psychoceramics: Re: SATURN THEORY--Sample Article

[bruce @ kenosis.com (Bruce Baugh)]

In a world full of such turmoil, it's nice to know that the 
Neo-Velikovskians press boldly onward.

>From: k--@k--.teleport.com (Kronia Com)
>Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science
>Subject: SATURN THEORY--Sample Article
>Date: 21 Feb 1997 16:49:51 -0800
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>As a sample of the materials included, I offer the following article by 
>David Talbott--
>
>
>
>                       SATURN THEORY OVERVIEW
>
>             By David Talbott (d--@t--.com)
>
>
>THE FOLLOWING IS EXCERPTED FROM A SUMMARY-IN-PROGRESS ON A PRIVATE 
>EMAIL GROUP.
>
>                                  I
>
>The origins of ancient mythology; the birth of the first 
>civilizations; a violent history of the solar system: these are 
>the primary themes of what has been called the "Saturn Theory."
>
>In the broadest sense, what I have proposed is a new way of 
>viewing the myth-making epoch as a whole. Astronomers and 
>astrophysicists, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and 
>students of ancient myth and religion are asked to reconsider the 
>most common assumptions about ancient history, including many that 
>have rarely if ever been doubted.
>
>The underlying principles of the theory are these:
>
>1. Major changes in the planetary order, some involving Earth-
>   threatening catastrophes, have occurred within human memory.
>
>2. Through myth, ritual and symbol around the world, our ancestors
>   preserved a global record of these tumultuous events.
>
>3. The first civilizations arose from ritual practices honoring,
>   imitating and memorializing these events and the planetary
>   powers involved.
>
>It should go without saying that if these principles are correct,
>there is an extraordinary evidential value to the mythical-
>cosmological underpinnings of the first civilizations.  Hence, the 
>communications challenge: this evidential value is virtually never 
>acknowledged by conventional schools.
>
>Nevertheless, the model I have offered holds one advantage that 
>prior catastrophist notions based on ancient testimony have 
>lacked. It is specific enough to be easily disproved on its own 
>ground if wrong. Whatever else one may think of the thesis, it 
>meets this test of a good theory.
>
>                       THE POLAR CONFIGURATION
>
>The theory holds that a unique congregation of planets preceded 
>the planetary system familiar to us today.  For earthbound 
>witnesses, the result was a spectacular, at times highly unified 
>planetary form in the heavens, dominated by the gas giant Saturn, 
>the obsessive focus of human attention around the world.
>
>For more than 20 years, I have claimed that this fear-inspiring 
>image once stretched across the northern sky, towering over 
>ancient starworshippers.  I termed this planetary arrangement the 
>polar configuration because it was centered on the north celestial 
>Pole.  And I have proposed that the history of this configuration 
>is the history of the ancient gods, recorded in the fantastic 
>stories, pictographs and ritual reenactments  of the first star 
>worshippers.
>
>A vast field of data is therefore available to the investigator.
>Remarkably similar pictures of a "sun" in the sky, revealing no
>similarity to our sun today. A pictographic crescent placed on the
>orb of the "sun", and a radiant "star" placed squarely in its 
>center. The universal chronicles of a cosmic mountain, a pillar of 
>fire and light rising along the world axis. The myth of a central 
>sun or motionless sun at the celestial pole.  Identification of 
>this ancient "sun" with the planet Saturn in early astronomies.  A 
>radiant city or temple of heaven, providing the prototype for the 
>sacred habitation on earth.  Global memories of a star-goddess 
>with long-flowing hair. An angry goddess raging across the sky 
>with wildly disheveled hair, threatening to destroy the world. A 
>flaming serpent or dragon disturbing the celestial motions or 
	

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