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It's perhaps one of the great unresolved yet overlooked mysteries
facing academia and science -- the extraordinary identities of planets in
myth and tradition.
Nothing in the familiar ideas about our history can explain the
incredible patterns found in extensive cross-cultural comparison of words,
phrases, imagery and storytelling describing a former age of gods and
goddesses, of heroes and monsters.
Nothing in our familiar experience can explain for example why archaic astronomical
traditions utilized the precise words and phrases for the planet Venus that
they used for a comet.
Just one of countless global patterns that demand investigation.
And just as Venus was characterized as a comet or as a goddess
with streaming hair, the planet Mars appears in ancient myth as a masculine,
warrior hero figure, a dragon slayer, the God of War.
What about the appearance of these pinpoints of light in our sky
today would lead ancient peoples to ascribe such bizarre yet consistently
specific characteristics to these celestial bodies?
For decades, the chief principals of The Thunderbolts Project
and colleagues have sought to answer this question through an
interdisciplinary approach fusing the disciplines of plasma science, electrical
engineering, geology, and comparative mythology.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, the creator of The Thunderbolts
Project -- Dave Talbott -- was originally inspired by the research of best-selling
author Immanuel Velikovsky and his book 'Worlds in Collision.'
Dave Talbott and his brother Steve produced a hugely popular
academic journal called Pensee,
alternatively titled 'Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered.'
One of the young academics to read this journal was EV Cochrane who
subsequently became a close colleague of Talbott
and the late Dwardu Cardona, all working to reconstruct the celestial events in
prehistory recorded in world myth and religion.
Cochrane has authored four books on his remarkable academic
research including 'Martian Metamorphoses' and 'The Many Faces of Venus.'
In part one of this two-part presentation, we asked
Ev to begin by elaborating the incredible global patterns in myth and
tradition identifying Mars as the warrior hero.
Well, very early on I was determined to test the Velikovsky-
Talbott thesis by examining the earliest
astronomical traditions from like, Mesopotamia, Egypt...
Early on, I looked at the hymns to the god Nergal, for example, and
the hymns themselves will describe Nergal as a star in heaven, and we know it was
identified with the planet Mars by the Babylonian astronomers themselves.
And when you read those hymns, you will find
Nergal described as this agent of
catastrophe and raining fire from heaven, that kind of thing.
So for example one hymn reads, "Warrior! Raging storm-tide, who
flattens the lands in upheaval, Warrior! Lord of the underworld...Raging storm-tide..."
And so, it looked like Nergal was a catastrophic agent.
Of course, no mainstream scholar had recognized that fact and so, to test that
idea I looked into traditions
surrounding the planet Mars from every continent on Earth.
One of the first places I looked was North America and
for example the Skidi Pawnee have an astronomical religion.
They identified
the planet Mars as a warrior, a raging warrior.
When they went to war themselves, they claimed they were emulating the
planet Mars and so they would paint themselves red
and they would artificially induce angriness into the equation, and so
that's how they worshiped the planet Mars.
And it was a, almost a one-to-one parallel to the Babylonian traditions
surrounding the raging planet Mars.
The more I looked into it, you look at the language in the respective hymns, and so
for example the word describing the planet Mars as raging is Hus, H u s, and
that word also means red, and so you get the impression that this catastrophic agent
is not only red but it's a star and it's doing something that connotes raging or
angriness or belligerence.
And in a nutshell, it's the definition of the planet Mars in cultures all around the
world, whether you're talking China, Australia, ancient Greece, Egypt, it
doesn't make any difference.
That prototype of the planet Mars will be found everywhere.
In the earliest Indian traditions from Asia, you will have
statements like, "The warrior is virtually Indra, his weapons are Indra's."
And in Babylonian literature, Nergal is identified as the wolf star, the planet
Mars is identified as the wolf, clearly.
So if you turn to Latin mythology, you'll
find out that the god Mars was identified as a wolf.
If you go to Greece, Ares is described as a wolf, and in Homer,
the word used to describe the rage of the warriors like Achilles and the other
great warriors is Lysa -- L y s a, and that means wolf-like.
And so, warriors all around the planet, whether it's in North America, whether it's in
ancient Germany, they always dressed up as warriors
to try and emulate the planet Mars, so one scholar wrote, by putting on the
skin of a wolf, a warrior assimilated the behavior of a wolf.
In other words, he
became a wild beast warrior, irresistible and invulnerable.
Now he's describing the Germanic warriors, but that same
statement would apply to the Skidi Pawnee, it would apply to South American warriors...
So it's just meaningless at one level, and yet if you connect the dots,
you'll see that they're emulating a celestial prototype and that prototype
is the wolf star known as the planet Mars.
The global patterns in myth and tradition not only reveal extraordinary
individual identities for planets.
We also find remarkable relationships between planets which will never be
explained by what we observe today. Such is the case with the "masculine"
planet Mars and the "feminine" planet Venus.
Very early on, I learned that Mars was the prototypical male
partner in a sacred marriage with the planet Venus, so you always find the
planet Mars in close conjunction with the planet Venus.
So for example, the one people are most familiar with is
Homer's account of Ares' affair with Aphrodite, for example.
And you know, according to Greeks themselves, Aphrodite was the planet Venus.
So you will find similar myths like that all around the world.
So if you go again to the Skidi Pawnee, the central myth in their astro-
religion talks about creation being due to the masculine Mars impregnating and
having a sacred marriage with the planet Venus.
Virtually the same thing is described in ancient Mesopotamia, where
it's the planet Venus, Inanna, that has a sacred marriage with a character named
Dumuzi, and that leads to creation.
And if you go to Egypt, it's Horus that has a sacred marriage with Hathor.
You'll find the same situation everywhere you look.
Very early on, one of the most important papers on the subject
was Dave Talbott's 'Servant of the
Sun God', published in AEON in 1989, and
in that article Dave identified a hundred different motifs associated with
Mars, and we could easily have identified a thousand.
I mean, there are countless, literally countless of motifs
that will be found around the world associated with the planet Mars,
virtually none of which have ever been recognized as such by mainstream scholars.
In the current sky, of course, Mars can never appear in front of Venus
because Mars is an outer planet, Venus is an inner planet, so Mars cannot appear in
front of Venus, but in our theory Mars is set in the center of Venus.
And so very early on, we discover that Mars is
always defined by his relationship to this Venus goddess,
he's the male, she's the female.
He's the king, she's the queen.
He's the pupil of the eye, Venus is the eye of heaven.
He is Horus, she is Hathor.
The name Hathor means 'the house of Horus' and that just perfectly describes
the relationship between these two bodies.
Venus is much larger than the planet Mars, so Mars appeared as a tiny
object in front of Venus when it was close to Venus.
As we'll discuss later on, Mars moved around significantly during
the time of the polar configuration so one of the signature characteristics
of Mars is that it becomes a giant and swells as it moves towards the planet Earth.
But the key is discerning that Mars is defined by its relation to Venus.
So for example, one of the most Barre motifs is, Venus is described as
the strength of Mars.
And so, in myths from 2500 BC in Mesopotamia, Inanna is
said to give her power to Dumuzi, and Dumuzi, as a result, shines in luminous slender.
And in Vedic myth, Indra's wife is his strength.
In Egyptian myth, where the Eye of Horus is
specifically identified with the planet Venus, the Pyramid Texts say, "This is the
Eye of Horus through which you become great. You beam might through it."
So it's again as Mars is getting his might or
his power from the planet Venus, and that
is, in a nutshell that defines their relationship.
And one of my favorite myths on that subject:
Egypt has described its warrior hero Horus going into war and they specifically
describe him as going to war together with his mother.
Now, what self-respecting warrior wants to be described as being mommy dot on
his way to the battlefield!
That's a very ancient tradition that just is a dead giveaway that Mars was, you know, Horus.
Horus was operating in close conjunction with Venus.
By the same token, 2500 BC, the greatest warriors in the history of
Mesopotamia, they always announced that
they're heading into war accompanied by Inanna.
I mentioned that one of the signature characteristics of the planet
Mars is that it swells in size.
And so, every single Martian hero, strangely
enough, is described on the one hand as a giant hero,
like Hercules was, you know, described as a towering figure by
ancient Greek writers, and yet the very same fellow is described as a dwarf.
So Hercules is a dwarf or dactyl, obviously that can never happen in the real world.
But because the planet Mars moved on this elliptical orbit between the planet
Venus and Earth during the polar configuration, it appeared to increase in
size dramatically as it moved towards the Earth, and so you get accounts where
Indra swells to the size of a mountain, for example.
In ancient Polynesia for example, the planet Mars was known as the quick sweller.
Again Nergal, the Mesopotamian God of the planet Mars, he had several
... that described him as the sweller.
And usually you're swelling in war, swelling in rage, that type of thing, but
clearly, that is something that would not be expected ordinarily.
Statistically speaking, if you just took a random sampling of cultures around the planet,
statistically there should be hundreds of cultures out there that should
describe the planet Mars as a female
being, but you're just never going to find one.
Mars is always male, Venus is always female, or almost always female.
And so, that alone suggests there's a mystery to be explained.
Another extraordinary recurring pattern in the stories of Mars as the warrior hero,
is his fantastic role as the slayer of a biologically impossible creature, a dragon.
In my book Martian Metamorphoses, I think I have a chapter called
The Dragon Slayer, and so I try and identify certain motifs found around the
world like where the warrior hero jumps into the belly of the Dragon and
traditionally either lights a fire in its belly or hacks his way out and
thereby kills the dragon.
So that's a famous myth surrounding the Greek Hercules, but the same myth is
going to be found in numerous ancient cultures.
The more you look into such myths, you find that the dragon itself
was a celestial object or had a celestial prototype.
Inanna, for example, was described, Inanna the planet Venus was
described as a great dragon flying about the sky and raining blood from
the sky, that type of stuff.
A myth found around the world finds eclipses being
attributed to dragons swallowing the Sun.
The more you look into that type of myth, you will see a specific
relationship between the object being swallowed and Hercules being swallowed
by the dragon.
Stay tuned for part 2