You've just entered the theater of an alien sky.
If the words and images seem strange to you, there's a reason for this.
Our world was once a vastly different place.
To experience this won't hurt you
and there is nothing to fear.
The Wandering Soul of the Sun God
In these Discourses, we're following the origin and evolution
of an ancient gathering of planets close to the earth.
The formation stretched across the ancient sky but is no longer present.
The planetary assembly was witnessed around the world
and amongst its evolutionary phases we've listed a condition called,
The Polar Configuration.
The defining feature of this phase was the alignment of the Earth's rotational axis
to that of the gathered planets.
Our review will require us to follow implications to their logical conclusions.
We can call these the acid tests of the reconstruction
and these tests do not allow for contradictions at the foundational level.
We've identified the gathered planets as the source of the mythic archetypes,
now documented within all of the well-developed early cultures.
In their underlying integrity, these archetypes could not exist
without the natural events that inspired them.
The primary constituents of The Polar Configuration can be reliably named,
thanks to well-established astronomical traditions;
the large sphere as the planet Saturn,
the discharging star close to the center of Saturn as the planet Venus
and the smaller reddish sphere in front of Venus as the planet Mars.
We've also briefly alluded to two subsequent phases.
The phase of wandering marked by instability,
celestial conflict and titanic wars of the gods.
And then a further phase that we've titled The Ladder of Heaven.
Or alternately, The Backbone of The Sky, which meant the ladder of heaven.
It was the collapse of that final form that ended the myth-making epoch
as the gods departed to become distant stars.
More specifically, the respective planets as we observe them today.
Based on research begun decades ago, we've also suggested that another planet,
not seen in our illustrated phase here, was Jupiter.
Hidden behind Saturn and only revealed when instability set in,
bringing the collapse of the polar configuration.
In the course of these presentations, we've emphasized certain principles of reasoning
that are essential when working with evidence drawn from a mass of ancient record.
The protocol requires us to work with a variety of mythic interpretations,
tracing back to the same underlying forms.
Concrete events in the sky,
lacking any counterpart in the sky we observe today, Concrete events in the sky,
lacking any counterpart in the sky we observe today,
provoked a variety of mythic interpretations
and that is why common explanations of the global patterns, the archetypes, never worked.
The unified archetypal substructure of human memory does not allow for contrivances.
In our most recent Discourse, we noted the connection of the famous Medusa story
to the archetype of the angry goddess,
which means the terrible aspect of the planet Venus in world mythology.
Even if, in many lands, the planetary connection was lost
in the chaos and reorganization of the solar system that followed,
the global pattern -- the archetype, was not lost.
And that archetype can be reconstructed through systematic comparative analysis.
Our analysis linked the story directly to the visual departure
of Venus from its original position.
With this displacement, the planet was no longer seen
as the central eye or radiant heart and soul of the universal sovereign,
meaning Saturn,
but as an earth-threatening chaos monster.
In this chaotic condition, the former symmetrical star-like discharge streamers of Venus,
acquired a wildly disordered appearance
as the unstable motions of the planet appeared to threaten the entire celestial order,
including our Earth itself.
How did that happen that the body we now observe
as a tranquil planet, moving on a predictable path,
could have inspired memories of terror throughout the ancient world?
That question invariably leads us to the ancient language
of the planet Venus as a comet.
Hence the truth of the matter,
a vast library of evidence flatly precludes common assumptions
about the history of the solar system.
Neither historians nor theoretical scientists can afford to ignore the implications.
This is why the rules of cross-cultural investigation are essential.
Separate fragments of evidence are effectively useless
when disconnected from larger patterns.
And, as the larger patterns are brought to light,
it is also essential that they be followed back to their first occurrences
where the records themselves are closest to the original human experience.
A comparative approach is not just an option,
it is mandatory.
Wherever diverse cultures use different words, different symbols
and different sacred practices to describe or reenact the same extraordinary events;
that means a critical principle, too long overlooked, is awaiting discovery.
I've made the point often but it deserves repetition.
Of the five visible planets;
ancient cultures, the world over, identified only Venus as the mother goddess.
Reason itself will not permit us to ignore that converging shout to us
from the ancient cultures.
With this universal identity in front of us,
we can begin exploring more fully the ancient imagery of the mother goddess,
including and reaching far beyond
her explicit cometary attributes in a phase of cosmic instability.
The best place to begin will be the sacred texts of ancient Egypt
which have preserved the story in the most vivid and original detail,
enabling us to see a global connection to the ground floor of human experience
from which all of the archetypes, hundreds of them, anciently arose.
Always look for the underlying form!