文档介绍：Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse
by Bob Kobres
This article was published by the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies in the CHRONOLOGY AND
CATASTROPHISM WORKSHOP 1992, number 1, -10, ISSN 0951-5984
. . . and from heaven a great star shall fall on the dread ocean and burn up the deep sea,
with Babylon itself and the land of Italy, by reason of which many of the Hebrews perished,
. . . Be afraid, ye Indians and high-hearted Ethiopians: for when the fiery wheel of the
ecliptic(?) . . . and Capricorn . . . and Taurus among the Twins encircles the mid-heaven,
when the Virgin ascending and the Sun fastening the girdle round his forehead dominates
the whole firmament; there shall be a great conflagration from the sky, falling on the
earth;
Are these lines from Book V of the SIBYLLINE ORACLES eschatological nonsense? Contemporary
astronomical evidence suggests a historic basis for words describing cosmic calamity. British
astronomers, Victor Clube and Bill Napier, in THE COSMIC WINTER (1990) and other recent
works, provide students of the past with newly discovered celestial clues which indicate that Earth
has been periodically pelleted et fragments throughout the Holocene period. The evidence
for the break-up of a large (> 50 km), short period (approximately years), Earth-orbit-crossing
comet is substantial and should be considered as hard as anything a trowel might turn up. What
astronomical information cannot convey is the actual effect these periodic bombardment episodes
had on human culture; only further digging and sifting will illuminate that aspect.
Some of what can be uncovered has been buried by prior premise and so can be brought to light by review
of literature published over the years. For instance, the oracles quoted above are from a 1918 translation of
the "Sibylline" by . Bate. Further into Book V these lines appear:
And then in his anger the immortal God who dwells on high shall hurl from