This article has been tagged under history and catastrophe. I am starting to understand Job’s declaration:
"Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:1-6).
Our knowledge is limited and we need to practice humility. As someone once said it is not what you don’t know that gets you but what you think you know. What if the things that you think you know are wrong? What if certain things are being deliberately suppressed in order to give an elite class an advantage? The more I learn the more I realize that our understanding of history and natural processes is wrong. It is catastrophe that has shaped our earth and not gradualism. Hence I have called the article Beginnings and Endings because it seems to me that the natural history of earth is a series of such cycles and we are facing another such reset.
So here is the first video an interview with David Wengrow the archeological anthropologist who co-authored The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity a 2021 book with anarchist activist David Graeber (who recently died). While I do not agree with everything that David Wengrow says I particularly like the fact that he dismisses Noah Yuval Harari and his simplistic take on the evolution of human history to an inevitable technological utilitarian society as we progress through time to become our own “creators”. Wengrow demonstrates on the grounds of archeological findings that many societies regress after they reach a peak. There is evidence of societal breakdown and abandoned cities, usually blamed on environmental crisis, but he suggests that people simply decided to walk way and start afresh. He believes that history is not a simple linear progression from hunter-gatherers to agriculture resulting in cities (civilization). I particularly enjoyed his take on how Kondiaronk a co-signatory to the Peace of Montreal in 1701 had influenced European enlightenment thinking. Here we have the “noble savage” promoting egalitarian democracy (anarchy?) when Europe was still monarchical and hierarchical. Wengrow’s insights into Tehuacán is also fascinating.
Wengrow rejects the “out of Africa” model of “Mitochondrial Eve” and holds to regional evolution for modern humans (homo sapiens) which I think is unrealistic. Suffice to say that the history of modern humans is probably completely different than what we are told by the experts. And one important (very important ) factor that Wengrow (and others) is missing is the cyclic recurrence of catastrophes that end and begin new periods of history often without the ability to transfer knowledge across the cycle boundary. We might suppose that the knowledge of such cycles was a guarded secret among the priestly or aristocratic class in different societies in order to leverage more power after the reset. Both Wengrow and Diamond (next video) mention Göbekli Tepe which seems to have been an astronomical observatory.Indeed, the people of Göbekli Tepe appear to have had a special interest in the Taurid meteor stream, the same meteor stream that is proposed as responsible for the Younger-Dryas event. Is Göbekli Tepe the ‘smoking gun’ for the Younger-Dryas cometary encounter, and hence for coherent catastrophism?
Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream (1:16)
Next up is Diamond’s (Oppenheimer Ranch and Magnetic Reversal) video. This set me thinking that observing the heavens and human sacrifice are somehow linked. Every society has practiced human sacrifice. The ancient Egyptians and the Chinese, the Celts, the Middle East, the Aztecs etc. It is very possible that the Olmec (before Christ) and the Zapotec (contemporary with Christ) were practicing blood letting and/or human sacrifice. It is hard to imagine that Jesus hung on the cross while people elsewhere were still sacrificing humans. The Mayans and Aztecs carried on this practice until Columbus’ arrival.
The Olmec culture just suddenly disappeared (about 400 BC). They worshiped a feathered serpent. The Feathered Serpent was a prominent supernatural entity or deity, found in many Mesoamerican religions. It is still called Quetzalcoatl among the Aztecs, Kukulkan among the Yucatec Maya, and Q’uq’umatz and Tohil among the K’iche’ Maya. The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity often seen as the creator God, known by numerous names in different Australian Aboriginal languages by the many different Aboriginal peoples. In Chinese mythology, Hong or jiang is a two-headed dragon comparable with rainbow serpent legends in various cultures and mythologies. Is the sky serpent an aurora or a meteorite?
Silk Atlas of Comets from the Hunan Provincial Museum
Source image taken from Album of Relics of Ancient Chinese Astronomy, Zhongguo Gudai Tianwen Wenwu Tuji, CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology), 1980. Beijing. 8, 57. pic.twitter.com/soY87g0qTi
A flying creature that breathes fire, and brings great destruction to the world. They are also strangely associated with water in many cultures (think floods and storms). It’s theorized that massive storms can be created if a meteor lands in the ocean or hits polar ice vaporizing huge amounts of water and sending it into the atmosphere. It would have seemed like the gods were at war, as in the stories of epic battles fought between serpent/dragon like monsters such as Typhon, Jörmungandr, or the Hydra, and hero storm gods like Zeus, Thor, and Hercules. The motif of thunder gods/sun gods vs. serpentine chaos monsters is found in all the Indo-European mythologies, but not limited to Indo-European mythologies.
Comet Encke – Tunguska – The Alaskan “Muck” – Solar Outburst – Super Flare – Mass Extinction – YDIH (55 min)
Any kind of conclusion must of course be tentative and is limited by what we know and what we don’t know. My understanding comes from a Christian perspective and is therefore biased. The Bible records two resets the first being a new beginning or creation (after the younger Dryas or much earlier??) and the second being the flood. In the first instance man becomes a fully self-conscious being but unfortunately the price of his newly acquired knowledge is the realization of his existential vulnerability. Man left his age of innocence and his rebellious grasping at knowledge has only brought him sorrow. The second “reset” is the Noah flood probably a Heinrich-Bond event followed by the rainbow-sign of covenant mercy with all creation that normal harvest seasons would continue (until the end). God has put an end to human sacrifice (and animal sacrifice). Offering virgins to the sun or throwing them in volcanoes will not stop the reset happening. We have been offered a way back to the garden and we should take it.
Very interesting video on the Younger Dryas event, it is a 3 min excerpt introducing the full version by Randall Carlson (1:21) below. This ties in with what we have said about the Great Year. These are cosmic cyclical events of destruction and creation. We are looking at periodic events or repeat patterns. Some people knew they were coming (like Noah) and prepared. These myths exist for a reason. Either existence has purpose and reason and creative events are guided or it is all a cruel waste of time. The earth was made tohu va bohu (without form and void) about 12.9 K years ago which was the half cycle. We are at the end of a full cycle again. Why did it take us so long to figure it out? Probably because certain people are covering it up.
Randall Carlson Podcast Ep024 Younger Dryas the Back-drop to Human History / Lost Worlds Pulverized (1:21 min)
NEW! Kosmographia Ep024 The Randall Carlson Podcast with the Snake Brothers – Kyle and Russ, Normal Guy Mike and GCREX admin Bradley, from 03/23/20. RC opens with an extended “Randallogue” about the need for generalist scientists to cross-pollenate between disciplines and adjust the focus to the “Big Picture” of human and Earth history, to which the Younger Dryas Boundary is a back-drop. He describes how thoroughly an expanding ice sheet would pulverize everything across a continent, and reminds us that the floods from melting ice sheets were so large that the term used to quantify ocean currents had to be implemented to measure them, to wash away other evidence of civilizations. We look at the work and graphs from Anders Carlson and determine that these sudden and periodic catastrophes point to a cosmic source, where most components operate in cycles.
Resources:
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Carlson, Anders E. (2010) What Caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event?
Geology, vol. 38, #4 (April) pp. 383 — 384.
"The Younger Dryas Cold Event (ca. 12.9-11.6 ka) has long been viewed as the canonical abrupt climate event. The North Atlantic region cooled during this interval with a weakening of Northern Hemisphere monsoon strength. . . Although it is generally accepted that the cold event resulted from a slowing Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), the forcing of the AMOC reduction remains intensely debated. The most common means of slowing AMOC involves the reduction of oceanic surface water density via an increase in freshwater discharge to the North Atlantic.
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Carlson, Anders E. (2010) What Caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event?
Geology, vol. 38, (April) pp. 383 - 384.
"On page 355 of this issue of Geology, Melott et al. (2010) present a quantitative assessment of the effect a comet would have on atmospheric nitrate, as well as estimates of its consequence for atmospheric ammonium, providing a test for the occurrence of a bolide at the onset of the Younger Dryas. Accordingly, comets break down N2 in the atmosphere to nitrate (NOx), increasing nitrate concentration. The authors use a two-dimensional atmospheric model to simulate the nitrate and ozone changes associated with the A.D. 1908 Tunguska event where a bolide airburst occurred over Siberia, Russia. The model performs well for the Tunguska event, accurately simulating the nitrate increase of —160ppb observed in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core record from Summit Greenland. Scaling the predicted nitrate changes upward by six orders of magnitude to the suggested Younger Dryas—size bolide implies a very large increase in nitrate concentration (i.e., 106 times larger than the Tunguska increase) that should be recorded in Greenland ice at the start of the Younger Dryas." (Fig. IA)
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Carlson, Anders E. (2010) What Caused the Younger Dryas Cold Event?
Geology, vol. 38, #4 (April) pp. 383 — 384.
"The GISP2 —3.5 yr sample resolution could potentially under-sample a nitrate or ammonium increase because both compounds have atmospheric residence times of a few years. As Melott et al. note, higher-resolution sampling from the Greenland ice cores could determine if large (i.e., orders of magnitude larger than the Tunguska event) increases in nitrate and ammonium occurred at the start of the Younger Dryas."
"Several other issues still remain with the bolide-forcing hypothesis for the Younger Dryas. For instance, the original Firestone et al. (2007) impact-marker records have not proven reproducible in a subsequent study (Surovell et al., 2009). Similarly, a compilation of charcoal records do not indicate large-scale burning of ice-free North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas (Marlon et al., 2009) as put forward by Firestone et al. (2007). Another recent study showed that late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, potentially attributable to a Younger impact significantly preceded the Younger Dryas."
6./ Anatomically similar modern human remains have been found dating back 300K years, but consciousness itself changed fundamentally 12K years ago. We thought we could become gods instead we realized that we were naked and vulnerable.