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WORLDS IN COLLISION - Immanuel Velikovsky
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WORLDS IN COLLISIONBy Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky
Copyright 1!"# $ll Rights Reserve%Commentary By Ro&ertino Sol'rion# ()""1
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In the le+than% pi,ture is Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky at the age o+ -! in 1-".he righthan% pi,ture /as pro&a&ly taken in the early 10"s.
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Oftentimes, after a long and complex research project such as this work onHyperborea, The Cosmic Tree, it is beneficial to return to the original source materialthat engendered the endeavor. t has been exactly !" years since first read #r.$elikovsky%s &O'(#) * CO(()O* and began this investigation, withoutknowing particularly where it would eventually lead me. +lthough &O'(#) *CO(()O* captivated me more than #r. $elikovsky%s other books, soon thereaftermy attention was riveted on his Historical 'econstruction presented in the +-) *CH+O) series. y the late /012s had written a 123page treatise titled 45une /6, 17!C- 8 + 9athematical +nalysis Of +ncient History4 in which think proved that#r. $elikovsky%s purely historical postulations could be mathematically verified andthoroughly cross3referenced. That treatise was not published, however, until +ugust/00: in an edition of TH- $-(;O$);+* 5ournal. This historical research
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se-'O'-+, TH- *HT )?*.
*ote above that &O'(#) * CO(()O* was first published in /062, half acentury after 9iss -. $alentia )traiton published TH- C-(-)T+( )H> O@ TH-
*O'TH and half a century prior to the completion of my own research. +nd alsoduring that second half3century there also were published such relevant works asH+9(-T%) 9(( by iorgio de )antillana and Hertha von #echend, TH- -+'THCH'O*C(-) by Aecharia )itchin, and @(=* )-'>-*T) +*# #'+O*)by'.+. oulay, amongst others. )ince all of this prior and seemingly disparate writingspanned the entire century, it would have been 33 and was 33 impossible for me tofinaliBe all the conclusions which are presented here under the umbrella3title of TH-CO)9C T'--.
Transcribed below are several excerpts from &O'(#) * CO(()O*. ChaptersOne and Two of >art Two -xodusD)antoriniE are transcribed in their entiretyF
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centuries and is dealt with in other essays in this collection. +ssuming that it has acertain validity, then the -xodus and the )antorini CataclysmD-xplosion occurred inmy scenario in the year /6"1 C-F and the )un stood still over ibeon 6! years laterin /6G6 C-. )ignificantly, #r. $elikovsky also linked this period of 6! years to the9ayan traditionsF it more than coincidental that the 9ayan astronomical system is
partially constructed around the framework of a cycle of 6! years, or : times /G. n hisdiscussion of the relevance of the number /G, however, #r. $elikovsky wasundoubtedly not aware that the -*#3T9- #+T- for the current 9ayan aktun, i.e.,the end date of /G.2.2.2.2, falls on !/ #ecember !2/!, precisely G,722 years after thecosmic cataclysm of -xodusD)antoriniF and G,722 years is the length of one *ibiruanOrbit, that cycle of time after which new 4world ages4 begin, birthed by fearsomecosmic storms of fire, water and wind.
'obertino )olrion, #allas, Texas, : 5anuary !22/
WORLDS IN COLLISION# $R WOChapter 1
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The most incredible story of miracles is told about 5oshua ben *un who, whenpursuing the Canaanite kings at eth3horon, implored the sun and the moon to standstill. 4+nd he said to the sight of srael, )un, stand thou still upon ibeonF and thou,9oon, in the valley of +jalon. +nd the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the
people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. s not this written in the book of5asherI )o the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about
a whole day4 5oshua /28/!3/GE.This story is beyond the belief of even the most imaginative or the most pious person.&aves of stormy sea may have drowned one host and been merciful to another. Theearth could crack asunder and swallow up human beings. The 5ordan could be blocked
by a slice of its bank falling into the bed of the river. 5ericho%s walls 33 not by the blastof trumpets, but by an incidental earth
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+ departure of the earth from its regular rotation is thinkable, but only in a veryimprobable event that our planet should meet another heavenly body of sufficientmass to disrupt the eternal path of our world.
t is true that aerolites or meteorites reach our earth continually, sometimes by thethousands and tens of thousands. ut no dislocation of our precise turning round andround has ever been perceived.
This does not mean that a larger body, or a larger number of bodies, could not strikethe terrestrial sphere. The large number of asteroids between the orbits of the planets9ars and 5upiter suggests that at some unknown time another planet revolved thereFnow only these meteorites follow approximately the path along which the destroyed
planet circled the sun. >ossibly a comet ran into it and shattered it.
That a comet may strike our planet is not very probable, but the idea is not absurd.The heavenly mechanism works with almost absolute precisionF but unstable, theirway lost, comets by the thousands, by the millions, revolve in the sky, and their
interference may disturb the harmony. )ome of these comets belong to our system.>eriodically they return, but not at very exact intervals, owing to the perturbationscaused by gravitation toward the larger planets when they fly too close to them. utinnumerable other comets, often seen only through the telescope, come flying in fromimmeasurable spaces of the universe at very great speed, and disappear 33 possiblyforever. )ome comets are visible only for hours, some for days or weeks or evenmonths.
9ight it happen that our earth, the earth under our feet, would roll toward perilouscollision with a huge mass of meteorites, a trail of stones flying at enormous speedaround and across our solar systemI
This probability was analyBed with fervor during the last century. @rom the time of+ristotle, who asserted that a meteorite, which fell at +egospotami when a comet wasglowing in the sky, had been lifted from the ground by the wind and carried in the airand dropped over that place, until the year /"2G when, on +pril !7, a shower ofmeteorites fell at l%+igle in @rance and was investigated by iot and the @rench+cademy of )ciences, the scholarly world 33 and in the meantime there livedCopernicus, alileo alilei, ;epler, *ewton, and Huygens 33 did not believe that sucha thing as a stone falling from the sky was possible at all. +nd this despite manyoccasions when stones fell before the eyes of a crowd, as did the aerolite in the
presence of -mperor 9aximilian and his court in -nsisheim, +lsace, on *ovember 1,
/:0!.Only shortly before /"2G, the +cademy of )ciences of >aris refused to believe that, onanother occasion, stones had fallen from the sky. The fall of meteorites on 5uly !:,/102, in southwest @rance was pronounced 4un phJnomKne physi
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stones, too, cannot a full3siBed comet fly into the face of the earthI t was calculatedthat such a possibility exists but that it is very unlikely to occur.
L#.@. +rago computed on some occasion that there is one chance in !"2 million that acomet will hit the earth. *evertheless, a hole one mile in diameter in +riBona is a signof an actual headlong collision of the earth with a small comet or asteroid. On 5uneG2, /02", a calculated forty3thousand3ton mass of iron fell in )iberia at 72M67% northlatitude and /2/M61% east longitude. n /0:7 the small iacobini3Ainner comet passedwithin /G/,222 miles of the point where the earth was eight days later.
L&hile investigating whether an encounter between the earth and a comet had beenthe subject of a previous discussion, found that &. &histon, *ewton%s successor atCambridge and a contemporary of Halley, in his *-& TH-O'= O@ TH- -+'THthe first edition of which appeared in /707E tried to prove that the comet of /7"2, towhich he erroneouslyE ascribed a period of 616.6 years, caused the biblical #eluge onan early encounter.
L. Cuvier, who was unable to offer his own explanation of the causes of greatcataclysms, refers to the theory of &histon in the following terms8 4&histon fanciedthat the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet, and that it was deluged
by the tail of another. The heat which remained from its first origin, in his opinion,excited the whole antediluvian population, men and animals, to sin, for which theywere all drowned in the deluge, excepting the fish, whose passions were apparentlyless violent.4
L. #onnelly, author, reformer, and member of the ?nited )tates House of'epresentatives, tried in his book '+*+'O;/""GE to explain the presence of tilland gravel on the rock substratum in +merica and -urope by hypothesiBing an
encounter with a comet, which rained till on the terrestrial hemisphere facing it at thatmoment. He placed the event in an indefinite period, but at a time when man already
populated the earth. #onnelly did not show any awareness that &histon was hispredecessor. His assumption that there is till only in one half of the earth is arbitraryand wrong.N
f the head of a comet should pass very close to our path, so as to effect a distortion inthe career of the earth, another phenomenon besides the disturbed movement of the
planet would probably occur8 a rain of meteorites would strike the earth and wouldincrease to a torrent. )tones scorched by flying through the atmosphere would behurled on home and head.
n the ook of 5oshua, two verses before the passage about the sun that wassuspended on high for a number of hours without moving to the occident, we find this
passage8
4+s they Lthe Canaanite kingsN fled from before srael, and were in the going down toeth3horon ... the (ord cast down '-+T )TO*-) from heaven upon them unto+Bekah, and they died8 they were more which died with hail stones Lstones of+'+#N than they whom the children of srael slew with the sword.
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L5oshua /28//N
The author of the ook of 5oshua was surely ignorant of any connection between thetwo phenomena. He could not be expected to have had any knowledge about thenature of aerolites, about the forces of attraction between celestial bodies, and the like.+s these phenomena were recorded to have occurred together, it is improbable that therecords were invented.
The meteorites fell on the earth in a torrent. They must have fallen in very greatnumbers for they struck down more warriors than the swords of the adversaries. Tohave killed persons by the hundreds or thousands in the field, a cataract of stones musthave fallen. )uch a torrent of great stones would mean that a train of meteorites or acomet had struck our planet.
The alestine between the valley of +jalon and ibeon. ut the cosmic character of the
prodigy is pictured in a thanksgiving prayer ascribed to 5oshua84)un and moon stood still in heaven+nd thou didst stand in Thy wrath against our oppressors. ...
4+ll the princes of the earth stood up,The kings of the nations had gathered themselves together. ...
4Thou didst destroy them in Thy fury,+nd Thou didst ruin them in Thy rage.
4*ations raged from fear of Thee,;ingdoms tottered because of Thy wrath. ...
4Thou didst pour out Thy fury upon them. ...Thou didst terrify them in Thy wrath. ...
4The earth
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+re we entitled, on the basis of the ook of 5oshua, to assume that at some date in themiddle of the second millennium before the present era the earth was interrupted in itsregular rotation by a cometI )uch a statement has no many implications that it shouldnot be made thoughtlessly. To this say that though the implications are great andmany, the present research in its entirety is an interlinked seoints on the outer layers of the rotatingglobe especially near the e
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by the #ominican monks. $ery few of the ancient manuscripts survived, and these arepreserved in the libraries of >aris, the $atican, the >rado, and #resdenF they are calledcodici, and their texts have been studied and partly read. However, among the ndiansof the days of the con
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The pre3Colombian written traditions of Central +merica tell us that fifty3two yearsbefore the catastrophe that closely resembles that of the time of 5oshua, anothercatastrophe of world dimensions had occurred. t is therefore only natural to go backto the old sraelite traditions, as narrated in the )criptures, to determine whether theycontain evidence of a corresponding catastrophe.
The time of the &andering in the #esert is given by the )criptures as forty years.Then, for a number of years before the day of the disturbed movement of the earth, the
protracted conalestine went on. t seems reasonable, therefore, to askwhether a date fifty3two years before this event would coincide with the time of the-xodus.
L+ccording to rabbinical sources, the war of conalestine lasted fourteenyears.N
n the work +-) * CH+O), describe at some length the catastrophe that visited
-gypt and +rabia. n that work it is explained that the -xodus took place amid a greatnatural upheaval that terminated the period of -gyptian history known as the 9iddle;ingdom. There endeavor to show that contemporary -gyptian documents describethe same disaster accompanied by the 4the plagues of -gypt4, and that the traditions ofthe +rabian >eninsula relate similar occurrences in this land and on the shores of the'ed )ea. n that work refer also to eke%s idea that 9t. )inai was a smokingvolcano. However, reveal that 4the scope of the catastrophe must have exceeded byfar the measure of the disturbance which could be caused by one active volcano4, and promise to answer the
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The comet was on its way from its perihelion and touched all earth first with itsgaseous tail. (ater in this book shall show that it was about this comet that )erviuswrote8 4*on igneo sed sanguineo rubore fuisse4 t was not of a flaming but of a
bloody rednessE.
One of the first visible signs of this encounter was the reddening of the earth%s surfaceby a fine dust of rusty pigment. n sea, lake, and river this pigment gave a bloodycoloring to the water. ecause of these particles of ferruginous or other soluble
pigment, the world turned red.
The 9+*?)C'>T ?CHP of the 9ayas tells that in the &estern Hemisphere, inthe days of a great cataclysm, when the earth lague is throughout the land. lood is everywhere,4 and this, too,corresponds with the ook of -xodus 18!/E8 4There was blood throughout all theland of -gypt.4
The presence of the hematoid pigment in the rivers caused the death of fish followedby decomposition and smell. 4+nd the river stank4 -xodus 18!/E. 4+nd all the-gyptians digged round about the river for water to drinkF for they could not drink ofthe water of the river4 -xodus 18!:E. The papyrus relates8 49en shrink from tastingFhuman beings thirst after water,4 and 4That is our waterQ That is our happinessQ &hatshall we do in respect thereofI +ll is ruin.4
The skin of men and of animals was irritated by the dust, which caused boils,sickness, and the death of cattle 33 4a very grievous murrain4. &ild animals,frightened by the portents in the sky, came close to the villages and cities.
The summit of mountainous Thrace received the name 4Haemus4, and +pollodorusrelated the tradition of the Thracians that the summit was so named because of the4stream of blood which gushed out on the mountain4 when the heavenly battle wasfought between Aeus and Typhon, and Typhon was struck by a thunderbolt. t is saidthat a city in -gypt received the same name for the same reason.
The mythology which personified the forces of the cosmic drama described the worldas colored red. n one -gyptian myth the bloody hue of the world is ascribed to the
blood of Osiris, the mortally wounded planet godF in another myth it is the blood of)eth or +popiF in the abylonian myth the world was colored red by the blood of theslain Tiamat, the heavenly monster.
The @innish epos of ;+(-$+(+ describes how, in the days of the cosmic upheaval,the world was sprinkled with red milk. The +ltai Tatars tell of a catastrophe when4blood turns the whole world red4, and a world conflagration follows. The Orphichymns refer to the time when the heavenly vault, 4mighty Olympus, trembled
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fearfully ... and the earth around shrieked fearfully, and the sea was stirred LheapedN,troubled with its purple waves4.
+n old subject for debate is8 &hy is the 'ed )ea so namedI f a sea is called lack or&hite, that may be due to the dark coloring of the water or to the brightness of the iceand snow. The 'ed )ea has a deep blue color. +s no better reason was found, a fewcoral formations or some red birds on its shores were proposed as explanations of itsname.
LH.). >almer, )*+ /"0!E. >robably at that time the mountainous land of )eir, uponwhich the sraelites wandered, received the name -dom 'edE, and -rythreaerythraios 33 red in reekE its nameF -rythrean )ea was in antiliny, was during the consulship of 9anius +cilius and aius @orcius.
L+nother instance, according to >lutarch, occurred in the reign of 'omulus. t must
be mentioned here that 'omulus and 'emus founded 'ome at the time of the Trojan&ar, that is, around the date of the so3called 4reat -clipse4 and 4reat -arth
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places where mentioned in the )criptures, the term for meteorites. &e are alsoinformed by 9idrashic and Talmudic sources that the stones which fell on -gypt weehotF this fits only meteorites, not a hail of ice.
Ln the ook of 5oshua it is said that 4great stones4 fell from the sky, and then they arereferred to as 4stones of barad4. 4The ancient -gyptian word for %hail%, +', is alsoapplied to a driving shower of sand and stonesF in the contest between Horus and )et,sis is described as sending upon the latter +' * )+, %a hail of sand%.4 +. 9acalister,4Hail4, in Hastings, #CTO*+'= O@ TH- (- /02/3/02:E.N
n the )criptures it is said that these stones fell 4mingled with fire4 -xodus 08!:E, themeaning of which shall discuss in the following section, and that their fall wasaccompanied by 4loud noises4 ;O(OTE, rendered as 4thunderings4, a translationwhich is only figurative, and not literally correct, because the word for 4thunder4 in'++9, which is not used here. The fall of meteorites is accompanied by crashes orexplosion3like noises, and in this case they were so 4mighty4, that, according to the
)criptural narrative, the people in the palace were terrified as much by the din of thefalling stones as by the destruction they caused -xodus 08!"E.
The red dust had frightened the people, and a warning to keep men and cattle undershelter had been issued8 4ather thy cattle and all that thou hast in the fieldF for uponevery man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home,the hailstones shall come down upon them, and they shall die4 -xodus 08/0E. 4+ndhe that regarded not the word of the (ord left his servants and his cattle in the field4-xodus 08!/E.
)imilarly, the -gyptian eyewitness8 4Cattle are left to stray, and there is none to gatherthem together. -ach man fetches for himself those that are branded with his name.4
@alling stones and fire made the frightened cattle flee.puwer also wrote8 4Trees are destroyed4F 4*o fruits, no herbs are found4F 4rain has
perished on every side4F 4That has perished which yesterday was seen. The land is leftto its weariness like the cutting of flax.4 n one day fields were turned to wasteland. nthe ook of -xodus 08!6E it is written8 4+nd the hail Lstones of baradN smote everyherb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.4
The description of such a catastrophe is found in the $)?##H39++, auddhist text on the world cycles. 4&hen a world cycle is destroyed by wind ... therearises in the beginning a cycle3destroying great cloud. ... There arises a wind todestroy the world cycle, and first it raises a fine dust, and then coarse dust, and thenfine sand, and then coarse sand, and then grit, stones, up to boulders as large ... asmighty trees on the hill tops.4 The wind 4turns the ground upside down4, large areas4crack and are thrown upwards4, 4all the mansions on earth4 are destroyed in acatastrophe when 4worlds clash with worlds4.
L4&orld Cycles4, $)?##H39++, in &arren, ?##H)9 *T'+*)(+TO*), p. G!".N
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The 9exican +**+() O@ C?+?HTT(+* describe how a cosmic catastrophe wasaccompanied by a hail of stonesF in the oral tradition of the ndians, too, the motif isrepeated time and again8 n some ancient epoch the sky 4rained, not water, but fire andred3hot stones4, which is not different from the Hebrew tradition.
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Crude petroleum is composed of two elements, carbon and hydrogen. The maintheories of the origin of petroleum are8
/. The norganic Theory8 Hydrogen and carbon were brought together in the rockformations of the earth under great heat and pressure.
!. The Organic Theory8 oth the hydrogen and carbon which compose petroleumcome from the remains of plant and animal life, in the main from microscopic marineand swamp life.
The organic theory implies that the process started after life was already abundant, at
least at the bottom of the ocean.L-ven before >lutarch the problem of the origin of petroleum was much discussed.)peaking of the visit of +lexander to the petroleum sources of ralutarch said84There has been much discussion about the origin of this naphthaE .4 ut in the extanttext of >lutarch a sentence containing one of two rival views is missing. Theremaining text reads8 4 ... or whether rather the lilutarch, ($-) transl.. >errin, /0/0E, 4The (ife of +lexander4, xxv.N
The tails of comets are composed mainly of carbon and hydrogen gases. (ackingoxygen, they do not burn in flight, but the inflammable gases, passing through an
atmosphere containing oxygen, will be set on fire. f carbon and hydrogen gases, orvapor of a composition of these two elements, enter the atmosphere in huge masses, a
part of them will burn, binding all the oxygen available at the momentF the rest willescape combustion, but in swift transition will become li?(3$?H, the sacred book of the 9ayas, narrates8 4t was ruin and destruction ...the sea was piled up ... it was a great inundation ... people were drowned in a stickysubstance raining from the sky. ... The face of the earth grew dark and the gloomy rainendured days and nights. ... +nd then there was a great din of fire above their heads.4The entire population of the land was annihilated.
The 9+*?)C'>T ?CHP perpetuated the picture of the population of 9exicoperishing in a downpour of bitumen8 4There descended from the sky a rain of bitumenand of a sticky substance. ... The earth was obscured and it rained day and night. +nd
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men ran hither and thither and were as if seiBed by madnessF they tried to climb to theroofs, and the houses crashed downF they tried to climb the trees, and the trees castthem far awayF and when they tried to escape in caves and caverns, these weresuddenly closed.4
+ similar account is preserved in the +**+() O@ C?+?HTT(+*. The age whichended in the rain of fire was called ?+?H3TO*+T?H, which means 4the sun offire3rain4.
+nd far away, in the other hemisphere, in )iberia, the $oguls carried down throughthe centuries and millennia this memory8 4od sent a sea of fire upon the earth. ... Thecause of the fire they call %the fire3water%.4
Half a meridian to the south, in the -ast ndies, the aboriginal tribes relate that in theremote past )-*(-3#+) or 4water of fire4 rained from the skyF with very fewexceptions, all men died.
The eighth plague as described in the ook of -xodus was 4+'+# LmeteoritesN and
fire mingled with the +'+#, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all theland of -gypt since it became a nation4 -xodus 08!:E. There were 4thunder Lcorrect8loud noisesN and +'+#, and the fire ran along upon the ground4 -xodus 08!GE.
The >apyrus puwer describes this consuming fire8 4ates, columns, and walls areconsumed by fire. The sky is in confusion.4 The papyrus says that this fire almost4exterminated mankind4.
The 9idrashim, in a number of texts, state that naphtha, together with hot stones,poured down upon -gypt. 4The -gyptians refused to let the sraelites go, and Hepoured out naphtha over them, burning blains LblistersN.4 t was 4a stream of hot
naphtha4. *aphtha is petroleum in +ramaic and Hebrew.The population of -gypt was 4pursued with strange rains and hails and showersinexorable, and utterly consumed with fire8 for what was most marvelous of all, in thewater which salms /26 it is referredto as 4flaming fire4, and in #aniel 18/2E as 4river of fire4 or 4fiery stream4.
n the >assover Haggadah it is said that 4mighty men of >ul and (ud L(ydia in +sia9inorN were destroyed with consuming conflagration on the >assover4.
n the valley of the -uphrates the abylonians often referred to 4the rain of fire4, vividin their memory.
+ll the countries whose traditions of fire3rain have cited actually have deposits ofoil8 9exico, the -ast ndies, )iberia, ra
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The story of the wandering in the desert contains a number of references to firespringing out of the earth. The sraelites traveled three days% journey away from the9ountain of the (awgiving, and it happened that 4the fire of the (ord burnt amongthem, and consumed them that were in the uttermost part of the camp4 *umbers//8/E. The sraelites continued on their way. Then came the revolt of ;orah and his
confederates. 4+nd the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up. ... +nd allsrael that were round about them fled at the cry of them. ... +nd there came out a firefrom the (ord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.4&hen they kindled the fire of incense, the vapors which rose out of the cleft in therock caught the flame and exploded.
?naccustomed to handling this oil, rich in volatile derivatives, the sraelite priests fellvictims to the fire. The two elder sons of +aron, *adab and +bihu, 4died before the(ord, when they offered strange fire before the (ord, in the wilderness of )inai4. Thefire was called strange because it had not been known before and because it was offoreign origin.
f oil fell on the desert of +rabia and on the land of -gypt and burned there, vestigesof conflagration must be found in some of the tombs built before the end of the9iddle ;ingdom, into which the oil or some of its derivatives might have seeped.
&e read in the description of the tomb of +ntefoker, viBier of )esostris , a pharaoh ofthe 9iddle ;ingdom8 4+ problem is set us by a conflagration, clearly deliberate,which has raged in the tomb, as in many another. ... The combustible material mustnot only have been abundant, but of a light natureF for a fierce fire which speedilyspent itself seems alone able to account for the fact that tombs so burnt remainabsolutely free from blackening, except in the lowest partsF nor are charred remains
found as a rule. The conditions are puBBling.44+nd what does natural history tell usI4 asked >hilo in his O* TH- -T-'*T= O@TH- &O'(#, and answered8 4#estructions of things on earth, destructions not of allat once but of a very large number, are attributed by it to two principal causes, thetremendous onslaughts of fire and water. These two visitations, we are told, descendin turns after very long cycles of years. &hen the agent is the conflagration, thestream of heaven3sent fire pours out from above and spreads over many places andoverruns great regions of the inhabited earth.4
The rain of fire3water contributed to the earth%s supply of petroleumF rock oil in theground appears to be, partly at least, 4star oil4 brought down at the close of world
ages, notably the age that came to its end in the middle of the second millenniumbefore the present era.
The priests of ran worshiped the fire that came out of the ground. The followers ofAoroastrianism or 9aBdaism are also called fire worshipers. The fire of the Caucasuswas held in great esteem by all the inhabitants of the adjacent lands. Connected withthe Caucasus and originating there is the legend of >rometheus. He was chained to a
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rock for bringing fire to man. The allegorical character of this legend gains meaningwhen we consider +ugustine%s words that >rometheus was a contemporary of 9oses.
Torrents of petroleum poured down upon the Caucasus and were consumed. Thesmoke of the Caucasus fire was still in the imaginative sight of Ovid, fifteen centurieslater, when he described the burning of the world.
The continuing fires in )iberia, the Caucasus, in the +rabian desert, and everywhereelse were blaBes that followed the great conflagration of the days when the earth wascaught in vapors of carbon and hydrogen.
n the centuries that followed, petroleum was worshiped, burned in holy placesF it wasalso used for domestic purposes. Then many ages passed when it was out of use. Onlyin the middle of the last century did man begin to exploit this oil, partly contributed bythe comet of the time of the -xodus. He utiliBed its gifts, and today his highways arecrowded with vehicles propelled by oil. nto the heights rose man, and heaccomplished the age3old dream of flying like a birdF for this, too, he uses the
remnants of the intruding star that poured fire and sticky vapor upon his ancestors.TH- #+';*-))
The earth entered deeper into the tail of the onrushing comet and approached its body.This approach, if one is to believe the sources, was followed by a disturbance in therotation of the earth. Terrific hurricanes swept the earth because of the change orreversal of the angular velocity of rotation and because of the sweeping gases, dust,and cinders of the comet.
*umerous rabbinical sources describe the calamity of darknessF the material iscollated as follows8
+n exceedingly strong wind endured seven days. +ll the time the land was shroudedin darkness. 4On the fourth, fifth, and sixth days, the darkness was so dense that theyLthe people of -gyptN could not stir from their place.4 4The darkness was of such anature that it could not be dispelled by artificial means. The light of the fire was eitherextinguished by the violence of the storm, or else it was made invisible and swallowedup in the density of the darkness. ... *othing could be discerned. ... *one was able tospeak or to hear, nor could anyone venture to take food, but they lay themselves down... their outward senses in a trance. Thus they remained, overwhelmed by affliction.4
The darkness was of such kind that 4their eyes were blinded by it and their breathchoked4F it was 4not of ordinary earthly kind4. The rabbinical tradition, contradicting
the spirit of the )criptural narrative, states that during the plague of darkness the vastmajority of the sraelites perished and that only a small fraction of the originalsraelite population of -gypt was spared to leave -gypt. @orty3nine out of every fiftysraelites are said to have perished in this plague.
+ shrine of black granite found at el3+rish on the border of -gypt and >alestine bearsa long inscription in hieroglyphics. t reads8 4The land was in great affliction. -vil fellon this earth. ... There was a great upheaval in the residence. ... *obody could leave
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the palace Lthere was no exit from the palaceN during nine days, and during these ninedays of upheaval there was such a tempest that neither men nor gods Lthe royalfamilyN could see the faces of those beside them.4
This record employs the same description of the darkness as -xodus /28!!8 4+ndthere was a thick darkness in all the land of -gypt three days. They saw not oneanother, neither rose any from his place for three days.4
The difference in the number of the days three and nineE of the darkness is reduced inthe rabbinical sources, where the time is given as seven days. The difference betweenseven and nine days is negligible if one considers the subjectivity of the timeestimation under such conditions. +ppraisal of the darkness with respect to itsimpenetrability is also subjectiveF rabbinical sources say that for part of the time therewas a very slight visibility, but for the rest three daysE there was no visibility at all.
t should be kept in mind that, as in the case have already discussed, a day and anight of darkness or light can be described as one day or as two days.
That both sources, the Hebrew and the -gyptian, refer to the same event can beestablished by another means also. @ollowing the prolonged darkness and thehurricane, the pharaoh, according to the hieroglyphic text of the shrine, pursued the4evil3doers4 to 4the place called >i3;hiroti4. The same place is mentioned in -xodus/:808 4ut the -gyptian pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of >haraoh ...and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside >i3ha3khiroth.4
The inscription on the shrine also narrates the death of the pharaoh during this pursuitunder exceptional circumstances8 4*ow when the 9ajesty fought with the evil3doersin this pool, the place of the whirlpool, the evil3doers prevailed not over his 9ajesty.His 9ajesty leapt into the place of the whirlpool.4 This is the same apotheosisdescribed in -xodus /68/08 4@or the horse of >haraoh went in with his chariots andwith his horsemen into the sea, and the (ord brought again the waters of the sea uponthem.4
f 4the -gyptian darkness4 was caused by the earth%s stasis or tilting of its axis, andwas aggravated by a thin cinder dust from the comet, then the entire globe must havesuffered from the effect of these two concurring phenomena8 in either the eastern orthe western parts of the world there must have been a very extended, gloomy day.
*ations and tribes in many places of the globe, to the south, to the north, and to thewest of -gypt, have old traditions about a cosmic catastrophe during which the sun
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were placed in the sky. Caius 5ulius )olinus writes that 4following the deluge which isreported to have occurred in the days of Ogyges, a heavy night spread over the globe4.
n the manuscripts of +vila and 9olina, who collected the traditions of the ndians ofthe *ew &orld, it is related that the sun did not appear for five daysF a cosmiccollision of stars preceded the cataclysmF people and animals tried to escape tomountain caves. 4)carcely had they reached there when the sea, breaking out of
bounds following a terrifying shock, began to rise on the >acific coast. ut as the searose, filling the valleys and the plains around, the mountain of +ncasmarca rose, too,like a ship on the waves. #uring the five days that this cataclysm lasted, the sun didnot show its face and the earth remained in darkness.4
Thus the traditions of the >eruvians describe a time when the sun did not appear forfive days. n the upheaval, the earth changed its profile, and the sea fell upon the land.
-ast of -gypt, in abylonia, the eleventh tablet of the ->C O@ (+9-)HLilgameshN refers to the same events. @rom out the horiBon rose a dark cloud and it
rushed against the earthF the land was shriveled by the heat of the flames.4#esolation ... stretched to heavenF all that was bright was turned into darkness. ... *orcould a brother distinguish his brother. ... )ix days ... the hurricane, deluge, andtempest continued sweeping the land ... and all human back to its clay was returned.4
The ranian book +*?T+ reveals that a threefold day and threefold nightconcluded a world age, and the book ?*#+H), in a context that shall
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The earth, forced out of its regular motion, reacted to the close approach of the bodyof the comet8 a major shock convulsed the lithosphere, and the area of the earth
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+lso, Hieronymus )t. 5eromeE wrote in an epistle that 4in the night in which -xodustook place, all the temples of -gypt were destroyed either by an earthshock or by thethunderbolt4. )imilarly in the 9idrashim8 4The seventh plague, the plague of baradLmeteoritesN8 earthithom and 'amses collapsed or were
swallowed by the earth +n inscription which dates from the beginning of the *ew;ingdom refers to a temple of the 9iddle ;ingdom that was 4swallowed by theground4 at the close of the 9iddle ;ingdom.
The head of the celestial body approached very close, breaking through the darknessof the gaseous envelope, and according to the 9idrashim, the last night in -gypt wasas bright as the noon on the day of the summer solstice.
The population fled. 49en flee. ... Tents are what they make like the dwellers ofhills,4 wrote puwer. The population of a city destroyed by an earthassover. t appears that the sraelitesoriginally celebrated >assover on the eve of the fourteenth of +viv.
The month +viv is called 4the first month4 -xodus /!8/"E. Thout was the name ofthe first month of the -gyptians. &hat, for the sraelites, became a feast, became aday of sadness and fasting for the -gyptians. 4The thirteenth day of the month ThoutLisN a very bad day. Thou shalt not do anything on this day. t is the day of the combatwhich Horus waged with )eth.4
The Hebrews counted and still countE the beginning of the day from sunsetF the-gyptians reckoned from sunrise. +s the catastrophe took place at midnight, for the
sraelites it was the fourteenth day of the firstE monthF for the -gyptians it was thethirteenth day.
+n earth
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n the calendar of the &estern Hemisphere, on the thirteenth day of the month, calledO(*, 4motion4 or 4earth
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and head were attracted one to the other and repelled one from the other. @rom theserpentlike tail extensions grew, and it lost the form of a column. t looked now like afurious animal with legs and with many heads. The discharges tore the column to
pieces, a process that was accompanied by a rain of meteorites upon the earth. tappeared as though the monster were defeated by the brilliant globe and buried in the
sea, or wherever the meteorites fell. The gases of the tail subselanet *ibiru,suggests the early seole. ')EN
)ince the descriptions of the battle between 9arduk and Tiamat, the dragon, or sisand )eth, or $ishnu and the serpent, or ;rishna and the serpent, or OrmuBd and
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+hriman follow an almost identical pattern and have many details in common withthe battle of Aeus and Typhon, shall give here +pollodorus% description of this battle.
Typhon 4out3topped all the mountains, and his head often brushed the stars. One ofhis hands reached out to the west and the other to the east, and from them projected ahundred dragons% heads. @rom the thighs downward he had huge coils of viperswhich ... emitted a long hissing. ... His body was all winged ... and fire flashed fromhis eyes. )uch and so great was Typhon when, hurling kindled rocks, he made for thevery heaven with hissing and shouts, spouting a great jet of fire from his mouth.4 Tothe sky of -gypt Aeus pursued Typhon 4rushing at heaven4. 4Aeus pelted Typhon at adistance with thunderbolts, and at close
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hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deepF that hath made the depths of the sea away for the ransomed to pass overI4 @rom these passages it is clear that the battle ofthe (ord with 'ahab was not a primeval battle before Creation, as some scholarsthink.
saiah prophesied for the future8 4n that day the (ord with his sore and great andstrong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crookedserpentF and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.4
Lsaiah !18/.N
The 4crooked serpent4 is shown in many ancient pictures from China to ndia, to>ersia, to +ssyria, to -gypt, to 9exico. &ith the rise of the monotheistic concept, thesraelites regarded this crooked serpent, the contester with the 9ost High, as the(ord%s own creation.
4He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.... The pillars of heaven tremble. ... He divideth the sea with his power ... his hand
hath formed the crooked serpent.4 The >salmist also says8 4od is my ;ing of old. ...Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength. ... Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in
pieces. ... Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood8 Thou driedst up mightyrivers.4
L5ob !7813/GF >salms 1:8/!3/6.N
The sea was cleft, the earth was cut with furrows, great rivers disappeared, othersappeared. The earth rumbled for many years, and the peoples thought that the fierydragon that had been struck down had descended underground and was groaningthere.
TH- )>+';+ phenomenon of great significance took place. The head of the comet did not crashinto the earth, but exchanged major electrical discharges with it. + tremendous sparksprang forth at the moment of the nearest approach of the comet, when the waterswere heaped at their highest above the surface of the earth and before they fell down,followed by a rain of debris torn from the very body and tail of the comet.
4+nd the +ngel of od, which went before the camp of srael, removed and wentbehind themF and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behindthem ... and it was a cloud and darkness but it gave light by night.4 +n exceedinglystrong wind and lightnings rent the cloud. n the morning the waters rose as a wall andmoved away. 4+nd the children of srael went into the midst of the sea upon the drygroundF and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.+nd the -gyptians pursued. ... +nd it came to pass, that in the morning watch the(ord looked unto the host of the -gyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud,and troubled the host of the -gyptians, and took off their chariot wheels ... and thewaters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of
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>haraoh that came into the sea after themF there remained not so much as one ofthem.4
The immense tides were caused by the presence of a celestial body close byF they fellwhen a discharge occurred between the earth and the other body.
+rtapanus, the author of the no longer extant #- 5?#+-), apparently knew that thewords, 4The (ord looked unto the host of the -gyptians through the pillar of fire andof the cloud4, refer to a great lightning. -usebius erun of the 'ussian pagans, &otan&odenE of the ermans, 9aBda of the >ersians, 9arduk of the abylonians, )hiva of
the Hindus 33 is pictured with lightning in his hand and described as the god whothrew his thunderbolt at the world overwhelmed with water and fire.
)imilarly, many psalms of the )criptures commemorate the great discharges. 4Thenthe earth shook and trembledF the foundations also of the hills moved and wereshaken. ... He bowed the heavens also, and came down ... he did fly upon the wings ofthe wind. ... +t the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stonesand coals of fire. The (ord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave hisvoiceF hail stones and coals of fire ... and he shot out lightnings. ... Then the channelsof waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered.4 4The voice ofthe (ord is powerful. ... The voice of the (ord breaketh the cedars. ... The voice of the
(ord divideth the flames of fire. The voice of the (ord shaketh the wildernessF the(ord shaketh the wilderness of ;adesh.4 4The kingdoms were movedF he uttered hisvoice, the earth melted.4 4The waters saw theeF they were afraid8 the depths also weretroubled ... the skies sent out a sound8 thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thythunder was in the heavenF the lightnings lightened the universe8 the earth trembledand shook.4 4Clouds and darkness are round about. ... His lightnings enlightened theworld8 the earth saw, and trembled.4
*othing is easier than to add to the number of such rophets.
&ith the fall of the double wall of water, the -gyptian host was swept away. Theforce of the impact threw the pharaoh%s army into the air. 4Come and see the works ofod8 he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dryland8 they went through the flood on foot. ... Thou hast caused men to ride over ourheadsF we went through fire and through water.4
The tossing of the -gyptian host into the air by an avalanche of water is referred toalso in the -gyptian source
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and of the pursuit by the pharaoh Taoui3Thom of the fleeing slaves whom he followedto >i3khiroti, which is the biblical >i3ha3khiroth. 4His 9ajesty leapt into the place ofthe whirlpool.4 Then it is said that he was 4lifted by a great force4.
+lthough the larger part of the sraelite fugitives were already out of the reach of thefalling tidal waves, a great number of them perished in this disaster, as in the previousones of fire and hurricane of cinders. That sraelites perished at the )ea of >assage isimplied in >salm 7" where mention is made of 4my people4 that remained in 4thedepths of the sea4.
These tidal waves also overwhelmed entire tribes who inhabited Tehama, thethousand3mile3long coastal region of the 'ed )ea.
4od sent against the #jorhomites swift clouds, ants, and other signs of his rage, andmany of them perished. ... n the land of #johainah an impetuous torrent carried offall of them in a night. The scene of this catastrophe is known by the name of damfuryE.4 The author of this passage, 9asudi, an +rab author of the tenth century,
)-# );=
The rain of meteorites and fire from the sky, the clouds of dust of exogenous origin
that drifted low, and the displacement of the world tolemaeus, the son of (agus, a general of +lexanderand founder of the -gyptian dynasty called by his name, that the Celti who lived onthe shores of the +driatic were asked by +lexander what it was they most feared, towhich they replied that they feared no one, but only that the sky might collapse.
The Chinese refer to the collapse of the sky which took place when the mountains fell.ecause mountains fell or were leveled at the same time when the sky was displaced,ancient peoples, not only the Chinese, thought that mountains support the sky.
4The earth trembled, and the heavens dropped ... the mountains melted,4 says the)ong of #eborah. 4The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of od8even )inai itself was moved,4 says the psalmist.
L>salms 7"8". On periodic collapses of the firmament see also 'ashi%s commentary onenesis //8/, referred to in the )ection, 4&orld +ges4. @or additional related
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information, see TH- &+=&+'# )?*which also appeared in TH-$-(;O$);+* 5ournal. +fter a lengthy discussion on cosmic catastrophes, thosewriters conclude by asking 4ut why did the sky fallI4 +lso, let me add here that thisidea of mountains supporting the sky might indeed refer to 4The Cosmic 9ountain4,4The *orth 9ountain4, 4The @oundation Of The &orld4 33 that is to say, the
electromagnetically tethered >lanet *ibiru 33 The Cosmic Tree. ')ENThe tribes of )amoa in their legends refer to a catastrophe when 4in days of old theheavens fell down4. The heavens or the clouds were so low that the people could notstand erect without touching them.
The @inns tell in their ;+(-$+(+ that the support of the sky gave way and then aspark of fire kindled a new sun and a new moon. The (apps make offeringsaccompanied by the prayer that the sky should not lose its support and fall down. The-skimos of reenland are afraid that the support of the sky may fail and the sky falldown and kill all human beingsF a darkening of the sun and the moon will precede
such a catastrophe.6CO773N8*OT+ -*- that these three cultures are located at the northernmostlatitudes of this planet. Those peoples would have had the best overall view of TheCosmic Tree Hyperborea and would have been more concerned about its stability
perhaps than other peoples at more southern latitudes. =ou are referred to TH-H=>-'O'-+ );= #+'+9)for more information. ')N
The primitives of +frica, in eastern as well as western provinces of the continent, tellabout the collapse of the sky in the past. The Ovaherero tribesmen say that many yearsago 4the reat of the sky4 -yuruE let the sky fall on the earthF almost all the peoplewere killed, only a few remained alive. The tribes of ;anga and (oanga also have a
tradition of the collapse of the sky which annihilated the human race. The &anyoro in?nyoro likewise relate that the sky fell on the earth and killed everybody8 the god;agra threw the firmament upon the earth to destroy mankind.
The traditions of the Cashinaua, the aborigines of western raBil, is narrated asfollows8 4The lightnings flashed and the thunders roared terribly and all were afraid.Then the heaven burst and the fragments fell down and killed everything andeverybody. Heaven and earth changed places. *othing that had life was left upon theearth.4
n this tradition are included the same elements8 the lightnings and thunderings, 4thebursting of heaven4, the fall of meteorites. +bout the change of places betweenheaven and earth there is more to say, and shall not postpone the subject for long.
Chapter 9ive
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There is testimony from all parts of the world that the side which is now turnedtoward the evening once faced the morning.
n the second book of his history, Herodotus relates his conversations with -gyptianpriests on his visit to -gypt some time during the second half of the fifth centurybefore the present era. Concluding the history of their people, the priests told him thatthe period following their first king covered three hundred and forty3one generations,and Herodotus calculated that, three generations being elanet *ibiru consistently results in a shift of the >olar +xis,as it did in /6"1 C- more accurately, as has been shown by the ook of 5oshua, in/6G6 C-, or 6! years laterE, then previous >olar +xis )hifts would have occurred inapproximately 6/"1 C-, "1"1 C- and /!,G"1 C-, the last date of which is lessthan a thousand years previous to //,:62 C-. Thus, these priests must have beenreferring to the four times prior to Herodotus% visit that there had been arrivals of the>lanet *ibiru. ')N
The famous chronologist of the sixteenth century, 5oseph )caliger, weighed theeriod,please see my accompanying essay +* *T'O#?CTO* TO +(+CTC9+TH-9+TC). ')N
#id the words of the priests to Herodotus refer to the slow change in the direction ofthe terrestrial axis during a period of approximately !6,"22 years, which is broughtabout by its spinning or by the slow movement of the e
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One may doubt the trustworthiness of the priests% statements, or of -gyptian traditionin general, or attack Herodotus for ignorance of the natural sciences, but there is noway to reconcile the passage with present3day natural science. t remains4a veryremarkable passage of Herodotus, that has become the despair of commentators4.
>omponius 9ela, a (atin author of the first century, wrote8 4The -gyptians pridethemselves on being the most ancient people in the world. n their authentic annals ...one may read that since they have been in existence, the course of the stars haschanged directions four times, and that the sun has set twice in that part of the skywhere it rises today.4
t should not be deduced that 9ela%s only source for this statement was Herodotus.9ela refers explicitly to -gyptian written sources. He mentions the reversal in themovement of the stars as well as of the sunF if he had copied Herodotus, he would
probably not have mentioned the reversal in the movement of the stars sideraE. +t atime when the movement of the sun, planets, and stars was not yet regarded as the
result of the movement of the earth, the change in the direction of the sun was notnecessarily connected in 9ela%s mind with a similar change in the movement of allheavenly bodies.
f, in 9ela%s time, there were -gyptian historical records which referred to the risingof the sun in the west, we ought to investigate the old -gyptian literary sources extanttoday.
The 9agical >apyrus Harris speaks of a cosmic upheaval of fire and water when 4thesouth becomes north, and the -arth turns over4.
n the >apyrus puwer it is similarly stated that 4the land turns round LoverN as does apotter%s wheel4 and the 4-arth turned upside down4. This papyrus bewails the terribledevastation wrought by the upheaval of nature. n the -rmitage >apyrus (eningrad,///7b rectoE also, reference is made to a catastrophe that turned the 4land upsidedownF happens that which never yetE had happened4. t is assumed that at that time 33in the second millennium 33 people were not aware of the daily rotation of the earth,and believed that the firmament with its luminaries turned around the earthF therefore,the expression, 4the earth turned over4, does not refer to the daily rotation of theglobe.
*or do these descriptions in the papyri of (eiden and (eningrad leave room for afigurative explanation of the sentence, especially if we consider the text of the>apyrus Harris 33 the turning over of the earth is accompanied by the interchange ofthe south and north poles.
Harakhte is the -gyptian name for the western sun. +s there is but one sun in the sky,it is supposed that Harakhte means the sun at its setting. ut why should the sun at itssetting be regarded as a deity different from the morning sunI The identity of therising and setting sun is seen by everyone. The inscriptions do not leave any room formisunderstanding8 4Harakhte, he riseth in the west.4
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The texts found in the pyramids say that the luminary 4ceased to live in the occident,and shines, a new one, in the orient4.
+fter the reversal of direction, whenever it may have occurred, the words 4west4 and4sunrise4 were no longer synonyms, and it was necessary to clarify references byadding8 4the west which is at the sun3setting4. t was not mere tautology, as thetranslator of this text thought.
nasmuch as the hieroglyphics were deciphered in the nineteenth century, it would beonly reasonable to expect that since then the commentaries on Herodotus and 9elawould have been written after consulting the -gyptian texts.
n the tomb of )enmut, the architect of ueen Hatshepsut, a panel on the ceilingshows the celestial sphere with the signs of the Bodiac and other constellations in 4areversed orientation4 of the southern sky.
The end of the 9iddle ;ingdom antedated the time of ueen Hatshepsut by severalcenturies. The astronomical ceiling presenting a reversed orientation must have been a
venerated chart, made obsolete a number of centuries earlier.4+ characteristic feature of the )enmut ceiling is the astronomically objectionableorientation of the southern panel.4 The center of this panel is occupied by the Orion3)irius group, in which Orion appears west of )irius instead of east. 4The orientation ofthe southern panel is such that the person in the tomb looking at it has to lift his headand face north, not south.4 4&ith the reversed orientation of the south panel, Orion,the most conspicuous constellation of southern sky, appeared to be moving eastward,i.e., in the wrong direction.4
The real meaning of 4the irrational orientation of the southern panel4 and the
4reversed position of Orion4 appears to be this8 the southern panel shows the sky of-gypt as it was before the celestial sphere interchanged north and south, east andwest. The northern panel shows the sky of -gypt as it was on some night of the yearin the time of )enmut.
&as there no autochthonous tradition in reece about the reversals of the revolutionof the sun and starsI
>lato wrote in his dialogue, 4The )tatesman4 >O(TC?)E8 4 mean the change inthe rising and setting of the sun and the other heavenly bodies, how in those timesthey used to set in the
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The reversal of the movement of the sun in the sky was not a peaceful eventF it was anact of wrath and destruction. >lato wrote in >O(TC?)8 4There is at that time greatdestruction of animals in general, and only a small part of the human race survives.4
The reversal of the movement of the sun was referred to by many reek authorsbefore and after >lato. +ccording to a short fragment of a historical drama by)ophocles +T'-?)E, the sun rises in the east only since its course was reversed.4Aeus ... changed the course of the sun, causing it to rise in the east and not in thewest.4
-uripides wrote in -(-CT'+8 4Then in his anger arose Aeus, turning the stars% feetback on the fire3fretted wayF yea, and the sun%s car splendour3burning, and the mistyeyes of the morning grey. +nd the flash of his chariot3wheels back3flying flushedcrimson the face of the fading day. ... The sun ... turned backward ... with the scourgeof his wrath in affliction repaying mortals.4
9any authors in later centuries realiBed that the story of +treus described some event
in nature. ut it could not have been an eclipse. )trabo was mistaken when he tried torationaliBe the story by saying that +treus was an early astronomer who 4discoveredthat the sun revolves in a direction opposite to the movement of the heavens4. #uringthe night the stars move from east to west two minutes faster than the sun whichmoves in the same direction during the day.
L-very night stars rise four minutes earlier8 the earth rotates G77.!6 times in a year inrelation to the stars, but G76.!6 times in relation to the sun.N
-ven in poetical language such a phenomenon would not have been described asfollows8 4+nd the sun3car%s winged speed from the ghastly strife turned back,changing his westering track through the heavens unto where blush3burning dawnrose,4 as -uripides wrote in another work of his.LO'-)T-), . /22/ff.N
)eneca knew more than his older contemporary )trabo. n his drama TH=-)T-), hegave a powerful description of what happened when the sun turned backward in themorning sky, which reveals much profound knowledge of natural phenomena. &henthe sun reversed its course and blotted out the day in mid3Olympus noonE, and thesinking sun beheld +urora, the people, smitten with fear, asked8 4Have we of allmankind been deemed deserving that heaven, its poles uptorn, should overwhelm usIn our time has the last day comeI4
6CO773N8The above ole4. ')N
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The early reek philosophers, and especially >ythagoras, would have known aboutthe reversal of the revolution of the sky, if it actually occurred, but as >ythagoras andhis school kept their knowledge secret, we must depend upon the authors who wroteabout the >ythagoreans. +ristotle says that the >ythagoreans differed between theright3 and left3hand motion of the sky 4the side from which the stars rise4 is heaven%s
right, 4and where they set ... its left4E, and in >lato we find8 4+ direction from left toright 33 and that will be from west to east.4 The present sun moves in the oppositedirection.
n the language of a symbolic and philosophical astronomy, probably of >ythagoreanorigin, >lato describes in T9+-?) the effects of a collision of the earth 4overtaken
by a tempest of winds4 with 4alien fire from without, or a solid lump of earth4, orwaters of 4the immense flood which foamed in and streamed out48 the terrestrial globeengages in all motions, 4forwards and backwards, and again to right and to left, andupwards and downwards, wandering every way in all the six directions4.
6CO773N8)R #'-CTO*)Q )ix *orth3)outh >olar +lignment >ossibilities,along the >olar >ivotal elts. )ee also the accompanying essay on TH- >O(+'>$OT+( +R). ')N
+s the result of such a collision, described in a not easily understandable text whichrepresents the earth as possessing a soul, there was a 4violent shaking of therevolutions of the )oul4, 4a total blocking of the course of the same4, 4shaking of thecourse of the other4, which 4produced all manner of twistings, and caused in theircircles fractures and disruptures of every possible kind, with the result that, as theyLthe earth and the %perpetually flowing stream%IN barely held together one with another,they moved indeed but more irrationally, being at one time reversed, at another
oblilato%s terminology, 4revolution of the same4 isfrom east to west, and 4revolution of the other4 is from west to east. n TH-)T+T-)9+*, >lato put this symbolic language into very simple terms, speaking ofthe reversal of the
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from >lato was 4a not easily understandable text which represents the earth aspossessing a soul4. This idea is not exclusive to either >lato or #ario )alas, however.That +rchon = who is undoubtedly =+H&-H, the 5ewishDChristian od of 4-vil4,the *ibiruan Crown3>rince -nlilE battled the resident +rchon whose identity is notspecified by #ario )alasE is reminiscent of the earlier passage above that 4The (ord4
of the 5ews battled 4'ahab4, the 4invader4 or 4usurper4 at the moment in time whenall of the other celestial events and catastrophes were occurring.
L+()O, what exactly would be the 4right4 and 4left4 sides of the skyI @rom the abovewe are told that west is the left side and east, the right. f one were standing andlooking due3north at >olarisDHyperborea, west would be to one%s left and east would
be to one%s rightF but if one%s back were to Hyperborea HeavenE, as if one werelooking down from 4up there4, then west would be to the right and east, to the left.+nd note this sentence above 8 n >lato%s terminology, 4revolution of the same4 isfrom east to west, and 4revolution of the other4 is from west to east. f 4same4 refersto the regular )un that we see today, and if OTH-' refers to the tethered >lanet
*ibiru, The *ight )un, The #emon )un, then it could be inferred that although ourplanet rotates from west to east left to rightE, *ibiru might rotate from east to westright to leftEQ The ancient peoples could have simply noted its direction one way orthe other by looking at it in the northern sky and watching it turn on its axis, in amotion opposite to the one here at ground3level, regardless of which >olar +xis this
planet might be rotating around during any particular 4world age4. ')N
shall return later to some other reek references to the sun setting in the east.
Caius 5ulius )olinus, a (atin author of the third century of the present era, wrote of thepeople living on the southern borders of -gypt8 4The inhabitants of this country say
that they have it from their ancestors that the sun now sets where it formerly rose.4The traditions of peoples agree in synchroniBing the changes in the movement of thesun with great catastrophes which terminated world ages. The changes in themovement of the sun in each successive age make the use by many peoples of theterm 4sun4 for 4age4 understandable.
4The Chinese say that it is only since a new order of things has come about that thestars move from east to west.4 4The signs of the Chinese Bodiac have the strange
peculiarity of proceeding in a retrograde direction, that is, against the course of thesun.4
n the )yrian city ?garit 'as )hamraE was found a poem dedicated to the planet3goddess +nat, who 4massacred the population of the (evant4 and who 4exchanged thetwo dawns and the position of the stars4.
The hieroglyphics of the 9exicans describe four movements of the sun, *+H?O((* TO*+T?H. 4The ndian authors translate O((* by %motions of the sun%.&hen they find the number *+H? added, they render *+H? O((* by the words%sun tonatiuhE in his four motions%.4 These 4four motions4 refer 4to four prehistoricsuns4 or 4world ages4, with shifting cardinal points.
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6CO773N8*ote the similarity here between the early 9exicans and the ancient-gyptians, as mentioned above, who told Herodotus that 4four times4 the )un hadchanged its motion in their recorded history since the founding of -gypt. ')N
The sun that moves toward the east, contrary to the present sun, is called by thendians Teotl (ixco. The people of 9exico symboliBed the changing direction of thesun%s movement as a heavenly ball game, accompanied by upheavals and eartholar +xis )hift along the >olar >ivotal elts, witheach shift to 4the six directions4, the former froBen >oles would melt as the new >oleswere freeBing over. f all >olar ce were to melt, all land up to an altitude of !62 feetabout "2 metersE would be flooded. Thus, after seven days in the heat of a non3polarenvironment, it is oles would havemelted significantly enough to cause enormous coastal deluges, or periodic4destructions by water4. ')N
T-$-( is the Hebrew name for the world in which the sun rose in the west.+'+OT is the name of the sky where the rising point was in the west.
Hai aon, the rabbinical authority who flourished between 0G0 and /2G", in his'-)>O*)-) refers to the cosmic changes in which the sun rose in the west and set inthe east.
The ;oran speaks of the (ord 4of two easts and of two wests4, a sentence whichpresented much difficulty to the exegetes. +verrhoes, the +rab philosopher of thetwelfth century, wrote about the eastward and westward movements of the sun.
'eferences to the reversal of the movement of the sun that have been gathered here donot refer to one and the same time8 the #eluge, the end of the 9iddle ;ingdom, thedays of the +rgive tyrants, were separated by many centuries. The tradition heard byHerodotus in -gypt speaks of four reversals. (ater in this book and again in the bookthat will deal with earlier catastrophes, shall return to this subject. +t this point, leave historical and literary evidence on the reversal of earth%s cardinal points for thetestimony of the natural sciences on the reversal of the magnetic poles of the earth.
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6CO773N8?nfortunately, #r. $elikovsky died before he was able to publish thismuch anticipated material. its and pieces of it filtered out during the late /012s in the;'O*O) 5ournal. +fter his death in /010, many of his unpublished notes eventuallyappeared in ;'O*O), but they were never collected together in any organiBedformat. &hen #r. $elikovsky died, he was tormented by the fact that he had not as
yet totally completed the +-) * CH+O) series, which lacked the promised middlevolume of fiveE on +))='+* CO*?-)T. 9y 49athematical +nalysis Of+ncient History4 subseole. +nd he was aware of the book H+9(-T%) 9(( by
iorgio de )antillana and Hertha von #echend. The fact is that he was simply old, "6when he died, and did not have the time to complete and publish all of his enormousresearch. have tried to take up where he left off. ')N
TH- '-$-')-# >O(+'T= O@ TH- -+'TH
+ thunderbolt, on striking a magnet, reverses the poles of the magnet. The terrestrialglobe is a huge magnet. + short circuit between it and another celestial body couldresult in the north and south magnetic poles of the earth exchanging places.
t is possible to detect in the geological records of the earth the orientation of theterrestrial magnetic field in past ages.
4&hen lava cools and freeBes following a volcanic outburst, it takes up a permanentmagnetiBation dependent upon the orientation of the -arth%s magnetic field at the time.This, because of small capacity for magnetiBation in the -arth%s magnetic field afterfreeBing, may remain practically constant. f this assumption be correct, the directionof the originally ac
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that the rocks have held their present positions since that time, this would indicate thatthe polarity of the -arth has been completely reversed within recent geological times.4
L+. 9c*ish, 4On Causes of the -arth%s 9agnetism and ts Changes4 inT-''-)T'+( 9+*-T)9 +*# -(-CT'CT=, ed. by @leming, p. G!7.N
ecause the physical facts seemed entirely inconsistent with every cosmologicaltheory, the author of the above passage was cautious not to draw further conclusionsfrom them.
The reversed polarity of lava indicates that in recent geological times the magneticpoles of the globe were reversedF when they had a very different orientation, abundantflows of lava took place.
+dditional problems, and of a large scope, are8 whether the position of the magneticpoles has anything to do with the direction of rotation of the globe, and whether thereis an interdependence in the direction of the magnetic poles of the sun and of the
planets.
TH- ?+'T-') O@ TH- &O'(# #)>(+C-#
The traditions gathered in the section before last refer to various epochsF actually,Herodotus and 9ela say that according to -gyptian annals, the reversal of the westand east recurred8 the sun rose in the west, then in the east, once more in the west, andagain in the east.
&as the cosmic catastrophe that terminated a world age in the days of the fall of the9iddle ;ingdom and of the -xodus one of these occasions, and did the earth changethe direction of its rotation at that timeI f we cannot assert this much, we can at leastmaintain that the earth did not remain on the same orbit, nor did its poles stay in their
places, nor was the direction of the axis the same as before. The position of the globeand its course were not settled when the earth first came into contact with theonrushing cometF in >lato%s terms, already partly
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9ountainous tides uncovered the bottom of the seaF a spark sprang between twocelestial bodiesF and 4at the turning of the morning4, the tides fell in a cataclysmicavalanche.
The 9idrashim speak of a disturbance in the solar movement on the day of the>assage8 the sun did not proceed on its course. On that day, according to the >salms128"E, 4the earth feared and was still4. t is possible that +mos "8"30E is reviving thememory of this event when he mentions the 4flood of -gypt4, at the time 4the earthwas cast out of the sea, and dry land was swallowed by the sea4, and 4the sun was
brought down at noon4, although, as show later on, +mos might have referred to acosmic catastrophe of a more recent date.
6CO773N8This 4more recent date4, of course, encompasses the events thatoccurred between the years 17!37"1 C- when there was a second series of cosmiccatastrophes. This second period of time historically describes the departure selanet *ibiru after 022 years during which it was tethered to our
*orth >ole as The *orth 9ountain, The Celestial )hip Of The *orth, The CosmicTree. f you would wish to read about this departure event, you are urged to get a copyof &O'(#) * CO(()O*. *one of this next section of #r. $elikovsky%s bookwill be transcribed at present, since personally am more fascinated at the moment by
*ibiru%s impending return than its future departure 022 years following !2/!. Oncethe 4chaos4 of !2/! passes into oblivion, we shall have ample time to contemplate
*ibiru%s next departure for 4#eep )pace4, to either the Oort Cloud or the )irius)ystem. ')N
+lso, the day of the (awgiving, when the worlds collided again, was, according tonumerous rabbinical sources, a day of unusual length8 the motion of the sun was
disturbed.On this occasion, and generally in the days and months following the >assage, thegloom, the heavy and charged clouds, the lightning, and the hurricanes, aside from thedevastation by earthsalms "!86E is a metaphor used by the >salmist.
The >apyrus puwer, which says that 4the earth turned over like a potter%s wheel4 and4the earth is upside down4, was written by an eyewitness of the plagues and the-xodus. The change is described also in the words of another papyrus HarrisE which have
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The ;+(-$+(+ relates that 4dreaded shades4 enveloped the earth, and 4the sunoccasionally steps from his accustomed path4. Then ?kko35upiter struck fire from thesun to light a new sun and a new moon, and a new world age began.
n $S(?)>+ >oetic -ddaE of the celanders we read8 4*o knowledge she Lthe sunNhad where her home should be, the moon knew not what was his. The stars knew notwhere their stations were.4
Then the gods set order among the heavenly bodies.
The +Btecs related8 4There had been no sun in existence for many years. ... LThechiefsN began to peer through the gloom in all directions for the expected light, and tomake bets as to what part of heaven he Lthe sunN should first appear in. )ome said%Here%, and some said %There%F but when the sun rose, they were all proved wrong, fornot one of them had fixed upon the east4.
)imilarly, the 9ayan legend tells that 4it was not known from where the new sunwould appear4. 4They looked in all directions, but they were unable to say where the
sun would rise. )ome thought it would take place in the north and their glances wereturned in that direction. Others thought it would be in the south. +ctually, theirguesses included all directions because the dawn shone all around. )ome, however,fixed their attention on the orient, and maintained that the sun would come from there.t was their opinion that proved to be correct.4
+ccording to the CO9>-*#?9 of &ong3shi3)hing /6!73/602E, it was in the 4ageafter the chaos, when heaven and earth had just separated, that is, when the great massof cloud just lifted from the earth4, that the heaven showed its face.
n the 9idrashim it is said that during the wandering in the desert the sraelites did not
see the face of the sun because of the clouds. They were also unable to orientthemselves on their march.
The expression repeatedly used in the ooks of *umbers and 5oshua, 4the east, to thesunrising4, is not tautology, but a definition, which, by the way, testifies to the ancientorigin of the literary materials that served as sources for these booksF it is anexpression that has its counterpart in the -gyptian 4the west which is at the sun3setting4.
The cosmological allegory of the reeks has Aeus, rushing on his way to engageTyphon in combat, steal -uropa -rev, the evening landE and carry her to the west.+rabia also -revE kept its name, 4the evening land4, though it lies to the east of the
centers of civiliBation 33 -gypt, >alestine, reece. -usebius, one of the @athers of theChurch, assigned the Aeus3-uropa episode to the time of 9oses and the #eucalion@lood, and +ugustine wrote that -uropa was carried by the king of Crete to his islandin the west, 4betwixt the departure of srael out of -gypt and the death of 5oshua4.
The reeks, like other peoples, spoke of the reversal of the
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The reversal of the earth%s rotation, referred to in the written and oral sources of manypeoples, suggests the relation of one of these events to the cataclysm of the day of the-xodus. (ike the
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>lutarch gives the following description of a derangement of seasons8 4The thickenedair concealed the heaven from view, and the stars were confused with a disorderlyhuddle of fire and moisture and violent fluxions of winds. The sun was not fixed to anunwandering and certain course, so as to distinguish orient and occident, nor did he
bring back the seasons in order.4
n another work of his, >lutarch ascribes these changes to Typhon, 4the destructive,diseased and disorderly4, who caused 4abnormal seasons and temperatures4.
t is characteristic that in the written traditions of the peoples of anti
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investigation into the length of the astronomical year during the periods of the Old and9iddle ;ingdoms is reserved for that part of this work which will deal with thecosmic catastrophes that occurred before the beginning of the 9iddle ;ingdom of-gypt.
6CO773N8+s mentioned earlier, #r. $elikovsky died before being able tocomplete these portions of his theory that related to earlier cosmic catastrophes. ')N
Here give space to an old 9idrashic source which, taking issue with a contradictionin the scriptural texts, referring to the length of time the sraelites sojourned in -gypt,maintains that 4od hastened the course of the planets during srael%s stay in -gypt4,so that the sun completed :22 revolutions during the space of !/2 regular years. Thesefigures must not be taken as correct, since the intention was to reconcile two biblicaltexts, but the reference to the different motion of the planets in the period of thesraelites% stay in -gypt during the 9iddle ;ingdom is worth mentioning.
n 9idrash 'abba, it is said on the authority of 'abbi )imon that a new world order
came into being with the end of the sixth world age at the revelation on 9ount )inai.4There was a weakening metashE of the creation. Hitherto world time was counted,but henceforth we count it by a different reckoning.4 9idrash 'abba refers also to4the greater length of time taken by some planets4.
Commentary
+s can be concluded from the foregoing material, this arrival selanet*ibiru Hyperborea does not happen overnight. +lthough the process seems to havestarted rather suddenly and caught everybody by surprise, once begun, it continued for
a number of decades. Hopefully, these days, this time around, we%ll have a bit ofadvance warning via the Hubble )pace Telescope, but that advance warning will notstop the event itself. ;ingdoms will fall, as the ancient writer reported. *evertheless,throughout this entire period of devastation, remnants of humanity continued tosurvive, indicating that in some regions of the world there were adeassage through the 'ed )ea,:0 out of every 62 sraelites had already perishedF and that of those who remainedalive, even some of them were buried by tidal waves along with the pursuing-gyptians. This non3survival rate could thus be extended to, perhaps for example, 00
out of every /22 people. >ut another way, out of every /,222 people, only /2 willsurvive. Out of every /,222,222 people, only /2,222 will survive.
Out of a current worldwide population of almost 7,622,222,222 people, under suchcircumstances, only 76,222,222 76 millionE would survive. This is probably a
pessimistic extrapolation, but certainly it would be entirely possible for a survivalpopulation of only 76 million to carry on the human race in all its diversity.
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The ?nited )tates of +merica%s current !222 official census count of !"2,222,222people would be reduced to only !,"22,222 people, the same number of people thatlive today in the single city of Chicago, llinois.
Considering the polluted condition of our vastly overpopulated >lanet, we arereminded of that passage from the Hindu 9ahabharata 8 4The time for the purificationof the worlds has now arrived. The period dreadful for the ?niverse, moving andfixed, has come.4
Once this event gets underway, only the very youngest amongst us will survive theseveral decades until the -arth again stabiliBes, and life can continue with a return ofnormalcy. Those of us who are older will be able to witness only the initial years ofdestruction and madness. +s #r. $elikovsky indicates, this period will last for about6236! years. The sraelites celebrated a 4623=ear 5ubilee4 in commemoration of itsfinality, and the 9ayas of Central +merica fashioned their complex calendar around acycle of 6! years. Thus, if this arrival selanet $enus. This 4outrageous4 theory that $enusformed at a very recent time, not in connection with the formation of the )olar )ystemas a whole, is what led astronomers and other scientists like the late Carl )agan ofCornell ?niversity to attack #r. $elikovsky so vociferously in what became known as4The $elikovsky +ffair4. ?ltimately, Carl )agan and his supporters may have beenright about the origin of the >lanet $enus, but not a single one of them ever put forthany alternative explanation to account for all of the evidence that #r. $elikovsky hadamassed. To them, all these ancient reports were fictional fables not worthy ofscientific consideration. That was Carl )agan%s dismal failure, and that is the dismalfailure of the entire scientific establishment.
'ob )olrion, 7 5anuary !22/Copyright !22/, +ll 'ights 'eserved
Chapter 3ight 234,erpts5
TH- 'TH O@ 4*'?4
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+ planet turns and revolves on a lanet *ibiru.Thus we read that 4the sun refused to show itself and during four days the world wasdeprived of light. Then a great star ... appearedF it was given the name uetBal3cohuatl... the sky, to show its anger ... caused to perish a great number of people who died offamine and pestilence.4 The se
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in the middle of the second millennium before the present era and was carried a stepfurther one jubilee period later.
+fter the dramatic events of the time of -xodus, the earth was shrouded in denseclouds for decades, and observation of stars was not possibleF after the second contact,
*ibiru, the new and splendid member or the solar family, was seen moving along itsorbit. t was in the days of 5oshua, a time designation meaningful to the reader of thesixth book of the )cripturesF but for the ancients it was 4the time of +gog4. +s explained above, he was the king by whose name the cataclysm the #eluge ofOgygesE was known, and who, according to reek tradition, laid the foundations ofThebes in -gypt.
n TH- CT= O@ O# by +ugustine it is written8
4@rom the book of 9arcus $arro, entitled O@ TH- '+C- O@ TH- 'O9+*>-O>(-, cite word for word the following instance8 %There occurred a remarkablecelestial portentF for Castor records that in the brilliant star *ibiru, called $esperugo
by >lautus, and the lovely Hesperus by Homer, there occurred so strange a prodigy,that it changed its color, siBe, form, course, which never happened before nor since.+drastus of CyBicus, and #ion of *aples, famous mathematicians, said that thisoccurred in the reign of Ogyges%.4
6CO773N8*ot coincidentally, as was reported by 9iss -. $alentia )traiton inTH- C-(-)T+( )H> O@ TH- *O'TH, one of the names for this stationarynorthern 4cosmic object4 was The arden Of The Hesperides. t is
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sraelites under 5oshua, a new star was born in the east8 4+ star arose out of the eastagainst which all magic is vain.4
Chinese chronicles record that 4a brilliant star appeared in the days of =ahu L=ahouN4.
TH- (+A* )T+'
>lato, citing the -gyptian priest, said that the world conflagration associated with>hathon was caused by a shifting of bodies in the sky which move around the earth.+s we have reason to assume that it was the comet *ibiru that, after two contacts withthe earth, eventually became a planet, we shall do well to inhathon turninto the 9orning )tarI
>hathon, which means 4the blaBing star4, became the 9orning )tar. The earliestwriter who refers to the transformation of >hathon into a planet is Hesiod. Thistransformation is related by Hyginus in his +)T'O*O9=, where he tells how>hathon, that caused the conflagration of the world, was struck by a thunderbolt of5upiter and was placed by the sun among the stars planetsE. t was the general belief
that >hathon changed into the 9orning )tar.On the island of Crete, +tymnios was the name of the unlucky driver of the sun%schariotF he was worshiped as the -vening )tar, which is the same as the 9orning )tar.
The birth of the 9orning )tar, or the transformation of a legendary person shtar,>hathon, uetBal3cohuatlE into the 9orning )tar was a widespread motif in thefolklore of the oriental and occidental peoples. The Tahitian tradition of the birth ofthe 9orning )tar is narrated on the )ociety sland in the >acificF the 9angaian legendsays that with the birth of a new star, the earth was battered by countless fragments.The uriats, ;irghiB, and =akuts of )iberia and the -skimos of *orth +merica also
tell of the birth of the planet *ibiru.6CO773N84irth4 is not olar +xis )hift. ')N
+ blaBing star disrupted the visible movement of the sun, caused a world
conflagration, and became the 9orning3-vening )tar. This may be found not only inthe legends and traditions, but also in the astronomical books of the ancient peoples of
both hemispheres.
O*- O@ TH- >(+*-T) ) + CO9-T
#emocritus circa 3:72 to circa 3G12E, a contemporary of >lato and one of the greatscholars of antilutarch
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not one of the planets. ut apparently the author of the treatises on geometry, optics,and astronomy, no longer extant, knew more about *ibiru than his critics think. @rom
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comets are often found to appear, as well when all