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In his groundbreaking book from 1980 ‘The Saturn Myth’ (inspired by the work of Immanuel Velikovsky who had correspondence with Albert Einstein about the following ideas) researcher David Talbott analyzed myths from ancient cultures around the world and found that they all described the same phenomenon surrounding Saturn. He found that symbolism for Saturn is the same throughout ancient Mesopotamia, India, Greece, the Americas, and Egypt, and as documented by ancient cultures, explains how there was once a celestial alignment involving Saturn that occurred thousands of years ago. Based on ancient accounts throughout the world, Talbott describes a period of “great upheaval” in celestial bodies, when Saturn, Venus, and Mars descended and aligned overhead Earth in a spectacular astronomical event dubbed the “Saturn Polar Configuration”. As Talbott says in ‘The Saturn Myth’: “[The Saturn Polar Configuration is] the idea based on comparative mythology, that the Earth was once in close proximity, or even a satellite of the planet Saturn”. During this celestial upheavel, Mars descended from its position in the sky and formed a connection or stairway to Saturn and Venus which over time became morphed into various mythological concepts, including the heaven-sustaining giant Atlas, the Tree of Life, Mount Olympus, and the Tower of Babel, inter alia. Various cultures around the world recorded this celestial stairway. For example, the Makirtare Indians of the Amazonian rainforest tell of a time where the hero Ahishama, identified as Mars, climbed a stairway to Heaven. Talbott calls this stairway the “Cosmic Mountain”. There are various illustrations of how this alignment may have looked here.
The idea of a celestial stairway, it can be shown, is simply a variation upon the widespread theme of a World Tree. As Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade has documented, such ideas have been around since the dawn of time, saying: “Ascent to the sky along the Axis of the World is a universal and archaic idea”. The same scholar goes on to summarize this theme and its attendant myths as follows: “If we try to achieve a general view of all the myths and rites just briefly reviewed, we are struck by the fact that they have a dominant idea in common: Communication between Heaven and Earth can be brought about — or could be in illo tempore — by some physical means (rainbow, bridge, stairs, ladder, vine, cord, ‘Chain of Arrows’, mountain, etc). All of these symbolic images of the connection between Heaven and Earth are merely variants of the World Tree or the Axis Mundi”. That the planet Mars was itself linked to ancient conceptions of the World Tree has been documented by other scholars in addition to Talbott. For example, in her book ‘A Dictionary of Symbols’, Joan Cirlot reports that: “The Tree of Life, when it rises no higher than the mountain of Mars is regarded as a pillar supporting Heaven”. The World Tree, also known as the Cosmic Tree, Axis Mundi, or Tree of Life, is a symbolic representation of a central axis that connects different realms, dimensions, or planes of existence within a cosmology. It serves as a bridge between the physical world, the heavens, and sometimes the underworld or spirit realms. The symbolism of the World Tree varies across cultures, but there are some common themes. The World Tree represents the centre of the universe or the cosmic axis around which the world revolves. It stands as a pillar connecting the various realms of existence, such as the mortal realm, the realm of the divine, and the realm of the deceased. In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is the World Tree that connects the different realms of the cosmos. The tree extends to different realms, including the human world, the realm of the gods, and the realm of the dead. Esoterically, the World Tree was associated with Divine Union (becoming one with self and source) and can be seen on Masonic Tracing Boards — between the two pillars — as shown below.
originally posted by: HeirHeart
a reply to: Nathan-D
Are you Anthony Patch?
If not, you might want to check him out. Not that I’m a fan, but he presented all of that years ago on Kev Baker’s YT channel and several books he wrote that are available on Amazon. The idea comes from a popular electric universe theory, what Patch did was tie CERN into all of it.
Apologies if that bursts your bubble, but if it was me I’d want to know… if for no other reason than I like to be original.