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Introduction

pp. 4-9

1.

Convergence

pp. 10-29

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Mysteries of the Cosmic Thundrebolt

pp. 30-61

3.

Electrical Encountres in Space

pp. 63-99

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Introduction

pp. 4-9

“And why did no many ancient account insist that the movements of the planets once changed? That was Plato's message … . The Babylonian Berossos said it too : the planets now move on different courses.”

{There is a difference perceived in, and therefore a “change” in, the distinction between the former (i.e., as perceived while dreaming) and the praesent (i.e., as perceived while awake) solar systems, including in their planetary orbits.}

1.

Convergence

pp. 10-29

“The monstrous Tarantula Nebula, named for its many spidery filaments”.

{No tarantula-spider is capable of producing “filaments” for a web (they pounce on prey, not entangle prey in a web). Likely the “TARANTuLA Nebula” reminded its namer of the human so-called “TARANTeLLA Dance” (actually named for TARANTo/Tarentum in southern Italy – “MGT”) with its intricate weaving-like movements.}

p. 15

“The sky was electric, filled with luminous clouds, threads of light, and undulating rivers

{That is praecisely what all the mythologies describe – real dream-worlds governed by real deities (such deities as were witnessed by Carl Gustav Jung, as recorded in his Red Book).}

p. 16

of fire. To today's observer the events could only appear too vast, too improbable for anything but a dream.”

“the electric force is 10^39 times … more powerful than gravity.”

{The electric force is that much stronger than the gravitational force only in quantum-effects within the atom. On all larger scales (and therefore for all practical purposes), the magnitude of the electric force is very much less.}

p. 18

“plasma … can produce galactic structures without resorting to a popular fiction … – the Black Hole.”

p. 19

“the spacecraft Deep Space 1 … found that … the nucleus of Comet Borrelly … was “hot and dry.” … Then, NASA's Stardust probe to comet Wild-2 … showed sharply defined “spires, pits and craters””.

p. 20

“Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfve`n, honored as the father of “plasma cosmology,” … based on electric forces.” “Alfven's close colleague, Anthony Peratt, later extended his investigation, … highlighted in the physicist Eric Lerner's popular book, The Big Bang Never Happened.”

p. 21

“Peratt's book The Physics of the Plasma Universe has led the way to a new understanding of … the role of electricity in the cosmos. Due to … the Coalition of Plasma Science …, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's largest scientific and technical society, anounced that it would recognize “Plasma Cosmology””.

p. 21

“Peratt's laboratory research concentrated on the unstable formations that develop in high-energy plasma discharge … configurations through … phases. Some … are now called “Peratt Instabilities””. “In … 2000, in response to … the authors of this monograph, Peratt became intrigued by the striking similarity of ancient rock art to plasma dis-

p. 22

charge formations. …

The artists were recording heaven-spanning discharge formations above them.”

{If the praehistorical artists ever saw any “heaven-spanning discharge formations above them”, it could only have been in their dreams and/or waking-visions. They “were recording” such simply because a depicted record of supernatural energy could assist them (if they were shamans of that ilk) to communicate with and contact the deities who were praeternaturally producing such effects. Such communications/contacts could have many practicable benefits; whereas to idly depict mere physical events would have been futile (of no practical utility).}

“A plasma instability found globally in rock art is a stick figure with a circle or dot on each side of its torso. In plasma experiments, this “squatter man” configuration appears when a [plasma] disk or donut-shaped torus is bent by magnetic fields”.

p. 24

“The discharge sequence … begins with two braided {entwined; “braid” would proprely entail 3} filaments (“Birkeland currents,” named after Kristian Birkeland) … . Under the magnetic forces …, the two filaments tend to draw closer. As they do, they rotate {twine} about each other … . If the current is strong enough, it may “pinch off” …, forming

cells that look like … a string of pearls.

{“String of Pearls” is the name of one of the Jaina naks.atra-s.}

… then form spheroids that

evolve into disks or toruses {tori} … . …

{The Jaina “string of pearls” is praeceded [indicating that the sequence is backwards] by the Jaina naks.atra “Lei” (A&ACS, pp. 155-6).}

As the sequence progresses, the disks or toruses {tori} will flatten and the outer edges will begin to curve upward or downward like the rims of a saucepan {rim of saucepans}. To the observer looking through the transparent toruses {tori} they will have the appearance of stacked “arms” or “legs” strung along the axis of the discharge. … Eventually the formation reaches a theshold point and explosively breaks apart. … Nevertheless, … replication of this phase is given in

a petroglyph from Kayenta, Arizona … . …

{The petroglyph hath somewhat the appearance of a centipede, an arthropod of a hot sting. Cf. the hot flavor of CAYENNe (a chili pepper, and also the name of the capital of French Guiana), a word phonetically similar to /KAYENta/.}

p. 25

The upper terminus shows the twin filaments of the tighly bound Birkeland currents of the plasma column below. ...

{Praeceding the “lei” is the Jaina naks.atra “Spike”, believed to be a simplied version of the Bodish phur-bu, a ritual implement having two entwined serpents depicted on its blade.}

p. 26

[Next,] “humans would have needed to shield themselves from the” forthcoming explosion.

{Praeceding “spike” is the Jaina naks.atra “Flower in bloom” (A&ACS, p. 152), the petals of which “flower” might symbolize fragments of exploding plasma.}

p. 26

“A key component in the Kayenta pictograph is the “eye mask”” .

““eye mask” formation stands in intimate connection to … the “eye goddess” and sometimes taking the form of an owl.

Here we see the owl form of the Greek goddess Athene.”

{Athene served as an eye-goddess when “she entered the smithy to watch” (GM 25.b).}

{In Longfellow's “Village Blacksmith” there is “The smith … With large and sinewy hands.” Praeceding “flower in bloom” is the Jaina naks.atra “Hand”.}

p. 27

“ “She Who Watches,” a popular eye goddess of the Columbia River region of the northwestern U.S.”

{Wis^ram goddess Tsagaglalae (SACR)} {This is a goddess to be reached through dream-incubation. (TBG); so her eyen could repraesent witnessing a dream.}

“a category of images Peratt calls the “Stonehenge” type. … a “Wandjina” pictograph in northeastern Australia … with a carved granite petroglyph in Northeastern Arizona”.

{Another disk surrounded with short rays is illustrated in Codex Borgianus Mexicanus, p. 41. Contained in it is a rite resembling circumcision (a rite known to Africans and to Australian aboriginals); but it is a eucharist of the most pretious blood.}

2.

Mysteries of the Cosmic Thundrebolt

pp. 30-61

“the great dragon Typhon, Typhaon, or Typhoeus whose attack nearly destroyed the world.”

{This Hellenic name may be cognate with Skt. /dunDUBHa/ 'unvenomous watersnake' (S-ED); and perhaps with Skt. /DaBH-/ 'to hurt, injure destroy; to deceive' (S-ED). It could also be cognate with Old English /DUBBan/ 'to strike, beat'; English /DUB/ is usually 'to beat (scil., a drum)'; while Skt. /dunDUBHi/ is 'kettledrum'.}

“Tiamat and Marduk, the sage of the gods, drew close … . The Lord spread out his net, encircled her, The ill wind … he released in her face.”

{The “Net of Indra” is stated to enclose the planetary system. (This may refer to the visionary net often viewed while undergoing the hypnagogic/hypnopompic state of mind).}

[Akkadian] “whirling “cyclone” called abubu”

{/GAyBUB 'swoon, faint, stupor, coma' (A-ED, p. 807a). [As one is swooning/fainting, one senses (or head) may seem to be whirling.]}

In the words of Nonnos, Zeus is “the javelin-thrower of the thunderbolt.” (Nonnos 7:163-4, transl. Rouse 1:256-7 /akontion/ 'javelin')

“the Greek kerauno's, “thunderbolt,” most commonly used for Zeus' weapon … appears to lie behind the Sanskrit sha'ru, 'arrow'”.

{/s`aru/ is usually 'missile, dart'; whereas /s`ara/ is consistently 'arrow' (S-ED).}

“Apollo bore the epithet chrysa'oros or chrysa'or – meaning “of the Golden Sword” (a'or)”.

{Usually, /Khrus-aor/ is the name of a demigod distinct from Apollon (GM 33.b; 73.h; 132.a, f). /Aor/ is translated “sickle, or falchion” (i.e., scimitar) in GM 33.5, where, as in GM 132.4, the allusion is Druidic.} {/Aor/ may (if for */ASWoR/) be possibly be cognate with Skt. /A-SURa/ 'wineless deity' (/sura/ 'wine'); if so, this would imply a rule against inebriation for wielders of the scimitar, similar to that imposed by Muh.ammad and by his successors.}

“The poets spoke of Achilles' spear as forked, or possessing a “double tongue”” (as thunderbolt-simulacrum).

[p. 102 n. 2:65 [As^anti] “Nyame, whose thunderbolts they invoked”] {For Nyame, “people often place ... forked posts beside doorways. Near the posts, they keep

{“Achilles was found to have suffered … the scorching of his lips” (CDCM, s.v. “Achilles”).}

pots that hold special offerings for Nyame.” (“Ny”)} {[Cymry] “from the cauldron and fell on Gwion ... scalding him ... in his mouth” (Ystoria Taliesin – “GwB”).}

p. 47

[Irish] “Cu`chulainn … held a weapon granted him by the lightning god Bolga, the “inventor of the missile spear {i.e., javelin).” … Gae` Bolga is … “a harpoon-like javelin.””

p. 50a “in one tradition is was Set {SWTH} who harpooned the chaos powers. Indeed, it is well known that the Hyksos … revered Set {SWTH}”.

p. 48

“Among the Zulu tribes of Africa, lighting takes the form of a dazzling spear {javelin} hurled through the air.” (Harris 1913, p. 25)

“The Maya thunder-god K>awil displays on his forehead … a smoking axe-head, Gillete 1975 {read “1997”}:65 f.”

{“Prometheus, or Hephaistos, according to some, by the river Triton struck the head of Zeus with and ax” (Bibliotheke 1:20 – “P”).}

(These consist of 1, 3, 5, or 7 prongs above, and an aequal number below.)

{The vajra, as exemplified in Vajra-yana, is of 5 natures (1-, 3-, 5-, 7-, or 9-pronged above, and an aequal prongedness below).}

“The “hourglass” discharge configuration has one of its more obvious counterparts in the Hourglass Nebula”.

{Not at all “hourglass”-shaped, this misleadingly named nebula would appear to consist of two sets of interlocking red rings.}

p. 56

“the Butterfly Nebula (or M2-9), … Inside the “hourglass” … is a second hourglass form.”

p. 57

“the Butterfly Nebula, … a bipolar formation in space, with collimated jets and embedded cylinders”. “the pinch point at the hourglass “neck” of the Butterfly Nebula … shows a toroidal band”.

“the Ant Nebula … in … its outflow pattern resembles that of the bizarre, “unstable” star Eta Carinae … . … . … the odd shape is due to the star's intense magnetic field channeling plasma.”

{The Ant Nebula is transparent with visible interior chambres; whereas the exploding star Eta Carinae is rather opaque, with apparent irregular layering within its two lobes.}

3.

Electrical Encountres in Space

pp. 63-99

“we must reach beyond the mythic archetypes of attacking dragons, cosmic thunderbolts, and Doomsday upheaval”.

{Inasmuch as all these sort of “archetypes” are to be archetypally observed in some dream-universe, the only way to “reach beyond” them would be to interrogate the dream-deities controlling those dream-realms.}

p. 70a

“Called the “firebrand” and “fire-star,” … Nergal was … the bringer of … rebellion. …

{In Chinese correlations, planet Mars is allocated to elemental fire (which is regarded as red) in the south direction.}

p. 70b

For the Persians, Mars was god of fire and the “warrior of the sky.” …

And Chinese stargazers claimed that Mars exemplified the spirit of the warrior.”

{More usually the Chinese correlations of militarism are with planet Mercury, who is the “Black Warrior of the North”.}

p. 68

p. 71

[according to Nonnos 38:348-409, transl. Rouse 3:116-21]

[according to Seneca 7:4:2, transl. Corcoran 2:234-5]

In the myth of Phae:thon, Ares “pushed” Kronos.

“If Saturn “has Mars in conjunction, … there are lightning bolts.””

Velikovsky wrote : “a comet appeared in the form of a human being 'between the earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched over Jerusalem.' (I Chronicles 21:16).”

{If anything “in the form of a human being” appeared in the sky, this could only have been an extraterrestrial visitor [certainly not a comet!]. The author's acceptance of this as a comet is in indication of their (and Velikovsky's) refusal to abide by any given text.}

This event was the result of a population-census (21:17), which was accounted as a “trespass” (21:3), on account of the population's being in multitude like unto the stars of the sky. The angel was first seen standing at the threshing-floor (21:15); and the entire event is reminiscent of the seeing by Yho^-s^uwa< of an angel “with his sword drawn in his hand” (Yho^s^uwa< 5:13). [What was thought by the viewers to be a “sword”, may instead have been a lecturer's pointer.]

“According to W. H. Roscher …, the Greek cult of Apollo was identical to that of the Roman … Mars. (See Roscher, Apollo und Mars)”

“Mercury was called Apollo when it appeared as a morning star” (ZTE, p. 133).

“The Greek Aphrodite Comaetho, the long-haired … Venus”.

{Usually, Komaithoi is treated as a heroine distinct from Aphrodite (CDCM, s.v. “Comaetho”, where this heroine is associated with Artemis, not with Aphrodite).

“The Chinese called the comet “the broom.”” {besom} (Xu et al. 2000, p. 3)

{But the Samskr.ta term for 'comet' is /ketu/ (literally, 'banner').}

This is a speculation based on Velikovsky's notion that planet Mars only a few thousand years ago have a close miss in nearly colliding with the planet Earth.

{Given the mode in which gravitation is operant, this scenario is not a possibility for such a recent past. The orbit of one or both planets would need to have been so very elongated (as it is for actual comets) that it could not have achieved, within the the amount of time since transpired, the very nearly circular status now occupied by it. Millions of years (at least) are required for any significant change in the ellipticity a planetary body.}

“Nergal … “You hurl the towering stone … You hurl the stone in fury””.

{In the Odusseia, Polu-phemos hurled boulders (at the ship of Odusseus). The sheep owned by Polu-phemos may possibly be referred to “wandering sheep” as a Sumerian/Akkadian designation meaning 'planets'.}

“analytical psychologist Carl Jung first used the term archetype in connection with the origins of myth … suggesting universal patterns”.

{Carl Gustav Jung praevaricated his evidence. What he actually experienced (as recorded by him in his Red Book) was deities telling him in his dreams that they were indeed deities (not “archetypes” nor “universal patterns”). He lacked the courage to state publically the facts of the case, and he died with his Red Book still kept secret.}

p. 90a

“In Lagash it was the warrior Ningirsu who united with the goddess Baba”.

p. 90b

“A Basque {Euska} tradition depicts goddess Mari

{There is a set of blood-quaffing goddesses named MARI in the Puran.a.}

riding in a celestial cart … .

{cf. the Wain of goddess Kalupsoi (SN, p. 426)}

The myths say that … Her son-lover was Sugaar” {dragon that who “travels through the sky in the shape of a half-moon of fire” (“S”)}.

{Similar to /SUGaar/ is the name /SUGyn/ of the Cymry god (who, like To`rr, imbibed the sea) who stranded ships (M&LBI, p. 96).} {cf. Norse and Chinese “dragon ships” – the Norse ignited a ship aflame when it served as sea-transport for the dead into the Otherworld}