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       On Saturn and the Flood (Immanuel Velikovsky)
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       The Jupiter Myth
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       by kauranos » Sat Nov 16, 2019 7:19 pm
       Hullo from newbie. John.
       The Greek Antikythera mechanism for astronomy is a fact. The
       eclipse prediction calendar, a dial on the back of the mechanism
       includes a solar eclipse that happened May 12, 205 B.C. It used
       Babylonian maths not Greek trigonometry._ Smithsonian. By way of
       speculation: Egypt may have had telescopes.
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       The implications for the identification of glass production
       sites, for the organisation of trade and for the supply of
       natron within and outside Egypt are discussed in the light of
       Pliny’s accounts.
  HTML https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-016-0447-4
       …
       by kauranos » Sun Nov 17, 2019 2:22 am
       Antikythera may have been motivated ( not by DC) by Egypt's
       alleged telescopes which hypothetically were >20x mag.  The
       intense visible plumes of Io and Jupiter's corona may be what
       Pliny was on about. The eye of Horus , the red spot of Jupiter ?
       Re: Ancient Technologies
       by JP Michael » Sun Nov 17, 2019 9:45 pm
       @John
       The Antikythera mechanism may very well have accurately
       predicted eclipses and the like, but its apparent dating between
       200 BCE and the shipwreck, 70-60 BCE, implies that it was
       utilised to observe the modern sky. It's bearing or usefulness
       regarding questions on the wild heavens of the recent past thus
       becomes suspect.
       _It neither surprises me that Galileo Galilee observed
       electrical interaction between Jupiter and Io. Volcanism is an
       electrical phenomenon and to be expected on that moon, being as
       close as it is to the ex-brown dwarf star Jupiter. It may be
       that Jupiter (and Saturn, being the other prominent ex-star in
       our solar system) is still siphoning a small measure of
       electrical current from the galactic filament that is powering
       our sun, thus the resulting outbursts of volcanism on Io which
       is apparently unrelated to CMEs from the sun. That is a separate
       study in and of itself and I am not qualified to comment
       further. This is just an idea floating in my mind about Io's
       volcanism.
       _Your quotation of Pliny is interesting, though, that Pliny knew
       to differentiate between terrestrial lightning and Jupiter's
       past interplanetary arc-plasma discharges. I think it is Homer's
       Illiad that said Zeus blasted Aphrodite (the moon) in the chest
       for attempting to interfere in Pallas-Athene's (Venus) celestial
       tiff with Ares (Mars). Kind of explains why our moon is a
       ghostly, scarred, electrically cratered and chasmed entity if
       that was indeed how the scene unfolded in the recent past.
       _Mars' Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris might also be further
       evidence of direct contact between the Red Planet and Jupiter in
       the past. Ever since reading about the possibility of iron oxide
       (rusty, red dust) being a central component to Jupiter's Great
       Red Spot, it made me wonder if that was the precise location
       from which the arc of plasma shot forth from Jupiter to Mars in
       the past and electrically 'hoovered' vast quantities of
       magneto-charged Fe2O3 or Fe3O4 particulate from the Martian
       surface which has remained in that spiralling synchrotron of a
       storm ever since. Velikovsky's supposition of fights with Venus
       and/or Earth with Mars must also be considered in the overall
       reconstruction.
       _I also disagree with the conclusion that the ancients required
       telescopes to perceive Jupiter's past polar plasma plumes. You
       are maintaining the false uniformitarian assumption that their
       skies were the same as our skies, a manifestly false a-priori.
       If this assumption were true, then you would be correct to
       suppose the ancients required telescopes to perceive Jupiter and
       its various phenomenon. There is significant evidence to the
       contrary, however:
       _Jupiter
       1. Was much closer to the Earth in the past, so close that
       ancient art depicts Jupiter's patterns of equatorial banding.1
       This was done without the use of telescopy.
       2. Has an immense plasmasheath (jovesphere? as opposed to our
       sun's heliosphere) of its own. If you can locate Jupiter in the
       night sky tonight, place your hand over it and that is the
       approximate size of Jupiter's plasmasheath from a terrestrial
       perspective. If this plasmasheath had polar-oriented glow-mode
       tails (plasma plumes) on it, they would be visible from earth
       today without any need for a telescope. In fact, these plumes
       might somewhat resemble a squashed, thinner version of the Bali
       Thunderbolt image you posted above. How much more visible, then,
       would they have been in the past when Jupiter was much closer to
       the Earth?
       _[1]I found it incredibly difficult to source the images of
       Jupiter's bands in ancient art. The best I could do was to
       screencap The Juptier Myth, part 2 @09:08. I do not know where
       Jno Cook sourced these ancient drawings from.
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       (at 9:08 / 24:06)
       … by Lloyd » Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:50 pm
       I started a thread on my website on theories at
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       . Below is how
       I'm starting it out. I may modify it eventually. If anyone has
       info or suggestions for collaboration etc, feel free to reply. I
       need to add one or more questions re Ancient Tech.
       _CATASTROPHIST THEORIES
       … by Lloyd » Fri Nov 22, 2019 12:19 pm
       John, kauranos, you should provide references, but I agree that
       those are good evidence. My impression is that there was very
       advanced civilization over 4,000 years ago, which produced the
       ancient maps shortly after the greatest cataclysms, but that
       later civilization lost a lot of tech, until the Renaissance.
       by kauranos » Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:34 am
       Lloyd,
       Here we go: …
       by Lloyd » Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:01 pm
       Thanks, John. Good job with listing your sources there (or I
       assume so, since I can't check them out easily). What do you
       think of the ancient maps that indicate that there was advanced
       tech much earlier, at the time of the Great Flood and other
       cataclysms, that allowed people then to make accurate maps
       before, during and after the ice sheets formed? Have you studied
       any of that?
       Catastrophic Modelling Site
       Sent: Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:15 pm
       From: JP Michael
       To: Lloyd
       Hi Lloyd,
       _I can help fill in some of the Creationist materials/questions
       if you require. I've been following many of the arguments of
       Oard/Baumgartner (to which I would also add Andrew Snelling and
       Steve Austin) and their RATE Project and Runaway Subduction
       catastrophist models for the last ~15 years.
       _As far as I am aware, they utterly resent and abhor any and all
       theories that invoke celestial or planetary origins of
       terrestrial catastrophism. Their a-priori reticence is clearly
       crystalised in the creationist Genesis commentary of Dr.
       Jonathan Sarfati:
       _“Bible based flood models should be deep-first, not heaven
       first... I accept as legitimate only those models that follow
       Scripture in teaching that the Flood began with a disturbance in
       the ocean, and reject those that have a first cause in the sky.”
       (The Genesis Account, p. 530)
       _That this is a catastrophic error in current creationist
       thinking is manifest and I am currently compiling evidence to
       collate into a book to specfically address this untenable
       uniformitarian assumption regarding the skies of the ancient
       past.
       _Let me know if you need anything. Many hands makes light work,
       afterall!
       _Regards,
       JP.
       Sent: Fri Nov 22, 2019 10:59 am
       From: Lloyd
       To: JP Michael
       Hi JP. Be glad to work with you. Many Creationists are likely to
       remain disinterested in mythology, since they tend to believe
       that the Bible is God's word while other myths are man's word.
       Mythology shows that the "Great Deep" referred to the sky, not
       the oceans, but the Creationists seem unlikely to consider that
       possibility. I haven't looked into what the original Hebrew
       terms were for the "Fountains of the Great Deep", have you?
       Maybe that would have some good clues. Do you use the
       BlueLetterBible.org site? I used it some years ago for a while.
       Sent: Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:40 pm
       From: JP Michael
       To: Lloyd
       Hi Lloyd,
       _I quite agree that there is resistance to utilise mythological
       sources as reliable history amongst Creationists. As a
       creationist myself, this is one of the barriers I've had to
       overcome in my own thinking and it was not easy.
       _Whilst I won't renege on my commitment to the Scriptures as the
       Living God's authoritative word, I believe there are many
       portions of it, particularly early portions, that have been
       routinely misinterpreted due to uniformitarian cosmology (let
       alone uniformitarian geology, but creationists are usually
       decent with catastrophist geology). For example, Genesis 1:14
       says there were two 'great lights' in the ancient sky. These
       lights are never identified as the sun and the moon. That is an
       interpretation foistered on the text from observations of the
       current sky by all past and present Biblical interpreters.
       _I have training in Biblical languages so I can actually comment
       further here. Mention of the 'sun' (shamash) does not occur
       until Gen 15:12, and the moon (yareach) until Gen 37:9, and in
       both cases translating them "Saturn" and "Crescent" (following
       David Talbott's The Saturn Myth, pp.276-280) respectively does
       little violence to the text, but much violence to the imposition
       of the modern sky upon the ancients'. Gen 15:12 is especially
       interesting, because the verb used there, also in 15:17, bo,
       means to come or come out, or emerge. It literally says in v.12,
       "It came to pass as shamash (Saturn) was emerging..." and v.17,
       "When shamash had emerged...". This is exactly in line with
       Talbott's thesis that ancient Saturn, being fixed in its place
       at the polar North as it was, "came out/appeared/emerged" at
       night and "went back/disappeared" during the daytime. A similar
       phenomenon exists today: compare the brightness of the moon seen
       during the day, and then compare it to the night (a phenomenon
       best noticed when moonrise occurs in the hours before sunset so
       one may watch the moon's 'emerging' brightness). The moon always
       appears brighter at night, it "comes out" (in brightness) at
       night, the same way Polestar Saturn did as recorded accurately
       and faithfully in Genesis 15.
       _Notice English translations say, "When the sun had set,"
       because they're forcing the modern sky on Abraham's and changing
       the meaning of bo from come (appear) to set (go, disappear)
       simply because they've started with a faulty assumption about
       the ancient sky and have no recourse but to force
       interpretations of the modern sky back on the ancient text. I
       agree wholeheartedly with Talbott that the Hebrew word shamash
       came to be used to describe the current sun after the
       disappearance of Saturn from the sky, hence the perpetual
       confusion of the two. I surmise, with Velikovsky, that that
       departure occurred at the time of the Exodus. Thus, I believe
       Abraham and Joseph very much witnessed Saturn in their ancient
       sky, not our current sun. All references to shamash after the
       Exodus of the Hebrews refer to the current sun, not Saturn.
       _I think that the deep (Hebrew: tehom; Greek abysos) of Gen 1:2
       is space, as you say. This same word is used of the fountains of
       the great deep in Gen 7:11 speaking of the flood (mayanot tehom
       rabbah: literally gushing fountains of the great deep). I find
       it significant that the term 'gushing fountains' is etymogically
       related to the Hebrew word for eye (ayin), sharing exactly the
       same root. I believe that the Hebrew language preserves in much
       of its etymology/roots and word associations fragments of memory
       of the ancient Saturnian configuration. Why are the words for
       'spring' and 'eye' the same (ayin)? Mayanah, the singular form
       of mayanot of Gen 7:11, is a causative form of the same root:
       springs caused to gush, or fountains. What have these to do with
       eyes? I believe the association is because the eye, with its
       fountain of water (tears), was reminiscent to the Eye of Heaven
       configuration, with its fountains of waters that destroyed the
       world in the Deluge.
       _In terms of resources, I find Jeff Benner's Ancient Hebrew
       Lexicon one of the best etymological resources available for
       such studies. Not only does he break down each word in its
       original ancient Hebrew root, he gives the most
       mechanical/concrete translations for them. Abstract thought is
       non-existent in ancient Hebrew and all Hebrew words have
       concrete meanings. The word tehom (#8415) is actually derived
       from a family of similar words related to the verb hom, roaring,
       wild and tumultuous, loud noise, destruction. Even the 'window'
       in 7:11 (arubbah, #699) is a chimney by which smoke can exit a
       place. The 'chimneys of heaven' sounds awfully similar to a
       column of interplanetary plasma carrying an abundance of water
       from Saturn to Earth at the time of the Deluge. Notice that the
       word for 'window' (chimney) in Gen 7:11 & 8:2 is a different
       word to the 'window' Noah opened in the ark (chalon, Gen 8:6,
       #2474, a word that has to do with the twisting, or boring, of an
       implement to make a hole in something).
       _I also use E-Sword as a personal Bible app on my laptop (iPhone
       edition also available) simply because it is free (although I do
       donate) and it has all the essential resources I need to
       undertake my Biblical studies. I also do not need to depend on a
       website to make notes. Additional resources, such as specialist
       grammars, lexicon of the Septuagint, Louw-Nida's Semantic
       Lexicon for the New Testament, and so-on, I have in my personal
       library or via various smartphone apps.
       _I'm not even scratching the surface when it comes to the
       preservation of concepts of the ancient sky preserved down the
       millenia in the Hebrew language. The ancient Hebrew letters
       themselves originate from an assortment of celestial imagery,
       both of the Saturnian configuration and also arc-mode plasmas
       that were all present in the sky at the time, but that is
       another thesis I am currently working on in my very limited free
       time and may, in a few years, find the light of day in a printed
       book.
       _Sorry for this essay, but it feels good to talk about such
       things with someone who understands the issues at hand rather
       than dismissing them without critical analysis like most of the
       theologians and creationists I talk to.
       _Cheers,
       JP.
       Sent: Sat Nov 23, 2019 12:18 pm
       From: Lloyd
       To: JP Michael
       Hi JP. What does JP stand for? It's fun talking to you too.
       ...
       I learned from
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       that there are a lot of
       different meanings for each word in Hebrew. But I haven't
       studied Hebrew or Biblical Greek etc in detail, as you
       apparently have. What you have stated about some Hebrew words is
       very interesting and I'm sure some of the Thunderbolts team
       would be interested in discussing or collaborating with you, if
       you like. I worked with the team a little about ten years ago,
       but not a lot. I mostly just write independently on their Forum.
       I met Charles Chandler there in about 2011 and find his work on
       the electric universe to be far superior to that of Thornhill or
       Don Scott et al. He was developing his model at that time and
       has completed it pretty thoroughly since about 2014, though he
       continues to improve it. I tried to get the Thunderbolts people
       to have a friendly debate with Charles to improve the electric
       universe model, but they weren't interested. So I lost some
       respect for them. Charles' model is at
  HTML http://qdl.scs-inc.us/?top=6031
       _Mike Fischer is somewhat of a Creationist, I think, but is open
       to other models. He has an excellent website at
  HTML http://NewGeology.us
       where he shows that the continents were
       formed when a supercontinent was struck by a large asteroid that
       split it up, causing rapid continental drift a few thousand
       years ago. John Baumgartner's article on Noah's Flood is also
       excellent IMO, but his explanation of continental drift is very
       inferior to Mike Fischer's. John's model has Earth's entire
       mantle churning to move the continents apart, but Mike's has
       just the crust moving, i.e. sliding, over the Moho layer in the
       crust.
       _I'd like to share a lot of our discussion on the forum. Would
       you like me to start a new thread for a discussion there? Maybe
       it should be on the comparison of catastrophist models, like I
       started discussing on the Ancient Technologies thread. Maybe we
       can write a book together, or we can help each other write
       separate books.
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