Kind of source · not a judgment

Traditional Account

Oral tradition, folklore, legend, inherited teaching, or account transmitted across generations.

This label does not say the claim is true or false. It does not rank the record. A claim with no label is unclassified, not rejected.

Interpreter · not a tradition
Immanuel Velikovsky
A 1950 argument that myths of catastrophe are the record of recent planetary encounters, above all a cometary Venus.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
Robert Temple
A 1976 argument that Dogon knowledge of Sirius and its faint companion came from ancient nonhuman teachers and is tied to Egypt.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.
Interpreter · not a tradition
David Hatcher Childress
A catalog, not one thesis: lost cities and traces of advanced ancient technology argued across many regions.
The label marks the kind of material in the argument. It is not a verdict, and it does not move the claim onto a tradition row.