Jupiter, Gold, and the Birth of
Athene
by Immanuel Velikovsky
Pindar, speaking of the island of Rhodes, says that Zeus “rained down on the
city with golden flakes of snow” at the time Athene was born from Zeus’ head,
“shouting with a far-ringing cry, and all Heaven and Mother Earth shuddered
before her.”
(1)
Homer also says that “upon them [the people of
Rhodes]
wondrous wealth was shed by the son of Cronus.” Strabo, after quoting Homer,
adds that other writers “say that gold rained on the island the time when
Athena was born from the head of Zeus, as Pindar states.”
(2)
Gold-bearing gravel—with ingots in it—originated from outside of the Earth
and, if we should look upon the Greek legend of Zeus and the golden rain in
Rhodes as containing revealing elements, then the ingots came from Jupiter.
(3) It could be
meteoric gold, and as to the origin the ancients could err; but the event
happened in human memory, actually during the Early Bronze Age, or at its end.
(4)
In
1866 a
human skull was unearthed in the interior of
Bald Mountain
near Altaville, in
Calaveras County,
California. The skull of
Bald Mountain
was reported to have been found in the shaft of a gold mine, in a layer of
auriferous (gold-bearing) gravel, beneath four layers of lava, each separated
from the other by four layers of gravel. The skull did not differ in structure
or dimensions from the skull of modern man; however, it was fossilized.
(5) In the
gold-bearing gravel of Calaveras were also unearthed fossilized bones of the
mammoth, the great mastodon, the tapir, horse, hippopotamus, rhinoceros and
camel, all extinct animals in pre-Columbian
America. But geologically the layer
in which it was found belongs to the Tertiary, and therefore a great
embarrassment was in store for the geologists and evolutionists. They divide
the strata according to the fossils found in them and hold that in the Tertiary
there could have been no human beings, for it is an age before the advent of
man. But we have seen in the case of the
Dead Sea
that the great upheavals ascribed to the end of the Tertiary took place at a
much later time, actually in the time of the Patriarchs, which is the end of
the Early Bronze Age period. The auriferous gravels of
California and of the
Ural
Mountains had their origin at this same time.
The rain of gold on
Rhodes is assigned by
Pindar to the time when Athene was born from the head of Zeus. The expulsion of
the protoplanet Venus from the body of Jupiter followed, by decades or by
centuries, the contact of Saturn and Jupiter, and the fantasy of the peoples
regarded Venus as a child of Jupiter, conceived to him by Saturn.
The ancient Persians called Venus Tishtrya, “a magnificent and glorious star
which Ahura Mazda [i.e., Jupiter] has established as master and overseer of all
the stars.”
(6)
Plutarch described the events in the following terms: “Then Horomazes [Ahura
Mazda], having magnified himself to three times his size, removed himself as
far from the sun as the sun is distant from the earth . . . and one star,
seirios
[i.e., Tishtrya, or Venus] he established above all others as a guardian
and watcher.”
(7)
References
1.
Pindar,
The Seventh
Olympian Ode, transl. by L. R. Farnell (
London, 1930), p. 35.
3.
[On another occasion
Zeus is said to have come to Danae, the mother of Perseus, in the form of a
shower of golden rain. See Hyginus,
Fabulae 63; Apollodorus,
The Library
II. 4. 1; Horace,
Odes, III. 16. 1. Cf. L. Radermacher, “Danae und der
goldene Regen,”
Archiv fuer Religionswissenschaft 25 (1927), pp. 216ff.
Cf. Pindar’s twelfth Pythian and seventh Isthmian odes. A fragment of a lost
play of Sophocles (1026) designates Zeus as “
chrysomorphos"—having
the form of gold. Rains of gold are reported also in the Chinese chronicles.
See Abel Remusat,
Catalogue des bolides et des aerolithes observees a la
Chine et dans les pays voisins (1819), p. 6. The Scythians are said by
Herodotos (IV. ) to have venerated certain golden objects which they believed
had fallen from the heavens in early times. In the sacred texts of the Hindus
it is said that “gold belongs to Brihaspati.” Brihaspati is the planet Jupiter.
The Maitrayani
Samhita I. 18. 6. Cf. S. Bhattachrji, The Indian
Cosmogony (
Cambridge,
1970), p. 318.].
4.
[It is a remarkable
fact that gold appears only in very recent geological formations. Sir Roderick
Impey Murchison dedicated chapter XVII of his geological opus
Siluria to
this phenomenon: “On the Original Formation of Gold and Its Subsequent
Distribution in Debris over Parts of the Earth’s Surface.” He argued, on the
basis of his field observations in northern
Russia, that gold is of
recent origin:
Whatever may have been the date when the rock was
first rendered auriferous [gold-bearing], the date of this great superficial
distribution of gold is clearly indicated. For it contains in many places the
same remains of extinct fossil quadrupeds that are found in the coarse
drift-gravel of Western Europe. The elephas
primogenius, or Mammoth, bos aurochs, rhinoceros tochorrhinus, with gigantic
stags, and many other species, including large carnivores, were unquestionably
before that period of destruction the denizens of Europe and Siberia.
The period of the distribution of gold in the late
Pleistocene strata was that of the mass extinctions of the great quadrupeds at
the end of the last ice age. next Murchison tried to determine the time when
the rocks were first “impregnated with gold.” He wrote:
Now, it would seem as if these rocks, in the Ural,
have been chiefly impregnated with gold, in a comparatively recent period. In
the first place, the western flank of the Ural chain offers strong evidence
that this golden transfusion had not been effected in this region when the
Permian deposits were completed.
No sign of gold was found in these older strata.
Nowhere does it [the Permian debris] contain
visible traces of gold or platinum. Had these metals then existed in the Ural
mountains, in the quantities which now prevail, many remnants of them must have
been washed down together with the other rocks and minerals and have formed
part of the old Permian conglomerates. On the other hand, when the much more
modern debacles, that destroyed the great animals, and heaped up the piles of
gravel above described, proceeded from this chain, then the debris became
largely auriferous. It is manifest therefore that the principal impregnation of
the rocks with gold—i.e., when the lumps and strings of it were formed—took
place in the intervening time.
Sometime between the Permian and the last ice age
some event resulted in the infusion of the rocks with gold. Murchison tried to
fix the time more precisely:
We cannot believe that it occurred shortly after
the Permian era, nore even when any of the secondary rocks were forming; since
no golden debris is found in any of the older Tertiary grits and sands which
occur in the Siberian flank of the chain. If, then, the mammoth drift be the
oldest mass of detritus in which gold occurs abundantly, not only in the
Ural, but in many parts of the world, we are led to believe that this noble
metal, though for the most part formed in ancient crystalline rocks, or in the
igneous rocks which penetrated them, was only abundantly imparted to them in a
comparatively recent period—i.e., a short time (in geological language) before
the epoch when the very powerful and general denudations took place which destroyed
the large extinct mammalia.
In another work of his, The Geology of Russia
and the Ural Mountains, Vol. I (London,
1845), p. 473, Murchison presented his conclusions about the geological events
which accompanied the deposition of gold:
. . . We conclude that the [Ural] chain became
(chiefly) auriferous during the most recent disturbances by which it was
affected, and that this took place when the highest peaks were thrown up, when
the present watershed was established, and when the syenitic granite and other
comparatively recent igneous rocks were erupted along its eastern edges.
5. Murchison,
one of the founders of modern geology, insisted that it was during a major
geological upheaval that gold became part of the rocks—it was the time of
mountains being “thrown up” and molten rock flowing, before solidifying into
granite. Murchison next wondered about the “agency” which deposited the gold in
the mountains of the Ural and elsewhere. As a geologist he observed that “the
material has been chiefl
y accumulated towards the surface of the rocks, and
then by the abrasion and dispersion of their superficial parts, the richest
golden materials have been spread out. . . .” (Siluria, p. 455).
This last observation is of fundamental importance,
in that since the gold was deposited close to the surface, it could not have
come from inside the earth.].
6.
J. D. Whitney,
The
Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California (1880),
pp. 268-269.
8.
De Iside et Osiride,
ch. 47
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