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38 pages of results. 131. Verbal Vignette [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... | Issue Contents Verbal Vignette MEL ACHESON: Mel reminded us that gravity is a theory. Stars, for instance, repudiate gravity, solar prominences disobey [see Velikovsky's comments in Cosmos without Gravitation, at www.varchive.org/ce/cosmos.htm]. The Gravitation Constant is like a dancing plasma. Herodotus says that "Thunderbolts steer the universe". Like Newton, Herodotus would have seen apples fall from trees, but did not consider the observation significant to his view. Likewise, Newton would have seen lightning, but not considered the observation significant to his view of gravity. ...
132. The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin [Journals] [Kronos]
... space travel a mere 500,000 years ago" when they first visited Earth [p . 232] . Sitchin's thesis obviously conflicts with Worlds in Collision on a number of points, for instance, the identity of Marduk and Tiamat. There Velikovsky conjectured "When a ball of fire tore the pillar of cloud and pelted the pillar with thunderbolts, the imagination of the people saw in this the planet-god Jupiter-Marduk rushing to save the earth by killing the serpent-monster Typhon-Tiamat" [p . 174]. Another conflict concerns the exhortations of the biblical prophets. Sitchin uses the biblical prophecies of Amos, Joel, Isaiah and Zechariah, which refer to destruction, earthquakes, melted mountains, ...
133. Indra [Journals] [Kronos]
... responsible for this calamity.(22) But although Mars was definitely involved, the Hindus did not blame Kartikeya/Skanda/Kumara for the actual dispersal of the rings. On the contrary, the event seems to be attributed to Indra in a myth which states that, in his anger at their continuous howling, the god flung a thunderbolt in the midst of the Maruts and smashed each of the seven into seven more parts.(23) Thus the number of the Maruts increased to forty-nine,(24) although other sources specify twenty-seven and even one hundred and eighty.(25) In any case, the rings were shattered and their remains, in the form ...
134. Early Attempts At Rationalizing. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... remained unconsumed.[6 ] The event itself was accompanied by a very loud noise. In Worlds in Collision I offered the surmise that "if for some reason the charge of the ionosphere, the electrified layer of the upper atmosphere, should be sufficiently increased, a discharge would occur between the upper atmosphere and the ground, and a thunderbolt would crash from a cloudless sky".[7 ] Such an event is not "legal" in Aristotelian or uniformitarian thinking: therefore it not only could not have taken place, but should not even be mentioned. Yet its replacement or rationalisation by the story of invading hordes of field mice who in a single night selectively gnawed ...
135. Plato. Ch.2 To Know And Not To Know (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... water, though other lesser ones are due to countless other causes. Thus the story current also in your part of the world, that Phaethon, child of the Sun, 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 a destruction, occurring at long intervals, of things on earth by a great conflagration...Any great or noble achievement or otherwise exceptional event that has come to pass, ...
... , deep-rooted and widespread, was in memories of natural phenomena and extraordinary events of the past that grew dimmer with every passing generation. Pliny, the Roman naturalist of the first century, could tell of interplanetary discharges: "Heavenly fire is spit forth by the planet as crackling charcoal flies from a burning log".[16] Interplanetary thunderbolts, according to him, have been caused in the past by each of the three outer planets. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Seneca, the contemporary of Pliny, mentor of Nero and philosopher, wrote that "the five visible planets are not the only stars with erratic courses, but merely the only ones of the class that ...
137. First Century: Visions Of Apocalypse. Ch.3 In Fear And Trembling (Mankind in Amnesia) [Velikovsky]
... over the other elements and brought the world to the brink of destruction "when far from his course the furious might of the sun's horses whirled Phaethon throughout the sky and over all the earth. But the almighty father [Zeus], stirred then with fierce anger, crashed down ambitious Phaethon from his car to the earth with a sudden thunderbolt, and the sun, meeting his fall, caught up from him the everlasting lamp of the world, and bringing back the scattered horses, yoked them in trembling, and then guiding them on their proper path, restored all again."[4 ] At the beginning of the present era Seneca wrote about the fate of the ...
138. Notes on this issue: Pensee IVR IX [Journals] [Pensee]
... (With the paper by Anderson and Spangler we initiate a series of articles analyzing the assumptions which underlie the radioactive dating methods, and assessing the role of these methods in testing catastrophist theories.) Ralph Juergens (p . 21) proposes a novel and tantalizing hypothesis for the origin of lunar sinuous rilles: they were gouged out by interplanetary thunderbolts - electrical discharges that, in at least one instance, constituted the aggression of Ares. The features of these odd lunar formations fit his hypothesis strikingly well, claims Juergens. Vine Deloria, Jr. (of God is Red fame) offers a refreshing analysis of the relation between myth and history (p . 45). Assiduously ...
139. The Red World, Part 1 Venus Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... villages and cities.(4 ) The summit of mountainous Thrace received the name "Haemus," and Apollodorus related the tradition of the Thracians that the summit was so named because of the "stream of blood which gushed out on the mountain" when the heavenly battle was fought between Zeus and Typhon, and Typhon was struck by a thunderbolt.(5 ) It is said that a city in Egypt received the same name for the same reason.(6 ) The mythology which personified the forces of the cosmic drama described the world as coloured red. In one Egyptian myth the bloody hue of the world is ascribed to the blood of Osiris, the mortally wounded planet ...
140. Earthquake, Part 1 Venus Ch.2 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... hail were destroyed by the earthquake. And at that time all the houses fell in, and most of the temples."(6 ) Also, Hieronymus (St. Jerome) wrote in an epistle that "in the night in which Exodus took place, all the temples of Egypt were destroyed either by an earthshock or by the thunderbolt."(7 ) Similarly in the Midrashim: "The seventh plague, the plague of barad [meteorites]: earthquake, fire, meteorites."(8 ) It is also said that the structures which were erected by the Israelite slaves in Pithom and Ramses collapsed or were swallowed by the earth.(9 ) An ...
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