Mayan Calendar Prophecies: The Complete Collection of 2012 Predictions and Prophecies (9 page)

  The burst also affected Earth’s ionosphere, briefly expanding it similarly to what happens during solar flares. The fact that a star so far away could affect Earth’s ionosphere was a great surprise to the scientists who discovered it.

Physicist Dr. Paul LaViolette has theorized that such gamma ray bursts are preceded by gravity waves that can
cause earthquakes on Earth.
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Dr. LaViolette has calculated that such a gravity wave would have arrived around the same time as the 2004 Indonesian megaquake that caused the tsunami. Dr. LaViolette calculated that the odds were extremely small that two such rare and powerful events could occur together and be unrelated.

On January 7, 2005, Comet Machholz made its closest visit to the Pleiades. Then just thirteen days later a solar flare “released the highest concentration of protons ever directly measured, taking only 15 minutes after observation to reach
Earth….”
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Protons can cause severe damage to body tissues leading to radiation sickness and death. Typically the protons from such flares take an hour or more to reach Earth giving astronauts plenty of time to take shelter. Yet this time they travelled nearly the speed of
light.
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It also should be noted that the strongest solar flare ever measured occurred on November 4, 2003, just nine months before the discovery of Comet Machholz. Other large solar flares have taken place on October 28, 2003, September 7, 2005, and February 17, 2011. In fact, “from January 2005 to September 2005 [Earth] experienced 4 severe geomagnetic storms and 14 X [class]
flares.”
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Could the green comet of Hermes/Quetzalcoatl be associated not only with increased terrestrial storms but also increased solar storms? Mercury, the Roman version of Hermes, is always shown wearing a solar hat thus clearly has solar associations.

Likewise, the type of snake associated with Quetzalcoatl was the rattlesnake species
Crotalus durissus
. Researchers have noted that this rattlesnake has a design near its rattles that is identical to the Mayan glyph
ahau
that “designates the Sun God.”
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Thus in addition to encoding the concepts of “twin” and “serpent,”
coatl
also encoded the concept of “sun.” There were other species of rattlesnake they could have used to symbolize Quetzalcoatl but they chose the
Crotalus durissus
with the
ahau
symbol on its tail. This seems quite purposeful.

Usually humanity is protected from solar storms by Earth’s magnetic field but in 2008 NASA scientists discovered a huge hole in this field “ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist….The entire day-side of the magnetosphere was open to the solar
wind.”
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Any major flares occurring at that time would have hit Earth unimpeded by the protective magnetic field and caused immense damage to both life and technological infrastructure.

Has the sun entered a new phase of activity that could pose dangers to Earth in the near future?  Is this why the Maya referred to the beginning of a new age as the birth of a new sun? Is it the sun causing an increase in storm activity? Is the sun, in fact, the root cause of global warming and not carbon dioxide?

Astronomer Sallie Baliunas and astrophysicist Willie Soon, researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have shown that "changes in the Sun can account for major climate changes on Earth for the past 300 years, including part of the recent surge of global warming…[and] heat-trapping gases emitted by smokestacks and vehicles -- the so-called greenhouse effect -- appear to be
secondary."
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A few months after the January 2005 solar flare, the Atlantic hurricane season began. This was “the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history [with] a record twenty-eight tropical and subtropical storms formed, of which a record 15 became hurricanes. Of these, seven strengthened into major hurricanes, a record-tying five became Category 4 hurricanes and a record four reached Category 5 strength.... Among these Category 5 storms were Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, respectively the costliest and the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on
record.”
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Since 2005 some of the largest and/or deadliest natural disasters in recorded history have occurred including the 2005 Kasmir earthquake (79,000 dead), 2006 Java earthquake, 2008 Sichuan earthquake (61,000 dead), 2008 Cyclone Nargis (138,000 dead), 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (8.8 magnitude), 2010 Haiti earthquake and tsunami (222,000 dead), & the 2011 Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami
(20,000 dead).
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This period also included two of the deadliest avalanches in history (2010 Salang & Kohistan avalanches in Afghanistan and Pakistan respectively) and two of the deadliest blizzards (2008 Afghanistan blizzard & 2008 Chinese winter storms). It also included two of the deadliest heat waves in history: Europe 2003 (40,000 dead) & Russia 2010 (56,000 dead) and two of the deadliest non-cyclone storms both in Brazil, 2008 (128 dead) and 2011
(1,000 dead).
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The most tornadoes to touch down in a single day, 312, occurred on April 28, 2011, which was double the previous
record.
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In May 2011 flooding on the Mississippi River broke records in many locations.

We have seen that since Comet Machholz arrived Earth has entered a period of extreme natural disasters. Two of the top ten deadliest natural disasters of all time have happened since 2004: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Thus the green comet of Mercury-Hermes-Quetzalcoatl being associated with “
lightning’s, thunders, earthquakes, great winds, [and] violent storms” seems fitting and just a little more than coincidental.

Hermes was also a god of commerce and of thieves. Coincidentally, in 2008 the worst financial crisis in history struck the entire world.

There is no known mechanism for a comet to be the source of such disasters nor do the ancient myths suggest this. The myths about Quetzalcoatl and Hermes suggest that a green comet serves as a herald or messenger of extreme catastrophes to come. If this is the case, then it would appear that there is a natural cycle of catastrophes with which the orbit of Comet Machholz just happens to coincide. Thus the next obvious questions are what is the orbit of Comet Machholz and when was the last time it visited Earth and what were the consequences?

According to astronomers, Comet Machholz is a long period comet with a 12,500-year orbital period. The last time Comet Machholz visited Earth was in 10,500 BC. This corresponded to the beginning of the Younger Dryas climate event that saw parts of the world become much cooler. Earth had experienced a global warming that was bringing an end to the Ice Age. Yet something happened in 10,500BC that reversed this global warming trend. A great mass extinction also occurred at this time with the die off of the mega-fauna such as mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, saber toothed tigers and more. The Clovis Culture in North America also ended.
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What caused this climate event? It appears that an enormous fresh water lake known as Lake Agassiz existed in the center of North America created from the melt water of the glaciers covering the continent then. This lake covered over 440,000 square miles and was larger than all the Great Lakes combined and held more water than all of today’s lakes combined! Around 10,500 BC an ice dam collapsed and the lake catastrophically drained north into the Arctic Ocean.
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This influx of cold water shut down the currents in the Atlantic Ocean that transferred the warm equatorial waters north. This led to a return of Ice Age conditions for much of the northern hemisphere.  It also led to immense coastal flooding as sea levels rose hundreds of feet as a result of the melting.

What caused the ice dam to melt? One theory suggests a comet exploded over the ice sheet. Richard Firestone of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory noted, "Our research indicates that a 10-kilometer-wide comet, which may have been composed from the remnants of a supernova explosion, could have hit North America 13,000 years ago. This event was preceded by an intense blast of iron-rich grains that impacted the planet roughly 34,000 years ago."
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According to this theory a swarm of comets impacted Earth and/or exploded in the atmosphere with the same destructive power as a nuclear bomb blast. This caused immense fire storms that set much of the world’s forests ablaze. Evidence of this global conflagration can be seen in the geologic record as a ‘black mat’ that appears just before the layer representing the onset of the Younger Dryas climate event.  This ‘black mat’ layer has been found in North America, South America and Europe suggesting a worldwide catastrophe.

Meteorites with a lunar origin have also been found on Earth that also date to this time which suggests that the moon was also impacted by comets which resulted in lunar rocks being ejected into space and then falling to Earth. In fact, the Toba tribe in South America claimed a world fire was caused when pieces of the moon broke and struck Earth.
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Yet could these forest fires have had an additional cause? Could the sun have erupted with a super solar flare that was intense enough to set forests ablaze?

Scientists studying Greenland ice cores have noted that the Younger Dryas period is bracketed by two nitrate spikes in the ice record.
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Scientists have noted that nitrate spikes in more modern ice core samples dating back to 1561 coincide with known solar flare events. The largest such nitrate spike coincides with the 1859 Carrington Event which was the first solar flare ever observed by modern astronomers. It was the result of a Solar Superstorm and it produced auroras as far south as the Caribbean.
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The telegraph was the only form of technology that existed in 1859. According to Wikipedia, “Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed in some cases even shocking telegraph operators. Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire. Some telegraph systems appeared to continue to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.”
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A study conducted by the National Science Foundation to determine what would happen if a Carrington size solar storm were to occur today concluded the U.S. would be without power for years as a result.

The nitrate spikes bracketing the Younger Dryas period are substantially higher than those produced by the Carrington Event. This suggests the solar storm that produced them was orders of magnitude larger. Can such a storm be powerful enough to set forests on fire?

The answer came when the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. They discovered small lunar craters that showed signs of glazing on their exposed surfaces. In 1969 astrophysicist Thomas Gold concluded that “radiation intensity on the Moon had reached 100 suns for 10 to 100 seconds…”
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to produce such glazing.

Humans appear to not only have witnessed such an event but also to have recorded it on petroglyphs around the world. Physicist Anythony Peratt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory noted that literally thousands of petroglyphs around the world showed abstract designs that were nearly identical to patterns made by high-energy plasma discharges in the laboratory.
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How could ancient people over 12,000 years ago have created such designs? The only way, theorizes Peratt, is if the sun unleashed a high-energy solar flare orders of magnitude larger than any in recorded history that produced these plasma designs as auroras in the sky. The ancient sky watchers then simply carved into the rock the designs they were seeing in the sky.

One design that appeared in many places around the world was a stick figure man sometimes with a birdlike head. Dr. Peratt was able to reproduce this design with plasma discharges in the laboratory.

Interestingly, the ancient Egyptians had a deity known as Thoth who was represented as a bird-headed man. Thoth shared all the qualities and characteristics of both Quetzalcoatl and Hermes. When the ancient Greeks ruled over Egypt they also noted the similarities between these two deities and considered them to be the same.

Thoth (Courtesy Wikipedia)