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72 pages of results. 21. Nor Heaven Nor Earth Have Been at Peace: The Contemporary Foundations of Shakespeare's Cataclysmic Imagery (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... 1561, was a bad day for churches altogether. St. Martin's church by Ludgate was struck by a "thunderbolt" which caused "great stones from the battlement of the steeple . . . [to fall] down upon ... the church.(55) And for twelve consecutive evenings in December, 1564, England suffered severe lightning and thunderstorms, "speyally on ye xij nyght . . . from viij of ye cloke tyll somewhat past ix, that ... the Elizabethans and Jacobeans apparently reserved the greatest share of whatever capacity for terror they had left for the phenomena of thunder and lightning, and such cosmic occurrences as meteors, comets, and eclipses of the Sun and Moon. Lightning ...
22. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 1966, p.97). A climber on a mountain near Susa in Italy described his experience in a thunderstorm: "As the clouds swept by, every rock, every loose stone, the uprights of the rude railing ... is a most interesting subject. In the third paper in this series, Mr Crew postulates that the noise of thunder does not simply result from the force with which the lightning channel expands due to its rapid increase in temperature, ... you may imagine, was to be expected. The second was the really deafening and indeed terrifying noise of the thunderclap. The third was curious and unexpected. Before the thunderclap arrived I remember distinctly hearing that sizzling, crackling noise ...
23. Indra: A Case Study in Comparative Mythology [Journals] [Aeon]
... heaven." (29) "He spread the wide earth out and firmly fixed it, smote with his thunderbolt and loosed the waters." (30) The spreading out of the earth is directly related to the release ... general the type of noble heroism." (49) Yet another hypothesis sees in Indra a personification of the thunderstorm, the god's victory over Vritra representing rain's victory over the demon of the drought. (50) A. ... cleft the channels of the mountain torrents. He slew the Dragon lying on the mountain; his heavenly bolt of thunder Tvaster fashioned. Like lowing kine in rapid flow descending the waters glided downward to the ocean." (19 ...
24. Snapshots of the Gods? [Journals] [SIS Review]
... strewn on the ground were palta, i.e . stones Zeus had pelted the earth with, accompanying his thunderbolt. Moreover, they thought the shape of the stones resembled the form of the hurling deity. So the many ... hammer. Moreover, in ancient Greek ritual, rain makers used figure-8 (hyperboloid) shaped shields to bring down thunder and lightning [10]. Surprisingly, in many cultures the horse (recall the wedge-like shape of his muzzle ... geometric art may not have been merely decorative. Fig. 39 is a 19th century engraving showing a fall of thunderstones, a phenomenon said to occur during powerful electrical storms but viewed sceptically by conventional science. Note in this illustration ...
25. Mythic Mountains by Isaac Vail [Books]
... world as the canopy passed away. Thus he becomes the God of the true sky, the controller of the thunder storm, etc. just as Zeus in Greece, and Indra in India. We thus are confronted with the ... who once sat on heaven's throne, had to go to the north when he gave his scepter over to the thunder-god Zeus. So the poets say he was sent to "the Island of the Blessed where he ruled over the ... ". It was said that Kronos was one of those judged among the shades. But the only philosophic origin of such a thought is to be found in the low down polar shade where form and individuality were shaded off into ...
26. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... might have been a meteorite."[15] The Greek word for Bethel was Baetyli, meaning a Jovian thunderbolt. Baetyls are sacred thunderstones or meteorites carried by the holy litters or arks of various Bedouin tribes. Originally, ... lately, and by means of satellites, have scientists known of mega-lightning, 100 times more intense than the typical thunderstorms discharges, which shoots bolts of 10 13 watts and 10 9 joules between the highest atmosphere and low clouds or ... a cleft for fear of electrocution as Yahweh passed by. The Israelites had their own electrical mountain: There were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast... And ...
27. Night of the Gods: The Stone [Books]
... and an explosion, was confounded in past times with thunder,7 and the popular belief still is that the thunderbolt is a stone. Bottiger 8and F. Lenormant considered that the Cretan legend of the Kronos-swallowed divine Zeus-stone arose in ... aerolites, generally accompanied by the visible luminousness of the meteor and an explosion, was confounded in past times with thunder,7 and the popular belief still is that the thunderbolt is a stone. Bottiger 8and F. Lenormant considered ... is, at the centre of the universe, which is also Japanese), and at the sound of a thunderclap. Theseus (a supremest divinity) alone knows where Oedipus is engulphed or buried. Of course there is a ...
28. The Jupiter Order [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Thor, the Scandinavian Jupiter, went into battle, and would grasp the handle of his terrible weapon, the thunderbolt or electric hammer, he was obliged to put on his iron gauntlets. He also wears a magical belt known ... encircles his awful brow. His chariot has a pointed iron pole, and the spark-scattering wheels continually roll over rumbling thunderclouds. He hurls his hammer with resistless force against the frost giants, whom he dissolves and annihilates. When he ... that in crossing Bifröst [the rainbow], the many-hued Aesir-bridge, he might set it on fire with his thundercar, at the same time causing the Urdhar water to boil (Blavatsky). The numerous electrical aspects of the ...
29. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
... one and the same. All the mystery of iron proceeds from the facts shortly indicated above. Iron was the thunderbolt, one of the most appalling powers in Nature. It could split or devastate anything it approached. It was ... for this. Of more interest to us is Wainwright's quotation of Livy that Romulus went up to heaven in a thunderstorm- an interesting variant on Plutarch's version quoted earlier (Part 2, p.90). And of course ... about in a perfect fusillade, especially when, as we say, the earth was passing through the Leonids; thunder pealed up there and lightning flashed; driving rain and stinging hail poured down on man and beast and plant. ...
30. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... skies, was burning up the Earth until Zeus, implored to help, dispatched him into the sea with a thunderbolt. Dwardu Cardona puts the case succinctly, citing the originals : "That the myth of Phaeton describes a shifting ... lodge on the lake shores. But one day the beast ventured too near the falls (Niagara). The Thunder god slew it with a bolt and left its body floating on the water like a chain of rocky spurs. ... a serpent-woman between whose hands is arched what is probably a lightning-bolt. And still another reveals a person called "Thunderman" who holds a lightning bolt in his hands. In China, the classical "Lucky Dragon," which ...
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