Worlds in collision.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel, 1895-1979
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan, 1950.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.