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38 pages of results. 281. Transcript of the Morning Session of the A.A.A.S. Symposium [Articles]
... much father in time, but the argument is even better if you know my arguments in the two volumes that precede Earth in Upheaval [meaning Worlds in Collision], describing the events concerning flood, universal flood, and other catastrophic events of the time. [Velikovsky is here referring to Saturn and the Flood and to Jupiter of the Thunderbolt, the two volumes that describe the earlier catastrophes, those that preceded "the last two acts of the cosmic drama" that are described in Worlds in Collision.] As to the figures of mathematician and physicist, how they throw them! One lesson I had to give. Professor Straka, of Boston University, presented his piece ...
282. The Garden, the Fall and the Restoration [Articles]
... greatest are by fire and water and lesser ones by countless other means. Thus the story current also in your part of the world that Phaeton, son of Helios, 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 destroyed by a thunderbolt. That story, as it is told, seems like a fable, but the truth behind it is a shifting of the bodies that move in the heavens around the Earth, and the destruction occurring at long intervals, of things on Earth by fierce fire." If there is one question crucial above all others, it is ...
... Atlantis of classic fame was ciwsed by this same event. Plato describes, on the authority of an Egyptlau priest who had preserved a record of the calamity, that Atlantis was highly civilized and powerful, that it was engaged in a great war, its territories being invaded from overseas, and was suddenly engulfed by a celestial visitation or the thunderbolts of Zeus, whereby immense earthquakes tore the land to pieces and left it tattered and submerged, for the greater part, in a raging hurricane which lasted for only a day and a half. Atlantis was described as the motherland of civilization and the catastrophe formed the awful climax to a bitter war. This war, with its sequel ...
... that became alive and emitted fire. This monopoly, it may readily be understood, gave unbridled power into the hands of the priesthood, and a wonderfully organized body they were. The populace, naturally enough, regarded the destruction of men who had offended the gods -really the priests-and were suddenly killed by magic means, such as the "thunderbolt" of Zeus, as due to the personal intervention of the Deity. Moses used the same tricks when he led the people into the wilderness and they rebelled. In one case he sprang a mine and blew up the rebellious priests of Korah, in another he sent "fiery serpents" among the people. I have somewhat deviated ...
285. Einstein and Relativity [Journals] [SIS Review]
... An interesting idea but they were unnaturally dumb- i.e . they were inanimate in the original source, like meteoric material that had fizzled out but as it entered the atmosphere revived in a burst of glorious light and sound. A cauldron is conical - a cometary or meteoric shape. It stands on tri-pods = the symbol of the thunderbolt (meteorite) and cauldrons were used to cook the food of warrior bands, at meat (in the halls of chiefs and kings). Cauldrons are a favourite motif of Celts and other Germanic warrior societies [6 ]. The king and his band of fighting men appear to be derived in imitation of the sky god and his ...
... in relation to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. All that need be remarked in passing is that meteorologists were quite unable to produce any cogent reasons for either the Amalfi landslide or the Glamorgan tornado. THE ATLANTIC HURRICANE OF AUGUST, I924 9. The summer months Of I924 were marked by a continuity of severe thunderstorms usually brief, but accompanied by thunderbolts, and heavily charged with electricity and cloudbursts. There were also reported a number of earthquakes in Britain, notably in Derbyshire and on the west coast of Scotland. August was on its worst behaviour throughout. In that month an earthquake was reported in Turkestan, followed by vast rain, causing enormous floods over a great area, and ...
287. Catastrophes in the period 5th cent. BC to 14th cent. AD [Journals] [SIS Review]
... associated with the Ark, a boat floating on waters (from a human perspective) or a comet riding a train of meteoric material (in the heavens). In Wales the 3 stroke broad arrow ® was a bardic hieroglyph for god, or an act of the gods. A link with the symbol of the trident - and Poseidon's thunderbolts - appears obvious. Over time the symbol is thought to have degenerated to some extent, becoming three diverging rays of light descending towards the earth = the trinity, a Celtic theme which pops up in the triple forms of goddesses and gods, e.g . the 3 sons of Turenn, or the 3 forms of Gwenhyfar, ...
288. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... scanned each wadi in turn - could it have been this one or that? Whatever happened, Josephus is adamant that there were some most unusual atmospheric events taking place at the same time as the waters receded, describing storms of wind...showers of rain .. . and dreadful thunders and lightning, with flashes of fire. Thunderbolts also were darted upon the Egyptians, nor was there anything which used to be sent by God upon men as indications of his wrath which did not happen at this time'. However severe the atmospherics were, and even accepting that there might have been a passing cosbod' involvement as well, one's credulity is stretched to breaking point ...
... highly charged. From every part of the immense cloud of ashes hanging suspended over the mountain alarming flashes of forked lightning darted continually from the edges of the cloud. They did not consist of a single zigzag streak of light, but coruscations appeared to dart suddenly in every direction from a central point forming a group of brilliant rays resembling the thunderbolts conceived by the ancients as reposing in the aegis of cloud-cornpelling Jove. 38B. The second hypothesis is also unsatisfactory, for there is no reason to accept the assertion that a volcanic eruption is an exception to the laws of nature whereby like can only produce like. The fusing of certain augitic rocks could not therefore create an entirely new ...
... with the contentions put forward in this work. They thought volcanoes were the saviours of mankind, and that they acted as protectors of humanity. They were afraid, when a premonitory eruption took place, that there might be worse to follow. They regarded the volcano as the source of creation, and yet they accorded to Zeus, the thunderbolt, the meteor, the power to do as he willed with Prometheus or Atlas, afterwards destroyed by Saturn. If this allocation of the situation of Mt. Prometheus be correct it will be understood how violently the British Islands must have suffered in past times. The presence of a volcano brings fertility and wealth, but it also offers ...
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