Clues to the 30-year Periodicity of Cyclic Catastrophism
The famous mythologist, Mircea Eliade wrote “Following Vedic culture, Buddhism and Jainism employ cyclic concepts of time, an eternal repetition of a fundamental rhythm of creation and destruction.
I would like to clarify or summarize the myths that lead to the amazing conclusion that priori-Mars orbited the Earth for fifteen years then escaped into a planetary orbit for an equal amount of time, and that this process was repeated a total of 100 times.
1. The Vedas state that “there were 99 Indras,” imagining (not believing) that each visit was a different deity. Furthermore, Mt. Kailas, in the Trans-Himalayas was his “home on Earth,” i.e. that Indra remained stationary above this sacred mountain during each visit. This assertion is reinforced by his most famous trait – “releasing the waters,” i.e. the long term presence was necessary in order to melt the mountain glaciers, characterized as serpents (vritra), allowing water to flow down from the Himilayas, e.g. “ Indra slew 99 vritras.”
2. In the later Hindu myths, in which priori-Mars was represented by the Hindu Triad – Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Brahma (Prajapati or Purusha in the Vedas) was an enormous flaming, smoking, vertical, hardened lava fountain that extended more than a thousand kilometers from priori-Mars’ north pole down toward the Earth. It rose up after each capture, supported by the tidal force of the Earth. This was called a ‘day of Brahma’ and when priori-Mars escaped earth orbit it collapsed on the serpentine rocks at the north pole and was said to be sleeping on the coils of the serpent Sesha – this was a night of Brahma. Brahma’s life comprised “100 days” (100 cycles). Why the Vedas say 99 and the Hindu myth claim one hundred cycles, I am not sure. Moreover, the Hindu myth says that “a day of Brahma was equal (in duration) to a night of Brahma.” i.e. the time spent orbiting the Earth and the time spent in its planetary orbit were roughly the same, each 15 years.
3. In Greek myth the period in which priori-Mars interacted with the Earth was called “the reign of the Olympic Gods” and they claimed that these gods reigned for 3000 years. Thus each fifteen year visit of priori-Mars was followed and equal period in orbit around the Sun and one hundred such visits (15 + 15) X 100 = 3000 years.
4. Each capture of priori-Mars caused vast flooding, especially in the eastern hemisphere as the waters of the eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and Red Seas, were smoothly but quickly drawn toward the Himalayas, but failing to reach that height, piled up 5000 ft inundating northern India. Each release was signaled by a great tumult in the heavens and violent earthquakes.
Immanuel Velikovsky, a student of the Bible noted a sequence of anomalies (Hebrew raash) in the latter books of the Bible at fifteen year intervals, which he suggested were due to ‘close passes of Mars to the Earth. He never realized that these were alternate captures and releases of priori-Mars (not just Mars), or that it ever orbited the Earth. But his studies contributed another important fact – that the raash occurred both in late October and at the Vernal Equinox. These dates allow us to understand the two points at which the orbit of priori-Mars intersected that of the Earth.
5. The word aeon, also spelled eon or æon, means “age”, and in some contexts “forever” or “for eternity”. … In Homer it typically refers to life or lifespan, but by at least Hesiod it could refer to ages or generations. It has a similar meaning to the Sanskrit word Kalpa and Hebrew word olam. A Kalpa was actually the 15 year period during which priori-Mars orbited the Earth. Unfortunately, Hindu myth, written after the period of cosmic chaos, greatly inflated the Kalpa to 4,320,000 years – probably because they thought such times were appropriate for gods. But John Muir, author of a four volume work on the Vedas, Original Sanskrit Texts, states
”Of this elaborate system of Yugas (four periods within each Kalpa), manvanturas and Kalpas of enormous duration, no traces are found in the hyms of the (more ancient) Rig Veda. Their authors were indeed familiar with the word Yugas, which frequently occurs in the sense of age, generation or tribe.” Actually, one clue to the true length of the Kalpa remains in the Hindu myth – the manvantura, which is equal to fourteen years.
But one Greek sage provided an absolute numerical length for the Aeon (Greek aion) which essentially proves my hypothesis concerning the cyclic cosmic catastrophism which defined the world during the Vedic Period. The definition of Aion by this Greek scholar Heraclitus = 2 X 15 X 360 days. During each encounter, the mass of priori-Mars tidally ‘attached’ to the mantle of the Earth, slowed its rotation to 360 days per year. What Heraclitus should have written is that an entire cycle was (2 X 15) or thirty years. Giving the number of days as 360 is unnecessary and introduces a small error, because although there were 360 days per year during each capture periods, there were 365.25 days per year during each release period.
6, The true period is complicated by the fact that the capture and release periods were not equal because the captures took place in late October and the releases at the spring equinox, approximately 15 years later. The capture period = 14 years + (2 (Nov+Dec) + 3 (Jan+Feb+Mar)) /12 = 14.4167 years. The release period = 14 years + (9 (Apr to Dec) + 10 (Jan to Oct))/12 + 15.5833. But the sum of these two periods is exactly 30 years. This justifies the fact that the Vedic manvantura is given the nearest integer value of fourteen for the length of a Kalpa, the capture periods, not fifteen.
7. The length of the entire cycle was celebrated in ancient Egypt as the Heb-Set festival, or jubilee, which had a period of, you guessed it – 30 years.
