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Introduction to Perigee: Zero
"Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth
you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the
hall." ... Professor Indiana Jones
This endeavor is to be considered Interdisciplinary
<../interdisciplinary/index.html> in nature, as it is relevant to many
disparate scientific realms. We fully expect that archeologists will be
the most receptive to it, as they have been laying their hands on
evidence of burial under deep layers of terrestrial debris: The Dig into
The Mound.
The Perigee: Zero Terraforming was extensive across the earth, such that
the generated landforms are considered "ordinary" The massive volume of
water accreted into the hydrosphere during the proposed events is
examined for causality of known world flood events and the stabilization
of Earth's environment during the Holocene era.
The Perigee: Zero theory presents a solution to the geomorphology of the
?frosting? seen on top of the tectonic plate cake. PZ suggests that much
of what humans consider being natural terrestrial landscape today was
actually accreted onto the continents as ejecta during the last 15,000
years. The effect on mankind was perhaps more profound than the changes
seen on the face of the earth.
Is this relevant to human cultural evolution? The treatise suggests that
it is profoundly relevant. The predicament we find ourselves in is that
our desire for a uniformitarian geological world and our distaste for
the more relevant catastrophic model of it are at odds. Our judgment is
blinded, and we have failed to cast a catastrophic eye upon our cultural
heritage as we interpret it.
William Dever, professor emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and
Anthropology at the University of Arizona has stated the problem this way:
Today there is a deepening ?historigraphical crisis? in archaeology
and Biblical studies in Israel, Europe and America ? a creeping
skepticism and a loss of confidence in our ability to confirm
anything. The Hebrew Bible is only a ?social construct?, a figment
of the tortured imagination of later Judaism in an identity crisis
of the Hellenistic era... 1
That the Bible?s relevance as historical fact is questioned should come
as no surprise to the theologians or the archaeologist hoping to prove
them. Across the globe, the defining works of our various cultures are
relegated to the ranks of folklore and fantasy simply because their
catastrophic images are beyond our comprehension, or because respected
readers today sense that the scribe's eye was focused too long on the
astronomical while seeking clues to civilization's future.
For example, Indian scholarship attempting to validate the age of the
Indian epic Rigveda has been rejected by the West:
Some, mostly Indian, writers have used alleged astronomical
references in the Rigveda to date it to as early as the 4th
millennium BC. Mainstream scholarship widely rejects these
interpretations as pseudoscientific (e.g. Witzel, 1999). 2
However, a firm connection with the astronomical is acknowledged in
Hindu tradition:
According to Indian tradition, the Rigvedic hymns were collected by
Paila under the guidance of Vy?sa, who formed the Rigveda Samhita as
we know it. According to the ?atapatha Br?hmana, the number of
syllables in the Rigveda is 432,000, equaling the number of muhurtas
(1 day = 30 muhurtas) in forty years. This statement stresses the
underlying philosophy of the Vedic books that there is a connection
(bandhu) between the astronomical, the physiological, and the
spiritual. 2
We can cite similar dismissals of the relevance of the works of the
Nords, the Germanic tribes, the Chinese, the North American Indians and
the Egyptians, among the many. The typical reviewer today only wishes to
extract the moral themes from these documents, not the catastrophic
historical references, especially when those include cosmic
interventions. This treatise strongly acknowledges that the moral themes
found in these writings are indeed the foundations of human
civilization. Being relevant, it is appropriate to embrace them.
However, schisms are created when the reader attempts to accept only a
selected component of a Great Work.
The treatise's' premise is that civilization is beholden to the
catastrophic forces involved in the Perigee: Zero impact sequences. A
note here on ?timing.? A valid question relates to the statistically
validity of such a singular catastrophic series of events occurring in
our recent historic past, considering the earth?s age at over 4 Billion
years. Why now?
We consider the following to be the appropriate response: We suggest
that the stabilization of the earth?s climate was driven by the Perigee:
Zero event sequence. (Discussed in the Holocene Temperature
Stabilization <../timeline/index.html> segment.) Therefore, the rapid
development of civilization can be considered a direct result of the PZ
series. A valid premise would be that had the events occurred 50,000
years ago, civilization would be 35,000 years ahead today. Conversely,
had the impact sequence not occurred, mankind would today consist only
of tribes of hunter-gatherers.
We have a few strong hints that the recent Perigee: Zero events were
documented in more verifiable documentation. John S. Lewis opens his
book, /Rain of Iron and Ice/ */3/*, with a startling reconstruction of
mankind's encounter with a cosmic visitor.
*Constantinople, A.D. 472:*
It was a warm, clear afternoon in the capital. The bustle of
metropolitan commerce and tourism filled the streets. Small sailing
vessels dotted the sheltered waters within sight of the government
buildings, riding on a soft southerly breeze. The Sun sparkled on
the gentle swells and wakes, lending a luminous glow to the poppies
and tulips nodding in the parks along the water's edge. All was in
order. But suddenly the sky brightened as if with a second, more
brilliant Sun. A second set of shadows appeared; at first long and
faint, they shortened and sharpened rapidly. A strange hissing,
humming sound seemed to come from everywhere at once. Thousands
craned their necks and looked upward, searching the sky for the new
Sun. Above them a tremendous white fireball blossomed, like the
unfolding of a vast paper flower, but now blindingly bright. For
several seconds the fierce fireball dominated the sky, shaming the
Sun. The sky burned white-hot, then slowly faded through yellow and
orange to a glowering copper-red. The awful hissing ceased. The
onlookers, blinded by the flash, burned by its searing heat, covered
their eyes and cringed in terror. Occupants of offices and
apartments rushed to their windows, searching the sky for the source
of the brilliant flare that had lit their rooms. A great blanket of
turbulent, coppery cloud filled half the sky overhead. For a dozen
heartbeats the city was awestruck, numbed and silent. Then, without
warning, a tremendous blast smote the city, knocking pedestrians to
the ground. Shuttered doors and windows blew out; fences, walls and
roofs groaned and cracked. A shock wave raced across the city and
its waterways, knocking sailboats flat in the water. A hot sulfurous
wind like an open door into hell, the breath of a cosmic ironmaker?s
furnace, pressed downward from the sky, filled with endless
reverberation of invisible landslides. Then the hot breath slowed
and paused; the normal breeze resumed with renewed vigor, and cool
air blew across the city from the South. The sky overhead now faded
to dark gray, then to a portentous black. A turbulent black cloud
like a rumpled sheet seemed to descend from heaven. Fine black dust
began to fall, slowly, gently, suspended and swirled by the breeze.
For an hour or more the black dust fell, until, dissipated and
dispersed by the breeze, the cloud faded from view.Many thought it
was the end of the world....
Please consider the following scenario: The apparition in the sky above
Constantinople was a large comet body captured into earth orbit. It
visits again and again. Its orbital perigee is coming ever closer to the
earth's surface, to the increasing alarm and despair of humanity.
Civilization breaks down and mankind is thrown into the dark ages.The
danger is well known to some of the inhabitants who have read their
forefathers dire warnings, as it has happened before. The comet presents
itself in increasingly menacing apparitions until finally taking several
catastrophic swipes at the earth and is disrupted across the landscape.
Luckily for Europe, the continent is spared. The Sudan, Saudi Arabia,
Western China, Great Britain and North America are not so fortunate.
/Great Britain/?
A.D. 793. This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the
Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were
immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and
fiery, dragons flying across the firmament. These tremendous tokens
were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after, on the
sixth day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing
inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of God in
Holy-island, by rapine and slaughter. Siga died on the eighth day
before the calends of March.
This text is from the famous Anglo Saxon Chronicles First started by
King Alfred of Wessex. He later became known as King Alfred the Great.
We interpret the translation of ?great sheets of light? as referring to
a comet body passing high overhead, but above the atmosphere. The dragon
reference would refer to a cometary passage within the atmosphere, where
it would produce a glowing head and a long black tail.
And what of the "/it has happened before/"? Mankind's cultural history
is founded in the concept of death and rebirth. Presented variously as
the /Four Ages of Man/ (India Brahma
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_(god)>) or the /Five Ages of Man/
(Greece <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man>, Aztec
<http://www.spiritpathways.com/5suns.html>, Navajo
<http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw02navajo_cherokee.htm>,
etc), mankind has attempted to document regular punctuations in the
stability of the earth's environment. During each of these interruptions
the world is virtually destroyed except for those elements (plant and
animal) necessary to repopulate the earth, and the continents are
rearranged. Thus, the common terms of "Creation" and "End of the World"
are presented in these mystical discussions as only transitory stages in
an ever-repeating drama. We suggest that the destruction delivered
during Perigee: Zero event sequences would qualify as the natural force
behind such a cycle; rather than "mystical", the words of our
forefathers are actual recorded history.
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Our goal with this treatise is to put forth the proposal that our
cultural heritage and the recent geological history of our planet earth
are tightly intertwined. A simple unifying solution is available that
will address many of the enigmas that are presented by that intertwining
relationship. We are approaching the proof with respect for the rules of
good scientific processes. We recognize that our interpretation of many
specific landforms, events or historical connotations may be faulty and
erroneous. We ask the reader not to dismiss the entire treatise due to
individual oversights or misunderstandings.
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The reader is cautioned that the inclusion of referenced authors and
scientists mentioned within this treatise is in no way indicative of
their support for it. Quite the contrary; we expect that many years of
debate and exploration lie ahead before the Perigee: Zero hypothesis
could be considered as accepted science.
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1.* Editorial in /_Biblical Archaeology Review
<http://biblicalarchaeology.org/>_/ March/April 2006, p26+/
/*2.* From Wikipedia
*3.* /Rain of Iron and Ice//:/ /The Very Real Threat of Comet and
Asteroid Bombardment/ by John S. Lewis ISBN 0-201-15494-3 264 pages,
1997, Perseus Books Group.
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