SATURN THEORY ON CREATION & THE END OF THE WORLD
Below I'm quoting excerpts from Cardona's books. He thought the Saturn Triune Train of planets, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Earth, entered the solar system about 10,000 years ago with Saturn exploding as a nova and causing destruction on Earth. He thought it took 5,000 years for the train to reach the inner solar system and then break up, with each planet finding its present orbit. Unfortunately, it seems that his 5 books dealt almost entirely with this creation event 10,000 years ago and the Golden Age that followed, although in Newborn Star (below) he said the Golden Age didn't start right away, but took a few centuries to get started.
If the Golden Age also ended with a destructive Saturn nova, it would make it hard to determine which nova occurred when. If the Saturn novas produced the iridium layers with microspherules etc, then the first nova may have occurred during the Great Flood, when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Mexico, and the second nova occurred during the Younger Dryas impacts and floods, when something hit the ice sheet in the Great Lakes region. While Cardona dated the novas at 10k and 5k, I date the Floods with iridium layers at 5.3k and 4.6k. But that would mean the Golden Age occurred before the Younger Dryas event, whereas Cardona thought the Golden Age occurred after the Younger Dryas.
He and Talbott figured that the planets in the Saturn Train became unstable late in the Golden Age, which then ended after the planets began moving wildly for some decades or so, before finally leaving the Train and moving to their present orbits.
The following excerpts seem to describe primarily the Younger Dryas time frame. O.D., B.A. and Y.D. mean Older Dryas, Bolling-Allerod and Younger Dryas, all of which occurred near the end of the "Ice Age".
METAMORPHIC STAR
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{PHALLI: POLAR COLUMN.} Mankind's preoccupation with phallic worship stretches back to the end of the Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago. Stone phalli have come to light from as far back as the Stone Age,1 some of which have recently been found in one of the earliest Neolithic precinct in the Nazareth Hills of the lower Galilee in northern Israel.2 Others have surfaced in the megalithic temples of Malta which have been dated to around 6,000 years ago.3 In India, some of the phallic stones which served as manifestations of the god Shiva were erected in the same Neolithic period,4 while some have been dated to 4,000 years ago.5
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{FLARE.} While supernovae in the past might have blasted off in the far reaches of interstellar space, a much less massive outburst, but much nearer than light-years, actually took place above our ancestors' heads some 10,000 years ago when proto-Saturn's plasmasphere contacted the Sun's heliospheric sheath.
9 D. S. Allen & J.B. Delair, "Scientific Evidence for a Major World Catastrophe About 11,500 Years Ago: A Preliminary Selection," Chronology & Catastrophism Review XVII (1995), p. 45.
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{OLDEST AMERICAN.} What has so far been considered the oldest human skeleton to be discovered in the Americas was found in an underwater cave near Tulum in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Dubbed Eva de Naharon, the remains are said to be 13,600 years old. Four other skeletons were found in nearby caves, three of which range in age from 11,000 to 14,000 years ago, but, because of her older age, Eva has been culling most of the fame.
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{FLOODS.} That Scandinavia suffered a series of immense earthquakes 10,000 years ago was reported in 2004.3 So, also, with evidence of catastrophic floods around the same time which, in Great Britain, washed Pleistocene bison and deer out of existence, the bones of which have been retrieved from a cave into which they have been rammed.1 These colossal floods have also been blamed on the "rapid ice sheet melting" which Brian Hills dates to the same benchmark date of 10,000 years ago.2
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{DATING.} Since, very much like the carbon-14 dating method, ice core data remains fraught with inconsistencies, we do not accept the Danish-derived so-called authoritative date of the end of the Ice Age which has been given as exactly 11,711 years ago.6 Given the changes in chemical reactions that can be produced in various substances due to the emissions of stellar flares, whether near or far, no dating scheme can be that accurate.
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{SAHARA.} The melting of Ice Age glaciers, however, was not the only result of proto-Saturn's heat wave. Such sudden heat would have accelerated evaporation from Earth's oceans. A prolonged series of increased rainfalls would have followed. Previous arid areas would have turned into lush pastures. Such was the case with the Sahara. At about the time of our benchmark figure, 10,000 years ago, new rains started falling in a previously arid area of North Africa that was close in size to the United States. Verdant watersheds suddenly stretched across the entire Sahara from Egypt to Mauritania.4
... Some of the people who settled in this newly nurtured grassland in what is now Gobero, in northern Niger, are archaeologically known as the Kiffian. Judging by their remainsskeletons and artefacts-they lived mostly through fishing "during the earliest wet period, between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago."6
... In keeping with other evidence which indicate that humans lost much of their physical robustness in post Ice Age times,7 skeletons in Kiffian burials show that "some of these individuals were surprisingly large - as much as six feet eight inches tall, with thick bones suggesting they had been well muscled."8 A change in Earth's mass, which subject we must also reserve for a future volume, had been responsible for this. {p115} It lasted some 5,000 years, which brings us to our second benchmark figure. Around 6,500 years ago, a more lightly-built people, now known as the Tenerian, began to inhabit the same Gobero region.1 By then the area had grown much drier,2 but since animals began to be drawn to the ever-diminishing lakes, they were easier to hunt.3 Keeping in mind that these are but round numbers, we find that somewhere between 4,500 and 3,500 years ago, the present desert claimed the green Sahara and the people left the area.4 So, likewise, in that strip of land through which the Great Rift Valley runs, separating Israel from Jordan. Although what used to be Lake Lisan, which stretched along the Rift south of the present Sea of Galilee, had ran dry during the Pleistocene, great downpours of rain around 10,000 years ago refilled the depression that became the Dead Sea.5
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{O.D. DATING} The first of these cold intervals, the Oldest Dryas, has been calculated to have commenced somewhere between 19,000 and 18,000 years ago, and to have ended somewhere between 14,700 and 14,600 years before the present, for which reason 14,650 years ago is usually given. It should, however, be pointed out right at the start that these calibrated radiocarbon-derived dates, concerning which we'll be having more to say, were actually chosen through comparison with graphs indicating concentration of oxygen isotope ratio cycles not all of which are sharply defined. Besides which, the selection of terminal points on these graphs were often arbitrarily chosen in order to conform with preconceived beliefs.
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{B.A. DATING} The next climatic change that followed is usually referred to as the Bolling-Allerod. This warm period has been calculated to have lasted from 14,600 to 12,900 years ago, which figures are often rounded to 14,000 and 13,000 years. These dates have been dendrochronologically calibrated, such as the 13,000-year figure which was raised upward through this method from the radiocarbon-derived date of 11,000 years ago.2 We should, however, add that various other dates have been offered by other parties in support of other schemes.
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{Y.D. DATING} Known by different designations in different parts of Europe, sometimes even referred to as the Big Freeze, the Younger Dryas is said to have commenced around 12,900 years ago and to have lasted a mere 1,300 years. Others give 12,800 to 11,600 years before the present with an interval of 1,200 years. These years are often rounded as having been between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago.3
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{DATING.} While it was finally admitted that the change in climate and the time of its occurrence were beyond full understanding and still holding "many puzzles," those involved in this study still felt confident in dating the occurrence to 12,700 years ago.6 Forget all these calculated dates. As we shall soon show, they all turn out to be approximations based on faulty calibrations of a flawed interpretation of misunderstood cosmic effects.
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{COOLING.} Another paradigmatic upset concerned Lake Agassiz which could not have supplied the fresh cold water that supposedly rushed into the North Atlantic via Hudson Bay at the inauguration of the Younger Dryas, since the dating of the lake's drainage had been set to "around 8,200 years ago,"4 much too late to cause the cooling in question.
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{MAMMOTHS.} Dwarf species of these beasts survived on an island in the Bering Sea up till 7,900 years ago.6 Mammoth bones discovered in an area south of Arkhangelsk, Siberia, have been dated to 5,000 years before the present.7 In Wrangell Island, in the North Pacific Ocean, an entire mammoth population survived until sometime between 3,800 and 3,500 years ago.8 Nor were mammoths the only Pleistocene animals that survived beyond the period of the Younger Dryas. Various other fauna also made it through,9 in some cases up to 5,000 years ago, to and even later.11
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{COMET.} In illustrating an article by Heather Pringle, New Scientist published a map showing the localities of the evidential material for the "comet" that was said to have "exploded over North America." Each one of these localities included a derived date between 12,400 and 13,500 years ago. Perhaps in order to play it safe, however, the Carolina Bays are pinpointed without a supplied date.9
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{DATING.} we have accepted 10,000 years ago as a benchmark figure for proto-Saturn's flare-up and the end of the Age in question.1 The continuing realization that kilometer-deep glaciers, like the one on Baffin Island, went through a rapid cataclysmic meltdown "about 9,500 years ago"2 keeps us confident. But, as we have also seen, the tell-tale signature for the blast that supposedly brought the Clovis culture and the much-heralded woolly mammoths to their doom has been radiocarbon-dated to 13,000 years ago. Although in discussions of such ages a 3,000-year difference is not considered of much significance, we would rather not be faced with this discrepancy. We can, however, point to the fact that the original date derived from European peat bogs had indicated the onset of the Younger Dryas at 11,000 years before the present.3 That date was then eclipsed by more recent ones derived from Greenland ice cores,4 which have been accepted as showing the onset of this particular Dryas somewhere between 12,800 and 12,900 years ago,5 usually rounded off to the aforementioned 13,000 years before the present.
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{DATING.} But what of all these dates? When it comes to specificity, they're all hanging in mid air. The uncalibrated dates for the duration of the Younger Dryas have been calculated as stretching from 11,000 to 10,000 years ago, which figures have been calibrated to 12,900 years before the present for the inception of the period, and 11,500 years for its termination.5 This would give 1,400 years for its extent, but, for whatever reason, Firestone prefers an approximate 1,000 years.6 There are others who have vouched for 1,300 years,7 while authorities at the University of Michigan have cut it down to a mere 700.8
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{DATING.} As we have been discovering through the study of related subjects by authorities who are not themselves involved in the radiocarbon-dating wars we have been discussing, our benchmark figure of 10,000 years ago continues to be accepted by various disciplines as the end of Earth's last glacial period and the beginning of man's most essential one.
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{SPIRAL.} Together with various other phenomena, the mytho-historical dragon developed from man's early tendency to endow celestial prodigies with human and/or animals traits in an endeavor to understand what was really going on in heaven above. In this particular instance, one could actually claim that the dragon originated from the very spiral we discussed in our previous chapter. In fact, the spiral is found associated with the serpent or snake motif from as early as the civilization of fatal Hiiyiik.2 As we have already noted, even Vishnu was sometimes portrayed as a serpent coiled into a spiral,3 while the Australian Aborigines continue to represent the spiral of Creation as a coiling serpent down into modern times.4 Known as the rainbow serpent, its Aboriginal origin actually traces back to great antiquity and is found depicted in rock art that has been dated to 6000 years ago.1 One that came to light in the Kakadu National Park shows it spiraling around a central orb.2 It was not, however, only serpents, but dragons, too, were just as often represented as being coiled,3 as notably portrayed by the Japanese p'an-lung.4 What this more than intimates is that it was the spiraling matter spewing from proto-Saturn's south pole that ended up being envisioned by some observers as a firebreathing serpent.
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{MINING.} The oldest mine in the Americas, which has recently been discovered near the coastal town of Taltal in northern Chile, is much younger, but it bears special significance to our developing work. According to the archaeologists involved in this discovery, an estimated 700 cubic meters, containing 2,000 tons of rock, have been extracted from this mine. More than 500 hammering stones that were used for this extraction from the earliest use of the mine have also been unearthed.2 What seems clearly indicated is that the mining operation at this site constituted a labor-intensive activity that demanded technical skills and a fair amount of social cooperation that must have lasted for generations. This was implied by the carbon-derived dates of the charcoal and shells that were found in association with the mine, which dates range from 12,000 to 10,000 years ago.3 These, too, are rounded averages that should also be used with caution, especially since radiocarbon testing of comparable samples conducted by separate laboratories have resulted in different dates, not to mention other discrepancies.4 We do, however, note that mining at this site came to an end around that last given date, which coincides with our benchmark figure for the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. In view of the catastrophic events that accompanied this event, the cessation of mining activity is understandable. And while, as we keep harping, we hate to jump ahead, the same site seems to have been rediscovered and mined again around 4,000 years ago,5 which comes rather close to coinciding with the end of the proto-Saturnian era during which Earth commenced on its long period of stabilization.
NEWBORN STAR
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{COOLING.} Despite all that, the sudden emission of proto-Saturn's heat did not result in a relentless summer down into the present, since the vast amount of dust that its flare-up also released was captured in Earth's atmosphere due to gravitational attraction. What resulted then was a provisional return to a cold climate that has gone down in geological history as the Younger Dryas.
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{NOVA DEBRIS} Earth's cosmic history does not subscribe to cometary or meteoric impacts as the cause for the sudden re-freezing that led to the short-lived Younger Dryas event. After all, even Firestone was not really all that sure what was the real cause of the event.1 Nevertheless, as his colleague Allen West reported, "the evidence for some kind of cosmic event is overwhelming."2 Judging by the congruence of relative dates in relation to what else we have discovered to have occurred, the cosmic event behind the inception of the Younger Dryas would have been the same proto-Saturnian flare-up that brought the previous Ice Age to its end - or, to be more precise, the cosmic dust that enshrouded Earth in its aftermath. It is not that meteoric rubble did not impound the terrestrial surface. On the contrary, a multitude of such bodies - detritus from proto-Saturn's flare-up and its circumstellar diskhurtled through Earth's atmosphere, producing a series of air-shocks that scoured the land in various regions. Among these cratered areas was the North Sea, the very region that had originally been occupied by Doggerland. The Storegga Slide we discussed above could therefore have been caused by this train of exploding bolides....
NOVA OR NOT. The last excerpt indicates that Cardona thought impacts and volcanism did not put enough dust in the air to cool the Earth down for centuries before warming resumed. But the Younger Dryas cooling didn't last that long. It's been misdated by the mainstream. It only lasted a few years, maybe over a decade. However, he may be right that not enough dust was produced by impacts and volcanism. If the impacts were mostly on the ice sheet, they would not have produced much dust. But they did spread the ice around and that could have cooled the Earth. The iridium layer and the black mat of the Younger Dryas may be most telling, because it may be that only a nova could produce the iridium and microspherules and cause the widespread fires that made soot for the black mat.
GOLDEN AGE. So Cardona thought the Golden Age started after the Younger Dryas event, which in my timeline would put it after 2,600 BC or 4.6k. Saturnists figured that pyramids, ziggurats, obelisks etc were built to commemorate the Saturn configuration, so I think they figured the structures were built after the Saturn configuration broke up, which would have to have been some centuries after the YD event. Moe Mandelkehr found evidence of a global cataclysm at c. 2,300 BC, which I think could have been caused by the Burckle Crater impact in the India Ocean and other simultaneous impacts in the Pacific and the Mediterranean, which flooded the Sahara and the Indian Ocean shores, etc. It that's when the Saturn configuration broke up, then the Golden Age would have lasted only about 3 centuries.
MORE ON THE YOUNGER DRYAS IMPACTS
I found online that the depth of the YDB layer is at New Mexico c. 40 ft; Arizona 8 ft; S. Carolina 2.5 ft; Alabama 3 in.; Belgium 1.7 ft; Abu Hureyra, Syria c. 13 feet. I don't know if the YD impact debris reached as far as Egypt and Sumer, but if it did, then the depth of the layer there may indicate if the pyramids and other structures were built before or after the YD event. The earliest Mexican pyramids are said to have been built about 900 BC, so that's pretty late, obviously way after the YD event.
This article has some interesting info.
Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago
{IMPACT SPHERULES.} We refer here to all melted, rounded-to-subrounded YDB objects as spherules. At a few locations, spherules are found in association with particles of melted glass called scoria-like objects (SLOs), which are irregular in shape and composed of highly vesicular, siliceous melt-glass, as described in Bunch et al. (8). Collectively, YDB spherules and SLOs are here referred to as YDB objects. Peaks in spherules were observed at the onset of the YD at 27 sites—18 sites in this study and nine sites independently studied in North and South America (Fig. 1).
{NOT IN CHILE.} Pigati et al. (14) confirmed the previously reported YDB peak in spherules at Murray Springs, Arizona, and also claimed to find several non-YDB spherule peaks in Chile. However, the Chilean sites are known to contain abundant volcanic spherules (22), and yet Pigati et al. (14) did not perform any analyses of candidate spherules with SEM and EDS {SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and EDS (Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy}, which are crucial for differentiating impact-related YDB spherules from volcanic spherules, detrital magnetic grains, framboids, and other spherule-like particles.
{2 YDB PROXIES.} After analyzing the magnetic grains and the YD spherules they contain, Firestone et al. (1) and LeCompte et al. (13) reported strong to moderate correlation, respectively, between abundances of the two proxies. ... most independent studies concluded that the YDB spherules formed during a high-temperature cosmic impact event
{IMPACTS/AIRBURSTS PROOF.} There are several accepted groups of melt-products ascribed to known impacts that are relevant to this study; the first is a condensation group, in which glassy impact spherules can condense from rocks that were vaporized during an impact. Such spherules can appear as multiples (i.e., are accretionary), are typically nonvesicular, and do not contain lechatelierite {melted quartz} (27, 41). The second is a melt-and-quench group, in which compressive and frictional heating by the impactor subjected the target rocks and impactor to high temperatures that boiled both of them (41). The liquefied rock was then ejected and aerodynamically shaped into spherules, teardrops, ovoids, and dumbbells that are often vesicular and often contain lechatelierite. Collectively, these are called splash-form tektites or microtektites (8, 27, 41). Most YDB spherules are highly reflective spheroids similar to those in each group, but ∼10–20% of them exhibit complex aerodynamic shapes, consistent only with splash-formed microtektites. The shapes and surface textures of all YDB spherules are similar to those formed in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction (KPg) impact ∼65 Ma (28), Chesapeake Bay impact at ∼35 Ma (27), Meteor Crater at ∼50 ka (8), Tunguska airburst in 1908 (8), and Trinity atomic {bomb} airburst (8). The similarity of YDB spherules to those from known airbursts (e.g., Tunguska and Trinity) suggests they were caused by an impact/airburst. See SEM images in Fig. 3 and SI Appendix, Figs. S17, S18, S24, and S25.
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PS, the Carolina Bays and similar structures indicate that an asteroid or something definitely impacted the North American ice sheet, with secondary impacts of ice boulders forming the Bays etc. So the YD event wasn’t just from a Saturn nova, as Cardona seems to have largely concluded.
TODO. The highest priority on my To Do list is to determine when the Saturn configuration broke up and the Jupiter configuration replaced it and how long the Jupiter configuration lasted before the remaining planets moved to their present orbits.