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Impending Comet To Wreak Havoc Again?

In the year 2024, the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is due to pass near Earth again for the first time in 3500 years. Graham Phillips’s The End of Eden presents compelling evidence that civilizations worldwide became warlike and monotheistic after Earth passed through the tail of this comet in 1500 B.C. He explores the violent effect of 12P/Pons-Brooks on peaceful cultures such as the Olmec of Mexico and the Megalithic people who built Stonehenge and shows how this comet’s appearance was taken as a significant religious event that still has repercussions today.

In 1500 B.C., Earth passed through the comet’s tail, and in the decade following, cultures the world over began to exhibit significant aggressive tendencies. Civilizations in India, the Middle East, China, Japan, Europe, and Central America suddenly abandoned their peaceful ways and devoted themselves with uncharacteristic fervor to making war on their neighbors and fighting among themselves.

But this was not the only effect that is linked to this celestial event. Sudden outbreaks of monotheism—the worship of a single god, and a new idea at the time—occurred simultaneously in locales spread widely throughout the world. Most of these monotheistic religions represented their god symbolically as a circle with a series of lines extending below—resembling a simple drawing of a comet.

Phillips argues that there is no other explanation for these changes other than the presence of this massive comet in the skies above Earth. He contends that debris in the comet’s tail contaminated the atmosphere with a chemical known to cause aggressive behavior, and that after little more than a decade, worldwide hostility abruptly abated. He also explores how the appearance of a celestial body that outshone the moon would have been interpreted as a significant religious event—the premier appearance of a powerful new god to supplant the deities previously worshipped around the world.

Graham Phillips is the author of The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant and Atlantis and the Ten Plagues of Egypt. He lives in England.
Homer’s Tales Take Place in Atlantic, not Mediterranean

In The Triumph of the Sea Gods, Steven Sora argues compellingly that Homer’s tales do not describe adventures in the Mediterranean, but are adaptations of Celtic myths that chronicle an Atlantic coastal war that took place off the Iberian Peninsula around 1200 B.C. Sora’s investigation of the geographical incongruities in Homer’s epics locates Troy on the coast of Iberia, and cites the rise in sea level in 1200 B.C. as leading to the invasion and victory of the Atlantean sea people over the goddess-worshipping Trojans who ruled the coasts.

It was a war between the pro-goddess Celtic culture that presided over what is now Portugal and the patriarchal culture of the sea-faring Atlanteans. The invasion of the Atlanteans brought destruction to the entire region stretching from Western Europe’s Atlantic border to Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. This was a turning point not only politically but also spiritually. The goddess became demonized, as seen in myths such as Pandora’s Box, in which woman was seen as letting evil into the world, and Homer’s epic tale of the Greek and Trojan war, which was triggered by the abduction of a woman.

The actual historical struggle described in Homer’s stories, Sora explains, occurred during what was the last in a series of rises in sea level that inundated various land masses (Atlantis) and permitted sea passage to areas previously accessible only by land. The “Sea Gods” (Atlanteans) attacked the tri-city region of Troia (Troy), near present-day Lisbon, which, shortly thereafter, fell victim to a devastating series of seaquakes and tsunamis. The war and the subsequent destructive weather broke the power of this seaboard civilization, leading to a wholesale invasion by the sea peoples and the rapid decline of the region’s goddess-worshipping culture that had reigned there since Neolithic times. Sora shows how Homer’s tales allow the modern world to glimpse this ancient conflict, which has been obscured for centuries.

Steven Sora has been researching historical enigmas since 1982 and is the author of The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar and Secret Societies of America’s Elite. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal”
-Albert Einstein

Everyday technology advances further into the depths of Science Fiction; while we as humans try to catch up (sociologically speaking). Half of the population keeps looking towards the stars and the future for answers while the other half looks towards the earth, looking at the past. Given that history is in a circular and progressive state of repetition, we can only assume that we once may have held fantastic knowledge in the palm of our hands. Archeologists are in a constant battle with foreign and domestic countries alike to research on various territories across the globe.

The past can lead us to the future but only if we can fully understand what it is that it’s trying to say. Communication has become branded with the World Wide Web. How did we get along with out? I can’t imagine. Hell, I couldn’t even write this article without it. The use of cell phones alone have led to what some thought impractical only twenty years ago. The Star Trek generation has come upon us faster then we could’ve anticipated. Everything from Bluetooth earpieces to portable DVD players are now in fruition.

Laptops are now equipped with finger print technology and Wi-Fi so we can have instant access to said World Wide Web, basically anywhere on the planet. Pretty soon we’ll have retinal scans and DNA samples just so we can boot up our home computer. Sony’s newest advancement is HDNA; High Definition combined with DNA.

“Sony Electronics is set to launch a $100M ad campaign in order to promote what they are calling HDNA - a combination of high definition (HD) and DNA. The campaign will focus on educating the public about Sony high definition products, including Sony Blu-ray players, and how they all integrate to provide the ultimate high definition experience.”1.

Sony’s latest home entertainment invention is the PS3, complete with Blue-Ray technology. In case you’re confused about what Blue-Ray really is let me explain.
Blue-Ray is a Blue-Violet laser. Just like the red laser you were once used to seeing at the check out lines in your local grocery stores. However the Blue-Violet laser is significantly smaller, about 245 Nano-meters smaller to be exact. Meaning, that you can now store that much more information on a single disc; more information in less space. Why? I ask if we live in a forever expanding universe do we want to continually create smaller and smaller items, cell phones, laptops, and even cars. With the 65 inch television and Hummer being two of the few exceptions.

But, now we can have the ultimate in gaming experience with the PS3. I’m more of an Xbox fan myself, but that’s a different story. The Blu-Ray offers fantastic elements to any game on the PS3. Let’s say Tomb Raider; Legend for example. This by the way, is a game placed in the present focusing on the past using instruments of the future; (i.e. waterproof PDA.) This is great game using medieval, mythological, and historical ideology to help Lara Croft on her quest to put Excalibur back together from pieces scattered all over the world.

The idea of believing that the past is the key to the future holds true to me. I trust that if we search long enough the past will reveal hidden truths about us as humans. But technologically speaking as consumers we are in the past and the future is continually just out of reach. As soon as we have our hands on the latest technology something newer, better, and more significant comes along. First there was Film, then it moved to tape or VHS, and then it became Laserdisc (that was too complicated and who really wants to stop in the middle of Tango and Cash to flip the disc over?).

That led to DVD and wow that is amazing. Nothing beats that two disc set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I own the box set but that’s all blown apart with Indiana Jones part four coming out. Nothing beats DVD, except Blu-Ray. Like I’ve said just when we have our hands on the latest technology something newer and better comes along. Not that I’m complaining mind you. But I’m still a huge fan of High Definition in the end. It’s affordable and there’s enough of it out there that we can purchase top quality merchandise and not have to sell our house to do so. Robert Rodriguez is one of the most influential film makers of today and he shoots on HD instead of film. Why?

“HD; its revolutionary. You'll see, man. They're going to wonder how I'm making three movies a year and they all look better than their movies—and they're cheaper. So they're all going to start getting into it. But right now they've still got their blinders on.”2.

So, in the end cost.

But, once Blue-Ray makes its way into the film scene for the consumer then we’re going to see some fantastic films being made. Personally I’m a fantasy buff, I like Medieval and mythological and even theological films, the most recent being Pathfinder; The tale of Viking child who grows up with and indigenous tribe only to have to fight his own ancestors to save his foster family.

For now though I’ll stick with HD for watching and making movies and Blu-Ray for playing videos games. Speaking of video games I’ve decided to make wish list of games I’d like to see. Maybe Sony will take notice. 1. An ancient Egyptian based game about the fall of the empire. Or loosely based on Stargate the movie. 2. A Medieval game where you are a king and the decisions within the game decide the fate of your people and their kingdom. 3. You are an archeologist who has discovered an ancient alien artifact and accidentally activated it. Now, several alien species are after you. And you must fight or hide to stay alive. Let’s call it Unearthed.

Homer’s Tales Take Place in Atlantic, not Mediterranean

In The Triumph of the Sea Gods, Steven Sora argues compellingly that Homer’s tales do not describe adventures in the Mediterranean, but are adaptations of Celtic myths that chronicle an Atlantic coastal war that took place off the Iberian Peninsula around 1200 B.C. Sora’s investigation of the geographical incongruities in Homer’s epics locates Troy on the coast of Iberia, and cites the rise in sea level in 1200 B.C. as leading to the invasion and victory of the Atlantean sea people over the goddess-worshipping Trojans who ruled the coasts.

It was a war between the pro-goddess Celtic culture that presided over what is now Portugal and the patriarchal culture of the sea-faring Atlanteans. The invasion of the Atlanteans brought destruction to the entire region stretching from Western Europe’s Atlantic border to Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. This was a turning point not only politically but also spiritually. The goddess became demonized, as seen in myths such as Pandora’s Box, in which woman was seen as letting evil into the world, and Homer’s epic tale of the Greek and Trojan war, which was triggered by the abduction of a woman.

The actual historical struggle described in Homer’s stories, Sora explains, occurred during what was the last in a series of rises in sea level that inundated various land masses (Atlantis) and permitted sea passage to areas previously accessible only by land. The “Sea Gods” (Atlanteans) attacked the tri-city region of Troia (Troy), near present-day Lisbon, which, shortly thereafter, fell victim to a devastating series of seaquakes and tsunamis. The war and the subsequent destructive weather broke the power of this seaboard civilization, leading to a wholesale invasion by the sea peoples and the rapid decline of the region’s goddess-worshipping culture that had reigned there since Neolithic times. Sora shows how Homer’s tales allow the modern world to glimpse this ancient conflict, which has been obscured for centuries.

Steven Sora has been researching historical enigmas since 1982 and is the author of The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar and Secret Societies of America’s Elite. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.