The Persian prophet Zarathustra spoke of:
“…signs, wonders and perplexity which are manifest on the
Earth at the end of each age.”
The Chinese call the perish of ages ‘Kis’ and number, ten
Kis from the beginning of their known world until Confucius. In the ancient
Chinese encyclopedia, ‘Sing-li-ta-tsiuen-chou’ the general convulsions of
nature are discussed. Because of the periodicity of these convulsions the
Chinese regard the span of time between two catastrophes as a ‘great year’. As
during a year, so during a world age, the cosmic mechanism winds itself up and:
“…in a general convulsion of nature, the sea is carried
out of its bed, mountains spring out of the ground, rivers change their course,
human beings and everything is ruined, and the ancient traces effaced.”
An ancient tradition of world ages ending in catastrophe is
persistent in the Americas amongst the Incas, the Aztecs and the Maya. The Maya
have a Long Count between global catastrophes similar to the Chinese
Great Year.
In her book Approaching Chaos on global catastrophes
in ancient times, Lucy Wyatt suggested a date for Noah’s Deluge as seventy nine
years after the beginning of the Long Count, which ended in 2012. Her research
indicated that cataclysms occur close to the target date of a Long Count, or a
Great Year rather than on it. That would fit with the principle in science of margin
of errors. In a cycle of global cataclysms that are millennia apart, one
would expect a cataclysmic event to occur sometime within a margin of a few
decades of a predicted date.
The Maya described each age ending with earthquakes at the
solstice. The Maya reference to a worldwide catastrophe of global earthquakes
at the solstice supports the Hapgood model of crust slips being related to the
accumulation of ice on the poles. According to my model the difference in
gravitational pull from the sun on the ice on the poles, due to the 23.5° list
of the Earth on its axis, would cause a floating crust, during a period of
global warming, to be most prone to rolling over at the solstice. The greatest
likelihood would be December 21st as that would be when the ice on the
Antarctic would experience the strongest gravitational pull from the sun.
Hapgood pointed out that ice accumulating on a land mass was more prone to
cause a crust shift than ice floating on the sea. The Maya prediction fits the
science.
Historical records from every continent report that the
world has fallen over the poles at least four times in the memory of mankind. A
major part of stone inscriptions found in the Yucatan refer to this type of
world catastrophe. The most ancient of these katun calendar stones of
Yucatan refer to great catastrophes, at repeated intervals, convulsing the
American continent. The indigenous nations of the Americas have a preserved
memory of these ancient historical events. In the chronicles of the Mexican
kingdom it was written:
“The ancients knew that before the present sky and earth
were formed, man was already created and life had manifested itself four
times.”
The sacred Hindu books, the Ezour Vedam and the Bhaga
Vedam share the scheme of expired ages known as Yugas, the fourth being the
present. They differ only in the time ascribed to each age. The Buddhist text Visuddhi-Magga
also describes seven ages, each terminated by world catastrophes.
A tradition of successive creations and catastrophes is
found in Hawaii. On the islands of Polynesia there were nine ages recorded and
in each age a different sky was above the Earth. Icelanders believed that nine
worlds went down in a succession of ages, a tradition contained in the Mavarian
text Edda.
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