Pole Shift: The Days The Sun Stood Still ~ "Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, ‘Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aíjalon.’ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord hearkened to the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.” Joshua 10:12-14. Here are some excerpts from Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky’s Worlds In Collision, pages 100-104. QUOTE The history of China is commonly supposed to extend back to gray antiquity. But in reality the sources of the ancient period of the Chinese past are very scanty, for they were destroyed by the Emperor Tsin-chi-hoang (246-209 before the present era). He ordered all books on history and astronomy, as well as works of classic literature, to be burned. Search for these books was made throughout the empire for this purpose. The story persists that a few remnants of the old literature were again put into writing from the memory of an old man; some were said to have been found hidden in the sepulcher of Confucius, and are ascribed to his pen. Of these few remains of the old lore, the most cherished are those which tell of the Emperor Yahou and his times. His personality and his period are considered as “the most auspicious in the Chinese annals”. The history of China preceding his reign is ascribed to the mythical period of the Chinese past. In the days of Yahou the event occurred which separates the almost obliterated and very dim past of China from the period that is considered historical: China was overwhelmed by an immense catastrophe. “At that time the miracle is said to have happened that the sun during a span of ten days did not set, the forests were ignited, and a multitude of abominable vermin was brought forth.” “In the lifetime of Yao [Yahou] the sun did not set for ten full days and the entire land was flooded.” An immense wave “that reached the sky” fell down on the land of China. “The water was well up on the high mountains, and the foothills could not be seen at all.” (This recalls Psalm 104: “The waters stood above the mountains…they go up by the mountains”; and Psalm 107: “The waves mount up to the heaven.”) “Destructive in their overflow are the waters of the inundation,” said the emperor. “In their vast extent they embrace the hills and overtop the great heights, threatening the heavens with their floods.” The emperor ordered that all efforts be made to open outlets for the waters that were caught in the valleys between the mountains. For many years the population labored, trying to free the plains and valleys of the waters of the flood by digging channels and draining the fields. For a considerable number of years all efforts were in vain. The minister who was in charge of this urgent and immense work, Khwan, was sentenced to death because of his failure— “For nine years he labored, but the work was unaccomplished”—and only his son Yu succeeded in draining the land. This achievement was so highly rated that Yu became emperor of China after King Shun, first successor to Yahou. This Yu was the founder of the new and notable dynasty called by his name… According to the old Tibetan traditions, the highlands of Tibet, too, were flooded in a great cataclysm. The traditions of the Tibetans speak also of terrifying comets that caused great upheavals. Calculations were undertaken to establish the dates of the Emperor Yahou. On the basis of a remark that the constellation Niao, thought to be the constellation Hydra, culminated at sunset on the day of the vernal equinox in the time of Yahou, it was reckoned that the flood occurred in the twenty-third century before the present era, but this date has been questioned by many. Sometimes it has also been supposed that the “Flood of Yahou” was the Chinese story of the universal flood, but this point of view has been abandoned. The story of the deluge of Noah has its parallel in a Chinese tradition about a universal flood in prehistoric times, in the days of Fohi, who alone of all the country was saved. The flood of Yahou is sometimes regarded as simultaneous with the flood of Ogyges. The flood of Ogyges did not occur in the third millennium, but in the middle of the second millennium before this era. In the section entitled “The Floods of Deucalion and Ogyges”, the synchronism of these devastations with the catastrophes of the days of Moses and Joshua will be demonstrated and supported by ancient and chronological sources. When we summarize what has been told about the time of Yahou, we have the following data: the sun did not set for a number of days, the forests were set on fire, vermin filled the country, a high wave “reaching the sky” poured over the face of the land and swept water over the mountain peaks and filled the valleys for many years; in the days of Yahou the four quarters of the heaven were established anew, and observations of the duration of the year and month and of the order of the seasons were made. The history of China in the period before the catastrophe is quite obliterated. All these data are in accord with the traditions of the Jewish people about the events connected with the Exodus: the sun disappeared for a number of days; the land was filled with vermin; gigantic sky-high tidal waves divided the sea; the world burned. As we shall see, the Hebrew sources, too, reveal that a new calendar was established reckoning from the days of the catastrophe and that the seasons and the four quarters of the heaven were no longer the same. UNQUOTE The “seasons” and “four quarters of the heaven” were not the same because the Polar Axis had shifted. Directions changed everywhere: North became East, and so forth. Latitudinal changes and new climate patterns would alter the seasons. Disregarding the actual modern time zones in favor of the strict 15° longitude lines upon which the time zones are based, there are 6 hours difference between Imperial China (eastern part) and Cairo, and there are 10 hours difference between Imperial China and ancient Incan Peru. If “the Sun stood still” over Beijing at 10 AM, it would be 4 AM in Cairo and 8 PM in Peru. Thus, Moses and the Pharaoh would have had “three days” (meaning “a short period”) of darkness at the same time that “the stars stood still” for an unknown but frighteningly dark period over Peru. It got very cold in those Andes Mountains, as the natives reported in their oral traditions. See also below. This works out logically—mathematically and scientifically. If the Sun stood still over Beijing, as Emperor Yahou related, and if there was a period of prolonged darkness in Egypt 6 hours to the west and Peru 10 hours to the East, then the sunrise would “stand still” over Afghanistan. See just below. The writings of Buddha related that there was no distinction of day and night—which could be interpreted to be a sort of “twilight zone” in between day and night, as would be seen in Afghanistan and perhaps further eastwards. Also, all of Europe and North America would have experienced prolonged darkness, and Iceland surely falls into that category. Regarding the Maoris of New Zealand, the Sun would have stood still over New Zealand as well as China. Note in the Maori legend cited below, there is no mention of prolonged darkness, but that “clear light increased in the world”. QUOTE Worlds In Collision Chapter 6 quoted earlier in Chapter 1 The Maoris of New Zealand tell of fiery winds and fierce clouds that lashed the waters into tidal waves that touched the sky and were accompanied by furious hailstorms. The ocean fled. The progeny of the storm and hail were “Mist, and Heavy-Dew and Light-Dew”. After the catastrophe “but little of the dry land was left standing above the sea. Then clear light increased in the world, and the beings who had been hidden between sky and earth, before they were parted, now multiplied upon the earth.” This tradition of the Maoris has substantially the same elements as the Israelite tradition. The destruction of the world was accompanied by hurricanes, hail (meteorites), and sky-high billows; the land submerged; a mist covered the earth for a long time; heavy dew fell to the ground together with light dew, as in the passage quoted from Numbers 11:9. The writings of Buddhism relate that when a world cycle comes to an end with the world destroyed and the ocean dried up, there is no distinction of day and night and heavenly ambrosia serves as food. UNQUOTE Returning now to the verses from Joshua quoted at the beginning of this chapter, this event of the Sun’s standing still over Gibeon for a “whole day” must have been something different than the time of the Exodus. The Israelites wandered in the Sinai desert for “40 years” and then Moses appointed Joshua as his successor. A few years later, Joshua was battling one tribe after another to conquer the “Promised Land”. During one of these battles, the Sun stood still. When was this event? Personally I like to place it in the 12th year after the death of Moses, because 40 + 12 = 52, and 52 conveniently corresponds to the Mayan basic cycle. However, other historians have placed this event in the 3rd or 4th year after Moses’ death. It is not clear from the Scriptures exactly how many years had passed since Moses died, but Dr. Velikovsky also used a period of about 12 years. This passage could be brushed aside as only another Biblical myth or “miracle” if it weren’t for one coincidental event halfway around the globe. There’s a 6-7 hour time difference between Lake Titicaca, Peru, and the Land of Canaan, and 8 hours difference from México City. Legends in America tell of a period when for a time, the Sun did not rise. Cold fell upon the land, and the people lived in great fear, gazing in all directions, speculating on where “the New Sun” would rise. Finally, after the passage of some hours or days, the Sun rose again but in a different direction from where it had risen before. The Polar Axis had shifted. “The four quarters of the heaven were established anew.” In Egypt there are legends that at one time the Sun rose in what is now the west and set in what is now the east. A mural discovered in the Tomb of Senmut shows the Constellations in a different relationship to the rising and setting of the Sun than they are today. For additional information on this subject, the reader is referred to Worlds In Collision by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky and The Lost Realms by Zecharia Sitchin. When it’s 11 AM in Jerusalem, it’s 5 AM in La Paz, 4 AM in Lima and 3 AM in México City. If “the sun stayed in the midst of heaven” over Palestine at 11 AM and if this also happened to occur in mid-August, the beginning of the Mayan New Year, when the Pleiades are overhead in the early morning sky, then over the Americas on this date the Pleiades themselves would seem to stand still in the predawn sky. When did this event occur? Assuming a 12-year span between the death of Moses and Joshua’s battle with the Amorites, then it occurred in (1587-52=) 1535 BCE. And as was stated, this 52-year period between two possible “cosmic catastrophes” corresponds exactly to the Mayan 52-year sacred calendar which was connected to the Pleiades, the home of their “gods”. Therefore, there must have been at least one, possibly even two, Polar Axis Shifts during the time-period of about 1587 - 1535 BCE. During a Polar Axis Shift the north-south-east-west perspective of every place on Earth would change because the North and South Poles would be in new latitudes and longitudes. For this to happen, the following would have to occur: the Earth would cease its rotation in its current direction, change its polar alignment on a “Polar Pivotal Axis” of some sort, and then begin to rotate as usual on its new north-south polar axis. If it takes a day for this to happen, then at some point in that day certain people in certain locations would see the Sun “stand still” or even move in an odd direction, and others around the globe would see the Stars and perhaps the Moon “stand still”. If those who saw the Stars stand still also saw the Pleiades high overhead at the time of this strange event, no doubt they would associate the Pleiades, Abode of the Gods, with this occurrence. On top of that, the Mayas believed that occasionally the Earth was “destroyed” in cycles called “tuns” that lasted for certain absolutely even multiples of 52-year periods. The current great cycle or Atautun comes to an end on 21 December 2012, exactly 3,600 years later than 21 December 1588 BCE. Can all of this be mere coincidence? Or is the arrival/departure of the Planet X Nibiru what is responsible for these ancient memories of catastrophes? Questions: Why did the Sun stand still over China, or does it make any difference where this phenomenon happens to occur? Obviously the Pole shifted during this event, because the “quarters of the heaven” were changed, that is, the four directions were different. Then the Sun stood still again for a few hours over Gibeon during Joshua’s battle, for a shorter time. What would have been the difference between these two events? We can know this sort of scientific information only after the fact. Will we learn anymore the next time around (2012-2013), or will we revert back to unscientific barbarism, living off the land again like primitive cavemen? That is a most troubling mystery, and it lingers in my thoughts almost on a daily basis. Do “the gods” even care what happens to us? Does our “progress” from one “shar” to the next mean nothing to them? Chapter 5 Atlantis & Antarctica Plato’s account of Atlantis in Timaeus & Critias is the original source for this “legend”, although a number of later writers also mentioned Atlantis. Since there is no reason for Plato to have deliberately lied about this, most traditional historians simply consider Plato’s tale to be allegorical in nature. But here, let us assume that it is true. When was Atlantis destroyed and when did it “disappear beneath the sea”? Plato wrote about Solon’s visit to Egypt in 500 BCE, and he stated that Atlantis had sunk beneath the sea approximately 9,000 years previously, leading us back to 9500 BCE. Other writers “round it off” to 10,000 BCE. What did Atlantis look like? It was a circular island continent with a high mountain range in the center and with the world’s largest natural harbor. Antarctica is a rather circular island continent with a high mountain range across the center; the somewhat centrally located South Pole itself is at an elevation of 9,554 feet or 2,912 meters. And the continent has two of the world’s largest natural harbors, namely, the Weddell Sea with Ronne Ice-Shelf and the Ross Sea with Ross Ice-Shelf. If the Ronne Ice-Shelf were thawed out and passable, it would be a magnificent harbor. Where was Atlantis? The island continent was located at such a latitude on the planet as to allow it to have a mild Mediterranean climate for most of the year, and it produced bountiful harvests of fruits and vegetables. If the Polar Axis were located in a different place, depending upon where Antarctica would be located, it could undoubtedly have had periods of excellent climate. Plato noted that to reach Atlantis from Egypt, one had to sail out through the Pillars of Hercules, that is, the Straits of Gibraltar. Note that the Suez Canal is a modern achievement; in bygone days, there was no maritime passage from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. To reach Antarctica from Egypt in those days before the Suez Canal, one would have had to sail out through the Straits of Gibraltar and head southwards across the modern Middle and South Atlantic Oceans, assuming that one’s passage was not obstructed by Polar Ice, which stretched from West Africa to Northeastern Brazil during the period from 8787 until 5187 BCE. See below. Plato wrote further that from Atlantis one could sail into the “Great Ocean” that lay beyond it. Arriving at Antarctica from the South Atlantic Ocean, one could grab some shore-leave in an exotic port of call, and then sail onwards into the adjacent “great” Pacific Ocean. Thus, these crucial descriptive points that Plato made about Atlantis can lead us to the assumption that the unfrozen Antarctica, located at a Mediterranean-like northern latitude, was the legendary paradise of Atlantis. This idea first occurred to me in 1973, and yes, I am familiar with the Piri Reis maps of the unfrozen Antarctic coastline. Nothing that I have read or heard since then has contradicted this identification, and I’ll continue to believe it for the duration, until absolutely proven wrong. Through the years, however, I have noticed certain other writers who mention this most logical identification; but because of the “mystical antiquity” of the whole idea of Atlantis, most people don’t pay much attention to any of it. It has become just another mythical bygone era of heroes and villains for use in actionpacked Hollywood films. And, for the record, it is not the place here to speculate about the “advanced technology” of Atlantis and its possible connections to Outer Space. Plato mentioned nothing about such advanced technology and space travel; those ideas were “channeled” later by “mediums” like Edgar Cayce—and thus they do not belong in historical or scientific discussions of this nature. And it might also be added that Plato’s account of Atlantis is incomplete. Here are the final sentences in Plato’s tale: “Zeus, the god of gods, who rules with law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honorable race was in a most wretched state, and wanting to inflict punishment on them, that they might be chastened and improved, collected all the gods into his most holy habitation, which, being placed in the centre of the world, sees all things that partake of generation. And when he had called them together he spake as follows:” There Plato’s account abruptly ends. The phrase “centre of the world” could mean from their position in Mount Olympus above Earth’s North Pole, from which they could “survey the regions”. I quote this because it refers back to those remarks in Chapter 1 concerning the degrees of wickedness into which humanity can sink at the end of an Iron Age or Kali Yuga. Thus, even in Plato, there is a “wickedness factor” in the overall Doomsday scenario. Diodorus Siculus was a Roman historian and writer who began his 40-book literary career around the same time that Augustus Caesar implemented the Julian Calendar. In Library Of History, Book V, written in 8 BCE, Diodorus related the following account of an Atlantic island, which some have interpreted as referring to the Atlantis of Plato: “For there lies out in the ocean from Libya [i.e., Africa - RS] an island of considerable size, situated a number of days voyage to the west. Its land is fruitful, much of it being covered with mountains and the remainder a beautiful level plain. Through it flow navigable rivers, which are also used for irrigation…on it are many luxurious houses…where the inhabitants go in summer. The land supplies everything in abundance…it is well supplied with fresh water…has excellent hunting…and every variety of sea fish…It would appear that the island was a dwelling place of gods and not of men. “In ancient times it remained undiscovered because of its distance from the known world, but it was discovered at a later period… by the Phoenicians who while exploring the coast outside of the Pillars of Hercules were driven by strong winds a great distance out to sea and… cast ashore on this island; and, when they had observed its nature, they caused it to be known to all men.” If Diodorus was referring to Atlantis, he did not call it by that name and would have been referring to something that, even from his own legends, did not exist anymore. Diodorus used the present tense, as if this “island” still existed in his own time. For all we know from Diodorus, these Phoenicians could have been cast ashore in North or South America, where ancient Phoenician coins inexplicably have indeed been found! His remark about “luxurious” summerhouses is curious, in light of our prosperous modern culture where many families have summerhouses, luxurious or otherwise. My “Theory of Polar Axial Displacement” is complex in that there are so many details that have to be considered and coordinated. The following hypothesis is a summary of part, albeit a most important part, of the overall theory. There is evidence of an “Ice Age” in South Africa and Hawaii. Traditional science assumes that the CURRENT North and South Polar Icecap Zones expanded towards the Equator; and traditionalists would conclude that the “Ice Age” in South Africa was a result of South Polar Expansion, and that of Hawaii of North Polar Expansion. There are all sorts of internal contradictions amongst the various establishment theories of so-called “Ice Ages”; Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky has adequately documented this. These currently ice-free areas like South Africa where there is evidence of an “Ice Age” were merely under a different Polar Icecap at a different epoch of geological time. If you consult a world globe, you will have a better understanding of what I am saying. See also Chapter 2. If the cause of such Polar Axial Shifting is the periodic arrival, docking and tethering of the Planet X Nibiru—Hyperborea, The Cosmic Tree, The Night Sun— then these catastrophes must repeat in cycles of 3,600 Earth Years, the length of one Nibiruan Year, one “Shar”. The last one occurred in the year 1587 BCE, the traditional date for the Santorini Cataclysm and the Velikovskian date for the Exodus Plagues. The previous arrival occurred in the year 5187 BCE, which can be coordinated with the Floods of Noah, Utnapishtim and Deucalion, as well as the archaeological finds in the Black Sea. And going back another 3,600 years prior to that takes us to 8787 BCE for that arrival of the Planet X Nibiru. Undoubtedly, the destruction of Atlantis, as recounted by Plato, coincided with that particular “crossing” of Nibiru, even though the calculated date here is not identical with Plato’s generalization of the date of 9500 BCE. But since these catastrophes are not caused by any other known periodic cosmic body, the conclusion is not far-fetched that the Atlantis cataclysm coincided with the 8787 arrival of Planet X Nibiru; the date 8787 is closer in time to 9500 than would be another whole “shar” of 3,600 more years, back to 12,387 BCE. Dr. Velikovsky, it must be noted again, did not believe in Plato’s literal date for the timeframe of Atlantis. He concluded that Plato meant 900 years, not 9,000 years, ago; and that the destruction of Santorini/Thera around 1600 BCE gave rise to the legend of the destruction of Atlantis. Dr. Velikovsky’s idea was contradicted internally by the fact that Plato located Atlantis “beyond the Pillars of Hercules”, not in the Mediterranean near Greece. This Santorini hypothesis for Atlantis was followed up later by renown French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, and it has since become the establishment retort to the antiquity date explicitly stated by Plato. Assume that the North Pole was once located near Johannesburg, South Africa, and that the South Pole was located northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. This would completely reverse the north-south and east-west directions with respect to Egypt and the Great Pyramid. All of Africa would be a land mass stretching NORTH from Egypt towards the Johannesburg Pole, much like North America stretches northwards today to the Arctic. The Pillars of Hercules, or Straits of Gibraltar, would have been east, not west, of Egypt and Greece (which itself would have been due-south, not north, of Egypt). And more importantly, the South Africa Polar Zone would not have obstructed maritime travel between the Mediterranean and the then-unfrozen Atlantis, which would have been located in the northern hemisphere at about the same latitudes as modern Australia is located south of the Equator. It would have had a wonderfully subtropical Mediterranean-style climate and have been in total command of all the world’s major sea routes. This was PRIOR to 8787 BCE! Then Planet X Nibiru returned, and the Poles shifted again. The North Pole shifted from South Africa out into the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, stretching from West Africa to Northeastern Brazil, both regions of which contain evidence of an “Ice Age”. As a result of this shift of the Polar Axis, there was now North Polar Ice spanning the Middle Atlantic Ocean, blocking all maritime traffic between the Mediterranean and Antarctica/Atlantis via the Pillars of Hercules. Atlantis disappeared or “sank beneath the sea”. Contact between Egypt and Atlantis was severed permanently. Only the legend persisted, to be handed down for thousands of years from priest to priest, until finally Plato recorded it for posterity. With that introduction, here is the abstract from a lecture given by Flavio Barbiero at the June 1999 Catastrophism Conference at the University of Bergamo in Italy. Signor Barbiero lectured on the identification of Atlantis with Antarctica. This abstract was included in the September 2000 edition (Volume V, Number 1) of The Velikovskian Journal published by Charles Ginenthal in New York... Much more @ bibliotecapleyades.net/hercolobus/planetx/planetX03.htm#Chapter%204
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