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V/A Scenario

Mars

Priori-Mars Most Ancient Terrestrial Planet

Six thousand years ago, the solar system comprised only two
terrestrial planets (three if we count the Moon.) The highly
energetic impact on Jupiter at that time initiated a 3000 plus year
period of planetary chaos. It began with an enormous impact on
Jupiter (>1042 ergs) from which a massive cloud rebounded and
rapidly contracted into the flaming proto-Venus. This new planet
swept through the inner solar system and ejected what I call
priori-Mars, by far the most ancient of the terrestrial planets,
from its interior orbit into one that intersected that of the Earth.
At that time it still had a solid iron core, a magnetic field and it
was a living planet, with abundant vegetable and animal life,
including an intelligence far beyond our own. Priori-Mars (as Yama
in Hindu myth) was described as a 'green man with a red cloak.' This
combined with the duality inherent in the Yama-Yami incarnation and
the Yin-Yang figure, were all depictions of the two dichotomous
regions of priori-Mars, which we now call the northern plains and
the southern highlands. Yama was also protected by two vicious dogs,
I maintain were the diminutive satellites, Phobos and Diemos.

Dance Encounters

Priori-Mars, Earth and Venus then entered synchronous orbits which
resulted in the repeated capture of priori-Mars in a geosynchronous
orbit around the Earth for fifteen years followed by its release
into a solar orbit for an equal amount of time. /This cycle was
repeated one hundred times/ (there were 100 Indras). The collision
of the two bodies may have been prevented by the fact that they both
had magnetic dipole fields at that date. Priori-Mars always orbited
over Mt. Kailas in the Transhimalayas, known in the Vedas as Indra?s
home on Earth. Its release was influenced by the tidal force of
proto-Venus, when the latter?s inferior conjunctions corresponded to
its aphelions. At these times the solid core of priori-Mars exited
the planet and swooped into a lower orbit around the Earth while the
outer shell drifted away. The two recombined as they left the
vicinity of the Earth and reformed during the fifteen years that it
orbited the Sun. But 2,700 years ago, after the hundredth encounter,
the outer shell of priori-Mars failed to recombine with its solid
core and slid out to its current orbit, forming the low density
planet we now call Mars.

The Tharsis Bulge

Prior to the Earth encounters, ?innumerable encounters? with the
more massive proto-Venus had greatly distorted the figure of
priori-Mars, distorting it into a shape described as a dog head.
This was the origin of the Egyptian deity Anubis which has a black
snoot and a green head. Because it was an ancient semi-rigid planet,
the record of this distortion remains, both as a mass anomaly, and a
set of faults which span the entire planet, centered on the Tharsis
Bulge. The only record of the many close encounters on Venus are the
raised areas, generously called continents, because of its
essentially liquid interior. In spite of the geophysical evidence,
the magnitude of the distortion is not even imagined today (note the
three circular faults on the bulge itself.) Some scientists have
hypothesized that the distortion was caused by a hot plume from the
interior, but this could never produce global faulting.

The distended bulge was seen as the beak of a great bird in many
cultures, e.g. Horus, whose hieroglyph is a bird. The western end of
the Valles Marineris cuts into the bottom of the Tharsis Bulge
creating an opening interpreted as the mouth and volcanoes formed
the eyes of an imagined deity, e.g. Horus, Siva (Hindu), with
Olympus Mons in the middle of its forehead. This image led to the
practice of placing a spot or ornament on the forehead in the Hindu
religion. The Egyptian appellation ?Horus the child? is due to the
fact that the western end of the Valles Marineris, which cuts into
the Tharsis Bulge, looks like a finger on which Horus is sucking.
(Figure 1)

Effect of the Tharsis Bulge on the Orbiting priori-Mars

The effect of the enormously distended Tharsis Bulge on the equator
of priori-Mars is what caused the northern plains to be some 7 km
below the Mars datum. As it approached Earth, the tidal torque on
the bulge forced priori-Mar?s spin axis to oscillate wildly until it
pointed toward the Earth. Only the Martian lithosphere was affected,
because its solid core, like that of the Earth today, was isolated
from the solid inner core by 1000 km of liquid iron. Thus the
capture did not require any change in the total angular momentum of
priori-Mars. The torque maintained the orientation of its north pole
toward the Earth throughout each of the fifteen year encounters.
Because it was caused by the tidal attraction on only one point, its
rotation was a wobbling, precessional motion. Both its initial
oscillation and the precessional motion which lasted for the
duration of each encounter are described in myths of several
cultures. No scientist or scholar in the world has even an inkling
of these unique interactions, but they are clearly described in many
myths. For example, priori-Mars was seen in myth as a wobbling wheel
on one end of an axle with the Earth on the other end. In this
orientation, the tidal force of the massive Earth drew all of the
water in the northern hemisphere of priori-Mars toward its north
pole. The presence of a vast ocean surrounding the north pole of
Mars is evidence by the flatness and the presence of subtle
coastlines surrounding it. It has been named the Oceanus Borealis.

Effect of the Tibetan-Himalayan Complex

The presence of priori-Mars had a similar effects on the Earth.
Priori-Mars became tidally locked to an anomalous mass on the
surface of the Earth, the Tibetan-Himalayan complex, above which it
remained stationary in the sky, in geosynchronous orbit. In order
for this complex to be on the (temporary) equator, the spin axis of
the Earth?s lithosphere was forced to shift to the Hudson Bay area,
where it remained throughout each dance encounter. The
concentrations of glaciers at Hudson bay, as opposed to the north
pole of the earth, are evidence of the long time spent in this
orientation. As in the case of priori-Mars, the shift did not effect
the rotation of the solid core, which was isolated from the
lithosphere by the liquid outer core. These shifts of the spin axis
every fifteen years were the cause of the many myths about the
anomalous movement of the sun, Moon and stars in the sky. In
response to the presence of priori-Mars over the Transhimalayas, the
waters of the hemisphere centered on this complex were shifted in a
way similar to on priori-Mars. Because of the elevation of the
complex they concentrated as close as possible, inundating northern
India to a depth of 5,000 ft. This shift also effected the area
surrounding the Mediterranean and Red Seas, from which it drew all
the waters, creating temporary deserts in the seabeds, as evidenced
by the layered deposits of evaporates in the sea beds. The resulting
floods across Egypt, the Levant and Mesopotamia, every fifteen years
were countered by the building of the pyramids, the walled tells and
the ziggurats, respectively.

The Column of Smoke and Fire

Earth and Marsquakes were continuous during the dance encounters and
the melting of subsurface rocks took place on both bodies. The tidal
force of the more massive Earth had a much greater effect on
priori-Mars. In a few months the melted subsurface rock was
gradually drawn up into the Oceanus Borealis, forming the /mundane
egg/ (Hindu myth) within the water, which continued to grow. The
lava then extended above the waters taking on many forms, called the
/Avatars of Vishnu/, e.g. the turtle. Eventually it shot high into
the 'air' through a multitude of vents, forming an enormous lava
fountain. As it rose higher and higher, the outer parts of the
rising lava streams hardened forming vertical lava tubes, allowing
the fountain to grow to great heights. This structure reached as
high as 1000 km, because it was partially supported by the tidal
force of the earth. It glowed various colors of red with the
brightest at the top, out of which flames shot. This was the major
deity in most eastern cultures - Prajapati (Vedic), /Brahma/
(Hindu), /Osiris/ (Egyptian), /Atlas and Zeus/ (Greek), but we can
thank the Jewish people for the most descriptive name -/ the column
of smoke and fire/. Its deification was not only due to its size but
to the smoke and flames that shot from the top and serpent-like
tornados that danced around it. This was the /axis mundi/, the axis
on which the two planets, Earth and priori-Mars, were seen rotating
like wheels. Extending downward toward the Earth, the Greeks
imagined this monstrous glowing feature to be the deity that
prevented priori-Mars from falling. Thus the ?world? that /Atlas/
supported was not ours.

Where is the Top 7 km of the Northern Plains?

When the fast revolving (once per day) Earth-priori-Mars pair passed
through alignments with the Moon, or worse yet, with the Sun and
Moon, enormous convulsions took place in the interior of the latter
and streams of hot rock bodies up to 20 km in diameter were shot in
rapid succession into space from volcanoes such as Olympus Mons,
from many volcanic vents in the northern hemisphere and from those
that fed the primary lava deity. In a chapter entitled "patadhikara"
or "Chapter of the /Falls/," the Hindu Astronomy Text /Surya
Siddhanta/ states that upon the alignment of the Sun and Moon:

4. Since a fall (pata) at this time often causes the destruction of
mortals, it is known as /vyatipata/ , or by a difference of title,
/vaidhrti/.

It then describes the appearance of priori-Mars at these times:

5. Being black, of frightful shape, bloody-eyed, big-bellied, the
source of misfortune to all, it is produced again and again.

Innumerable bodies, as large as twenty kilometers in diameter,
escaped because their velocity was boosted by the combined tidal
force of the Earth, the rotational velocity of priori-Mars and its
revolution around the Earth. Some of these bodies may also have made
a ?bootstrap? pass around the Earth. The first bodies in the
rapid-fire sequences were from near the surface, and as a result
contained significant water. In the Vedas, they were described as
/asura/, (having breaths in Sanskrit). One such body was recently
photographed from close up by Deep Space 1. Scientists were
surprised that what they thought was a large ball of ice, was
actually a Mt. Everest sized rock body, from which a few small vents
were spewing out the gases that formed the comet tail. These were
followed immediately by hotter glowing bodies (/suras/, glowing,
gods) from deeper in the planet. The resulting streams of bodies and
?storms? of millions of small rocks were carried with them and went
into various orbits. Those orbiting the Sun are now known as Near
Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and short period comets. It has been noted
that NEAs, comets and meteorites are often members of the same
family, due to their very similar orbits. This streaming process
also resulted in the ?pairing? of a significant portion of the
asteroids observed, a fact which surprises scientists. Both the
streaming and pairing of bodies ejected from prior-Mars are
explicitly described in the Vedas. The streams are also the source
of the meteor showers which indicate their origin close to the Earth
every year, marking the place in the earths orbit near which the
original convulsion of priori-Mars took place. The number and
magnitude of these convulsions, which occurred over a period of some
3,000 years, is indicated by the 7 km lower elevation in the
northern plains. That massive amount of rock now comprises the NEAs,
the short period comets, the lunar regolith, the outer covering
(also regolith) of Mercury, and the meteorites, many of which are
unrecognized. (Ayres Rock?) And those yet to fall. Much rock has
also fallen into the solar atmosphere, as evidenced by the fact that
the solar absorption spectra matches that of the carbonaceous
chondrites.

Evidence on the Surface of Mars

The strongest convulsions shattered the fragile lava fountain forms,
which collapsed on the surface in innumerable pieces, forming the
layers of 10-20 cm sharp angled, vesicle covered volcanic rocks that
surround the Viking lander sites. But the lava feature was soon
rebuilt once the convulsions ceased. The other surface component,
which superficially resembles soil, is composed primarily of tiny
spherical, iron-rich particles which hardened when lava was shot
high into the air from millions of vents. These same particles,
called/chondrules/, are found on the most common type of meteorite,
the /carbonaceous chondrites/, which were ejected from priori-Mars
during this period. If the NASA landers, Spirit and Opportunity, can
examine the soil microscopically, they will find this is the case.

All Meteorite are from Mars

Because they came from many depths within priori-Mars there is a
wide variety of meteorite types. There are surface rocks containing
water (carbonaceous) and others coated with chondrules (carbonaceous
chondrites), mantle rocks (stoney), core-mantle interface rocks
(stoney-irons) and the nickel-iron meteorites are samples of its
liquid iron core. The large numbers of nickel-iron meteorites
indicate the degree to which priori-Mars was turned inside-out by
the repeated tidal convulsions during the many protracted
encounters. The carbonaceous chondrites resulted from surface rocks
which were covered with tiny droplets of raw lava shooting from
surface vents. Thus all meteorites are from a single tortured,
differentiated body, priori-Mars and all were launched into space
less than 6,000 years ago. Due to the thousands of convulsions of
the interior of priori-Mars, the ratios of oxygen and argon isotopes
changed during the Vedic period. That is why the ratios in some
meteorites are not the same as in the two dozen plus so-called
Martian meteorites, which have isotope ratios similar to those
sampled by the Viking landers.

Where Did the Martian Water Go?

During every convulsion, some atmospheric gases and water were
blasted into space and drawn across the 33,000 km gap to the Earth,
primarily in Tibet. The vast Tibetan basins were filled until they
broke their containment and catastrophically tore through the
Himalayas forming the four great river valleys, Ganges, Brahmaputra,
Sutlej, and Indus which all originate within 20 km of Mt. Kailas,
known in the Vedas as ?Indra?s home on Earth,? and in Hindu myth as
Siva?s home. Manasarovar and Rakastal lakes, just south of Kailas
are all that remains of those great heavenly reservoirs. Scientists
today study the massive flow features on Mars and wonder where the
water went. Almost the total complement of atmospheric oxygen,
nitrogen, and water passed from priori-Mars to the Earth during the
3,000 year Vedic period. This added /hundreds of meters to the sea
level on Earth since 4,000 BC/. The mass of water may even be
greater than implied by this figure, depending on the degree to
which the seabed may have been compressed by the added water
pressure. The periodic 15 year encounters with priori-Mars
facilitated the extraction of the maximum amount of water from that
planet, since the relatively inaccessible water remaining in the
southern hemisphere after each encounter became evenly distributed
during the 15 years it was in a solar orbit. The flow features on
Mars, toward the north pole in the northern hemisphere and toward
the south pole in the southern hemisphere, are exactly what would be
expected as a result of the tidal force of the Earth oriented over
its north pole.

Fossils from Mars?

The probability is high that the basins in which these lakes laid
could very well contain fossils of Martian life, in fact some may
have already been discovered, but are not recognized as
extraterrestrial. A number of unique fossils have been located
nearby in Hunan province in Southwestern China. The convulsions
drained the red planet of its precious life-supporting volatiles,
and as a result, the size of the Oceanus Borealis, the tidal sea
that gathered around its north pole, continually decreased in size.
Between encounters, most of the tidal ocean evaporated and was
redistributed around the planet, until priori-Mars approached the
earth again, at which time the entire cycle of water loss was
repeated. This is why there are no well defined coastlines
surrounding the Oceanus Borealis and why the small amount of water
remaining is concentrated around the south pole, which remains
cooler than the north. The Earth benefited to a degree currently
unimaginable due to the influx of oxygen and water which may have
raised our sea level hundreds of meters. The great mystery of where
the Martian water went is solved. It is part of every plant, animal,
lake and ocean on Earth.

The Origin of the Lunar Regolith

A large portion of the rock and dust ejected from priori-Mars arced
outward and landed on the Moon in great 'storms', covering only the
near side with several kilometers of regolith, for which scientists
have no explanation. This recent deposition created the 2 km offset
of its center of gravity from the geometric center observed today.
As a result, the ?Moon rocks? returned to Earth are mostly from Mars
and are not native to the Moon, and the most ancient ages calculated
for these rocks are those of priori-Mars, not the Moon. Late in the
3,000 year Vedic period, a rapid fire sequence of large hot bodies
was ejected from priori-Mars into an orbit which just reached the
Moon. As a result, they approached the Moon with less than escape
velocity. Their impacts were cushioned by the deep soft regolith
already in place. Because of their high temperatures, they were
already softened. The additional heat released upon their impact
melted them completely and they remained in the basins created by
their impacts - a one in a million chance. They formed the maria
before the very eyes of an awed generation of human beings. To this
day Egyptians celebrate 'the day Osiris entered into the Moon.' This
is told in a beautiful Egyptian myth in which Osiris? body was cut
into 14 pieces and spread all around by his enemy Set. This
corresponded to a collapse of the great lava fountain (Osiris) at
the time of the ejection of the bodies discussed above. Isis, the
Moon, then went around and collected the parts of her lover?s body,
and at each location, constructed a monument. The maria are these
monuments.

Who, even in modern terms, could imagine a more graphic description
of the events. The calculated ages of the maria rocks are younger
than the surrounding regolith, which give the truer age of Mars
(~4.5 billion years,) because the extra heating they experienced
caused some of the gases, used to determine their ages, to escape.
The differences in their calculated ages is also due to the
differences in their heating history. Thus there is no volcanism on
the Moon and the true age of the Moon will only be correctly
determined when bedrock from the far side is analyzed.

NEAs and Short Period Comets - All from priori-Mars

Many ejected rock bodies went into orbit around the Sun, the near
surface rocks containing water and volatiles forming the short
period comets such as Borrelly, which consequently is primarily rock
with gases jetting from a few crevices, and which is so young that
it still retains some of its volatiles. The hotter ones, from deeper
in priori-Mars formed the NEAs. This explains the nearness of their
orbits to that of the Earth at one point. This happened many times
during each fifteen year dance encounter, and there were 100 such
encounters. The great mass of material ejected from the northern
plains of Mars, some seven kilometers in depth, is now spread around
the inner solar system and influences practically every observation.

Priori-Mars Deconstructed

	As each dance encounter progressed, priori-Mars became more and
more turned inside-out by the convulsions, to the degree that the
liquid iron core was eventually drawn out into space, forming
bizarre shapes determined by the microgravity between the two
planets. The head of the Sphinx (in Egyptian ?Horus on the Horizon?,
which was looking toward priori-Mars fixed position in the eastern
sky) gives a clue to this shape. The columnar ?beard? was the
primary lava fountain at the north pole, and the ?hood? that
extended down on either side of the face was the liquid iron. But
the devastation went further, reaching its culmination just before
priori-Mars escaped. The glowing solid core of priori-Mars appeared
in the opening now marked by the Valles Marineris. This was the ?eye
of Horus? or the ?eye of Ra.? The shape of the physical feature
shown above exactly matches the hieroglyph, as can easily be seen in
the figures above. In fact, the orientation of the physical feature
shown upside down compared to the way it is shown in most
presentations, corroborates my claim that priori-Mars orbited with
its north pole oriented toward Earth.

The Separation

In the final stage of each encounter, the solid core of priori-Mars,
which was the source of its magnetic field, exited its lithosphere
through the Valles Marineris, dropped into a lower faster orbit,
moving to the east and revolved independently around the Earth for
one orbit. At the same time the outer shell began to drift away from
the Earth and in the process moved westward relative to its fixed
formerly fixed position. This detachment was facilitated by the
close approach of Venus, whose inferior conjunction and aphelion
coincided at that time. The faster orbit of the glowing core gave
the impression of great speed. It was called /Hermes/ by the Greeks
and/ Mercury/ by the Romans. The ancients saw it as an emissary of
the priori-Mars deity,/Zeus/ (Greek), /Marduk/ (Babylonian), who
delivered their edicts to Earth. In Homer?s Odyssey, "he moved with
the speed of the wind." It must have dipped dangerously low over
Egypt because in their myth /Hathor/ was said to have been sent to
devastate mankind Current interpreters of this myth suggest that the
?speed? of /Mercury/ was a result of its current orbit close to the
Sun. That motion would never have been described as ?moving with the
speed of the wind,? just as Mars in its current orbit would never
have been described as ?the god of war? or ?the stormer of walls.?

Termination of Each Dance Encounter

After one revolution, the solid core caught up to its shell and the
two drifted away from the Earth ?piggy-back.? At the end of
ninety-nine encounters the solid core re-entered the shell of
priori-Mars once it was outside of the influence of the Earth and
?healed?, becoming nearly spherical once again. However, at the end
of the hundredth encounter, the solid core was deflected, probably
by the Moon, (whose period changed from 36 to 28 days at that date,
687 BC) so that it did not rejoin its lithosphere.

Mercury - the Former Solid Core of Mars

	The solid core of priori-Mars then interacted with Venus, probably
for several centuries, as indicated by the clay relief (Figure 3)
from the sanctuary of Persephone in Locri, in southern Italy, which
was crafted in the middle of the fifth century B.C. This shows the
pair consorting. The interaction of the two finally resulted in the
circularizing of Venus? orbit and the current eccentric inner orbit
of Mercury. This scenario is consistent with the findings of
mathematical models of the solar system, in which planetary
scientists have recognized a ?resonance? between Venus and Mercury.

In the subsequent 2,700 years rocks and clouds of dust, blasted into
solar orbits throughout the Vedic period, has landed on Mercury as
regolith. That is why Mercury superficially resembles the Moon,
while at the same time having a much higher average density. The
regolith is distributed all over Mercury because, unlike the Moon,
it does not keep the same face toward the Earth. The dipole magnetic
field of the solid iron 'planet' Mercury was the source of
priori-Mars? magnetic field, which is still ?recorded? in its
surface rocks. Due to the reduced pressure, formerly provided by the
outer shell of Mars, the superconductive region has retreated deep
into the solid iron body, thereby weakening its dipole field.

Mars - a Shell of its Former Self

At the same time, in order that energy and angular momentum be
conserved, the shell of priori-Mars drifted outward and contracted
into the smallish, low density ?planet? which we call Mars. Its low
density is due to the loss of its solid core and much of the liquid
iron from the outer core. This scenario is consistent with recent
studies of the trajectory of the Mars Global Survey probe revealing
tidal effects that imply a liquid core.

Planetary Magnetic Fields Generated by Supercurrents in Solid
Cores

The dipole magnetic field of Mercury proves that the magnetic fields
of planets originate via supercurrents in their solid cores and are
not due to the ponderous circulation of liquid iron in their outer
cores, as currently believed. Tests in diamond anvils indicate that
hydrogen enters the iron lattice at super high pressures, and the
ratio is close to unity. The resulting crystal structure, designated
FeH, matches the seismic velocity and average density of the Earth?s
core, and its layered pattern makes it a good candidate for a
superconductor. The ponderous circulation of liquid iron in the
outer cores of differentiated planets serves only to cause slowly
varying /regional distortions/ of the pure dipole field originating
within the solid core and provides a buffer allowing the solid core
to rotate independently of the lithosphere. The magnetic field in
the solid core is ?pumped up? by impulses of charged particles from
the Sun spiraling into the poles. Venus has no magnetic field
because its internal heat is still much to high for a solid core to
?freeze out.?

Carbonaceous Chondrite Meteorites Are from Mars

The most common meteorites, the carbonaceous chondrites, were formed
due to lava fountains on the surface of priori-Mars spraying molten
nickel-iron from the interior into the air, where the droplets
suddenly cooled and became attached to surface rocks, which were
subsequently blasted into space. Billions of tons of this material,
has fallen and is still falling into the Sun, or more correctly,
into the solar atmosphere, where its atoms linger. Scientists
measuring the absorption spectra of the solar atmosphere assume that
it reflects the concentration of elements in the Sun. The marked
similarity of the spectra to the makeup of the carbonaceous
chondrite meteorites measured in laboratories, has lead scientists
to believe that these bodies formed in the solar nebula and are
therefore primordial. We claim that the two match simply because so
much chondritic material from priori-Mars has fallen into the Sun?s
atmosphere in the last few millennia. Based on the same solar
spectra, astronomers also conclude that the Sun has a much higher
carbon content than any other similar stars, but we maintain that
this is just temporary carbon from the meteoroid material in the
solar atmosphere. This is just the 'trickster' at work.

A thousand trips to Mars and Mercury will not reveal the truth
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