Sixth episode in the Turquoise Sun series. Ancient artworks complement the testimony from cosmogonic myth and linguistics. Early pictographs and cylinder seals depict a celestial body universally accepted as being the sun with lightning-like structures emanating across its face.
The swastika constitutes one of our most enduring symbols appearing in prehistoric contexts 7,000 years ago in Europe, Malta, Neolithic China, Harappa India, and in the Americas. Heinrich Schliemann, in his excavations of Troy, found hundreds of artifacts with swastikas on them.
In the case of the Lamat sign, the four dots may be the result of electrons spiraling about a magnetic field at nearly the speed of light producing synchrotron radiation. The fact that the swastika and Lamat symbols depict objects not found in today’s sky underpin what our ancient ancestors witnessed—a radically disparate celestial view.
A respected comparative mythologist, veteran Thunderbolts contributor Ev Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses (1997), The Many Faces of Venus (2001), Starf*cker (2006), On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds (2010), Phaethon (2017), and most recently, The Case of the Turquoise Sun (2024).
