KEPH-A-RA
by Winifred G. BartonCHAPTER
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.
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