Re: A bolide did it! No... not really.

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

Thanks for the two transcripts.  There are purportedly some written
Chinese reports about "strange days" during that same time period.

If anyone wants to find those Chinese reports and translate them, I'm
sure that some of us would be grateful!  ;-)

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:53:50 -0000 "Michael Lovejoy"
<michael@palaeoproductions.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
> This thread was five days ago, I know, but I've been busy wandering 
> around
> the Highlands.
> So, in belated support of the 536AD impact, here goes...
> 
> Dr Clube of Oxford Uni Astrophysics dept. has shown a peak in 
> meteorite
> activity caused by the Taurid-Arietid swarm at the start of the Dark 
> Ages.
> Also from around 536, we have Roman historion and essayist 
> Cassiodorus
> writing of a strange phenomenon: "who will not be disturbed and 
> deeply
> curious... if something mysterious and unusual seems to be coming on 
> us from
> the stars? For, as there is a certain security in watching the 
> seasons run
> on in their succession, so we are filled with deep curiosity when we 
> see
> that such things are changing. How strange it is, I ask you, to see 
> the
> principal star, and not it's usual brightness; to gaze on the 
> moon...shorn
> of it's natural splendour? All of us are still observing...a blue 
> coloured
> sun...we marvel at bodies that cast no midday shadow...and this has 
> not
> happened in the momentary loss of an eclipse, but has been going on 
> equally
> through almost the entire year...whence can we hope for mild 
> weather, when
> the months that once ripened the crops have been deadly sick under 
> the
> northern blasts? For what will give fertility, if the soil does not 
> grow
> warm in summer?"
> 
> In Cardiff, Cardigan Bay, the Conway Estuary, the Scilly Isles, and
> Heligoland in Denmark, there are all human settlements, ports, 
> fields and
> towns which fell below sea level apparently around the time of the 
> alledged
> 536 impact.
> 
> The Brut Tysylio tells of a comet that appeared prior to these 
> events, and
> goes on to relate of a pestilence and famine striking Britain as a 
> result.
> "At that time a star of amazing size appeared. It had one beam, and 
> on the
> head of the beam was a ball of fire resembling a dragon; and from 
> the jaws
> of the dragon two beams ascended, the one towards the extremity of 
> France,
> and the other towards Ireland, subdividing itself into seven small
> beams...During these disturbances, a pestilence and a famine, sent 
> from God
> as a punishment for their sins, fell upon the Britons so greviously 
> that
> food was not to be had...In Britain there were left, by the 
> pestilence and
> famine, those only who retired into the forests, and lived by 
> hunting,
> mostly in the recesses of Wales. This calamity continued for eleven 
> years."
> Additionally Gildas writes that the island of Britain was set on 
> fire from
> end to end.
> Finally from this time in history, we find the origins of the Holy 
> Grail
> stories, when men set out to find a cure for the calamities 
> befalling
> Britain. The "Grail" was not originally a cup, however. It was 
> referred to
> as "lapis ex caelis", or "stone from heaven".
> All circumstancial, I guess, but compelling nonetheless.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Lovejoy
> 
> 
> 






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