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182 pages of results. 351. The Origin And Evolution Of Stars [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... away from its place of birth."175 This still places them in the region where new stars form. Shklovskii states, "At a distance beyond 15,000 pc [parsecs: a parsec is equal to 3.26 light years] from the galactic center, pulsars are altogether absent."176 This distribution conflicts with the traditional paradigm because large stars capable of collapsing into pulsars exist well beyond the 15,000 parsec limit. If pulsars are the leftovers of large stars, they should be found where large stars exist beyond the pulsar radius. Furthermore, "Pulsars are known to be high velocity objects traveling at speeds of several hundreds of kilometers per second . ...
352. The Twelfth Planet: by Zecharia Sitchin [Journals] [Kronos]
... has a distendedly elliptical path, with its perihelion in the asteroid belt and its aphelion about twelve times as far away as Pluto. The reason why we do not observe this planet, which the Babylonians called Marduk, is that its period of revolution is 3,600 years - a fact which combines with its planetary number to explain the traditional tenacity of sexagesimal counting. About the time when the solar system developed, Marduk struck the fourth planet, Tiamat (known to ancient Mesopotamians as the dragon of the deep and the mother of the gods), which then orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Half of Tiamat was then shattered to form the asteroids, while the surviving half ...
353. Modern Origins of Flat Earth Theory [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... president of the International Flat Earth Society, reminds me of a story richer in significance than that recounted in the article. The idea that medieval people thought the world flat essentially didn't exist until 1820, when writers such as Washington Irving and Antoine-Jean Letronne assigned the idea to people long dead. Humanists of the Enlightenment, trying to replace centuries-old tradition and institutions with their personal ideas, recognized the job becomes easier if everything that preceding them is thought to be from an era of darkness. The darker the past, the brighter and more irresistible new ideas seem to be. The myth that people used to think the world flat was cultivated throughout the 19th century, particularly gaining ground ...
354. Avaris and the Land of Goshen [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... SHIHOR in Egypt.) All we have to do now is to discover where the Israelites had been resident in the Delta, and we shall have a good idea as to where exactly Avaris was to be found. Firstly, we can indeed note that the ancestral home of the Israelites in the Delta was called Goshen. According to one tradition: ". .. The Pharaoh that took Sarah away from Abraham by force had given (Goshen) to her as an irrevocable possession..." 7 Concerning Goshen, it was twice called "Gesem of Arabia" by the authors of the Septuagint, while the Coptic Bible called it Gesem of Tarabia'. This place ...
355. The Impact of Impact! Notes on the implications and the reception of "IMPACT! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids" by Gerrit Verschuur [Journals] [SIS Review]
... in front of our noses, they might equally well have punctuated the Earth's history in ancient and prehistoric times. This new appreciation, however, also stems from the increasing awareness that the celestial hazard is not limited to the odd asteroid which hits the Earth every 100,000 or 1,000,000 years. In contrast to the traditional risk assessment (based on a statistical analysis of the number of known impact structures on Moon and Earth and the currently known asteroidal flux), it has become evident that there are many other (and, in fact, many unknown) cosmic sources which are capable of triggering ecological disasters - often without causing impact craters on the ground ...
356. A RENAISSANCE SATURN [Journals] [Aeon]
... of images on the extreme left of the south wall [fig. 2a: Sa]. With the singular exception of his influential role as an astrological force, (5 ) it was the narratives pertinent to Saturn's legendary kingship at the beginning of human history which gained prominence and gripped the imaginations of poets and scholars in an almost continuous tradition stemming from remotest Greek antiquity until the Renaissance. Throughout ancient literature, Saturn was associated with the origins of human experience, his name synonymous with the Golden Age. Of the many versions of Saturn's legend amplified and allegorized in centuries of retelling, two features remained constant to the tale of the Golden Age: first that it was a ...
357. Pluto's Rank Again - Needs Changing... [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... lack of this wisdom in Greece is due to ignorance of the true paths of the planets, a knowledge which comes from the Orient and which must be incorporated into our laws. That the knowledge of the planets comes from the Orient is to be seen in the very fact that the planets lack proper names and are called after the (traditional) gods, for this kind of appellation is due to the barbarians who first discovered the planets. The Epinomis, which dates from around the 4th century BCE, is the earliest extant record of Greek planet names; each is given as "the star of:" Cronos, Zeus, Aphrodite, etc. Clearly the planets did ...
... Solon that there dwelt in Atlantis "the fairest and noblest race of men who ever lived, of whom you and your city are but a seed or remnant". Athens, he continued, was first in war and pre-eminent in her laws. She performed the "noblest deeds" and possessed the "finest constitution" of any in tradition, and as to its antiquity the city was founded by the goddess Athene a thousand years before Sais. "Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded," he proceeded, when the "mighty power aggressing against the whole of Europe and Asia" was held at bay by Athens alone. This "vast power" he said, ...
359. The Garden, the Fall and the Restoration [Articles]
... arose was from the realization that man's consciousness had fallen, that there was this irrational tendency to human sacrifice, to self-destruction in all its various subtle permutations that we still observe today. Perhaps this was the origin of the concept of sin and this is why this was the origin also of most of our religious concepts. In the Hindu tradition, the Greek, Chinese, etc., we read descriptions of how human consciousness degenerated. Hesiod talks of a race of iron. The Hopi tell us: "There came among them a (? ) in the form of a snake with a big head." They have this serpent tradition which is parallel with the biblical ...
360. A Conversation with Barry Fell [Journals] [Horus]
... Many others since have joined the research and have forged firm links between ancient scripts and artifacts found in the Americas and those from across the seas. The evidence for widespread trade and colonization by ancient mariners reaches back centuries before the Christian Era according to Dr. Fell and his colleagues. Clearly, the message these discoveries contain radically alters the traditional conception of history formalized in our schools and should have generated a general academic effort to verify and extend the body of acceptable evidence. Instead, the case presented by Dr. Fell has proven to be generally unwelcome in academic circles. Like other pathfinders, he has had to contend with a widely held scholarly prejudice against the idea itself ...
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