Time, Space and Planet Earth
Again on the subject what do we really know, if anything? LOL.
In random I stumbled across this very ancient text written around 420BC by Herodotus. It is considered to be the beginning of written Western history. Obviously lots of other important material and history was burnt in the fire that destroyed the Ancient Alexandrian library around 48BC which is a big shame, but thats another story for another time. Some believe there maybe some rescued artifacts still be available in the closely guarded Vatican Library but most researchers do not have access to that library to verify this. So what we have left in public domain is not much.
But lets look into Book II in Volume I (THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS (420BC), By Herodotus) which caught my attention:
"142. So far in the story the Egyptians and the priests were they who made the report, declaring that from the first king down to this priest of Hephaistos who reigned last, there had been three hundred and forty-one generations of men, and that in them there had been the same number of chief-priests and of kings: but three hundred generations of men are equal to ten thousand years, for a hundred years is three generations of men; and in the one-and-forty generations which remain, those I mean which were added to the three hundred, there are one thousand three hundred and forty years. Thus in the period of eleven thousand three hundred and forty years they said that there had arisen no god in human form; nor even before that time or afterwards among the remaining kings who arose in Egypt, did they report that anything of that kind had come to pass. In this time they said that the sun had moved four times from his accustomed place of rising, and where he now sets he had thence twice had his rising, and in the place from whence he now rises he had twice had his setting; 127 and in the meantime nothing in Egypt had been changed from its usual state, neither that which comes from the earth nor that which comes to them from the river nor that which concerns diseases or deaths.
127 [ Not on two single occasions, but for two separate periods of time it was stated that the sun had risen in the West and set in the East; i.e. from East to West, then from West to East, then again from East to West, and finally back to East again. This seems to be the meaning attached by Herodotus to something which he was told about astronomical cycles.]"
So what Herodotus had writted down is that during a certain 11,340 years long period our Sun reversed its path twice. Rising from west instead of east. Wow. Obviously we cannot 100% trust this source but why would such a story be innovated if it does not have any grain of truth? For a moment lets assume this is true.
If it is true this means that the Earth would spin in opposite direction as there is no other means of the Sun rising from west (note that this is different to the magnetic pole reversal which is a completely natural phenomenon). It is our spinning direction which dictates where the Sun is "rising from". If our spinning direction would have changed, there is no other way to do that than a very strong local gravitational pull which would attract the planet to do that. And this would mean a presence of a massive planetary body near our planet as by no other way this is really possible. But is it even possible? Actually Nasa has recently discovered that "loose" planets do exist which do not follow a strict elliptical orbit around their central star ("Sun"). We already have many planetary bodies travelling seemingly randomly near our planet. Various comets and asteroids are regular space travelers not following a traditional orbit. We only know those asteroids for example we have seen since our records began. There could be much more out there, even bigger bodies orbiting strange trajectories and at time coming close to Earth. Its not impossible and it cannot be proven to be impossible, quite the opposite. Our recorded window to space is only several hundreds years old, not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years old.
Back to the Earths spinning issue: What if there is a bigger asteroid or even a planet orbiting us every few thousands of year impacting our direction of spin through gravity? If this is the case our current records would not show it as the last visit would be too far in the history. For example if we think about the 2004 Tsumani most people would not know what a Tsunami even is before that event occured as it had not happened for a very long time. Our understanding of the universe and the planet is based on a very narrow window of few hundreds of years. This compared to the life of our planet which is counted in millions of years is simply nothing.
And there is real evidence that so called Planet X does exist. In our solar system planets do not quite follow the path they should. This was first hypothesized in 1841 when astronomers noticed Uranus did not move as predicted in it's orbit. Based on these residuals, the search for Planet X began. We really do not know our solar system, or even our planet Earth that well at all. The only thing we know is that space is vast and full of mysteries.
Did the Sumerians know something about this? This is debated and the debate is around the cylinrical seal nr. VA 243 (see picture above) which seems to display up to twelve planets! Our current thinking is 8 planets, allthough we have discovered many small planetary bodies now. There are also references to Nibiru in Sumerian clay tablets, but the references are not really clear and at least not very understandable as can be seen from this article.
What is scientifically true that the full reason for Uranus and Neptune orbital behavior has not yet been understood. Pluto, discovered in 1930, was too small to influence Uranus or Neptue, and could not account for the disturbances. While many bodies have been hypothesized by both astronomers and astrologers or psychics alike, from Transpluto or Persephone to to Q and R, none have actually been spotted or photographed with telescopes.
The controversial and mostly dismissed Nibiru theory is that there is indeed a planet coming back to our solar system every few thousands of years. Well if we look into the Herodotus text and do a bit of a calculation: He is referring to an event which happened twice during 11,340 years. This would mean that on average such a reversal would happen at best every 5670 years. This is a different value what Sitchin is assuming in his books. Sitchin was an independent researcher of Babylonian / Sumerian religious texts and strong believer on this 12th planet called Nibiru. In last Sitchin book, The End of Days, which set the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, would mean, given the object's supposed 3,600-year orbit, that it would return sometime around AD 2900.
However we do not have reliable record of a potential last passing or of a possible orbital time for such a planet. But we have lots of references to the planet including the one from Herodotus and many from Sumerian clay tablets and more recently the Planet X research. But we just dont know what it is, when it will arrive and where from. Or do we?
If we think about this orbiting thing once more: if a planet follows a several thousand year long orbit, it might actually pass us twice during its cycle. Lets go back to Herodotus: "In this time they said that the sun had moved four times from his accustomed place of rising, and where he now sets he had thence twice had his rising, and in the place from whence he now rises he had twice had his setting.". This can also be interpreted in the following way: every about 3000 years a planet will pass us and change Earths rotation to the opposite direction. This value is now starting to be closer to Sitchins 3600 years. So now we have a value between 3000 - 3600 years.
However according to this interesting source this value might be only 2100 years and it might be timed with 2012. Well I do not know about that, worth looking anyway as this is not exact science anyway.
These sort of things maybe one reason why ancient civilizations were so keen to calculate long periods of time. The long count in Mayan calendar calculates millions of years. Our Western calendar system calculates just years. Our perspective on time is really limited compared to Mayans. Did Mayans or many of the ancient civilizations know something we do not know? Events that happen in cycles of thousands of years? Perhaps.
One thing we do know: It seems Egyptians were well equipped to sustain the hypothetical spin reversal. Our modern society would not as this would impact on satellites, electricity production, etc... Maybe it is time to start building a stronger society which would last longer than just few hundred years. Pyramids are still here - would any of our cities be here after thousands of years? I do not think so.
