Aeon Issues Volume 5

 Issue

 Page

 Title

 Author(s)

 Description

Category

 5:1

 5

 Letters: Thoughts on the Saturnian Sun and Polar Column

 Mike Twose, Richard M. Smith

 includes reply from Dwardu Cardona

solar system

 5:1

 9

 Letter: Solar System Organization

 Keith H. Rhodes

 includes reply from Wallace Thornhill

solar system

 5:1

 15

 Report on Second SIS Cambridge Conference: July 1997

 Birgit C. Liesching

 summary of the various presentations with the theme: Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age Civilizations

general history, general science

 5:1

 21

 News Flash: Earth's Twin Moons

 Tania ta Maria

 University of Colorado - Boulder - theory for Moon's formation

solar system

 5:1

 23

 Circling the Rings

 Henry Zemel

 theory involving one-time concentric rings of asteroids around the sun

solar system

 5:1

 33

 Quantalism: The Big Picture

 Roger W. Wescott

 sheds light on animal and human behavior and the vocabulary and metaphors of science

general history, general science

 5:1

 55

 News Flash: Human Remains in Alberta Older than Last Glaciation

 Tania ta Maria

 evidence of prehistoric people could be over 20000 years old

evolution

 5:1

 57

 The Saturn Thesis (part 4)

 David Talbott

 conclusion of interview

Saturn myths

 5:1

 69

 Stairway to Heaven

 Ev Cochrane

 this widespread motif must have resulted from being seen by many - not cultural diffusion

Saturn myths

 5:1

 77

 News Flash: Fireballs North of Bangkok

 Tania ta Maria

 incidents in October 1996

general science

 5:1

 78

 News Flash: Phallic Worship in the Modern World

 Tania ta Maria

 yearly pilgrimage to cave in Himalayas

India

 5:1

 79

 The Mixtec Tree of Origin

 Ken Moss

 focuses on Mesoamerican motif - involving the Saturnian configuration and Mars

Saturn myths

 5:1

 87

 News Flash: Did the Amazons Exist after All?

 Tania ta Maria

 graves of women in Kazakhstan, from 600 to 400 BC

general history

 5:1

 88

 Testing Rohl's Test of Time

 Dale F. Murphie

 review of Rohl's book - about ancient Egyptian chronology

Egypt

 5:1

 104

 News Flash: Cleopatra's Palace Found

 Tania ta Maria

 ruins of Alexandria's harbor surveyed in late 1996

Egypt

 5:1

 105

 Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer

 Ev Cochrane

 Review of book with subtitle: Pseudoscience, superstition and other confusions of our time

general science

 5:1

 106

 The Sunken Kingdom by Peter J. James

 Ev Cochrane

review of book with subtitle: The Atlantis Mystery Solved; reviewer disagrees

Greece

 5:1

 108

 News Flash: Neanderthal Symphony

 Tania ta Maria

 Neanderthal musical instruments?

general history

 5:2

 5

 Letter: Instantaneous Shifts of the Poles

 Keith H. Rhodes, Alasdair Beal, Robert B. Driscoll

 refer to Barbiero in 4:6; includes reply from Flavio Barbiero for each

solar system

 5:2

 13

 News Flash: Earth's New Companion and a New Visitor from Space

 Tania ta Maria

 asteroids 3753 or 1986TO and 1997XF11

solar system

 5:2

 15

 Anhydride Theory: A New Theory of How Petroleum and Coal are Generated

 C. Warren Hunt

 theory that bacteria generates petroleum from methane

general science

 5:2

 21

 Pterodactyls in the Mesozoic: A Flap in Time

 Frederic Jueneman

 discussion of various dinosaurs in the Mesozoic

evolution

 5:2

 38

 Saturn and the Flood: The Ice-Core Evidence

 Sean Mewhinney

 comparison of Velikovsky's deluge with Greenland's ice cores

general science

 5:2

 43

 Aphrodite Urania

 Ev Cochrane

 the many faces of the ancient mother goddess

Venus myths

 5:2

 63

 Ancient Greeks in America

 Alban Wall

 Plutarch's writings imply Greek contact with the natives

Greece, North America

 5:2

 67

 News Flash: Pharos of Alexandria Found

 Tania ta Maria

 the famous lighthouse is being recovered

Egypt

 5:2

 69

 Lucid Dreaming and Visualization Techniques in The Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides

 David Walter Leinweber

 study of the Greek dream temples of Asklepios

Greece, general science

 5:2

 83

 The Last Supper

 Dwardu Cardona

 could have been the celebration of an ancient Saturnian festival

Bible

 5:2

 89

 The Electric Universe by Wallace Thornhill

 Amelia Acheson

 Review of Thornhill's presentation

solar system

 5:2

 91

 Symbols of an Ancient Sky by David Talbott

 Pam Hanna

 Review of Talbott's presentation

solar system

 5:2

93

Let There Be Darkness by Lewis Greenberg

Ken Moss

Review of book with subtitle: The Reign of the Swastika - the origin of that ancient symbol

general history

 5:2

 95

 News Flash: the Bumblebee Learns to Fly

 Tania ta Maria

 the search for the missing lift

general science

 5:3

 5

 Letters: Saturn's Cloud Cover

 Pamela Jo Perkins

 refer to Cardona in 3:3; includes reply by Dwardu Cardona

solar system

 5:3

 6

 Letters: Ogam and Grian

 Richard M. Smith

 refer to Smith in 5:1; includes reply by Dwardu Cardona

general history

 5:3

 7

 Forum: Celestial Rings

 Roger W. Wescott

 replies/comments about Zemel in 5:1 from Henry Zemel, Richard M. Smith, Mike Twose

solar system

 5:3

 11

 Darwin's Dangerous Idea: A Critique

 Frederic B. Jueneman

 critique of Daniel Dennet's book of that name

evolution

 5:3

 19

 News Flash: Dinosaurs Grow Ever Bigger

 Tania ta Maria

 fossils of huge dinosaurs found in Argentina

evolution

 5:3

 21

 Changing Sea Levels

 Gordon P. Williams

 floods in the Arctic; refer to Jueneman in 4:6 and Cardona in several

general science

 5:3

 24

 News Flash: Scorpion Fossils: An Enigma

 Tania ta Maria

 flexible fossils 420 million years old with no shoreline

evolution

 5:3

 25

 Charting Imaginary Worlds: Pole Shifts, Ice Sheets, and Ancient Sea Kings

 Sean Mewhinney

 takes on ancient maps of Antarctica

general history

 5:3

 49

 The Female Star

 Ev Cochrane

 why is Venus female and why is she married to Mars?

Venus myths

 5:3

 65

 The Mosaic Calendar and the Sabbath

 Eric Aitchison

 analysis of Mosaic calendrical laws and a floating Sabbath

Israel

 5:3

 69

 It's Time to Get Serious about Dynasty XVIII and Tuthmose III

 Dale F. Murphie

 supports Velikovsky's link of Shishak to Tuthmose III

historical reconstruction

 5:3

 95

 News Flash: The Final Destruction of Nineveh

 Tania ta Maria

 comparison of Iraq and Turkey and their antiquities

Iraq, Turkey

 5:3

 96

 The Age of Purple Darkness

 Roger Ashton

 study of the primeval age of darkness; refer to Cardona in 3:3

Saturn myths, solar system

 5:3

 101

 News Flash: The Berekhat Ram Venus

 Tania ta Maria

 very old Venus figurines found in Golan Heights

general history

 5:3

 102

 The Mars Mystery by Graham Hancock

 Frederic B. Jueneman

  review of book with subtitle: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet

solar system, Egypt

 5:3

 104

 New Insights to Antiquity by Richard Petersen

 Frederic B. Jueneman

 review - story includes historical figures of American Southwest, like Coronado

general history

 5:4

 5

 Vox Popvli

 Readers

 Our readers sound off

 5:4

 7

 Forum: Instantaneous Polar Shifts: the Debate Continues

 David Selkeld

 Response to Barbiero 4:6, includes reply by Barbiero

solar system

 5:4

 11

 Forum: Gravity and Pterodactyls

 Mike Twose

 Responses to Jueneman of 5:2, includes reply by Jueneman

general science

 5:4

 13

 Forum: The Mosaic Calendar

 Lisa Liel

 Response to Aitchison of 5:3, includes replies by Aitchison and Dale Murphie

general history

 5:4

 19

 Forum: Imaginary Worlds

 Richard Smith

 Response to Mewhinney of 5:3, includes reply by Mewhinney

general history

 5:4

22

News Flash: Polar Meltdown and a New Ice Age Theory

Tania ta Maria

shrinking Antartica ice cap

general science

 5:4

 23

 Numerical Analysis of Planetary Distances in a Polar Model

 Emilio Spedicato

 Professor Spedicato offers numerical evidence in favor of the stacked-planet system inherent in the Saturnian model.

solar system

 5:4

 30

 A Return to the Two Sargons and Their Successors

 Dwardu Cardona

 A further critique of Gunnar Heinsohn's reconstruction of ancient history, including that of Mesopotamia and Egypt, with an Appendix for the archaeological site of Alalakh.

historical reconstruction

 5:4

 57

 Heinsohn's Ancient "History"

 Ev Cochrane

 More objections to Heinsohn's historical reconstruction in which Cochrane zeroes in on Heinsohn's famed Hammurabi/Darius equation.

historical reconstruction

 5:4

 75

 Confessions of a Cenoist

 Henry Zemel

 Personal reflections on Velikovskian catastrophism, scientific dating-techniques, and historical reconstructions.

Velikovsky

 5:4

 79

Bauer and Velikovsky: Catch 22

 Joseph May

 General criticism of Henry Bauer's book Beyond Velikovsky.

Velikovsky

 5:4

 81

Kinetic Theory, Gravity, and Critical Fog

 George R. Talbott

 A critique of Henry Bauer's objections to Velikovsky's paper on a cosmos without gravity.

Velikovsky, cult of scientists

 5:4

 90

 Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael Behe

 Frederic Jueneman

 Review of book about molecular biochemistry

evolution

 5:4

 93

 Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by Sara Genuth

 Ev Cochrane

 Review of book about ancient comet superstitions and later theories by astronomers

solar system

 5:4

 95

 Magnetic Fields - Solar and Planetary

 Tania ta Maria

 Super flares and Io's glow

solar system

 5:5

 5

 Vox Popvli

 readers

 Our readers sound off.

 5:5

6

News Flash: Black Holes and X-Rays

Tania ta Maria

gas moving at 6.5 million miles/hr as measured by red shift

solar system

 5:5

 7

 Forum: Instantaneous Polar Shifts: The Debate Continues

 Tim Thompson

 Response to Barbiero 4:6/5:4, includes reply by Barbiero

solar system

 5:5

 11

 Forum: Imagining Worlds: The Debate Heats Up

 Alasdair Beal and Charles Ginenthal

 Response to Mewhinney of 5:3, includes reply by Mewhinney

general history

 5:5

 37

 Stellar Spectra

 Earl R. Milton

 The late author illustrates that the spectra of stars conform much better with the electric universe model than they do with the currently accepted one.

solar system

 5:5

 41

 Stars in an Electric Universe

 Wallace Thornhill

 Stars, the origin of which is still an unsolved problem according to some, owe their genesis and characteristics to the electric nature of the Universe. This theory is then extrapolated in a preliminary attempt to account for certain factors inherent in the Saturnian scenario.

solar system

 5:5

49

News Flash: the Big Lie

Tania ta Maria

pictures of the universe in National Geographic are color enhanced

general science

 5:5

 51

 The Eye Goddess

 Ev Cochrane

 A study of the Egyptian Hathor and other "eye" goddesses, identified as personifications of the planet Venus, and how this general motif is applicable to the Saturn theory.

Venus myths

 5:5

 61

 Typhon and the Comet of the Exodus: Rockenbach's Lost Source

 Dwardu Cardona

 An exposition on the comet called Typhon, its non-relation to the Greek demigod of the same name, and how this affects Immanuel Velikovsky's theory concerning the cosmic events he attributed to the time of the Exodus.

Venus myths

 5:5

 79

 The "Tinma" Test

 Dale F. Murphie

 In-depth investigation of the Timna temple of Hathor, the adjoining mines, Jezirat Fara'un, Ezion Geber, and their relation to Velikovsky's reconstruction of ancient history.

historical reconstruction

 5:5

 112

 Sun, Moon and Sothis: A Study of Calendars and Calendar Reform in Ancient Egypt by Lynn E Rose

 Frederic Jueneman

 review of book about Egyptian calendars and astronomical dating techniques

Egypt

 5:5

 114

 Carl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson

 Frederic Jueneman

 Review of the biography: the man vs the celebrity

cult of scientists

 5:6

 5

 Vox Populi

 Readers

 Our readers sound off.

 5:6

 7

 Forum: Gravity and Pterodactyls: More Points to Consider

 Mike Twose

 Debate continues (5:2,3:2) concerning gravity, pterodactyls; includes response by Frederic Jueneman.

general science

 5:6

 12

 Forum: Imaginary Worlds: Still Hot

 Alasdair Beal

 Response to Mewhinney in 5:5

general history

 5:6

 14

 Dynamical Evolution of a Collinear Planetary System

 Emilio Spedicato & Antonio Del Popolo

 Mathematical evaluation of the Saturnian configuration system of planets as espoused by Dwardu Cardona, David Talbott, and Ev Cochrane

solar system

 5:6

 21

 Day Star

 Ev Cochrane

 A succinct study of the Venerian goddess which outlines the reasons behind some of her ancient epithets.

Venus myths

 5:6

 29

 Antiquated Textbooks: Redesigning the Solar System

 Dwardu Cardona

 An overview of Solar System, and other astronomical, discoveries since the 1950s and their relationship to the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky as presented in his Worlds in Collision.

solar system

 5:6

 47

 Thutmose III: A Different Perspective

 Eric Aitchison

 In which the author takes both Immanuel Velikovsky and Dale Murphie to task over their identification of Thutmose III as the Biblical Shishak.

Egypt

 5:6

 61

 News Flash: A Fraud Called Schliemann

 Tania ta Maria

 Schliemann did not discover Troy, Calvert did.

Troy

 5:6

 65

 The Use of the 7-Base Measuring System in Ancient Britain and the Continent

 Alban Wall

 An investigation into the 7-base system of measurement as used by the ancient Basques of the French and Spanish Pyrenees, and how this might relate to the megalithic structures of prehistoric Britain.

general history

 5:6

 73

 Paradise—The Lost Frontier: Early Voyages to the Forbidden Isles

 Gunnar Thompson

 A detailed study of pre-Columbian voyages to the New World in medieval times, includes study of role that Roman Catholic Church played, especially in its attempt to safeguard the route to the Americas which it originally viewed as the Biblical Paradise.

general history

 5:6

 95

The Cycle of 320 days

 Roger Ashton

 How many different years did the ancient Egyptians reckon in? Ashton presents evidence that one of these annual cycles, adhered to during Egypt's first dynasties, consisted of 320 days.

Egypt