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182 pages of results. 531. The Capture Of Luna (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... Luna which caused the great flood catastrophe must have been quite well known to the ancients, though it is not mentioned in Plato's Atlantis myth. Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC), `the most learned of Romans', as he was called without exaggeration, mentions in his scholarly treatise, De gente populi Romanz', an old tradition that before the flood of Ogyges happened `the evening star changed its colour, size, shape, and course'. 56 The expression `evening star' does not, of course, refer to the planet Venus, but to the `brightest planet' then visible in the heavens-Luna. Similar references are found in the mythology of ...
532. "Extra-Scientific" Dimensions of Science [Journals] [SIS Review]
... these three perspectives provide conceptual resources which can be drawn upon to highlight various facets of the dispute over Velikovsky's work. In this particular instance, the "normative" approach is best exemplified by NORMAN STORER'S analysis delivered at the 1974 AAAS symposium on Velikovsky and included in Scientists Confront Velikovsky. It is Storer's account which most self-consciously draws on a traditional Mertonian approach to the sociology of science, although one may see elements of the concern with ethical norms in Alfred de Grazia's analysis as well as in Dolby's account. Generally speaking, a normative perspective views scientific practice as guided by a set of ethical conventions which facilitate the "rational" adoption or rejection of theories on the basis of ...
533. BOOK REVIEWS [Journals] [Aeon]
... In today's version, mental games are being currently being played out in a public relations ploy to find another, more precise term to replace the epithet "Big Bang" with something even more catchy. Of course, this won't happen since George Gamow's humorous appellation of 1946 has stuck like wax on batik and become part and parcel of science tradition. But, such games aren't the point of this counter-effort at all, as the focus of the reactionary argument is to ineradicably implant the dogmatism of the Big Bang concept into whatever passes for science's subconscious, and by extension into an unquestioned public acceptance. Almost no scholarly papers are presently being published by mainstream journals which even by innuendo ...
534. Miscellaneous [Journals] [Pensee]
... be conferred at the Spring Convocation in 1974. The presentation of your name stressed the quality of your life as a humanitarian, a humanist and a scientist. Many supporters among the faculty in the Humanities, the Social Sciences and the Sciences came forward to speak on your remarkable books and your teaching generally. You were seen as embodying our tradition of humane values, of intellect, of aesthetic sensitivity, personal ethics and of the transcendental dimension of scholarship. The University wishes to confer this degree on you at its Spring Convocation in 1974, a year from now. We try to make decisions on the awarding of Honourary Doctorate degrees well in advance of conferring them. I will ...
535. A REVISED CHRONOLOGY FOR THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST [Journals] [SIS Review]
... By restoring the "Hyksos" period to earlier and more reasonable estimates of its length, some 400 years, he placed that period contemporary with the time of the Judges in Israel. He backed these claims with an enormous amount of evidence supporting the identification of the Amalekites with the "Hyksos", including the persistent and otherwise unexplained Arab traditions concerning the "Amalekite Pharaohs". Next he examined the documents from the end of the "Hyksos" and Judges periods, and concluded that Saul's destruction of the Amalekites allowed the Egyptians to shake off the "Hyksos" domination, and that the Eighteenth Dynasty and the Kingdom under Saul and David began roughly at the same time. ...
... true meaning of the reports that have been handed down to us from time immemorial. Though many attempts have been made, it has not, up till now, been possible to base a cosmological system upon the myths of Earth building or Earth destruction that have come down to us. No firm footing could be found in the quick-sands of tradition, and only fanciful deductions could be made. How could it be otherwise? For the explanation of the content of mythology was attempted, either with the aid of philology-queen of humane sciences though she is, she was singularly unfitted to the task and contributed little more than an etymological survey of the ground or with the aid of psychology ...
... and was adjusted in the later circle at Stonehenge and elsewhere. It is true that Alpha Ceti is not in the zodiacal signs, but it is a convenient star to mark the Equinox if in that part of the heavens for it projects between Taurus and Aries. Also we must remember that the zodiacal signs themselves required revision, according to tradition, when the sun shifted its axis after the Flood, and in any THE GOLSPIE STONE case, Alpha Ceti would offer itself as a pointer. It is estimated that the twelve zodiacal signs proper, by what is termed the Law of Precession, occupy approximately 25 869 years to complete the circle of the "Great Year," ...
538. Shamir [Journals] [SIS Review]
... travelled with the Israelites throughout their journey from Sinai into the Promised Land - hardly something we might identify with a comet. It may be that the cloud of the Lord came to be seen as a spiritual phenomenon along the lines of the Pentecost and tongues of spiritual fire. This might imply that the cloud or pillar of fire was a traditional attribute of the Lord that had become garbled, its real cometary nature/ origin lost to the editors. The cloud of light or fire has been interpreted by some as UFO phenomena (something to consider if the cloud really followed the Israelites around) and something associated with increased ionisation in the atmosphere. In the pages of Kronos Velikovsky ...
539. The Saint and the Miracle [Journals] [SIS Review]
... died in around 589AD as a very old man. He therefore lived through Mike Baillie's dendrochronological anomalies between 536-545AD. He established a monastery with a very strict regime. It was infamously harsh, as was the imposed diet, which consisted of water and herbs - such as cabbage and leeks. These are plants that can withstand low temperatures and traditionally come into culinary use during the winter months. This is significant, as low growth episodes would have led to crop failure and reduced yields of other plants. David's first church, a chapel known as Yr Hen Eglwys, was located near Whitesands Bay, opposite Ramsey Island. It is said to be buried in what are now known ...
540. Conference: Our Violent Solar System [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... interview for Arp explain to the interviewer that he was talking about galaxies and quasars, which are different from planets. Is the world ready for this? The Seminar: Dave's three presentations were wonderfully enhanced by Rick Smith's animations of different phases of the polar configuration. The revolving crescent is only the beginning! He's pictured so much of ancient traditions with this one planetary model. The personalities of the gods, the sidelock of the priests, the feather of evening and dawn, the crown of the pharaoh, feathered headdresses, the steps of the pyramids, coils of the serpent, locks of Medusa, the wheel of the sun (the progenitor of prayer wheels, calendar wheels ...
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