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Is “Almighty God” a huge Bronze Age asteroid impact in Israel?
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SIGNATURE: “Monotheism and ‘God’ are the cultural artefacts of a devastating asteroid 1,000x more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion in 1945, an apocalyptic air-burst 4km high, a fateful cosmic accident, at Tall el-Hammam in Judea and Samaria in central Israel about 1,600 B.C.E. (This very recent scientific discovery does not invalidate pagan beliefs though.): Look it up!!!.” www.elizabethjane.org
SIGNATURE: “Monotheism and ‘God’ are the cultural artefacts of a devastating asteroid 1,000x more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion in 1945, an apocalyptic air-burst 4km high, a fateful cosmic accident, at Tall el-Hammam in Judea and Samaria in central Israel about 1,600 B.C.E. (This very recent scientific discovery does not invalidate pagan beliefs though.): Look it up!!!.” www.elizabethjane.org
The map above shows the approximate location of Tall el-Hammam. It is situated on the ancient lands of Judea and Samaria. In modern day terms it is just slightly east of the West Bank (of the Jordan River), which is just inside modern day Jordan, very close to modern day Central Israel, inside Ancient Israel (see map below), and slightly to the north of the Dead Sea, within the lands of the Holy Bible.
Ancient Israel and Judah
Sodom and Gomorrah situated at modern day Tall el-Hammam.
Is Monotheism a superstitious Bronze Age people’s reaction to a huge asteroid impact?
Cosmic Impact Destroyed Huge Ancient City In The Jordan Valley
Evidence Has Been Found!Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com
In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the settlement in its time had become the largest continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the southern Levant, having hosted early civilization for a few thousand years. At that time, it was 10 times larger than Jerusalem and 5 times larger than Jericho.
"It's an incredibly culturally important area," said James Kennett, emeritus professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara. "Much of where the early cultural complexity of humans developed is in this general area."
Evidence Has Been Found!Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com
In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the settlement in its time had become the largest continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the southern Levant, having hosted early civilization for a few thousand years. At that time, it was 10 times larger than Jerusalem and 5 times larger than Jericho.
"It's an incredibly culturally important area," said James Kennett, emeritus professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara. "Much of where the early cultural complexity of humans developed is in this general area."
Credit: Public Domain
A favorite site for archaeologists and biblical scholars, the mound hosts evidence of culture all the way from the Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, all compacted into layers as the highly strategic settlement was built, destroyed and rebuilt over millennia.
But there is a 1.5-meter interval in the Middle Bronze Age II stratum that caught the interest of some researchers for its "highly unusual" materials. In addition to the debris one would expect from destruction via warfare and earthquakes, they found pottery shards with outer surfaces melted into glass, "bubbled" mudbrick and partially melted building material, all indications of an anomalously high-temperature event, much hotter than anything the technology of the time could produce.
"We saw evidence for temperatures greater than 2,000 degrees Celsius," said Kennett, whose research group at the time happened to have been building the case for an older cosmic airburst about 12,800 years ago that triggered major widespread burning, climatic changes and animal extinctions. The charred and melted materials at Tall el-Hammam looked familiar, and a group of researchers including impact scientist Allen West and Kennett joined Trinity Southwest University biblical scholar Philip J. Silvia's research effort to determine what happened at this city 3,650 years ago.
Their results are published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
Salt and Bone"There's evidence of a large cosmic airburst, close to this city called Tall el-Hammam," Kennett said of an explosion similar to the Tunguska Event, a roughly 12-megaton airburst that occurred in 1908, when a 56-60-meter meteor pierced the Earth's atmosphere over the Eastern Siberian Taiga.
The shock of the explosion over Tall el-Hammam was enough to level the city, flattening the palace and surrounding walls and mudbrick structures, according to the paper. The distribution of bones indicated "extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans."
For Kennett, further proof of the airburst was found by conducting many different kinds of analyses on soil and sediments from the critical layer. Tiny iron- and silica-rich spherules turned up in their analysis, as did melted metals.
"I think one of the main discoveries is shocked quartz. These are sand grains containing cracks that form only under very high pressure," Kennett said of one of many lines of evidence that point to a large airburst near Tall el-Hammam. "We have shocked quartz from this layer, and that means there were incredible pressures involved to shock the quartz crystals—quartz is one of the hardest minerals; it's very hard to shock."
The airburst, according to the paper, may also explain the "anomalously high concentrations of salt" found in the destruction layer—an average of 4% in the sediment and as high as 25% in some samples.
"The salt was thrown up due to the high impact pressures," Kennett said of the meteor that likely fragmented upon contact with the Earth's atmosphere. "And it may be that the impact partially hit the Dead Sea, which is rich in salt." The local shores of the Dead Sea are also salt-rich, so the impact may have redistributed those salt crystals far and wide—not just at Tall el-Hammam, but also nearby Tell es-Sultan (proposed as the biblical Jericho, which also underwent violent destruction at the same time) and Tall-Nimrin (also then destroyed).
A favorite site for archaeologists and biblical scholars, the mound hosts evidence of culture all the way from the Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, all compacted into layers as the highly strategic settlement was built, destroyed and rebuilt over millennia.
But there is a 1.5-meter interval in the Middle Bronze Age II stratum that caught the interest of some researchers for its "highly unusual" materials. In addition to the debris one would expect from destruction via warfare and earthquakes, they found pottery shards with outer surfaces melted into glass, "bubbled" mudbrick and partially melted building material, all indications of an anomalously high-temperature event, much hotter than anything the technology of the time could produce.
"We saw evidence for temperatures greater than 2,000 degrees Celsius," said Kennett, whose research group at the time happened to have been building the case for an older cosmic airburst about 12,800 years ago that triggered major widespread burning, climatic changes and animal extinctions. The charred and melted materials at Tall el-Hammam looked familiar, and a group of researchers including impact scientist Allen West and Kennett joined Trinity Southwest University biblical scholar Philip J. Silvia's research effort to determine what happened at this city 3,650 years ago.
Their results are published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.
Salt and Bone"There's evidence of a large cosmic airburst, close to this city called Tall el-Hammam," Kennett said of an explosion similar to the Tunguska Event, a roughly 12-megaton airburst that occurred in 1908, when a 56-60-meter meteor pierced the Earth's atmosphere over the Eastern Siberian Taiga.
The shock of the explosion over Tall el-Hammam was enough to level the city, flattening the palace and surrounding walls and mudbrick structures, according to the paper. The distribution of bones indicated "extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans."
For Kennett, further proof of the airburst was found by conducting many different kinds of analyses on soil and sediments from the critical layer. Tiny iron- and silica-rich spherules turned up in their analysis, as did melted metals.
"I think one of the main discoveries is shocked quartz. These are sand grains containing cracks that form only under very high pressure," Kennett said of one of many lines of evidence that point to a large airburst near Tall el-Hammam. "We have shocked quartz from this layer, and that means there were incredible pressures involved to shock the quartz crystals—quartz is one of the hardest minerals; it's very hard to shock."
The airburst, according to the paper, may also explain the "anomalously high concentrations of salt" found in the destruction layer—an average of 4% in the sediment and as high as 25% in some samples.
"The salt was thrown up due to the high impact pressures," Kennett said of the meteor that likely fragmented upon contact with the Earth's atmosphere. "And it may be that the impact partially hit the Dead Sea, which is rich in salt." The local shores of the Dead Sea are also salt-rich, so the impact may have redistributed those salt crystals far and wide—not just at Tall el-Hammam, but also nearby Tell es-Sultan (proposed as the biblical Jericho, which also underwent violent destruction at the same time) and Tall-Nimrin (also then destroyed).
Credit: University of California - Santa Barbara
The high-salinity soil could have been responsible for the so-called "Late Bronze Age Gap," the researchers say, in which cities along the lower Jordan Valley were abandoned, dropping the population from tens of thousands to maybe a few hundred nomads. Nothing could grow in these formerly fertile grounds, forcing people to leave the area for centuries. Evidence for resettlement of Tall el-Hammam and nearby communities appears again in the Iron Age, roughly 600 years after the cities' sudden devastation in the Bronze Age.
Fire and BrimstoneTall el-Hamman has been the focus of an ongoing debate as to whether it could be the biblical city of Sodom, one of the two cities in the Old Testament Book of Genesis that were destroyed by God for how wicked they and their inhabitants had become. One denizen, Lot, is saved by two angels who instruct him not to look behind as they flee. Lot's wife, however, lingers and is turned into a pillar of salt. Meanwhile, fire and brimstone fell from the sky; multiple cities were destroyed; thick smoke rose from the fires; city inhabitants were killed and area crops were destroyed in what sounds like an eyewitness account of a cosmic impact event. It's a satisfying connection to make.
See also: More Archaeology News
"All the observations stated in Genesis are consistent with a cosmic airburst," Kennett said, "but there's no scientific proof that this destroyed city is indeed the Sodom of the Old Testament." However, the researchers said, the disaster could have generated an oral tradition that may have served as the inspiration for the written account in the book of Genesis, as well as the biblical account of the burning of Jericho in the Old Testament Book of Joshua.
Written by Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com Staff Writer
https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/09/22/cosmic-impact-destroyed-huge-ancient-city-in-the-jordan-valley-evidence-has-been-found/
The high-salinity soil could have been responsible for the so-called "Late Bronze Age Gap," the researchers say, in which cities along the lower Jordan Valley were abandoned, dropping the population from tens of thousands to maybe a few hundred nomads. Nothing could grow in these formerly fertile grounds, forcing people to leave the area for centuries. Evidence for resettlement of Tall el-Hammam and nearby communities appears again in the Iron Age, roughly 600 years after the cities' sudden devastation in the Bronze Age.
Fire and BrimstoneTall el-Hamman has been the focus of an ongoing debate as to whether it could be the biblical city of Sodom, one of the two cities in the Old Testament Book of Genesis that were destroyed by God for how wicked they and their inhabitants had become. One denizen, Lot, is saved by two angels who instruct him not to look behind as they flee. Lot's wife, however, lingers and is turned into a pillar of salt. Meanwhile, fire and brimstone fell from the sky; multiple cities were destroyed; thick smoke rose from the fires; city inhabitants were killed and area crops were destroyed in what sounds like an eyewitness account of a cosmic impact event. It's a satisfying connection to make.
See also: More Archaeology News
"All the observations stated in Genesis are consistent with a cosmic airburst," Kennett said, "but there's no scientific proof that this destroyed city is indeed the Sodom of the Old Testament." However, the researchers said, the disaster could have generated an oral tradition that may have served as the inspiration for the written account in the book of Genesis, as well as the biblical account of the burning of Jericho in the Old Testament Book of Joshua.
Written by Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com Staff Writer
https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/09/22/cosmic-impact-destroyed-huge-ancient-city-in-the-jordan-valley-evidence-has-been-found/
Why do I believe that God and Monotheism are the cultural artefacts of an ancient asteroid impact?
The Pillar of Salt - the Dead Sea is the saltiest sea in the World and much of it was transported to surrounding lands by the asteroid impact and it made the land unusable for 600 years.
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is recorded in the Old Testament and this is far too coincidental in terms of time and place and unique circumstances to be anything other than caused by this devastating asteroid impact. This puts the Jews in that location at that time because they have provided a written record of this event.
“God is all-powerful”. No individual pagan god or goddess alone could account for such a spectacular and devastating event that would have impacted all of Israel in different degrees, as it was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945, ending World War II, and Israel is a small country. An all-powerful god would have had to be invented, at that time and in that place, since there were no scientific explanations for natural phenomena in the Bronze Age. It would have been a cultural imperative!
“God is light!” It was an air-burst 4km high which would have been an intense and blinding white light which would have been visible all over Israel.
A god to be feared, a god of retribution. This is the Old Testament God.
The story of Abraham making a covenant with God would have been an invention by the priesthood to give themselves religious and social authority and to explain the origin of monotheism as a belief system needed to replace pagan beliefs based on many gods and goddesses and upon tribal and local gods and goddesses. Perhaps Abraham even did exist, unlike mythical people like Adam and Eve? But without this astronomical cataclysmic event he would not have had any historical significance and he certainly would not have been at all important world-wide. In any event, the Abraham story, at best, would have been embellished upon and worked upon for the consumption of the illiterate Bronze Age people over whom the powerful Israelite priesthood held political and spiritual power and authority. Imagine that the story, fictional or otherwise, of a man who would appear to be suffering from schizophrenia, threatening to sacrifice his son to an anthropomorphised asteroid impact event, is all the basis we have for all the dogma and confusion; the persecution of non-believers, apostates and heretics; the religious wars; the numerous and deadly and cruel punishments for religious offences; and the discrimination for all kinds of arbitrary reasons that have been perpetrated by and upon humanity for thousands of years. It is all just inherited madness! Madness born of a terrible civilisation-ending apocalypse.
Monotheism and “God”: It is obviously all just a Bronze Age post-apocalyptic myth!
The World, Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and all sub-sects and all of the derivative monotheistic cults and their members, should just admit that “one supreme all-powerful god” is a superstitious belief that all the adherents of these three religions (and many others) have fallen under the spell of. We have all been traumatised, culturally and historically, by this ancient apocalypse, which is just too, too coincidental to be anything but the origin of a belief in “Almighty God”. This was the greatest explosion on Earth in all of history prior to the 20th Century with, now, some very few hydrogen bombs being even more powerful. This explosion is estimated to have been up to 30 megatons, which, if so, would make only the huge 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, a Russian hydrogen bomb, an even greater explosion.
This historical trauma has poisoned our society and corrupted our politics and caused endless persecution, war and suffering. It is time to see reason and to base our decisions upon reason and logic and science, not upon ancient superstition and post-apocalyptic collective fears, and not founded any longer in collective cultural trauma.
All three major monotheistic religions are founded on the covenant with God, the Myth of Abraham, a man who it is claimed lived to 175 years old. We know such a claim is ridiculous. People in the Bronze Age did not even have modern medical knowledge and the oldest recorded human being in modern times lived only to 122 years old. Like the myth of Adam and Eve such a story is concocted with the purpose of relaying something meaningful to that particular culture, to the people of that culture. It should not be taken literally, especially when we know better, because we have the benefit of scientific research and scientific explanations for natural phenomena. Just as we no longer accept Creation happened in 4,000 BC so we must accept that the story of Abraham is a myth and so, too, is the notion of God the Creator and the story of a covenant. Retelling the ancient myth and imposing it on generation after generation as literal truth is brutal to reason and is post-apocalyptic cultural trauma. It does us harm, not good! And why should we continue to believe in something, whether individually or collectively, that we know is scientifically falsified?
For the sake of the planet and reality, let us revert to pagan seasonal holidays based on astronomy, Nature and scientific and cultural reality; something we can all share in and celebrate, because it is our lived experience, and it is real.
The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is recorded in the Old Testament and this is far too coincidental in terms of time and place and unique circumstances to be anything other than caused by this devastating asteroid impact. This puts the Jews in that location at that time because they have provided a written record of this event.
“God is all-powerful”. No individual pagan god or goddess alone could account for such a spectacular and devastating event that would have impacted all of Israel in different degrees, as it was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945, ending World War II, and Israel is a small country. An all-powerful god would have had to be invented, at that time and in that place, since there were no scientific explanations for natural phenomena in the Bronze Age. It would have been a cultural imperative!
“God is light!” It was an air-burst 4km high which would have been an intense and blinding white light which would have been visible all over Israel.
A god to be feared, a god of retribution. This is the Old Testament God.
The story of Abraham making a covenant with God would have been an invention by the priesthood to give themselves religious and social authority and to explain the origin of monotheism as a belief system needed to replace pagan beliefs based on many gods and goddesses and upon tribal and local gods and goddesses. Perhaps Abraham even did exist, unlike mythical people like Adam and Eve? But without this astronomical cataclysmic event he would not have had any historical significance and he certainly would not have been at all important world-wide. In any event, the Abraham story, at best, would have been embellished upon and worked upon for the consumption of the illiterate Bronze Age people over whom the powerful Israelite priesthood held political and spiritual power and authority. Imagine that the story, fictional or otherwise, of a man who would appear to be suffering from schizophrenia, threatening to sacrifice his son to an anthropomorphised asteroid impact event, is all the basis we have for all the dogma and confusion; the persecution of non-believers, apostates and heretics; the religious wars; the numerous and deadly and cruel punishments for religious offences; and the discrimination for all kinds of arbitrary reasons that have been perpetrated by and upon humanity for thousands of years. It is all just inherited madness! Madness born of a terrible civilisation-ending apocalypse.
Monotheism and “God”: It is obviously all just a Bronze Age post-apocalyptic myth!
The World, Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and all sub-sects and all of the derivative monotheistic cults and their members, should just admit that “one supreme all-powerful god” is a superstitious belief that all the adherents of these three religions (and many others) have fallen under the spell of. We have all been traumatised, culturally and historically, by this ancient apocalypse, which is just too, too coincidental to be anything but the origin of a belief in “Almighty God”. This was the greatest explosion on Earth in all of history prior to the 20th Century with, now, some very few hydrogen bombs being even more powerful. This explosion is estimated to have been up to 30 megatons, which, if so, would make only the huge 50 megaton Tsar Bomba, a Russian hydrogen bomb, an even greater explosion.
This historical trauma has poisoned our society and corrupted our politics and caused endless persecution, war and suffering. It is time to see reason and to base our decisions upon reason and logic and science, not upon ancient superstition and post-apocalyptic collective fears, and not founded any longer in collective cultural trauma.
All three major monotheistic religions are founded on the covenant with God, the Myth of Abraham, a man who it is claimed lived to 175 years old. We know such a claim is ridiculous. People in the Bronze Age did not even have modern medical knowledge and the oldest recorded human being in modern times lived only to 122 years old. Like the myth of Adam and Eve such a story is concocted with the purpose of relaying something meaningful to that particular culture, to the people of that culture. It should not be taken literally, especially when we know better, because we have the benefit of scientific research and scientific explanations for natural phenomena. Just as we no longer accept Creation happened in 4,000 BC so we must accept that the story of Abraham is a myth and so, too, is the notion of God the Creator and the story of a covenant. Retelling the ancient myth and imposing it on generation after generation as literal truth is brutal to reason and is post-apocalyptic cultural trauma. It does us harm, not good! And why should we continue to believe in something, whether individually or collectively, that we know is scientifically falsified?
For the sake of the planet and reality, let us revert to pagan seasonal holidays based on astronomy, Nature and scientific and cultural reality; something we can all share in and celebrate, because it is our lived experience, and it is real.
Religion = RE + ligare : “to bind”
“The truth shall set you free!”
“The truth shall set you free!”
You have read this far. Now, if you dare, go deeper! (For human beings’ eyes only.)
“MYTH”
“MYTH”
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Replace Monotheistic Holidays!
Just imagine! We could replace Christian holidays with Pagan holidays based on Nature. We could value natural changes in the seasons connected to all life to celebrate life in accordance with our ancestral customs and values based around nature, and this would be a reminder to us of the importance of living in harmony with natural systems which foster all life on the Earth that we rely on for our survival as a species. All life is interconnected: That is scientific fact: Christianity, Islam and Judaism do not recognise this scientific fact but instead place human beings above and outside of all of Nature. That is unhealthy for us and for the planet.
