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sion having occurred near our solar system at a date which, allow- —_and destructive. If various strands of evidence are genuine, then it ing for an appropriate time-lapse as the fragment hurtled through _ actually disintegrated one planet, Tiamat, said to have formerly space towards the Sun's family, accommodates the aforemen- orbited beyond Mars. Ancient Babylonian baked clay tablets tioned Earthly upheavals. A non-dispersed cloud of Aluminium- depicting the solar system regularly show one planet too many, 22 (typical residue of stellar explosions) has also been traced in _ while ancient Greek traditions speak of the lost planet Electra. space astronomically close to the solar system, and in geological A survey of known planetary anomalies and aberrant satellite terms it is very young indeed. movements, the singular behaviour and orbits of many asteroids, Ancient traditions worldwide tell meteor-swarms and short-term comets of a traumatic battle long ago | within the solar system strongly sug- between Earth and a terrible cosmic | . Hs + gests that comparatively very recently visitor which, remembered by vari- | Ancient traditions worldwide tell of something has rampaged through the ous names, allegedly terminated an | @ traumatic battle long ago between § sun's family and left widespread earlier Golden Age and set Earth | Earth anda terrible cosmic visitor mayhem in its wake. Indeed, the alight before extinguishing the fires | modem astronomical and ancient tra- by a vast flood. Religious texts call which, remembered by various ditional records of such things appear the latter “Noah's Deluge". names, allegedly terminated an to be in remarkably close agreement. "Phaeton", one of the classical Greek Moreover, the havoc wrought on names given this fiery celestial earlier Golden Age and set Earth Earth (as discernible from the planet's intruder, ideally epitomises this | alight before extinguishing the fires natural history) was essentially very sequence of disastrous events. by a vast flood like that sustained by Mars (accord- Early Mesopotamian epics have | : ing to Mesopotamian accounts). survived which record this conflict Such similarities are too pronounced not merely in relation to Earth but to be wholly fortuitous. also to other planets in the solar system. "Marduk" was one of All these and innumerable other aspects of this great saga, its their names for this marauding body, which they expressly state approximate date of occurrence and the long-term effects it has arrived from the depths of space before being drawn towards the left in its train are explored in depth in When the Earth Nearly Sun by the latter's enormous gravitational pull. Marduk's sun- Died. Copiously referenced throughout, this interdisciplinary wards journey took it past or near many of the planets and their _study also points out that one of the keys to the whole scenario is satellites, including the Earth/Moon system. These epics describe scale. What is catastrophic on Earth is much less so in terms of Marduk's progress in considerable detail. It was both disruptive the scale of the solar system, and virtually unimportant and indeed Terrestrial wobble and axial shift will cach object sought to stabilise its own elec- Earth's rotational speed started to increase also have been exacerbated by the alarm- tromagnetic potential, again, although the planet generally still ingly fast increase in seismic activity occa- The combined separation of Kingu from continued to suffer the calamities outlined sioned by the steadily nearing Phaeton. Phaeton and the stopping or slowing of _ in our explanation of Fig. Id. Fig. ld indicates the probable position Earth's axial spin caused terrible havoc on Fig. If depicts the final phase of this ter- after a similar interval of time. The Moon Earth, The waters of the world’s rivers, rible confrontation, The Moon is shown is shown still moving along its pre-cata~ lakes and oceans were drained from their setting out on its new orbit, Earth has strophic orbit as Earth's rotation either original basins and drawn gravitationally to received Phaeton's legacy of an altered ceases or is severely retarded by Phaeton the point on Earth nearest (opposite) Kingu _ axial tilt and obscuring ‘collapsed sky’ con- and its attendants—now even closer to and Phaetdh. Worldwide traditions remem- ditions worldwide. Numerous fragments of Earth. At this point, the combined gravita- ber this awesome effect. the disintegrated Kingu continue to bom- tional pull of Earth and the Moon apparent- — Proceeding now to Fig. le, which repre- bard Earth as, concurrently, another of ly began to prize Kingu away from sents a few hours later, we find Phaeton Phaeton's legacies—the Deluge—wreaks Phaeton’s embrace and drag it inexorably unable to break the combined Earth/Moon _ further havoc. towards Earth's Roche zone and ultimate gravitational field and so unable to capture’ With the destruction of Kingu and the destruction. Colossal electromagnetic the Moon, displacing it to a new (its pre- sunwards departure of Phaeton, the exchanges must have continued unabated sent) orbit. Fragments of Kingu plunged deranged atmosphere and the gravitational- between Phaeton, Kingu, Earth and the earthwards, ly heaped-up terrestrial waters strove to Moon during this phase of the drama, as As Phaeton's influence began to wane, regain normality. nom = new (present) orbit of Moon IDK = lonised Debris of Kingu an FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995 NEXUS ¢ 13