“Midgard is the cradle that rocks above the abyss---our existence is but a
brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
The great Solar-myth underlies all the ancient mythologies. It
commemorates the death and resurrection of the sun. It signifies the
destruction of the light by the clouds, the darkness and the eventual
return of the great luminary of the world. That which was most
instrumental in conforming mankind to adopt the solar based religions
took place in a time long before our written history. It was a thing so
terrible, so incomprehensible, pitiless and destructive, that even today
its dreadful aftermath still lingers deep in the genetic memory of all
mankind.
In the Northern European pagan religion of Wotanism,
this dreadful End of Days cataclysm is symbolized by three ominous
specters known as: Fenris Wolf, the giant world Midgard Serpent
Jormungand and Garm the Dog. The Southern Europeans knew them as: Python
and Typhaon and Cacus, which is the same as Vritra in the Indo-European
Sanskrit. The Christian bible referred to them as Satan, Behemoth and
Leviathan. Yet, there is simply one name to describe the most terrible
and unstoppable monster serpent of all, "The Great Comet."
All the winged beasts, breathing fire are a symbolic recollection of the
comet; with its fearful head and long tail it captures the semblance of
a great serpent traversing the heavens. Modern science confirms that
comets often travel in groups of two or three, as reflected in world
mythologies. In the second millennium B.C.E. the planet Venus made a
surprise appearance as a threatening comet with a rather close approach
to Earth and was a cause of much alarm and planetary repercussions,
causing volcanoes to explode, giant sea waves, and other forms of
destruction; The asteroid that sunk the entire continent of Atlantis and
caused so much devastation from its impact was only about six miles
wide, a mere grain of sand in comparison to the size of the planet
Venus. The backlash from that asteroid upon striking the Sargasso Sea
splashed the ocean water up into the air half way to the moon! Consider
a comet the size of Venus a near twin in volume and mass of Earth
colliding directly into our planet. Venus comes closer to Earth than any
other planet, approaching to within about 24,800,000 miles. One thing
is for sure, there is no destruction so utterly complete to planet Earth
and equally destructive to all life forms than that black moment when a
great comet actually strikes the Earth. This is the End of Days for
planet Earth and all of Mankind that our most distant ancestors knew at
some future dark hour will surely and inevitably happen.
"That the moon and Mars and Mercury are devastated and biologically dead, that
Venus is rotating "backwards" and burning hot, that a ghost planet which should
perhaps be called "Apollo" is represented by a host of asteroids flying between
Mars and Jupiter----all these give one to suspect that the Earth has also suffered,
but escaped the worst."......................Alfred de Grazia
The Great Comets are not only named after monstrous beasts but
often become the names of our ethnic Gods fighting their mighty battles
above in the heavens. The planet Mars became a horror and a great god to
the peoples of 2700 years ago. Mesopotamians would be known to chant
respectful reverence's in awesome remembrance of those black days such
as: "Shine of horror, god Nergal, prince of battle, Thy face is glare;
thy mouth is fire, Raging flame-god, god Nergal." Nergal is god-Mars and
planet Mars. Only a god could fearlessly assault a god. And that is
what Pallas Athene, goddess of the planet Venus, did to
Mars-Ares-Nergal. It is the famous scene of the battle of the gods in
Homer's Iliad. Athene, with the blessing of Zeus, drove her chariot
towards Ares, "the bane of mortals," and drove her spear "mightily
against his nethermost belly." A great black cloud arose from him, he
"bellowed like ten thousand warriors," and fled into the high heavens.
The last encounter that planet Earth has had with a large planet body in
space was during the Holocene epoch during the time around the founding
of Rome. Mars approached on several occasions, at 15-year intervals.
Venus also intruded upon the Earth's sphere then and before then, at
least several times, on a half-century cycle. It is to mankind’s great
fortune that we have miraculously had enough distance between our planet
and other large moving bodies in space. Neither Venus nor the Moon nor
any other large body could actually pass through the Earth's near
atmosphere without the total annihilation of both bodies.
Our planet bears the telltale scars of meteor and asteroid collisions
all over its surface. Though far smaller in size than a comet, the
devastation of even just an asteroid is such that one would be fortunate
to first die of fright before the actual impact occurred. The
after-effects of even just a very minor passing of a large-body
encounter would cause hurricanes on Earth of speeds of up to 200 miles
an hour. Such a hurricane would be capable of scraping the Earth's
surface down to bedrock, eradicating all trace of biosphere and human
settlement. The Norse Edda list's five life cycles, or eons, as the
Greek Hesiod also listed, which some depict as Thule, Hyperborea, Mu,
Atlantis and our own current age. In another book of the Edda, the
Volupsa, is depicted the cataclysmic destruction of Atlantis, starting
with Stanza 55: "Fire fares from south with flaring flares. The
Embattled Gods' sun is skewered on the sword, Mountains hurry hence. Men
tread Hel's road; the heavens are sundered. Nine steps only away from
the monster, Staggers the son of Earth. The sun grows dim; Earth sinks
in waters; The sparkling stars fall from the firmament. Fire entwines
the life-supporter, Heat rises high to the heavens."
In the
story from the Norse Edda, the Grottasonger (Song of the Mill), two
giant maidens are forced to take turns grinding out material pleasures
on a "magic mill" called Grotte, meaning "growth" or "evolution". They
are made to work ceaselessly by the increasingly greedy King Frode
(meaning "prosperity). Eventually, the maidens---seemingly representing
earthly ages--- grind out a revenge for the greed of material
prosperity: their singing and the creak of the millstones grind forth an
army which, commanded by the Sea-King Mysing, overruns and conquers
Frode's lands. King Mysing then takes the mill of growth or evolution
and, eventually falling into the same materialistic greed as King Frode,
causes his continent to sink beneath the waters---a tale complete with
the classic flood myth which is told worldwide. The hero Bargalmer, at
the end of the cycle, is saved on a boat keel to begin a new cycle. The
Finns have a similar myth known as the Sampo, or "Magic Mill" that
grinds out both creation and destruction, as did the Mayans.
Mankind has been an intelligent audience to outer space, watching the
long unfolding developments of the cosmic drama. However, let us try to
imagine the tremendous impact of a great comet striking the earth's
surface at ever increasing impetuosity, carrying with it a heat that is
so strong that it can melt granite rock and evaporate waters of whole
oceans in its approach. The tail of debris which follows such a massive
comet is incredible in its length. A distant passing great comet,
witnessed in 1843, possessed a tail 150 million miles long; such a
length would reach from the sun to the earth and have over 50 million
miles of tail to spare. Debris from a comet's tail, should it pass
through our atmosphere, creates what is known as the "Drift Age",
showering the earth with a heavy layer of rocks, boulders and dust. Many
of the ancient legends tell of how this cosmic dust would completely
blot out the sun and stars, causing darkness and gloom for long periods
of time. The passing of both night and day under such circumstances, it
has been told, would become almost indistinguishable.
The
ancient legends also describe the aftermath of the Great Comet's contact
with Earth, thusly: "Instead of the fair face of the world as they have
known it, bright with sunlight, green with the magnificent foliage of
the forest, or the gentle verdure of the plain, they go forth upon a
wasted, and unknown land, covered with oceans of mud and stones; the
very face of the country changed---lakes, rivers, hills, all swept away
and lost. They wander, breathing a foul and sickening atmosphere, under
the shadow of an awful darkness, a darkness which knows no morning, no
stars, no moon, a darkness palpable and visible, lighted only by
electrical discharges from the abyss of clouds, with such roars of
thunder, which we in this day of harmonious Nature, can form no
conception of. It is, indeed, 'chaos' and ancient night. All the forces
of nature are there, but disorderly, destructive, battling against each
other and multiplied a thousand-fold in power; the winds are cyclones,
magnetism is gigantic, electricity is appalling. The world is more
desolate than the caves from which they have escaped. The forests are
gone; the fruit-trees are swept away; the beasts of the chase have
perished; the domestic animals, gentle ministers to man, have
disappeared; the cultivated fields are buried deep in drifts of mud and
gravel; the people stagger in the darkness against each other, they fall
into the chasms of the earth; within them are the two great oppressors
of humanity, hunger and terror; hunger that knows not where to turn;
fear that shrinks before the whirling blasts, the rolling thunder, the
shocks of blinding lightning; that knows not what moment the heavens may
again open and rain fire and stones and dust upon them. God has
withdrawn his face; his children are deserted; all the kindly
adjustments of generous Nature are gone. God has left man in the midst
of a material world without law; he is a wreck, a fragment, a lost
particle, in the midst of an illimitable and endless warfare of giants.
Some lie down to die, hopeless, cursing their helpless Gods; some die by
their own hands; some gather around the fires of volcanoes for warmth
and light-stars that attract them from afar; some feast on such decaying
remnants of the great animals (dinosaurs) as they may find projecting
above the debris, running to them, as we shall see, with outcries and
fighting over fragments."
The Earth's existing geological
strata, along with the artifacts of man and other life form remnants and
fossils, read like an open book through the eons of time, dispelling so
many unsubstantial theories that we still contend with today. Aryan man
was never an unintelligent, hairy, simian brute who lived in caves like
a common animal. There has never been one single piece of substantial
evidence nor missing link to support such a claim. Yet there is an
abundance of sound evidence to prove otherwise and very good reason to
believe that our capacity for intelligence was much higher in the far
distant times. Civilizations have been discovered dating back to before
the Dinosaur Age. For instance, in the state of Louisiana on Petite Anse
Island, remarkable discoveries have been unearthed, showing in many
cases the bones of the Mastodon found buried well above layers of earth
strata which contain pottery, woven baskets and jewelry. Highly
intelligent civilizations and whole continents have been ever changing
since man first walked upon the Earth. Digging through geological
history, we find that what did in fact drive man into caves in certain
periods of time was the need to escape the deluge of the great comets
and asteroids. The larger animals, such as dinosaurs which could not
escape initial impact, the pummeling of rocks, prolonged frigid cold,
scorching heat, wind storms, poisonous gas and flooding, were to vanish
forever.
The traditions of the following cultures reveal to us
that the Earth's surface was once drastically altered by a great comet:
(a) The ancient Britons, as narrated in the mythology of the Druids.
(b) The ancient Greeks, as told by Hesiod
(c) The Teutonic Elder Edda and Younger Edda
(d) The ancient Romans, as narrated by Ovid
(e) The ancient Toltec’s of Central America, as told in their sacred books
(f) The ancient Aztecs of Mexico
(g) The ancient Persians, as recorded in the Zend Avesta
(h) The sacred records in Tibet
(i) The ancient Indo-European Hindus, as told in their holy books
These along with dozens of aboriginal legends around the world
all relate the same descriptive catastrophe. Christians will find a
detailed account of the event explained in the book of Job. The above
religions all agree upon the following distinct points:
(1) The Golden Age; the Paradise
(2) The universal, moral degeneracy of mankind, the age of crime and violence
(3) God's vengeance
(4) The Serpent (flaming comet); the fire from heaven
(5) The cave-life and the darkness
(6) The cold; the struggle to survive
(7) The "fall of man" from virtue to vice; from plenty to poverty; from
civilization to barbarism; from the tertiary to the drift; from
paradise to the gravel
(8) Reconstruction and regeneration
From what has been thus revealed through geological findings and
the diverse religions of the world.... can all of this be an accident?
Can all of this mean nothing? In Aryan Wotanism Ragnarok marks the day
of the Great Comet's return. Heimdall sounds the warning on his
Gjallarhorn, as Wotan and the Gods of Asgard, along with his elite
warriors (the Einherjar) arm themselves and speed forth to the battle of
all battles. Wotan rides first with his golden helmet, resplendent
'Byrnie' and his spear Gungnir; he advances against the Fenris Wolf (the
first comet). Thor stands by his side, but can give him no assistance,
for he has his hands full in his struggle with the Midgard Serpent, (the
second comet). Frey encounters the fiery fiend Surt, who is associated
with the comet and heavy blows are exchanged ere Frey falls. The cause
of his death is that he had previously relinquished his sword to
Skirner, even The Dog Garm (the third comet), that was bound before the
Gnipa Cave gets loose. He is the greatest plague. He contends with Tyr,
and they kill each other. Thor gets great renown by slaying the Midgard
Serpent, but retreats only nine places when he falls to the earth dead,
poisoned by the venom that the serpent blows upon him. He has breathed
the carbonated-hydrogen gas of the comet. Surt then casts darkness and
raging fire upon the universe, blotting out sun and stars and the earth
becomes engulfed by the sea---chaos reigns. This is a time known as the
"Twilight of the Gods", "Gotterdammerung", until Vali, the new sun, is
born of the frost and kills the darkness. It is light again. Baldur, son
of Wotan, now the new Aryan Allfather, returns after Ragnarok. Once
again the Gods, the Earth and its people are born anew and the whole
world rejoices with regenerated life.
Today pagans still
celebrate the last death and rebirth of the sun with the May Day
fertility ceremony, the May Pole and the May Queen. In the full
tradition of the ceremony, a man clad in green leaves represents summer;
another clad in straw represents winter (fittingly symbolic of the
emptiness and misery of the Great Comet Drift Age). In the Teutonic
legends it is stated that three severe winters followed the great
cataclysm, followed by three more, which are known in Wotanism as the
"Fimbul Winter". A Fimbul Winter would also occur with the aftermath of
Atomic bomb warfare.
"Grim Fimbal raged, and o'er the world, Tempestuous winds and snow
storms whirled; The roaring ocean icebergs ground, And flung its frozen
foam around, E'en to the top of mountain height; No warning air....No
radiance fair Of gentle Summer’s soft'ning light, Tempered this dreadful
glacial night." ..............J.C.Jones
Classical scholars laughed at Heinrich Schliemann when he set
out with Homer's writings of Greek legend in one hand and a spade in the
other. But he succeeded in digging up the legendary civilization of
Troy, and thereby demonstrated that it is ignorant as well as rash to
underestimate the historical value of the race memory within our
D.N.A.. Today NASA satellites can see remnants of long-forgotten
civilizations, lying in ruin on the ocean floor of both the Atlantic and
Pacific. We must always remind ourselves that all myths and legends
start somewhere in the real life of man's long ongoing history. That
which does not derive from actual fact in our ethnic mythologies serves
as a language that speaks to us symbolically. For instance; From the
Volupsa saga we learn that when Yggdrasil (tree of life) trembles at the
approach of Ragnarok, the ship of the dead, Nagelfar, lies so that the
liberated sinister deity Loki can go aboard it. That it has long lain
moored in its harbor is evident from the fact that, according to
Vulupsa, it then "becomes loose." Unknown hands are its builders. The
material out of which it is constructed is the nail-parings of dead men.
This description is all to say, that evil, no matter how great the
catastrophe, can never be destroyed. All things throughout the extended
universe operate by law of polarity. 'Good' would not, could not, exist
without its negative opposite. "Unknown hands are its builders" is to
say that no one will ever know just where evil began. The seeds of our
destiny are nourished by the rich legacy of our past. What we do in the
now of the present will determine our own future, and all life upon the
planet.
"Religion is fossil mythology; mythology is fossil history; and this
disguised history takes us into ages so remote that they border upon,
and partly indeed coincide with, the ages of geology."
RonMcVan
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