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Found this while looking for something unrelated. It is the personal website of Jno Cook, a visual artist. It deals with a variety of topics which are also touched upon here at SOTT/Cassiopaea, from the perspective of the site owner. The approach is different, and, IMO far more orthodox than here. I have yet to read thru his material, but there are some interesting points made: for example, he notes a similarity between the life-spans given for biblical patriarchs and spans of time given for egyptian kingdoms.
URL: http://saturniancosmology.org/
i hope you find it informative.Saturn moved on a wildly elliptical path around the Sun in the remote past, entering the Solar System at 26 million year intervals. Some time in the last 6 to 3 million years, perhaps after passing close to Jupiter, Saturn was placed in a much closer orbit around the Sun, very near Earth. Then, in about 5800 BC, Saturn in effect captured and held the Earth in a sub-polar position until 3100 BC, when Earth broke away.
"The evidence of myth which points to Saturn having once occupied a position above Earth's north polar regions is voluminous. There is not a race on Earth that has not preserved at least one account which states as much. According to this evidence, Saturn occupied a central position in the north celestial regions."
"It rotated, and rotated widely; but, other than that, it was immovable. It did not rise, it did not set. It merely became brighter and more glorious each night as the Sun set. This state of affairs seems to have lasted for ages. It is the one single dictum of the ancients from which all other beliefs are derived."
-- Dwardu Cardona (1982)
What is most interesting about all this is the psychological and cultural reaction of the people of Earth to these events. The last 1000 years of this period (4200 BC to 3100 BC) was remembered as the "Age of the Gods" and subsequent human history has been a singular effort to regain the Paradise of that time. This period was followed by a series of adjustments in planetary orbits, many of which also had significant effects on Earth and on human history. The last of these, in 680 BC, determined the philosophy and beliefs of all of our current religions.
Humans changed when Paradise closed -- not just the rapid changes to what we would call civilization, but also the gradual achievement of a subjective consciousness. The response to these events determined how we became fully human. To say it would have happened anyway does not hold up. There could have been any number of other outcomes. I'll touch on this throughout the narrative.
URL: http://saturniancosmology.org/