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c. -2349 to -2193

Older Subboreal EBA IV

1. Venus-Earth-Jupiter Inferior Conjunction

i. Venus plasmoid reaches Jupiter (approx. 2 1/2 days later)
    a. 3 1/2 day reign of En-tarah-ana, 4th king of Kish   
    
ii. Jupiter’s coma reappears (c. - 2349 to -2257)
    a.Return of midnight sun   
    b Reappearance of Marduk   
    c.Resurrection of Osiris c. -2345   
    d. Yao on throne   
    e. Noah on Ararat; birth of Arphaxad   
    f. Palenque: Birth of Jupiter c. -2337   
    g. Hamats’a emerges from “secret room”   

iii. cf. myths of Jupiter as defensive archer
    Chinese: Shen-Yi   

iv. cf. myths of Jupiter as devising new calendar
    Chinese: Yao    

2. Inner Planet Electric Field Interactions

i. Minor Venus-Earth intersecting transits
    a. inferior conjunction c. -2297
            cf. Moon’s orbit circularizes?
    b. inferior conjunction c. -2245
            
ii. Earth response
    a. Polar plumes & equatorial horns
    b. Outer red ring remains
    c. Increasingly arid climate

iii. Mercury flybys
    a. Teutonic kings
    b. Kings of the Angles

iv. Earth-Mars transits

3. Earth-Moon Intercept Capture

i. Initial instability (c. -2349 to -2297?)
    a. Brief shock and shaking (plasmasphere contact?) 
    b. Glow-mode atmospheric aurora displays 
        Kish: Puzer-Suen       
    c. Moon begins circling round Earth (c. -2307 to -2297?) 
        Chinese: Shun born c. -2307       
        Kish: Ur-Zababa       
    d. Changing tides and flooding on Earth 
        Chinese: Guan, father of Yu       

    
ii. Lunar plasmatail  (c. -2297 to -2193)
    a. “Hair”   
        - Australian legends
    b. “Mountain”   
        - Chinese: Guan & Yu
        - Hebrew: Abraham & Issac
    c. “Throne”   
        - Chinese: Shun on throne w/ Yao
        - Palenque: Moon as ruler
    d. “Beard”   
       -  Greek myths

iii. Lunar orbit circularizes (c. -2297 to -2193)
    a. Earth and Moon in electric field equilibrium    
        - Palenque: Moon crowns herself c. -2283
        - Chinese: Shun on throne w/ Yao c. -2277
        - Kish: 4th dynasty kings
       -  Hebrew: Sons of Shem
    b. Earth tides regularize   
        - Chinese: “Great Yu controls the Waters”
    c. Menstrual cycles reset?   

4. Social Innovations ("As below, so above")

i. New Earth annum of 260 days      
    a. Tzolkin 260 day calendar introduced
        
ii. First lunar calendars  
    a. Tzolkin 13 day numbers x 20 day names
    b. Menstruation taboos

iii. City-states as ceremonial centers
    a. Commemorations of c. -2349 intersect as “Day of the Dead”
    b. Olmec Venus heads
    c. First records of the Annals of Shu
    d. First transcribed records of the King List
    
iv. Reduction in agriculture & megalithic construction
    a. Stonehenge reconstruction halted