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Following the hypothesis proffered in /God Star/, the prequel to this work, /Flare Star/ sets out to show that Earth’s last Ice Age came suddenly to an end due to the cosmic catastrophe that was caused by the proto-Saturnian system’s entry into the present Sun’s domain of influence. Very much as in /God Star/, this is partly demonstrated through the message contained in mankind’s mytho-historical record. The main evidence for the above supposition, however, derives from the scars of the event that are still etched in Earth’s land-masses and oceanic depths. Recent discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics also lend their weight in accounting for the detailed sequence of the devastation. Along the way, various enigmas that have bothered a range of disciplines are thereby elucidated. One of the greatest tectonic upheavals that humanity has ever experienced—encompassing geomagnetic field excursions, diastrophism, global volcanism, the heaping of the ocean onto the land, the extinction of life that followed, and much more—is provided with a catastrophic cause that has eluded researchers until now. Nor can it be said that all of humankind succeeded in dodging the catastrophe, or that those fortunate enough to do so escaped entirely unscathed. The very concept of deity, the origin of which was traced in /God Star/, is here also explored further since man ended up blaming his God for having caused the devastation that forever changed his world. Nor is this to be wondered at, seeing as the destruction in question did proceed from the very entity that man himself found reason to endow with what he later termed its divine power. Review Remarks About the Author Dwardu Cardona was born, raised, and educated in Malta, Europe, from where he emigrated to Canada in 1959. Less than a year later, in mid-1960, he became involved in the study of catastrophism and the reconstruction of the Solar System’s cosmic history. He has, since than, acted as a Contributing Editor for /KRONOS/ and, later, as a Senior Editor for the same periodical. He helped in the publication of the journal /AEON/ from 1992 to 1994, and served as its Editor from 1995 to 2006. He was a Founding Father of the Canadian Society for Interdisciplinary Studies (now defunct), and has acted as a consultant on mythology and cosmogony for /Chronology and Catastrophism Review/, which is the official organ of the British-based Society for Interdisciplinary Studies. He has also acted as the Series Editor for the /Osiris Series/ of books sponsored by Cosmos & Chronos. As a writer, Cardona has now published well over a hundred articles in various periodicals, as well as the book /God Star/ which forms the prequel to /Flare Star/. He has additionally lectured at the University of Bergamo, in Italy, and at various organizations in Canada, the United States, and England. He presently makes his home, together with his wife, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. *Contents* * PART ONE THE DEEP FREEZE* *Chapter 1 The Frigid Earth* The Glacial Theory _ _2 The Pleistocene Ice Age_ _3 The Interglacials_ _6 Previous Ice Ages_ _7 Gondwana_ _8 Snowball Earth_ 1_1 *Chapter 2 The Milankovitch Theory* The Birth of the Milankovitch Theory_ _14 The Distressed Life of the Milankovitch Theory_ _18 The Death of the Milankovitch Theory_ __ __ _20 The Resurrection of the Milankovitch Theory_ _21 The Devils Hole Controversy_ _22 Summing Up_ _25 *Chapter 3 Alternative Hypotheses* In Search of a Better Proposal_ _27 A Simple Matter of Severe Winters_ _27 Ice as its Own Cause_ _28 Cold Versus Heat_ _29 Uplift of Land_ _30 The Volcanic Theory_ _31 Pole Shifts and Tilts_ _33 Magnetic Field Collapse_ _34 Meteoric and Asteroidal Impacts_ _35 Comets and Cometary Tails_ _36 Mini Snow Ball Comets_ _40 Solar Cycles_ _43 Sun Spots and Nebular Dust_ _45 Superflares_ _45 Supernovae and Cosmic Rays_ _46 Lack of Consensus_ _47 *Chapter 4 Unorthodox Schemes* Dislocated Polar Caps_ _51 The Ice Dump_ _53 The Tippe-Top Model_ _55 Water Versus Ice_ _62 An expropriated Scenario_ _64 Diastrophism_ _65 Striations and Erratic Boulders_ _68 Moraines_ _74 The Glacial Hecatombs_ _76 The Ice-Free Arctic_ _80 * PART TWO THE SATURN THESIS* * Chapter 5 Reiteration* Myths and Legends_ _90 The Planetary Deities_ _102 Ancient Astronomical Lore_ _108 The Saturnian Sun_ _113 * Chapter 6 The Concept of Deity* The Solomonic Sun_ _116 The God of the Midianites_ _118 From Ya to Yahweh_ _122 The Moon and Jupiter_ _124 The Case For and Against Ea_ _125 Yahweh’s Sun-Wheeled Chariot_ _126 The Dionysiac Yahweh_ _127 Yahweh-Elohim_ _129 * Chapter 7 The Boreal Locus* The Sun of Night_ _137 The Solitary Deity_ __ _137 The Immobile God_ _137 The Polar Station_ _139 * Chapter 8 Proto-Saturn* Linear Systems_ _146 Plasma Streams and Birkeland Currents_ _147 Dwarf Stars_ _148 Saturn as a Sub-Brown Dwarf_ _149 The Age of Darkness_ _150 The Habitable Zone_ _153 The Nocturnal Environment_ _155 The Proto-Saturnian Plasmasphere_ _158 Varves and the Sunspot Cycle_ _160 The Boreal Cradle_ _164 *PART THREE THE PRIMORDIAL MILIEU* * Chapter 9 Paleolithic Man* Frigid Emergence_ _167 Arctic Survival_ _168 The Neanderthals_ _170 The Cro-Magnons_ _180 Paleoart_ _184 The Great Bear_ _186 Lunar Notations_ _193 Interbreeding: Pro et Con_ _195 Catastrophic Signatures_ _200 Glacial Clemency_ _202 * Chapter* * 10 Setting the Stage* Ancient Man in Arctic Regions_ _205 The Mytho-Historical Connection_ _207 The Lord of Time_ _209 The Highest Antiquity_ _209 Man in Darkness_ _214 * Chapter 11 The Circumstellar Disk* Chaos_ _217 Tao_ _218 The Nebular Cloud_ _218 The Waters of Chaos_ _219 The Whirl of Creation_ _223 Planetars_ _224 * Chapter 12 Lord of the Lingam* The Axis Mundi_ _227 Shiva_ _228 One Thousand and Eight Epithets_ _233 Aja Ekapad_ _236 The Maha Linga_ _236 Phallic Worship_ _239 Adoration of the Linga_ _241 Modern Quirks_ _244 Conceptual Degeneration_ _245 Brown Dwarf Jets_ _249 The End of an Era_ _252 * PART FOUR THE FLARE-UP* * Chapter 13 Prelude to Creation* The Astronomical Background_ _255 Predetermined Encounter_ _259 Contact_ _261 Columnar Instabilities_ _264 The Pictographic Evidence_ _265 The Magdalenian Primacy_ _267 The Mirror Image_ _274 The Plasma Experience_ _276 The Retraction_ _279 Intense Charged Particle Beam Dispersals_ _280 Backlash_ _285 *Chapter 14 Let There Be Light* The Fiat Lux_ _290 The Birth of a Theory_ _293 Adoil_ _298 Gnostic Mysticism_ _299 The Terrifying Splendor_ _302 The Birth of Ra_ _303 Philo’s Illuminated Air_ _304 As Bright as a Thousand Suns_ _305 P’an-Ku_ _306 Half a World Away_ _306 Further Light from the Primitive World_ _307 Final Words from Oceania_ _309 *Chapter 15 Exploding Stars and Planets* Velikovsky’s Original Scenario_ _313 Novae and Supernovae_ _315 Recurring Novae_ _317 Survivability of Partners_ _317 The Exploding Planet Theory_ _319 The Trouble With Aztex_ _321 Van Flandern’s Modification_ _322 A Comparison of Models_ _325 Epochal Adjustment_ _326 Multiple Explosions_ _326 One Solution to the Problem_ _328 *Chapter 16 Narrowing the Gap* Planetary Novae_ _331 Cometary Flare-Ups_ _332 Brown Dwarf Outbursts_ _333 Plasma Discharges_ _335 Within the Sun’s Domain_ _337 Dating the Event_ _339 A Benchmark Figure_ _341 The Aluminum Cloud_ _342 * PART FIVE AFTERMATH* *Chapter 17 Magnetospheric Upheaval* The Star of Evil_ _345 Shaitan_ _347 Earth’s Diminishing Field_ _348 Earth’s Reversing Field_ _351 Geomagnetic Retrocalculations_ _353 Geomagnetic Excursions_ _354 Objections to Barnes’ Exponential Decay_ _359 Cosmic Ray Discharge_ _360 Proposed Causes_ _361 Ex Hypothesi_ _366 *Chapter 18 Out of the Freeze* The Heat Wave_ _370 X-Rays and Double Layers_ _371 Terrestrial Braking_ _372 Frictional Heat_ _376 Meltdown_ _385 Memories_ _388 *Chapter 19 Global Catastrophism* The Flooding of the Land_ _391 Aquatic Genesis_ _395 Sea Level Changes_ _397 Aboriginal Recollections_ _401 Raised Shorelines_ _405 Rebound_ _408 Terraced Beaches_ _411 Tectonic Upheaval_ _413 Ancient Testimony_ _419 High and Dry Whales_ _425 Mastodons Underwater_ _427 Gas and Dust_ _428 Diamonds_ _429 Bombardment_ _435 Alternative Possibilities_ _ _438 Impacts_ _440 *Chapter 20 Life in the Balance* Extinctions_ _443 The Mammoth Hunters_ _446 Mass Slaughter_ _454 The Fate of the Overkill Theory_ _461 A Change of Band Wagons_ _463 Geologists Join In_ _467 Radiation Exposure_ _470 Aborted Mutations_ _473 Creatures New and Strange_ _476 Humanity in Crisis_ _477 Racial Divergence_ _480 Burping Methane_ _484 Heaven on Earth_ _486 * Epilogue* The Electromagnetic Universe_ _490 Brown Dwarf Stars_ _491 Planet Formation_ _494 Heat Retention and dissipation_ _495 Polar Convergence_ _497 The Interloping System_ _499 Flaring Energy_ _500 Havoc at the System’s Edge_ _501 Arctic Origins_ _505 Future Return of Ice_ _505 Behavioral Metamorphosis_ _507 End of Act Two_ _510 * Index* A to Z_ _514 *Order Link* Flare Star $69.00 Mikamar Publishing 971-255-1059 1217 NE 75th Ave, Portland OR 97213