The
Hindu Triad
Brahma
Siva
Vishnu
The Hindu Triad
Hindu mythology performed the earliest consolidation of the
cosmic events that occurred during the Vedic period. After
several millennia in which the pattern of capture and release
of priori-Mars was faithfully repeated, newer deities were
defined which described the sequence of events in more abstract
terms. These form the Hindu triad, Brahma (creator), Siva
(destroyer) and Vishnu (sustainer). Brahma was the primary
deity, while the other two were generally associated with
priori-Mars. These deities together described the cyclic capture
and release of priori-Mars, particularly the ‘events’
which took place on that planet during the ‘dance encounters,’
i.e. the periods of fourteen or fifteen years during which
it was in geosynchronous orbit over the Transhimalayas.
Brahma
Of all the revelations of mythical 'gods' in Firmament, the
identification of Brahma is the most revolutionary, because
no Vedic scholar or modern day scientist has even imagined
anything close to it. It is not possible within this article
to explore more than a few of the colorful passages describing
this deity. Understanding Brahma in Hindu myth (Prajapati or Purusha in the Vedas) also makes possible the identification
of the primary deities in the sacred myths of most other ancient
cultures, since they all propitiated this enormous feature on the surface of priori-Mars.
In the following quote the ‘vault of heaven’ was
priori-Mars, or what was called ‘The Firmament’
in the Bible.
He guards
the vault of heaven, a close-set pillar
Brahma was the single most visible, most feared feature
on the surface of priori-Mars during its encounters with the
Earth. It was an enormous ‘pillar’ comprising innumerable hardened lava tubes that extended
downward from the north pole of priori-Mars toward the Earth during each encounter. The first stage of priori-Mars after
each capture was that all the water in its northern hemisphere
was drawn toward its north pole by the tidal
force of the Earth, forming what is now known as the ‘Oceanus
Borealis.’ Then subsurface melting produced magma, which
was slowly drawn upward through many cracks and vents. This
was initially seen as the ‘primal egg’ within
the waters. It then began to extend above the waters, taking
shapes like a boar or a turtle, which were called reincarnations of Brahma and later the
Avataras of Vishnu. Eventually streams of lava shot high into
the ‘air,’ aided by the strong tidal force of
the nearby Earth. The lava fountains hardened on the outside
forming innumerable tubes providing rigidity and allowing liquid lava
in their interiors to flow even higher. Flames shot out of
the top and materials of different densities and melting temperatures formed bizarre shapes and textures in the near-zero gravity
environment between the two planets. In Hindu myth these were called the '
four heads of Brahma.' Each had a distinctive color and texture
which could be discerned by the naked eye from the Earth and are described in the Vedas.
The following quotation indicate the two forms of Brahma:
There are
two states of this Brahma - one with, and one without shape;
one perishable, one imperishable; which are inherent in all
beings. The imperishable is the supreme being; the perishable
is all the world. ..Glory to Brahma, who is addressed by that
mystic word (Om), associated eternally with the triple universe,
and who is one with the four Vedas...He is the invisible,
imperishable Brahma; varying in form, invariable in substance;
the chief principle, self-engendered; who is said to illuminate
the caverns of the heart; who is indivisible, radiant, undecaying,
multiform... It is in the later parts of the Vedas that Brahma
is identified with the supreme, and Brahma becomes his great
manifestation.
This quotation
describes the rise and fall of the hardened lava fountain
feature at the north pole of priori-Mars. At the end of each
fifteen year encounter, the feature collapsed due to the removal
of the tidal force of the earth, which helped support the
fragile feature. This was therefore the ‘perishable’
aspect of Brahma, ending with a long a (Brahma.) At the next
capture, this feature slowly evolved through the waters until
it again reached its full height and threatening aspect. Thus
the supreme, imperishable, invisible Brahma, invariable in
substance, was described as waiting within the planet to again
take form.
At times of alignments of the Earth-priori-Mars with the Moon,
moreover, with the Sun and Moon combined, i.e. at the times
of solar and lunar eclipses, the smaller planet suffered great
convulsions of its interior. These resulted in the ejection
of hot bodies, as large as 20 km, from the interior through
volcanos and volcanic vents into space. Rapid fire ejections
from the same vents often occurred, forming a stream (ambhasi in Sanskrit)
of glowing bodies. Ejections of such bodies through the vents at the
north pole usually caused the primary feature (Brahma) to
collapse. As a result, Brahma was seen as the creator of these
bodies, called asuras and suras. Asuras were bodies ejected
from the crust, which carried significant amounts of water.
The water outgassing from these bodies could be seen as they
were lofted into space. The term asuras implies that they
had ‘breaths.’ The suras were very hot glowing
bodies from deeper inside the planet. The word suras meant
‘glowing bodies’ which evolved to mean ‘gods.’
The asuras which still retain some of their complement of
water are now known as ‘short period comets.’
Those which have expended their water and the very hot bodies
are now known as Near Earth Asteroids.
These bodies were further classified into four categories,
depending on where their orbits took them. Some fell to the
Earth killing many people and creating thunderbolts. This
was the reason for the great concern about predicting eclipses
by ancient peoples. Some were seen to fall on the near side
of the Moon, and some remained in orbit around the Earth or
entered planetary orbits around the Sun. This was the origin
of the title ‘Creator’ for Brahma in the Hindu
Triad.
A day of Brahma was the period of a single fourteen or fifteen
years encounter, because this is the time he was erect. The
night of Brahma was equal to a day of Brahma, implying that
priori-Mars was in its planetary orbit around the Sun for
an equal period. Actually they were not exactly the same,
because priori-Mars was captured at the end of October and released at a spring equinox - the two points where the orbits of Earth
and priori-Mars intersected. The life of Brahma comprised
one hundred ‘days,’ implying a day-night period
of roughly thirty years. This is carried over from the Vedas,
in which it is said that there were ninety-nine Indras (close
enough for government work,) each visit of priori-Mars to
the earth being designated an Indra. In the later Hindu books,
such as the Maharabata and the Puranas, the length of his
day became inflated to enormous figures, thought to be fitting
for such a great god. But among all the inflated numbers we
find, almost casually, a clue to the true age in the mention
of a Manvantura, which was fourteen years. Based on this and
Velikovsky’s biblical research, the period was probably
between fourteen and fifteen years. This agrees with Greek
myth, in which it was said that the Olympian gods reigned
for 3000 years.
According
to the Brahma Purana, another name, Apava (who sports on the
waters), is given to Brahma, which has a similar, though not
identical, application with Narayana. Apava, according to
that Purana, divided himself into two parts, male and female,
from whom proceeded Vishnu.
The obsolescent term 'sporting' has a sexual connotation of
a male erection. This analogy of the lava fountain feature
on priori-Mars in terms of the male (lingus) inserted in the
body of the planet, seen as the female (yoni) is a common
theme, which reinforces the nature of the physical features
we have deduced. Although I have identifed a number of features on the surface of Mars today in the myths, such as the Vallis Marineris with the 'Eye of Ra' or 'Eye of Horus,' The feature of Brahma is no longer intact because it could only form in the presence of the tidal force of the Earth and collapsed when away from the Earth. However, because of its enormous height (1000 km or more) and its innumerable collapses, the resulting debris covers vast area of the planet Mars today. If fact, the two Viking landers, although half a world apart, are both surrounded by its debris.
Siva
Siva was the Hindu deity associated with the destructions that
marked the end of each encounter. At the close of a day of
Brahma (fifteen years), a collapse (pratisancharab) took place, which lasted
through a night of Brahma, equal in duration to his day, during
which the lotus-born god was said to have slept on the serpent Sesha. The volcanic
'beings' on the surface of priori-Mars collapsed in a pile
of blackened rubble. This dissolution of such heroic gods
was attributed to another powerful deity, Siva. These collapses
occurred when a fifteen-year 'dance encounter' was terminated and priori-Mars
was drifting away from the Earth. The breaking off of each
encounter was brought about by the nearby presence of proto-Venus and alignments of the Moon and Sun with priori-Mars. These events produced great stresses on the Earth and
priori-Mars, causing continuous quaking and ejection of large
rocks the volcanos on priori-Mars.
But it was not only at the end of a day of Brahma when Siva
came into play. In addition to these great destructions at
the end of each encounter, lesser ones occurred much more
frequently, due to alignments of the Earth-Mars pair with
other heavenly bodies. Great rock bodies were ejected from
numerous volcanos on priori-Mars, not just from the form of
Brahma itself. An important clue which points to the alignments
of the priori-Mars-Earth pair with other heavenly bodies as
the driving source of these eruptions is given in the following
myth from the Hindu Mahabharata, in which the Siva aspect
of priori-Mars was invoked:
As Siva
was seated on the Himalayas, where he had been engaged in
austerities, Uma, attended by her companions and dressed as
an aesthetic, came behind him and playfully put her hands
over his eyes. The effect was tremendous. Suddenly the world
became dark, lifeless, and destitute of oblations. The gloom
however is as suddenly dispelled. A great flame burst from
Mahadeva's [Siva] forehead, in which a third eye, luminous
as the sun, was formed. By fire from this eye the mountain
was scorched, and everything on it was consumed. Uma hereupon
stands in a submissive attitude before her husband.
I have identified
several of the consorts of the Hindu triad as bodies of water
on priori-Mars, but this is not true of Uma, who a result
of this myth was said to be the female power behind Siva.
We have good reason to believe that Uma was the Moon. Her
aesthetic dress implies the ashen gray color of the Moon.
Other epithets for Uma, 'the personification of divine knowledge,
distinguished by severe austerity, adored by the worlds -
the most excellent of goddesses,’ also imply the Moon.
The sastatement that Siva was 'seated' in the Himalayas is one
more confirmation of our scenario of 'dance encounters,’
in which priori-Mars remained stationary over the Transhimalayas
for extended periods of time. Since the Indian people were
almost directly below priori-Mars, in the foothills of the
Himalayas, the passing of the Moon behind priori-Mars meant
that there was an alignment of Earth, priori-Mars, and the
Moon at this time. Thus the eruption described in the myth
occurred right at the time of an alignment of the Earth-Mars
pair with the Moon. Since the two planets revolved about one
another with a period of one day, the times that they were
exactly aligned with other bodies came and went in less than
an hour. This rapid change caused violent trauma within priori-Mars.
The Vedic people saw
the face of Siva on priori-Mars. The face is still discernable
to this day, although not nearly as impressive as it was during
the Vedic period. It is shown in the figure. The 'eyes' were
the erupting volcanos Arsia and Ascraeus Mons, the outer of
the three aligned volcanos. The 'magnificent nose' (pictured
as the beak of Horus in Egyptian myth) was the the peak of the Tharsis Bulge,
an almost circular feature some 1500 kilometers in diameter
now ringed by several visible faults, which, although now
only some seven kilometers above the surface, was greatly
distended during the Vedic period. The 'mouth' of this face
was formed by the western tip of the Valles Marineris which
cuts into the Tharsis Bulge.
The notion of Siva’s eyes being covered in the above myth was due to dust
which was kicked up from the surface of priori-Mars as a result
of global quakeswhich obscured all detail and created a featureless
appearance. This was the initial result of the Moon approaching
alignment with priori-Mars as seen from the Earth. The phrase
“destitute of oblations” implies that the many
glowing volcanic vents, usually visible on the surface of
priori-Mars during these encounters, were hidden from view
by the dust clouds. The idea that these fires represented
'oblations' comes from the custom of the Vedic people to burn
wood to propitiate the deity Agni. They imagined that the
deceased had traveled to priori-Mars and the most religious
of them carried on the custom ‘in heaven.’
The myth goes on to tell that a third 'eye' then erupted in
Siva's forehead, belching flames. This was the eruption of
Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system, which,
as can be seen in the figure, is in the position of the 'forehead'
of the large raised face-like formation spanning several thousand
kilometers. The presence of Olympus Mons at this location
was the original impetus for the custom still practiced in
India, and probably carried over into the Roman and Byzantine
Catholic ceremony of Ash Wednesday, in which a mark is placed
on the forehead of the faithful.
This important myth explains clearly the mechanism of the
episodic eruptions of priori-Mars. The tidal forces on priori-Mars,
which were already enormous, suddenly spiked when the priori-Mars-Earth
pair passed rapidly through alignments with the Moon, causing
great stresses in the interior of priori-Mars. During such
alignments all the volcanos on priori-Mars erupted violently,
belching large hot rocks from the interior, many of which
fell to Earth causing death and destruction. When the planet
was convulsed the volcano ‘eyes’ shown brightly,
the Tharsis Bulge ‘nose’ became more distended,
and on some occasions, liquid iron from the outer core of
the planet was drawn out of the ‘mouth’ into space.
By virtue of the alignment described in the quote, Uma is
described as representing the 'energy' or 'active power' of
Siva, and was associated with him in mythical 'marriage.'.
Vishnu
Brahma, Siva, and Vishnu were all associated with the planet
priori-Mars.
Brahma is
regarded as the supreme Being, the God of gods; of whom Brahma,
Vishnu, and Siva are manifestations. It is true that, in some
verses of the Vedas, attributes ascribed to him are also ascribed
to other deities, and in some of the Puranas various gods
are said to be identical with the supreme Brahma.
As we will
see there are many quotes which interrelate these deities,
although the argument as to which is superior depends on the
source. In the Padma Purana we find the following quote stating
that Vishnu is supreme but at the same time implying the common
identity of the three:
In the beginning of creation, the great Vishnu, desirous of
creating the whole world, became threefold; Creator, Preserver,
Destroyer. In order to create this world, the Supreme Spirit
produced from the right side of his body himself as Brahma;
then in order to preserve the world, he produced from his
left side Vishnu, and in order to destroy the world, he produced
from the middle of his body the eternal Siva. Some worship
Brahma, others Vishnu, others Siva; but Vishnu, one yet threefold,
creates, preserves, and destroys: therefore let the pious
make no difference between the three.
The challenge here is to understand the rationale by which
this one body was seen as manifesting the three deities Brahma,
Vishnu, and Siva. The names of the Hindu triad are invoked
one, two or all three at a time in some myths. Perhaps surface
features associated with all three may have been simultaneously
visible. This is consistent with our identification of Siva,
which was identified with an enormous ‘face’ formed
by several volcanos and the Tharsis bulge, and Brahma, formed
by a massive column of partially frozen lava, but there is
no indication that Vishnu was so identified. Obviously the
latter deity was more subtle in nature.
The Avataras are stories which describe the deity as taking
on different 'forms' or 'appearances.’ The term avataras
is applied to Vishnu, while the forms of Brahma are called
incarnations. Because many of these avataras and incarnations
are identical, there is a strong indication that the events
were merely transferred from Brahma to Vishnu, especially
because they describe the shape of the solid surface as it
swelled and became visible above the tidal sea in the first
months of each kalpa (day of Brahma.) In the following quote,
an attempt is made to explain why priori-Mars repeatedly returned
to orbit around the Earth:
This deity
is worshiped not only under the name and in the form of Vishnu,
but also in one of his many incarnations. Whenever any great
calamity occurred in the world, or the wickedness of any of
its inhabitants proved an unbearable nuisance to the gods,
Vishnu, as Preserver, had to lay aside his invisibility, come
to earth in some form, generally human, and, when his work
was done, he returned again to the skies. There is no certainty
as to the number of times he has become incarnate. Some Puranas
describe ten Avataras, as they are called; some mention twenty-four;
one, the Kalki is still future."Some of these Avataras
are of an entirely cosmical character; others, however, are
probably based on historical events.
The avataras described transient volcanic forms that arose
on the surface of priori-Mars as lava was drawn up through
the tidal sea. For example, the tortoise and boar Avataras
were two shapes of the ground which rose above the waters
early in particular encounters. Other more mysterious ones
are called ‘Rama’ and ‘Rama-with-axe.’
These forms all 'came up through the great waters.’
Indeed, the deity's origin in the water is one of the most
pervasive themes in the Avataras.
Vishnu is
commonly called Narayana by those who make him the supreme
object of worship, though this was originally a name for Brahma.
The meaning of this epithet is explained as follows:
The waters
are called nra because they are the offspring of Nara; and
since they were formerly the place of his
movement (ayana),
he is therefore called Narayana.
This implies that the 'waters' were thought to have been created
by Vishnu (or the invisible Brahma) and subsequently became
the place of his creative actions. Physically, the waters
in the northern hemisphere of priori-Mars were drawn into
a sea at its north pole by the tidal force of the earth at
the beginning of each ‘dance encounter.’ Another
description of this same type of event clearly indicates that
Brahma proceeds out of the body of Vishnu:
Vishnu,
as he meditated ... sank into a mysterious slumber; and as
in his sleep he imagined the production of various things,
a lotus sprung from his navel. In the center of this lotus
Brahma appeared; and Vishnu, beholding the production of his
body, was delighted.
The association with water is reinforced by the presence of
a lotus, but the shape of the lotus was obviously chosen because
it best described the form of the feature we have identified
as Brahma, which arose on the surface of priori-Mars. Thus
all three of the Hindu triad deities were associated with
priori-Mars - more specifically with its pattern of capture
and release from geosynchronous orbit, which lasted for over
3,000 years.
