Re: Cook's Saturnian Cosmology
by Andrew » Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:01 pm
Changing Calendars The study of calendars used throughout history and across cultures, is another way to explore Earth and planetary changes. The Earth’s orbit dictates the length of a solar year. Currently it is 365.24 days. It has not always been so. In fact it has changed four or five times since the Saturnian breakup in 3147 BCE. (In an earlier Thunderbolts post I erroneously said two).
The knowledge of these changes is little known, but there is ample evidence. Cook goes over this in detail in his Appendix A, Notes on Chronology:
http://www.saturniancosmology.org/chron.phpThe following is a brief summary:
The story of Earth’s change in orbit is a study of Earth catastrophes. Calendars ended and new ones began because of these events. Mankind has continually fiddled with calendars in an effort to keep up with the changing heavens.
Cook posits there was a 225 day year during the Era of the Gods, based on the Egyptian King list record for the period called “kings before the flood”. The flood is dated at 3147 BCE and was the cataclysm that ensued when the polar water bulge was released.
When Earth detached from Saturn it ended up in an orbit with a 240 day year.
In Cook’s words:
“The 240-day year was originally found by inspecting the data of the "kings after the flood," but it can also be inferred from the remnants of calendars in use in the following era (as in dividing the year up into 4 60-day periods, as in China). The 240-day year would have been in effect from 3147 BC through 2349 BC. The equivalent orbital distance from the Sun would have averaged 70.3 million miles (0.75 AU).”
The next change in the calendar occurred in 2349 BCE, marking the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. This was brought about by Venus and its massive plasmoid bolt that broke up Earth’s equatorial rings called the Absu by the Mesopotamians and the Duat by the Egyptians. This flood was from the heavens, raining down its debris and water, accompanied by endless rains. This is the “flood of Noah” and is also the time of the first appearance of the Moon, which stabilized within an estimated period of 35 years.
“It is at this time that we see the first indications of calendars in widely separated regions of the world. The Earth is now 74 million miles from the Sun (0.797 AU), and the year had extended to 260 days.
The regular appearance of the Moon became the calendar, signaling to everyone the days for religious festivities. There were, during this first period after the fall of the Absu, ten months of 26 days each. At the end of ten months, the year and the cycle of religious observances started over.
The 260-day year is an acknowledged number, which shows up in Mesoamerican sources as the Tzolkin calendar. The Chilam Balam makes specific mention of the addition of "days of the year" at this time. “
Following this we have a calendar year change in 2193 BCE due to another outburst from Venus making an electrical contact with Earth. With this event climatic changes are recorded worldwide, with social upheavals and abandonment of settlements spanning two hundred years. Egypt’s Middle Kingdom emerged afterwards.
….”the Akkadian empire fails and the Old Kingdom of Egypt comes to a close. Worldwide there is a lack of rain, or a lack of light, lasting years. Mesopotamia and Egypt (and other locations) take up to 200 years to recover.
The Earth is now 77 million miles from the Sun (0.83 AU). The year went to 270 or 280 days (probably 273 days). I suspect that the number of months in the year stayed at 10, each approximately 27 or 28 days long. Mesoamerican culture accommodated this easily by extending their 20 by 13 Tzolkin calendar by another cycle of 13 days, and just ignoring the fact that their calendar was now 13 days short. Other people apparently adopted 10 months of 27 and 28 days to fill the year.”
Cook has the following to say about Venus and its impacts in both 2349 and 2193 BCE:
“I would suggest, as others have also, that the planet Venus was the agent of the disturbances in 2349 and 2193 BC. In fact, we can be certain that Venus appeared a total of four times during this period. The first appearance of 2349 BC was absolutely spectacular and, at the same time, so psychologically disturbing to people the world over that this single event is frequently recorded as the very start of history -- often as a retelling of the flood of 3147 BC (as in the "flood of Noah"), coupled with the first appearance of the Moon. The most frightening aspect of 2349 BC was what looked like the collapse of the ocean in the south sky, the Absu. It was thought to have fallen onto the Earth like a flood, for the commotion in the sky was accompanied by endless rains and storms. The other disturbance was that the sky turned blood red.”
This period of 156 years of instability (2349 – 2193 BCE) caused by Venus’s regular visits could be considered as one drawn out change in the length of the Earth’s year, or as two different distinct events.
Following on, we have another change in 1492 BCE called the “Earth Shock”, which marks the end of the Middle Kingdom and the beginning of the New Kingdom. This was caused by a catastrophic electrical event with Venus once again, which hadn’t shown up since its last appearance in 2193 BCE.
“After 1492 BC the Earth's orbit increases significantly, to 0.99 AU. The 360-day year is a clear certainty from many records, and in effect up to 747 BC. The equivalent orbital distance from the Sun would have averaged 92.1 million miles. There were 12 months of 30 days.
The 360-day year is so well established from so many documents, that some researchers today just take it for granted, although students of antiquity have to apologetically add, "plus the five days," or make excuses for the people of this era with statements like, "they used an idealized year" or "they could not count." What an amazing statement! Counting would have been the highest science of the human intellect since the Upper Paleolithic.”
In 747 BCE, at the end of the New Kingdom, we have the beginning of a series of visits from Mars, Venus, and Mercury that caused huge disturbances in the Mediterranean and Near East, with great loss of life. These catastrophes continued until 685 BCE, marking the beginning of the quiescence we experience today.
“After 747 the Earth assumed today's orbit of 93.2 million miles (1.0 AU), and a year of 365.24 days. The Moon changed its period to 29-1/2 days, but there were now slightly more than 12-1/3 lunar months in the year. This would cause no end of problems, for the lunar months no longer coincided comfortably with dates in the solar year.”
So there we have it – an Earth in turmoil and an ongoing quest to create calendars and temples to enshrine these changes, to mark a moment in time when these cataclysms occurred and to create a system of regularity to measure the flow of time over the year. To me it is incredulous that this information is still hidden from view. Cook is making a major contribution to our understanding of Earth history to compile this material in such an accessible way.
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Discussion at the Thunderbolts forum about Saturnian Cosmology that ties it all together for the big picture view:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7294
