Other towns stood behind great earth banks faced with overlapping metal plates.
Another made the earth repel heavy bodies, so huge stones could be lifted with ease.
Croll identified cycles of varying eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, which he estimated to occur roughly every 100,000 years.
This cycle affects the shape of Earth's orbit, ranging from more circular to more elliptical.
He discussed the precession cycle, where the Earth's axis wobbles like a spinning top.
Precession affects the timing of the seasons relative to the Earth's position in its orbit.
Croll noted changes in the Earth's axial tilt, which occur over a cycle of about 41,000 years.
Professor James Croll's seminal work, "Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate" (published in 1875), presents a groundbreaking theory on the long-term changes in the Earth's climate.
Croll proposed that variations in the Earth's orbit and axial tilt, known as Milankovitch cycles, significantly influence long-term climate patterns.
These cycles affect the distribution and intensity of solar radiation received by the Earth, leading to periods of glaciation and interglaciation.
Eccentricity of Earth's Orbit:
He highlighted the importance of changes in the eccentricity (shape) of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
Croll examined the effects of the precession of the equinoxes (the wobble in the Earth's rotation) and changes in the obliquity (the tilt of the Earth's axis).
Father Seán also extends this concept to the planet itself, proposing that Earth has seven levels:
One could say that, similar to the general populace, a race arose in this realm of the earth that was very dissimilar to present-day humanity.
The rainbow often touches the earth at two points, sometimes forming a full circle.
One story is that before the Diné, or the five-fingered beings, were placed on the surface of Mother Earth, the two boys had to get rid of all the evil things on the earth before they could bring the Diné, or the children of the Holy People, here.
In this talk he argues that the Bible keeps the memory of other beings who arrived on Earth, and that later editors painted over it with a single God.
In the days before the destruction, a large comet entered the solar system, taking up an eccentric orbit that crossed Earth’s path twice a year, raining down remnants that caused great destruction over two decades.
The Atlanteans were deeply connected to the Earth and nature, but there was a split between those who retained this connection and those who succumbed to fear-based beliefs.
The festival marked the New Year and was held to ensure the renewal of the earth, the king and society.
It was an essential part of the Esagila complex and symbolized the link between heaven and earth.
A common belief is that Noah carried Adam’s bones in the Ark, and they were buried in Jerusalem, the supposed center of the earth.
“Here lies, reduced to a pinch of dust, he who, from a pinch of dust, was formed to govern the earth, Adam,the son of None, the father of All, the stepfather of All and of himself.
An apparition involves a divine entity making itself known to a person on Earth, a concept supported by most Christian denominations.
The feet are the earth.
Hörbiger claimed that Earth and other planets have had multiple moons made of ice that periodically crash into the planets, causing cataclysmic events such as floods and changes in climate.
The theory posits that many of Earth's geological and climatic changes, as well as historical catastrophes described in myth and legend (such as the Great Flood), can be attributed to the impacts and influences of these ice moons.
His blood becomes the oceans, his flesh the earth, his bones the mountains, his hair the trees, and his skull the sky.
These apples were a wedding gift from Gaia (Earth) to Hera, the queen of the gods, upon her marriage to Zeus.
It is often associated with the four elements (earth, water, air, fire) and the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, west).
7 symbolizes the union of heaven/spirit (often linked to 3) and earth/matter (often linked to 4), creating a "perfect" totality.
To connect with the physical body brings a deeper connection to the earth.
Laozi Tieguai was an ascetic for 40 years, often foregoing food and sleep, until Laozi agreed to return to earth and instruct his fellow clansman on worldly vanities.
Uranus is one of the primal gods, born from Chaos or emerging directly from Gaia (the Earth), depending on the mythological account.
He represents the sky in its primal, untouched form, enveloping the earth and providing a place for the gods to reside.
Uranus was both the son and husband of Gaia (the Earth).
This union between sky and earth was foundational in Greek cosmogony, explaining the origin of many key entities and forces in the world.
Its orbit takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete.
Uanna, "who finished the plans for heaven and earth"
The same text calls them "the seven apkallus, born in the river, who keep in order the plans of heaven and earth".
In Kvanvig's translation of Bīt Mēseri, Uanna is the sage who completed the plans of heaven and earth, Utuabzu is the one who rose to heaven, and Anenlilda is a purification priest from Eridu.
The incantation calls the seven pure carps from the sea, sages born in the river who keep the plans of heaven and earth in order (Kvanvig 2011, p.
They say that the first man was created of the dust of the earth, and was placed in a garden, where he was subject to none of the ills which now affect mortality; he was also free from all bodily appetites, and though surrounded by delicious fruit and limpid streams, yet felt no desire to taste of the fruit or to quaff the water.
Another story is to the effect, that the right arm of Vena gave birth to Pritu, the master of the earth, and the left arm to the Virgin Archis, who became the bride of Pritu.
In China, the story is told that the Goddess Amida sweated male children out of her right arm-pit, and female children from her left arm-pit, and these children peopled the earth.
"The Sire who rules the earth and sways the poleHad spoken; laughter filled his secret soul:He bade the crippled god his hest obey,And mould with tempering water plastic clay;With human nerve and human voice investThe limbs elastic, and the breathing breast;Fair as the blooming goddesses above,A virgin likeness with the looks of love.He bade Minerva teach the skill that shedsA thousand colours in the glittering threads;He called the magic of love's golden queenTo breathe around a witchery of mien,And eager passion's never-sated flame,And cares of dress that prey upon the frame;Bade Hermes last endue, with craft refinedOf treacherous manners, and a shameless mind."
She refused to lie beneath him, because both of them were made from the earth.
Lilith is made from the same earth as Adam.
In an unlucky hour the earth produced a honey-sweet substance: one of the men lusted after it, tasted and gave to his companions; the consequence was, that men lost the power of rising from off the earth, their size, and their wisdom, and were obliged to satisfy themselves with food produced by the soil.
The Nepaul account of the beginning of sin is as follows: "Originally," says one of the Tantras, "the earth was uninhabited.
In those times, the inhabitants of Abhaswara, one of the heavenly mansions, frequently visited the earth and thence speedily returned.
It happened at length when a few of these beings, who though half male, half female, through the innocence of their minds had never noticed their distinction of sex, came as usual to the earth.
Adi Buddha suddenly created in them a longing to eat so violently that they ate some of the earth, which tasted like almonds.
By eating it, they lost their power to fly back to their heaven, so they remained on the earth.
They were now constrained to eat the fruits of the earth for sustenance.
"But it came to pass that one of them beholding the earth said to himself, What thing is this?
and with one of his fingers having touched the earth, he put it to the tip of his tongue and perceived the same to be deliciously sweet; from that time, all the Brahmas ate of the sweet earth for the space of 60,000 years.
In the meantime, having coveted in their hearts the enjoyment of this earth, they began to say to one another, This part is mine, and that is thine, and so, fixing boundaries to their respective shares, divided the earth between them.
Because the Brahmas had been guilty of covetousness, the earth lost its sweetness and then brought forth a kind of mushroom," which the Brahmas also coveted and divided, and of which they were also deprived.
A great calabash was placed on the earth, as also a sealed paper, and God gave the black men the first choice.
He came out of the earth, but his wife issued from his thumb, and from them all generations of men have sprung.
He found the earth filled with abundance of all good things.
That the Mexicans had other traditions, now lost, touching this matter is probable, for they had a form of baptism for children in which they prayed that those baptized might be washed from "the original sin committed before the founding of the world." And this had to do, in all probability, with a legend akin to that of the Iroquois, who told of the primeval mother falling and then of the earth being built up to receive her when precipitated out of heaven.
The Caribs of South America relate that Luoguo, the first man and god, created the earth and the sea, and made the earth as fair as the beautiful garden in the heaven where dwell the gods.
"The sister of Eliulap the first man, who was also a god, felt herself in labour, so she descended to earth and there brought forth three children.
To her astonishment she found the earth barren; therefore, by her mighty word, she clothed it with herbage and peopled it with beasts and birds.
The godless Sammael had made an alliance with all the chiefs of his host against the Lord, because the holy and ever-blessed Lord had said to Adam and Eve, "Have dominion over the fish of the sea," and he said, "How can I make man to sin and drive him out?" Then he went down to earth with all his host, and he sought for a companion like to himself; he chose the serpent, which was in size like a camel, and he seated himself on its back and rode up to the woman, and said to her, "Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" And he thought, "I will ask more presently." Then she answered, "He has only forbidden me the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge which is in the midst of the garden.
They already walked the earth when Adam’s line arrived.
Later historians sometimes say hinn or binn were cleared from the earth so jinn could live there.
It is not a total wipe of every human on earth.
Behold, Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.
Cain’s exile, mark, wife, and city imply other people already on earth.
Peoples spread across the earth are hard to squeeze into Adam’s immediate family alone.
The Peris followed them and held the earth for two thousand years more.
Then God sends Eblis, whom the note calls the same name as Satan, to hunt them for their disorders and to shut them into the most remote part of the earth.
Now, because the druks had not previously obeyed the Lord, but went and dwelt with the asu'ans, there was a half-breed race born on the earth, called Yak, signifying ground people; and they burrowed in the ground like beasts of the forest.
They plundered the stores of the I'hins, and the war spread over the whole earth.
And war ensued; and it spread around about the whole earth.
The earth shall be your abode; in the sweat of thy brow shalt thou find food; the produce of earth shall cause envy and contention; Eve (Hava) shall be afflicted with a variety of strange affections, and shall bring forth offspring in pain.
The wolf is bound, Thorr constrains the serpent, and Loki is chained under the mountains, and a serpent distils poison on his breast; when he tosses in agony, the earth quakes.