>PETROGLYPH
>d5. Celestial fireworks [SIS Internet Digest]
_list of s5+ former prodigies in an ancient sky were reflected in works of traditional art. Many thousands of ____petroglyphs are recorded, coming from all parts of the world, and a vast majority of them exhibit patterns whose meaning is not obvious and lacks a clear reference in the natural world as we know it today. Yet at the same time they come remarkably close to our reconstruction of the former skies. The idea is that ancient rock art
>>14. Maori Legends about Historical Impact Disaster [SIS Internet Digest]
_event that largely destroyed the Moa Hunter Culture. One poem and one dirge exists which relate the destruction of the Moa Hunter culture with the ____>splitting of the horns of the moon which fell to earth causing this mayhem. Rock art exists today which depicts men fleeing from ____>falling chevrons, which have the horns of the chevron split. A further ____petroglyph exists which shows a man hands upheld in fear looking at a new moon with the lower horn of the moon split. Other motif or logo type ____petroglyphs exist which support a catastrophe. I will describe one, which depicts a ____>Lizard on a crescent, on a crescent with a split horn. The lizard is the representational form of
>>17. Archetypes Showing The Presence of Anomalous Electromagnetic Activity [SIS Review]
_depiction of many other deities, giving their ____>lower limbs a serpentine or eel-like look and giving them their anguilloform classification amongst mythologists. However if you connect each end of this bottom limb, a ____>boat-like form appears. Fig. 17 [47] shows two typical anguilloforms along with our wheat boat. Art Fig. 18 [48]: ____petroglyph from Lyaconia in Turkey showing what seems to be an army of our archetypes. Note the ____>winged discs above. Fig. 18 Turkish ____petroglyph showing archetypical forms and winged disks Fig. 19 [49]: rock art from Korea (undated) showing connected ____>hyperboloids. Such connections suggest that magnetic fields somehow
>21. Vox POPVLI [Aeon]
_There are ____>"sun" ____petroglyphs in the U.S. that are accompanied by what appears to be a Celtic Ogam inscription identifiable as G-R-N, which is readable as Ogam consaine (vowel-less Ogam) for Old Irish grian, which today means "Sun." However, it would be interesting to know the etymology of Gaelic grian to see if it might originally
>24. S.I.S Review Vol. V Number 4: Contents [SIS Review]
_Bronze Age rock drawing from Shishkino, Lena Valley, Siberia, showing an eyeless cosmic ____>monster about to swallow the Sun or Moon. See Clube's remarks on the ancient fear of eclipses, p. 110 of this issue. (Source - A. P. Okladnikov: "The ____Petroglyphs of Siberia" Scientific American 221:2 , 1969, pp. 74-82.)
>25. Society News. C&C Review 2002:1 [SIS Review]
_The Rochester Creek site in central Utah was a large sandstone block covered in ____petroglyphs, which were foreign to the region, with ____>zoomorphic figures such as crocodile and hippopotamus and cobra. A case was made for Egyptian influence, which could have spread west via the Berbers, whose rock art also bore similarities to that of Rochester Creek. The theory is supported by a study of blood groups, where a factor showing
>>d26. Letters [SIS Workshop]
_There exists very little material evidence to clarify the meaning and purpose of the huge number of pictographs and ____petroglyphs which comprise Prehistoric and Neolithic rock art (25,000-4000 B.C.). Quite often, we are forced back upon the configurations themselves, which suggests rightly, or wrongly, other configurations with which we are familiar. ____>Horned god', sorcerer', anthropomorphic figure', are nothing but labels of identification concealing a
>28. Poster Presentations Abstracts [SIS Internet Digest]
_C. Commonality of Greek art with primitive art including cave art and ____petroglyphs.
>>P29. Plasma discharges in rock art? [SIS Internet Digest]
_Then the ____>sawteeth develop into strings of triangles, ladder shapes, and stacks of donuts. Several well-known mythologists in attendance jumped up shouting and pointing ____>"The dragon! The arrows! The ladder of heaven! The backbone of the sky!" Ev fired up his laptop and opened his collection of ____petroglyph files. There, carved into rock walls in unmistakable detail by ancient artists, were Peratt's instabilities. For three or four or ten thousand years, no human eye has seen them. Not until Tony Peratt put cathode to anode
>>31. Saturnists Play Marbles [SIS Internet Digest]
_planetary deity is the Morning Star - Mars of the Pawnee in Nebraska. And incidentally, theirs is the only Indian culture of North America I know of that practiced human sacrifice - but not anywhere near on the scale of the Aztecs - and only when Mars rose in the East. Funny thing is that there are polar configuration pictographs and ____petroglyphs all over the place - ____>circle within a circle within a circle with radiating spokes (the radiant Venus) as well as ____>spirals and crescents, so Saturn was presumably depicted in this, but I don't know of any evidence that the planet itself was worshipped by itself. Ev Adds: Typically the ancient sun-god in American Indian legends is
>>35. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Aeon]
_THE CELESTIAL ____>LADDER AND RELATED FORMS Figure 16 ____Petroglyphs from India showing pillar with "sun." Figure 17 American Indian pictograph showing Saturnian enclosure on top of serpentine axis. Figure 18 ____Petroglyphs from Ilkley, Yorkshire, England, showing variations of the heavenly ladder as the ____>axis of the Saturnian configuration. Figure 19 The polar column as a ladder, or stairway, Leading to the primeval
>>39. Stairway to Heaven [Aeon]
_East, Australia, and the tropical rain forests of South America, it is difficult to avoid drawing the conclusion that the respective traditions linking Mars with a celestial staircase reflect common observations of the movements of the red planet. Yet here, too, questions abound. For what could be the objective reference of the celestial staircase? So-called cup-and-ring ____petroglyphs showing variations of the heavenly ____>ladder as the axis of the Saturnian configuration. (From a rock at Ilkley, Yorkshire, England.) The idea of a celestial staircase, it can be shown, is simply a variation upon the widespread theme of a World Pillar or axis mundi, the latter thought to extend along the polar axis
>40. Velikovsky's Legacy [Articles]
_Consider the evidence from ancient ____petroglyphs, for example. It is well-known that prehistoric pictures of the ____>"Sun" grace cave walls and prominent rocks around the world. Many of these ____petroglyphs - few of which bear much resemblance to the modern solar orb - commonly feature a disc with a central orb(s ) set within its center (See Figure One). The objective basis of
>>41. The Cosmic Double Helix [Aeon]
_In the triad of myth, ritual, and iconography, the latter can perhaps be regarded as the purest and least distorted of the three, at least insofar as abstract iconography is meant. This is because abstract traditional images have managed to steer clear of symbolism, testifying in the most direct manner to the archetype that was actually observed. Abstract ____petroglyphs and images on early seals and pottery depict ____>columns and circles with no explicit symbolical meaning. In the minds of the artists they may have represented serpents, pillars, trees, suns or wombs, but the symbols are not explicit in the pictures we are left with today. These pictures therefore constitute a most valuable class of data for
>>43. The Milky Way [Aeon]
_96) Shamash rising over the Twin Mountain. (From a Mesoptomian seal.) The polar column as a ladder, or stairway, leading to the "sun." Note the central orb in the center of the "sun," indicating that it is not the present ____>"sun" that is being depicted. (From a ____petroglyph near the San Marcos Pass in California.) As Eliade and others have documented, such rites have as their express purpose an attempt to recreate the conditions which once prevailed during the Golden Age, when a pillar to the sky actually existed and communication between the two worlds was possible. Eliade's summary of these rites is as follows:
>44. The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol, and its Migrations by Thomas Wilson [Books]
_feet wide and nearly ten feet high. The interior walls are well covered with large painted figures while upon the ceilings are numerous forms of animals, birds, and insects. Among this latter group is a white cross about 18 inches in length (fig. 323), presenting a unique appearance, for the reason that it is the only ____petroglyph in that region to which tile white emdoring matter has been applied. An interesting example of rock sculpturing in groups is in Owens Valley, south of Benton, Cal. Among them are various forms of ____>crosses, and circles containing crosses of simple and complex types. The most interesting in this connection are the groups in fig. 324
>>45. Thoth Vol IV, No. 1: Jan 15, 2000 [Thoth]
_a constantly whirling crucible_' Talbott, of course, also recognized this fact when he wrote that the cosmic mountain in many creation epics is presented as a churning, serpentine column rising along the world axis_' . . . it is more than obvious from descriptions of the Saturnian axis, as well as prehistoric ____Petroglyphs, that the polar column was a visible entity rather than a deduced abstraction. This was so much so that, in some cases, the axis was even pictured as a ____>ladder reaching to the Saturnian sun. Amy: Cardona mentioned that he finds it difficult to reconcile the whirling motion of the axis with Suhr's interpretation of the
>47. The Revelation of John (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
_Sometimes no chances are taken and the firmament is drawn upon the crossbeams (Nos. 9 and 10), a suggestion which it evidently followed, for there have been no complaints since the making of the new roof of our world! The protective heaven-propping quality of the ____>cross' is most graphically expressed in the ____petroglyphs, Nos. 11 and 12, which have been found in North Africa. They show the upright corner posts, the crossbeams, the heavenly vault resting securely on these structures, and the cosmic ____>serpent raging, powerlessly, above. Incidentally, some cross forms are used as race signs, as fire symbols, as solar symbols,
>>48. Day Star [Aeon]
_a solar "eye" abound in ancient myth and folklore. The second image in Figure One depicts what appears to be an eight-pointed star set upon the face of the "sun." The third image, finally, depicts a flower-like object set upon the face of the "sun." Hawaiian native engraving ____>"sun"-symbol ____petroglyphs on smooth lava pavement. Such "sun"-symbols are to be found all over the world. (Illustration by Y. S. Green.) Considered in isolation, and without reference to the evidence from ancient language and myth, such pictures must seem abstract in nature or the product of fantasy. Yet the strange fact
>>49. News from the Internet [SIS Workshop]
_the sky and could well have blotted out the comparatively dim light of the moon, the stars, and even the sun. The spectacular events transpiring in that alien sky' inspired many defining forms of religion, art, and architecture, the remnants of which are still with us today. They were faithfully recorded on stone in thousands of ____petroglyphs all over the world, enacted in thousands of rituals celebrated until the present day, and narrated in thousands of myths now baffling scholars and laymen alike. The ____>cause of this enhanced aurora has yet to be determined, but promising candidates are extreme solar weather, passage through a gigantic molecular cloud, the disintegration of a giant comet in
>>51. On testing The Polar configuration [Aeon]
_god Surya, and in art the god is presented in the center of a fiery wheel - as is also the true sun Brahma. (42) The same symbolism of the sun-wheel occurs in Buddhist art. (43) Classical art repeatedly portrays the sun or sun god in the center of a fiery, turning wheel. (44) In ____petroglyphs strewn across Europe ancient symbolists depicted the ____>sun god inside a great wheel. In the Edda, the sun is fagrahvel, "fair wheel." In fact, our English word "wheel" traces to the old Gothic pictograph of the enclosed sun. (45) Throughout the Americas, though the wheel was never harnessed for work
>63. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Aeon]
_subject have mainly opted for the abstract, although very real, axis that was deduced to stretch between Earth's north pole and the celestial north polar centre as an explanation for the axis mundi. In a sense, of course, they were correct. But it is more than +
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SATURN-SUN
>21. Vox POPVLI [Aeon]
____>"sun"
>>31. Saturnists Play Marbles [SIS Internet Digest]
____>circle within a circle within a circle with radiating spokes (the radiant Venus)
____>spirals and crescents
>40. Velikovsky's Legacy [Articles]
____>"Sun"
>>43. The Milky Way [Aeon]
____>"sun"
>>48. Day Star [Aeon]
____>"sun"-symbol
>>51. On testing The Polar configuration [Aeon]
____>sun god inside a great wheel
>d5. Celestial fireworks [SIS Internet Digest]
____>former skies
LADDER
>>45. Thoth Vol IV, No. 1: Jan 15, 2000 [Thoth]
____>ladder reaching to the Saturnian sun
>>35. Thundergods and Thunderbolts [Aeon]
____>LADDER
____>axis of the Saturnian configuration
____>polar column as a ladder, or stairway, Leading to the primeval
>>39. Stairway to Heaven [Aeon]
____>ladder as the axis of the Saturnian configuration
>>P29. Plasma discharges in rock art? [SIS Internet Digest]
____>sawteeth develop into strings of triangles, ladder shapes, and stacks of donuts
____>"The dragon! The arrows! The ladder of heaven! The backbone of the sky!"
>>41. The Cosmic Double Helix [Aeon]
____>columns and circles
CROSS
>47. The Revelation of John (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
____>new roof of our world!
____>heaven-propping quality of the ____>cross
____>serpent raging, powerlessly, above
>44. The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol, and its Migrations by Thomas Wilson [Books]
2____>crosses, and circles containing crosses of simple and complex types
SERPENT
>24. S.I.S Review Vol. V Number 4: Contents [SIS Review]
____>monster about to swallow the Sun or Moon
>25. Society News. C&C Review 2002:1 [SIS Review]
____>zoomorphic figures such as crocodile and hippopotamus and cobra
>>17. Archetypes Showing The Presence of Anomalous Electromagnetic Activity [SIS Review]
____>deities with lower limbs a serpentine or eel-like look
____>boat-like form
____>winged discs
____>hyperboloids
>d5. Celestial fireworks [SIS Internet Digest]
____>natural world
>>d26. Letters [SIS Workshop]
____>Horned god', sorcerer', anthropomorphic figure'
BIFURCATION
>>14. Maori Legends about Historical Impact Disaster [SIS Internet Digest]
____>splitting of the horns of the moon which fell to earth causing mayhem
____>new moon with the lower horn of the moon split
____>Lizard on a crescent, on a crescent with a split horn
>61. The Opening of The Mouth Ritual - Part II [Aeon]
____>hieroglyphs of the 4 sky poles, the headdress plumes of Horus, headdress of Meskhenet/Venus
____>Y-shape figures
____>both Venus and Mars were seen to move below this bifurcation
____>Plasma Fork: Possibly the most important indicator of this bifurcation is to be found in the appearance of Birkeland currents and plasma columns
PERATT'S INTENSE AURORA
>>49. News from the Internet [SIS Workshop]
The cause of this enhanced aurora has yet to be determined, but promising candidates are:
- extreme solar weather;
- passage through a gigantic molecular cloud;
- the disintegration of a giant comet;
- [[Saturn Flare]]
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?1. Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art [Aeon]
_Prehistoric ____Petroglyphs of the Sun The discovery in 1879 of spectacular paintings in the caves of Altamira (Spain) was initially met with disbelief and ridicule, so radical was the idea that Stone Age men could have created art of such sophistication and beauty. It was only upon the discovery of similar finds in France, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe that
?2. Internet Watch [SIS Workshop]
_ ____Petroglyphs and Rock Art Dating Techniques?sci.archaeology 28-31.7 .95 Leigh Marymor (mleighm@aol.com) and Lisa Rankin (g9326279@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA) In addition to the ancient literary traditions, another record exists which offers evidence in support of recent changes in the solar system namely, prehistoric
?3. Rock Art and ____Petroglyphs in Valcamonica [SIS Internet Digest]
_From: SIS Internet Digest 1997:1 (Sep 1997)
www.geocities.com/Tokyo/2384/index.html From 1988 the Società Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man Archaeological Cooperative Society) is investigating early Rock Art (from Neolithic to Iron Age) at the most important sites in the Italian Alps: Valcamonica and Valtellina. With the WEB we are working on the biggest data "store" ever created by man: if Rock Art plays a good role in the WEB, it's sure that the WEB could play the best role for Rock Art. We need
P4. News from the Internet [SIS Review]
_In December 2003, an article quietly appeared in the IEEE publication Transactions on Plasma Science called "Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as recorded in Antiquity" by Dr Anthony L. Peratt, from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. The article concludes that ____petroglyphs (or rock art) often represent a plasma "instability" that Peratt sees in his laboratory, and must have been seen by ancient man in the skies. Peratt's research was inspired by Dave Talbott, author the Saturn Myth, and Wal Thornhill whose articles on The Electric Universe have appeared in SIS publications. Their forthcoming book,
d6. NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstracts [SIS Internet Digest]
_Light/Shadow Interactions at the Great Gallery I. R. Little-Marenin, S. J. Little and G. Cox in American Astronomical Society Meeting 199, #15.03. The Great Gallery is a wonderful collection of rock art in Horseshoe Canyon (Canyonlands National Park). Both pictographs and ____petroglyphs are found there. [. .] A paint chip from a fallen piece of an anthropomorphic figure has been 14C dated to 1200-1400 BC. Solar Significance of a Double Spiral ____Petroglyph in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico A. Sofaer, R. M. Sinclair and E. Brechner in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol.
?P8. Prelude to Creation [Aeon]
_were more pencil-like than photographic. It was hard to believe that someone outside the space-plasma community had knowledge of these. When I inquired further as to their source, I was told they were carved on rock. I immediately wanted to know where these rocks were stored. It was at that point that I found out that they were called ____petroglyphs and existed all over the world." [44] The resemblance between prehistoric ____petroglyphs and plasma instabilities so intrigued Peratt that he, together with some interested volunteers, went out of his way in self-conducted field explorations to photograph as many of these depictions as he could find in America's south-western states. Before long he was collecting similar pictographs
?10. News from the Internet [SIS Workshop]
_Jay Wakefield Reinoud de Jonge: "____Petroglyphs As Navigational Pointers". Decoding of the design of certain megalithic sites and ____petroglyphs as maps and navigation routes. Supporting evidence from Egyptian and other measurement of distance, early compasses and the ancient copper mines of Isle Royale.
?11. Catastrophism And Planetary History [Kronos]
_In surveying the written records little consideration is given to ____petroglyphs and pictographs of non-western peoples because of the inability of western scholars to decipher them. The added difficulty with non-western, non-literate representations of history is that these people, for the most part, only recorded in pictures those incidents that impressed them and, lacking a chronology, they are virtually useless in attaching them to any recognized time-scale for
15. Bookshelf [SIS Review]
_A Study of Script-like ____Petroglyphs in Southeast Colorado by P.M . Leonard and W.R . McGlone, 1996, $10.00 An account of ____petroglyphs resembling those of the Middle East, yet supposedly over 2000 years old.
16. News from the Internet [SIS Workshop]
_The following descriptions were used between 1830 and 1977: Lapidary Art, Ring Cuttings, Sculptured Stones, Circular Carvings, Incised Markings, Ancient Sculpturings of Cups and Concentric Rings, Incised Sculpturings, Cup-marked Stones, Cup-and-ring Carvings, Rock Carvings and ____Petroglyphs. It was not until 1977 that Ronald B. W. Morris introduced the, now fully accepted, summarizing phrase: "Rock Art" for the abstract open-air rock carvings in Britain as a whole. By doing so, this special rock art category was linked to the great worldwide "Rock Art" tradition.
?18. Mythopedia [SIS Internet Digest]
_The spectacular events taking place in the sky were recorded on stone in thousands of ____petroglyphs found all over the world, enacted in thousands of rituals celebrated until the present day, and narrated in thousands of myths.
19. SIS Internet Digest 1997 Number 1 [SIS Internet Digest]
_4 Rock Art and ____Petroglyphs in Valcamonica .. 4 Rock Art Database (RAD)
?d20. Shattering The Myths Of Darwinism by Richard Milton (Book review) [Velikovskian]
_Yet he further notes that radiocarbon dating frequently conflicts not only with other radiometric methods and with historical records but also with contemporary observation, as when a South African ____petroglyph painted in 1991 was carbon-dated to about 800 AD.
?22. SIS Internet Digest 2001 Number 2 [SIS Internet Digest]
_ Below: Suggested supernova. ____Petroglyphs from Northern Arizona (top row) from Eddy, John, "Astroarchaeology" in Insights into the Ancient Ones, edited by Edward F. Berger, 1981. And rock art from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (bottom), from Williamson, Ray A., in Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indians,
?23. Bookshelf [SIS Review]
_Strange artefacts is a sourcebook on ancient man. ... Starting with fossil footprints and giant skeletons the collection proceeds with cup-marks, ____petroglyphs, legends of gods and giants, American Indian astronomy, Celtic remains in Jamaica, ancient metallurgy and Noah's Ark, and ends with an extensive section on structural artefacts such as temples, dolmens, menhirs, vitrified forts, henges, pyramids, obelisks and ancient tunnels and mines.
?27. A Conversation with Barry Fell [Horus]
_educational television documentary, "History on the Rocks", which highlights some of the archaeological evidence for pre-Columbian transoceanic visitors. In a small cave in Oklahoma, Sunrise rays on the cardinal day cast a pattern into the cave, bathing a correspondingly patterned inscription in its light. As with the West Virginia ____petroglyph, the inscription referred to the event.
?30. Horizons [SIS Review]
_Of particular interest is the issue for December 1977, devoted to The Astronomy of the Ancients. The writers of this issue examine the astronomical "Medicine Wheels" of the Plains Indians; apparent supernova records in early American ____petroglyphs; the earliest astronomical instruments (shadow-clocks, astrolabes, sundials from both hemispheres); the enigmatic legends, ancient and modern, concerning Sirius; the astronomical features of Stonehenge; the (suggested) terrestrial origins of the celestial Gorgon myth, and the possible celestial origins of the supposedly terrestrial Atlantis tradition.
?32. SIS Study Group Meeting 16th October 1999 [SIS Review]
_dynastic era. Petrie in his History of Egypt had suggested that Egypt was united by a race with strong cultural links with Mesopotamia. These appeared to move into the Delta from the south. They probably arrived by boat on the shore of the Red Sea, and crossed the desert to arrive in middle Egypt. Arthur Weigal first found the ____petroglyphs depicting high-prowed boats being dragged across the desert around 1908 in the Eastern desert at Wadi Hammamat, and this may have led Petrie to suggest this route. Dynasty I was started by them after their conquest. Rohl disagrees with Petrie and has them arriving over two centuries earlier to start the Nakada II (Gerzean) culture. In Rohl's
33. Bookshelf [SIS Review]
_Picture Writing of the American Indians, by G. Mallery, 1893, $25 00 The copious data in this book deals with inscriptions and ____petroglyphs from all over the world, invaluable because much of this ancient art has since been damaged or disappeared.
d34. The Past Comes Down [SIS Workshop]
_spite of an alleged distance of 2,500 years, have the appearance of being contiguous to each other; The stelae of Luni (Apennines) belong to the Neolithic as well as to Etruscan times, i.e . to cultures allegedly separated in time by 2,000 years; In the Val Camonica (Italian Alps). ____petroglyphs have allegedly been cut into the same rocks over a time span of 8,000 years; Platonic polyhedrons have allegedly been made from hard stone in Scotland more than 1,000 years before Plato lived. As a next step, then, Immanuel Velikovsky's discovery had to be incorporated into the developing scenario, which was that the Dark
?36. The Saturn Problem [SIS Review]
_While more complex than a simple circular halo, the example I saw at Carnac was still relatively simple. For the more elaborate, even fantastic configurations, that solar haloes can suggest to the observer, there are many interesting engravings from Renaissance times [2 ]. Figure 1 Comparison of a typical ____petroglyph with a simple solar halo Figure 2 Combining a rayed sun with a simple solar halo, resulting is a solar wheel Fig. 3. Renaissance print showing a rayed Sun surrounded by solar halo, as seen at Nürnberg on the 2nd May, 1556 At the conference, and echoing the thoughts from a previously published paper [3 ]
37. Monitor [SIS Review]
_ ____Petroglyphs in ____Petroglyph Provincial Park in North America appear to resemble symbols used in northern Europe around 800 BC and one depicts a Viking-like ship similar to one carved in Sweden. The Canadian Arctic has stone towers and standing stones which appear to be neither of Eskimo or Viking origin but are similar to stone structures on northern Scottish islands. A blood
?38. Spatters And Planetary Iconography [Velikovskian]
_come together, difficulties in dating can be resolved. Gods may then appear in different guises. They will become, like Vishnu and Buddha, gods with several incarnations each. So Quetzalcoatl may have appeared very early in time, but you will just have to factor in a number of encores. Figure 80 Figure 80 is my depiction of ____petroglyphs found in Utah. Their dates of origin are unknown. Spatter-like objects appear in 80a and b. Figure 81 Figure 82 Figure 83 Figure 81 is my rendition of a section taken from a photograph of another undated ____petroglyph, from New Mexico: a cross encircled by dots. It resembles a spatter.(7 ) Figure 82 is
?46. Letters [SIS Review]
_HLA B-21 is virtually absent in other indigenous American populations. A people known as the Fremont inhabited the Southwest of USA, (specifically Utah), c. 400-950 AD. Analysis of Fremont skeletons has shown the Fremont people to be related to the present-day Pima/Papago. If one also considers the apparent Egyptian iconography that appears at Fremont ____petroglyph sites such as those at Rochester Creek, Utah and also other correspondences between Berber and Fremont, such as irrigation, housing, face markings, etc., one can begin to trace a possible link between the North African Berber and the New World Fremont. Berber Tifinagh inscriptions have also been found in parts of Utah. Even so
?P50. Planetary Observations of the T'ang [Articles]
_op cit. Figure 2 ( a and b) depict a basic Lichtenberg figure. Note the dendritic rays emanating from its center. This figure is on the top of page 71. Figure 3 shows a variation and appears on page 205. Figure 4 is another variation and appears on page 209. It shows a special affinity to some ____petroglyphic depictions. Figure 5 (page 204) is most like the form that I've named the spatter, a form that commonly appears in reIigious and mythological art. "The Velikovskian", Volume 2, Number 2, "Trisms and Planetary Iconography", pages 55-87, Charles Raspil. Peratt, Anthony L., Physics of The
52. Monitor [SIS Review]
_Relics of the time 7-8000 years ago when the now desert regions of the Sahara were verdant, giant ____petroglyphs reveal the artistry of the people who lived there. There are thousands of rock art sites across north Africa, depicting herds of realistic animals, mythical beasts, archers, domesticated livestock, horses (after they had been introduced by the conquering Hyksos) and camels around 2200 years ago after their introduction from Asia. In Egypt's Nile Valley
?54. Quantalism And Prehistory [Velikovskian]
_have shown a persistent preoccupation with the animal world, ranging from the propitiatory, bear-skull circles of Neanderthal Man through the pictorial menagerie of Upper Paleolithic cave-walls, to the totemistic genealogies of Native American Indians. In the realm of traditional narrative, all folk-tales and most myths include stories about animals. It does not surprise archaeologists and ethnologists to find ____petroglyphs and folklore concerning predatory animals, like lions, or prey animals, like deer. But it has long puzzled them that the animal most frequently depicted, both visually and verbally, is the snake. Snakes, after all, kill relatively few people and are rarely a prime target of hunters. The solution that I prefer for this
?55. The Wayward Sun [Velikovskian]
_They are famed for their cliff dwellings, their circular architecture, and other artistic achievements. Chaco Mesa in New Mexico is the site of one of the most remarkable solar megaliths in the world. Three slabs of stone, each weighing two tons, have been arranged so that the light of the sun falls on a spiral ____petroglyph marking the summer and winter solstices and the spring and fall equinoxes. Discovered in 1977 by artist and amateur archaeo-astronomer Anna Sofaer," this solar calendar has been called a "sun dagger" because of the pattern the sunlight makes on the rock carvings during the summer solstice. Sofaer called the marking a "sun dagger" but it
56. It's Time to Get Serious About Manetho [SIS Review]
_reported on her research on native American rock art sites in Arizona. She had measured radiation levels at two sites: one had mild amounts but the other had very strong radiation, to such a degree that decontamination was necessary. Interestingly, the strongest radiation at both sites was found to occur in conjunction with a specific symbol, or ____petroglyph'. The symbol appears to denote an astronomical origin for the radiation, apparently validating David Salkeld's ideas ( 'Shamir', C&CR 1997:1 , pp. 18-23). Phillip Clapham * Efflux' has the meaning to flow out of as in a liquid, a jet of gas, or possibly a stream of
?58. The Goddess of the Stones and the Charged Cosmic Body [SIS Workshop]
_carvings have a radial groove from near the centre to near the periphery, generally running downhill if there is a slope. Interpretations of this, some more far-fetched than others, could be made for fertility rites and also for the electrical discharge displays. The cup and concentric ring carvings seem to be generally quite distinct from many other types of ____petroglyphs, so perhaps they represent entirely different prehistoric events. If crop circle worship preceded the appearance of Cosbod, then the latter would reinforce the beliefs as an additional and more striking sign of the power of the gods and goddesses. In my view it is much too soon to be dogmatic about the interpretation of the reason for ancient monuments
?59. Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse [SIS Workshop]
_Symbolic bird tracks, unrecognized as such, appear on objects unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann from Hissarlik in Asia Minor. Artifactual support for this contention comes from ____petroglyphs found in the south-western United States which Pueblo people identify as roadrunner (a type of cuckoo) tracks and identical renderings found by Schliemann [6 ]. The close association of these two distinctive crosses on artifacts from Schliemann's Troy could be considered coincidental and not necessarily avian-inspired were they found out of context, however, in Schliemann's words:
?62. Sagan's fourth problem: Terrestrial Geology And Lunar Craters (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
_wrote Morris concerning the Elephant Slabs but how to explain them I would not say. In all my experience I have seen nothing similar'_"The principle slab measures six inches wide, six inches long; a deep groove on the left-hand side shows where it was probably broken off from a larger stone. The unknown ____petroglypher meticulously chiseled 55 signs and pictures into exceeding hard stone and left no obvious traces of tool slippage or overcrossing lines. "The second slab measures six inches wide, 14 inches long, and bears only ten faintly incised signs including outlines of an elephant - the surprising fact that gave the slabs their names-a bird, and what looks like a mountain
?65. The Timna Test [Aeon]
_that first temple structure. Naturally, none of this treatment would have been directed at depictions of Hathor herself, who was an authentic Egyptian deity, and whose presence was already well represented in the Sinai by the shrine at Serabit el-Khadim. Once again- as with the design features of the naos, the Dynasty XVIII glass fragments, the ____petroglyphs immediately to the north of the temple at Mine 25 (Engraving 2), and now these hieroglyphic erasures in the temple - the individual and combined circumstantial impact of them all point directly at Hatshepsut. And why not? Both Gardiner and Rothenberg have already drawn our attention to the presence of her monuments in the Sinai, at Serabit
