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72 pages of results. 201. The Laughing Gods [Books] [de Grazia books]
... engaged, acting to preserve the balance of power so as to work out the preordained plot, arbitrating, mediating. Still he is remarkably aloof, even there, his thunderbolts remembered by gods and men alike, but held in a kind of nuclear-missiles reserve. His deeds were deeply etched upon human memory but physically he was receding into the ... Titan's son; and, although Zeus later borrowed certain solar characteristics from the Hittite and Corinthian god Tesup and other oriental sungods, these were unimportant compared with his command of thunder and lightning." Further, Graves tells us, "The Sun's subordination to the Moon, until Apollo usurped Helius's place and made an intellectual deity of him, ...
202. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a mechanical Universe? In the Agamemnon, the signal fire is described as a beard of flame, reminding one of Thor's red beard. He was a god of the thunderbolt, wore a belt of strength, had goats to draw his chariot through the sky, and wore a horned helmet. The Oresteia has many references to the net ... musicians may have something to contribute on at least two subjects. Velikovsky's discussion on Theophany' (Worlds in Collision, I,IV) not only includes the groanings and thunderings one might expect from an Earth in geological upheaval, but references also to the trumpet' sounds which could have originated from close encounters of charged bodies, and a ...
203. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... of Rome contains important material. It is generally known that augurs specialised in the study of birds, animals and lightning. The fulgurator was an expert in the study of thunderbolts, and the haruspices studied the entrails of sacrificed animals. The Etruscans seem to have been the source of Roman knowledge and divination generally. In order to ascertain the ... and the Ark, as per Alfred de Grazia's study. If there was a "climatic event" in the 8th century BC, then one can understand why an approaching thunderstorm caused Dido and Aeneas to rush into a cave (Aenaeid IV 160), and the rude statues of Hermes found everywhere in Greek towns testified to the effects of ...
204. Poleshifts, Catastrophes, And Myths [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... changed as events in the heavens unfolded. Olympus, the home of the gods, is seen as a great comet, moving across the sky where Zeus reigns hurling his thunderbolts earthward from time to time."16 All this, of course, comes straight out of Velikovsky and new theories based on the myths are now very much in ... opponents. He described the theories of the catastrophists in a way that made them sound deeply unscientific. We hear of sudden and violent revolution of the globe, ' he thundered. ". .. of the instantaneous elevation of mountain chains, of paroxysms of volcanic energy... We are also told of general catastrophes and a succession ...
205. The Burning of Troy [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the threefold mass of mountains fell .. .These arms let loose and hurl your fires"[25]. Could there have been a qualitatively different kind of Jovian thunderbolt playing about the world in mythical and prehistoric times? A ramified bolt of hundreds of strokes is not impossible to imagine. The myriad lightning and fire effects in the ... has Mt. Ida behaving in peculiar ways when the gods of heaven enter the battle of Greeks and Trojans: "From high above the father of gods and men made thunder terribly, while Poseidon from deep under them shuddered all the illimitable earth, the sheer heads of mountains. And all the feet of Ida with her many waters were ...
206. On Morrison: Some Final Remarks (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... spectacularly scarred with features suggestive of discharge activity. Io is almost a caricature of Mars, exhibiting multiple examples of the numerous markings to be expected on a body tormented by thunderbolts. And all are fresh-looking, as if Io were more than once and not too long ago the whipping boy for an aroused Jupiter. I wish to acknowledge valuable ... A typical meteorite fall produces a brilliant fireball or meteor, leaves a smoke trail, and creates a series of sonic booms resembling the sounds of firing cannon, or of thunder claps." And, in July 1977, Madagascar reported a meteorite fall that was accompanied by noise "variously described as sounding like sonic booms, artillery shots, ...
207. Ancient Myths And Legends Of The African Bantu People [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... ) Vishnu and the Serpent,(11) and Isis and Seth.(12) When a ball of fire tore the pillar of cloud and pelted the pillar with thunderbolts, the imagination of the people saw in this planet-god Jupiter-Marduk rushing to save the Earth by killing the serpent monster Typhon-Tiamat.(13) The Egyptian Venus-Isis, the ... "Come, O my mate, I am waiting for you here!" The silvery goddess ran towards the mountains and burst through them, flying amid roaring boulders and thundering clouds of dust towards the voice, her arms outstretched. "My mate! My mate! .. .. " And then her voice faded into a gasping ...
208. Science Frontiers 1977-1978 [Journals] [Catastrophist Geology]
... to follow these precursors along their crooked trails. [Thunderstorm frequency has often been linked to solar activity, and cosmic rays could provide the connection. Could meteorites or "thunderbolts" do likewise? Ed.] (Anonymous; "Do Cosmic Rays Trigger Lightning Discharges?", New Scientist, 77:88, 1978). BIOLUMINESCENCE ... of cascades of secondary particles that create complex ionized tracks as they penetrate the dense lower atmosphere. Lightning bolts would tend to follow these precursors along their crooked trails. [Thunderstorm frequency has often been linked to solar activity, and cosmic rays could provide the connection. Could meteorites or "thunderbolts" do likewise? Ed.] (Anonymous ...
209. Trisms and Planetary Iconography [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... god Typhon, and by the Egyptians with the god Set. (13) These authorities agreed that this comet wreaked great havoc and devastation before its denouement via Zeus' thunderbolts. Figure 45 Citing sources which claimed that Venus, at that time, resembled a comet, Velikovsky identified Typhon as Venus' cometary tail, suggesting that legends depicting ... In Christian lore, the unicorn is Christ transmuted by the alchemical process. So, according to Nicolaus Caussin, "God, formerly the God of vengeance, who with thunders and lightning brought the world to disorder, took his rest in the lap of the Virgin, nay in her womb,...made captive by love. ...
210. The Palaetiology of Fear and Memory [Books]
... The Earth begins to respond - to live, to move, to split open, to smoke, to blow up strong winds, to shriek, to take fire. Thunderbolts strike down up n all sides. Our hero watches. He is exceedingly frightened, as are his family and neighbors. There may be a pandemonium in which he ... of collective remembering and reburial. One does so even when one (or an intimate observer) would claim that he is responding only to fear of assault, rape, thunder, hunger, punishment or whatever. A "D-event" is both general and terrible. It supplies these two qualities. Because it is general, it can be ...
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