Worlds in collision
(2009)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
520/VELIKOVSKY,I

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 520/VELIKOVSKY,I Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[LaVergne, TN] : Paradigma, 2009
EDITION
New, unchanged edition
DESCRIPTION

426 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781906833114 (pbk.), 1906833117 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In an immense universe ; The celestial harmony ; The origin of the planetary system ; The origin of the comets -- The planet Earth -- Ice ages ; The mammoths ; The ice age and the antiquity of man ; The world ages ; The sun ages -- pt. I. Venus. The most incredible story ; On the other side of the ocean -- Fifty-two years earlier ; The red world ; The hail of stones ; Naphtha ; The darkness ; Earthquake ; "13" -- The hurricane ; The tide ; The battle in the sky ; The comet of Typhon ; The spark ; The collapsed sky -- Boiling earth and sea ; Mount Sinai ; Theophany ; Emperor Yahou -- East and West ; The reversed polarity of the Earth ; The quarters of the world displaced ; Changes in the times and the seasons -- The shadow of death ; Ambrosia ; Rivers of milks and honey ; Jericho -- Stones suspended in the air ; Phaëton ; Atlantis ; The floods of Deucalion and Ogyges -- The fifty-two year period ; Jubilee ; The birth of Venus ; The blazing star ; The four-planet system ; One of the planets is a comet ; The comet Venus -- Pallas Athene ; Zeus and Athene ; Worship of the Morning Star ; The sacred cow ; Baal Zevuv (Beelzebub) ; Venus in the folklore of the Indians -- The synodical year of Venus ; Venus moves irregularly ; Venus becomes the Morning Star -- pt. II. Mars. Amos ; The year 747 ; Isaiah ; The Argive tyrants ; Again Isaiah ; Maimonides and Spinoza, the exegetes -- The year 687 ; Ignis e Coelo ; March 23rd ; The worship of Mars ; Mars moves the Earth from its pivot -- What caused Venus and Mars to shift their orbits? ; When was the Iliad created? ; Huitzilopochtli ; Tao ; Yuddha ; The Bundahis ; Lucifer cut down -- Sword-god ; Fenris-wolf ; Sword-time, wolf-time ; Synodos ; The stormer of the walls -- The steeds of Mars ; The terrible ones ; Samples from the planets ; The archangels ; Planet worship in Judea in the seventh century -- A collective amnesia ; Folklore ; Of "preexisting ideas" in the souls of peoples ; The pageants of the sky ; The subjective interpretation of events and their authenticity -- Poles uprooted ; Temples and obelisks ; The shadow clock ; The water clock ; A hemisphere travels southward -- The year of 360 days ; Disarranged months ; Years of ten months ; The reforming of the calendar -- The moon and its craters ; The planet Mars ; The atmosphere of Mars ; The thermal balance of Mars ; The gases of Venus ; The thermal balance of Venus ; The end -- Facing many problems