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72 pages of results. 41. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... cause whirlwinds -Chinese coiled and revolving dragons - Chinese "red ball" problem - Ball, sun, moon, thunder and pearl as spirals - Flat and ascending spirals - Chinese spiral and Yang matter. Ancient religious art invariably expressed ... ", and writes: Hirtli and De Groot suppose so. The latter, considering the dragon's nature of a thunder-god, arrived at the con-elusion that the dragon must belch out the ball instead of swallowing it, for why should ... If their trying to grasp or swallow the thunder could be explained, I should immediately accept the theory concerning the thunder-spiral, especially on account of the flames it emits. But I do not see the reason why the god of ...
42. Whirlpools and Whirlwinds [Books]
... cause whirlwinds -Chinese coiled and revolving dragons - Chinese "red ball" problem - Ball, sun, moon, thunder and pearl as spirals - Flat and ascending spirals - Chinese spiral and Yang matter. Ancient religious art invariably expressed ... ", and writes: Hirtli and De Groot suppose so. The latter, considering the dragon's nature of a thunder-god, arrived at the con-elusion that the dragon must belch out the ball instead of swallowing it, for why should ... If their trying to grasp or swallow the thunder could be explained, I should immediately accept the theory concerning the thunder-spiral, especially on account of the flames it emits. But I do not see the reason why the god of ...
43. The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah [Journals] [Kronos]
... Immanuel Velikovsky Editor's Note: This article is only part of a much larger work by Velikovsky titled Jupiter of the Thunderbolt. Its conception goes back to the 1940's when much of the material was first written. The present article has ... In such a discharge, there is little doubt that considerable nuclear fusion would also take place. Nevertheless, ordinary thunderstorms which exhibit numerous lightning strokes are not known to create radioactive hotspots, principally because the traverse through the atmosphere slows ... bolt sufficiently so that the most noticeable effects are ionization and chemical recombination of atmospheric gases. Such ions which are generated cannot be accelerated through the air-mass with sufficient velocity to effect nuclear transformations and create radioisotopes. With respect to terrestrial ...
44. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Six [Books]
... ,/ Prepare thy weapons and discharge thy fires./ Avenge the darkness of this stolen day./ Send thunderbolts and lightnings to supply/ The place of this lost sun. Thou hast no need/ To weigh the issue ... fury on the world. What we have here is neither more nor less than a dramatised representation of the ordinary thunderstorm (but see the eclipse motif mentioned below, and the note at the and of this section). The ... encroach one on another, the day grows dark, the shining mountains collapse, the rivers dry up, it thunders in winter, frozen rain falls in summer, the sky and man come into conflict and the state perishes; ...
45. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... real infant taken to Crete and hidden in a cave. The electrical significance of Zeus, the lord of the thunderbolt, is well known; that of caves is almost equally important, if less appreciated and less dramatic. We ... in the marrow, medullis, to a sky god rather than to an earth deity, may have been the thunderstorm. A good example of the effect of a thunderstorm is found in the fourth book of the Aeneid, when ... and Aeneas take refuge in a cave from the storm. The Greek lagneia, lust, may be the fire of el. Agni is the Sanskrit name of the god of fire. Zichne, ignis The Latin ignis, fire ...
46. KA [Books]
... he had the wisdom of an old man [1 ]. The fulguriator at Rome specialised in the study of thunderbolts. There are frequent references to lightning and earthquakes in classical literature. Cicero, 1st century B.C . ... and of electrical fields both of the atmosphere and of the earth. Even today, the electrical effects of a thunderstorm are easily detectable by the naked eye. Piezoelectric effects and earthquake light are recognised phenomena, and there are grounds ... supposing that conditions were more turbulent, electrically, in the ancient world [1 ]. The Greek augur faced north, the Roman south, and watched especially the behaviour of birds and animals. The Roman augur had a staff ...
47. The Electric Universe [Journals] [SIS Review]
... A big clue to the missing mechanism comes from the early accounts of the planetary gods battling in the sky with thunderbolts. Contrast this with the complete absence of any mention of electrical properties of celestial bodies in modern textbooks on astronomy ... off. 30. Christopher Blinkenberg, The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore, 1987. The thunderweapon was associated with thunderstones' that were hurled from the sky with the lightning'and were buried deep in the Earth. The blow it delivers ... its terrible power are often referred to, but the fire kindled by the lightning hardly ever'. See p. 60. . Everything in fact suggests that the thunderstone belief dates back to the stone age ? ', p ...
48. Myths of the Cataclysm Caused by the Breakdown of a Former Satellite (The Book of Revelation is History) [Books]
... of the blocks of the satellite's glaciosphere, the inner hail-body ring, causing terrible meteorological disturbances, shrieking hurricanes, thunderstorms, and great hail (second part of verse 19). The lessening pull of the satellite also caused earthquakes ... and they had on their heads crowns of gold. (5 ) And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices [sounds]: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne . . . ( ... through the heavens, or a giant striding over land and sea, under the accompanying music of a pandemonium of thunderclaps, endures upon the retina of memory for ever, and is easily reproduced in the imagination of a listener. ...
... continuously. Coruscations darted suddenly in every direction from a central point, forming a group of brilliant rays like the thunderbolts attributed by the ancients to the aegis of cloud-compelling Jove. The inference, from the presence of new minerals hitherto ... formidable column stretching down from red angry tubular clouds, RAIN AND ACIDS An eruption is accompanied or followed by violent thunderstorms and rain. The vapours which accompany the eruption condense rapidly and the rain falls in prodigious quantities, producing torrents ... the interior of the mountain varying from sounds like the rattle of myriads of machine guns to the deep and ominous thunder of hidden batteries compared to which the heaviest guns are mere bagatelles. Smoke, flame, and lightning emerge from ...
50. Myths of the Great Fire (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... Earth that he would have burnt it, if he had not been speedily killed by Zeus by means of a thunderbolt. The Stoics and many other ancient philosophers taught that the world was doomed to destruction by fire. In the ... men who were saved became quite charred. Guamansuri, according to one tradition the father of the Peruvians, produced thunder and lightning by hurling stones with his sling. The Australians at Western Point, Victoria, have two versions of ... California say that the old world was bad and needed re-creation. The highlands were set on fire. Then the thunder-god, who lived in the world above, quenched the universal fire with a flood of hot water. Then it ...
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