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38 pages of results. 301. The Birth and Death of Memory [Books] [de Grazia books]
... of enemies if they can be promptly engaged; the sacrifice of more and more valuable properties and persons. Relentlessly the menace approaches. The sky is full of lights, shapes and turbulence. The Earth begins to respond - to live, to move, to smoke, to blow up strong winds, to shriek, to take fire. Thunderbolts strike on all sides. Our hero watches, bemused. He is exceedingly frightened, as are his family and neighbors. There may be a pandemonium in which he faints or is struck dumb; he may scramble into a temple or house or cave; he will cover his head. The young will observe more than the old. ...
302. On Method [Books] [de Grazia books]
... that a comet cut a destructive swath across the tottering globe around the middle of the second millennium before Christ. As Kugler showed, material of scientific value is obtainable from the careful analysis of the legendary stuff on Phaeton (and his namesakes in other myths). There is adequate reason why the ancient "Jupiter effects" such as cosmic thunderbolts, the Phaeton legends, the natural events reported in Exodus, the Cosmic Egg mythology, the phenomenon of the Deus Otiosus, and the divergent "nonastronomical" sacred calendars of the Meso-Americans, Egyptians, and others - to mention only several proto-scientific or disguisedly scientific reports - should be given ordinary treatment, in an integrated manner, in ...
303. Theomachy in the Theater: on the Fringes of the Collective Amnesia [Journals] [Kronos]
... easily pass as a replica of the dragonlike tail of the Venus-Comet) in a titanic struggle to save the great city of Tokyo from destruction. [* Gamera first appeared in 1966 as Gammeraa the Invincible- the original double-m gave it more the appearance of gamma-ray. By striking Gamera with a giant needle, like a parody of the great thunderbolts exchanged between the head and tail of the Venus-Comet, Monster X wounds the turtle unto death and begins his systematic destruction of the city. Gamera, however, revives, reengages the monster in battle, and emerges victorious to receive the plaudits of his grateful admirers. From all this, it would also seem that we are viewing a ...
304. pc (Psycho-Ceramics) [Journals] [Kronos]
... voluminous ball many times the present apparent diameter of Venus, and then when the expansion-cooled gases would have once more contracted the process would begin anew. If Venus became such a "thermal nova" every so often it would be much more in accord with Velikovsky's hypothesis, especially if the hot gases carried an electrostatic potential capable of generating interplanetary thunderbolts. But the current dogma seems to preclude any allusion to historical catastrophes within a celestial context, and particularly not if Velikovsky's name is associated with it. Yet, even if Venus exhibited this sort of cycling process it could not continue this indefinitely, and we wind up back where we started. Personally, I have serious doubts that ...
305. Venus and Mars [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , and perhaps even helped by their neighbors to the North, the Etruscans, who themselves were of Anatolian origins. It is an age of destruction and movement. The powerful nearby Etruscan state was staggered by natural disasters and a decline. According to Pliny, their city of Volsinium, where stands Lake Bolsena today, was destroyed by a thunderbolt. Both Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna underwent => Plinian eruptions around the same time. Many peoples were on the march or fleeing- possibly the Etruscan elite had not preceded Aeneas by long. They were from the general area of Ilium (Troy). Southern Italy and Sicily were being heavily settled by Greeks, in trouble themselves ...
306. As Worlds Collide [Journals] [Kronos]
... ed. Athlone Press (1963), p. 109 gives the Earth's rotational energy as 2.138 x 1036 ergs; Michelson, loc. cit., computes the electrical energy of a charged Earth to be 2.14 x 1036 ergs. 10. Velikovsky devotes several sections of Worlds in Collision to interplanetary discharges (or cosmic thunderbolts). See particularly "The Spark", pp. 85-88. 11. Michelson, op. cit, p. 20. Michelson computes the energy required to flip the Earth's polar axis upside down in the presence of the observed interplanetary magnetic field. The flip-energy is 6.4 x 1024 ergs. NASA News Photo 72-H-1165 describes ...
307. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... . had seen to it that no more death would rain down from heaven. If the experience of terrifying heaven-induced catastrophes is part of our collective memory, and if we unconsciously fear them in the form of death from the sky, then the U.S . in 1950 was like Jove on Olympus, possessing the biggest weapon (the thunderbolt) and with it keeping the bickering rabble of lesser gods (i .e ., nations) in order, or like the God of the Old Testament who "with a strong hand and outstretched arm" suppressed evil nations and brought stability to the Earth. There was a quasi-religious feeling that the world had been cleansed of manmade ...
... be hundreds or thousands of times greater than the present concept of cometary magnetic fields. So it seems comets do possess strong magnetic fields and an immense comet such as Venus, coming from the core of Jupiter, would carry a part of Jupiter's large electromagnetic energy. Thus, when Venus approached the Earth, it would have discharged great planetary thunderbolts. Velikovsky devotes a chapter in Worlds in Collision titled "The Spark" in which ancient people describe immense lightning strokes loosed from the comet to the Earth. These celestial lightning strokes would have changed the Earth's polar moment of inertia, just as electrical flares from the Sun do. There is not one single point of evidence respecting the ...
309. Letters to C&C Workshop 2004:4 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... After re-reading Chapter 5 of Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, it is my belief that Moses may possibly have been disorientated due to a pole reversal. In Chapter 5 Velikovsky presents evidence that there was a reversal of the poles at the time of the Exodus and under the section headed The Reversed Polarity of the Earth', he states: A thunderbolt, on striking a magnet, reverses the poles of the magnet. The terrestrial globe is a huge magnet. A short circuit between it and another celestial body could result in the north and south magnetic poles of the earth exchanging places. ' He also mentioned what can be termed paleomagnetism in volcanic rocks as they cooled; they froze ...
310. Radiohalos And Earth History [Journals] [Kronos]
... (nuclear fusion) on Earth. (The possibility that similar discharges to the Moon may be held responsible for concentrations of radioactivity on that body has been discussed elsewhere.(25)) Might we not imagine that new polonium (and uranium, too, for that matter) was created on Earth, and in place, by powerful thunderbolts? It seems unnecessary to speculate that all parentless polonium must date from recent (historical) electrical events. If fusion was achieved catastrophically in historical times, it undoubtedly was achieved in earlier times as well, perhaps under comparable circumstances or perhaps on vastly larger scales. The point to be considered is that electric discharges of cosmic proportions should ...
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