Download or read book "For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation": American Blood Falls written by Tom Maxwell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showers of blood, however dreadful, were not news. Pliny, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch mentioned rains of blood and flesh. Zeus makes it rain blood, 'as a portent of slaughter,' in Homer's Iliad." This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.