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The Hidden Myth of our Solar System

The asteroid we call Ceres has a tale to tell. I will relate it here. Ceres was once the center of its own planet, a very long time ago, and that planet was assembling an atmosphere. It had even started, in its own way, thinking of life.

Mercury was an enormous comet back then, and its course was bringing it into our Solar System and close to the Sun. It swiped the planet that became Ceres, and set it off its orbit. From there the planet hurtled toward Earth. Mars remembers seeing this and thinking about how planets sometimes dream of life. The Planet Ceres and Earth crashed, and many things happened at this time. Part of that lost planet or perhaps a piece of the comet became the Moon, possibly with parts of Earth. The atmosphere peeled off Planet Ceres and transferred to Earth. Several planets changed orbit. Bits of Earth and Planet Ceres went flying and became the asteroid belt, Saturn’s rings, and possibly multiple other moons.

Our Earth was one of the planets that changed orbit, and neither it nor Ceres, the other planet’s core, were ever entirely round again. And interestingly, the roundest photographs of Earth do appear to be composites. This is why many people consulting their mystical sense or intuition may sometimes start to believe the Earth to be flat, since the Earth has difficulty conveying the actual situation of being a nearly-round lozenge shape; to call it a sphere is approximate. In fact, though, the atmospheric components from Planet Ceres and the lozenge features of Earth’s current shape, which help hold its crust in a more stable position than a perfect sphere could do (think of wrapping both a basketball and a football in plastic wrap, and you might see for yourself how this works rather simply), are both key factors that nurture complex life here.

Mercury later became the first planet.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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The Mahabharata and numbers

I’m about 1,500 pages into the illustrious Mahabharata. It is an historical epic known in the history-loving Hindu tradition, daunting in size and sweeping in scale.

The story is very old, some of it clearly much older than the text itself. Some believe that parts of it date from an extremely early hominid migration into the Indian subcontinent. Much of the Mahabharata takes place so long ago that it seems (in some translations) perhaps to refer to women going into oestrus instead of having the ovulation and menstrual cycle that modern humans are currently understood to have.

The Mahabharata presents many excellent examples of how numbers in ancient texts and oral histories may not necessarily always translate directly into modern numbers. An extremely long time ago, a word like a hundred would’ve often been closer to the idea of “too many to keep track of easily” than ten groups of ten, and a word like a thousand would’ve been closer to the idea of “effectively uncountable, especially considering the fact that a comprehensive number system has not been invented yet” than ten groups of ten times ten. It was hard to conceive of numbers when we didn’t really have them.

What is still very important to understand is that a looser numerical system would not diminish the text’s portrayal of placing high value on extravagant generosity and prosperity, and the scale of riches it sometimes suggests does become staggering almost beyond imagination.

Our current standard system of numbers used throughout the world today was probably invented about 4,000 years ago or so in North Africa, according to Earth Logos. The Mahabharata in its current form was compiled and transcribed within the span of this time, but the following passage, which occurs near the beginning of the text, before Vaisampayana begins narrating, gives some idea of how numbers were a subject of specialization and how they seemed to fit into oral history.

“Sauti said, ‘One chariot, one elephant, five foot-soldiers, and three horses form one Patti; three pattis make one Sena-mukha; three sena-mukhas are called a Gulma; three gulmas, a Gana; three ganas, a Vahini; three vahinis together are called a Pritana; three pritanas form a Chamu; three chamus, one Anikini; and an anikini taken ten times forms, as it is styled by those who know, an Akshauhini. O ye best of Brahmanas, arithmeticians have calculated that the number of chariots in an Akshauhini is twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy. The measure of elephants must be fixed at the same number. O ye pure, you must know that the number of foot-soldiers is one hundred and nine thousand, three hundred and fifty, the number of horse is sixty-five thousand, six hundred and ten. These, O Brahmanas, as fully explained by me, are the numbers of an Akshauhini as said by those acquainted with the principles of numbers.’” – Mahabharata, section II (Vyasa, translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)

Keep in mind that at the time the text was codified thus, these sums probably represented the narrator’s mastery of arithmetic in front of his audience, which it’s easy to assume may have been very much in vogue at the time in terms of demonstrating intellectual prowess, almost like a magic trick.

In the Mahabharata, which depicts the lives and lineages of the Pandavas and the Kauravas as well as a war that ensued once between them, the text describes eighteen Akshauhinis meeting on a battlefield, while the fact remains, the kingdoms described were actually most likely city states. It is extremely unlikely that ancient kings fielded, for example, 393,660 elephants all in one place to do battle, and a fortunate unlikelihood it is at that. And indeed, earliest versions of the story may not have defined these things numerically at all. But the numbers thus being stylized seems rather to be an arcane reference to the scope of how epic these matters must’ve been and felt at the time.

Numbers are admirably objective, but their objectivity is actually subtly finite. Chaos theory is a theory that involves the fact that modern numbers and mathematics ultimately break down and get confusing because we made them up. It essentially deals with what happens when they do.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Welcome to the straightaway

Technically speaking, we’ve run out of Kali Yuga. As such, we’re now experiencing the earliest part of the Satya Yuga (also called Krita Yuga; Satya means “truth”, and Krita means “perfect”). This is in terms of galactic positioning, as we’ve just navigated a very sharp corner (or type of corner) that’s been associated with the Kali Yuga and the transition into the Satya Yuga at least once before. It is still essential for people to bring humanity and civilization into this highly favorable time by promoting dharma, but the corner appears to be turned, which means that we are officially clean out of the Kali Yuga (and in a Satya hyperimperative), in terms of spacetime and its odd characteristics.

There was a point earlier this year when both the Sun and Moon joined Jupiter in Taurus, which might have signaled the official turning point esoterically. The magnetic signal may have been triggered more recently, probably within the last month.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Moloch and the Bible

Moloch (or Molech) is an evil concept that’s plagued Judeo-Christian continuities for quite a long time. Usually depicted as an idol that looks like a minotaur, with a bovine head, there are accounts of people doing atrocities in the name of Moloch. These are grievous to recount, including attacks on very young children.

The word Moloch appears to be related to the word “melech” (Hebrew for king), making it somewhat euphemistic, similar to the name “Baal” being an honorific like “lord” or “master”.

One curious aspect of the tragic history involving Moloch is that in the Bible, the God of Israel repeatedly says “I did not tell you to do this”, “these were not my commands to you”, etc. when commenting on the atrocities associated with Moloch. God expresses hatred for everything to do with what is done in Moloch’s name, and quite rightly calls these abominations, but there’s something very haunting about the insistence that they were not mandated by Him, almost as if there was a misunderstanding on that point somehow.

The semiotics of the bull head may give one clue as to why that might be, considering that a sect of Israelites escaping slavery in ancient Egypt identified with a bovine deity, which they rendered as a golden calf upon their exodus from Egypt.

Something the Israelites would have associated with their main deity at that time was the series of miraculous attacks known as the plagues of Egypt. In one of these plagues, many families were said to have lost their first-born children. This story may have experienced some kind of distortion over time, and become connected with the atrocities of the bovine idol Moloch.

A seemingly more recent association of the name or honorific Moloch with the symbol of an owl may be, among other things, an esoteric hint to exercise wisdom in unpacking any Moloch lore, the owl being a symbol of wisdom.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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The Bermuda Triangle

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is that it is one of the least navigable and accessible places on Earth, and the reason for the difficulty has been somewhat unclear. The Bermuda Triangle is a large geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Tropic of Cancer, North America, and the Bahamas, triangular in shape with points usually defined roughly by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and South Florida. There’s a long history of ships and planes going missing while trying to explore it or even pass through.

Nowadays, people sometimes dispute that it is a particularly dangerous place at all, or point out that its location makes it extremely likely that Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms will pass through that area, which might explain enough. But maybe it doesn’t, because if you ask the dinosaurs there, they might have additional insight.

The various leviathans and pteranodon-type species are apparently very territorial, and seem to have a record of aggressively taking down both seafaring and airfaring vessels respectively, which may be part of the reason that so few people have ever set foot on the dinosaur-inhabited islands of the Bermuda Triangle, but there is no reason to believe it would ever be safe to do so. The climate there is right for these animals.

The dinosaurs and dinosaur-like species of the Bermuda Triangle urge people not to test this theory by visiting the Bermuda Triangle. This is not a joke. I present it with the common sense assumption that the population of people who would be more motivated to enter the Bermuda Triangle as a result of hearing this theory is smaller than the population of clever people who would naturally be less motivated to enter it by hearing it. I would like to emphasize that whether you believe this theory or not, there is a reason the Bermuda Triangle has a deadly reputation, and that there is no reason to take this lightly out of an interest in dinosaurs, a delight in novelty, nor anything else.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Extinction (as a general concept)

Extinction is a little different than we’ve been taught to conceptualize it. The term “extinction” is used to describe a species or subspecies that human beings know existed at one point, either from observation or the fossil record, but do not observe anymore. It essentially describes a type of living thing that we cannot find anymore anywhere we’re currently looking, but of course this doesn’t mean we’re able to look everywhere at all times. A species receiving the designation of “extinct” does not, as is claimed, necessarily mean that there are no members of that species left on Earth. Many of the species and subspecies we consider extinct seem to be observed again in nature (or possibly captivity) by someone sooner or later. The coelacanth is a classic example of this. Other animals are probably observing these species already, but they are usually very sparse, very remote, or otherwise hard to find, so we must resign ourselves to see them when we see them, if we ever get to see them again.

Of course, some species surely do go away, never to return unless their genes atavistically assert themselves to surge into a novel yet familiar niche, recalling the past, usually looking a little different. Failing that, over time those species usually became something much different and more suited to the present. Not even dog breeds stay the same over time.

But did any of those truly lost species live in the ocean? This is eminently doubtable.

There are entire ecosystems we’ve never seen out there. It is common today to discover new species, but it is also extremely common to rediscover known ones we thought were lost. Science describes things, but cannot actually define them within reality.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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