Grey Cloud,
This is a thread dealing with Michael's alternative theory of mountain building that is of possible importance to an understanding of how some of the geology of the Earth came to be, and is relevant to the EDM processes that have been described as part of the EU. We don't want to stray to far off topic by getting into debates on mythology, as that does not belong in this particular thread and forum. I would propose that if you want to explore this line further, you could revive the [url2=
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... &start=330]Ancient textual evidence for planetary catastrophe[/url2]? thread.
Michael,
I can see why you could cite this as support for your theory, especially when taken in conjunction with similar testimony from other cultures around the world. It is not a misuse of a source by V, although it is certainly difficult to accept it at face value when viewed from our uniformitarian experience and bias. One could accept the conventional explanation that sees it as a poetical or metaphorical rendering not a literal statement, but I no longer subscribe to that view, only because this has elements in common with numerous stories from the around the world. Specific details, without corroboration from another source(s) are of little value, as they have the trappings of local add ons. This is not a tale of a localized tornado or hurricane. Bottom line, it is describing a wind the likes of which we have never experienced.
Instead of the second sun, there arises a wind to destroy the world-cycle. And first it raises a fine dust, and then coarse dust, and then fine sand, and then coarse sand, and then grit, stones, etc., up to boulders as large as the peak of a pagoda, and mighty trees on the hill-tops. These mount from the earth to the zenith, and do not fall again, but are there blown to powder and annihilated. And then by degrees the wind arises from underneath the earth, and turns the ground upside down, and throws it into the sky, and areas of one hundred leagues in extent, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred leagues in extent, crack, and are thrown upwards by the force of the wind, and are blown to powder in the sky and annihilated. And the wind throws up also into the sky the mountains which encircle the earth, and Mount Sineru. These meet together, and are ground to powder and destroyed.
I find the description of different Suns very interesting. The details about cycles of 100,000 years or whatever are irrelevant if taken by themselves, that is unless there is some sort of confirmation of those time scales from other sources.
The important thing is that the concept of world ages governed by different Suns ending in global catastrophes exists all around the world, that quote is but one example of this motif. (Note that the description of the events is very literal and real, having an eyewitness quality, well that is my opinion.) V has stated that these different Suns represent the disruptions in the Earth's orbit and/or inclination to the ecliptic, that is to the ancient viewer on Earth the Sun would appear to travel a different course through the celestial sphere, a la the myth of Phaethon. A change in the course of the Sun inevitably resulted in widespread destruction on Earth. Flood, fire, wind, earthquake, thunderbolt...pick your poison. The question is why would the ancients report this? How would they even connect the disruption of the Earth's motions with worldwide destruction and accurately describe what would happen, if they lived in a world where everything was governed by only the forces and conditions we see in action today?
As you have stated, the nature of the agent of destruction and the chronology are irrelevant to processes being described. The only requirements are that there were catastrophes of at least a continental (if not global) scale caused by an extraterrestrial agent (presumably of planetary dimensions judging from the magnitude of forces involved) in a recent (within the memory of mankind) timeframe.
Nick
