10. This war brought an end to an age and was fought between the “gods” and a race of giants, a theme common to mythological traditions from Sumer, Babylon, and Greece to Scandinavia and the Celts.
11. There does exist artifact and textual evidence of giant remains from all over the globe, which loosely corroborate the existence of anomalously large intelligent humanoid beings referred to in ancient texts.
12. Some traditions such as the Sumerian and the Biblical, ascribe the origin of this giant race to a mingling of the “gods” with “men.” The Enuma Elish makes it clear that Tiamat fought the war in part by creating chimerical creatures.
The image of the “divine lightning” or the thunderbolt of the gods will become quite crucial later on in this chapter.
B. Tossing Comets at the Sun: McCanney’s Version
As was seen above, De Santillana and Von Dechind referred to the frightful deed of the “Children of Heaven” as having been to “nudge the sun out of place”, which they understood to be a metaphor of the alteration of the angle of the Earth’s rotation relative to the plane of the ecliptic. But might there be an additional interpretation, one of actually somehow “nudging” the Sun, of disturbing it in some fashion that would have dire consequences for the solar system?
The first to give a hint of this possibility is alternative researcher, and physicist James M. McCanney. He reproduces the following photograph which came from the SOHO satellite, a satellite which “monitors the sun on a daily basis.”212 To appreciate the significance of the photograph in McCanney’s view, it is necessary to understand a little about his theory of the electro-dynamic solar system, and comets.
For McCanney, as for the plasma physicists, the solar system is not electrically neutral. The Sun, of course, pours out a prodigious amount of electrical and nuclear energy every day. But in McCanney’s view as in the plasma cosmologists’s view, this means that on occasion and under certain conditions, the planets themselves can become electrically polarized, and thus, filamentary current can arc between various bodies when the charge is sufficient or when one polarized body approaches near enough to another differently polarized body. And this holds true for comets as for any other body. In short, comets are not electrically neutral, and their corona or “tail” is a sign of this effect.
Now let us consider the 1998 SOHO picture of the Sun.
McCanney’s Comets “Shot Across the Bows” from the 1998 SOHO Satellite Picture
Note in the upper left hand corner one sees the Sun, and note the large solar flare. The two “comets” are clearly visible, with one very near the solar flare.
Now let us cite McCanney in full:
Unexpectedly the two streaking comets came directly into the solar vicinity and flew directly through the intense solar flare to the lower right of the sun. The first comet apparently missed by just a small amount whereas the second made a direct hit through the flare ....
The cover figure has far more meaning than that of just a few comets passing by the sun. Along with the immense solar which “the experts” said was mere coincidence, came a buzz out of the high levels of the national and international security agencies who monitor space for any intruders. The word from these sources was that this was a “shot over the bow” or also saying “look what we can do...look how accurately we can aim these puppies”. This is not me talking, but as I said, this was the buzz out of the security agencies.213
McCanney is implying, in other words, that the comets were artificially and intelligently targeted at the sun, and moreover, that they were polarized in such a fashion as to cause the solar flare. In other words, the immense flare, a plasma discharge, was not electrically neutral, but of one electrical polarity, and the comet was of another. And this, of course, is implying that someone was doing the “shooting”, had the technology to do the shooting, and that it was not us. How else account for the fact that the “comets,” to use McCanney’s apt wording, “unexpectedly” came near the sun?
But all this is merely prologue....
C. Pulsing the Pulsars: Physicist Paul LaViolette’s Promethean Star- and Galaxy-Sized Weapons
Physicist Paul LaViolette figured prominently in my Giza Death Star trilogy, and rightly so, for he truly is a modern day Prometheus who, as we shall see, is not afraid, in spite of his academic credentials, to think in bold terms, and to outline the physics of capturing the fire of the stars, and like De Santillana and Von Dechind, he thinks in terms of the galaxy itself as sources of energy and as means of communication. But as we shall also see, he goes much further than theorizing about communicating literally with, i.e., by means of, the stars, but using them for far deadlier purposes. And La Violette is signally important for yet another reason as we shall see, for his work along with the scalar physics work of Lt Col. (US Army, Ret.) Tom Bearden provides the basis for solving one of the greatest mythological riddles of them all.
LaViolette, it should be noted, has a BA in physics from Johns Hopkins and a PhD from Portland State in system theory, and is a member of the American Astronomical Society. Notwithstanding these credentials from mainstream institutions, LaViolette is not afraid to think, and to think deeply, outside of the box.
But what exactly has LaViolette to do with the stellar and galactic context into which De Santillana and Von Dechind place their own paleophysics interpretation of mythological motifs? A great deal.
La Violette begins his most recent book, The Talk of the Galaxy, with the history of the discovery of pulsars, a kind of star that emits pulses or bursts of radio signals at regular intervals of time. After the first pulsar was discovered in July of 1967 by Cambridge graduate student Jocelyn Bell and her professor Anthony Hewish,214 its strange characteristics began almost immediately to perplex astronomers. After observing this first pulsar for a few months, its signal suddenly faded, and then reappeared again. Hewish “became convinced that they had detected a new kind of astronomical source.”215 The regularity of the pulses led the team to designate the source “LGM 1, the acronym ‘LGM’ standing for ‘Little Green Men.’”216 In December of 1967 Jocelyn Benn found a second pulsar, designated LGM 2.
Obviously, the regularity of the pulses had opened the two astronomers to the possibility that they were dealing with signals from some intelligence, but since the two pulsars were separated by 4000 light years, they concluded naturally enough that two civilizations were involved.217 Over the next few months as more and more pulsars were discovered, MIT radio astronomer Alan Barrett was quoted in the New York Post as being open to the possibility that the pulsars “might be part of a vast interstellar communications network which we have stumbled upon.”218
But scientists soon moved to close the door on this hypothesis, as one naturalist hypothesis after another was put forward to explain why pulsars behaved as they did. One of the early theories, that pulsars were radially pulsating white dwarf stars was discarded when it was found that two of the pulsars that had been discovered in the Crab and Vela nebula were actually remnants of supernovas, or exploding stars.35 The model that was eventually decided upon and which became for a period the standard theory of pulsars is the “Neutron Star Lightouse Model” as LaViolette calls it. Pulsars were thought to be extremely dense rapidly rotating masses of neutrons, “neutron stars” which emitted beams of radiation called “synchrotron radiation” as they spun. This radiation is not so difficult to understand if one envisions the beam of a spotlight, rotating on its pedestal. When the rotation approaches one’s position, one sees the beam, until it rotates away, gradually dimming back into darkness, then gradually reappearing, and so on, only in the case of the pulsar, the beam is a radio wave of several frequencies.
This model worked well enough until astronomers discovered pulsars whose pulses were not regularly spaced, as they would be if the “lighthouse” model were true. The model had to be revised, and revised again, as more and more anomalous behavior was observed in pulsars. Against this history of failure to adequately explain t
he pulsar phenomenon on the basis of natural causes and models, then, LaViolette proposes in his book to revive the pulsars-as-nonrandomly placed, and as possible communications devices:
If extraterrestrial civilizations are attempting to communicate with us and are distinguishing their transmissions by doing “something that can’t be done in nature,” the pulsar signals certainly are the closest thing known to fit this criterion.
The chapters that follow present evidence that pulsars are nonrandomly placed in the sky, with particularly distinctive beacons being situated at key Galactic locations that are meaningful reference points from the standpoint of interstellar communication.219
Evidence soon showed that pulsars originated from the surfaces of star-sized bodies, since many pulsars were known to have massive neighbors such as nearby stars or their own orbiting planets.220 This fact too, spelled the end of the idea that pulsars might be part of an artificially placed intra-galactic grid.
But not so fast, says LaViolette. He urges us do one of Einstein’s thought experiments and
Imagine a scientifically advanced civilization seeking out a hot stellar core and making use of its outgoing cosmic ray electron wind for communication purposes.
In this case, the star thus functions as a gigantic particle accelerator. Remember McCanney’s comets and the shot across the bow? In this case, the engineering theory at least, is simple:
By using advanced technology... magnetic fields might be artificially generated near the star’s surface that would, in turn, decelerate the star’s cosmic ray electrons and cause them to produce one or more beams of ...radiation.221
Note that such a magnetic field might also be engineered to do another thing: it might be engineered to accelerate the star’s cosmic rays.
By placing several such fields near the surface of a star, several such beams could be directed to different locations. LaViolette reproduces the following diagram to illustrate his idea.
La Violette’s Model of Using A Star as a Source of Synchrotron Radiation By Engineering Fields near its Surface222
LaViolette then drops his bombshell: “In fact, a careful study reveals that puslars are nonrandomly distributed in the plane of the sky in such a way that they point out a key location relative to the Galactic Center.”223
La Violette then reproduces the following map which plots some 330 known pulsars on a map of the galaxy, with the center being the galactic center:
Note that the cluster of pulsars to the left of the galactic center should not be there if the pulsars were randomly placed. As LaViolette observes the center of this cluster “marks an angular deviation of precisely one radian from the Galactic center.” 224
What is a radian and why is this particular galactic longitude so special from the standpoint of extraterrestrial communication? The radian is a universal concept that comes from the study of geometry. Let us begin by drawing a circle... If we mark off a length along the circle’s circumference that has the same length as the circle’s radius, then the angle that subtends this arc, as measured from the center of the circle, is one radian. It takes a total of 2π radians to completely circumscribe a circle. Consequently, one radian will equal 36° divided by 2π, or about 57.296 degrees.225
So far so good.
But note that the cluster to the left of the galactic center diverges from the galactic center as observed from Earth. LaViolette then draws the first of many stunning conclusions:
By pointing out (this) one radian (location), the fabricators of this pulsar network, not only would be conveying to us that their signals are of intelligent origin... but also that their senders know the director of the Galactic center as viewed from our solar neighborhood.... Consequently, marking this one-radian location with a network of beacons would have meaning only from our particular Galactic locale with its particular perspective for viewing the Galactic center direction.226
But there is a problem with this concept, and LaViolette knows what it is.
Any “galactic communications grid” such as he is proposing is constrained by the “relativistic speed limit”: nothing can travel conventionally faster than the velocity of light. Thus, to construct such an array implies that anyone doing it would have to have a means both of communicating and traveling faster than light.227
However, while man has not done the latter (yet), he has already communicated faster than light:
In 1991, Thomas Ishii and George Giakos reported that they had transmitted microwaves at faster than light speeds. Shortly afterward in 1992, Enders and Nimtz, physicists at the University of Cologne in Germany, described transmitting microwaves through an undersized waveguide at superluminal velocity. This work became more widely known after 1995 when this group succeeded in transmitting Mozart’s 40th symphony through an undersized 11 centimeter long waveguide at a speed 4.7 times faster than that of light.228
Other experiments have involved the phenomenon of non-locality, and photon entanglement, to communicate information over great distances229 in violation of relativistic dogma.
But there were other, earlier attempts at communications, and here is where one begins, at last, to draw close to the connection between pulsars, the ancient war, and De Santillana’s and Von Dechind’s “galactic context” for ancient myths. La Violette produces the following diagram of a device built by the noted American “electro-gravitics” physicist Thomas Townsend Brown, the physicist whose name many will recognize as having been involved in the alleged Philadelphia Experiment.
This was Brown’s modification of similar experiments produced by Nikola Tesla, and relied upon the transmission of messages over great distances
By means of longitudinal wave shock fronts. (Brown’s device) generated its signals by repeatedly charging a capacitor to a high-voltage and abruptly discharged it through a spark gap. The resulting energy shock fronts so produced were recived by an electrified capacitor bridge that registered these waves as voltage transients read by means of a brush chart recorder. An investigator from the Office of Naval Research who witnessed a test of this devise in 1952 reported that signals were successfully transmitted to a receiver located in an adjoining room within an electrically grounded metal shield. 230
In other words, the receiver had been completely electrically shielded, and yet it registered the shock fronts!231
Because of this and other phenomena, Brown, like Tesla who had discovered a similar effect, began to suspect these longitudinal waves were superluminal, “although at the time he had no definitive proof of this.”232 But there was more:
Since he had determined that his capacitor bridge was able to detect gravitational disturbances, he concluded that the signals he was conveying must be gravitic, rather than electromagnetic. He reasoned that the waves were the gravitational homologues of light waves, which, for lack of a better word, he called “quasi-fight.”233
Brown discovered that he obtained even better reception if his original titanium oxide capacitors were replaced by ceramic capacitors with a “high mass density and high dielectric constant.”234 Note that the phenomenon is produced by standard electromagnetic components, the most important of which is a high energy direct current pulse across a spark gap. In short, one has similar components in a pulsar, and this leads Laviolette to ask the next important question: “Could the Hertzian electromagnetic emissions from pulsars contain a non-Hertzian superluminal component, as yet unidentified, that permits such rapid communication?”235 In other words, was there a hidden longitudinal wave component in pulsars that was hitherto unrecognized? If so, then LaViolette’s thought experiment would be vindicated.
1. Back to the Myths: Sagitta, The Celestial Arrow
In order to trace down this and other possibilities for his pulsar hypothesis, LaViolette turns to ancient myths and the zodiac. As he observes,
We cannot help noticing a similarity between the pulsar clump and the ancient constellation of Sagitta which portrays the Celestial Arrow, both of which have their far tip si
tuated near the Galaxy’s northern one-radian point. In the case of the constellatory Arrow, the arrow tip is represented by the star Gamma Sagittae.... In fact, there is strong evidence to suggest that the ancient astronomers who outlined the Sagitta constellation knew the location of the Galactic center and purposely marked this one-radian point.236
In other words, the lore of constellations is oddly paralleled by an apparently non-random placement of pulsars one radian from the galactic center, as viemed from the earth. This implies that whoever “placed” the pulsars, and whoever initiated the lore of the zodiac in all its various permeations, may have been one and the same.
In any case, it is worth citing what LaViolette maintains this lore says:
A close study of constellation lore reveals that (Sagitta, the Celestial Arrow) is part of a larger constellation cipher, one that includes the southern constellations of Centaurus, and Crucis, as well as the constellations of the zodiac and their astrological lore. As explained in the author’s books Beyond the Big Bang and Earth Under Fire these ancient asterisms and their associated lore use the language of metaphor to convey that the Galactic center underwent a major explosion and that cosmic rays and radiation from this outburst began to shower our solar system around 16,000 years ago, bringing about a global climatic disaster....That is, according to star lore mythology, Saggitarius (The Archer) is aiming his arrow tip (Gamma Sagittarii) at the Heart of the Scorpion which is specifically represented by Alpha Scorpii, a bright red supergiant star. 237
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