The Broken Cosmic Tree: The Milky Way

Phaëthon, son of Helius took four horse sun chariot out for a day. Could not control reins, setting sky afire and created the Milky Way. Zeus got angry. Killed Phaëthon with thunder bolt and brought back the sun to regular course. (Diodorus, V-23-2-3:159)1

How could an array of stars in a complete circle, have split into two separate sections? A computer generated program using the tip of a cone to designate a specific area on earth, the wide end to encompass a complete circle of stars above, would be the beginning. A shift of the earth at the tip, would alter the circle of stars above. The stars would not have moved, only the wide end of the cone. In doing so, there would be stars hanging on an edge of the cone, no longer showing a complete circle, but only a segment of the band of stars above, with one end showing two distinct legs. Apparently, the joined end is much further to the right than the image I created.

As can be seen in the two drawings above, the "before" image has a straight up view of the stars above then from a single latitude (all around the globe). With a shift of the Earth [from an assumed meteorite shower of immense proportions], recorded both in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, the same northern latitude now sees only a small part of the star ring while the southern latitude would see the other leg during the same period of rotation.

Although the above views place the Earth under the star ring, this planet has to be directly in the middle of the ring for the 360-day year to have been seen. Once the earth shifted on its axis, then, the earth, still located in the middle of the arms of our galaxy, shifted, as above, so that the prfect ring was broken and two segments are now seen; one leg during the first half of the year, and the other, the second half. As a tilt, then Mesoamerica would be seeing one leg of the Milky Way during the winter segment, while Peru would be seeing the other leg, that includes the Summer segment at the same time.

Naturally, the stars appeared to have shifted [and danced erratically], but it was only the Earth, as it wobbled in an attempt to go back to its 360-day orbit. It did not succeed and it is still out of synch. Instead of recovering the 360-day year, it added five extra days to its orbit.

Is this scenario impossible? No!

Is it believable? Even less so, for the simple reason it has never occurred in our life-time.

If there had been no "pregression," then there had to have been an immediate shift of our Earth. As an"immediate" event, it is recorded in the Bible,1 in the Andes,2 Chaldean/American,3 in Egypt,4 in India.5 and in Greek myths.6 Even the Aborigines of Australia retained that event in their song history. They claimed that the singing stars danced in the sky. The movement of the stars they still attempt to emulate as they try to dance with what they recall as star music.7

All the myths mentioned here are written in more detail in footnotes below. Each version have been narrated to different cultures in terms that each would understand best. However, they all say the same thing. The day or night lengthened and the year acquired a "hand span"1 that extended our 360-day year into one more familiar to our era, the 365-day year.

Scientific procedures, being as careful as they are, can not reconstitute this event, because there is no computer model possible without more accurate records than strange combinations of foreign words. Any event or movement that is not visible or current, especially one that is made by a globe that is impossibly heavy, and constantly revolving in its own orbit, such as our Earth could never have moved in such a manner.

The problem is that all of their perfect records, in another 800 years will be just as obtuse to future scientists, as those scientific observations made 800 years previous to our times. Each era has used its own method of calculating the year and each knew exactly what they were doing, as far back as the dynasties of Egypt.

Funny thing about both ages, is that they both tracked the stars, not a year or two, but within their own centuries. Yet, our current information "proves" THE "Earth cold never have tilted in its orbit." It is not even possible, regardless of any ancient written records to the contrary. Those ancient records, according to the experts, are "only myths."

E. B. Eastwick knew that all aspects of research should be recorded, even if it seemed ridiculous. His statement was "Straight grew the sky's crooked back," In Note 49, he stated: "However unpalatable to European tastes, I am obliged to present this strange metaphor in all its marvelous monstrosity." 8 He wrote believing it is only a silly metaphor.

The information in the Borgia Codex The Insect in the Codices that is no more than the image of a common butterfly, actually an almost extinct iridescent blue butterfly. The best representation the native astronomers had available to indicate the star that burst into a blue iridescent expanding sky event. It became one of many glyph-like images in the Maya world used to represent one of the most important events that our Earth has ever endured.

1 Isaiah, 38:8, Behold I will bring again the Shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ten degrees backwards. So the sun returned ten degrees by which degrees it was gone down.
40:12: Who had measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with the span.
Robbins, R. R., Jefferys, W. H., & Shawl, S. J. (1995) Discovering Astornomy, Third Edition, New York: John WIley and Sons, Inc. Chapter 3.3: p.: 37 : Human hand used in ancient times to measure distance between stars.: Full Hand span = twenty (20) degrees.
So according to Isaiah, (and apparently everyone else) the 360 degree circle of the year, expanded by 20 degrees creating a 365-day year.

2Fernandez, R. V. G. and Carmen Escalante (1996) Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huam‡n (Gelles, Paul H., Trans.)Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. p. 22, Tale of Inka building Cuzco, once a plain. The Owner of the Wind complained because Inka had confined the wind because it was blowing so hard it tore down city he was building. Owner of Wind said if you build the city in one day all will be fine. So the Inka imprisoned the sun, making the day longer, until job was finished.

3 Donnelly, I. (1971) Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (A Modern Revised Edition Original published in 1882 ed.) New York: Rudolf Steiner Publications. p. 78-84 Man having rebelled against Heaven, the system of the universe was totally disordered. The sun was eclipsed, the planets altered their course, and the grand harmony of nature was disturbed.Chaldean Legends. [My Note: this passage (on pages 78-84)is much too long to record here. Yet That passage seems to agree with a similar translation of Dennis TedlockÕs (1996) Popol Vuh on page 128 and note on 277 about the dark cloud that apeared early (4 am or so) to cover the earth until the False Sun rose, so hot it dried up all the land.

4 Budge, E. A. Wallis (1960) The Book of the Dead New York: Bell Publishing Company. p. 23; Thoth, whom the Greeks called Hermes, (p. 55) was involved in a game with Selene (the Moon). He won a seventieth part of each day of the 360-day year so that Rhea (Isis in Egypt) could give birth to Osiris. The sum of his winning was five extra days, making the new length of the year 365-days.)

5Roy, P., C. Ch. (1889) Mahabharata, Calcutta: "It was as if the elements had been unleased. The sun spun round, scorched by the incandescent heat of the weapon, the world reeled in fever. Elephants were set on fire by the heat and ran to and fro in a frenzy to seek protection from the terrible violence. The water boiled, the animals died, the enemy was mown down and the raging of the blaze made the trees collapse in rows as in a forest fire. Elephants made a fearful trumpeting and sank dead to the ground. . .thousands of chariots were destroyed, then a deep silence descended on the sea. The winds. . .the earth grew bright. It was a terrible sight to see. . .never before have we seen such a ghastly weapon

6 Hesiod,. To Athena, XXVIII - 5 - 15, p. 453 - 455,Tritogenia (Athena) born in full armour from the head of Zeus. Mount Olympus reeled horribly at her might and sea was moved and tossed dark waves. While foam burst forth suddenly. The son of Hyperion stopped his steeds a long while until the birth was over.
Rouse, p. 71-74: Last battle of Zeus and Typhon typhon piled up rocks and craigs and seized Zeus' lightning and thunderbolts. Rocks melted, seas dried up and all constellations of heavens were shaken and out of orbit. Cadmos won Typhon over by playing flutes.
Diodorus, V - 23 - 2 - 3, p. 159, Phaëthon, son of Helius took four horse sun chariot out for a day. He could not control reins, setting sky afire and created the Milky Way. Zeus got angry. Killed Pha‘thon with thunder bolt and brought back the sun to regular course. Phaëthon fell to earth at river Padus (Po) once called Eridanus.

7 Haynes Roselynn D. (2000) Astronomy Across Cultures: the History of Non-Western Astronomy: Astronomy and the Dreaming: The Astronomy of the Aboriginal Australians. Dordrecht/Boston/London:: Kluwer Academic Publisher.
p. 71: Singing stars that danced out of place.

8Eastwick, E. B. (1880) The Gulistan (or Rose-Garden) of Shekh Muslihu'din Sadi of Shiraz (Second ed.) London: Trübner and Company. p. 17, p. 17: Straight grew the sky's crooked back (Note 49) Note 49: However unpalatable to European tastes, I am obliged to present this strange metaphor in all its marvelous monstrosity