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72 pages of results. 241. Electricity Absent from Sagan's Astrophysics [Journals] [Pensee]
... angular momentum in action. A braking-and-restarting mechanism involving overcharging and discharging a planet would appear viable, at least in a qualitative way, regardless of that planet's initial charge or lack of charge. Such a process might be considered, too, in connection with the establishment of such rotational locks as that of Venus with respect to the earth. Thunderbolts and Orbital Decay 3) Sagan admits that "while the odds are large [against Venus' orbit being rounded from high eccentricity to near-circularity in a few thousand years] , they are not absolutely overwhelming against Velikovsky's hypothesis on this score." Still, the concept "is at odds with what we know about the three-body problem in ...
242. The Electric Universe CD by Wallace Thornhill [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... on a spectacular cometary display." Thornhill accepted the challenge of integrating the cultural record of mythology and the experiments of the plasma lab and the advances of the space age into a coherent picture. He summarizes this synthesis admirably in a single picture which appears on page 146 of the CD. The photo shows an ancient statue of Zeus, thunderbolt poised in his up-raised hand. But the object called "thunderbolt" isn't the zigzag symbol a child might draw to symbolize lightning. Instead, it's a bundle of corkscrew filaments within a football-shaped envelope, a shape recognizable today as a plasmoid. How could this be, unless the thunderbolts of Zeus actually were interplanetary discharges? Thornhill challenges ...
243. Brhaspati [Journals] [Kronos]
... hath propped earth's ends . . . [is] Brhaspati".(8 ) Likewise, just as he "Who . . . drove the kine forth from the cave of Vala . . . He . . . is Indra",(9 ) so also he who "destroyed obstructive Vala.... [and] thundering drave forth the cattle" is Brhaspati.(10) This thundering is also one of such frequently repeated epithets of Indra as expressed by "Crusher of forts . . . Indra, the Thunderer".(11) Virtually identical epithets of Brhaspati are expressed in "Slaying his enemies, breaks down their castles . . . Brhaspati ...
244. The Bible Through a King James Filter [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... "hail" or "hailstones" 30 times in the King James Version, and in each case the context implies meteorites rather than hail. Further, "these stones fell mingled with fire' (Exodus 9:24) .. .and... their fall was accompanied by loud noises' ( kolot ), rendered as thunderings', a translation which is only figurative and not literally correct, because the word for thunder' is raam which is not used here." (6 ) So far we have only taken examples of words whose meanings have been blurred and distorted in translation. Another common practice is to take some literary licence to put across more ...
245. Ignis E Coelo, Part 2 Mars Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... south and Letopolis in the north. Herodotus did not travel to the south of Egypt; thus, he must have seen the statue in Letopolis. Even today many bronze mice, sometimes inscribed with the prayers of pilgrims, are found in the ground of Letopolis. Both cities with the cult of the sacred mouse were "sacred cities of thunderbolt and meteorites."4 The Egyptian name for Letopolis is indicated by the same hieroglyphic as "thunderbolt." In a text dating from the New Kingdom and originating in Letopolis, it is said that a festival was established in this city in memory of "the night of fire for the adversaries." This fire was like " ...
246. The Battle In The Sky, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... . and fire flashed from his eyes. Such and so great was Typhon when, hurling kindled rocks, he made for the very heaven with hissing and shouts, spouting a great jet of fire from his mouth." To the sky of Egypt Zeus pursued Typhon "rushing at heaven." "Zeus pelted Typhon at a distance with thunderbolts, and at close quarters struck him down with an adamantine sickle, and as he fled pursued him closely as far as Mount Casius, which overhangs Syria. There, seeing the monster sore wounded, he grappled with him. But Typhon twined about him and gripped him in his coils . . . . .. "Having recovered ...
247. The Cloud of Jehovah [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... during the present century that they have been shown to be different aspects of the same physical phenomenon: in every form, the glow discharge is a manifestation of the conduction of electricity through gases. One form occurring in nature is the faint glow known as St. Elmo's fire, seen at the top of ships' masts at night when thunderclouds are near; other natural forms are seen from sharp Alpine peaks and even the heads of human beings. The edges of aircraft wings sometimes glow when flying through thunderclouds. Another manifestation is the Aurora Borealis, the so-called Northern Lights.(1 ) Because the rounded head of the ship's mast wore the light of St. Elmo's fire ...
248. Zeus And Athene, Part 1 Venus Ch.9 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... Was it the planet Jupiter or Venus that caused the catastrophe of the time of Exodus? Some ancient mythological sources point to Venus, other sources point to Jupiter. In one group of legends Jupiter (Zeus) is the protagonist of the drama: he leaves his place in the sky, rushes to battle Typhon, and strikes him with thunderbolts. But other legends and historical sources, too, which I have quoted on previous pages, indicate that it was the planet Venus, or Pallas Athene of the Greeks. Athene killed her father, Typhon-Pallas, the celestial monster, and the description of this battle is not different from that of the battle in which Zeus killed Typhon ...
249. The Ring About The Earth at 2300 BC [Journals] [SIS Review]
... About The Earth at 2300 BC Moe Mandelkehr Summary As postulated in earlier papers, dust in the Earth's North Polar region at 2300 BC initiated widespread geophysical changes. The dust was a result of the Earth encountering a massive meteoroid stream, the Taurids. The event was sufficiently traumatic that religions were formed in essentially all cultures on the Earth. Thunderbolts were a prominent theme of the religions, but a new theme appeared - a ring surrounding the Earth. A possible mechanism for the ring formation was capture of small particles in the Earth's upper atmosphere coupled with later particle fragmentation. Moe Mandelkehr was born and grew up in Kansas City, and currently lives in New Jersey, USA. ...
250. The Hail of Stones, Part 1 Venus Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... only meteorites, not a hail of ice.(2 ) In the Scriptures it is said that these stones fell "mingled with fire" (Exodus 9:24), the meaning of which I shall discuss in the following section, and that their fall was accompanied by "loud noises" (kolot), rendered as "thunderings," a translation which is only figurative, and not literally correct, because the word for "thunder" is raam, which is not used here. The fall of meteorites is accompanied by crashes or explosion-like noises, and in this case they were so "mighty," that, according to the Scriptural narrative, the people ...
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