Tunguska event celebrated

Vera Rich

doi:10.1038/335006a0

Magnetic and seismic reflection study of Lake Cheko, a possible impact crater for the 1908 Tunguska Event

Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ◽

10.1029/2012gc004054 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

L. Gasperini ◽

L. Cocchi ◽

C. Stanghellini ◽

G. Stanghellini ◽

F. Del Bianco ◽

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Keyword(s):

Seismic Reflection ◽

Impact Crater ◽

Tunguska Event

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Tunguska Event

The Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics ◽

10.1888/0333750888/5376 ◽

2004 ◽

Keyword(s):

Tunguska Event

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Origin of the Tunguska event

Nature ◽

10.1038/375638a0 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 375 (6533) ◽

pp. 638-639 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

J. E. Lyne ◽

Michael Tauber

Keyword(s):

Tunguska Event

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Children of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy

Gnosis Journal of Gnostic Studies ◽

10.1163/2451859x-12340014 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1-2) ◽

pp. 259-275

Author(s):

Victoria Nelson

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Human Nature ◽

Late Antiquity ◽

Real Life ◽

Close Reading ◽

Soviet Regime ◽

Soviet Science ◽

Deep Roots ◽

Philosophy And Literature ◽

Tunguska Event

This paper offers a close reading of the contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice trilogy and explores its deep roots in early gnostic spiritual movements of late antiquity, Russian esoteric philosophy and literature, and Western popular culture. Reflecting sources as varied as the Apocryphon of John, the Disney movie Escape to Witch Mountain, Russian New Age paganism, and esoteric Soviet science, these three interconnected novellas are based on the real-life “Tunguska event,” the great fireball that appeared over the Tunguska region of Siberia in 1908, flattening more than 800 square miles of forest. Famous in ufo circles as the “Russian Roswell” and long a magnet for esoteric speculation, in Sorokin’s hands this probable meteor strike becomes the springboard for a contemporary gnostic fantasy in which a giant chunk of ice carries the spirits of 23,000 gnostic demiurges to earth, where they inhabit human bodies that they despise and seek only to reunite and return to their source. More than a simple postmodern parable of the seventy-year Soviet regime and post-Soviet societal excesses, Sorokin’s damning portrait of his “children of the Light” illuminates the deeper and darker currents of human nature, ethics, and spirituality.

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