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Legends among African tribes, Easter Islanders, climate changes, could have seriously altered the face of southern Greeks, Mexicans and South Americans, — the globe. The wrenching, twisting and turning of the including the Colombian Indians of the high savannahs, Earth in this gargantuan cosmic upheaval from Luna's consistently maintain that a "great catastrophe befell the — effect could have caused some areas to sink (Atlantis?) Earth before the Moon shone in the skies" (Harold T. and mountains to rise (the Himalayas?). Wilkins, Mysteries of Ancient South America, Rider & If we consider that some centuries passed before Luna Co., London, 1946; also see H. S. Bellamy, Built Before settled down in its new orbit as our Moon, and that during the Flood, Faber & Faber, London, 1943; Immanuel that time the ebbs and flows it created caused violent Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, paroxysms of the Earth with tidal Macmillan, 1950). Existing waves and eruptions that temple inscriptions support that ...there are numerous harassed the bemused survivors, view, and ancient Arabic, . . all this turmoil gave the Moon a Tibetan, Indian and Siberian legends and lingering bad reputation and a connection with evil. Thus, "Sin became the name of the Babylonian Moon- records tell of the existence of secret subterranean chambers memories among many bearing inscriptions which reveal nations that Venus, not the god", which people of the time that the Moon has not always lit . believed presided over (or lived the night sky. Moon, once shone brightly within) that luminary (Dictionary In the introduction to an down on the Earth. of the Bible, edited by James ancient sacred writing (the Kangyur) titled "Comments from one stage, the Moon was called a Lama", purportedly written in "Lord Moon" (Deus Lunus in "heavenly letters" by a delog (an advanced lama), there are __—_ Latin), and its birthday was celebrated on 25 December records from around 4000 BCE of the existence in past because that was the day it was first seen in the sky times of a "purple city [Shambhala?] set amidst greenery (Camoos of Firazabadi). in Thibet", a people called "extractors of consciousness" It is easy to understand the scepticism of an intelligent and, importantly for our thesis, "Earth without a moon". reader who may find it difficult to believe that the Moon Author H. S. Bellamy advanced the theories of Hans —_ may not have always been our satellite, but there are Hoerbiger, an earlier author on the topic of a moonless —_ numerous legends and lingering memories among many Earth, and extended the view that a planet, named Luna,in _ nations that Venus, not the Moon, once shone brightly our solar system was "captured" by the Earth's down on the Earth. gravitational pull and became its present satellite, the Moon. In the opinion of those erudite authors (Bellamy and Hoerbiger), this cosmic event began thousands of years ago and its devastating effects eventually "caused the draining of the Mongolian Sea" (Built Before the Flood). This tremendous flood of water poured into the Black Sea and broke through the Bosporus, creating what is today the Mediterranean Sea. That body of water swelled to a level far higher than that seen today, and this theory provides an explanation for how the watermark came into being around the upper levels of the Great Pyramid. As can be imagined, these events, coupled with Hastings, DD, 1914, p. 863). At e: s _=f Lt Pe toe : —_ This 100-year-old photo of the Sphinx clearly shows the stepped structure of the original temple. Again, the Sphinx is devoid of front legs. © Film Library of Egyptian Antiquities memories among many nations that Venus, not the Moon, once shone brightly down on the Earth. This 100-year-old photo of the Sphinx clearly shows the stepped structure of the original temple. Again, the Sphinx is devoid of front legs. © Film Library of Egyptian Antiquities events, NEXUS ¢ 51 ... there are numerous legends and lingering OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com