psychoceramics: Remembering the End of the World

[acb @ yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

Something about Catastrophism and Velikovsky, from the recent
Fringeware Digest:

 -- acb

Sent from: w--@t--.com (walter alter)

                      "REMEMBERING THE END OF THE WORLD"
 
 Why did every ancient civilization celebrate a former "Age of the Gods?"
 
 What was the lost "Golden Age"or "Garden of Eden" remembered around the
 world?
 
 What events inspired the global story of a world-ending catastrophe?
 
 Why did ancient astronomers record the visible planets as gigantic,
 fear-inspiring and often-violent powers in the sky, universally naming
 their gods after them?
 
 Why, among the five visible planets, was Venus singled out as the "Mother
 Goddess?"
 
 Why did both Old and New World astronomers insist the planet Mars was a great
 warrior whose battles once shook the heavens?
 
 Why, in ancient times,  was the planet Saturn called the "Sun?"
 
 What was the "central" or "stationary" sun worshipped by the first religions?
 
 What was the "World Mountain" or "World Pillar" from which the ancient sun god
 was said to have ruled the sky?
 
 Why did every ancient culture remember a "Cosmic Serpent" or "Fiery Dragon"
 attacking the world and throwing the heavens into chaos?
 
 How did the archetypal fear of a "Doomsday Comet" arise among all ancient
 nations?
 
                                **********
 
 THE MYTHSCAPE SERIES: "REMEMBERING THE END OF THE WORLD"
 
 Is it possible that the history of the Earth is far more catastrophic than
 anything suggested in our textbooks?  For several decades, independent
 scholars and researchers have explored this unanswered question.  The
 recently completed feature documentary "Remembering the End of the World"
 tells the story of one such researcher, David Talbott, and his struggle to
 understand the tumultuous history of Earth.
 
 In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky published Worlds In Collision, claiming that the
 ancient past was dominated by catastrophe and cosmic upheaval.  Velikovsky's
 research led to the disturbing conclusion that early civilizations were nearly
 destroyed by the close approach of a great comet, an intruder Velikovsky
 identified as the planet Venus, then on an erratic orbit.
 
 In the 1970s, David Talbott became fascinated with Velikovsky's work,
 including Velikovsky's controversial claim that the planet Saturn formerly
 moved close to Earth, presiding over the lost "Golden Age".  This video is
 based in part on his 1980 book, "The Saturn Myth."
 
 Talbott's story is one of discovery and disappointment, extraordinary
 insight and confrontation with conventional science.  The questions raised
 have haunted researchers for decades:  Why do the same enigmatic symbols
 recur from one ancient culture to another?  Why were the builders of the
 first civilizations so fearful of the distant planets?  Why do the
 universal themes of world mythology speak so cryptically, yet so vividly
 of the heavens containing things neither seen nor heard today?
 
 The answers presented in the MYTHSCAPE series, illustrated with stunning
 computer animation, will not only surprise you, but may well change forever
 your ideas about human history and the history of the solar system.
 
 
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