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Recovering the Lost World,
A Saturnian Cosmology -- Jno Cook
What this site is about.


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For Claudia George, who said,
"Write a history of everything."

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Contents of this chapter: [A Reconstruction] [A Synopsis] [What Others Say] [New Findings] [Contents and Resources] [Who I am] [Why this Text is Presented] [Change Log] [Endnotes]

".. a large planet stood above the North Pole
for a very long time."

That fact is certain; and that is what this site is about.

The planet Saturn moved on a wildly elliptical path around the Sun in the remote past, entering the Solar System at very long intervals. Some time in the last 6 to 3 million years, perhaps after passing close to Jupiter, Saturn was placed in a much closer orbit around the Sun, very near Earth. From about 5800 BC Saturn captured and held the Earth in a sub-polar position until 3100 BC, when Earth broke away.

"The evidence of myth which points to Saturn having once occupied a position above Earth's north polar regions is voluminous. There is not a race on Earth that has not preserved at least one account which states as much. According to this evidence, Saturn occupied a central position in the north celestial regions."

"It rotated, and rotated widely; but, other than that, it was immovable. It did not rise, it did not set. It merely became brighter and more glorious each night as the Sun set. This state of affairs seems to have lasted for ages. It is the one single dictum of the ancients from which all other beliefs are derived."

-- Dwardu Cardona (1982)

What is most important about all this is the cultural and psychological reaction of the people of Earth to these events. The last 1000 years of this period (4200 BC to 3100 BC) were remembered as the "Age of the Gods" and subsequent human history has been a singular effort to regain the Paradise of that time. This period was followed by a series of adjustments in planetary orbits, many of which also had significant effects on Earth and on human history. The last of these, in 685 BC, gave the start to philosophical speculation worldwide and determined the basis of belief for all our current religions.

Humans changed after Paradise closed -- not just the rapid changes in what we would call civilization, but also the gradual achievement of a subjective consciousness. The response to these events determined how we became fully human. To say it would have happened anyway does not hold up. There could have been any number of other outcomes.

A Reconstruction

This site is a collation of the efforts of many other people to recoup the past -- and a restatement of that work. Most of the information has been published previously. In order to attempt to put it all together, I am providing a narrative text of their findings and adding what I feel is missing: a chronology, some mechanics, and an extrapolation of events not recognized by some researchers.

I did not include sources for most of the information of this text since all I am doing is remapping areas already explored by others and all of it is readily available, although scattered over many sites and books. I collected available material and put it in order, and, when it no longer made sense, started writing. Sometimes writing corrected defects in the 'theory,' sometimes I had flashes of insight, sometimes I never found a solution.

Additionally, I should warn that the subject matter here is not any sort of accepted science narrative. It is a cosmology based on a set of reasonable starting postulates. The postulates, like those of any cosmology, are untestable. But the established theories of physics can be applied. This results in an amazing concordance of information in agreement with the initial postulates, what we have of historical recollections, and observable facts. It is this which confers validity on the explication pursued here. It suggests sensible answers to questions about the history of mankind, the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe which remain completely unanswered by the traditional 'handed-down wisdom.' The sum total of the conclusions derived here goes much further to constitute a cohesive 'world-view' than any traditional opinions and narratives have done.

This cosmology can explain everything from geophysics to astrophysics. Other people have expanded on separate facets extensively. I have only provided no more than cursory information; my main interest was to trace the origins of contemporary cultural practices. Of greatest importance from my point of view, is that a Saturnian cosmology provides an explanation of the actions and thinking of our ancestors and insight into our contemporary behaviour and thinking. This could be extended to make suggestions about what is important for us as humans. I will note these in passing, but will not expand on them. My main concern was to provide a narrative, a chronology, and a mechanics. [note 1]

I have no particular axe to grind, no politics to promote. Let me state at the outset that this is not a 'creationist's young earth' thesis, I do not hold to extraterrestrial interventions, I have no religious or theistic proposals to make, nor do I put stock in the 'elohim' of the Old Testament. I'll remain within accepted physics -- I will not propose new solutions to gravity or offer new 'forces' for you to consider, or have planets arbitrarily leave their orbits. And I'll use accepted dates and dating.

Added note, June 2006: After completing most of the chronology described in these pages, I came across the "Books of the Chilam Balam Of Chumayel" of the Yucatan Maya which were written shortly after the invasion by the Spanish. These were an attempt to secretly keep ancient myths and tales alive.

I was astounded to find among the texts a step-by-step rendition of the course of the 'creation of the world' dating back to long before 3100 BC, followed by an accounting of other catastrophic events. The events are in much greater detail than the parallel Egyptian and Mesopotamian 'legends' in that the Chilam Balam provides dates which are congruent with what had already been extracted from other sources worldwide. An analysis is listed in a Chapter 18, "The Chilam Balam." I have started to include references to the Chilam Balam with the main text.

Further confirmation: In December 2008 I started looking at Olmec and other Mesoamerican sites and the iconography from the Olmec era. Again, I was amazed that celestial events of the 7th century BC, already extracted and known from Middle Eastern sources, were clearly referenced both in the horizon alignments of the important ceremonial centers and in the iconography which came to dominate the graphic representations and all of the religious concerns of Mesoamerica and especially the Maya.

A Synopsis

The chapters of this site will propose that our existence, our culture, our psychology, and the very biology of our planet, are the result of a series of incidents arising from the interaction between Earth and other planets within the Solar System, most notably Saturn.

The biology of Earth is such a complete accident and an utterly unlikely event that it will not likely have ever been duplicated anywhere or at any time among the billions of other star systems. Yet all of it, especially the rise of complex species since the Cambrian Period, 560 million years ago, can only be attributed to a series of cataclysmic plasma strikes by Saturn.

Our genesis as a distinct species is due to externally induced extinction events which removed eight competing sub-species over the course of the last three million year. Our only contribution to our distinction from other animals was the invention, 40,000 years ago, of language and its subsequent cultural transmission. That set the stage for further development of our 'humanity,' much later on and much closer to our time.

Between about 6000 BC and 3100 BC, Earth was part of a strange configuration of planets which provided long summers and a mild climate in the northern hemisphere. Planets, including the giant Saturn, stood close to Earth (but measured in millions of miles) and above the pole, and were taken by humans to be the Gods who supported them and for whose benefit they labored at agriculture and conducted trade.

In 3114 BC this configuration broke apart, with the large planets moving far away from the Sun, and the smaller planets assigned to a series of overlapping 'inner' orbits. The breakup produced a stupendous flood of the waters which had been held at the north pole by the gravitational attraction of Saturn for 3000 years. Flood stories are ubiquitous, found in over 500 independent 'myths' -- all with the same coherent details. The survivors included people far inland, those living already on mountain slopes, plus the people of the Nile delta and northern Mesopotamia. The only recourse to a livelihood for many of the survivors was agriculture, which sprang up simultaneously in six unconnected regions of Earth.

We have accurate descriptions of the rings and satellites of Saturn, the bands of Jupiter, and the scarred surface and satellites of Mars, all dating from remote antiquity and spanning cultures worldwide. The Egyptians produced images of the original configuration of Saturn and have a record of early close passes by Mars. Mesopotamians also produced images of the planets, graphically showing, for example, all the satellites of Jupiter. The Maya (from Olmec sources) have an undated record of the planetary interactions from long before 3100 BC, and a dated record of later events. The "Popol Vu" makes casual references to the period of 17,000 years ago. India has similar recollections of the ending events extending over millions of lines of poetry.

Over the next 2500 years after 3100 BC, to 685 BC, the inner planets interfere with Earth at intervals, although very infrequently -- there were three major incidents. The damage generally was localized in latitude although, for example, the continuous lightning strike of ca 1500 BC encircled the globe. In the 8th century BC destruction was spread over areas in the western Mediterranean measuring more than 600 miles from end to end, and was much more extensive than that of any earthquake. Hilltop citadels, from the Persian plateau to Greece, were destroyed by lightning strikes and quake-like convulsions, and buried under yards of carbonized material mixed with soil. These simultaneous destructions have been noted in the archaeological record. Some six incidents have been dated, often many hundreds of years apart. The planets responsible became the next set of sky Gods and set the tone for human conduct, lasting to this day.

The movement of tribes away from devastated areas into new regions, resulted in an expansion of our imagination (subjective consciousness) after about 1500 BC as a way of coping with the changes. This development of subjective consciousness (as opposed to mere consciousness) was a cultural innovation and the major change which made us human. Subjective consciousness came to be taught to children by parents, exactly like language is taught. The teaching of subjective consciousness (like the teaching of language) can readily be observed today. [note 2]

Before this time there was little need to cope with change. The people of Egypt and Mesopotamia (for whom we have records) had remained stagnant in the way of life of their forbears for thousands upon thousands of years.

The major change in humanity, however, which suddenly brought people up to our current expectations, happened subsequent to events of the seventh century BC. In 685 BC (this is the astronomical date, thus 680 in eastern Mediterranean chronology) Venus blazed up as bright as the Sun and was seen in the daytime skies with the Sun for three or four months.

The event was probably an extraordinary plasma output by the Sun. In July of 685 BC, Jupiter also flared up, and on July 14 sent a return lightning stroke, a plasmoid bolt, headed for the Sun. It arrived on July 25th. The plasmoid was seen in foreshortened form by Europe and Asia, and is depicted in sculptures and illustrations and even on coins. The Mediterranean nations considered that Venus was struck -- the bolt from Zeus which toppled Phaethon from the Sun's chariot. Mesoamerica saw the plasmoid at full lenght, and depicted it correspondingly different. Their thinking was that Mars was struck.

The aftereffects as experienced from Earth was a rotation of the dome of the stars, the relocation of the polar axis from Ursa Major to near Ursa Minor, and the delay of spring by some 15 days. A new equinox was suddenly established. The aphelion of the Earth's orbit (the locaction furthest from the Sun) changed, and sixty years of interference by Mars and Mercury came to a halt.

Within 100 years of this event, we see the simultaneous rise of philosophical studies, much as we understand them today, in China, India, and Mesopotamia -- well before there was any cultural transmission between these areas. It had appeared to all as if a far greater power, beyond the dome of the stars, had moved the stars and planets. The causes for natural phenomena were now sought elsewhere than in the whims of the old planetary Gods.

With the realization of the existence of a power beyond the planets and stars, we see the sudden rise of all the modern religions within the span of 100 years -- Taoism and Confucianism in China, Buddhism and Jainism in India with its subsequent influence on Hinduism, Zoroasterianism (Mazdaism) in Persia and its influence on Judaism, Mithraism, Christianity, and eventually on Islam. Similar changes are attested to in Mesoamerica, dating from shortly after 600 BC.

The new religions all adopt an invisible God and suggested a contract with this new, greater, and impersonal God or unknown force. The specifics vary with the politics and philosophies of various people, but all the new religions were testaments to hope -- hope for a good life on Earth, hope for the abatement of evil, hope for an afterlife, hope for union with God, hope for victory of a nation, hope for the conquest of others.

When in 670 the Earth's orbit became nearly circular (for unknown reasons), the Earth was also removed from any future interference by the inner planets. I have not extended the narrative beyond the 6th century BC, except for a discussion of the Star Wars section of the Sibylline Prophesies of the 1st century AD and an analysis of the amazing 16th century AD Maya "Books of the Chilam Balam" and the Guatamalan "Popol Vu."

What Other Say

A few comments from readers, from infrequent emails.

Highlights of New Findings

I checked and verified many theories which had been proposed by others about the past. Below I have mostly listed findings which came out of an attempt to establish a chronology and the effort to develop a rational set of mechanics for planetary interactions. Some of this has remained unknown to other investigators.

Contents and Resources

I write mostly from memory and do not always get things right. If you find errors, let me know. Differing interpretations are also welcomed. I type in a hurry and my word editor is way behind. My e-mail address can be found at the bottom of this page. Tell me which chapter and revision you are reading: The file names and dates of updates and RCS revision numbers are listed at the top of the chapters (some at the bottom). But even the mention of a single word will help. I can find the use (or misspelling) of a single word among the 400,000 words of these texts within a second.

The [Table of Contents] outlines the narrative and lists the sub-headings within each chapter. There are twenty chapters, and some additional files.

Both the narrative text and the appendices can be searched for key words (See the Table of Contents).

There is a list of books and links pertaining to the Saturnian Theories.

This site also includes (currently) a collection of 3800 mirrored files lifted from the web and sorted into 133 topics. The collection can be searched with a search script located on the Table of Contents.

Who I am

I am a visual artist (sculpture, installations), living in Chicago where I teach photography. I have a background in engineering, public administration, programming, and cinematography, and a curiosity dating back a lifetime. More information is available at my website [http://jnocook.net].

Why this text is presented on the internet

There is a lack of a comprehesive narrative of events among the catastrophic literature. This is a void I am attempting to fill. The alternative of publishing in book form would simple delay this and limit distribution to a select few, and allow no updates. Also, by going public, I am forced to complete the investigation and am under pressure to make all of it coherent. Amazingly, additional details keep coming forward as the edits continue. The Change Log, directly below, tallies most of the recent additions and changes.

Change Log

Jump to the [bottom] of the list of changes.

In March 2005 I had thought that this site had mostly reached completion, but it has been under constant minor edits, and at times prone to sudden inspirational revisions. Considerable material has been added.

New material is usually a simple inspiration which clarifies or substantiates statements which had previously been covered with hand waving phrases like, "probably" and "seems likely," but also includes things I haven't had time to think about, and rephrasings, concept corrections, and a few new data points.

Additionally, my editor Claudia George has stopped me at every mangled sentence, questioned each loosely tossed factoid, tripped me repeatedly on logic, forced me to explain every technical term ("Perihelion, what's that?"), and had me date every event from the remote past. And she can spell.

As of September, 2007, I started to change statements and diagrams about orbital interactions, since electrical effect can fully account for all the changes in the orbits.

Late in November, 2007, I calculated the earlier perihelion and aphelion of Earth and Venus, and now need to correct what I said about non-overlapping orbits.

In December, 2007, I finally localized the Earth shock of 686-685 BC as March 23, 686 BC, and due to Mercury. At the same time I suddenly became aware of the date, or apparent date, of the thunderbolt of Zeus which the Maya Chilam Balam claims as July 26, Gregorian.

In January, 2008, I finally started to look at alignments of Mesoamerican ceremonial centers. The Olmecs were clearly aware of the Earth shock of April 19, 1492 BC. An awareness of the February 28, 747 BC shows up clearly. All later (Classical era) site alignments recognize these two dates plus the alignment for July 25, 685 BC, or the equivalent horizon location of August 12. Although I had already determined these dates, or their approximations, from other sources, I was still surprised to find them recorded accurately in Mesoamerica. I adapted a QBasic computer program to resolve azimuth horizon angles of sunsets and sunrises, hours of daylight, and the noon elevation of the Sun as a function of calendar dates, axial alignment, and latitude.

In March 2008, thanks to many other sources, I started to collate information on the 'flood of Noah' event in terms of the mechanics and dating. I can substantiate the related fall Pleiades festivals, noted in Mo Mandelkehr's book, from Mesoamerican alignments.

I have added the "return of the axis mundi," directly after 3114, 2349, and 1492 BC. Milton Zysman suggested this in 1994 as an extended Aurora, but it more likely to represent a plasma plume.

In April 2008, I finally caught up with Anthony Peratt's second paper on the High-Current Z-Pinch Aurora in antiquity (published August 2007). This has been incorporated into the Chapter on Archaeology. Although details are lacking and dates are fuzzy and inconclusive, the information comfortable fits the chronology based on archaeology which I had developed earlier.

In April 2008, I resolved the starting date of the 685 BC venus nova event from information from the "Popol Vu" and data from the Zend "Khorda Avesta," collated with Valley of Mexico site alignments. I had not taken data from the Avesta seriously, because I could not match it against anything else. This is another fine detail still in edit. I will also have to look at the Sibylline Star Wars again.

In April, also, I managed to move the date of the 30 degree inclination to before 2349 BC. This too, is totally obvious from the information standing in front of us. This also has not been added yet.

I apologize to the readers of this document for the changes which keep happening, although all of them involve small details which keep falling into place and go to prove the validity of the overall narrative, and the fact that often it takes weeks to get texts updated.

The following is the change log since March 2005.

In April 2005:
- Some notes added on the world mountain;
- notes on the start of literature;
- notes on the later start of philosophy;
- source of the Hab-Sed festival;
- notes on Lepenski Vir.

In May 2005:
- Added alternative catastrophic narratives;
- note on orbital precession;
- fixed a logical glitch with Jaynes;
- added Seneferu's pyramids and dates;
- notes on Canopus Decree;
- fixed the change in the polar axis location in 685 BC;
- fixed plasma energy estimates;
- changed the age of the Earth;
- fixed some chronology.

In June 2005:
- Changed analysis of the Kings List;
- added notes on Mercury;
- patriarchs after Noah;
- notes on Bible parallels;
- extended nova events into the Permian.

In July 2005:
- Added notes on Comet Temple 1;
- corrected the Age of the Universe;
- moved some texts references up a thousand years;
- added Jaynes notes on the start of religions;
- extended the long range chronology;
- rewrote Kings List for Kish;
- rewrote radiometric dating;
- added crustal composition.

In August 2005:
- Corrected the first approach of Horus;
- added Chinese parallels.

In September 2005:
- Added 'two months later' to Temple 1 comments;
- added a note on the SNC meteorites.

In October 2005:
- Added some notes on the Mahabarhata;
- added and corrected ephemeris info of Canopus Decree;
- updated estimated shift of the equinox in 685 BC;
- added notes on the Spring and Autumn Annals.

In November 2005:
- Added notes on the Zohar and the Soo Chow chart;
- rewrote the changes for 685 BC;
- recalculated energy of the plasma stream.

In December 2005:
- Added notes on Hindu parallels;
- note on late barrows and henges;
- added page-bottom navigation;
- revised the visibility of the cloudbank.

In January 2006:
- Added comments to the Other Cosmologies page;
- added notes on the Sibylline Star Wars page;
- added more references to the flare-up of Venus;
- added a note on Narmer.

In February 2006:
- Added a section on predynastic Egypt;
- added endnotes on the blisters of Mars;
- corrected some notes on the lifetime of Thoth;
- added planetary inclinations and eccentricities;
- reworked ephemeris information;
- expanded comments on Canopus Decree;
- added a list of first and second dynasty dates.

In March 2006:
- Rewrote the Sibylline Star Wars page;
- expanded Venus and Epidemics page;
- added orbit diagrams to Mechanics page;
- rewrote the Canopus Decree page;
- rewrote notes on intervals of the Chronology page;
- corrected the ascension of Shamash-shum-ukin in 668 BC;
- moved half of Quetzalcoatl to History page;
- started making page-to-page links.

In April 2006:
- Rewrote 'A Change of the Equinox,' History page;
- added some calendar notes;
- added references to Phaethon in three places;
- reformatted files for single floppy access;
- rewrote Canopus Decree page;
- "Predynastic Kings of Egypt" to a separate page.

In May 2006:
- Moved return of Mars up 25 years, Chronology page;
- note on conservation of KE, Mechanics page;
- dates for 6th century religions, History page;
- notes on the Chilam Balam, Quetzalcoatl page;
- notes on the Eye of Ra, Polar Sun page;
- notes on the "Iliad", Language page;
- synodical period of Venus before 747 BC.

In June 2006:
- Updated Maya calendar, Chronology page;
- started Creation of the World from the Chilam Balam.

In July 2006:
- Found start of Long Count in 747 BC, Chronology page;
- endnote on Olmec Jaguar Babies added.

In August 2006:
- Mesoamerican alignments added, Chronology page;
- Katun 11-Ahau found at 747 BC, Chilam Balam page;
- set a starting date for the Sibylline Star Wars;
- described the switch from arc to glow mode, Polar Sun page;
- added Jupiter as the Midnight Sun, Gilgamesh page;
- added capture of the Moon, Introduction page;
- added four Mesoamerican ages of the world, Chronology page;
- completed the Chilam Balam page;
- rewrote sections of the Chronology page;
- rewrote sections of the Mechanics page;
- moved part of Mechanics page to main text.

In September 2006:
- Moved 3 appendix pages to main narrative;
- rewrote 'sub-polar' text of Saturn page.

In October 2006:
- Comments on Brown's Assyrian astrology, History page;
- notes on Mul.Apin, legs of Ursa Major, fragrances;
- notes on Teotihuacán, start of Haab in 1400 BC;
- additional notes on Chilam Balam page;
- V's use of the "three paths of the Sun" disputed;
- expanded notes on Maya Calendar, Chronology page;
- notes on five legendary emperors of China, Chronology page;
- added note on the river Styx, Gilgamesh page;
- added the darkness to the initial chaos, Polar Sun page;
- tied down the capture of the Moon, Gilgamesh page;
- added the Absu and Duat, Gilgamesh page;
- added Jupiter as the Red Morning Star, Gilgamesh page;
- general edit, Saturn and Evolution page;
- added how the skies looked at creation, Polar Sun page;
- removing duplications, various pages.

In November 2006:
- Added Uranus to the Narmer palette, Chronology page;
- House of Seven Bushes as the Duat, Chilam Balam page;
- fall of the Absu as Noah's flood added, Moses page;
- doorway to the Underworld added, Moses page;
- removed non-orbital information, Mechanics page;
- added planetary stability note, Mechanics page;
- identified Yao and Shun, Chronology page;
- added start of Re's coma, Chilam Balam page;
- further notes on flood of 3114 BC, Gilgamesh page;
- reconsidered the burning tower incident, Moses page;
- added extinction of Jupiter, Moses page;
- corrected search utility; added URLs, updates, page sizes.

In December 2006:
- Plutarch quoted on Jupiter, Gilgamesh page;
- estimates of the coma of Jupiter, Noah page;
- corrected date of Tower of Babel, Noah page;
- the raven and the dove, Noah page;
- sorted out the 24th century, Noah page;
- the sedge and the bee, the two ladies, Chronology page;
- adding a list of new findings, Index page;
- expanded crash of 3114 BC, Mechanics page;
- added Naram-Sin's stele Moses page.

In January 2007:
- Shadow on Absu found, Noah page;
- estimates on the size of the Absu, Gilgamesh page;
- more on the Acheulean hand ax, Ice Age page;
- Noah's ark and Ra icon added, Gilgamesh page;
- Enuma Elish information added, Gilgamesh page;
- Tiamat identified, Gilgamesh page;
- added diagrams for some of the calculations;
- darkness and the cold, Ice Age page;
- Saturn in the Lower Paleolithic, Ice Age page;
- the career of Jupiter, Mechanics page;
- long range chronology to separate page;
- returned Predynastic kings page;
- returned Age of the Universe page;
- returned Size of the Earth page;
- returned Deep Impact page;
- expanded axial inclinations, Introduction page;
- vertical separation in 3114, Mechanics page;
- Mul.Apin ecliptic notes, History page;
- added a synopsis, this page;
- started analysis of Palermo Stone, Noah page.

In February 2007:
- Split Jupiter's career from the Moses page;
- details of Jupiter's travels, Jupiter page;
- corrected vertical separation in 3134 BC, Mechanics page;
- added appearance of the 'shen,' Jupiter page;
- updating Jupiter's coma, various pages;
- added Seven-Macaw, History page;
- redid diagram of asteroid belt, Jupiter page;
- revised predynastic kings, Chronology page;
- added Hathor's bloodbath, Jupiter page;
- moved the Tower of Bable to the Jupiter page;
- edited the Jupiter page.

In March 2007:
- Rewrote the era of 2400 - 2300 BC, Chilam Balam page;
- rewriting "Archaeology" and "Lascaux," Ice Age page;
- added "In the Shadow of Saturn" to Ice Age page;
- added the Hypsithermal to Ice Age page.

In April 2007:
- revised ice core notes, Ice Age page;
- added Catal Huyuk notes to Archaeology page;
- dropped the Illustrations file;
- some notes added, Chilam Balam page;
- some notes added, Chronology page.

In May 2007:
- Context for Canopus Decree page;
- Split Part 4 to Parts 4 and 5;
- February 26 /28 glitch addressed;
- Edzna and Teotihuacan latitudes added.

In June 2007:
- Temple of the Hyperboreans added;
- congruence of axial tilts to text, Cosmology page;
- moved "Saturn in the Paleolithic" to Mechanics page;
- analysis of asteroid belt gaps, Mechanics page;
- location of Jupiter before 3114 BC, Mechanics page;
- recalculated vertical separation, Mechanics page;
- rotation of spin axes about Sun's axis Cosmology page;
- Heinrich layer H1 added to Ginenthal, Ice Ages page;
- Jupiter during the ice ages, Ice Ages page;
- rewrote Ice Ages page.

In July 2007:
- rewrote 'Catal Huyuk' of Archaeology page;
- rewrote 'Lascaux' of Archaeology page;
- delete 'Archaeological Periods' from Archaeology page;
- changed "page" for "chapter" or "appendix";
- corrections to Creation chapter;
- corrections to Gilgamesh chapter;
- corrections to Noah chapter;
- corrections to Jupiter chapter;
- corrections to Moses chapter;
- corrections to Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- added the Maya road in the sky, Jupiter chapter;
- corrections to History chapter;
- added James Hogan's essay, Introduction chapter;
- revised external field of plasmaspheres, Saturn chapter;
- corrections to Chronology appendix;
- removed parallel histories from Chronology appendix;
- corrections to Parallel Histories appendix;
- moved Precambrian back to Chronology appendix;
- corrected vertical separation chart, Mechanics chapter.

In August 2007:
- Calendars notes added to Chronology appendix;
- corrections to Mechanics appendix;
- extended endnote on the barmaid, Chronology appendix;
- added 280/273 day year, Jupiter chapter;
- date corrections, Chilam Balam appendix;
- book titles added, Books page;
- Roman calendar notes, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- some additions to Deep Impact appendix;
- baptism of 9 bushes dated, Chilam Balam appendix;
- 21st century updated, Jupiter chapter;
- second Bolon Dzacab located, Chilam Balam appendix;
- inner planet lockout in 3114 BC, Mechanics appendix;
- rotational momentum and charge, Mechanics appendix;
- corrections to Mechanics appendix;
- corrections to Chilam Balam appendix;
- added Maruts to Archaeology chapter;
- moved parallel histories back to Chronology appendix;
- note on black Kali, Jupiter chapter;
- wave movement in the Absu, Polar Sun chapter;
- electrical changes in spin rate, Mechanics appendix;
- axial tilt before 685 BC, History chapter;
- February 26 and 28 note, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- expanded the zip file to include the appendixes.

In September 2007:
- New graphics to Archaeology chapter;
- C14 corrections, Chronology appendix;
- Neptune added, Archaeology chapter;
- New introduction, Archaeology chapter;
- 30,000 year record of Saturn, Archaeology chapter;
- Mesoamerican sun-ages defined, Maya Calendar appendix;
- 819 Mars cycle suggested, Maya Calendar appendix;
- day of Kan of the 'second baptism', Chilam Balam appendix;
- dropped the zip file;
- corrections to notes, Maya Calendar appendix.

In October 2007:
- Electrical considerations, Middle Kingdom chapter;
- revised page-end navigation.

In November 2007:
- Menes identified, Chronology appendix;
- inner orbit corrections, Mechanics appendix;
- orbital changes defined, Mechanics appendix;
- orbital inclinations defined, Mechanics appendix;
- change in axial inclination, Mechanics appendix;
- changed and added graphics, Mechanics appendix;
- orbital interactions details, Mechanics appendix;
- changed plasmoids to plasmaspheres, systemic;
- rewrote parts of Polar Sun chapter;
- mirrored files updated, 3804 items;
- axial torque reaction added, Mechanics appendix;
- crossed orbits added, Mechanics appendix;
- some images corrected, Mechanics appendix;
- Moon's orbit inclination corrected, Cosmology chapter.

In December 2007:
- Cretan chronology endnote corrected, Moses chapter;
- 8th century eclipses discussed, History chapter;
- SNC separation dates, Chronology appendix;
- early Mars orbit correction, Mechanics appendix;
- ten degrees of the shadow added, Mechanics appendix;
- Mercury as agent in 686 BC, Mechanics appendix;
- latitude of Babylon, History chapter;
- Coyote and the mouse in 686 BC, Quetzalcoatl appendix;
- spin axis inclination since 3114 BC, Mechanics appendix;
- changed 680 BC to 685 BC, systemically;
- plasmoid from Jupiter in 685 BC, Star Wars appendix;
- plasmoid from Jupiter in 685 BC, Chilam Balam appendix;
- plasmoid from Jupiter in 685 BC, Celestial Mechanics appendix;
- rewrote Polar relocations file;
- the bull of heaven added, Gilgamesh chapter;
- Olmec 8 degree alignments, Maya Calendar appendix.

In January 2008:
- Izapa alignment checked, Olmec appendix;
- Edzna alignments checked, Olmec appendix;
- Monte Alban April 2 alignment, Olmec appendix;
- Jupiter plasmoid of July 26, Mechanics appendix;
- sun.bas corrected, Olmec appendix;
- circular reasoning removed, Star Wars appendix;
- "dire wrath of the Moon," Star Wars appendix;
- narrative revised some, Star Wars appendix;
- Coyote and the mouse added, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- corrected 686 BC Mercury contact, Mechanics appendix;
- Tun 9 to Tun 4, Chilam Balam appendix;
- Jupiter plasmoid size estimates, Mechanics appendix;
- Jupiter as the tree of the center, Chilam Balam appendix;
- Teotihuacan alignment, Alignments file;
- San Lorenzo narrative, Alignments file;
- the Sun not a God, Olmec appendix;
- the Sun returns at San Lorenzo, Olmec appendix;
- the giant heads of San Lorenzo, Olmec appendix;
- the giant heads of La Venta, Olmec appendix;
- removed "Olmec Alignments" from Maya appendix;
- changed "Saturnian Cosmology" to "Recovering the Lost World";
- no solstitial alignments, Olmec appendix;
- stuttering of Jupiter, Jupiter chapter;
- appearance of Apep added, Jupiter chapter;
- maize surpluses, Olmec appendix;
- travel of Jupiter plasmoid, Olmec appendix;
- Head section Base Href URI added (finally);
- maps and plats added, Olmec appendix;
- Exodus date disputed, Olmec appendix;
- Caloris basin of Mercury, Mechanics appendix;
- plasmoid scepter illustrations, Mechanics appendix;
- planets in the 8th century, Mechanics appendix;
- Mercury in the 8th century, various pages;
- trees sorted out, Chilam Balam appendix;
- day of Kan detailed, Chilam Balam appendix;
- green Osiris, Chilam Balam appendix;
- changed title, Olmec Crisis appendix;
- ballcourt dates, Olmec appendix;
- 8th century BC Mars visits corrected, Mechanics appendix;
- four mighty demon bats, Chilam Balam appendix;
- San Lorenzo alignments, Alignments file;
- La Venta alignments, Alignments file;
- Laguna De Los Cerros alignments, Alignments file;
- Tres Zapotes alignments, Alignments file;
- Cerro de la Mesas alignments, Alignments file;
- Remojadas alignments, Alignments file;
- Zempoala alignments, Alignments file;
- Tlatilco alignments, Alignments file;
- Tizatlan alignments, Alignments file;
- Cuicuilco alignments, Alignments file;
- Tlapacoya alignments, Alignments file;
- Cholula alignments, Alignments file;
- the day of Kan, Olmec appendix;
- Long Count corrected, Chilam appendix;
- antipodal alignments marked, Alignments file.

In February 2008:
- Moved appendixes to chapter headings;
- corrected La Venta alignments, Alignments file;
- summary of alignments, Olmec chapter;
- Monte Alban calendar conversion, Olmec chapter;
- correction for Don Scott's broken link;
- removed Base Href;
- climatic periods added, Archaeology chapter;
- validity of the data, Olmec chapter;
- alignment diagrams, Olmec chapter;
- edit and error corrections, Olmec chapter;
- error corrections, Alignments file;
- 8th century lightning bolts, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- Olmec site primacy, Olmec chapter.

In March 2008:
- started Popol Vu chapter;
- the period of the may, Olmec chapter;
- third conquest, Olmec chapter;
- rewrite of some Noah items, Noah chapter;
- notes from Hall and Whorf, Language chapter;
- Caloris basin diameter updated, Mechanics chapter;
- Ten Suns of Li added, Jupiter chapter;
- sequence of events for 2349 BC, Jupiter chapter;
- Day of the Dead added, Jupiter chapter;
- return of the Axis Mundi, Gilgamesh chapter;
- Sirius as plumb bob, Mechanics chapter;
- return of the Axis Mundi, Jupiter chapter;
- sequence of events for 1492 BC, Moses chapter;
- return of the Axis Mundi, Moses chapter;
- Babylon latitude recalculated, History chapter;
- alignments corrected, Pleiades added, Alignments page;
- 13 and 18 degrees added, Olmec chapter;
- Pleiades settings added, Olmec chapter;
- list of date sources added, Olmec chapter;
- day of the Dead, Chilam Balam chapter.

In April 2008:
- Moon's effect on precession, History chapter;
- year to 366 days, Chronology chapter;
- plasmasphere interaction diagrams, Mechanics chapter;
- ten degrees of Isaiah, Mechanics chapter;
- Peratt south pole petroglyphs, Archaeology chapter;
- corrected axial relocation path, Mechanics chapter;
- Peratt column diagrams, Archaeology chapter;
- colonization of Pacific islands, Archaeology chapter;
- darkness before the Chaos, Ice Ages chapter;
- the opossum brings the year, Archaeology chapter;
- revised Peratt column copy , Archaeology chapter;
- revised Peratt column diagrams, Archaeology chapter;
- cup and tail marks returned, Archaeology chapter;
- red Sirius and location of Apep, Jupiter chapter;
- survey of the Maya lands, Archaeology chapter;
- reconsidered rotation of Venus, Quetzalcoatl chapter.

In May 2008:
- Notes on speculation, Cosmology chapter;
- dropped April 2 for September 8, 2349 BC, Olmec chapter;
- dropped April 2 for September 8, 2349 BC, Alignments page;
- Soconusco heads added, Olmec chapter;
- sequence for Venus nova, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- Jupiter plasmoid, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- July 25, 685 BC, History chapter;
- June 22, 685 BC, History chapter;
- June 14, 685 BC, History chapter;
- June 9, 685 BC, History chapter;
- planets in the 7th century BC, Quetzalcoatl chapter;
- rewrote with new dates, Star Wars chapter;
- Monte Alban data added, alignments file;
- three inclusive interval counts, Chilam Balam chapter;
- 40 days for the 685 BC nova event, Quetzalcoatl chapter.

Endnotes

Note 1 --

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Note 2 --

The concept of subjective consciousness was developed by Julian Jaynes in "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" (1976). Subjective consciousness involves the ability to recognize yourself as seen by others - an analog 'I' -- which is internalized and placed into the space of the imagination. This represented a new mental space based on a metaphorical displacement of the self, and had not been seen before about 1500 or 1000 BC. (The 'space' suggested here is a concept predominently defines in Indo-European languages. Other people, of cultures based in other dominant languages, have formed other equivalent solutions.)

You can look through the 'eyes' of this substitute 'I' or even observe yourself from afar in your mind. Biologically it involves separation of volition and consciousness in the speech centers of the brain. 'Memory' and 'self-awareness' are not subjective consciousness. All animals have memories, all animals are aware of themself. Some people never achieve subjective consciousness, yet they appear fully functional.

Pre-conscious people are almost indistinguishable from subjectively conscious people. Pre-subjectivly-conscious people can learn anything, including mathematics, and certainly they can joke, have emotions, and carry on convoluted dialogues with each other. However, they rely heavily on the learned admonitions of parents and authority figures ('oughts' and 'shoulds') and have difficulty with novel situations. A pre-conscious human does not have the ability to imagine the thinking of others, especially reflectively, that is, how others might imagine them as thinking.

The concepts are more fully developed on the text pages.
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