5. Catastrophes & 108
Virtually all ancient calendars were initially based on a 360-day year: 12 months of 30 days each. However, all calendars change in 701 b.c.; they all resort to adjustments to accommodate the current sidereal reckoning. Why? Something distinctive occurred that year, 701 b.c., to perturb the previous resonances.
Virtually all ancient calendars were initially based on a 360-day year: 12 months of 30 days each. However, all calendars change in 701 b.c.; they all resort to adjustments to accommodate the current sidereal reckoning. Why? Something distinctive occurred that year, 701 b.c., to perturb the previous resonances.
All early calendars appear to be based on a 360-day calendar: the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Chinese, Mayans, Hindus, Carthaginians, Etruscans, and Teutons all had calendars based on a 360-day year; typically, twelve 30-day months.
In ancient Chaldea, the calendar was based on a 360-day year. It is from this Babylonian tradition that we have 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes to an hour, 60 seconds in each minute, etc.
The gradualists assume a 365+ day year has been installed since the beginning of time, and the calendar makers in this dozen plus of ancient societies all were mistaken. Moreover, they assume all made the same error. These ancient calendars are evidence of the ancient 360-day orbit of the Earth-Moon system.
In 701 B.C., Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, reorganized the original calendar of 360 days per year by adding five days per year. King Hezekiah, Numa's contemporary, reorganized his Jewish calendar by adding a month each Jewish leap year (on a cycle of seven every 19 years).
The Roman year began with March, the month named after Mars. (They later reorganized their calendar in 364 B.C. to begin on January 1st.) Most of the early cultures organized their calendars around either March or October. Why? Why was any change necessary after 701 B.C.? What happened to affect all the calendars after that year?
It is also significant that the Biblical year is also based on a 360-day year reckoning. This critical insight unlocks several incredible prophecies which the reader is urged to discover-- in particular, the remarkable "70 Weeks" prophecy of Daniel 9, which is undoubtedly the most amazing passage in the Bible.
It is interesting to catalog the Biblically recorded catastrophes:
Catastrophe Bible Ref. Month Year B.C. Interval
Flood of Noah Gen 6–8 October 2484
Tower of Babel Gen 11 October 1944 540
Sodom-Gomorrah Gen 19 March 1889 55
Exodus from Egypt Exodus 12 March 1447 442
Long Day of Joshua Joshua 10 October 1404 163
Sisera’s Defeat Judges 5 October 1296 108
Gideon’s Victory Judges 7 March 1241 55
Philistine Defeat 1 Sam 7 October 1080 161
Davidic Catastrophe 2 Sam 22 October 972 108
Mt Carmel & Elijah 1 Kings 18 October 864 108
Jonah-Joel-Amos Jonah 3 October 756 108
Sennacherib’s Night Isa 37, 38 March 701 55
The Long Day of Joshua apparently occurred on 1080th anniversary of the Flood of Noah, and the 540th anniversary of the Tower Babel event. The confrontation on Mount Carmel would occur on the 540th anniversary of the Long Day of Joshua. A careful study of the cyclic underpinnings, and the frequent multiples of 54 (or 108) years, supports the view involving orbital resonances with the planet Mars (with assists involving Jupiter and Saturn as well). The apparent role of the near pass-bys of the planet Mars is persuasive.
Apparently the cyclical near pass-bys of the planet Mars (every 108 years) were a key factor in a significant series of catastrophic intrusions that ultimately resulted in Mars (“Ares,” or “Baal”) being worshipped (and universally feared) by the ancient cultures. These pass-bys were accompanied by, among other things, interplanetary lightning. (An aurora or electromagnetic flux tube can currently be observed between Jupiter and its innermost moon, Io.)
The Long Night of Sennacherib
There is a strange segment of history that is, apparently, so important that it is repeated three times in the Old Testament--2 Kings 18, 19, 20; 2 Chronicles 29, 30; and Isaiah 36, 37, 38, 39 (a unique historical parenthesis inserted in the prophecies of Isaiah). Why?
Isaiah 37:36–38, The death angel slays 185,000 Assyrians
Isaiah 38:7–8, The sun retreats ten degrees on the sundial of Ahaz
Isaiah counseled King Hezekiah that God was going to intervene and protect them. On the Passover night of March 20, 701 b.c., the “Death Angel” slays 185,000 of an estimated 250,000 Assyrian solders. Could Sennacherib’s extensive iron weapons and chariots have been a distinguishing (electromagnetic) factor highlighting the vulnerability of the Assyrian warriors? Apparently, Sennacherib personally also suffered some strange burns, although his clothes were unscathed. This, too, is suggestive.
It is provocative and perhaps quite insightful that so many catastrophic events frequently occurred on the precise anniversary of the Passover of Egypt. This is suggestive of a cyclical (perhaps orbital) mechanism being employed. These events seem to bear a relationship to the drama that occurred on the fabled “long day” of Joshua. The subsequent behavior regarding Ahaz’s sundial retreating 10 degrees is also suggestive of some “cosmological irregularities.”
In ancient Chaldea, the calendar was based on a 360-day year. It is from this Babylonian tradition that we have 360 degrees in a circle, 60 minutes to an hour, 60 seconds in each minute, etc.
The gradualists assume a 365+ day year has been installed since the beginning of time, and the calendar makers in this dozen plus of ancient societies all were mistaken. Moreover, they assume all made the same error. These ancient calendars are evidence of the ancient 360-day orbit of the Earth-Moon system.
In 701 B.C., Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome, reorganized the original calendar of 360 days per year by adding five days per year. King Hezekiah, Numa's contemporary, reorganized his Jewish calendar by adding a month each Jewish leap year (on a cycle of seven every 19 years).
The Roman year began with March, the month named after Mars. (They later reorganized their calendar in 364 B.C. to begin on January 1st.) Most of the early cultures organized their calendars around either March or October. Why? Why was any change necessary after 701 B.C.? What happened to affect all the calendars after that year?
It is also significant that the Biblical year is also based on a 360-day year reckoning. This critical insight unlocks several incredible prophecies which the reader is urged to discover-- in particular, the remarkable "70 Weeks" prophecy of Daniel 9, which is undoubtedly the most amazing passage in the Bible.
It is interesting to catalog the Biblically recorded catastrophes:
Catastrophe Bible Ref. Month Year B.C. Interval
Flood of Noah Gen 6–8 October 2484
Tower of Babel Gen 11 October 1944 540
Sodom-Gomorrah Gen 19 March 1889 55
Exodus from Egypt Exodus 12 March 1447 442
Long Day of Joshua Joshua 10 October 1404 163
Sisera’s Defeat Judges 5 October 1296 108
Gideon’s Victory Judges 7 March 1241 55
Philistine Defeat 1 Sam 7 October 1080 161
Davidic Catastrophe 2 Sam 22 October 972 108
Mt Carmel & Elijah 1 Kings 18 October 864 108
Jonah-Joel-Amos Jonah 3 October 756 108
Sennacherib’s Night Isa 37, 38 March 701 55
The Long Day of Joshua apparently occurred on 1080th anniversary of the Flood of Noah, and the 540th anniversary of the Tower Babel event. The confrontation on Mount Carmel would occur on the 540th anniversary of the Long Day of Joshua. A careful study of the cyclic underpinnings, and the frequent multiples of 54 (or 108) years, supports the view involving orbital resonances with the planet Mars (with assists involving Jupiter and Saturn as well). The apparent role of the near pass-bys of the planet Mars is persuasive.
Apparently the cyclical near pass-bys of the planet Mars (every 108 years) were a key factor in a significant series of catastrophic intrusions that ultimately resulted in Mars (“Ares,” or “Baal”) being worshipped (and universally feared) by the ancient cultures. These pass-bys were accompanied by, among other things, interplanetary lightning. (An aurora or electromagnetic flux tube can currently be observed between Jupiter and its innermost moon, Io.)
The Long Night of Sennacherib
There is a strange segment of history that is, apparently, so important that it is repeated three times in the Old Testament--2 Kings 18, 19, 20; 2 Chronicles 29, 30; and Isaiah 36, 37, 38, 39 (a unique historical parenthesis inserted in the prophecies of Isaiah). Why?
Isaiah 37:36–38, The death angel slays 185,000 Assyrians
Isaiah 38:7–8, The sun retreats ten degrees on the sundial of Ahaz
Isaiah counseled King Hezekiah that God was going to intervene and protect them. On the Passover night of March 20, 701 b.c., the “Death Angel” slays 185,000 of an estimated 250,000 Assyrian solders. Could Sennacherib’s extensive iron weapons and chariots have been a distinguishing (electromagnetic) factor highlighting the vulnerability of the Assyrian warriors? Apparently, Sennacherib personally also suffered some strange burns, although his clothes were unscathed. This, too, is suggestive.
It is provocative and perhaps quite insightful that so many catastrophic events frequently occurred on the precise anniversary of the Passover of Egypt. This is suggestive of a cyclical (perhaps orbital) mechanism being employed. These events seem to bear a relationship to the drama that occurred on the fabled “long day” of Joshua. The subsequent behavior regarding Ahaz’s sundial retreating 10 degrees is also suggestive of some “cosmological irregularities.”
Planetary Intervention
The recent space age discovery of "orbital resonance"-the tendency of orbits to synchronize on a multiple of one another--has led to a fascinating conjecture that the orbits of the Earth and the Planet Mars were once on resonant orbits of 360 days and 720 days, respectively. A computer analysis has suggested that this could yield orbital interactions that would include a near pass-by on a multiple of 54 years, and this would occur on either March 25 or October 25. Such near pass-bys would transfer energy, altering the orbits of each.
In near proximity, such pass-bys would be accompanied by meteors, severe land tides, earthquakes, etc., and this would help explain why all the ancient cultures were so terrified by the Planet Mars and why calendars tended to reflect either March or October. A series of such pass-bys could also explain a number of the "catastrophes" of ancient history, including the famous "long day of Joshua" and several other Biblical episodes.
Stability appears to have been attained during the last near pass-by in 701 B.C., resulting in Earth's and Mars' present orbits of 365 1/4 days and 687 days, respectively.
The Moons of Mars in Gulliver’s Travels
This remarkable conjecture, that Mars made pass-bys near the Earth, would seem to be corroborated by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) in his famous fantasy known as Gulliver's Travels. In his third voyage, Gulliver visits the land of Laputa, where the astronomers brag that they know all about the two moons of Mars. Their highly detailed description includes the size, the rotation, the revolutions, etc., of each of the two moons.
What makes this particular allusion so provocative is that the two moons of Mars were not discovered by astronomers until 151 years after Swift's publication of Gulliver's Travels in 1726. It was in 1877 that Asaph Hall, using a new telescope at the U.S. Naval Observatory, shocked the astronomical world by discovering the two moons of Mars.
What makes the two moons so difficult to see is that they are only about 8 miles in diameter and have an albedo (reflectivity) of only 3%. They are the darkest objects in the solar system: they are almost black. The two moons are also unique in their rotations and one of them is the only object in the solar system that orbits in reverse. For Swift to have "guessed" these correctly is absurd.
Yet the telescopes of his day were inadequate to have actually seen these objects. But then how could he have known what the astronomers of his day did not? Swift, in order to embroider his satirical fiction, undoubtedly drew upon ancient records he probably assumed were simply legends, not realizing that they were actually eye witness accounts of ancient sightings when Mars was close enough for the two moons of Mars to be viewed with the naked eye!
The Roche Limit Factor
The Roche limit is the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body’s tidal forces exceeding the first body’s gravitational self-attraction. Inside the Roche limit, orbiting material will tend to disperse and form rings, while outside the limit, material will tend to coalesce.
It is suspected that it was the penetration of a Roche limit that led to the fragmentation resulting in the numerous asteroids now infiltrating the solar system, forming the rings around Saturn, and pock marking the planet Mars.
The recent space age discovery of "orbital resonance"-the tendency of orbits to synchronize on a multiple of one another--has led to a fascinating conjecture that the orbits of the Earth and the Planet Mars were once on resonant orbits of 360 days and 720 days, respectively. A computer analysis has suggested that this could yield orbital interactions that would include a near pass-by on a multiple of 54 years, and this would occur on either March 25 or October 25. Such near pass-bys would transfer energy, altering the orbits of each.
In near proximity, such pass-bys would be accompanied by meteors, severe land tides, earthquakes, etc., and this would help explain why all the ancient cultures were so terrified by the Planet Mars and why calendars tended to reflect either March or October. A series of such pass-bys could also explain a number of the "catastrophes" of ancient history, including the famous "long day of Joshua" and several other Biblical episodes.
Stability appears to have been attained during the last near pass-by in 701 B.C., resulting in Earth's and Mars' present orbits of 365 1/4 days and 687 days, respectively.
The Moons of Mars in Gulliver’s Travels
This remarkable conjecture, that Mars made pass-bys near the Earth, would seem to be corroborated by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) in his famous fantasy known as Gulliver's Travels. In his third voyage, Gulliver visits the land of Laputa, where the astronomers brag that they know all about the two moons of Mars. Their highly detailed description includes the size, the rotation, the revolutions, etc., of each of the two moons.
What makes this particular allusion so provocative is that the two moons of Mars were not discovered by astronomers until 151 years after Swift's publication of Gulliver's Travels in 1726. It was in 1877 that Asaph Hall, using a new telescope at the U.S. Naval Observatory, shocked the astronomical world by discovering the two moons of Mars.
What makes the two moons so difficult to see is that they are only about 8 miles in diameter and have an albedo (reflectivity) of only 3%. They are the darkest objects in the solar system: they are almost black. The two moons are also unique in their rotations and one of them is the only object in the solar system that orbits in reverse. For Swift to have "guessed" these correctly is absurd.
Yet the telescopes of his day were inadequate to have actually seen these objects. But then how could he have known what the astronomers of his day did not? Swift, in order to embroider his satirical fiction, undoubtedly drew upon ancient records he probably assumed were simply legends, not realizing that they were actually eye witness accounts of ancient sightings when Mars was close enough for the two moons of Mars to be viewed with the naked eye!
The Roche Limit Factor
The Roche limit is the distance within which a celestial body, held together only by its own gravity, will disintegrate due to a second celestial body’s tidal forces exceeding the first body’s gravitational self-attraction. Inside the Roche limit, orbiting material will tend to disperse and form rings, while outside the limit, material will tend to coalesce.
It is suspected that it was the penetration of a Roche limit that led to the fragmentation resulting in the numerous asteroids now infiltrating the solar system, forming the rings around Saturn, and pock marking the planet Mars.
Yet, why are over 90% of the craters on Mars located in a single hemisphere? It would appear that the majority of them occurred in a single epoch of time. It has been suspected that if the fragments were composed of ice—a source of water—they could also account for the peculiar erosion evidences on Mars, and despite the current absence of water, perhaps they could have been an additional factor in the flood of Noah.
Enigmas Increase
The sun contains 99.86% of all the mass of the solar system. Yet the sun contains only 1.9% of the angular momentum. The nine planets contain 98.1%. There is no plausible explanation that would support a solar origin of the planets.
Enigmas Increase
The sun contains 99.86% of all the mass of the solar system. Yet the sun contains only 1.9% of the angular momentum. The nine planets contain 98.1%. There is no plausible explanation that would support a solar origin of the planets.
James Jeans (1877-1946) pointed out that the outer planets are far larger than the inner ones. (Jupiter is 5,750 times as massive as mercury, 2,958 times as massive as Mars, etc.) If the Sun is the origin of the planets, the largest would be closest to it.
Other observations seem to raise even more provocative enigmas concerning our planetary history:
There are at least 369 words in English that are derived from various ancient words for the planet Mars. Over 75% are "bad action" words, derived from catastrophic or cataclysmic themes. Enlil, Ares, Bel, Baal, Indra, Mars, Phobos, Typhon, Deimos, Horus, Cherub, Behemoth and Leviathan all have provided roots for words used in modern English.
There are concepts in the heavens such as the Greek "fleece of Aries," and the "aegis" of Venus. There is the "fluttering wings of the terrible angel of the Lord," the pestilence, fire, brimstone, the killer quakes, terrible thunder. To the ancients, such themes were scary, and they applied to scenarios, repeating century after century. Definitely these words were "bad action words", from catastrophic experiences. "Cherub" also came into English, via Hebrew, from catastrophic scenarios 3,000 and 4,000 years ago. Sometimes, experts in academia make condescending remarks about how primitive were the ancients of the Catastrophic Era, and how fearful and superstitious they were. This implies those modern experts, knowing no cosmology other than gradualism, suppose they know more about ancient astronomical conditions than did the ancients themselves. One of the words derived from Mars is Arrogance. That is appropriate I think.
The Flood of Noah was during the closest of all of the Mars flybys. The suspected distance, planet center to center, 15,000 miles! The suspected date, October 24, 2484 B.C. For the Mars-Earth relationship, with Mars less dense than the Earth, the Earth's Roche limit is about 10,500 miles, and perhaps as far out as 11,000 miles. If Mars came within 15,000 miles of the Earth's center, it was 4,000 miles from its Roche Limit, less than one Mars diameter. On this closest of occasions, like Noah, Mars survived, but just barely.
Other observations seem to raise even more provocative enigmas concerning our planetary history:
- There are three pairs of rapid-spin rates among our planets: Mars and Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, and Neptune and Uranus, are each within 3% of each other. Why?
- Earth and Mars have virtually identical spin axis tilts (about 23.5). Why?
- Why does Mars have 93% of its craters in one hemisphere and only 7% in the other? It would appear that over 80% occurred within a single half-hour!
There are at least 369 words in English that are derived from various ancient words for the planet Mars. Over 75% are "bad action" words, derived from catastrophic or cataclysmic themes. Enlil, Ares, Bel, Baal, Indra, Mars, Phobos, Typhon, Deimos, Horus, Cherub, Behemoth and Leviathan all have provided roots for words used in modern English.
There are concepts in the heavens such as the Greek "fleece of Aries," and the "aegis" of Venus. There is the "fluttering wings of the terrible angel of the Lord," the pestilence, fire, brimstone, the killer quakes, terrible thunder. To the ancients, such themes were scary, and they applied to scenarios, repeating century after century. Definitely these words were "bad action words", from catastrophic experiences. "Cherub" also came into English, via Hebrew, from catastrophic scenarios 3,000 and 4,000 years ago. Sometimes, experts in academia make condescending remarks about how primitive were the ancients of the Catastrophic Era, and how fearful and superstitious they were. This implies those modern experts, knowing no cosmology other than gradualism, suppose they know more about ancient astronomical conditions than did the ancients themselves. One of the words derived from Mars is Arrogance. That is appropriate I think.
The Flood of Noah was during the closest of all of the Mars flybys. The suspected distance, planet center to center, 15,000 miles! The suspected date, October 24, 2484 B.C. For the Mars-Earth relationship, with Mars less dense than the Earth, the Earth's Roche limit is about 10,500 miles, and perhaps as far out as 11,000 miles. If Mars came within 15,000 miles of the Earth's center, it was 4,000 miles from its Roche Limit, less than one Mars diameter. On this closest of occasions, like Noah, Mars survived, but just barely.
If Mars approached the Earth every 54 years, at times so closely that it was more than 50 times the size of the Moon in the sky, you would be afraid. You would also know that it is likely a harbinger of very bad things! The ancient rulers saw it as a sign. For many, it was a sign to them that they should go to war.
Uniformitarianism
Most scientists take for granted that the movements of the planets and other objects in our solar system manifest an unchanging uniformity through time. These movements, however, also manifest minute variations that have, so far, eluded any consistent conjectures.
There is evidence that the present orbits were not always so. And some of the changes appear to have occurred during the memory of mankind.
We are all victims of a form of uniformitarianism, a presumption that ignores observable evidences, and desperately requires reexamination. Even a casual review of the solar system reveals that it was once a very rough neighborhood. And its history is surprisingly well documented in ancient records. The diligent student will discover that behind the Biblical records lie surprises illuminating the realities of both the macrocosm and the microcosm of cosmological history, a drama indelibly written on the tapestry of what apparently is a holographic universe.
Uniformitarianism
Most scientists take for granted that the movements of the planets and other objects in our solar system manifest an unchanging uniformity through time. These movements, however, also manifest minute variations that have, so far, eluded any consistent conjectures.
There is evidence that the present orbits were not always so. And some of the changes appear to have occurred during the memory of mankind.
We are all victims of a form of uniformitarianism, a presumption that ignores observable evidences, and desperately requires reexamination. Even a casual review of the solar system reveals that it was once a very rough neighborhood. And its history is surprisingly well documented in ancient records. The diligent student will discover that behind the Biblical records lie surprises illuminating the realities of both the macrocosm and the microcosm of cosmological history, a drama indelibly written on the tapestry of what apparently is a holographic universe.