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by Winifred G. Barton

CHAPTER 6

The Middle Kingdom Ends
1706 B.C. to 1306 B.C.

PART I: THE EXODUS

The end of the "Middle Kingdom " came one thousand, one hundred and ninety-four years after the holocaust in Atlantis -- which became known as the age of Volcanic Eruption. It came three hundred and eighty-four years after the Great Flood -- which became known as the Age of Inundation.

The "Middle Kingdom" ended in The Age of Fire, the third of the three
Sun Ages on ancient record. This was by far the best documented of the
major disasters of the ancient world. It has been recorded in all
histories of the then-civilized world which represented the "band of
Life" zone of human development, particularly in the annals of Egypt.

"The Age of Fire" marked the end of a brief period of re-cuperation and
reorganization after the Great Flood. To describe the global
implications of this disaster would be too confusing and tax the
patience of even the most ardent scholar, so once more I will try to
confine this history mainly to the events which affected the land of my
birth.

The actual catastrophe was preceded by seven years of strange
disturbances in the natural order of life. This caused extensive drought
and famine. What was thought to be a new star appeared in the sky. As
this star approached Earth it was clearly large enough to be called a
planet. It came closer and closer, its brightness increasing at an
alarming rate.

The onrushing star was accompanied by a noise. This was slight at first
and could hardly be noticed except by the attuned ear at night when
stillness settled over the land. As the intensity of light from the new
star increased, so did the noise; louder and louder it grew, never
ceasing for a second.

At first there seemed little to fear. In a short period of three
hundred and eighty-four years people had already forgotten the flood,
and had been far too preoccupied in rebuilding to ponder history's
warnings. All had forgotten, except perhaps Moses who, like his
forebears, was a brilliant opportunist and saw in the events now
building a chance to utilize the confusion and at the right moment lead
the Israelites out of bondage to freedom in the promised land.

Under the direction of his god, Yaweh, Moses bided his time waiting for
the right moment to depart. The intervening period was occupied in
organizing the people, teaching them how to plunder friendly Egyptians,
and preparing them as much as possible for the exodus. It is hard to
realize the enormity and complexity of Moses' task, to be undertaken
under the very noses of the guards and soldiers. There were thousands of
men, women and children to be involved in the exodus, together with
their herds, their flocks, and their household belongings.

None but a mystic could have chosen such as apt time to depart. He
almost left it until too late, for the actual clash of the giant planets
came only a day or two after the march began.

The Jewish history, Exodus, tells the story of haste, plunder, and
wondrous guidance for the Israelites. They left Rameses en mass, six
hundred thousand of them; and there wasn't even time to tarry to leaven
the bread, a night to be observed by the children of Israel in all their
generations.

We read in Exodus 3: 21,22: "... And it shall come to pass that, when
ye go, ye shall not go empty: But every woman shall borrow of her
neighbour and of her that sojourneth in her house.
..." And there is Exodus 12: 35, 36: "And the children of Israel did
according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians
jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment ... and they spoiled the
Egyptians."

In spite of their miraculous assistance, Ego creeps into the narrative
when the scribe's version of the event is committed to paper, and God
makes a series of grandiose promises to show how He favours this select
group. Indeed, this trend runs through the religious histories of the
world. We find in Exodus 12: 12: "For I will pass through the land of
Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgement: I am the Lord."

A topographical survey of the land through which the Israelites first
travelled before reaching the "Red Sea" shows that the whole area was
made up of reedy marsh lands. Several small lakes formed a loose chain
in the area. The Red Sea at that time was actually a tidal river which
crested and subsided, in much the same way as did the Nile, to flood the
series of shallow lakes. The Israelites came marching up between these
lakes and the sand dunes to the right. They headed for the only safe
crossing for such a multitude of people and animals.

This river, let us call it the "Red River" to avoid confusion, followed
the same deep channel that presently moulds the Red Sea. It emptied into
the Gulf of Aden. The main difference between the Red River, as the
Israelites found it, and the way it had been in the time of the earliest
Egyptian culture, was that it was very much broader, not yet the Red Sea
as it is known in your day, but still wide enough in places to have
engulfed the ancient City of Pillars.

The full length of this river was populated by farmers who tilled the
prized arable land. On the one side there were Egyptians and on the far
side lived the fierce Amu, with the river forming a natural boundary
between the two peoples.

The desert, or wilderness, began on the far side of a long ridge of
fairly high hills. Only the periodic flooding which created the marshy
area prevented the desert's extending into Lower Egypt.

The Age of Fire was heralded by many nights and days of catastrophe. On
the very first night of these events, three major movements of large
groups of people took place.

1) The fleeing Israelites, spurred on by fear of retribution by the plundered Egyptians, heard the news from their scouts that a small army of Lower Egyptians was at their heels. As their own ideas of justice were based on an "eye-for-an-eye" principle, they concluded that this army was coming after them to take revenge.

2) Marauding Amu tribesmen, fearful of the impending catastrophe, (terrified by the now ceaseless, deafening roar of the approaching planet) and half starved by years of famine, invaded Lower Egypt by the only safe and sensible route out of their desert territory.

3) The army of Lower Egypt was out to protect their land from the invading Amu.

All three groups were heading for the only safe crossing area from
Lower Egypt to the Amu territory, but this strip was already crowed with
oncoming Amu warriors.

When the Israelite scouts brought this message, Moses decided to gamble
on an earlier border crossing, for they still believed they were the
intended quarry of the Egyptians.

Immediately prior to their attempted crossing of the Red River, an
earth tremor shook the area. It started a rift deep down at the mouth of
the Red River in the Gulf of Aden. The rift followed the course of the
river but divided in two near the area of the marshlands. The right
thrust of the rift continued along the Gulf of Aquaba and the Aralia
Valley to the Dead Sea, the Sea of Gallilee, and along the Jordan River
to the Orontes Valley in Syria, the source of the Red River.

Behind this rift a wall of water rose, towering above the heads of the
Israelites as they made their crossing. In front of this wall of water
the river bed was sucked dry, which enabled the bulk of the Israelites
to make a passable crossing. Hence most of the Israelites were able to
reach higher land before the vacuum subsides and swirls and eddies of
the incoming wall of water drowned the rear of the Israelite columns
and the Egyptian army which followed.

The cosmic records of my people indicate that there never was any
attempt made to prevent the departure of the Israelites; indeed by their
own words they had permission to leave. Rather than trying to stay their
flight, there was a massive sigh of relief in the hearts of my
countrymen to know that they were planning to depart, for we were at a
loss to know how to cope with men of such powerful identity backed by a
"foreign" God who seemed to supply an ego-drive beyond the
understanding of our priests.

On this night, the leader of the troops from Lower Egypt, probably one
of the princes, displayed a race sense of valour. Word had come that his
country was in peril, that Apopi, the fierce God of Darkness with all
his host, was about to invade Egypt. The noise, the darkness, the
showers of rubble and earthquakes all supported this belief. Believing
as he did in the power of the gods, and indeed in his own power as an
immortal being, what great courage the prince must have had to go into
battle against such overwhelming odds.

In more recent times a monolith was found at el-Arish which was being
used as a watering trough at the time of its discovery. Despite the fact
that regular use had obliterated much of the original transcription, it
read, "... His Majesty of Shou went to battle against the companions of
Apopi," a description which could in no way relate to the fleeing
Israelites with their children and their flocks of sheep.

The el-Arish monolith goes on to say, "Nobody left the palace during
nine days," and as only the Pharaoh's residence was called "the palace"
we can assume more about the identify of the brave prince, "His majesty
of Shou." He was in all probability the ruler of a local area close to
the site of the Amu invasion, and "Shou" was the name of the home or
district which he governed. Such a prince would have neither the
authority nor any interest in harassing departing Israelites.

Darkness fell over the land for nine days, beginning about the time of
the Red River crossing; the el-Arish monolith declares, "... and during
these nine days of upheaval there was such a tempest that neither the
men nor the gods could see the faces of their next ... Invaders
approaching by way of Yat Hebes came in the gloom and overpowered Egypt.
The children of Apopi, the rebels are at Oush-Arou (desert)."

Thus we can see that time, day and night, became meaningless. None of
the three groups knew exactly what was happening and was probably most
concerned with its own survival. The invading Amu entered Egypt by the
planned Israelite departure route. They were called the children of
Apopi because not only were they fierce desperados but they also came
out of the darkness. Once his Majesty of Shou and all his army had
perished, there was no one really left to defend the Lower Egyptian
territories. The populace was understandably terrified by the manner
of the Amu's arrival, and submitted to four hundred years of serfdom as
a consequence.

PART II: THE IPUWER PAPYRUS

Other extant records of the Age of Fire can be found in the well-known
Ipuwer Papyrus, which reads in part: "A foreign tribe from abroad has
come to Egypt. Not seen ... enemies ... enter the temples ... weep. And
through it all is to cause the Asiatics to know the conditions of the
land.

And later a small piece was found inscribed by the command of the Queen
of Egypt. It reads: "The abode of the Mistress of Oes has fallen into
ruin ... I restored that which was in ruins, and I completed that which
was left unfinished. For there had been Amu in the midst of the Delta
and in Hovar (Auris), and the foreign hordes and their number had
destroyed the ancient works; they reigned ignorant of the god Ra.

Thus three sources of earthly records showing the Egyptian version of
the Exodus remain, and each recorded item leads to the others. Each
description states that Lower Egypt was invaded. The first script calls
them "children of Apopi", the second states they were "Asiatics", and
well after the event when they had become known, the third scribe calls
them Amu.

Again, the Israeli history as told in Exodus 14:19, describes another
phenomenon of the times: "And the angel of God, which went before the
camp of Israel, removed and went behind them, and the pillar of the
cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them," and in verse
24:" ... The Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the
pillar of fire and of the cloud ..."

In these words there is a brief reflection on the truth of the events.
Some historians suggest that the Israelites turned south because of the
forts in the north near the sea. This would only be logical if there
were many crossing places. Instead, the Israelites took the shortest
possible route to the nearest accessible crossing place and, having
passed over, under normal conditions would then have headed north to
utilize the scanty pasture that skirted the desert. Or else they would
have set out boldly to cross the desert. Instead, after completing the
crossing, the Israelites turned south, away from the direction Moses
planned, and moved towards the invading Amu warriors. Why?

Perhaps the Egyptian records, the Ipuwer Papyrus, can supply the
answer: "Forsooth, the land turns around as does the potter's wheel ..."

It must be remembered that at the times of which we speak "Wise Men"
were astrologers who navigated by the stars, and doubtless these were
Moses' chief navigational aids. But hardly had their long trek started
when the skies grew dim and the whole earth shook and trembled. This
left Moses completely without any sense of direction.

Even more important was the world itself, turning topsy turvey so that
north it seems became south, and south, north. Moses, therefore, was
travelling north -- his north -- which had been south.

And the tale on the el-Arish monolith tells how the son of an army
leader set out to find out what had happened to his father: "He asks
information ... give him the information about all that happened to Ra
in Yat Hebes, the combats of Thom." Here is that story:

The Amu were an ancient Arabian race living in and around Mecca. Their
culture dominated the whole of Arabia Felix, Arabia Petrae and Arabia
Deserta.

Then came a flood in the form of an immense tidal wave, followed by a
violent earthquake when thousands of people were swept away in the
disaster.

Saba (Sheba) in Southern Arabia, Mecca, and thousands of miles of the
Tehama Coast were shattered. All the tribes on the peninsula suffered
from these events. In a single night a turbulent torrent over-ran the
land of Djohainah drowning the entire population.

Again, these catastrophes were preceded by seven years of plague,
drought and famine, causing the Amu to move northward in an effort to
find food and pasture. Their entry into Egypt, coinciding with the nine
days of darkness, caused them to pass into Egypt unseen by anyone.

For weeks previously, however, Egyptian border guards had noted the Amu
preparations and had sent word to the garrison at Or, the nearest major
centre.

A force of 600 chariots was organized in haste to rush to defend the
border. No foot soldiers were involved in the manoeuvre, possibly because
the conditions of the elements were so grim that only an extreme
emergency force seemed logical.

Shortly after the fateful night of the exodus and the total
annihilation of the Lower Egyptian forces in the incoming rush of the
Red Sea, the Israelites met the Amu. Unlike the massive column of
Israelites and their belongings, the Amu were desert raiders who
travelled in very small bands. Their method was to attack the rear of
the unwieldy Israelites and cut off small groups of people and animals.
They never stayed long enough to do battle with the main body of the
Israelites, rather darted in and out plundering and raiding.

Biblical history gets a little off track at this point, for either the
Israelites still believed themselves to be travelling north, or the
scribe who recorded the events was swayed by later happenings and
surmised the only people that Moses could have encountered were the
Amalekites whose homeland would have normally been on his route.

According to Exodus 17: 8, 11 and 16: "Then came Amalek and fought with
Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, "choose us out men and
go out, fight with Amalek": So Joshua did as Moses said to him and
fought with Amalek; And when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed. For
he said, because the hand of Amalek is against the throne of the Lord,
therefore the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek
from generation to generation."

Can you imagine it, a God of love talking revenge and retribution from
generation to generation! When the Spirit of that same God is
distributed among every human being in the universe.

Actually, in such times of stress the law of Nature (survival of the
fittest, the most cunning, the most devious) prevails. And those
struggling for life kept more or less to the same narrow bands of
security which lay behind the hills that ran in a chain from north to
south. Meetings and conflict between such wanderers was inevitable, the
villain and the hero types being entirely dependent on whose history one
happens to be reading in the twentieth century.

The Amu, being less prepared for migration had almost no cattle or
sheep and therefore found the wealthier Israelites fair game, as had
the Israelites found the Egyptians.

The Egyptians offered almost no resistance to the main body of the Amu
and forward elements were already in Memphis, as witnessed by Ipuwer who
wrote his Papyrus during the time the actual events were in progress.
"Through it is to cause the Asiatics to know the conditions of the
land."

My beloved Queen Hatshepsut's inscription has been transcribed in these
words: "The abode of Oes was fallen in ruin, the earth has swallowed her
beautiful sanctuary and children played over her temple ... I cleaned
and rebuilt it anew ... I restored that which was in ruins, and I
completed that which was left unfinished. For there had been Amu in the
midst of the Delta and in Hauar, and the foreign hordes of their number
had destroyed the ancient works; they reigned ignorant of the god Ra."

She caused it to be written not long after her brother Thutmose III had
reunited Upper and Lower Egypt by the expulsion of the Amu nearly four
hundred years after the catastrophe. Having total access to all the
records, no one was in a better position to know the truth of the events
herein described.

Of the catastrophe itself, it might be best to let the one who lived
through this event and was able to document the happenings as they
occurred in Memphis, his place of residence, do the telling.
The Ipuwer Papyrus has been called a lament, but to me it also holds
drama unfolding with the poignancy of a great scholar. It is not
necessary to quote the whole transcription, neither do we adhere
strictly to the order of documentation, but we have included enough
pertinancy to prove our point.

"Plague is throughout the land ... Blood is everywhere. Forsooth, the
land turns round as does a potter's wheel ... Forsooth, the desert is
throughout the land. The Nomes (Districts) are laid waste. A Foreign
tribe from abroad has come to Egypt. Forsooth, that has perished which
yesterday was seen. The land is left over to its weariness like the
cutting of flax. All animals their hearts weep. Cattle moan ... No fruit
nor herbs are found... hunger. Behold, noble ladies go hungry. It is
groaning that is throughout the land, mingled with lamentations. Behold,
no offices are in their place, cattle stray and there is none to gather
them together, like a frightened herd without a herdsman. Each man
fetches for himself those branded with his name.

"The towns are destroyed. Upper Egypt has become dry. The storehouse of
the King is the common property of everyone. Lower Egypt weeps ... The
entire palace is without revenue. To it belong wheat and barley, geese
and fish. This is our water! That is our happiness. What shall we do in
respect thereof? All is ruin. The land is not light. All the waters that
were in the river were turned to blood. Trees are destroyed. He who
places his brother in the ground is everywhere.

"Forsooth, grain has perished on every side ... The prison is ruined.
Forsooth, gates, columns, and walls are consumed by fire. The river is
blood, men drink tasting ... human beings, and thirst after water.
Forsooth, the children of princes are dashed against the wall. Forsooth,
public offices are opened and their census lists are taken away ... Men
ventured to rebel against the Uraeus (the emblem of church authority)
and that magical spells connected with the serpent are cast forth. Men
walk upon ... in public places. Forsooth, the children of princes are
cast out in the streets. Forsooth, those who were in the place of
embalmment are laid on the high ground.

"Forsooth, great and small say: I wish I might die ... years of noise.
There is no end to noise. The residence is overturned in a minute.
Behold, the chiefs of the land flee. Behold no craftsmen work. Behold,
he who slept without a wife through what finds precious things. He who
passed the night in squalor ... She who looked at her face in the water
is possessor of a mirror. A man strikes his brother, the son his mother.
Behold, the fire has mounted up on high. Its burning goes forth against
the enemies of the land ... weep ... the earth is ... on every side ...
weep ... that have never happened before. Woe is me because of the
misery of this time. Men ... they have come to an end of themselves.
There is none found to stand and protect themselves. Would that there
might be an end of man, no conception, no birth! Oh, that the earth
would cease from noise, and tumult be no more.

"Behold, one use violence against another ... if three men journey upon
a road, they are found to be two men, the greater number slays the less
... The land is as a weed that destroys men. Today fear ... more than a
million people. Not seen ... enemies ... enter into the temples ...
weep. The roads were impassable being 'dragged' and 'flooded' there was
great 'lack of people'. Men set ... in the bushes until the benighted
comes, in order to plunder his burden. How terrible it is. What am I to
do?

"And now it is over. What has happened? ... through it is to cause the
Asiatics to know the conditions of the land ... there was blood
throughout all the land."

The monolith of el-Arish reads in part: "The land was in great
affliction. Evil fell on this earth ... It was a great upheaval in the
residences ... Nobody left the palace during nine days, and during those
nine days of upheaval there was such tempest that neither the men nor
the gods could see the faces of their next ...

There are further revealing lines in the text which speak for
themselves in this matter: "His Majesty of Shou ... We shall see our
father R-Harakti in the luminous region of Bakhit. His Majesty of Shou
went to battle against the companions of Apopi. His Majesty ... finds on
this place called Pi-Kharoti." The prefix Pi before a noun in the
Egyptian language denoted "the abode of." The full English
interpretation of Pi-Kharoti would be: "The abode of Kharoti", just as
Pi-Thom or Pithom was the "abode of Thom", one of the two cities the
Israelites were caused by build as garrisons. The second city was
Ramses.

The monolith goes on to tell us how a son, becoming restless over the
prolonged absence of his father, with no word of his deeds filtering
back, set out himself to look for him. Unfortunately a lot of the story
is obliterated, but: "... His Majesty Geb. He asks information ... give
him the information about all that happened to Ra in Yat Nebes, the
combats of the Thom."

We are told of invaders approaching, by way of Yat Nebes, in the gloom:
"The children of Apopi, the rebels that are at Ousherou." All those who
accompanied Prince Geb were killed "by a terrible blast," and the prince
sustained bad burns before he returned, but he did not go to On "with
the companions of the thieves of the sceptre." Evidently more and more
of the Amu were advancing into Lower Egypt, coming by the same route,
being followed by the Israelites. Geb must also have heard of the
Israelite crossing but he refers to them as "thieves of the sceptre." It
was habitual for the prince of the armies to have with him the sceptre
of his rank, and as the Israelites were the only ones near the tragedy,
it would seem that they had been seen to rescue this sceptre. It was a
mark of honour among soldiers of high rank to have his sceptre buried
with him if he were killed in the field. In surrender, these officers
passed sceptre to the enemy, who in turn destroyed it. To steal a
general's sceptre would be tantamount to stealing not only his honour but
the honour of the family also.

This invasion of Amu was no organized attempt by one country to conquer
another. It was a slow building up of people who pressed forward, each
in the footsteps of earlier bands, to find a whole country disorganized,
in fear, and its protective coat of soldiers demoralized by terror and
for the want of leadership, disbanded; they were more apt to pillage
under the circumstances than to fight. Affairs had sunk to the
animalistic right of each man for himself, and the stronger will of the
Amu won.

His Majesty Geb goes on to say that his father had battled with the
rebels and "massacred the children of Apopi." Did his Majesty Thom
indeed meet one of these bands and massacre them? We have only this tiny
bit of evidence unsupported by other evidence, and therefore must leave
it under question.

One other significant fact is brought to light and should be weighed in
the scale with the Ipuwer statement about pillars, gates, and walls, all
of stone or brick, being aflame: The air cooled off, and the countries
dried."

Writers of ancient Arabian history have recorded the invasion of Egypt
by Amu. El-Welid, son of Douma, was the leader of these people. It was
he who first decided to migrate. However, not until conditions worsened
in their own land did others decide to follow in his footsteps. From
their own historic accounts of the times we learn that there was
flooding, described as an immense wave that swept across the land.
People were also swept away by a blast. The earth quaked violently, and
this catastrophe was preceded by plagues.

Are we to believe the colourfully written word of one people, yet ignore
the greater evidence of others, though less colourfully written?

So closely related are the plagues they can but corroborate each other.
Catastrophe culminated these seven years of plague. Only the details of
each differ in places; and yet, was not a huge tidal wave, a wall of
water big enough to wipe out a whole city thousands of miles before it
reached the Israelites, the same in both instances? Was not the earth
quaking in at Mecca, a deep rift that followed the course taken by that
wall of water?

Mecca was already an ancient city at this time but all the evidence
points to the fact that the present city is not more than -- 1500 in age
- two hundred years younger than the events here described. Strong
evidence also points to the city's having been further south and west,
on the banks of the Red River. A sister city, the capital of Egypt, was
situated on the other bank, known as the City of Pillars -- the home of
Egypt's true Pharaohs.

El-Harit, the writer of ancient Arabian history, has also left us with
this story: "From el-Hadjoun up to Safa all became desert. In Mecca the
nights were silent, no voice of pleasant talk. We dwelt there, but in a
most tumultuous night, in the most terrible of devastation we were
destroyed." (The "we" of these writings does not allude to the writer or
his family but is used to signify the people to whom he belonged as a
tribe.)

So ended the "Middle Kingdom", crushed by the elements. The population
scattered in abject terror only to meet death, lifetimes of severe
privation, or to find themselves taken in slavery by barbarous hordes.

Some of the royal family escaped. These children had been sent from the
City of Pillars to the hinterland in the company of certain young
priests. The Pharaoh hoped that in this way the remnants of the
royal-priestly hierarchy could be preserved. History later proved the
wisdom of this foresight, for these survivors eventually contributed
much to the later glory of Egypt.

While fire, flood, earthquakes, plague and famine wrecked havoc on
earth, in the heavens Mars locked horns with the invader planet. In
their wake, long trails of fire, stones and vapour poured down on earth.

The noise defied description; it was as though the thunderclaps of
all time clashed together to reverberate across the sky in one
continuous rolling sound. These sounds shook the earth to its very core
as magnetic forces fought for supremacy, while long spears of lightening
struck earth's surface, tearing it apart.

The air was laden with fine red dust, so thick it made day seem as
night. It covered the whole land, and on dissolving in the waters
seemingly turned them to blood. Molten fire rained from the skies as
cosmic vapours liquefied in earth's atmosphere and burned as naphtha
while there was oxygen enough for ignition. For years afterwards sudden
spurts of flame lit the desert sands where the Israelites were
wandering.

The Ipuwer Papyrus relates: "All the waters that were in the rivers
turned to blood ... Forsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by
fire ... His Majesty Geb sustained bad burns before he returned."

Cities lying in the path of the floodwaters were utterly destroyed,
while others were consumed by the "heavenly fires". People, livestock,
flora and fauna perished in countless millions. The greatest marvel is
that anything at all survived.

Mountain ranges spewed forth from earth's core in a welter of lava and
smoke. The Himalayas were among those created when Earth's jolted core
twisted against the external spinning.

Mars, when its headlong momentum finally subsided, spun off at a
tangent and settled back into orbit. Formerly the home of an advanced,
peace-loving civilization, Mars, "The God of War", was now devoid of
life forms. We dearly hope that this culture, sacrificed to the greed
and egotism of mankind, was not in vain; and that eventually living
things will once more grace Mars' surface and flourish undisturbed by
marauding earthlings.

The invading planet also moved off to one side, but this one was not
yet finished with Earth. Twice it returned to give Earth a jolting
reminder of ancient folly. But its force was waning, and it finally
settled down into a comparatively steady orbit around the sun, though it
still exhibits certain skittish tendencies compared to the orderly
pattern of older planets. Today we see Venus as both the morning and
evening star as she peeks at us first from one side of the sun and then
the other. Quick to adopt this fortunate circumstance of a new star, the
Mithraic religion of the Amu of Lower Egypt eventually passed it on to
modern man as the traditional Star of Bethlehem.

As for Earth, it changed its poles once more, though not its polarity.
Once again the sun rose in the east and set in the west; this being the
fifth time that the sun had appeared at a different compass point.

The seasons changed to such an extent that Moses and other world
leaders lamented the fact that new calendars had to be devised again.
The year lengthened to three hundred sixty-five and one-third days. New
dates were adopted for sowing and reaping; the former harvest season now
became spring and vice versa.

As might be expected, the world, when made to halt its rotation on an
axis, would in actual fact only pause on the outer surface. The inner
liquid and semi-solid core would continue to rotate for some brief
period in its former pattern, the time lapse dependent on the abruptness
with which the outer crust halted. Such a stoppage would cause a
frictional build-up of heat between the core and surface and have the
effect of causing considerable cracking of the crust.

All this came to pass, resulting in volcanic eruptions, fires, and the
sinking of large land masses. Large bodies of water, particularly inland
lakes, suddenly drained into the large surface cracks. The sea, being a
vast liquid mass, wanted to continue the rotary motion of earth's former
pattern which caused tremendous tidal waves to inundate low-lying areas.
As a result, fertile lands became desert as the build-up caused an
undertow to suck water away from land on the opposite side of the flow.

The eventual amount of flooding would be dependent again on the speed
of the rotational pause. Noah's flood was most probably the result of a
swift, sudden halt of some duration, while the 1706 B.C. pause was
slower and shorter.

The change recorded in the sunrise direction, plus the change of
seasons, would suggest that on recommencing, Earth's rotation was almost
in the opposite direction to its former path. Two major events
culminating in many minor occurrences were, then: a push into a new
orbital path shown by the increased number of days in a year, and the
temporary inability of our globe to continue its rotational motion on
its axis.

Archaeologists agree that there is very strong evidence to indicate a
major conflagration along the ancient life belt somewhere towards the
end of the second millennium. Ancient Egyptian tombs and pyramids attest
these facts. Widespread excavations bespeak a common denominator as
diggings expose layers of civilizations one on top of another, as if the
former cultures had met swift obliteration.

Mayan and ancient Chinese records attest these facts. Mayan manuscripts
refer to seven epochs which were later changed to read Sun Ages, such as
Earthquake Sun, Water Sun, Hurricane Sun and Fire Sun, to quote the last
four. Each of the four natural elements is mentioned as each "age" is
designated after the predominance of one of these elements.

A fascinating question arises here. Why did the Bronze Age precede the
Iron Age? Also, why did the Iron Age in Europe follow so closely behind
the Bronze Age that only about 250 years separate them? Yet, the Bronze
Age lasted for several thousands of years in the Old world.

It is a paradoxical situation. Here we have a civilization, evolved and
intelligent to the point that they created highly complex buildings,
dams and skilled engineering feats. They were able to mine two ores and
skilfully produce a single metal like bronze, yet apparently lacked the
know-how to extract and smelt iron -- by far the simpler ore to obtain
and manufacture. The logical inference is that there was no iron ore
obtainable.

Prior to the period we have discussed, European man was a cave dweller,
primitive and uncivilized. About this time he gradually began to emerge
as a more progressive race.

We have already put forth the hypothesis that the light-skinned races
lived in a area of darkness which affected both pigmentation and
culture. It was not until full sunlight graced the European area that
evolutionary advances began for the light-skinned races.

Accomplished as the white man was at fighting for survival, the
European rapidly grasped his new advantages so that his evolutionary
progress was rapid. The Bronze Age emerged speedily. In a brief period
ironware suddenly made its appearance in two widely separated areas --
Europe and Egypt -- without any communication being made between them.

Even before the art of making bricks or building was discovered, and
long before any form of writing emerged, ironware was in evidence in
Europe. Surely coincidence cannot be carried this far.

How much more rational is our contention that Earth's surface was
heavily bombarded with massive quantities of iron ore, a heritage from
the aerial battle in our skies. This would make the iron ore easily
available with no complex mining equipment required.