Recovering the Lost World,
A Saturnian Cosmology --Jno Cook
Part 22: Afterword.

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Introduction

After recently rereading David Talbott's "The Saturn Myth," de Santillana and von Dechend's "Hamlet's Mill," Dwardu Cardona's "God Star" and other essays by him, plus essays by Ev Cochrane, I am again astounded at scope of the information which has been brought to bear on the Saturnian Cosmology. If earlier I stated that "I have provided no more than cursory information," it meant that I simply skipped most of the worldwide 'mythical' information already tracked down by other researchers. There was simply no reason to weigh down a narrative with thousands of 'op cit' and 'ibid' footnotes -- and they would have amounted to thousands.

What is missing from the wide-ranging efforts of other researchers, however, is a coherent analysis of Mesoamerican sources. I have added some of this. But it could not have been done without the prior analysis by others of the sequence of events as described in Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Chinese sources. I am also indebted to the earlier commentators and chronographes from Augustine to Ussher.

Confirmation

After writing most of the text (except Appendix A, "Notes on Chronology," and Appendix B, "The Celestial Mechanics," both of which were developed earlier), I started to look at the ceremonial centers used in antiquity by the Olmecs of Veracruz and the people of the Valley of Mexico.

I wanted to verify the solstitial site alignments which Vincent H. Malmström, writing in "Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon" (1997), had suggested existed for sites from Guatemala to Mexico. The thinking was, if some of these sites were located before 685 BC, then certainly there would be solstitual sunrise and sunset alignments at an angle of about 32 degrees north of the east-west cardinal direction, which would have been true if the Earth's axis were inclined at 30 degrees rather than 23.5 degrees. With the axis of the Earth aligned at 23.5 degrees to the normal of the orbital plane, this angle would be about 24 degrees. I looked at 15 sites, but found only one solstitual alignment -- in the current era.

What I found instead, were alignment to the setting (or rising) zenithal sun for almost all the sites. Additionally I found alignments to six calendar dates, at some sites selected for the condition of a 30 degree axial inclination, at other sites for 23.5 degrees. Only two sites (Cuicuilco and Tlapacoya) mixed alignment under different axial conditions. All the site alignments pointed to giant mountains and the largest volcanoes in this region of Mexico, often hundreds of miles away. I considered 11 volcanoes and large mountains. The exceptions were the use of an alignment defined by the major axis of the site itself (two locations for which I have data). After consideration of other sources from the eastern Mediterranean, I was able to tie these dates to the catastrophic events of 2349 BC (September 8), 1492 BC (April 19), 747 BC (February 28), and 685 BC (four dates).

The dates turn out to represent the fall of the Absu in 2349 BC (as the fall culmination of the Pleiades), the Earth shocks of 1492 BC and of 747 BC, plus a distribution of 4 dates which can be pinpointed to the Venus nova event of 685 BC. This last series of events seemed to have caused some confusion among the people of Central Mexico. There is little agreement on which date or which event constituted the end of the era in 685 BC. The four dates are used in a nearly equal measure.

Considering that there are 365 days in the calendar year, and that the Sun rises and sets on the same horizon location twice each year between the time of the winter solstice and the summer solstice, there are still some 182 days, and 182 locations along the horizon, which could have been selected. To have alignments consistently show up mostly on 6 days only, it well beyond random. Alignments for matching calendar dates vary only by 1/3rd of a degree between calculated and observed values from site to site.

It is also clear that almost all sites picked either to align their important era ending dates to an axial inclination of 30 degrees or an axial inclination of 23.5 degrees. Only a few sites mixed alignment for different axial conditions as convenient to the mountains or volcanoes which could be used. At La Venta, which was in use in 685 BC, we see the effort to change the major mountain alignment corresponding to a sunset for February 28, 747 BC, correct for an axial inclination of 30 degrees, to a new value, correct for an axial inclination of 23.5 degrees, by to a new value, correct for an axial inclination of 23.5 degrees, by rebuilding the site with its axis aligned 8 degrees west of north. The perpendicular to this points to the new sunset location for February 28, 747 BC.

The following seven chapters deal with Mesoamerican Sources -- the development of language and subjective consciousness (Chapter 14), the Maya calendar (Chapter 15), the history of the world since the Second Creation of 3147 BC from the "Chilam Balam" (Chapter 16), the earlier history of the First Creation since 8347 BC also from the "Chilam Balam" (Chapter 17), the effect of the cosmological crisis of 685 BC as reflected in the alignments of Olmec and Valley of Mexico sites (Chapter 18), the search for the day of Kan (Chapter 19), and an exposition of the "Popol Vu" (Chapter 20).

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