Star Myths, the Duat, and this Life

Above is a video I published recently entitled "Star Myths, the Duat, and this Life."

It explores the question, which I am frequently asked, "Why do the Star Myths from cultures around the world use the Stars as their foundation?"

I'm convinced one reason is that they are dramatizing for our understanding the reality of the Duat, the Infinite and the Eternal, the "pure potential" from which the manifest unfolds and which is not separate from us but always present.

The ancient wisdom given to all cultures helps us to live in accordance with this uncreated undifferentiated Duat (a term from ancient Egypt -- other cultures describe it with different language but pointing to the same concept), both on an individual level and on an societal level.

Ignoring the teaching of the ancient wisdom, or deliberately trying to turn it on its head, only ends in frustration and disaster.

Please share as appropriate with those who would find this message to be positive in some way!

Photos from the Eclipse at the Canyons extravaganza!

The podcast teams of the Brothers of the Serpent and the Grimerica Show organized a fantastic weekend-long festival in Utopia, Texas called Eclipse at the Canyon to celebrate and experience the Total Solar Eclipse of 08 April 2024.

We heard eye-opening presentations and soul-enriching music from a tremendous lineup of artists and speakers, plus two nights of stand-up comedy!

The Eclipse itself was unforgettable -- made even more so by the fact that the sky was stubbornly clouded-over during the hours leading up to the big moment (see image below):

In conjunction with our collective intentions, the sky opened up for us to see the Total Eclipse in all its glory -- just as had happened previously on a different Canyons event at Bryce and Zion National Parks in Utah, when the sky opened up long enough for us to see all the constellations in all directions, before clouding back over.

Below are a few photos from this year's Eclipse at the Canyon -- Special thanks to hosts David and Laura K for having us all over to their fantastic homestead and venue, and looking forward to more events in Utopia in the years ahead!

A visit to the largest caldera in the Southern Hemisphere

According to the Hydroplate Theory of Dr. Walt Brown, the continents of our planet all slid away from the Atlantic (and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and towards the massive depression basin of the Pacific Ocean.

In years past this blog has published numerous examinations of various pieces of evidence around the globe which support the overall structure of Dr. Brown's Hydroplate Theory, even though I do not accept the premise that the texts contained in the Bible are literal descriptions of past history -- I have shown them to be based on celestial metaphor, in common with the world's other ancient myths, scriptures, and sacred stories.  

In other words, I do not accept that the texts contained in what we call the Bible are literal -- but that stance does not mean that I do not see massive evidence around our planet for a catastrophic world-wide flood along the lines of the theory proposed by Dr. Brown (although I believe that any timeline which tries to force events into timelines suggested by literalist readings of the Bible are demonstrably mistaken, since archaeological sites such as Gobekli Tepe are older than many literalist proposals for the date of literalist Creation and a literalist Biblical Flood, and since the texts of the Bible can be shown to be based on celestial metaphor, rather than accounts of terrestrial historical events).

If the mechanisms proposed in the Hydroplate Theory are correct, the continents of Asia and Australia would have slid eastwards, towards the great depression of the Pacific Basin, even as the continents of North and South America would have been sliding westwards towards the same Pacific Basin. 

This explanation from the Hydroplate Theory helps us to understand why the forces of friction would have been so enormous along the "leading edge" of the continents that were sliding towards that Pacific Basin, resulting in the melting of subterranean rock and the buildup of magma and lava beneath the surface, eventually erupting into the volcanoes that we find all the way around the Pacific Rim and the west coasts of North and South America, and the east coast of Asia as well as the Japanese archipelago.

This ring of volcanoes around the gigantic "hole" of the Pacific Basin is often referred to as the "Ring of Fire."

In line with the description of ancient catastrophic events provided by Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory, we find the remnants of an enormous ancient volcano situated at the very easternmost point of the continent of Australia, just where we might expect to find such a volcano if indeed the continent of Australia slid towards the Pacific Basin, building up friction and deep subterranean magma along Australia's easternmost edge (the "leading edge" of the slide).

Above is a map of Australia showing that easternmost point, and the location of the massive ancient volcano is indicated by a red box in the map above, which corresponds to the area shown in larger scale in the zoomed-in map below:

Can you make out the remnants of a massive ancient volcano in the above terrain map? It is situated just along the coastline, in between the words "Tweed Heads" to the north and "Byron Bay" and "Lismore" to the south, and it is the skeletal remains (or "erosion caldera") of a massive ancient volcano sometimes called the "Tweed Volcano," about 62 miles in diameter.

Below is yet another map, zooming in more closely still:

Continuing to zoom in closer, we can see that the distinctive rock formation to which Captain Cook gave the name "Mt. Warning" (because it is visible from the sea, through a break in the remaining walls of the ancient caldera, and gives warning to ships to avoid the offshore reefs of Point Danger) is in fact the remains of the central eruption shaft of the volcano:

Below is a photograph I took of Mt. Warning, looking from the southern rim region and positioned slightly east of the mountain itself (that is, looking northwest towards the mountain):

The outer edges of the remaining crater ring around the central point of Mt. Warning show deep channels and folds, as we would expect from the sides of a massive ancient volcano. One section of the remaining rim along the southern side is known as the Nightcap Range, and is labeled in the map below:

Below is a photograph of this deeply-rutted side of the ancient volcano, the Nightcap Range, taken from a point somewhat south of the letter "T" in the arrow-label that I have added to the above map (the arrow that reads: "Nightcap Range"), and looking towards the north and west:

Note that the Moon is visible in the above photograph, which is taken looking towards the north and the west, because from the Southern Hemisphere below the tropics, an observer must look towards the north to see the path of the Sun, Moon, planets and zodiac constellations, whereas from the Northern Hemisphere above the tropics an observer must look towards the south. 

The evidence around our planet pointing towards an ancient catastrophe or catastrophes of massive proportions is abundant and convincing. It is very likely that some type of massive catastrophe separates the ancient civilizations known to our conventional scholars and historians (such as ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient China and so forth) from some much more ancient (and advanced) predecessor culture or cultures, and that the Star Myths of the World known to cultures around the globe in different forms originated from that now-forgotten culture or cultures.

The event that separates what I call the "Near Ancient" cultures known to conventional history (such as ancient Egypt) from the "Deep Ancient" culture or cultures who may be the source of the system underlying the world's Star Myths was probably not a world-wide catastrophic flood, even though I believe the evidence is overwhelming that our planet did once experience such a flood. I believe it is more likely that any world-wide catastrophic flood was far more ancient than whatever catastrophe separates the Near Ancient cultures from the Deep Ancient cultures.

However, the evidence for massive globe-altering catastrophes in our planet's past is so abundant that the fact of catastrophes should be more widely understood and acknowledged in our attempts to understand deep history. Strangely, the proponents of conventional historical models demonstrate stubborn resistance to any mention of catastrophism, preferring to impose uniformitarian explanations for almost every geological phenomenon, punctuated of course by local catastrophes such as volcanoes, but never considering the possibility that all the volcanoes around the Ring of Fire, for instance, might be linked and explained by a common catastrophic model.

Back from our Wedding Celebration

This long-running blog is still going, but I didn't post during April or May (so far) because Kesenya and I celebrated our marriage at the end of April.

As the cycles of heaven would have it, there was also a Total Solar Eclipse visible in the United States on the 8th of April, and I was invited to be part of a fantastic event in Utopia, Texas for that Solar Eclipse, so April was particularly busy! I will post some images from that event in a following post.

After the wedding Kesenya and I had a chance to visit Australia's Gold Coast which, while still thoroughly Australian, felt more to me like California than anywhere I'd been in Australia so far (with a little touch of Hawaii thrown in). I will post a few images from that intriguing part of the country later as well.

Thank you for your kind wishes!

Jesus, Osiris, Attis, and more! Easter Message, 2024

New video: "Jesus, Osiris, Attis, and more! Easter Message, 2024."

I sincerely hope the message will be a blessing to you in some way.

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March Equinox 2024

image: Wikimedia commons (link).

The annual dance of the Earth and the Sun will bring us to the moment of March Equinox in approximately three more hours, at 0306 Greenwich time on 20 March, which will be 1406 in Melbourne, Australia on 20 March and 2306 on 19 March for the East Coast of North America (2006 on 19 March for the West Coast).

Equinox marks the moment when the center of the Sun crosses the Celestial Equator in the heavens, a conceptual circle in the sky which is 90-degrees "down" (South) of the North Celestial Pole, and 90-degrees "up" (North) from the South Celestial Pole.

Due to the tilt of the Earth relative to the plane of our Earth-Sun dance, the arc of the Sun's path travels successively North of this conceptual Celestial Equator during half of the year (from the March Equinox through to the June Solstice, and then on through to the September Equinox), and then South of the Celestial Equator during the other half of the year (from the September Equinox down to the December Solstice, and then back up to the March Equinox).

The "celestial mechanics" of this annual cycle forms one of the main foundational structures underlying the world's ancient myths. For a much more detailed explanation of the celestial mechanics behind the Solstices and Equinoxes, and discussion of how this cycle forms a critical framework for ancient myth, check out my online course entitled Celestial Mechanics and the Myths.

The observance of Easter is closely linked to the March Equinox. The formula and traditions regarding the selection of the date of Easter each year are rather complex (and are different between different branches of historical Christianity), but at their core they relate to the first Sunday following the first Full Moon after the March Equinox.

At the moment, the Moon is waxing (growing larger and stronger -- the celestial mechanics of the Moon cycle are also discussed at length in the course mentioned above), on its way towards a Full Moon on 25 March. That will be the first Full Moon following the Spring Equinox, and many Western literalist Christian churches will observe Easter on the following Sunday, which is 31 March 2024.

Interestingly, because the formula for determining the date of Easter differs in Eastern Orthodox churches, they will not observe Easter this year until May, after the Moon goes through one more complete cycle and reaches another Full Moon on 23 April.

The fact that the observance of Easter, following ancient traditions and formulas, is tied to the cycles of the Moon (as well as to the cycles of the Earth-Sun dance) shows beyond any doubt that this holiday is celestial in nature, and tied to events which take place in the great cycles of the heavens. This indisputable fact, all by itself, goes a long way towards demonstrating that the stories of Jesus and the disciples, including the story of the Crucifixion, are celestial in nature, and are in no sense literal and historical records of events involving flesh-and-blood men and women.

In a book entitled Who is this King of Glory? A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition, Alvin Boyd Kuhn wrote:

It is a grave question whether the ecclesiastical system and movement known as Christianity has any right to its name. So far from being the cult that brought in a true Christ-worship for the first time in "heathen" darkness, it was indeed -- after the third century -- the one system that destroyed such a true worship. Ancient cults bent all effort upon the cultivation of the god within man. This is the nucleus of the only true Christianity.

This March Equinox is an outstanding opportunity to contemplate the riches of the ancient world-wide system of Star Myth entrusted to humanity by some ancient source predating even the most ancient cultures known to conventional history (already operating in the earliest known texts of ancient Egypt, ancient India, ancient Mesopotamia, and every other ancient culture we know about today).

Mistakenly taking these Star Myths literally has led to -- and continues to lead to -- an inversion of their true message and to the perpetration of untold crimes, oppression, and exploitation.

Sincerely wishing you blessings this Equinox day.

Total Solar Eclipse approaching!

Here is my most-recent video, entitled "Total Solar Eclipse, April 2024!"

On the New Moon of April, the Moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun along the Plane of the Ecliptic, creating a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE along the line of totality during that New Moon.

This video explores the significance of a Total Solar Eclipse and why you don't want to miss it.

The video discusses the mythology of Ancient Egypt and the Contendings of Horus and Set. Some arguments from Jane B. Sellers are examined, including her analysis that the Contendings between Set and Horus dramatize the spectacular events of a Total Solar Eclipse.

I offer some of my celestial interpretation for the foundation of the Contendings (more can be found in my 2019 book, The Ancient World-Wide System).

Join us in Texas this April 6th through 9th for ECLIPSE AT THE CANYON, with music, star tours, presentations and a view of the Total Solar Eclipse within the Path of Totality!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eclipse-at-the-canyon-tickets-733419546607