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Catastrophism: Man, Myth and Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences

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Catastrophism.com Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences Archaeology astronomy biology catastrophism chemistry cosmology geology geophysics history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism Wed 20 May 2026 Home | Browse | Sign-up Search All | FAQ Where:AllAeon Journal $Catastrophism & Ancient History $Catastrophism Geology $Horus $SIS Internet Digest $Kronos $PenséeSIS C&C Review $The Velikovskian $SIS C&C Workshop $Quantavolution WebsiteThoth WebsiteBooksArticles Suggested Subjects archaeology • astronomy • biology • catastrophism • geology • chemistry • cosmology • geophysics • history • physics • linguistics • mythology • palaeontology • psychology • religion • uniformitarianism • etymology Suggested Cultures Egyptian • Greek • Syrians • Roman • Aboriginal • Babylonian • Olmec • Assyrian • Persian • Chinese • Japanese • Near East Suggested keywords dating • spiral • rameses • dragon • pyramid • bizarre • plasma • anomaly • big bang • Stonehenge • kronos • evolution • bible • cuvier • petroglyphs • scar • Einstein • red shift • strange • earthquake • trauma • Moses • destruction • Hapgood • Saturn • Deluge • sacred • seven • Birkeland • Amarna • folklore • shakespeare • Genesis • glass • origins • light • thunderbolt • swastika • Mayan • calendar • electric • koran • dendrochronology • dinosaurs • gravity • chronology • stratigraphical • columns • sun • tanis • santorini • mammoths • moon • male/female • tutankhamun • ankh • map • polar • megalithic • sundial • Homer • tradition • Sothic • comet • writing • extinction • celestial • prehistoric • Venus • horns • radiocarbon • rock art • indian • meteor • aurora • circle • cross • Velikovsky • Darwin • Lyell NEW! Must Read! The Electric Sky by Donald E. Scott How Plasma Cosmology and the Electric Sun theories challenge the Big Bang model "God Star" by Dwardu Cardona which sets out to show that the sky which ancient man saw, was enitirely differnt from the one we see now. Thunderbolts of the Gods The new Monograph by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill Other Good Web Sites Society for Interdisciplinary Studies The Velikovsky Encyclopedia The Electric Universe Thunderbolts Plasma Universe Plasma Cosmology Science Frontiers Indexed Web sites Lobster magazine © 2001-2017 Catastrophism.com ISBN 0-9539862-1-7v1.2 Sign-up | Log-in Introduction | Publications | Affiliates | More How does this archive related to Ancient History? Read John Crowe's article, The Revision of Ancient History - A Perspective Catastrophes are evident throughout our Solar System and Earth history. Comets and asteroids are usually thought to be the cause, but recent evidence suggests that cosmic plasma plays a crucial role. 99.9% of the universe is plasma (or ionized gas), that can carry electric currents whose forces are a trillion, trillion, trillion times stronger than gravity. Shoemaker-Levy 9 slams into Jupiter in 1994 Image: TIRGO The Eye of Horus (Wedjat eye).A catastrophic symbol? [Source] Ancient history features common themes, such as those of creation, destruction and cosmic imagery, such as dragons and thunderbolt-wielding gods. Craters scar many moons and the asteroid belts suggests the remains of a larger body. Celestial Dragon. June Coburn Designs Nebula V838 Monocerotis Image: NASA The Age of the Dinosaurs ended abruptly. Historic World Ages come and go, and civilizations rise meteorically and fall like stones from the sky. What made man build megalithic monuments around the world? The Pyramids at Giza Constable's 1836 Stonehenge painting But have there been catastrophic events in mankind's more recent past? Does the wrath of the gods in ancient records symbolize earlier catastrophes? Does archaeology show significant disturbances around 2300BC? Does astronomy support catastrophism in only the early development of the Solar System, or much more recently? "Captured Lightning" Lichtenberg figure Grand Canyon satellite image Cosmically-induced global catastrophes should be a running theme through the disciplines. Hence, this work is interdisciplinary in its very nature. And if disciplines conflict in their interpretation, does the interpretation of the evidence or the discipline require revision? Did the ancients see images like these in the sky? High-current plasma discharge sketches, like those seen in the lab,After Anthony L. Peratt, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Dec 1993: Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current, Z-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity, 1. Middle Eastern Rock art 2. US Petroglyph 3. Easter Island hat pattern This work is a compilation of thousands of articles, books and Web sites, covering a wide range of viewpoints. Some are quite convincing, some speculative, and others apparently preposterous. You decide.