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38 pages of results. 191. Reviewing Velikovsky'S Venus And Mars Theories [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... degrees" according to Isaiah (Isaiah 38). Latitudes all over the Earth changed, some to higher, some to lower latitudes. The Earth's equator relocated. Jerusalem's latitude became lower some 3 or 4 degrees, as much as 300 miles closer to the new equator. According to Ginzberg's ancient rabbinic sources, one or more powerful interplanetary thunderbolts (from the Angel of the Lord) struck the Assyrian armor, camped just outside Jerusalem. Those thunderbolts were some 25,000 miles long and longer, discharging across interplanetary space, a vacuum. They were energetic, high amperage, and they were loud, they were full of thunder. The discharge near Jerusalem produced among other ...
... founder, Cadmus, had been an Arch-Hierarch, or Arch-Druid), Amphiaraus, one of the Seven Argives, a seer, who had opposed the war knowing what lay in store, nevertheless fought against it. We are told that, "pursued by the enemy, he fled by the banks of a river, when Zeus launched a thunderbolt, a chasm opened in the ground, and he, with his horses and chariot, was swallowed up".7Once realizing what lay behind all this magic, we would say that Amphiaraus was destroyed by a bomb thrown from the walls. It was Drui-Lanach. There was one inherent weakness in this ecclesiastical claim of divine intervention. ...
193. New Fashions in Catastrophism [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of the same relative size of that occurring during the sun-spot-free period in the 17th century. I hope these rather crude thoughts are some help to you in thinking about revolutionary primevalogy. Sincerely Yours, John W. Firor ** * The ancient Roman Encyclopedist Pliny mentions that the Etruscan city of Volsinium had been destroyed long before him by a thunderbolt from the sky. None paid serious attention to the remark, except the cosmic heretics. Deg, who had campaigned during the War in the region, would have liked to investigate Pliny's claim, a pleasant location for a critical test of the veracity of legend and the activity of Zeus the Thunderbolter or another god. After he had ...
194. Afterword [Journals] [Kronos]
... critical statements which are given extremely inadequate justification, and which are central to one or more of Velikovsky's major themes, are as follows: the statement (page 283) that Meteorites, when entering the earth's atmosphere, make a frightful din, ' when they are generally observed to be silent; the statement (page 114) that a thunderbolt, when striking a magnet, reverses the poles of the magnet; ' the translation (page 51) of Barad' as meteorites; and the contention (page 85) as is known, Pallas was another name for Typhon. ' On page 179 is enunciated a principle that when two gods are hyphenated in a joint name, ...
... , and by delicate acicular crystals of unknown material. This eruption was one of extreme activity. From every part of the immense pillar of cloud of dust and ashes hanging suspended over the mountain, alarming flashes of forked lightning darted 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 unknown in the volcanic region, and also from the lack of fusion in others, is that in 1822, the material which made up this eruption were introduced from outside for the most part, and that whilst some were ...
196. Chaldean Account of Genesis [Books]
... the fall of the celestial being who appears to correspond to Satan. In his ambition he raises his hand against the sanctuary of the God of heaven, and the description of him is really magnificent. He is represented riding in a chariot though celestial space, surrounded by the storms, with the lightning playing before him, and wielding a thunderbolt as a weapon. "This rebellion leads to a war in heaven and the conquest of the powers of evil, the gods in due course creating the universe in stages, as in the Mosaic narrative, surveying each step of the work and pronouncing it good. The divine work culminates in the creation of man, who is made ...
197. The Mesoamerican Record [Journals] [Pensee]
... of thunder and rain, the Tlalocs among the Nahuatls (Caso, 1942: 44) and Chacs among the Mayans (Thompson, 1951: 1, 36). These gods were unquestionably worshipped in later times as the source of rain necessary for crops, but as with the Greek Zeus, sender of rain and wielder of clouds and thunderbolts, the earlier planetary nature of the deity lingered to create awe. In the Florentine Codex the separate functions are stated in the terse definition given of the nature of the god: "Tlaloc: to him was attributed rain; for he made it, he caused it to come down .. . And also by him were made ...
198. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... into the most pervasive fears of ancient man but also a coherent scenario of cosmic events. Wars of the Gods As a mythical archetype, the cataclysm is not merely a terrestrial disturbance, it is the story of celestial upheaval. The gods themselves battle in the sky, wreaking havoc on the earth and rearranging the heavens. Their weapons include thunderbolts and stone, flaming "arrows," fire-breathing dragons, celestial wind and flood. The tale is most familiar to us, perhaps, as the famous wars of the Titans, the catastrophic aftermath of the Golden Age of Kronos, when "wide heaven was shaken and groaned, and high Olympos reeled from its foundation under the charge ...
199. Aphrodite The Moon or Venus? (Continued) [Journals] [SIS Review]
... drooping from their head and chin, and with the scales of dragons for feet." (16) They assaulted Heaven, with an attack of rocks and firebrands, during the struggle Zeus forbade the Sun and Moon to shine; the Gods in concert fought with the Giants, who were eventually destroyed mainly by the power of Zeus' thunderbolt. A catastrophic interpretation readily suggests itself - the obscuring of the Sun and Moon, the missiles and thunderbolts and the dragon associations are familiar to us from the mythological material associated by Velikovsky with the Venus disasters. Perhaps they record an earlier brush with the tail of the proto-planet Venus: Apollodorus continues his narrative with the story of Typhon ...
200. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and Zysman believes that during catastrophic eras the peoples of the world would see the electric auroral displays with a central spiralling column over the poles. He showed a slide of a NASA infra-red photo of Earth taken from space, and there, even today, could be seen the funnel or columnar effects over the poles. Ancient imagery frequently associates thunderbolts, churning, whirlwinds and spiral serpents with destruction and the subsequent creation of new life and Zysman contends that the extraordinary atmospheric electrical activity engendered at periods of catastrophic destruction was also the divine spark' which was instrumental to the creation of new life forms. In answer to questions about the exact identifications of mythological characters with planetary bodies or ...
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