This article is to collect my ever developing thoughts on what happened to Venus and the people I believe once lived there and to compile my posts made to a now defunct web bulletin board "VENUS - Its Mystery Unfolds! A Discussion". Thus I disclaim any presumption that my statements assert a consistent theory. I also will be amending my thoughts here as they develop and as time permits.
See also: The Emmanuel Velikovski Archive - see especially "In The Beginning"
Part One - The Onslaught
My theory on what happened to Venus is probably unique to me. I'm a "Bible believer" but not a "preacher believer" (like many other Christians) meaning I look for truth in the Bible but don't necessarily believe what's taught about it. I happened upon something in Isaiah 24 which started me wondering. This evolved into a short web article:
http://home.earthlink.net/~walterk12/Xian/FirstEarthAge.html
What I've surmised about Venus is that it was once inhabited and then destroyed by a solar system cataclysm in the form of a rain of meteors and asteroids. I believe these people saw their destruction coming and took steps to evacuate as many as they could, some to Mars, some to this planet (and some went elsewhere). I also believe they intentionally left monuments to be seen from space - to say they were there. (Unique enough yet?)
I've heard somewhere that the ancient Summerians said Venus was a water planet. I believe this from looking at some of the Venus photos. This would also explain a major part of its destruction and why it has essentially no water today. First you need to understand what photodissociation is, see:
http://home.earthlink.net/~walterx9/Env/Photodissociation.html
Our planet's oxygen is not produced in the large by plants or algae, but from water vapor at high altitudes being broken apart by sunlight. The lighter hydrogen rises and is lost to space; the oxygen, being heavier, will fall to the surface. (The fact that Venus has almost no water is one of the reasons it can never be inhabited again - no water, no oxygen.) The upper atmosphere of a water planet will then have a potentially very flammable mixture, but in usually scarce quantities. I believe Venus was inundated by meteors, some large, splashing water into the high atmosphere where it was photodissociated creating a dense layer of these gases. Then a fateful, hot burning meteor happened to ignite it all causing a planetary burn. From an ancient stone fragment reads this:
By causing the heavens to tremble and the Earth to quake,
By the gleam which lightens the sky,
By the blazing fire which rains upon a hostile land,
I am Ishtar.
"Ishtar" is, of course, a name for Venus. I suspect a planet trapped in an unstoppable hydrogen-oxygen upper atmosphere burn - which then heats the planet to evaporate the remaining water which further fuels the fire - would have made quite a display from Earth, especially at night. Such would have made a woeful display to those who had recently escaped from that planet, who were still fighting the hostile locals to establish a city and farm lands for themselves. I believe another of these meteors happened to catch Venus, now minus much of its water mass and thus with changed angular stabilities, causing it to "turn on its face"; this being why Venus turns retrograde - it was flipped 180 degrees, north pole to south.
I believe some of the people who evacuated came to Earth and some went to Mars, therefore the monuments on Mars may resemble those seen on Venus.
Part Two - Option: Mars
On evacuating Venus, Mars was apparently an appealing destination. The megaliths on Mars evidence a highly advanced peoples were once there. But where are they now? Moreover, why would a people who just escaped to there spend valuable time, energy and resources to build "we were here" type structures?
My theory is that Mars was once very habitable. There are stories, purportedly from the old Hebrews, that the men of Earth would do battle with the men of Mars when the two planets came in close enough proximity with each other; apparently the orbits were at one time different to accommodate this. I don't know what to think of that story. But I am compelled to believe Mars was an attractive destination to those who would be leaving Venus, maybe even more attractive than our Earth. I'm inclined to believe the theory of some that this Earth once had a mantle of ice crystals forming a protective sphere. I think the explanation is that this helped make the planet more hospitable. That mantle may have been seen as a dangerous barrier to an incoming spaceship. But I also theorize there were peoples already occupying this planet who would not welcome new arrivals and who those escaping Venusians would rather avoid.
Whatever the reasons, those going to Mars apparently thought it their best choice. The question then becomes: What happened to them? Or are there "Martians" living there today? In his book "The Wall of Light, Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Space Ship, The X-12", Arthur Matthews speaks of "visiting", in an astral projection type of way, courtesy of the Venusians, Mars and it's cities and travelling along its great canal. I'm not overly inclined to believe his story, but I'll mention it in passing, for a reason.
I believe that the newcomers to Mars had arrived, set up housing, storage buildings and planted a garden for their future food needs when something terrible and unexpected happened: a close passing, large chunk of rock, part of the same cataclysm that was destroying Venus, snatched a significant part of their atmosphere. While they were left with enough to breathe, there was no longer enough to raise crops and they were doomed to eventual starvation. They no longer had resources to leave the planet, they had taken only enough to get there and set up for living on the new planet, but not enough to leave and not enough time to build a new escape. They were stuck. So their choices were to die after carefully rationing all of their stored food, or to build monuments like those of the planet they were escaping to say "we were here," and die a bit sooner. I say they chose the latter. But it may be, that in the final weeks, they learned of others like them who were managing at the equator, where the atmosphere was thickest and they evacuated to there.
So what happened to that passing rock which stole their air? I believe that rock is our Moon. We know that the old theory that the moon globbed out of the earth while both were in a molten stage is nonsense, as is the theory that it accreted at the same time as did the Earth. (I read a book that told me so :), but then I always thought it undoable.) If it had, the Moon would be teardrop shapped pointing towards the Earth, to match the gravity field, but it is not. The Moon is most certainly a captured body. This book I read suggested that while a one pass capture had energy dynamics problems, a multi-pass capture was possible. There's also a quote from Ovid saying something like: "Arcadians . . . are of a race that predates the moon." (Citation provided to me: Ovid. Fasti (Roman Holidays) Translated by Betty Rose Nagle. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. Book 2 Line 289.) Apparently the ancient world knew the moon is a newcomer.
As I'm typing this I'm wondering if a glancing blow to the supposed Earth's ice mantle would dissipate enough energy for a one pass capture. (Anyone?) I suspect anything is possible. That would kill two birds with one stone, as they say. The extra air stolen by the Moon would then compensate for whatever benefits a mantle would have provided and given a boost to Earth's plant life, with the extra air and added sunlight. But I'm really getting speculative. I'd be interested to hear comments at this point.
Part Three - Earth Invaders
I believe others escaping the destruction of Venus chose to settle on this Earth. This had to be a guided decision because of two known difficulties.
It appears those who would settle on this Earth had two major obstacles: one) a solid mantle of ice around the Earth through which they had to navigate their spacecraft at arrival, and two) inhabitants on the Earth who would not appreciate new comers such as they. I've heard an ice mantle suggested by people as having existed, but I don't know where they get the idea. There are two things that make it believable to me, however; first:
Genesis 7:11* ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Note that the word "Earth" or "ground" is not mentioned in this verse. Ever hear the term "deep space"? I believe the reference to the "great deep" was in the direction of space and that the broken up fountains were the ice in the mantle being shattered and torn apart by some as yet unidentified force. Following, it declares the window of heaven was opened up. Nothing about ground water there. The fountain(waters) of the "deep", the mantle, was broken up and removed and the window to heaven was opened; two aspects of the same event. That's the first reason.
The second reason I'm inclined to believe a mantle once existed is that the ancients believed the heavenly bodies were riding on spheres in the sky. Such a notion is strange to us, but I'm inclined to give them more credit than modern society and say there was reason for them to say that - the mantle once existed and they just incorrectly reasoned the stars and all else rode on it (or them).
After posting the part on Mars, I received a private e-mail relating that there is a radiation belt surrounding the Earth which is artificial in origin. It is such that care must be taken by NASA (and others) when launching both manned and unmanned rockets to avoid passing through it. The question then becomes: From where did this radiation belt originate? That got me to thinking:
The most certain method for those in an incoming spacecraft to make way through the ice mantle was to blow a hole in it, literally, with nuclear weapons. Not necessarily big ones, but big enough. I believe using a sufficiently "clean" atomic bomb and proper shielding would protect the people on the incoming spaceships from the radiation. All they needed to do was blow a hole in the ice and, after passing, navigate their ships to a suitable landing spot. They probably prepared several missiles with nuclear bombs to ensure safe passing. I suspect one did the trick. As to the long-term after effects of a nuclear blast in the high Earth atmosphere, I'm not knowledgeable, but I suspect the radioactive particles would be corralled by Earth's magnetic forces and remain for millennia.
What happened to the ice plug blown out of the mantle by the bomb? No doubt part vaporized and part fell to Earth as an unexpected, sudden, and unwelcomed "lake". Whatever was under that plug probably got clobbered. After passing through the hole they created, they would have soon landed. Remember, these people would have been carrying as much as they could bring which would benefit their new settlement and as little as possible extra. Lots of spaceship fuel was probably low on their list of neccessities. Their landing site would be close to the place of their created hole in the ice mantle. A few curious thing are appropriate to mention here:
There was a "blast" with nuclear after-effects in India some 8-12 thousand years ago, see: http://www.rense.com/general3/8000.htm. Whether this was that plug of ice mantle that fell as a radioactive lake, or whether there were ensuing battles wherein the Venusians utilized their spare nuclear bombs, I can't yet guess. But it was in the mountains of China/Tibet (not too far away) where there are recorded a strange alien race called "Dropas" who came to Earth in this same time-frame (see http://home.earthlink.net/~walterk12/Xian/BayanKaraUla.html and http://home.earthlink.net/~walterk12/Xian/DropasFile.html):
"The Dropas came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last they understood the sign language of the Dropas, they realised that the newcomers had peaceful intentions...". Another section expressed 'regret' by the Ham tribe that the aliens' spaceship had crash-landed in such remote and inaccessible mountains and that there had been no way of building a new one to enable Dropas to return to their own planet.
More needs to be investigated on this aspect. But no doubt once landed and acclimated they would soon have migrated to a suitable area to make a permanent settlement, perhaps entailing long travels, perhaps many years, perhaps separation of groups.
I believe these people, despite their successful voyage and settlement on Earth, yet were destroyed (I'll say by hostile peoples), though I think some of their women escaped to safety. Something destructive happened with their demise, too, as related in Jeremiah 4:23-28, to make the world tohu bohu, "void and without form." All this happened prior to Genesis 1:2 wherein it says the Earth had become tohu bohu (these two verses being the only use of those words as a pair), which causes me to match the two accounts as to time (the remaninder of Genesis 1 being a flashback to after verse 1 and before verse 2). The Biblical story of what happened after this starts at Genesis 2:4.
Part Four - "Out Of Place" Artifacts
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Part Five - The Moon, A Frozen Woolly Mammoth, and The Long Day Of Joshua
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