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1. The Age of of Purple Darkness [Journals] [Aeon]
... to "Varuna and Agni-Varuna." [30] 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 ...
2. Darkness and the Deep [Journals] [Aeon]
... of creation, the primordial substance also seems to have been water, (108) while the 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. It is not uncommon for them to be associated with a tradition of the destruction of the primitive food-gathering ...
3. The Road to Saturn (Excerpts from an Autobiographical Essay) [Journals] [Aeon]
... the atmospheric temperature. The mirage-like effect would have come to a sudden end. 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 and ...
4. The Paleo-Saturnian System [Journals] [Aeon]
... the Amazonian rain forest, with its highly developed ecosystem, would have to be not more than a few thousand years old; all those species of trees would have had to suddenly mutate into perfect photosynthesizers just as recently. We know that's not possible. Even if Cardona were to say that there had been a period of light before an age of darkness which lasted thousands of years, modern environmental destruction has demonstrated that evolution is far too slow to keep up with vast changes within a short timeframe. The Amazon rain forest alone contains over 60 percent of the biota of this planet and 80 percent of the genetic diversity. Ecosystems of half that complexity require millions of years of ...
5. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [Aeon]
... to concentrate on the two most important bodies of the alignment- namely Saturn and Earth itself. The roles which Venus and Mars played in the events I am about to relate in brief will have to await a future work. But let's not beat about the bush. Let's go straight to the heart of the matter. 2. 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. One of the most persistent of beliefs among the civilizations of the ancient nations, ...
6. Return to the Paelo-Saturnian Ssystem (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... with points made. I do, however, have a number of important questions on what Cardona offered. One general problem I find myself burdened with is the lack of an article that concisely tells the entire Saturnian story from beginning to end, especially one that would delineate the following: What actually was perceived by our early ancestors from the age of darkness [39] onwards; What was actually- that is physically- happening in the world during this time; What astronomical and geological events were taking place to cause the phenomena described. If such an article has not yet been written, I'm sure the readers of this periodical would appreciate such a venture. In general, ...
7. Prelude to Creation [Journals] [Aeon]
... ...indeed can vary between transparent and opaque at different wavelengths." [26] 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. We should think, rather, of a sky enshrouded 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. Predetermined Encounter The hypothesis that the current planets of ...
8. Forum [Journals] [Aeon]
... atmosphere of Saturn- an atmosphere that was dense enough to be visible- it would soon have succumbed to frictional drag and fallen onto Saturn. I am sorry to cast a shadow of doubt on this version of the Saturn theory, but I do not think that it is physically possible. 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 ...
9. Varves And Bok Globules (Forum) [Journals] [Aeon]
... also mean that, before Saturn arrived, there was no means of telling the passage of time. The refraction and reflection of the Sun's radiation would also entail an even climate. While the globules are cold, Earth would still have received infrared radiation from the Sun. It is difficult to determine from the myths exactly what transpired during the age of darkness, but the capture of Saturn and Venus from a partly condensed cloud seems to fit what is known. As these frozen masses were eventually warmed by the Sun, chemical reactions would have set in. The first of these would have mainly consisted of various combinations with hydrogen. As an example, silicon hydride would have formed ...
10. The Beginning of Time [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon III:5 (May 1994) Home | Issue Contents The Beginning of Time Dwardu Cardona See note * below . f 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. Does man's collective memory have anything ...
11. Aeon Volume V, Number 3: Contents [Journals] [Aeon]
... III. While this identification has long been abandoned by those involved in the reconstruction of a new chronology for the civilizations of the ancient Near East, Murphie sees fit to resurrect the debate by shedding new light on the controversy. PAGE 69 Out of the Attic The Age of Purple Darkness- by Roger Ashton A concise study of the primeval age of darkness which examines the possibility that ultraviolet and/or infrared radiation had bathed Earth and its inhabitants during this protracted event. Possible experiments aimed at resolving the problem are also offered for consideration. PAGE 96. The Book Shelf Book reviews by Frederic B. Jueneman: PAGE 102 The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and ...
12. The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-historical Record [Journals] [Aeon]
... rest on the mytho-historical record. Zysman's does not rest quite so squarely on it. In fact, he has only been able to reconstruct his model by disregarding vast portions of that record. Moreover, his model cannot be made to account for some of the most momentous events narrated by the record. It does not account for the prolonged age of darkness prior to the sun god's first appearance (108) or the primeval waters on which the Cosmic Egg was laid. His auroral Egg does not account for its hatching, or breaking; or the fact that all of creation was said to have tumbled from it. (109) As we have seen, his model cannot ...
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