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  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
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    • 1 Orality >
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  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
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      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
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      • Instability of Solar System
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  • The Jupiter Myth
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c. -2150 to -1936

Older Subboreal MBA I

Gudea of Lagash (c. -2144 to -2124)
Venus-Earth inferior conjunction
Artist's impression of a "hot Jupiter"
Pronounced gap in Kuiper belt, possible artifact of Jupiter flare c. -2150 (close of LHB)
Variations on the Lightning-Struck or Burning Tower, as recounted in Tarot
Thoth-Mercury

1. Venus-Earth-Jupiter Inferior Conjunction

i. Venus-Earth inferior conjunction (c. -2150)
    a. Equinox intersect event   
    b. Plasmasphere superposition   
    c. Reign of Fasta concludes (Oera Linda) c. -2194 to -2145  
    
    ii. Earth polar plumes

    iii. Venus plasmoid reaches Jupiter (2.5 days later)

Picture
Artist's impression of a towering ziggurat struck by interplanetary lightning

2. Jupiter on Fire

Picture
Vieville Tarot XVI
i. Jupiter photosphere flare
    a. Chinese: Demise of Yao (c. -2257)
    b. Chilam Balam: "Fire on high" in Katun 8-Ahau
           (c. -2167 to 2147)
    c. Chinese Annals of Shu: Celestial Phenomena  (c. -2155)
    d. Cylinder of Gudea: “Splendor of Nin-girsu” (c. -2150)
    e. Brief return of midnight sun
    f. Brief reappearance of Marduk

ii. Late Heavy Bombardment concludes
    a. Long-range comets scattered
    b. Asteroid centaurs scattered
    c. Trojan asteroids captured

iii. Final spasm of south polar plume
    a. "Tower of Babel" event
            Ussher: after -2247
            Rockenbach: c. -2060
    b. Burning Tower legends

iv. Coma disappears
    a. Jupiter becomes a diminished star
    b. Chilam Balam: “Sun’s face taken away”
    c. “Star of Marduk” (Nibiru)
    d. Sun-like star Zedek
    e. Egypt: Ra abdicates throne

3. Inner Solar System Dynamics

i. Mercury becomes prominent
    a. Bhagavatamrita: “Mercury became visible” (c. -2100)    
    b. Egypt: Ra abdicates, hands duties over to Thoth   
    c. Nebo   
    d. Odin   
    e. Hermes   

ii. Venus-Earth inferior conjunctions
 a. c. -2150   
    b. c. -2103   
    c. c. -2056   
    d. c. -2009   
    e. c. -1962   
   
        (Venus-Earth orbits crossed at ~47 year intervals, with little to no     electrical interaction. Spectacular displays of comet Venus.)   
Picture
Nebra sky disk (c. -2000 to -1600)

4. Cultural Aftermath: Middle Bronze Age I

i. Stonehenge concluded after 200-year delay (c. -2100)

ii. Egyptian Middle Kingdom, cult of Osiris (c. -2052)
        cf. c. -2056 Venus conjunction, no contact

iii. Composition of Enuma Elish creation myth (c. -2000)

iv. Abram born (c. -1996)

v. Rise of initiatic cultural structures

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Cylinder Seal 910 - Jupiter on throne, Mercury as winged disk
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  • Home
  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis >
      • 2 Definitions
      • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony >
      • 5 Time After Time
      • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
      • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes >
      • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony >
      • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
      • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains >
      • 14 As Above, So Below
      • 15 Foregone Ages Past
      • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts >
      • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History >
      • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth