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Is a comet about to destroy Earth?
Around the world, from Alaska to Indonesia, more than 200 ancient myths tell of a human civilisation brought to an end by flood and fire. Compelling scientific evidence, which began to emerge only in 2007, indicates that these stories, such as the tale of Noah and his Ark, are based on hard fact.
A cataclysm rocked our planet 12,800 years ago, causing mass extinctions of large animals such as the mammoth and sloth bears, and all but wiping out our own race. An entire episode in the human story was rubbed out, a chapter not of unsophisticated hunter-gatherers but of advanced technology.
All the signs are that remnants of this civilisation struggled on, sustained by a few individuals who knew the secrets of the former age. To their primitive contemporaries, it appeared that they possessed magical, holy powers — they were what I call the Magicians of the Gods.
These Magicians left a message for us — not a metaphorical, spiritual message, but a direct and urgent warning. What happened before can happen again; what destroyed their world can destroy ours.
Those warnings have gone unheeded for millennia. Now, we have the scientific evidence to decode them, but it is almost too late. Within the next 20 years, Earth faces a catastrophe a thousand times worse than the detonation of every nuclear weapon on the planet — a collision with the remnants of a comet big enough to end all life as we know it. To understand what that could mean, we need to look back at the tumultuous epoch between 10,800 BC and 9,600 BC, which geologists call the ‘Younger Dryas’.
This was a time of extraordinary shifts in the world’s climate. But the most devastating change of all came when the ice caps suddenly collapsed, dumping all the water they contained into the oceans and unleashing a tsunami that swept across continents. As we’ll see, all the evidence suggests this was the result of a comet crashing into Earth.
Many Native American tribes describe the devastation in tales passed down through the generations.
The Brulé people of the Lakota nation in modern-day South Dakota have a vivid legend of a ‘fiery blast [that] shook the entire world, toppling mountain ranges and setting forests and prairies ablaze . . . Even the rocks glowed red-hot, and the giant animals and evil people burned up where they stood’.
After the fiery destruction came the floods: ‘The rivers overflowed their banks and surged across the landscape. Finally, the Creator stamped the Earth, and with a great quake the Earth split open, sending ******** . . . across the entire world until only a few mountain peaks stood above the flood.’
This is not an isolated myth. The Cowichan of British Columbia, the Pima of Arizona, the Inuit of Alaska and the Luiseno of California have similar stories. But it is the Ojibwa, people of the Canadian grasslands whose legend seems the most credible, almost scientific, today.
Their storytellers remember a comet called Long-Tailed Heavenly Climbing Star which swept low through the skies, scorching the Earth and leaving behind ‘a different world. After that, survival was hard work. The weather was colder than before.’ And the Ojibwa believed this was just a foretaste of an apocalypse to come.
They spoke of a stark prophecy, foretold by their medicine men: ‘The star with the long, wide tail is going to destroy the world someday when it comes low again.’ It was not until the 20th century that scientists even began to consider the possibility that ancient American myths might be based on real events.
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Is a comet about to destroy Earth?
Around the world, from Alaska to Indonesia, more than 200 ancient myths tell of a human civilisation brought to an end by flood and fire. Compelling scientific evidence, which began to emerge only in 2007, indicates that these stories, such as the tale of Noah and his Ark, are based on hard fact.
A cataclysm rocked our planet 12,800 years ago, causing mass extinctions of large animals such as the mammoth and sloth bears, and all but wiping out our own race. An entire episode in the human story was rubbed out, a chapter not of unsophisticated hunter-gatherers but of advanced technology.
All the signs are that remnants of this civilisation struggled on, sustained by a few individuals who knew the secrets of the former age. To their primitive contemporaries, it appeared that they possessed magical, holy powers — they were what I call the Magicians of the Gods.
These Magicians left a message for us — not a metaphorical, spiritual message, but a direct and urgent warning. What happened before can happen again; what destroyed their world can destroy ours.
Those warnings have gone unheeded for millennia. Now, we have the scientific evidence to decode them, but it is almost too late. Within the next 20 years, Earth faces a catastrophe a thousand times worse than the detonation of every nuclear weapon on the planet — a collision with the remnants of a comet big enough to end all life as we know it. To understand what that could mean, we need to look back at the tumultuous epoch between 10,800 BC and 9,600 BC, which geologists call the ‘Younger Dryas’.
This was a time of extraordinary shifts in the world’s climate. But the most devastating change of all came when the ice caps suddenly collapsed, dumping all the water they contained into the oceans and unleashing a tsunami that swept across continents. As we’ll see, all the evidence suggests this was the result of a comet crashing into Earth.
Many Native American tribes describe the devastation in tales passed down through the generations.
The Brulé people of the Lakota nation in modern-day South Dakota have a vivid legend of a ‘fiery blast [that] shook the entire world, toppling mountain ranges and setting forests and prairies ablaze . . . Even the rocks glowed red-hot, and the giant animals and evil people burned up where they stood’.
After the fiery destruction came the floods: ‘The rivers overflowed their banks and surged across the landscape. Finally, the Creator stamped the Earth, and with a great quake the Earth split open, sending ******** . . . across the entire world until only a few mountain peaks stood above the flood.’
This is not an isolated myth. The Cowichan of British Columbia, the Pima of Arizona, the Inuit of Alaska and the Luiseno of California have similar stories. But it is the Ojibwa, people of the Canadian grasslands whose legend seems the most credible, almost scientific, today.
Their storytellers remember a comet called Long-Tailed Heavenly Climbing Star which swept low through the skies, scorching the Earth and leaving behind ‘a different world. After that, survival was hard work. The weather was colder than before.’ And the Ojibwa believed this was just a foretaste of an apocalypse to come.
They spoke of a stark prophecy, foretold by their medicine men: ‘The star with the long, wide tail is going to destroy the world someday when it comes low again.’ It was not until the 20th century that scientists even began to consider the possibility that ancient American myths might be based on real events.
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