Earth’s Hidden Past – Part Two
The following excerpts from The Last Days of Tolemac are set out in question and answer format.
Q: What do you mean by fire in the sky?
A: When the true history of the earth is told, there will be some disturbing changes to the traditional ideas held on earth today. These ancient records will reveal:
- That the rotation of the earth around the sun has been disturbed within the recorded history of humanity.
- That the axis of the earth has changed from time to time.
- That the length of the year has not always been the same.
- That the sun has not always risen in the east. During some of the past eras on earth it has risen in the west.
- That the cause of many of these changes has been the influence of comets and asteroids.
Ancient man was acutely aware of just how fragile life on earth has been, for the memories of past disasters were not only part of their literary record, but some of the events described in their sacred books had occurred within the living memory of those who had written about them.
It is very different today. Modern scientists and historians have been lulled into a false sense of security due to the relative stability of the earth over the last two and a half thousand years. So even though many ancient books speak of these devastating events, they are considered to be mere allegories, and historians do not interpret them in a literal way.
Q: What are some of these ancient books?
A: The ancient books of China (Shu-king Chronicles), India (The Puranas, Vedas, Visuddhi-Magga), Persia (The Zend-Avesta), as well as the inscribed tablets of the Sumerian culture (Epic of Gilgamesh), speak of tumultuous times on earth.
The Popul-Vuh of the Mayas echoes these stories. The Christian Bible is filled with similar descriptions, but they are usually not recognized as being factual descriptions of real events that actually happened on the earth.
In the ancient Chinese encyclopedia (Sing-li-ta-tsiuen-chou), the ending of a world age is described as follows:
“In a general convulsion of nature,
The sea is carried out of its bed,
Rivers change their course,
Human beings and everything are ruined,
And the ancient traces are effaced.”
The Psalms of the Bible tell of past cataclysms that have happened within the living memory of humanity.
“Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also and came down:
And darkness was under his feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his secret place;
His pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows and scattered them;
And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Then the channels of waters were seen,
And the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.” (Psalm 18: 7-15)
“God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore will we not fear,
Though the earth be removed,
And though the mountains be carried into the
midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.” (Psalm 46: 1-3)
“The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice;
Let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
Clouds and darkness are round about him:
Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
His lightnings enlightened the world:
The earth saw, and trembled.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord.” (Psalm 97: 1-5)
“When Israel went out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. (Psalm 114: 1-4)
World-wide catastrophes that cause hills to melt like wax and mountains to skip like rams are not the sort of things that are taught in modern history. Devastation on that scale would require forces far greater than simple earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, fearful though these may be.
Q: Has the earth been affected by comets in the past?
A: According to the wisdom of the ancients, the earth has repeatedly been affected by close encounters with comets. The comets that have appeared in the skies of earth over the last thousand years or more have been small and far off, and have produced little more than night-time illumination. Modern humanity has lost its fear of comets.
But in the centuries before the birth of the Christ, not only were comets much more common in the skies of earth, but some of these comets were extremely large, and some of them passed extremely close to the earth.
These close encounters with comets devastated the landscape of earth. They caused seas to rise and fall, new mountains to form, and entire continents to sink below the waves. One of these encounters became the foundation of the Greek legend of Phaeton.
According to this legend, Phaeton the son of Helios, the Greek god of the sun, asked his father for a favor. In order to prove his manhood the young Phaeton asked if he might be allowed to drive his father’s sun-chariot across the sky for just one day. Helios granted his son this request.
But as the young Phaeton took hold of the reins, he could not control the powerful steeds that pulled the chariot of the sun. The chariot plunged out of control. It came too close to the ground, causing the sun to scorch large parts of the earth. Realizing the danger of the situation, Zeus, ruler of the gods, hurled a thunderbolt at Phaeton killing him instantly. Thus were the people of earth spared.
This story of Phaeton and the chariot of the sun has become one of the favorite legends in Greek mythology. Modern scholars treat the story of Phaeton as a fanciful myth. Few of them grasp the truth that lies behind the legend.
For shortly before the beginning of Greek influence on history, a large comet had a close encounter with the earth. As the orbits of these two bodies passed close together, the tremendous heat generated by the comet scorched the earth, and the electrical forces generated between the earth and the head of the comet caused a mighty thunderbolt to strike the earth.
But to the people who lived shortly after these times, the story of Phaeton and the chariot of the sun was not dismissed as a myth. It was regarded as a real event. As the Latin poet Ovid wrote:
“The earth bursts into flame, the highest parts first, and splits into deep cracks, and its moisture is all dried up. The meadows are burned to white ashes; the trees are consumed, green leaves and all, and the ripe grain furnishes fuel for its own destruction. Great cities perish with their walls, and the vast conflagration reduces whole nations to ashes.” (Metamorphoses, Book II)
While the story of Phaeton may seem like a mythical tale to your modern astronomers, close encounters with comets have occurred not just once but many times in the recent history of the earth. All of these encounters have had devastating effects on the earth. They have changed the axis and the rotation of the planet. They have altered the surface of the land and caused the destruction of entire nations.
Q: How did ancient societies know about these comets?
A: Ancient man knew about comets from their own astronomical observations, and from the records that had been passed down from generation to generation. They knew of the cataclysmic changes that could be caused by fire from the sky. They also knew that these encounters in the past had led to changes in the seasons, and changes in the length of the year. They therefore constantly watched the heavens for signs of any new cosmic intruders.
Anthropologists of today think that ancient societies held rituals at various times of the year, such as at eclipses and solstices, purely for ceremonial purposes. They do not realize that these ceremonies actually provided these societies with vital clues about their future safety and survival.
For if the sun did not follow the expected times of these solstices, this was a clear sign to the ancient astronomers and priests that the orbit of the earth had changed and that devastating events might soon occur on earth. The priests also knew that the seasons and the times for planting crops would be changed as well.
Examples of such rituals were the solstice ceremonies of the Incas. The sun ceremonies of the Incas focused on special carved stones called Intihuatana, which in the local Quechua language meant “the hitching post of the sun”. At the time of each midwinter and midsummer solstice, the path of the sun was tracked across the sky by means of the shadows cast by the sun on these stones.
The purpose of these ceremonies was to ensure that, at the exact moment of solstice, the shadow cast by the sun did not exceed its heavenly limit, and that the sun did indeed remain “hitched to its post”. For if the shadow cast by the sun continued to move beyond the limit marked on the stone, this would indicate to the Inca priests that the rotation of the earth had changed.
When the priests found that the sun continued to follow its predicted path, they knew that the rotation of the earth around the sun had not changed, and that they did not face the threat of imminent disaster from the sky. Although every solstice was approached with a sense of dread, in case the portents in the sun should be unfavorable, a favorable result was cause for great celebrations among the people.
Other societies like the Mayas and the Aztecs held similar ceremonies at the time of the midsummer and midwinter solstice, and for the same reason. However, the Mayans and Aztecs did not worship the sun as a symbol of Inner Light as the Incas did.
Instead, their priests considered the sun to be a war-like deity who needed to be pacified by means of sacrifice. They considered that the way to protect the earth from the ravages of cosmic intruders was to conduct regular human sacrifices.
The tragedy of these gruesome rituals was that once they had been found to be effective on one occasion, they were considered to be necessary for all future occasions. So the Mayan and Aztec ceremonies became bloody rituals of human sacrifice involving virgins or young men of prowess, as well as captives from military campaigns.
Similar solstice rituals took place in many other societies around the world, using stone and wooden circles to observe the movement of the sun. In Europe, these rituals were held at places like Stonehenge and Woodhenge. All of these circles served the same purpose, and that was to plot the path of the sun according to its previously recorded movements, to ensure that there was continued stability in the heavens.
In ancient Egypt, tall stone obelisks were erected in front of their temples and monuments. They were used to track the path of the sun at times of the midsummer and midwinter solstice. The shadows cast by these obelisks were used to check whether there had been any changes in the movement of the sun which might lead to imminent earth changes.
Your scientists believe that the earth has always followed its present course around the sun, and that the length of your year has always been the same since the formation of the earth. They feel secure in their view of the stability of the heavens and the predictability of earth’s orbit around the sun. They would do well to consider the words told to the Greek philosopher Solon by an old Egyptian priest:
“There have been and will be many different calamities to destroy mankind, the greatest of them by fire and water, lesser ones by countless other means.”
“Your own story of how Phaeton, child of the sun, harnessed his father’s chariot, but was unable to guide it along his father’s course and so burnt up things on the earth and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt, is a mythical version of the truth that there is at long intervals a variation in the course of the heavenly bodies and a consequent widespread destruction by fire of things on the earth.” (Plato: Timaeus 2 b)
