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The Flood and Its Background, By Georg
Hinzpeter, 1966
Apart from the Greek myths and the Bible story, one of our
sources of the deluge legend is Berossus, who is now the only known to us through
quotations by such people as Alexander Polyhistor and Eusebuis. During the
early times of Christianity and indeed, until the Middle Ages, these were the
only sources available for details of the event. It was only when the Egyptian
Hieroglyphs, the Babylonian Cuneiform and other Near Eastern Scripts began to
give up their secrets that the details as to the flood catastrophe began to
come out. In the same manner, ethnologists during the 19th and 20th
Centuries were surprised to note that in their researches the myths and legends
of the peoples of the earth carried stories of a Great Flood or of the Floods.
In the collections of Reim, Gerland, Andre (not to mention Sir James Frazier)
well over a thousand accounts of a deluge have been recorded from all parts of
the world, the basic elements being common to a majority of them. In many of
these stories it is uncertain whether one is dealing with the story of the
Deluge or of several of them; with the creation- or better still a
reconstruction- myth; or even with a destruction myth. In these, the Deluge is
either the beginning of a new world or the end of an old one, according to the
period. These Ages have come to us mainly through the Old Testament Texts based
mainly upon the Babylonian legends and stories. In them each Age begins with a
period of Chaos followed by a happy period of Paradise, followed in its turn by
periods of intense warfare, and having as a final phase the frightful Deluge,
bringing the dying Age to a period of Chaos and conclusion. Full circle having
been completed a new Age then begins, to resume again the three phase rhythm.
(The warfare after paradise counts as the termination of that epoch, not as a
new phase.) This strange early world has long since vanished with the memories
of the dominant part played by the Ethiopian moon (possibly Mene according to
Gattefosse) with the great rhythm of its rest phases over the mountain ranges
followed by the frightful catastrophe of a portion of it landing in East
Abyssinia and the penetrating deeply into the earth's crust, thus completing
the process of destruction which inevitably follows that of reconstruction.
These lunar anchorage periods belong to that of the real Deluge with its sharp
onset and its trail of worldwide destruction afterwards. It was then that the
Abyssinian satellite, in the last stages of shedding its fragments on its
critical approach to the subterranean portions of the earth's crust was
followed by the shifting of mountain ranges to the East, causing the enormous
tectonic upheavals, followed by the severe worsening of the climate. Many
deluge stories tell of the terrible rains and gales, which caused regional or
less widespread floods after the subsequent and less violent anchorage's, such
as those over Malay or Central America. Their effects were less turbulent,
although they are depicted as deluges, whereas the processes released by the
satellite in its earlier stages which culminated in the great Deluge itself,
have not been handed down in myth or legend because they took place before man
came into being. These later flood-like processes cause d by the satellite's
disintegration affected vast regions of the earth and lasted for weeks or
months, decreasing gradually in intensity as the last fragments came down with
comparatively local effect, therefore life, and mankind, were able to survive
them. The Bible story of the flood is compiled from two sources, the Priester
Codex and the Jahuists Records. According to the latter, the flood lasted 40 or
50 days; according to the former, it was 360 days, which would include the
local or regional flooding already mentioned. The Bible story links the
prehistoric past with the present, and takes some important aspects of the
satellite's disintegration into account. On the other hand, both the Old and
the New Testament misinterpret the reference (as in Psalms 90, v.2) as meaning
"from everlasting to everlasting" instead of "from age to
age". The credit for discovering the causes of the great pre-historic
inundation's belongs to Hoerbiger, even though he showed us the meaning of only
one great flood-like occurrence. The last of these events followed the capture
of our present moon some 11,000 years ago. This did not produce the
mountainous, oscillating girdle tide and only caused the more regional flooding
of low-lying ground, such as in ancient Mesopotamia, whereby the older forms of
culture were cut off from later civilizations. As the new Luna gradually
settled into regular orbit around the earth, these floods recurred in ever
weaker forms. Atlantis, the subject of so much controversy, was a victim of the
moon capture, although its loss is not due to the great girdle tide nor to the
regional floods, but rather to the tremendous tectonic forces released on the
satellite's approach to the critical subterranean portions of the earth's crust
in the Atlantic, on whose threshold the continent of Atlantis was located.
These forces caused shifts in the crust to the West, similar to the Eastward
shifts resulting from the Abyssinian anchorage, and thus Atlantis was
submerged. The foregoing attempts only indicate the basic points, because a
detailed survey of these processes and their many, varied causes, is beyond the
scope of the present article." The writer deals with this in a different
article.
C.A. Burland, referring to the carved Stonehenge Trilithon,
writes:
"Many thanks, Dr. Watson's photo is almost a duplicate
of one of those I took. I have no doubt at all about the deliberate
construction of this impressive face. On the whole, taken in conjunction with
the other engravings of bronze-age type weapons, I think it must be
contemporary with the cutting of the stones. This particular stone is clearly
not left in a raw state but has been cut to shape, somewhat like its companion
in the same trilithon. The treatment of the 'eyes' is rather like an effective
technique used by primitive potters in many places. I enclose one of my slides
which shows the whole trilithon from another angle, and so it becomes
complementary to Dr. Watson's picture. You are free to have a copy made either
as a print or as a transparency. Let me have it back in due course. The
trilithon belongs to the last phase of Stonehenge about 1500 B.C. and may well
have been intentionally carved to represent the god of one of the constellations.
The stars to have been observed through this trilithon, if I looked along the
face of the trilithon would be Vega and Deneb. If I looked through space I
should see the markers of the eastern side of the square of Pegasus. But
precession will have altered all this; and my ancient observer would be looking
in the direction of Alderbaran and Orion---I wonder if this face is what we
call the belt or sword of Orion. Worth checking with an astronomer who could
give a more precise determination of the position of Orion at midsummer a
little before sunrise 1,450 B.C. I keep on remembering that the Saxons called
the place The Giants' Dance, and it sounds like a folk tale in which the giants
were the constellations passing round the sky and possibly figured on the
stones. It all links also with the Late Neolithic symbolic carvings in Brittany
and Switzerland." (Webmaster note-please note this comment is before
1967 and I wonder what Bauval Hancock would think of me having this reference
for over 30 years????????)
And "The Lost
Histories of Thoth", and "Atlantis-The Meteor Impact Theory",
both Egerton Sykes
