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221 pages of results. 291. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... order. Like Saturn and Kronos, Enki was thought to be the god of agriculture and wisdom and, like them he once presided over an earthly paradise during a golden age (the land of Dilmun). There is much further evidence supporting the identification of Ea/Enki with Kronos [15], one which is clear from the writings of the hellenistic Babylonian scholar Berossus [16]. Far away from the Mediterranean world altogether, we again find strikingly similar ideas about Saturn. According to Chinese myth, thousands of years before the historical First Emperor there reigned the Yellow Emperor (Huang-ti), who was said to have helped organise the universe itself: Huang-ti established everywhere ...
292. The Oera Linda Book Again [Journals] [SIS Review]
... - indeed, his name turns out to be Frisian. There seems no doubt that there is Frisiomania at work here, akin to the patriotism which led Olaf Rudbeck to place Atlantis, the Garden of Eden, and the cradle of civilisation in Sweden (in a three-volume work, 1675-78), and that which led a Flemish councillor, writing in 1806, to place the Elysian Fields in the Lower Rhine and to claim that the name Flushing preserved that of Ulysses. These works may well have provided inspiration for the Oera Linda concoction. But in the light of Velikovsky's theories, even more factors weigh against its authenticity, e.g . we have no hint at all ...
293. Night of the Gods: The Pillar [Books]
... , which I think is quite possible, it is older than any of them,"4 by its own profession. The Kuzhiki contains passages which are also in the Kogo-Shiu-i (composed in 807), and mentions Saga Tenno (810-823). But this is not enough to destroy its character, and "parts of it," writes Mr. Satow,5 "seem to be based upon other sources than those abovementioned, and are of considerable value." Mr. Chamberlain says6that Motowori's condemnation of the Kuzhiki "has been considered rash by later scholars." It is but natural that we reminiscences of the Pillar idea. should still find in Japan other There is ...
294. Thoth Vol I, No. 17: June 30, 1997 [Journals] [Thoth]
... on Velikovsky's own turf (ancient myth and history). And whatever one's opinion on the merits of Forrest's analysis, it is to his credit that, in the forty years since publication of Worlds in Collision, his work is the only substantial critique of Velikovsky's use of myth. "Despite the scholarly appearance of Velikovsky's work," Forrest writes, "I think the theories put forward in Worlds in Collision are wrong at an elementary and common sense level." And what, at an "elementary level," does Forrest object to? "The gist of the objection to it is that one will nowhere find anything like a direct historical reference to catastrophic bombardments by the ...
295. Milankovitch's Curves and Palaeoclimatology [Books]
... the assumption that: (a ) The solar constant has fluctuated only between narrow limits for many millions of years. (b ) The astronomical (tropic) year has also remained constant for many millions of years. (c ) No variables, other than those studied in the previous sections, have had any influence on palaeoclimatology. Zeuner writes: `If known and observable factors can be found which explain in a simple and observable way the fluctuations revealed by geological evidence, they are to be preferred to ad hoc assumptions of any description.6 In Part II of this book it has been shown that huge meteoritic craters have already been found on our planet and that they ...
... ,"15 and some of these brought the date of the rock relief down to the tenth or to the ninth century.16 There was even advanced a hypothesis ascribing one part of the rock relief to the fourteenth or thirteenth century and the other to the tenth or the ninth century.17 This chaos of opinion impelled a scholar to write: "Everyone who compares the time estimates of the scholars knows how widely these evaluations differ. Not decades or centuries, but often whole millennia separate the time reckonings of divers scholars."18 The excavators at Boghazkoi decided to put an end to this old question. They wrote: "Since Winckler [the discoverer of the archives ...
297. Omnibus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... subscribers received their copy of issue X. We will rectify this omission when the back numbers are received. "Support for Velikovsky"" The majority of respondents to the March opinion poll in Industrial Research give support to Velikovsky's theories of catastrophic upheavals in man's past. More than 80% are inclined to believe some or all of what he writes". A shocking statement for some, perhaps, but it comes from the editors of Industrial Research , a leading, technology-centered publication circulated among "qualified scientists, engineers and administrators in technically orientated organization in the United States". The opinion poll results were published in the June, 1973 issue of Industrial Research under the title " ...
298. Comets And Catastrophes [Journals] [Pensee]
... major geological periods. He cites as possible effects of these collisions "great variation in climatic conditions," "great seismic effects," "extensive lava flows," and the "scattering of ocean water over land areas." Many animal and plant types must have become extinct. "It does seem possible and even probable," writes Urey, "that a comet collision with the Earth destroyed the dinosaurs and initiated the Tertiary division of geologic time." So Urey offers a set of data which, to his mind, calls for a catastrophic interpretation. And, needless to say, he does not acknowledge either H. H. Nininger's (Out of the Sky ...
299. The Atlantis Blueprint [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... cording the Temple - from priest-craft to science - the blueprint - Rand and Colin's collaboration. Chapter One: Hapgood's Secret Quest for Atlantis. Hapgood's death - his work - Mu and Plato's Atlantis -earth crust displacement - collaboration with Albert Einstein - Einstein's death - Professor Ma - Captain Arlington Mallery - Piri Reis - Hapgood approaches President Kennedy - Hapgood writes Rand - a civilisation 100,000 years old? Chapter Two: The Blueprint. Rand writes a screenplay - Donovan's Hail Atlantis' - Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis - ice-free Antarctica - Plato's real Ocean' and oceanographer's World Ocean' - the Hudson Bay Pole - Rand and Rose begin correspondence with Hapgood - William Fairfield Warren - Bal ...
300. Stephen Jay Gould and Immanuel Velikovsky [Books]
... Collision. And Velikovsky is neither crank nor charlatan- although to state my opinion and to quote one of my colleagues, he is at least gloriously wrong." (9 ) I direct the reader to Gould casting the onus for his caricature onto Velikovsky by saying "it represents the serious theory of Immanuel Velikovsky." That is, Gould writes the disparaging parody of Velikovsky's theory and then calls it the serious work of Velikovsky. But this tasteless, insulting caricature cannot be Velikovsky's doing. This presentation is more aptly a smear, a form of denigration to deride Velikovsky and Velikovsky's material before analyzing it. By insulting Velikovsky and his life's work in this boorish, low introduction to ...
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