Chapter 30 Chapter 32 Sending a warning to future generations

A large number of myths left over from various regions of the ancient world describe the catastrophe caused by geological upheavals in incomparably vivid details.This phenomenon is not difficult to understand.After all, mankind has experienced the suffering of the last ice age; between 15,000 BC and 8,000 BC, the climate change and geological turmoil brought about by the comprehensive melting of ice sheets in various places naturally formed various related floods, cold currents, Legends of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.The melting of the ice sheets contributed to a global sea level rise of 300 to 400 feet, all thousands of years before the beginning of recorded times.It is no wonder that early human civilizations have vivid memories of this earth-shattering global geological upheaval that frightened their ancestors.

The phenomenon that is more difficult to explain is that the myths that record this catastrophe seem to be imprinted with a strange but very clear imprint, as if there is a hand behind the scenes manipulating these legends.In fact, these ancient legends have so much in common that we have to suspect that they are all written by the same "author". Is this author related to the compassionate deity (or "Superman") mentioned in many myths?Legend has it that after a geological catastrophe occurred on the earth, this god came to the devastated and mourned world to comfort the surviving creatures and help them build a new civilization.

Osisri, with fair skin and a full beard, is the incarnation of this god in Egypt; it is worth noting that, according to mythological records, the first virtuous policy he implemented in Egypt was to get rid of the bad habit of cannibalism among the primitive peoples in the Nile Valley .In South America, it is said that after the great flood receded, Viracocha immediately began to spread education and rebuild civilization; , brought farming, mathematics, and astronomy to Mexico, and established a sophisticated culture. Are these strange myths recorded the contact between those Paleolithic humans who escaped the catastrophe of the Ice Age and scattered all over the world and a mysterious advanced civilization?

And are these myths a communication tool? bb a message stored in a bottle of time The Italian astronomer Galileo once said: Of all the great inventions, nothing is more remarkable than the creation of a method for transmitting one's most private thoughts to another person, though that person is far away in another time and space—in the East Indies, or in the A world that has not yet come, thousands or even tens of thousands of years later.Is there a more remarkable invention than this?What's more, this communication method is as easy as arranging and combining 24 symbols on a piece of paper.Undoubtedly, this is the pinnacle of all human inventions.

If the "precession message" ciphers discovered in mythology by scholars such as Santillana, Dai Chengde, and Schellers were indeed painstakingly devised communication tools by a lost civilization, why didn't they simply use words to convey the message? Write it down and leave it for future generations to discover?Wouldn't it be much easier to do this than to translate the message into a code and hide it in mythology?Maybe. However, if after thousands of years, the written information is lost or destroyed by the years, wouldn't it be a waste of all previous efforts?Even if it has not been lost, if the text used in the message is completely forgotten by later generations, it will be a waste of effort (just like the ancient text of the Indus Valley, which has been studied by scholars and experts for half a century, but no one has been able to understand it).Obviously, under such circumstances, it doesn't make much sense to bequeath an unsolvable heavenly book to future generations.

So what we need is a "permanent language" - a language that any technologically advanced society at any time (even 1,000 or 10,000 years from now) can understand.There are few such languages, but mathematics is one of them. The ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico is just a business card of an ancient civilization written in the eternal language of mathematics. The geodetic data used to determine the shape and area of ​​the earth and accurately mark the geographical orientation can last for tens of thousands of years, so it is also a superior and eternal language.Nowhere is this language better represented than in the drawing of maps (or the construction of gigantic structures, such as the Great Pyramids of Egypt).

Another "constant" of our solar system is the language of time: long, regular cycles of time calibrated to extremely slow precession movements.Today, or 10,000 years from now, when a message comes in a number like 72, 4320, 25920, any civilization can understand it - as long as it has a basic knowledge of mathematics, can detect and measure the slow passage of the sun along the ecliptic Precession shifts of zodiac constellations (1 degree in 71.6 years, 30 degrees in 2148, etc.). There is also a factor that reinforces the interrelationships between ancient myths.Although this factor is not as solid and definite as the number of syllables in the Psalms Vedas, we can still perceive its role.Through similar narrative styles and a common symbolism, myths describing world catastrophes and myths representing astronomical precession are often intertwined.There is a dense internal connection between these two legends, and there are traces of careful design everywhere.It is therefore natural to ask: Is there any significant connection between astronomical precession and world catastrophes?

stone mill that brings suffering Although this question involves various astronomical and geological operations, and these mechanisms are still not fully understood, we can be sure of one thing: the precession cycle is indeed related to the beginning and end of the ice age, and this relationship is very close. There is a premise: several related factors must improvise together to trigger a series of chain reactions.So not every switch from one astronomical cycle to another spells disaster for Earth.Nevertheless, most scholars still believe that every long period of time, astronomical precession will have a certain impact on the glaciation and deglaciation of the earth.The role of precession in this aspect was not confirmed by modern academic circles until the late 1970s.However, there is evidence embedded in the myth that this same level of astronomical knowledge was already in the hands of a secretive civilization during the last Ice Age.These myths tell us that there is a causal relationship between the natural disasters such as floods, fires, ice and snow described in the stories, and the slow movement of celestial coordinates along the great circle of the zodiac.Santirana and Dai Chengde pointed out: "The ancients believed that the stone mills of the gods were constantly and slowly turning, and what was milled was often disasters."③

Scholars now largely agree that three main factors were involved in the onset and end of ice ages (along with the cataclysmic events that accompanied rapid freezing and melting).These factors are all related to the geometric changes of the Earth's orbit: ①. Yellow-ecliptic angle (that is, the tilt angle of the earth's rotation axis, that is, the angle between the celestial equator and the ecliptic).As mentioned earlier, this angle varies between 22.1 degrees (the point at which the Earth's axis of rotation is closest to the vertical) and 24.5 degrees (the point at which the Earth's axis of rotation is farthest from the vertical) over extremely long cycles.

②. Orbital eccentricity (that is, whether the elliptical orbit of the earth around the sun is elongated and whether it is farther away from the sun in a specific period of time). ③. Axial precession makes the four cardinal points in the earth's orbit—the vernal equinox, the autumnal equinox, the winter solstice, and the summer solstice—move slowly and reversely around the orbit. Here we touch on specialized, esoteric scientific knowledge, which is beyond the scope of this book.Interested readers can refer to the research reports of the National Science Foundation's CLIMAP program, especially the paper "Changes in the Earth's Orbit: The Impact of the Ice Age" by Professors J.D. Hays and John Imbrie. Process" (VariatiOnS in the Earths Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages) ④.

In brief, studies by Hayes, Imbury, and others have established that ice ages on Earth begin when the following three celestial cycles conjoin ominously: To the "aphelion" (aphelion, that is, the point where the earth is farthest from the sun in its orbit), the distance between the earth and the sun is several million miles longer than usual; (2) the yellow-right angle is reduced to a minimum (The Earth's axis of rotation, and its North and South Poles, are closer to the vertical than usual); (3) The equinox precession, in the course of its cycle, finally causes winter in the northern or southern hemisphere to arrive at the "perihelion" (perihe lion, That is, when the earth is at the closest point to the sun in its orbit); this means that summer appears at the "aphelion", so it is so cold that the accumulated ice and snow in winter cannot melt in the next summer, resulting in the glaciation of the earth⑤ . Under the influence of changes in the Earth's orbit, "globalization" -- the difference in the amount and intensity of sunlight received by various latitudes of the Earth at any given time -- may be an important factor driving the glacialization of the planet. The author of ancient myths closely connected the catastrophe suffered by the earth with the slow turning of the heavenly stone mill.Are they trying to warn us of impending disasters? We will discuss this issue at an appropriate time.Here we just want to point out that the scientists of a mysterious civilization in ancient times have explored the significant impact of changes in the earth's orbit on the ground climate and human well-being; they combined this information with the accurately calculated astronomical precession rate to attract our attention through myths— —They seem to have found a way to communicate directly with us across the gap of time. Will we be able to hear the messages they bring?Of course it depends on us. Notes: ① Galileo, quoted from "Hamlet's Stone Mill", p. 10. ②John Imbury et al. "Changes in the Earth's Orbit and the Progress of the Ice Age", "Science", Volume 194, Issue 4270, December 10, 1976. John Imbrie et al, "Vanatlons In the Earths Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages," Science, Volume 194, No. 4270, 10 December 1976. ③ "Hamlet's Stone Mill", pp. 138-139. ④ same note as ②. ⑤ Same as above.