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The
Flood from Heaven |
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The
Winged Disk |
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The
Feathered Serpent |
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The
Mountain of the Gods |
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The
Nine Steps to Heaven |
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The
Vortical Tree |
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The
Lightning Wheel in Ancient Times |
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The
Wayward Sun |
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In
the Coils of the Serpent |
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The
Navel Stone |
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The
Pedestal of the Sun |
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Elusive
Female Figurines |
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The
Bifurcated Mountain |
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The
Dragon and the Pearl |
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The
Nature of Nature Gods |
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The
Ladder to Heaven |
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The
Hole at the Pole |
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The
Worship of Lightning |
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Stacked
Ancestors |
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Ossified
Dragon Theories |
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Bearing
the Unbearable |
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The
‘Amber’ Beads of Phaethon |
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Peopling
the Mythical Landscape |
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But
What About Jung? |
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A
String Theory for the Sun |
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Venus'
Tail of the Unexpected |
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Myths
as Metaphors |
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The
Circular Ocean - A Round-Up |
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Gods
in the Flesh, Part I and Part
II |
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The
Spirit of Mythology, Part I and Part
II |
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A
Potted View on Ancient Geometric Imagery |
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Bringing
in the May |
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Is
Lightning the Strongest Creative Force? |
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Dragons
- All Between the Ears? |
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Do
Chinese Whispers Affect Myths? |
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Closing
Gaps - in our Knowledge |
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Velikovskian
Chaff and Wheat: Venus |
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The
Coming of the Sky Dancers |
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Space
Tornadoes Cause a Stir |
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An
Aristotelian Hangover |
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Joining
the Dots, Part I: Fireworks on New Year's Day |
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Joining
the Dots, Part II: The Dating Scene in the Sky |
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Celestial
Bodies on their Guard |
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Divining
the Meaning of the Aurora |
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Riders
of the Night |
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The
First 'People' in Space |
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The
Unwavering Truth about the Zodiacal Light |
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Siriusly
Red |
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More
than Meets the Eye |
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What
on Earth ...? |
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The
Voice of the Peoples |
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The
Sunbeam of Yore |
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Elementary
Knowledge |
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Does
it Matter? |
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Go
Figure! |
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No
Sweeping Claims, Please, Part I and Part
II |
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Bad
to the Bones |
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Light
my Fire |
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Draconian
Landscaping |
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The
Eggs of the Thunder Bird |
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De-Tailing
Comets |
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O
Christmas Tree! Thy Candles Shine so Brightly! |
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Going
Round the Sun in Circles |
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Polar
Wondering |
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Mythology
at Stake |
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Shots
in the Dark, Part I and Part
II |
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Painted
into a Corner? |
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Seeing
Things - In the Sky, Part I and Part
II |
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Mountains
of Evidence |
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As
Below, So Above |
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Headed
for the Sky |
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Traditions
of Science |
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The
Plasma of Bloodlines |
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The
Very Stones Cry Out |
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Traditions
of Science, Part I and Part
II |
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Suspending
Disbelief |
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The
Sun and its Spoilspot |
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Caught
in the Crossfire |
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On
the Shoulders of Suppressed Giants, Part I and
Part
II |
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Theories
on the Rocks - In a Flash, Part I, Part
II, Part
III and Part
IV |
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The
Sun Man |
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Touching
Ground |
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Blasts
of the Past, Part I and Part
II |
DISCLAIMER
These contributions to the Thunderbolts
Picture of the Day project must not be construed as
support for every opinion expressed on the Thunderbolts
website.
While I intuitively sympathise with the
tenets of plasma cosmology for philosophical and science-historical
reasons, some of its central questions , such as the
origins of stars and planets or the age of the universe,
are as irrelevant for 'plasma mythology' as is gravity-based
astrophysics, simply because human memory does not reach
back for millions or billions of years. More or less
the same applies to 'electric universe' theory; whereas
some of the ideas defended in these Pictures of the
Day - such as a greater variability of the sun in historical
times, subtle adjustments in planetary orbits and the
former visibility of Venus' magnetotail - seem more
elegantly and adequately explained in an 'electric universe',
I do not feel qualified to take any other stance than
an emotional one in the scientific debate. In addition,
it can only be natural that pioneering thinkers exploring
a fledgling paradigm should pursue somewhat different
lines of thought and approach the subject from a variety
of angles. It is my belief that such a competition of
ideas, rooted in a shared base of principles, is not
only salutary, but is a strong indicator that the embryonic
paradigm is potent and viable.
The recognition that electromagnetic
phenomena play a profound role on all cosmic levels
and that human traditions owe much ideational input
to observations of near-earth plasmas provides ample
common ground to speak of a unified movement.
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