Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [245]
In the New World . . . more than seventy genera of large mammals became extinct between 15,000 BC and 8000 BC ... The staggering losses, involving the violent obliteration of more than forty million animals, were not spread out evenly over the whole period; on the contrary, the vast majority of the extinctions occurred in just two thousand years, between 11,000 BC and 9000 BC. To put this into perspective, during the previous 300,000 years only about twenty genera had disappeared.44
Berlitz relates the words of oceanographer Dr. Bruce Heezen regarding this tumultuous period:
Eleven thousand years ago the ocean level all around the world was perhaps three hundred feet lower than it is today. The eastern coastline of our United States, for instance, was some one hundred miles farther out in the Atlantic Ocean in that bygone era.
Then, suddenly, above eleven thousand years ago, the Ice Age was over ... billions of gallons of ice and snow poured into the sea. The result was a dramatic, sudden, and terrifying rising of the sea level all around the world-an inundation which we have verified by half a dozen different types of research available to us today. The rise undoubtedly caused the flooding of many low-level seaside communities where primitive man had chosen to build his early towns and cities.44
This "man and his communities," however, were evidently not at all primitive, ostensibly representing an advanced, worldwide culture. This cataclysm and others apparently made it into the mythos, reflected by, as Giorgio de Santillana and Hancock evinced, "Hamlet's Mill" myths about the symbolic hourglass or mill shape made by the precession of the equinoxes and its "derangement." The mill motif is also found in the biblical tale of Samson, and, as Hancock says, "The theme resurfaces in Japan, in Central America, among the Maoris of New Zealand, and in the myths of Finland."45
Another aspect of the mythos seems to record a "derangement of the heavens," as in Hebrew mythology the god El is both the sun and the planet Saturn (the "Father on High"), a fact demonstrating that there were two "suns" in the ancient world's mythologies: The day orb and the "eternal" or unmoving pole star, around which all other celestial bodies appear to rotate. The planet Saturn was considered "the Heavenly Father" because it was the most remote of the inner planets and was thus viewed as being the overseer or parent. Velikovskian David Talbott says Isaiah "locates the throne of El in the farthest reaches north," i.e., El/Saturn is the pole star. When Saturn was no longer the "central sun," "El" became the daytime solar orb; hence, El/Saturn was both the planet and the sun. This change in the heavens could reflect a pole or axial shift.
Age of Mankind
Because of such ongoing destruction, it has been difficult to date and place the emergence of the true human being. This fact attests not only to the fragility of manmade artifacts and remains but also to the occurrence of natural processes-sometimes slow and gradual, sometimes quick and violent-that continuously shape the earth and "wipe the slate" clean of such remains. Regarding one such slate-wiping, James Churchward says:
The remains of ancient man in Europe are limited because the mountains of ice which were brought down on the waters of the Last Magnetic Cataclysm ground everything to a pulp, leaving but few traces of life behind.47
As to the possible age of human culture, Albert Churchward makes this surprising assertion:
The Solar Cult lasted about 100,000 years and the Lunar before this about 50,000 years. The Stellar Cult was anterior to these, and lasted at least 300,000 years; how much longer it is impossible to say, but from remains found of the Stellar Cult people in Pliocene Strata formations