C. Summary: A Catalogue of Clues
A broad mythological
context has now been assembled from which to view the cosmic war
that, when viewed with the evidences presented in part one,
constitute a prima facie case that this war was literal and real and not merely a metaphor for the explosions of planets
brought about by collisions between celestial bodies, as various
schools of catastrophism would have it. Among these the following
points should be stressed:
1. The broad outlines of this war involved the planetary systems of the Earth-Moon, Mars (and by implication its satellites Phobos and Deimos), Jupiter and its satellites; Saturn and its satellites, the now missing and exploded planet(s) and its satellite, which was probably Mars, and the Sun itself.
2. This hints at the existence of a civilization based at least in part on those worlds, and, if one takes LaViolette’s Pulsar hypothesis into view, based elsewhere in the galaxy as well.
3. This civilization is suggested by the associations of the following gods with the various celestial bodies under consideration:a. Mars and satellites with Nergal, and possibly Ra and Thoth and other wisdom gods, since there are indications of serpent-reptile themes in association with Mars. The war is one of rebellion, and this associates well with the characters of Nergal, Lucifer, Enki, (An)Zu and others from various traditions;b. The Moon with Thoth and other “Moon gods”;c. The Sun with Ra-Marduk and other “sun gods;”d. The missing planet, “Tiamat” or Krypton, with a primordial rebellion;e. Saturn with Chronos from Greek mythology, and therefore with the wars against the Titans or Giants;f. The close association of Saturn and Mars, as observed by De Santillana and Von Dechind;g. Jupiter with Marduk in some versions.
4. As noted in part one, the recent images of the Cydonia “Face” are not only capable of the dual-aspect and Sphinx-like interpretation first suggested by Richard Hoagland in conjunction with the Viking images of the object, but are even more suggestive of these characteristics, and not less so. As was seen, one aspect depicts a humanoid-like face complete with a “gemstone” or “serpent-like” feature in the Mars Face’s “headdress” reminiscent of the pharaonic uraeus’ serpent motif, and consistent with the “stones of power” motif from Sumerian texts and the “stone of exile” associated with Lucifer’s crown in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
As a result of this
constellation of relationships, we may observe that the war appears
to have been, at the minimum, between the following parts of this
ancient civilization: on the one hand, Mars, the missing planet
“Tiamat” or Krypton, and possibly some areas of the Moon and the
Earth; and on the other hand, Jupiter, Saturn, their satellites,
the Sun, and parts of the Moon and the Earth on the other. Earth
and the Moon would, therefore, appear to be divided between the two
factions, and thus possibly be one point of contention between
them, and perhaps even the central point.
From this reading of
the scenario, then, the “Flood” itself appears to be yet another
example of the “Unified Intention of Symbol,” since many such planetary- and regional-wide floods
appear to be in view: (1) the Flood on Mars that resulted from the
explosion of “Tiamat-Krypton” and, as the shock wave traveled
further, similar damage to Earth; (2) subsequently the regional
floods that recurred periodically on the Earth. The same would
apply for the “Noah motif found especially in Sumerian and biblical
literature. However, an interesting distinction between the two
should be noted.
It is often pointed
out by biblical scholars and Sumerologists that there is a clear
similarity between the biblical story of Noah and that of the
Sumerian flood epic and its heroes Utnapishtim and Gilgamesh. But
there is an important distinction that might indicate that these
two stories are referring to different
floods: the Sumerian account clearly contains a reference to its
heroes being able to view the entire Earth from a point in space
above it, and this implies a space-faring technology. Thus, the
Sumerian account might be referencing a “Noah” episode that
concerns a planet other than the Earth,
one that was concussed by a sudden planet-wide flood. The best
candidate, of course, is Mars. The Biblical account, conversely, is
squarely set on the Earth exclusively. While there are similarities
in the accounts, therefore, it is my belief that they refer to
separate events, or perhaps to a Space/Mars-based frame of reference as distinct from an
Earth-based frame of reference for the same event. One
might, in this case also, be in the presence once again of the
Unified Intention of Symbol. In either case, if one is positing a
sophisticated ancient society of this interplanetary nature, with a
physics sufficient to fight a war and wreak destruction on a
planetary scale, one is also positing a civilization with a
sophistication sufficient to the genetic manipulations suggested by
those same texts. In this light, the “ark” would appear to be less
a boat packed with adult animals, than it would a container of DNA
samples.
With these ideas in
mind, we may now turn our attention to the planets themselves,
seeking confirming clues that they may once have been the homes of
a long-lost, advanced civilization, and the battlefields of a very
ancient, cosmic war.