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and northern boundaries. Above the Ferrel cell is the polar Astronomical charts in the chamber of Hatshepsut's architect Hadley cell. Sitting directly on top of the polar region is a | Senmut show this, as do documents from the Harris, the constant wind called the “polar vortex” that stays fixed Ipuwer and the Hermitage papyri.” above each pole. In this perpendicular position of Earth's axis, the pole star Interestingly enough, the Pleistocene glacial sheets in __ sits in the Draco constellation. All prehistoric people above America stop just below the northern jet stream, almost ina the equator were overseen by the constant presence of this line across North America with an allowable dip to the west — Serpent. of the Great Lakes due to lake-effect snow. This is A clockwise rotation will change the length of the year, indicative of two things: a saturated jet stream anda lack of | month and day. Eliminating the wobble of the barycentre seasonal variation in the weather. caused by the Moon will also equalise and better distribute For ice sheets to grow as large as those found in the __ the tidal drag, causing Earth to speed up slightly. duration of the Pleistocene epoch (circa 1.2 million to This change in calendar length is confirmed by fossilised 10,000 years BP), massive evaporation has to take place. tidal patterns at Pichi Richi in the southern Flinders Ranges, This is the ignored conundrum of the ice age cycle. If | South Australia, where geologist George Williams glacial sheets crept down from the frozen polar regions,how _ determined that at the Precambrian—Cambrian boundary the did moisture get to the polar Hadley cells that fed the mid- _ solar year lasted 13 months and the day just under 22 hours.” latitude and northern glaciers? A reflection of this ancient From a detailed study of wind calendar and its close proximity patterns, Professor Xiahong to this interglacial period can be Feng of Dartmouth College, Once Earth reverses its polarity found in the ancient Tarot card UK, the lead author of a report . . system where the Major (Sun) released in 2007, suggests that from the one it has now and is Arcana represents the 22 hours in the dominant winds across ‘ | | the ice-age day and the Minor North America during the rotating clockwise against the (Moon) Arcana shows the 56 Pleistocene came from the east. | Moon's orbit, it will lose the Moon's §f lunar weeks in a year. The early Analysis of ancient cellulose infl f obliquit dit : disuse of the 56 Aubrey holes of shows oxygen and hydrogen Influence of obliquity and Its axis Stonehenge may also illustrate isotope levels highest on the will become perpendicular. the revamping of old knowledge. East Coast while decreasing Removing one card from each toward the West Coast— suit of the Minor Arcana set (to completely opposite of how the become the common playing winds blow today, but exactly what would be expected with cards that we know today) reflected a readjustment of the a clockwise rotation of the planet and a reversal of the number of lunar months and total weeks in the new calendar present ocean currents and jet stream.” year. However, totally remaking the symbolisms for the Spinning clockwise and perpendicular, Earth now acts like changes in the hours of the day was harder with the Major a real spinning-top and, as such, the build-up of glacial Arcana and didn't show up until the creation of the 24 Elder sheets in the northern hemisphere along with declining sea —_ Futhark runes. levels in the southern hemisphere would make the planet Runes researcher Audrey Fletcher argues that the Elder respond to this imbalance in the same way a spinning top _—‘ Futhark has ancient Egyptian origins and records the would. discovery of precession. In order to interpret their true With a top-heavy torque or drag against the rate of | meaning properly, the 24 runes must be arranged and read, rotation, the weight of glacial sheets in the northern contrary to the Tarot's Major Arcana, in a counterclockwise hemisphere could induce a pivoting of Earth on its southern _ direction.” pole or axis, causing Earth to respond with a slight bias toward the centre of its orbit, the Sun. This would not result | Descent of the mesosphere in a return to precession as the pivoting of the bottom axis At the termination of the last ice age, ice sheets were the would leave Earth tilted toward the Sun in an annual __ biggest yet. The domination of the 100,000-year periods of continuity, not seasonally. The top-heavy northern land glacier building removed so much water from the oceans masses would lean toward the Sun only by a few degrees, __ that ocean levels dropped by an approximate 300 feet at the bathed in perpetual light for thousands of years until the equator and by up to 400 feet in the Arctic. glaciers receded enough to refill the oceans and start the As Earth passed through the galactic plane 13,000 years process all over again. ago, a tremendous event occurred in the Arctic that changed tha tanaceanhe and nnd Ant nant Af tha awtanaive haeda af Once Earth reverses its polarity from the one it has now and is Descent of the mesosphere At the termination of the last ice age, ice sheets were the biggest yet. The domination of the 100,000-year periods of glacier building removed so much water from the oceans that ocean levels dropped by an approximate 300 feet at the equator and by up to 400 feet in the Arctic. As Earth passed through the galactic plane 13,000 years ago, a tremendous event occurred in the Arctic that changed the topography and wiped out most of the extensive herds of mammals of the Arctic plains. Underlying much of the Arctic landscape is a frozen muck filled with the remains of various Pleistocene mammals, bugs and plants. A catastrophic and unrecognised weather Ancient knowledge of polarity reversals Illustrations from ancient Egypt showing Earth to have the cardinal points reversed may suggest knowledge of a polarity reversal and not necessarily the Earth's turning over. NEXUS ¢ 33 influence of obliquity and its axis will become perpendicular. OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com