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The combined separation of Kingu from Phaeton and the stopping or slowing of Earth’s axial spin caused terrible havoc on Earth. The waters of the world’s rivers, lakes and oceans were drained from their original basins and drawn gravitationally to the point on Earth nearest (opposite) Kingu and Pha- eton. Worldwide traditions remember this awesome effect. (p. 254) Venus Was thought by Velikovsky to be once a part of Jupiter, but its composition is not at all like that planet. It is also unlikely that Venus was a comet that came recently into the solar system. Venus changed its celestial position due to the influence of Phaeton and was in fact mistaken for Phaeton, after this body had in reality, plunged into the Sun. Mars The two irregularly-shaped Martian moons, therefore, could indeed be the captured fragments of the unfortunate Tiamat. (p. 230) If... neither Mars nor Venus can have strayed sufficiently far from their usual orbits to have engaged in “celestial combat” early Man, who watched but misidentified the contestants, must have observed some other sizable object become embroiled in “heavenly strife” with Mars. Something bright and star-like caught up with Mars as it traveled along its solar orbit and, having done so, began to heat up...just as Tiamat had been previously. (p. 227) As Phaeton’s influence began to wane, Earth’s rotational speed started to increase again, although the planet generally still continued to suffer the calamities outlined in our explanation... (p. 255) The Phaeton disaster proper marked the single most momentous point in intelligent humanity’s history so far — the Deluge of global tradition representing our most abiding memory of it — can surely no longer be doubted (p. 341) “He failed to explain why there had been a lowering of the temperature in the first place, merely allud- ing vaguely to some sort of climatological change. (p. 24) Despite these shortcomings, Agassiz’s hypothesis won rapid acceptance in geological circles — one sus- pects because, to at least some degree, it followed so closely upon the heels of Lyell’s by then fashion- able and beguilingly logical theory of uniformity. (p. 24) Although Agassiz and other early advocates of the Ice Age argued that the ice developed before the rise of the Alps and other high ranges, modern glacialists all agree that high mountainous land is necessary to provide (and replenish) the snow from which glacier ice is derived, to supposedly produce the various geological phenomena allegedly characteristic of glacial conditions. If, however, the most of the world’s present major ranges attained their existing elevations a mere 11,000 years ago, where was the high land attracting heavy snowfalls and providing the ice and the motive power for the alleged ice- sheets specifically stated to have preceded the modern uplands. (p. 37) 170 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Ancient Misidentifications Phaeton (the lost planet) Louis Agassiz In regards the coming of the Ice Age: Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation