God Star
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: April 21, 2006
Place of publication: Victoria, B.C., Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781412083089
Subjects: Mysticism; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1 Myths and Legends; label: Myth; label: Ritual; label: Drama; label: Orality; label: Literacy; label: Perplexity; label: Mistranslations; label: Misinterpretations; label: Contradictions; label: Comparisons; label: Diffusion; label: Divine Revelry; label: Celestial Divinities; label: The Planetary Deities; label: Astronomy in Mythology; label: The Historicity of the Events; title: Chapter 2 Ancient Astronomical Lore; title: Sacred Images from the Sky; title: Cosmic Debris; title: Calendars; title: Venus; title: Sunspots; title: The Eternal Planet; title: Guest Stars; title: The Suriya Siddhanta; title: The Almagest; title: The Heliocentric System; title: The Well at Syene; title: Inclination to the South; title: The Precession of the Equinoxes; title: The Crime of Anaxagoras; title: Shadow Through Space; title: The Metonic Cycle; title: A Matter of Gravity; title: The Rotation & Revolution of Planets; title: Planetary Conjunctions; title: The periodicity of Comets; title: Number of Worlds; title: Life on Other Planets; title: The Babylonian Precedence; title: The Zodiac; title: The Astronomical Diaries; title: Chapter 3 The Sun Star; title: The Most Prominent of the Planets; title: Stella Solaris; title: (Mul) Lu-Bat Sag-Uš; title: The Light of the Gods; title: Ningirsu; title: The True Sun; title: The Saturnian Sun; title: First Interlude; title: Chapter 4 The Sun of Night; title: The Egyptian Night Sun; title: The Babylonian Exemplar; title: Nocturnal Deities; title: The God of Saturday Night; title: Chapter 5 Dead Suns; title: Dark Stars; title: Potted Stars; title: Failed Stars; title: Proto-Stars; title: Red Dwarf Star; title: Miniature Sun; title: Failed Model; title: Brown Dwarfs; title: Second Interlude; title: Chapter 6 Primordial Satellite; title: Starlight: Star Bright; title: Janus; title: An or Anu; title: Ouranos; title: Varuna; title: Saturnus; title: Stella Proxima; title: The Dogon Mystery; title: The Star of Nine Moons; title: Third Interlude; title: Chapter 7 Planetary Shuffle; title: The Unstable Solar System; title: The Titius-Bode Law; title: Retroactive Calculations; title: Former Orbits; title: The Shifting Earth; title: The Habitable Zone; title: Chapter 8 The Solitary Deity; title: The One Alone; title: Ptah-Seker-Asar; title: Prajapati; title: Four from the primitive World; title: Fourth Interlude; title: Chapter 9 The Immobile God; title: The Sabbath Star; title: The God of the Jews; title: The Trouble with Amos; title: The Stable One; title: The God of Jerusalem; title: The House of Shulman; title: The Mesopotamian Evidence; title: The Egyptian Explicitness; title: Shining in the Lightland; title: Reigning Em Hetep; title: Immovable fixed; title: The Never-Setting Planet; title: Chapter 10 The Polar Station; title: A Choice of Models; title: El--Eloah--Elohim; title: The Left Hand of God; title: The Sacred Quarter; title: The Story of Anu; title: Unas and the Circumpolar Stars; title: The Egyptian Creed of Resurrection; title: The Guardian of the Pole; title: Dhuruva; title: The Genie of the Pivot; title: The European Evidence; title: The Sun of the Centre and Other Echoes; title: Sinterklaas; title: Fifth Interlude; title: Chapter 11 Testing the Model; title: The Demands of a Theory; title: Internal consistency; title: The Lithospheric Bulge; title: The Nature of Tidal Forces; title: The Astronomical Dilemma; title: Chapter 12 In the Beginning; title: Being and not Being; title: Tohu wa Bohu; title: Chaos; title: Tao; title: The nebular Cloud; title: Mot; title: Nu; title: The Waters of Chaos; title: The Whirl of Creation; title: Chapter 13 The Age of Darkness; title: Darkness and the Deep; title: The Amerind Traditions; title: Kon Tiki Viracocha; title: The Endless Sea; title: Something Called Nothing; title: The Long Night of Rumia; title: Chapter 14 The Dawn of Creation; title: The Primordial Glow; title: Creatures of the Dark; title: Photosynthesis; title: The Required Temperature; title: The Plasmasphere; title: Sixth Interlude; title: Chapter 15 The Timeless Era; title: The Father of Years; title: Chronos; title: Aion; title: Kala; title: The Slow-Moving Planet; title: Dionysus; title: Quetzalcoatl Unveiled; title: Time Zero; title: Chapter 16 The Interloping System; title: Out in Space; title: Extra-Solar Planets; title: The Revised History of the Solar System; title: A Matter of Nomenclature; title: The Runaway Planet; title: Lone Travelers Through Space; title: The Absent Sun; title: The Distant Sun; title: Seventh Interlude; title: Chapter 17 Life Beneath a Brown Dwarf Star; title: Tight Orbit; title: Phase Lock; title: Atmospheric Amplitude; title: The Cradle of Life; title: Stationary Star; title: Long-Lived Sun; title: The Search for Dwarf Star Planets; title: Chapter 18 A World with One Season; title: The Nature of Seasons; title: The God of Seasons; title: Photoperiodism; title: The Sub-Tropical Arctic; title: The Canadian High arctic; title: From Pole to Pole and in Between; title: The Cretaceous Climate; title: Tree Rings; title: The Axial Tilt Hypothesis; title: Clues from Other Planets; title: The Boreal Cradle; title: The Caretaker of the World; title: Chapter 19 Polar Wandering; title: The Coral Data; title: The Ice Cap Model; title: The Toppling Globe; title: Heoid Highs; title: The Paleomagnetic Evidence; title: The Martian Archetype; title: Last Interlude; title: Chapter 20 The Axial Coupling; title: The Problem; title: Bold Endeavors; title: The Lesson of Shoemaker-Levy 9; title: The Transitory System; title: Cosmic Jets; title: Herbig-Haro Objects; title: Chapter 21 The Axis Mundi; title: The Ruach; title: Sanchoniathon's Cosmogony; title: Boreas; title: Ehecatl; title: Shu; title: Hurakon; title: The One-Legged God; title: The Phallic Post; title: The Sky Pillar; title: The Fiery Axis; title: Cook's Support; title: Suhr's Lunar Shadow; title: The Pole of the Ecliptic; title: The Whirling Ray from Above; title: Chapter 22 Cosmic Genesis; title: The Nature of the Beast; title: The Arctic Depression; title: Free-Floating Sub-Brown Dwarfs; title: The Accretion Disk Model; title: Planetary Ejections; title: Astral Ejections; title: Objective Earth; title: Epilogue; title: Scaling Up and Down; title: An Alternative conception; title: End of Act One; title: Index; title: A to Z