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"In former times, the planets played a decidedly more important role in the
imagination of the peoples, to which fact their religions give testimony.
True, sun and moon were also numbered among the planet gods, but usually
they were not the most important ones. Their enumeration among the seven
planets sometimes startles the modern scholar, because these two luminaries
are so much mor conspicuous than the other planets; the domination of
Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and Mars must startle us even more as long as we do
not know what was displayed on the celestial scene a few thousand years
ago." - Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, p. 301.
Ancient Knowledge of Modern Discoveries
by David Talbott
I can think
of quite a number of things which were "known" in ancient times but
that were not "discovered" scientifically until the rise of modern
astronomy. This includes the recentness of Saturn's ring formation,
the fact that the planets were spheres, Mars as the source of meteorites,
the recently-discovered "cometary" tail of Venus, knowledge of the
relative sizes of planets, apparent knowledge of the bands of Jupiter,
and (if I could be so bold as to assert as fact something not yet
generally accepted), the electrical scarring of planets and their
moons. This
last I am going to address further in a response to Jim Acker: I
do not see any plausible way to escape the proof of electrical scarring
when it comes to the unique rilles seen on bodies as diverse as Europa and
the Martian moon Phobos. What will (by implausible guesses) "explain" these
highly unusual patterns in one context fails completely in another.
Lightning was the most popular weapon of the planetary gods. Confirmation
of the remembered events is sitting right in front of us, courtesy of NASA
and space age exploration. Only the inertia of prior theory will stand in
the way of this recognition.
I must
disagree, however, with the formulation of the question. I don't
think it is
a matter of just finding things the ancients knew that were not
"rediscovered" until the rise of modern science. The evidence allowed
should be much broader, since the ancients were not physicists. IF the
hypothesized planetary interactions occurred, what are the general
physical markers we should look for THAT WERE NOT ANTICIPATED PRIOR TO
MODERN ASTRONOMY? While my personal opinion is that we have already found
what we should be looking for (it's called the THE SPACE AGE PROFILE OF THE
PLANETS) I believe there's an immense field for inquiry here.
(Personally, I can not see how the longer scenario (3,000,000 year scenario
rather than 10,000 years or less) could have allowed
for the
preservation of a pristine memory up to a few thousand years ago, then
invite the wholesale fragmentation and distortion of the memory we
observe over the course of a few additional centuries. But these
considerations will need to be explored from every vantage point,
perhaps
including vantage points we've yet to visualize.)
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