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Sothiac, Sothic Cycle Sothiac or Sothic Cycle In ancient Egypt, a cycle formed by compounding the rounded year of 365 days with the Sothic year of 365 1/4: the two kinds of year, running concurrently, would coincide after 1,461 of the former and 1,460 of the latter. The Sothic year was fixed as the interval between two successive heliacal risings of Sothis (Sirius), which at that time took place near the summer solstice. Its length is an approximation to the tropical year and is the same as the Julian year. The epoch from which Sothic cycles were dated is not known, but the Roman scholar Censorinus (3rd century) states that a cycle ended 139 AD. (See also: Sothiac, Sothic Cycle, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)
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Social Studies Dictionary - Boom-and-Bust Cycle Definition and meaning of Boom-and-Bust Cycle Boom-and-Bust Cycle Immediately following World War I the economy slowed as demand for goods decreased. In the 1920s increased demand prompted a "boom," a period of rapid growth, in the economy. People left depressed farming areas and moved to jobs in the lumber or oil industries, or to cities to work in factories on production lines. Better transportation increased demand for meat in northern areas so the ranching and the meat-packing industry prospered. Transportation changes increased the demand for oil and petroleum products. With increased income more Texans looked for goods to buy and for new forms of entertainment. Movies, jazz, and automobiles all provided distractions. The boom continued until the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis or "bust" in the economy affected small farmers fighting against droughts, pests or others factors which caused crops to fail. Even farmers who increased production suffered because the prices for their goods decreased. At the same time, prices for machinery, taxes, and land increased. Those seeking relief in the cities in the 1930s did not find it. Factories were not hiring, unemployment increased and the depression or "bust" deepened. World War II reinvigorated the economy and produced the next "boom" cycle. (Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University ) Also see these pages: Social Studies, Social Studies Sitemap, History, History Sitemap
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Social Studies Dictionary - Boom-and-Bust Cycle Definition and meaning of Boom-and-Bust Cycle Boom-and-Bust Cycle Immediately following World War I the economy slowed as demand for goods decreased. In the 1920s increased demand prompted a "boom," a period of rapid growth, in the economy. People left depressed farming areas and moved to jobs in the lumber or oil industries, or to cities to work in factories on production lines. Better transportation increased demand for meat in northern areas so the ranching and the meat-packing industry prospered. Transportation changes increased the demand for oil and petroleum products. With increased income more Texans looked for goods to buy and for new forms of entertainment. Movies, jazz, and automobiles all provided distractions. The boom continued until the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis or "bust" in the economy affected small farmers fighting against droughts, pests or others factors which caused crops to fail. Even farmers who increased production suffered because the prices for their goods decreased. At the same time, prices for machinery, taxes, and land increased. Those seeking relief in the cities in the 1930s did not find it. Factories were not hiring, unemployment increased and the depression or "bust" deepened. World War II reinvigorated the economy and produced the next "boom" cycle. (Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University ) Also see these pages: Social Studies, Social Studies Sitemap, History, History Sitemap
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Hinduism Dictionary on Cosmic cycle cosmic cycle: One of the infinitely recurring periods of the universe, comprising its creation, preservation and dissolution. These cycles are measured in periods of progressive ages, called yugas. Satya (or Krita), Treta, Dvapara and Kali are the names of these four divisions, and they repeat themselves in that order, with the Satya Yuga being the longest and the Kali Yuga the shortest. The comparison is often made of these ages with the cycles of the day: Satya Yuga being morning until noon, the period of greatest light or enlightenment, Treta Yuga afternoon, Dvapara evening, and Kali Yuga the darkest part of the night. Four yugas equal one mahayuga. Theories vary, but by traditional astronomical calculation, a mahayuga equals 4,320,000 solar years (or 12,000 "divine years;" one divine year is 360 solar years) - with the - Satya Yuga lasting 1,728,000 years,
- Treta Yuga 1,296,000 years,
- Dvapara Yuga 864,000 years, and
- Kali Yuga 432,000 years.
Mankind is now experiencing the Kali Yuga, which began at midnight, February 18, 3102 bce (year one on the Hindu calendar [see Hindu Timeline]) and will end in approximately 427,000 years. (By another reckoning, one mahayuga equals approximately two million solar years.) A dissolution called laya occurs at the end of each mahayuga, when the physical world is destroyed by flood and fire. Each destructive period is followed by the succession of creation (srishti), evolution or preservation (sthiti) and dissolution (laya). A summary of the periods in the cosmic cycles: - 1 mahayuga = 4,320,000 years (four yugas)
- 71 mahayugas = 1 manvantara or manu (we are in the 28th mahayuga)
- 14 manvantaras = 1 kalpa or day of Brahma (we are in the 7th manvantara)
- 2 kalpas = 1 ahoratra or day and night of Brahma 360 ahoratras = 1 year of Brahma
- 100 Brahma years = 309,173,760,000,000 years (one "lifetime" of Brahma, or the universe).
We are in Brahma Year 51 of the current cycle. At the end of every kalpa or day of Brahma a greater dissolution, called pralaya (or kalpanta, "end of an eon"), occurs when both the physical and subtle worlds are absorbed into the causal world, where souls rest until the next kalpa begins. This state of withdrawal or "night of Brahma," continues for the length of an entire kalpa until creation again issues forth. After 36,000 of these dissolutions and creations there is a total, universal annihilation, mahapralaya, when all three worlds, all time, form and space, are withdrawn into God Siva. After a period of total withdrawal a new universe or lifespan of Brahma begins. This entire cycle repeats infinitely. This view of cosmic time is recorded in the Puranas and the Dharma Shastras. See: mahapralaya. (See also: Cosmic cycle, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)
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Occultism Mysticism Dictionary on Law of Cycles A Theosophical definition of Law of Cycles : Cycles or Law of Cycles An exceedingly interesting branch of theosophical study, and one dealing with a fact which is so obviously manifest in the worlds surrounding us that its existence can hardly be denied, except by the willfully blind, is what may be called the law of cycles, or nature's repetitive operations. We find nature repeating herself everywhere, although such repetition of course is not merely a running in the same old ruts on each recurrence of the cyclic activity; for each recurrence is of course the expression of a modification, more or less great, of what has preceded. Day succeeds night, winter succeeds summer, the planets circulate around the suns in regular and periodical courses; and these are but familiar examples of cyclical activity. Cycles in nature show the time periods of periodic recurrence along and in which any evolving entity or thing expresses the energies and powers which are itself, so that cycles and evolution are like the two sides of a coin: the one shows the time periods or cycles, and the other side manifests the energic or substantial qualities appearing in manifestation according to these cyclical time-periods; but back of this apparently double but actually single process always lie profound karmic causes. See also: Law of Cycles , Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul
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