Velikovsky also encountered surprising parallels in Babylonian and Assyrian clay tablets, Vedic poems, Chinese epics, and North American Indian, Maya, Aztec, and Peruvian legends. From these remarkably similar accounts, he constructed a thesis of celestial catastrophe. He concluded that a very large body apparently a comet passed close enough to Earth to violently perturb its axis, as global earthquakes, wind and falling stone decimated early civilizations..>>>>>>>>>>>>
One wonders if the massive arc welds on mars occurred around the same time? Likely repeatedly in a long cyclical fashion?
http://www.varchive.org/itb/index.htm
Celestial Events in the Iliad
http://www.varchive.org/dag/cevil.htm