930 lines
40 KiB
Plaintext
930 lines
40 KiB
Plaintext
|
||
|
||
(word processor parameters LM=1, RM=70, TM=2, BM=2)
|
||
|
||
Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
|
||
Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
|
||
PO BOX 1031
|
||
Mesquite, TX 75150
|
||
|
||
NOAHARK1.ASC
|
||
|
||
October 29, 1990
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Vangard Notes >>>
|
||
|
||
We of Vangard Sciences highly recommend that everyone read
|
||
David Fasolds' book "THE ARK OF NOAH." I know that some of you
|
||
are going to wonder why should they should take the time to
|
||
read about Noah and the Ark of Man.
|
||
|
||
In Mr. Fasolds' book he covers many things that have happened
|
||
in the past that can be related to our present as well as our
|
||
future.
|
||
|
||
Jerry Decker and I - Ronald Barker have had the pleasure of
|
||
meeting Mr. Fasold on several occasions, and found that he
|
||
tells you all the true facts and leaves out the BS, just as he
|
||
does in his book. He gives you the information to back up what
|
||
he says.
|
||
|
||
Mr. Fasolds' discovery of the ARK of Noah has been verified by
|
||
some of the top scientists in the field. Mr. Ron Wyatt from
|
||
Madison, Tennessee one of the top scientists in the country on
|
||
sub-surface radar research, Dr. John Baumgardner from Los
|
||
Alamos research center, Mr. Vendyl Jones (A.K.A. Indiana
|
||
Jones)., and many others who we will not list.
|
||
|
||
David makes no claims as to actually discovering the Ark. He
|
||
rediscovered it after many other researchers had pronounced the
|
||
site as not the remains of a ship, but a geological formation.
|
||
|
||
The true discoverer of the Ark is a Turkish farmer named Reshit
|
||
Sarihan. An earthquake occurred in 1948 which shifted the
|
||
ground where the Ark had rested all these centuries.
|
||
|
||
At that time, not much notice was taken of the exposed shape
|
||
until a military photo reconaissance overflight took pictures
|
||
which showed the shape of a very large ship.
|
||
|
||
However, David did make the contacts and do the quite
|
||
incredible amount of research necessary to locate and verify
|
||
his site as the TRUE ARK of NOAH.
|
||
|
||
He has spent over $100,000 of his own money and in excess of 6
|
||
years on the ARK project. We consider ourselves extremely
|
||
fortunate to have been allowed to meet such a fascinating and
|
||
capable researcher as David Fasold. His work is currently
|
||
unappreciated and not even suspected by the masses.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 1
|
||
|
||
It seems orthodox Christianity MUST FIND THE ARK ON THE MOUNT
|
||
OF ARARAT TO VERIFY THEIR FAITH. In truth, the translations in
|
||
the Bible have been so in error that many people searching for
|
||
these wonderful historical treasures have been led astray.
|
||
|
||
The primary problem has been their failure to consult other
|
||
ancient texts concurrent with the event. Corruption of records
|
||
takes on an almost logarthmic certainty as time passes.
|
||
|
||
Each ruler wants history to begin with him or to alter past
|
||
history to his views.
|
||
|
||
This is one of the things we most admired about David, his
|
||
tenacity and his wide ranging research efforts. He consulted
|
||
dozens of texts including the Torah, the Koran, the Epic of
|
||
Gilgamesh and many others to piece together the true location.
|
||
|
||
If you ever get a chance to hear him speak or to meet or speak
|
||
with him, DON'T PASS IT UP! He will hypnotize and enthrall you
|
||
with his anecdotes and the recounting of his discovery of the
|
||
ARK.
|
||
|
||
I - Jerry Decker, had the privilege of attending the 1989
|
||
International Geophysical Symposium as a guest of Vendyl Jones
|
||
and David Fasold.
|
||
|
||
Both gave presentations which simply mesmerized these Engineers
|
||
and Scientists from all over the world. It was truly amazing
|
||
to see how these people clustered around both David and Vendyl
|
||
to ask questions about their researches.
|
||
|
||
Another thing that David has noted which we all find very
|
||
interesting is that the day of the earthquake in 1948 is the
|
||
same date that Israel became a nation, just as in Biblical
|
||
prophecy!
|
||
|
||
The following story is taken from David Fasolds' book "THE ARK
|
||
OF NOAH", published in 1988 by Wynwood Press of New York.
|
||
|
||
The ISBN number is 0-922066-10-8 and it can be ordered from
|
||
most book suppliers such as Taylors or Waldenbooks. David
|
||
tells us it is soon to come out in paperback.
|
||
|
||
The hardback version sells for $18.95.
|
||
|
||
BUY IT, you will not regret the purchase!
|
||
|
||
|
||
To give you an idea of what is in his book we include the
|
||
Preface written by David Fasold, the introduction written by
|
||
Charles Berlitz and Chapter 2 pages 52 to 56 title HOMO
|
||
IGNORAMUS.
|
||
|
||
The chapter points out that in pre-flood times, the calendars
|
||
registered 360 days per year. After the flood the calendars
|
||
changed to 365 days a year.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 2
|
||
|
||
David found an interesting Egyptian myth which tells the story
|
||
of how the Moon was coerced into sharing some of its light. In
|
||
fact, it had to do with a slowing down of the Earth's rotation
|
||
which, since it is a giant armature, necessarily reduced the
|
||
magnetic field.
|
||
|
||
Zecharia Sitchin's excellent books also give many translations
|
||
relating to events in pre-dawn times.
|
||
|
||
Also why did people live such long life spans as compared with
|
||
people of today. Is it possible that the slowing down of the
|
||
Earth's rotation caused a change in the human body's electric
|
||
field due to the decreased magnetism?
|
||
|
||
Is this why the Dinosaurs died out?
|
||
|
||
Or could it be that one who had eaten of the "AMOMUM" root (the
|
||
root of Youth) as mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh:
|
||
|
||
" Its name is The Old Will Be Made Young. "
|
||
|
||
I too will eat it, and I will return to
|
||
What I Was In My Youth."
|
||
|
||
( These are some of the questions into which we of
|
||
Vangard Sciences are interested and looking into.)
|
||
|
||
Mr. Fasolds' book can be purchased at any book store or you can
|
||
write to him.
|
||
|
||
ADDRESS: Mr. David Fasold
|
||
9921 Carmel Mtn. Rd.
|
||
San Diego, Ca. 92129
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 3
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Brief Review
|
||
|
||
THE ARK OF NOAH
|
||
|
||
by
|
||
|
||
DAVID FASOLD
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Ark of Noah is the story behind one of the greatest
|
||
archaeological finds of the century. Read either as an astonishing
|
||
story of archaeological detection, or as an undeniable confirmation
|
||
of the Old Testament account of Noah's Ark, this book is important
|
||
beyond question.
|
||
|
||
David Fasold had become fascinated with the centuries-old
|
||
mystery of Noah's Ark and decided to search for it himself. Heading
|
||
one of the last teams allowed excavation rights in Turkey, he
|
||
deduced the Ark landed not on Mount Ararat, as had been popularly
|
||
thought, but on Mount Mahser Dagi (the Doomsday Mountain) some
|
||
seventeen miles south of the traditional site.
|
||
|
||
An outlined structure had been uncovered on Mahser Dagi in a
|
||
1948 earthquake, but geologists had reckoned it to be a natural
|
||
object. David Fasold's translations and interpretations of the
|
||
Sumerian accounts of the Great Flood led him inexorably back to
|
||
Mahser Dagi. He uncovered stone sculptures previously thought to be
|
||
totem or steles dating from the proper period. In fact, these carved
|
||
monoliths were deemed anchors from a seagoing craft - a craft Fasold
|
||
determined to be the Ark of Noah.
|
||
|
||
Fasold's team ascended Mahser Dagi and found the remains of a
|
||
boat whose dimensions exactly matched those given in Genesis. To his
|
||
surprise, drilling samples revealed the boat to be made not of wood,
|
||
as was commonly supposed, but of reed and pumice (gopher wood), and
|
||
constructed using techniques historically coincident to Noah's time.
|
||
After the discovery, Fasold's site was sealed off and officially
|
||
declared the landing place of Noah's Ark by the Turkish government.
|
||
|
||
Filled with incontrovertible photographs of the actual Ark, as
|
||
well as documents of the material analysis, David Fasold's The Ark
|
||
of Noah is a compelling and controversial addition to the world of
|
||
popular archaeology.
|
||
|
||
David Fasold is a former merchant marine officer. Nearly two
|
||
decades as a marine salvage expert provided him with the background
|
||
and knowledge that proved indispensable to his later expeditions.
|
||
|
||
"The usual pattern for searches to take place only on Mount
|
||
Ararat has been changed by the exploratory investigations of David
|
||
Fasold."
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 4
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
The Preface
|
||
|
||
by David Fasold
|
||
|
||
from his book "The Ark of Noah"
|
||
|
||
In an attempt to establish the origin of modern man and the
|
||
seed that has germinated into the flourishing of civilizations, the
|
||
archaeologist has lifted his brush from the sands of time to paint a
|
||
portrait of the ancient Near East splashed with colors of
|
||
enlightenment.
|
||
|
||
For his devoted labors in illuminating these areas of
|
||
understanding, we are grateful. But it remains a painting poorly
|
||
executed, for the artists of anthropology have not yet succeeded in
|
||
producing within that balance of shadow and light any expression of
|
||
harmony that allows the viewer to envision from whence he came.
|
||
|
||
This painting remains muddled by a modern-day myth that the
|
||
legends burned into the memories of the ancients and impressed onto
|
||
tables of clay were not actual records of an historical event.
|
||
|
||
Thus the historians have failed to reclaim from obscurity that
|
||
dark "land of the crossings" from which the settlers have come,
|
||
survivors of an advanced culture that was cleaved by an event of
|
||
such catastrophic proportions as to literally divide history and the
|
||
development of man into a new age.
|
||
|
||
This experience of an overwhelming deluge still remains as the
|
||
most solemn and awesome recollection of the human race.
|
||
|
||
My portrayal, then is the fertile crescent born anew, a
|
||
rejuvenation of civilization reawakened from a slumber of the dead
|
||
by the descendants of this past age, borne upon the survival ship
|
||
that traversed the eras in a voyage of circumstance and necessity,
|
||
the descendants of Noah and progenitors of modern man.
|
||
|
||
In the attempt to retrace our ancestors' footsteps to the door
|
||
of the Ark itself, however attractive such a mission might appear, I
|
||
have failed to interest the Academic community at large in
|
||
participating.
|
||
|
||
Understandably, such a proposal raises serious doubts. But when
|
||
an invitation is extended to view the tangible remains of the
|
||
antediluvian vessel high upon the mountains of Urartu, the response
|
||
of science should be investigation pure and simple, not ridicule and
|
||
scorn.
|
||
|
||
Perhaps reluctance on their part is the only safe ground, for
|
||
should this prove to be the most controversial artifact ever
|
||
recorded, the legend is exonerated and the biblical Flood is true.
|
||
|
||
Even their high towers of "qualifications" will not save them
|
||
from the deluge of error.
|
||
|
||
Does the theory that man has come from the lowest depths of
|
||
humanity to his present elevated position have validity? Is it time
|
||
|
||
Page 5
|
||
|
||
for the history of man to be rewritten, this time with more
|
||
foundation and truth?
|
||
|
||
Or is it time to return to the original accounts, and read them
|
||
with the seriousness they deserve?
|
||
|
||
For those who have always believed, I claim no discovery and my
|
||
hope that it will be greeted as representing the first confrontation
|
||
with a startling new body of evidence and a sense of what the
|
||
discovery has meant to those explorers who experienced it.
|
||
|
||
To those for whom a devotion to truth and understanding bring a
|
||
spark of life... welcome aboard the mother ship of mankind, built to
|
||
bridge two worlds, which rode upon that cataclysm of old and bore us
|
||
to our new beginnings.
|
||
|
||
DAVID FASOLD
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 6
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
INTRODUCTION to David Fasolds' book
|
||
|
||
The Ark of Noah
|
||
|
||
by
|
||
|
||
Charles Berlitz
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
Has Noah's Ark finally been found?
|
||
|
||
The location of the legendary Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat has
|
||
been reported a number of times in antiquity and the Middle Ages by
|
||
such travelers as Marco Polo and other merchants and pilgrims
|
||
following the caravan trails. It has been reported seen in modern
|
||
times by mountain climbers, shepherds, fugitives, and explorers,
|
||
religious and laic.
|
||
|
||
Some climbers claim not only to have seen the Ark but to have
|
||
touched it and even taken wood from the giant hull. Since World War
|
||
I it has sometimes been sighted by aircraft pilots from military or
|
||
private planes. It has been reported on the mountain in World War II
|
||
and in the subsequent Cold War period.
|
||
|
||
The problem has long been how to positively identify it,
|
||
inasmuch as climbers or viewers of Mount Ararat may be influenced by
|
||
seeing something where the Ark is supposed to be. Pictures of
|
||
something which might be the Ark have been taken from a space
|
||
capsule at seven hundred miles altitude over the mountain, but the
|
||
shape loses its cohesion when subjected to magnification.
|
||
|
||
Other photographs taken from planes seem to have been lost,
|
||
sometimes in mysterious circumstances. Further, photography from the
|
||
air or on the side of the mountain near the Russian border, where
|
||
the Ark is supposed to be frozen most of the time under the ice, is
|
||
presently not only difficult but, like reported photographs from
|
||
high-altitude spy planes such as the U-2, dangerous.
|
||
|
||
When one climbs to the upper reaches of Mount Ararat one risks
|
||
being struck by lightning, falling into deep crevasses through thin
|
||
ice over glaciers, blown off the mountain by unexpected winds, hit
|
||
by stone avalanches, attacked by wolves or wild dog packs, or shot
|
||
by bandits or rebels.
|
||
|
||
The dedication of the climbers, many of whom feel they are on a
|
||
religious mission, is a definite manifestation of the power of the
|
||
belief that Noah's Ark is waiting to be found on Mount Ararat.
|
||
|
||
But the Bible never mentions Ararat specifically, rather "the
|
||
mountains of Ararat," Ararat being a form of the old word form
|
||
Armenia-Urartu.
|
||
|
||
The fixation upon Mount Ararat itself is anciently based on
|
||
Saint Jacob's testimony. He said that an angel carried him up the
|
||
mountain to show him the Ark, and then took him down again.
|
||
|
||
Page 7
|
||
|
||
Explorers and searchers for the Ark must face the element of
|
||
popular disbelief in the very presence of such an artifact on Ararat
|
||
as "How can you find something that dies not exist?"
|
||
|
||
The popular legends concerning Noah's Ark, the enormous size of
|
||
the ship allegedly built by Noah and his three sons, the gathering
|
||
in and feeding of the horde of animals that were summoned, two by
|
||
two of each species, and finally, the illogicality of a flood that
|
||
could cover the whole earth, may be based on the memories of a great
|
||
flood but are certainly difficult concepts for the nonbeliever to
|
||
accept.
|
||
|
||
But there are startling indications of a catastrophe which
|
||
affected the whole earth ten r eleven thousand years ago. This was
|
||
a combination of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cosmic storms,
|
||
sudden changes in sea level and climate.
|
||
|
||
We are now able to ascertain that catastrophic flooding
|
||
occurred in different parts of the earth as large areas of the land
|
||
and water changed places. To many of the earth's inhabitants, the
|
||
world seemed to be drowning in a great flood, from which only a few
|
||
"chosen" people escaped.
|
||
|
||
The legend of the Flood and the Ark is older then Greece, older
|
||
then Egypt, older the Babylon and the cultures that preceded it. The
|
||
memory of the Flood, as this world disaster appeared to most of the
|
||
ancient peoples inhabiting the earth at that time, is still
|
||
preserved in national and tribal traditions throughout the world.
|
||
|
||
Only the name of each local survivor varied in prehistoric
|
||
northern Europe, East Asia, the American continents, Africa, and the
|
||
Pacific.
|
||
|
||
In the ancient Middle East, although the name Noah was
|
||
antedated by other local names, the story is the same. Noah's name,
|
||
common to the great religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam,
|
||
is now the most famous name among the ship captains who survived, as
|
||
is the place of salvation - the mountains of Ararat.
|
||
|
||
During the last few years, the search for the Ark of Ararat, on
|
||
the high icy plateau, in crevasses, and even under the ice, has been
|
||
intensified.
|
||
|
||
The usual pattern for searches to take place only on Mount
|
||
Ararat has been changed by the exploratory investigations of David
|
||
Fasold, a deep-sea diver and holder of a master's ticket in the
|
||
merchant marine.
|
||
|
||
Fasold has dedicated years of his life and considerable
|
||
personal funds to long explorations of the Ararat area, with the
|
||
premise that Noah's Ark has already been found.
|
||
|
||
The true Ark, he claims, was photographed from the air in 1959
|
||
after a mud slide uncovered a stone formation closely resembling a
|
||
ship. This stone shape of a ship is not on Ararat but twelve miles
|
||
away on a lower range.
|
||
|
||
The dimensions of the ship are almost identical to the biblical
|
||
description of the Ark: approximately 450 feet, 75 feet wide, and 45
|
||
|
||
Page 8
|
||
|
||
feet high-except for the height-but the stone ship is still rising
|
||
from the enveloping solidified mud.
|
||
|
||
Fasold claims the stone form is a real ship, not fossilized but
|
||
made of reeds covered with cement. As we now know, cement was used
|
||
thousands of years before Rome in different parts of the Middle
|
||
East.
|
||
|
||
During his year of on-the-spot research, Fasold has ben
|
||
assisted by scientists who include a Los Alamos specialist and a
|
||
radar field technician. They have used the most sensitive radar
|
||
devices that can detect formations and mineral content, not only
|
||
under water but under land, up a depth of forty feet, as well.
|
||
|
||
Starting with frequency generators to determine metal
|
||
concentration of spikes inside wooden beams, he traced thirteen bow-
|
||
to-stern interior divisions and nine interior bulkhead-to-bulkhead
|
||
supports.
|
||
|
||
A more detailed search with subsurface interface radar revealed
|
||
clear outlines of closed sections, beams and cross beams, collapsed
|
||
decks, iron and other metals used in clamps, and pins at
|
||
approximately eighteen-to twenty-inch intervals.
|
||
|
||
The discovery of the inner plan of the stone shape of a
|
||
gigantic ship could not have been ascertained without digging into
|
||
the shape except by using the subsurface radar.
|
||
|
||
Here we have an example of advance technology revealing history
|
||
that has not been generally accepted as such, obscured up till now
|
||
by the mists of legend and time.
|
||
|
||
The huge drag stones used on ancient ships have been found on a
|
||
plateau several miles away, possibly dropped there when the ship
|
||
started to go aground. The Ark survived because of its cement
|
||
covering and lay under layers of frozen mud until it surfaced in
|
||
1948.
|
||
|
||
The discovery of this stone ship and ongoing tests over, and
|
||
soon inside, the vessel have created a world sensation, not only in
|
||
archaeology but also in Middle East politics and the study of the
|
||
world's lost history.
|
||
|
||
If this is indeed the Noah's Ark of the Bible, its complete
|
||
appearance and identification may cause many to entertain somber
|
||
reflections.
|
||
|
||
Colonel James Irwin, an astronaut who walked on the moon and
|
||
who has long searched for the Ark, has expressed what many
|
||
fundamentalists feel:
|
||
|
||
"... the finding of the Ark could very well herald the
|
||
return of the Messiah and the end of the earth."
|
||
|
||
If the appearance of the Ark is a warning, one must admit it
|
||
comes at an appropriate moment in world history.
|
||
|
||
The Turkish Ministry of Culture has now made the remains the
|
||
focus of a national park, and Turkish archaeologists, hopefully with
|
||
|
||
Page 9
|
||
|
||
international collaboration, will continue the investigation.
|
||
Meanwhile, a sign indicates the direction to the ship. It says:
|
||
|
||
NUH'UN SEMISI
|
||
(Noah's Ark).
|
||
|
||
It is an interesting coincidence and historic justice that the
|
||
ancient ship, unrecognized since 1948 by formal archaeologists and
|
||
religious searchers, should finally be identified by a fellow sea
|
||
captain - a professional colleague and ideological descendant of
|
||
Noah.
|
||
|
||
Introduction by
|
||
|
||
Charles Berlitz
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
HOMO IGNORAMUS
|
||
|
||
Chapter 2 Pages 52 to 56 From David Fasold's Book
|
||
|
||
The Ark of Noah
|
||
|
||
|
||
There are other inconsistencies in the authorized account that
|
||
are easily explained by this new sequence of events. The crow and
|
||
the dove take on more significant roles and are explained in a later
|
||
chapter.
|
||
|
||
Where the olive leaf came from which obviously could not have
|
||
drifted, taken root, and sprouted in only seven days and the purpose
|
||
of the seven-day wait between the sending forth of the dove, the
|
||
period of time between the coming to rest and the ground being dry,
|
||
is also answered by discovery of the drogue anchors.
|
||
|
||
But could the idea of an earlier period comprised of a shorter
|
||
year be acceptable?
|
||
|
||
Attempting to reconcile the pre-Flood ear and that period of
|
||
time shortly thereafter with our present system of 29 1/2 day lunar
|
||
months and a solar year of 365 1/4 days may not be realistic.
|
||
|
||
Immanuel Velikovsky compiled vast material from various
|
||
cultures that concludes there have been occasions of perturbations
|
||
in the vault of the heavens and the earth, during which the moon has
|
||
receded to an orbit of 35 to 36 days' duration.
|
||
|
||
The Flood was the result of an event that changed everything!
|
||
Peter relates the ancients' understanding that for the most part,
|
||
the world is turning its back on today regardless of the evidence.
|
||
|
||
For this they willingly are ignorant of,
|
||
that by the word of God the heavens were of old,
|
||
and the earth standing out of the water
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 10
|
||
|
||
and in the water... But the heavens and the
|
||
earth, which are now, by the same word are
|
||
kept in store, reserved unto fire against
|
||
the day of judgment...
|
||
2 Peter 3:5,7 KJV
|
||
|
||
Are we willingly ignorant that the old heavens as viewed from
|
||
our planet have passed away with the land that was standing above
|
||
the water of the prediluvian period?
|
||
|
||
Portions of that landmass sank beneath the waters and through
|
||
tectonic upheaval little of the old world remains beneath our feet,
|
||
while the heavens that are above us now in this new elliptical orbit
|
||
of 365 1/4 days is reserved for a future time when it, too, will
|
||
change.
|
||
|
||
John speaks of this in a foreseen future event when there fell
|
||
great stones out of the heavens preceded by an earthquake "such was
|
||
not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so
|
||
great" that "every island fled away, and the mountains were not
|
||
found" (Revelation 16:18,20 KJV).
|
||
|
||
Peter precedes these comments by stating that we should know
|
||
this first, that there shall come in the last days of our present
|
||
system scoffers, saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? for
|
||
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from
|
||
the beginning of the creation" (2 Peter 3:4 KJV).
|
||
|
||
It is here that Immanuel Velikovsky begins to take a rather
|
||
hard look at Homo Ignoramus.
|
||
|
||
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The day
|
||
consists of 23 hours, 56 minutes. The year consists of 365 days, 5
|
||
hours, and 49 minutes. The moon circles the earth's terrestrial axis
|
||
points in the direction of the polar star.
|
||
|
||
After winter comes spring, then summer and fall. These are
|
||
common facts, but are they invariable laws? asks Velikovsky.
|
||
|
||
What single spectacle impressed itself upon the mind of man
|
||
that evoked the astonishment of the survivors, but a change in the
|
||
order of the universe, and it caused the Flood!
|
||
|
||
Today, the willfully ignorant discredit traditions of upheavals
|
||
and catastrophes by the shortsighted belief that no forces could
|
||
have shaped the world we live in that are not now at work.
|
||
|
||
In my opinion, this belief, which is the very foundation of
|
||
modern geology, may have been a proud ship at her launching, but it
|
||
is now full of so many holes it doesn't float!
|
||
|
||
There is no law of celestial mechanics that says the earth must
|
||
have this particular rate of rotation. The earth's equator is
|
||
inclined to the plane of its elliptic at an angle of 23.45 degrees.
|
||
|
||
This causes the change of the seasons during the earth's annual
|
||
revolution around the sun. It is not necessarily a general law that
|
||
a planet must be so, and from my reading of the account in Genesis,
|
||
there had been a change.
|
||
|
||
Page 11
|
||
|
||
For the theologian, the reason for the Flood and the cause of
|
||
the Flood are two entirely different matters.
|
||
|
||
The mechanics of the event may never be fully explained as to
|
||
an outside influence disturbing the earth, which caused the tilt and
|
||
change in orbit, resulting in a total breakup of the crust, or if
|
||
the earth received a direct impact, as the Book of Revelation
|
||
predicts, it will in future form the star Wormwood.
|
||
|
||
An immediate change in the atmosphere is noted by Noah at the
|
||
first sighting of a rainbow and his mention of seasons of heat and
|
||
cold.
|
||
|
||
In the years thereafter there appeared to be a decreasing of
|
||
longevity, especially in the succeeding generations, and an abrupt
|
||
change during the days of Peleg.
|
||
|
||
The oldest account of this phenomenon is recorded by Emperor
|
||
Ho-ang-ti who, according to the chronology of China, was a
|
||
contemporary of Reu.
|
||
|
||
In his medical book he proposed an enquiry "whence it happened
|
||
that the lives of our forefathers were so long compared with the
|
||
lives of the present generation."
|
||
|
||
All was not peaceful on the earth when Noah stepped out of the
|
||
Ark. The readjustments of tectonic plates caused by the oblation of
|
||
the earth at its new equatorial zones since the axis shift may have
|
||
still been causing havoc during later generations.
|
||
|
||
If we are to accept the Masoretic text as accurate, my figures
|
||
would have Peleg living from 101 post-Flood to the year 340, but I
|
||
have doubts as to this early date.
|
||
|
||
Nahor, Terah's father, died approximately the same year, so
|
||
there may be indications of another catastrophic event.
|
||
|
||
Genesis 10:25 relates that during Peleg's day the earth was
|
||
torn asunder by a violent upheaval. He may have met his death during
|
||
this event.
|
||
|
||
Peleg's name is not in itself a proper name. It means "a
|
||
division." There are about thirteen verbs translated "divide," each
|
||
with a different shade of meaning.
|
||
|
||
The popular explanation is that the world was divided among the
|
||
various companies of people and that this coincided with the
|
||
dispersal from the Tower of Babel. If this was the meaning, the name
|
||
is derived from palag "to divide by cleavage."
|
||
|
||
The Egyptians, too, have recorded this event when the earth's
|
||
crust was rent during Peleg's time as the work of the Lord (Thoth)
|
||
Tehuti pens ta, "cleaver of the earth." During more stable times he
|
||
was remembered as Thoth-Hapi-Tem neb Xut, "Lord of the Horizon."
|
||
|
||
This brings to mind Isaiah 24:1 KJV:
|
||
|
||
"Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it
|
||
waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad
|
||
the inhabitants thereof."
|
||
Page 12
|
||
|
||
Babylonian tablets record actual dates such as "the thirty-
|
||
third day of the month" during that period.
|
||
|
||
The abrupt decrease in longevity, according to the Masoretic
|
||
text, can be seen by the graph on the following page.
|
||
|
||
In summation of this chapter, I am proposing that the solar
|
||
year prior to the Floor was undergoing a slow change, something that
|
||
is alluded to in the study of the calendar at the Tiahuanaco ruins
|
||
on the Alti Plano in South America, which in my view must now be
|
||
considered the remains of a pre-Flood city.
|
||
|
||
I have attempted to show that the solar year of the Flood as
|
||
described in the Genesis account is referring to a year of three
|
||
hundred days.
|
||
|
||
In the following chapter about the pre-Flood kings, my proposal
|
||
coincides with the biblical account of the reigns of the Ten
|
||
Patriarchs as listed in the Genesis account before the Flood.
|
||
|
||
Could it be possible that the orbit of the earth was disturbed
|
||
by outside influences passing through our solar system, causing a
|
||
change in the earth's orbit around the sun to an elliptic path of a
|
||
longer year?
|
||
|
||
Would the axis shift be a result of this disturbance, or would
|
||
the shift itself be the cause of the change?
|
||
|
||
If all things have remained the same, what then are we to make
|
||
of the orbiting satellite, whose distance from the earth was 5.9
|
||
terrestrial radii, that made 447 revolutions around the earth in a
|
||
year ancient Americans?
|
||
|
||
If the interpretation of these ancient calendars is valid, then
|
||
perhaps we should apply a shorter year to the pre-Flood accounts of
|
||
the Mesopotamians.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 13
|
||
|
||
Here is a list showing the decline in longevity from pre-Flood
|
||
patriarchs through the post-Flood generation, finally reaching the
|
||
life expectancy of today.
|
||
|
||
The tradition of longevity in ancient man is recorded by the
|
||
following historians:
|
||
|
||
Manetho, Berosus, Mochus, Hestiaeus, Hieronymus, Hesiod,
|
||
|
||
Hecataeus, Hellanicus, Acusilaus, Ephorus, Nicolaus, and
|
||
|
||
Josephus.
|
||
|
||
(numbers = age)
|
||
Pre-Flood
|
||
* Adam..............................930
|
||
* Seth..............................912
|
||
* Enos..............................905
|
||
* Kenan.............................910
|
||
* Mahaleel..........................895
|
||
* Jared.............................862
|
||
* Methuselah........................969
|
||
* Lamech............................777
|
||
|
||
* Noah..............................950 Post-Flood
|
||
|
||
Shem..............................602 *
|
||
Arphaxad..........................438 *
|
||
Salah.............................433 *
|
||
Eber..............................464 *
|
||
Peleg.............................239 *
|
||
Reu...............................239 *
|
||
Serug.............................230 *
|
||
Nahor.............................148 *
|
||
Terah.............................205 *
|
||
Abraham...........................175 *
|
||
Isaac.............................180 *
|
||
Jacob.............................147 *
|
||
Job...............................140 *
|
||
Levi..............................137 *
|
||
Kohath............................133 *
|
||
Amaram............................137 *
|
||
Moses.............................120 *
|
||
Joshua............................110 *
|
||
Eli................................98 *
|
||
David..............................70 *
|
||
|
||
Vangard Notes >>>
|
||
|
||
Is it not interesting how the lifespan of Man decreased so
|
||
rapidly after the Flood, from 1000 years down to 70 ??
|
||
It makes us wonder what happened after the Flood to cause
|
||
such a radical change in Mans' metabolism.
|
||
Is it because of the loss of the "Amomum" or "youth"
|
||
root of Noah, or perhaps because of something else
|
||
which occurred to pollute the atmosphere or water of the planet,
|
||
such as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with what has
|
||
been suspected of being atomic explosions ??
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 14
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Story submitted by Ronald Barker of Vangard Sciences
|
||
|
||
|
||
***** SPECIAL NOTE *****
|
||
|
||
In March of 1990 the government of Turkey will be opening a park at
|
||
the site of the Ark.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
In April or in August of 1990 PBS will be releasing
|
||
a TV documentary on the discovery of the Ark of Noah.
|
||
(as of this date (October 29, 1990, the producers
|
||
of the documentary have yet to air the program)
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
If you have comments or other information relating to such
|
||
topics as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or
|
||
send to the Vangard Sciences address as previously listed.
|
||
|
||
Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
|
||
|
||
Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
|
||
Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
If we can be of service, you may contact
|
||
Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 242-9346
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Page 15 |