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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ironmaster" data-source="post: 2646623" data-attributes="member: 36274">Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1931 - 1pmFather Cromwell continues about his thankless task of sorting among the mess on the shelves, when he comes across a map of the heavens pinned under several heavy books.  Placing the books on the bed, he reaches back for the map, brushing out a few creases and unfolding it.You can view a similar map here: <a href="http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/jarrett/talks/pomona/page_3c.jpg" target="_blank">http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/jarrett/talks/pomona/page_3c.jpg</a>.  It looks like a map from antiquity, or at least an excellent reproduction of one.  Strangely enough, you have the unsettling feeling that something is dreadfully wrong with this one, a cold rush in your bowels. You feel queasy, and sit down on the bed, placing the map next to you, when you notice a slip of paper sticking out of Breasted's classic A History of Egypt(1905 printing).  Opening the book, you see that it marks page 170, and on that page phrases are underlined.  Pararbemis realizes that Amasis is preparing to seize the throne, for there are internal conflicts, and hurries back to make Apries aware of the fact. Apries, however, is so angry on seeing that Amasis has not been brought back that he gives Patarbemis no opportunity to explain, and has his ears and nose cut off. Apries' ill treatment of such a distinguished man as Patarbemis appalls even his supporters, and they go over to Amasis. Apries' throne is tottering; he has lost his domestic support, and now can rely only on his hired troops to prevent the fall of the Old Kingdom. The page is retranslated within the text again:Patarbemis could not ignore the meaning of these words, and seeing the preparations as well, speedily departed, planning as rapidly as possible to make the king aware of these events. When he returned to Apries, but not leading Amasis, [the king] without one word and becoming very wrathful, ordered that his ears and nose be cut off. The other Egyptians, who yet favored him, seeing a man so treated without waiting any time, went over to the others, and gave themselves to the crocodile god, and the triumph becomes complete. Father Cromwell also notices a word on the slip of paper itself.  In Gliere's hand it reads "Quattara".In rifling through some personal papers found inside Gliere's desk, Professor Douglass comes across some curious notes.  He sees strange, bird-like markings and some scribbled words in what he recognizes as his colleague's familiar hand.  Three of the words seem paired with the symbols - old, heavens, cold.  He recognizes the markings as Egyptian heiroglyphics.  Perhaps a collegue could interpret them for you...A locked drawer in the bedstand yields to a little exertion on the part of Solari, revealing a neat stack of notes and letters tied together carefully with a blue ribbon.  Untying the silk bow, he takes a look.  In rifling through Gliere's notes and letters, he uncovers a portion of a manuscript: "The Great Upheaval Myths Correlated with Climatic Change," by T. Gliere.  These celestial phenomena could not have taken place in the sky over Troy alone: the entire world had to witness the events, if they were not mere creations of the bard. That they were not can be deduced from the fact that these very events, witnessed in all parts of the world, are also described in sacred epics from Finland (Kalevala), Lapland and Iceland (Edda), from Mexico, Peru, India, the South Sea Islands, China and Japan, and, of course, by the poets and dramatists, annalists and astronomers, of the Near and Far East. It would require repeating numerous labors, should we desire here to evidence and illuminate this in some detail.Perturbations in the celestial sphere, or Theomachy, in which Mars endangered the Earth at nearly regular intervals during this century, preoccupied the minds of men and repeatedly intervened in human history. Pestilence also broke out, and many references in the cuneiform literature ascribe its cause to Nergal (Mars). Earthquakes, overflooding, change of climate, evidenced by Klimasturz, did not spare a single land. These changes moved entire nations to migrations. Calendars were repeatedly thrown out of order and reformed—and the reader will find abundant material where no human testimony, but only the testimony of nature was presented; and this material could be multiplied by any dedicated researcher. Skimming, Antonio sees a bizzare collection of tales mentioning nearly every rumored land, from Atlantis to Mu.  Many stories he does not recognize at all.  Apparently Gliere sought out historical and physical evidence for these legends of lands sunken and frozen.  He seems to have found common dates for the devastation myths common to nearly every culture.  Interesting.  Looking a bit further, he finds a letter from a Mr. Velikovsky, postmarked Palestine.  The scrawl is difficult, but he can see that the author greets Gliere's work 'with joy.' There is a page about the Vedas and how they confirm something called 'Polar Reversal.'  One portion deals wih the 'Era of Fertility on the Frozen Continent.'  Velikovsky reports that work on 'Freudian Heroes' - including Ikhenaten - continues.</blockquote>

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