that the sources ... myth and religion were concerned preferring the conclusion that "the sublime description of the theophany may owe certain features to the two most majestic spectacles vouchsafed to mankind: a sub-tropical thunder-storm and a volcanic eruption." (19) And yet, despite occasional localized upheaval, cosmic forces remained the preeminent concern of the ancients. At times, in ...
192. The New Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... , once harnessed his father's chariot but could not guide it on his father's course and so burnt up everything on the face of the earth and was himself consumed by the thunderbolt - this legend has the air of a fable; but the truth behind it is a deviation of the bodies that revolve in heaven round the earth and the destruction ... , or speeding over Callicolone by Simoeis river. So the blessed gods drove the two hosts together and made the bitter strife burst forth. The Father of men and gods thundered terribly from on high, Poseidon made the solid earth quake beneath, and the tall summits of the hills; mount Ida shook from head to foot, and the ...
193. Of the Moon and Mars, Part 2 [Journals] [Pensee]
... discharge activity only 2700 years ago. Its bulk alone is enough to give pause to such speculation. Still, who can say what internal forces might be tapped by a thunderbolt to a body like Mars? Conceivably the heat and shock of such a strike could have been all that was necessary to produce an enormous outpouring of lava, especially ... " terrestrial lightning bolt, were its energy not dissipated in the atmosphere, could be expected to blast out a crater nearly 100 meters in diameter. Cloud-to-ground electric potentials in thunderstorms reach values near 109 volts (61). Presumably the potential drop across an interplanetary spark gap would be considerably greater than this, but by how much we can ...
194. Hurricanes and Cyclones [Books] [de Grazia books]
... current whenever there is a sufficient accumulation of electricity in the clouds to make the jump to Earth."[12] Typhon, the cosmic spectral dragon felled by a thunderbolt from Jupiter, was anciently described by Apollodorus as "rushing at heaven" with hissing and screams, spouting a great jet fire from his mouth. This same Typhon ... of 1883, winds stripped all the surrounding area of its lush vegetation before burning it [14]. People heard noises of anchors being hauled up and dropped, of thunder and beating drums: the winds carried the explosions across the Indian Ocean where they were heard as distant cannonading. The barometer on a ship nearby jumped up and down ...
195. Collisions and Upheavals [Journals] [Pensee]
... in its first encounter with the young comet, the Earth's surface was torn with great rifts and clefts, and hurricanes scoured the land. Strata pressed against strata, rising thunderously into mountains or engulfing cities. But the Earth and some of its inhabitants survived. Anticipating renewed devastation following another 50-year period, nations bowed down before the great fire ... , the first night of the Hebrew Passover, when Sennacherib and his army camped close to Jerusalem, Mars made a last, fateful approach to the Earth. A great thunderbolt- a "blast from heaven" --charred the soldiers' bodies, leaving their garments intact. The dead numbered 185,000. Assurbanipal, Sennacherib's grandson, later recalled ...
196. "Stonehenge Viewpoint?" Biased View (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... " by Zeus should not have been included in this category - not because this fits the theory of cosmic catastrophism while the others do not, but because the emission of thunderbolts by the Jovian deity was a belief that was universal.(38) Forrest himself, whose misusage is often deliberate, knows this well enough and should have known ... Dorsey, unpublished notes, Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, Chicago, 1922. These notes were later compiled by R. Linton and published as The Thunder Ceremony of the Pawnee and The Sacrifice to the Morning Star. 23. Linga Purana 1:57:39. 24. Ibid., 1:60: ...
197. Orbits of Core Material Ejected from Gaseous Planets [Journals] [Kronos]
... the charge stored in the core is drained away and the voltage gradient drops to a value which is unable to sustain the discharge, as in the case of a terrestrial thunderstorm. The astronomical process was evaluated and illustrated in computer programs for several sample discharge periods, as described later. The variation of velocity and position of components of the ... solar orbit in the same direction as Jupiter. Once the discharge starts, it would be self sustaining, fed by the charge stored in the core, much as a thundercloud feeds terrestrial lightning until most of its charge is dissipated and the electrical field in the lightning channel falls below a critical value. The stream of positive ions represents a ...
... years and Londoners slept fitfully or not at all. That was in the south-east. in the north-west it was another matter. Sunday morning, September 20 early, violent thunderstorms broke out suddenly over most of Scotland, especially along the south coast and the north and north-west of England, the storms moving from north-west towards south-east. At Berwick-on-Tweed ... Seconds-there is a rapid and dramatic change. The wind swings round to the north-east accompanying a big fall in the barometer, and a violent storm takes place, often with thunder and lightning, inclement conditions generally, and for weeks the weather is upset or abnormal what is the cause of all this? Where does the storm originate in the ...
... did not consist of a single zigzag streak of light, but coruscations appeared to dart suddenly in every direction from a central point forming a group of brilliant rays resembling the thunderbolts conceived by the ancients as reposing in the aegis of cloud-cornpelling Jove. 38B. The second hypothesis is also unsatisfactory, for there is no reason to accept the assertion ... of day from the surrounding region below, and sand and ashes combine to produce an atmosphere of deep and depressing gloom. 3IA. These threatening demonstrations are accompanied by violent thunderstorms and rain. The vapours which have risen from the orifice or gathered about it condense rapidly, and the rain falls in prodigious quantities producing torrents on the sides and ...
... a premonitory eruption took place, that there might be worse to follow. They regarded the volcano as the source of creation, and yet they accorded to Zeus, the thunderbolt, the meteor, the power to do as he willed with Prometheus or Atlas, afterwards destroyed by Saturn. If this allocation of the situation of Mt. Prometheus ... . It was preceded by the usual phenomena. The first warning was so great an oppressiveness that people could scarcely breathe, and this was followed by a rumbling like distant thunder. The resultant shock threw down most of the city, then one of the finest in Europe, day was turned into black night owing to the thickness of the ...
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