FIRST AGE: AGE OF DARKNESS

Age Before the Great Flood & Before the Golden Age

CONTENTS
AGE OF DARKNESS from FLARE STAR
AGE OF DARKNESS from Aeon Excerpts
AGE OF DARKNESS from METAMORPHIC STAR

THE FIRST AGE WAS THE AGE OF DARKNESS

{Excerpts from FLARE STAR, by Dwardu Cardona, p. 155ff. This book was named after the nova-like flaring that Earth’s former sun, Saturn, displayed in the transition phase at the end of the Age of Darkness to the beginning of the Golden Age. The transition seems to have occurred from the onset of the Great Flood until the end of the Great Flood, which I have dated to c. 3,300 BC in my online book, CATACLYSMIC EARTH HISTORY, at zzzzzzz.substack.com/p/cataclysmic-earth-history.}

{Saturn as Brown Dwarf Star.} Let me start by repeating what Axel Firsoff stated back in 1967, that "reduced luminosity, as such, is not a barrier to life." As he explained: "It only means that a planet corresponding to the Earth in surface conditions will have to orbit the star closer, as is otherwise likely with lower masses."1 And this, too, is in keeping with our postulate of Earth as a previous satellite of the sub-brown dwarf that was proto-Saturn. Earth's primeval age of darkness is explainable by the fact that brown dwarf stars, especially sub-brown dwarfs, emit only a dim light. Speaking of the brown dwarf designated Epsilon Indi B, Alan MacRobert described it as glowing "very dimly" but "red-hot."2 Nor is Epsilon Indi B unique in this respect. Generally speaking, all brown dwarfs "appear as a faint glow, like an ember from a fire that gives off both heat and light energy as it dims."3 And this, too, is in keeping with the mytho-historical record, since, despite the darkness there described, the ancients also remembered the Saturnian sun as having glowed feebly in the sky.4

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{Illustration from The Purple Dawn of Creation. The northern stationary disc of the brown dwarf star Saturn as seen from the Siberia’s Arctic coast approx. 40,000 years ago. Earth at this time was locked in a polar axial-aligned position under Saturn’s south pole. Saturn’s red/blue light spectrum produced a permanent purple duskiness over the entire planet, its light reflected evenly back onto Earth’s entire surface by Saturn’s fully enveloping plasma bubble. (Image Copyright Troy D. McLachlan)}

{Back to FLARE STAR: Brahma & Kukulkan} ... Hindu literature even speaks of Brahma/Saturn5 as having "moved about like a glowworm."6 ... Namandu, ... {called} the First One of the South American Guarani and the Mbaya, was said to have been "lit by the reflection of his own inner self," even "though the sun did not yet exist."7 Called Heart of Heaven,8 God was described in the Popul Vuh as having been surrounded with his own light. "In the very beginning, there was only the still sky and the still sea {in the sky?}. Nothing moved... [There was] no sun or moon to give light. Only God was surrounded with His own light, and He was in the heart of the still, dark sky."9 The God in question in the above was the Mayan Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent, whom the Aztecs called Quetzalcoatl, also known as Hurakan, whom we have already identified as a representative of {Saturn}.10

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{Animals & Plants in Dim Light.} ... {I}n studying various species of ferns, phytochrome-3, which has been described as "a chimaera of the red/far-red light receptor" in plants, "may have had a central role in the divergence and proliferation of fern species under low-light canopy conditions."11 This, too, has special meaning for our enfolding scenario because brown dwarf stars are predominantly known for radiating in that very specific wavelength, shimmering in "bright infrared light."12 This was found for the brown dwarf designated Epsilon Indi B, glowing "at a strong 11th magnitude in the 2-micron infrared band."13 According to David Archibald, the anatomy of the earliest mammals "suggests that they were largely nocturnal." 16 ... {Pre-}dinosaurs, too, were nocturnal creatures. As Dan Eatherley disclosed: "The gates to Jurassic Park have opened a little wider, with the recreation of an eye protein from an archosaur.... The archosaur protein works well in low light, suggesting that these creatures may have hunted at night."17 The eye protein in question is rhodopsin which, in modern animals, acts as a molecular switch in response to light of a particular wavelength. Studies of the DNA sequence of rhodopsin genes {are} found in ... alligators, birds, and fish....18 "Surprisingly, the archosaur rhodopsin functioned well at low light levels, more like the rhodopsins of modern mammals than of reptiles. That suggests the ancestral archosaur had good night vision and may even have been nocturnal...."19 More than that, in keeping with the dim red light radiated by brown dwarf stars, the recreated archosaur rhodopsin was found to respond best "to slightly redder colors than the light that most modern vertebrates sense."20

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{Competing images of the primordial Earth: (left) The standard mainstream science view of Earth’s primordial environment c. twenty million years ago; compared to (at right) Earth during its ‘purple dawn’ epoch, {before 5,300 years ago}. According to the book The Purple Dawn of Creation, Earth was enveloped for untold millennia in a semi-nocturnal purple-hued darkness, a consequence of its position as a satellite of the rogue brown dwarf star Saturn. Only once Saturn was captured by the Sun did Earth’s environment begin to take on the familiar look it has today. (Image courtesy The Purple Dawn of Creation; image copyright Troy D. McLachlan)}

REFERENCES

1 V. A. Firsoff. op. cit., p. 96 (emphasis added).
2 A. MacRobert. "The Nearest Brown Dwarf." Sky & Telescope (April 2003), p. 26.
3 "Astronomers Find Jupiter-Like Weather on Brown Dwarfs," Science Daily. electronic magazine (May 27, 2002).
4 D. Cardona, op. cit., pp. 283-286.
5 For Brahma as Saturn see ibid., pp. 131, 145, 196, 216, 232, 233, 284, 309, 439, 446.
6 Linga Purana 1:59:6-9.
7 J. Bierhorst, The Red Swan: Myths and Tales of the American Indians (N.Y., 1976), p. 38.
8 D. Cardona, op. cit., pp. 214, 438.
9 D. A. Leeming, The World of Myth (N. Y., 1990), p. 60.
10 D. Cardona. op. cit., pp. 37, 38-39, 59, 312, 314-317, 435-437, 438-439.
11 H. Kawai, et al., "Responses of Ferns to Red Light are Mediated by an Unconventional Photoreceptor." Nature (January 16, 2003) as retrieved from an Internet posting dated January 25, 2003 (emphasis added); for more on photosynthesis during the Saturnian age of darkness, see D. Cardona, op. cit., pp. 291-293.
12 Science Daily. electronic magazine (May 27. 2002).
13 A. MacRobert. foe. cit.
So, likewise, with the brown dwarf designated 2MASS 0415-0935, which has been found to be glowing "with only two millionths of the Sun's luminosity - almost entirely in the infrared."14 ... By the twenty-first century, however, interest shifted to planets orbiting such dwarf stars. "... {I}t now looks as though these dim red suns could harbour most of the Galaxy's life-bearing worlds."15 ...
14 D. Tyte ll. foe. cit.
15 K. Croswe ll . "'Red. Willing and Able." New Scientist (January 27 . 2001), p. 29.
16 J. D. Archibald, Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (N. Y., 1996), p. 27.
17 D. Eatherley, "Ancient Eye Resurrected," New Scientist (September 28. 2002), p. 19.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 K. A. Svitil. "The Nocturnal Reptiles of Triassic Park," Discover (January 2003 Special Issue).

{AGE OF DARKNESS}

{The following excerpts from Aeon articles are from this link: https://www.catastrophism.com.}

The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory
THE AGE OF DARKNESS. My version of the Saturnian scenario posits that man's earliest memory of the sky above him was one in which the planet Saturn was the only visible celestial body which was seen looming large in the sky in an all-pervading darkness - an endless night.

Prelude to Creation
With a sun that shone but dimly red that neither rose nor set, that neither waxed nor waned, ancient man had no means of telling the passage of time. [27] This was an era which ancient man remembered as a timeless age of darkness. And yet, this darkness should not be understood as having been total.

{PURPLE SKY}

The Age of Purple Darkness
In a hymn of the Rigveda there appears the line: "Thou, O Agni, art Varuna, when born." [31] Thus Agni, as Varuna, is Saturn. The Purple in the Darkness. As I shall show at length in the longer essay, if the age of darkness ever existed, it would not have been for long in palaeontological terms. An age, or ages, of visible light would have been the rule. At all times, ultraviolet and infrared have been, and are, required for all links in the terrestrial food chain. This suggests a form of light that was low in visible wavelengths but high in ultraviolet and infrared, being, as a result, stronger in violet and dark red than in the other visible wavelengths. Without sunlight to scatter pale blue in the sky, it is conceivable that the sky would have been colored a deep purple or magenta during the age of darkness.

{TIME}

The Beginning of Time
If what was postulated in "Darkness and the Deep"(1) actually transpired, it would follow that, during the age of darkness there described, man would have had no way of telling time. With an indistinct Saturnian orb half-shielded within a nebular cloud perpetually suspended overhead, and with the Sun, the Moon, and the stars still apparently absent from the sky, there would have been nothing on which ancient man could have focused that would have enabled him to calculate the passage of time.

Darkness and the Deep
{T}he Chibcha Indians of Colombia tell us that, "in the beginning," everything was dark.(109) In South America, myths of the primeval darkness are quite widespread. As H. Osborne writes: Some mythological cycles feature a primitive age of darkness before the existence of the sun, when human beings lived in a state of anarchy without the techniques of civilized life. Sometimes myths in this category appear to embody a confused racial memory of a hunting and food-gathering stage.

{SKIN COLOR CHANGE}

The Road to Saturn
Of miraculous colored stones of light, which could be understood as the fluorescence activated by ultraviolet light on certain minerals, there were also some hints in the myths. The most rewarding evidence, however, came from a particular source which claimed that, during the age of darkness, the human skin was of different hue. Under ultraviolet light, it definitely would have been. Moreover, this source describes the awe with which men looked upon the changed color of their skin in the light of the unveiled Sun. In fact it is stated that humans did not easily get accustomed to this change.... … {E}nshrouded in dimness that would at best have appeared as that of the present pre-dawn sky. It was in this milieu that Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons co-existed.

{DIFFERENT RAINBOW}

Forum
Coming now to Dwardu Cardona's interesting article concerning the age of darkness during Earth's association with Saturn,[3] the following odd bit of information might be of interest. It seems that Paleolithic cave paintings did not incorporate the colors blue and green. Only red, brown, orange, and yellow were used. Also, at a much later time, Xenophanes described rainbows as having only three colors: red, purple, and yellow. Aristotle, too, mentioned tri-colored rainbows. Democritus seemed to know only black, white, red, and yellow. Homer speaks of the wine-dark sea. Primitive Indo-European does not have words for all the colors.

METAMORPHIC STAR, by Cardona

COLOR PERCEPTION p.240ff

How ... were our ancient ancestors able to detect proto-Saturn's ultraviolet hue? When synthetically-produced ultraviolet light is shone on certain objects, most of us can readily see their change of color and the fluorescent glow they emanate. It is for this reason that black lights, the ultraviolet lamps we mentioned above, are utilized for various scientific and other practical purposes.

... One ... problem involved the creation of new words in order to express novel experiences. As already noted, one of these innovative concepts had to do with color. The description of proto-Satum's realm before a word for "purple" had been coined in certain languages resulted in blue-black or simply black as having been the concerned color. This is the reason we continue to run headlong into the designation of the planetary god in question as the black Saturn. Needless to say, it also accounts for the association of such items as black curtains and black stones with the Saturnian deity, some of which persist right to this day in the Meccan Ka'aba. One of the means to keep these memories alive led certain tribes to paint their bodies blue. Among them were the Berbers and the ancient Britons.1 Among the latter were the least known members of the Celtic tribes who infiltrated into Britain from mainland Europe. The Romans, with whom they clashed, called them Picti, which means "the painted ones," because of their blue-dyed skins. The English word "picture" and its various derivations is derived from the same Latin root. The dye with which the Picts painted themselves was produced from the plant Isatis tinctoria, popularly known as woad, which was once extensively cultivated in various parts of Great Britain.

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As Julius Ceasar himself noted: "All the Britons dye their bodies with woad, which produces a blue color and gives them a wild appearance in battle."2 The famous Celtic queen Boudicca, so beloved of the British, also known as Boadicea, was also said to have smeared herself with woad in her ravaging engagements against the Roman armies.3 The Scots, with whom they eventually united, still refer to the ancient Picts as Blueskins.4 Whether they actually painted themselves blue or not, tribes akin to that of Genghis Khan referred to themselves as the Blue Mongols.5 As with other matters, it is now difficult to ascertain whether this custom came about because the human epidermis had looked blue while proto-Saturn' s ultraviolet light shone on the world, or whether it was because men wished to emulate proto-Saturn's changed appearance.

1 R. Graves, The White Goddess (N. Y., 1966), p. 241. 242
2 P. James & N. Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (N. Y., 2006), p. 260.
3 "Ancient Blues," Discover (March 1999), p. 26.
4 D. L. Cyr, King Arthur's Crystal Cave (Santa Barbara, California, 1997), p. 144.
5 E. C. Krupp, Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings (N. Y., 1997), p. 185.