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38 pages of results. 11. Velikovsky's Sources Volume Three [Books]
... . Primitive man could not possibly distinguish between them. In fact, among us even today educated, but non- scientific people are very hazy about them, while uneducated man here and all the world over still accepts them as 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 dangerous in the first place, and later, when man began to envisage gods for himself, it became sacred also, coming as it did from above. But whether it was considered holy or accursed depended upon the attitude ...
12. KA [Books]
... I suggest that this is an example of ka, the double, the radiation or halo round the head of a god, or statue. Greek kaio = burn. The Etruscan and Greek prutanis was a stoker who waved a brand to make it blaze; from pur, fire, and tanuo, brandish, as Zeus did with the thunderbolt. The Greek aisso means brandish, and suggests the Hebrew waved offerings, when the priest raised an offering and waved it over the altar. Hebrew nasa = raise; Greek anassein = to be king. Man-made fire on an altar, with logs, was a copy of the divine fire. Kapnos, Greek for smoke, is ...
13. The MacCecht and Cuchulainn [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... does not shine at night. It did not occur to O'Rahilly that the MacCecht was not the sun but another body traversing the sky, such as a comet. MacCecht and Cuchulainn bear some similarities such as a sword which shone at night [2 ]. This was Calad-bolg, which has the meaning of hard or crushing lightning, a thunderbolt of extraordinary proportions, the perfect description of a Clube & Napier-style fireball explosion, the blast pressing downwards on the human world below. In Welsh, calad-bolg became calad-vwlch, which was Latinised by Geoffrey of Monmouth as Caliburnus and became Excalibur of Arthurian romance. (Phillips and Keatman equate calad bolg with flashing sword' [3 ]. ...
14. Odin [Journals] [Kronos]
... In French it became Mercredi.(6 ) With these three identifications to choose from - Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury - how can we be sure of the real planet represented by this deity? Of Odin/Woden as Jupiter/Zeus, Velikovsky supplied absolutely no evidence beyond the fact that both sets of deities were gods of the thunderbolt.(7 ) This is the same meagre evidence he supplied in favor of his identification of the Hindu Shiva as the same Jupiter/Zeus.(8 ) In more than one of my previous writings, I have stressed the point that just because a deity is presented in mythology as a wielder of the thunderbolt, he is ...
15. Our Universe: Unlocking its Mysteries [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... postulate that there is evidence in ancient lore to connect the scarred warrior hero of legend with the god Mars. Yet the planet we know as Mars is only a tiny speck in the sky today; and its deep, 2,400 mile-long canyon (scar), Valles Marineris, cannot be seen from Earth without a powerful telescope. Thunderbolts Between Planets: The myths of many of the ancients tell of violent thunderbolt interaction between the gods. Of course we see lightning on earth today, but never "thunderbolts" that streak between planets. What could have caused these violent interactions long ago? The Ancient Record: Why do pictographs show what is commonly considered to be the ...
16. The Double Axe and the Celestial Twins [Journals] [Aeon]
... this unspoken principle, which has in fact been attested since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, is the explanation given to anomalous superstitions in lightninglore. No one will deny the central place lightning and thunder storms occupy in the everyday experience of the godly realm. As a matter of fact, the concept of the storm god, who wields his thunderbolts over a world eclipsed by heavy clouds, is deeply entrenched in the superstitious imagination of man-kind and seems to have been so since the earliest days of writing. The belief that the thunder god was invented to elucidate ordinary lightning is nonetheless decidedly false. When the ancient lore surrounding lightning is subjected to non-selective and unpre-judiced investigation, the entirely ...
17. The Jupiter Order [Books] [de Grazia books]
... From: Solaria Binaria, by Alfred De Grazia and Earl R. Milton Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Jupiter Order When 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 as the "girdle of strength", which, whenever girded about his person, greatly augments his celestial power. He rides upon a car drawn by two rams with silver bridles, and a wreath of stars encircles his awful brow. His chariot has a pointed iron pole, and the spark-scattering wheels continually roll over ...
18. A Fire not Blown [Books]
... , hearing that his son would displace him, ate all his offspring as soon as they were born. His wife Rhea deceived him by giving him a stone, wrapped in swaddling clothes, which Kronos swallowed. Rhea had the 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 have in the cave stories an attempt to explain the fact that electrical phenomena appear to arise not only from the sky but also from the earth, or from under the earth. Lightning at night was believed by the Romans ...
19. Apollo of the Wolf, the Mouse and the Serpent [Journals] [Kronos]
... the name "Apollo" become somewhat mutual. Apollo Carneius may therefore be promoted from the god of sheep to the god of destruction and even tentatively identified as a "colliding" planet. In any case, it should be remembered that, in astrology, Aries is the ram and represents the planet Mars.(29) SHAFTS AND THUNDERBOLTS The first four days of Apollo's existence, as told in myth, not only betray evidence of cataclysmic events, they also deny any relationship to the Sun. Leto, having been impregnated by Zeus, incurred the wrath af Hera who sent Python in pursuit of her. The beleaguered Leto could find no sanctuary on Earth. Finally, ...
20. Of the Moon and Mars, Part 1 [Journals] [Pensee]
... degrees. And since all this happened so very recently in geologic time, most of these battle scars should still be prominent and fresh-looking. But what kind of surface markings might be distinctively attributable to close encounters between planets? Religious, historical, and literary texts describing the battles of the planetary gods are fraught with references to cosmic lightnings and thunderbolts. The implication, emphasized by Velikovsky in numerous writings, is that electric discharges took place between the planetary bodies during their close approaches. Furthermore, such discharges were evidently of such magnitude as to be visible from earth even when they did not actually terminate on earth. They must therefore have involved enormous exchanges of energy and have produced ...
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