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Posted on 10/08/2007 11:47:23 PM PDT by doug from upland
Editorial Reviews
Review Allen West, coauthor of The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes : “Graham Phillips argues persuasively that Earth encountered a massive comet 3,500 years ago around the time of the Exodus from Egypt. The object appeared twenty times larger than the full moon and was by far the largest comet sighting ever recorded by ancient historians. The worldwide consequences for mankind were devastating. Our own scientific research confirms that the author’s theory is completely credible.”
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, authors of The Templar Revelation and The Sion Revelation : “an extraordinary tour de force . . . ”
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, authors of The Templar Revelation and The Sion Revelation : “In an extraordinary tour de force, Graham Phillips pinpoints a major mystery with important implications for our understanding of the remote past and the origins of ancient religion. Painstakingly researched and soberly presented--but never less than eminently readable--this book provides an answer so explosive that it should instantly ensure itself a place among the great revelations of history.”
Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider and Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History : “This is a very exciting and important book, which suggests a highly plausible reason why organized cruelty seems to have come into the world at a surprisingly late date. I believe Graham Phillips’s ideas are going to cause widespread controversy.”
Book Description Presents compelling evidence that civilizations worldwide became warlike and monotheistic after Earth passed through the tail of a comet in 1500 B.C.
• Explores the violent effect of debris from comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on peaceful cultures such as the Olmec of Mexico and the Megalithic people who built Stonehenge
• Shows how this comet’s appearance was taken as a significant religious event that still has repercussions today
In the year 2024, the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is due to pass near Earth again for the first time in 3,500 years. In 1500 B.C., Earth passed through this comet’s tail, and in the decade following, cultures the world over began to exhibit significant aggressive tendencies. Civilizations in India, the Middle East, China, Japan, Europe, and Central America suddenly abandoned their peaceful ways and devoted themselves with uncharacteristic fervor to making war on their neighbors and fighting among themselves.
But this was not the only effect that is linked to this celestial event. Sudden outbreaks of monotheism--the worship of a single god, and a new idea at the time--occurred simultaneously in locales spread widely throughout the world. Most of these monotheistic religions represented their god symbolically as a circle with a series of lines extending below--resembling a simple drawing of a comet.
In The End of Eden, Graham Phillips chronicles the sudden shifts in social demeanor and religious philosophy that swept the world in the wake of 12P/Pons-Brooks. He argues that there is no other explanation for these changes other than the presence of this massive comet in the skies above Earth. He contends that debris in the comet’s tail contaminated the atmosphere with a chemical known to cause aggressive behavior, and that after little more than a decade, worldwide hostility abruptly abated. He also explores how the appearance of a celestial body that outshone the moon would have been interpreted as a significant religious event--the premier appearance of a powerful new god to supplant the deities previously worshipped around the world.
Who decided that everyone was so totally peaceful prior to 1500?
My recollection is that China had major conflicts around 2,000 BC. Also the Hititites or Assyrians were doing a lot of fighting around then. The Egyptians had their innings with the Nubians as well. Additional catastrophe info. With the draining of the Iraq marshes by Saddam Hussein, there has been discovered a meteor crater about 2 miles in diameter, with the age about 4,000 years old. It would have really messed up the neighborhood, and triggered all kinds of conflict.
Men have always killed other men for property and power. No comet tail was needed for this chief characteristic of our race.
It would have been quite remarkable to see something 20 times brighter than the moon. At that time, it might have been a sign from God. I really don’t have the background to know. Did tribes/societies that were docile suddenly become warlike in several areas of the planet at the same time?
Awesome-thanks
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The Santorini caldera is 10s of 1000s of years old, and there was no eruption in the 17th c BC.
*shrug* The car didn't know the difference...
Did you happen to notice that the license plate number at the end of the movie - DMK - was the same as the initials of the guy who beat Regina and got 6th top score on the video game at the beginning?
Ratboy did...
Just clicked this old post, 2007. Did people know about the huge crater in the Iraq Marshes that was formed around 2,000 BC by that year? There was a major eruption of Mt. Etna 1500 BC +/-50 years. A heavy ash cloud falling over the upper Nile could have led to physteria bloom, blood red water, dead cattle, plague of toads, flies gnats, skin infections,etc. If there was a more general volcanic instability in the region, Hail could happen from volcanic dust encouraged clouds, and locusts sweep in from the desert according to their own reasons. Other regional volcanic activity could cause several days of darkness, and eating undercooked moist bread would be more likely to kill than eating dry unrisen flatbreads for a week, as would eating roasted meat, not boiled or raw. Regional volcanic activity could have provided a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night. Also there is a phenomenon called inflation that could have uplifted the waters dividing Egypt from Sinai and let it fall again. In Japan when Mt. Usu erupted a few decades ago, the land inflated around 300 feet. So that is my scientific theory and I am sticking to it. Exodus 12:40 says the Israelites lived in Egypt 430 years (the NIV Bible says about 1876 to 1446) which could fit with the Mt. Etna scenario.
It’s around here somewhere... hmm...
Seems like the researcher’s name was Prouty... ah well, backup plan:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3672211/posts?page=43#43
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/curseofagade/index
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