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Native American Brain Food No. 7
August 31, 2012Thousands of people also died in the British Isles and North Sea countries in 1014 ADThe Outer Banks are the remnants of these islands, which were splashed back by the ripples of a tidal surge or tsunami. These geologists are further concerned that multiple fractures in the Continental Shelf could cause the Outer Banks to slide into the ocean, creating a mega-tsunami. Evidence of such a mega-tsunami during the early 11th century in the Atlantic Ocean is undoubtedly also lurking along the coastlines of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
POOF member, Gary Daniels, wrote a very interesting article in January of 2012. A New York geologist has found evidence that around 1014 AD, a swarm of large meteors or comet debris struck North America and the Atlantic Ocean, causing both a mega-tsunami and local, cataclysmic meteor damage. Archaeoastronomy of the Ocmulgee Earth Lodge
Forensic geologist Dallas Abbott of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University has found evidence of a large meteor or comet strike in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, which hurled extraterrestrial debris over 3800 km (2361 miles) to a bog in the Black Rock Forest in New York. The material was dated to around 1014 AD. Abbot also found debris from a meteor or comet strike in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Basin that also dated to 1014 AD.
Gary postulated that the damage wrought by this tsunami (or multiple tsunamis) was similar to the one in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004. He believed that the scale of this disaster would have had a major cultural impact on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. He connected the disasters to the stone inscriptions of a great flood along the coast of Mexico and Central America in the early 11th century AD. Gary suggested that the Aztec legend of the death of the Fourth Sun originated in the cataclysmic events of 1014 AD. He also linked the meteors with flaming tails to Pre-Columbian imagery of feathered serpents and European myths about fire-breathing dragons.
Some readers of Gary’s article challenged the validity of its interpretations because no North American archaeology books mention meteor showers, a tsunami or floods during that era. However, I dug further into available historic and anthropological resources. Gary’s statements are backed up by several European archives, geological evidence and sudden cultural changes in the Southeastern United States, Caribbean Basin and Ohio River Valley.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles state:
Anno Domini 1014 - On þissum geare on Sancte Michaeles mæsseæften com þæt mycle sæflod gynd wide þysne eard arn swa feor up swa næfre ær ne dyde adrencte feala tuna mancy tonnes un arimedlic ov getel.
1014 AD - This year, on the eve of St. Michael's day (September 28), came the great sea-flood, which spread wide over this land, and ran so far up as it never did before, overwhelming many towns, and an innumerable multitude of people.
Other Medieval records confirm Abott’s and Daniels’ interpretation of the geological evidence. William of Malmesbury in The History of the English Kings (vol. 1) states “A tidal wave, of the sort which the Greeks call euripus, grew to an astonishing size such as the memory of man cannot parallel, so as to submerge villages many miles inland and overwhelm and drown their inhabitants.” A sea flood is also mentioned in the Chronicle of Quedlinburg Abbey (Saxony), where it states many people died as a result of the flood in the Low Countries (Juteland, Holstein, Friesland, the Netherlands and Belgium) in 1014.
In 2007 North Carolina geologists published evidence that the coastline of their state had once been protected by a chain of barrier islands and tidal marshes such as those that shield the mainland of Georgia. Either a Class 5 hurricane or a tsunami had destroyed these islands in the 11th century.
Archaeological evidence in the Southeastern United States
No one is known to be looking for evidence of a tsunami on the South Atlantic Coast. However, it is well documented that there were sudden cultural changes in the Southeastern United States during the 11th century. Towns were established with “Mississippian” cultural traits in many locations throughout the Southeast. For example, Ichesi (Lamar Village,) E-tula (Etowah Mounds) and the Bessemer Mounds in Alabama were all founded sometime around the beginning of the 11th century. Ohio archaeologists now believe that the Great Serpent Mound was constructed in the early 11th century. Several mountaintop stone serpents in Georgia were also probably constructed in that era. Was there a connection between the serpent effigies and the great cataclysm of 1014 AD, as Gary Daniels theorizes?
Currently, the earliest radiocarbon date at the Track Rock Terrace Complex is c. 1018 AD. It was from two soil samples obtained in the year 2000. In the spring of 2012 the Gainesville, GA office of the U. S. Forest Service refused to allow forensic geologists employed by the History Channel to obtain soil samples from a wider selection of agricultural terraces – claiming that the retaining walls of the terraces were the burials of “great Cherokee warriors.” One wonders if the settlers of the half mile square town site at Track Rock Gap were refugees from a disaster elsewhere. They also built a stone serpent effigy!
There was a dramatic change at the Cahokia town site in southern Illinois. Between around c. 800 AD and c. 1025 AD, Cahokia was a modest town occupied by newcomers to the region that grew corn, beans and squash. Few, if any, mounds were constructed during this period. There was a sudden change in the early 11th century. The old village was razed and a new town with great pyramidal mounds was planned beside the old site. Such “Mississippian” cultural traits as pyramidal mounds and post-ditch construction houses that appeared in the Ocmulgee Bottoms (Macon, GA) around 900 AD, appeared at Cahokia in the mid-11th century. The region around Cahokia exploded with population growth. Clearly, something had happened during the early part of that century to spark stark cultural and demographic changes.
Over a century of volcanic terror in Mesoamerica
A tsunami hitting North America in 1014 AD is not the whole story, however. The Maya city-states of southern Mexico and the nations of Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, thrived from about 500 BC until the 800s AD. Within relatively few decades most of the Maya cities were abandoned in the central and southern parts of their territory. A volcanic eruption incinerated the great city of Palenque in the mountains of Chiapas around 800 AD. The productive terrace farming regions in the Itza Maya Highlands in Chiapas State, Guatemala and Honduras were almost completely depopulated for a couple of centuries.
Between around 800 AD and 1100 AD a series of violent volcanic eruptions in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Basin devastated large areas of those regions. Recent studies of historic volcanic activity by Dr. Martin el Pozzo at the University of Mexico’s Institute of Geophysics suggest that catastrophic volcanic eruptions may have been primary causes of the collapse of several of Mexico’s civilizations, including a massive drop in the Maya population between 830 AD and 915 AD. Eruptions in the Caribbean Basin apparently caused Arawak populations to flee northern South America and the Lower Antilles to settle Puerto Rico, Dominica, Cuba and Florida.
The normal climates of Mesoamerica, the Caribbean Basin and even the Southeastern United States were repeatedly altered by the massive volcanic eruptions. Volcanic dust, suspended in the stratosphere, blocked out the sun. The results varied in these regions. Some areas had torrential rains while others had suffocating droughts. Inadequate sunlight caused sun-hungry tropical crops such as maize to be stunted.
The chronic volcanic activity definitely pushed the indigenous peoples of the Central American mountain ranges out of their homeland. Perhaps the shock of a mega-tsunami and swarms of large meteors pushed them into the interior highlands of a fertile continent to the north, where there were no volcanoes and a wall of ocean water couldn’t drown them.
Something to ponder . . . geologists estimate that a mega-tsunami striking the East Coast of North America and the Caribbean Basin, would kill at least one to two million people today.
Here is some more info about the 1680 passing that I find fascinating:
333 years ago!
The Great Comet Star of 1680
The Great Comet of 1680 was observed by the Reverend Robert Law in Scotland:
‘December 10, being Friday, 1680, after sun-sett, there appeared in the west a comet, having a large broad and great streamer coming from it, the like was never seen or read of, and continued till the 16th or 17th day of January, growing smaller and smaller to its end;’
For Law, the Great Comet of 1680
‘Was certainly prodigious of sad things to us, as all these ordinary are, such as that comet seen above Jerusalem in shape of a sword, before her ruin and their division.
[link to drmarkjardine.wordpress.com]
Even if comet ISON is not related to the comet of 1680, the orbital elements as pointed out by Bortle are very interesting (especially if one keeps the EU in mind). What I find equally intriguing is that back in 1680 the sun was in what is now called the "maunder minimum", a period with extremely low sunspot activity. In contrast to today (even considering the weak Solar Cycle 24) the sun is much more active. Therefore, if the comets´ orbits are similar, but the sun is now much more active, what will this mean for the comet itself? Could it put on a remarkable show?
[link to www.thunderbolts.info]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Strange UFO Coin from 1680 Puzzles the Experts [link to www.thelivingmoon.com]
Southern California Long Overdue for Quake, Experts Say
Historical data show that the average time between earthquakes in the southern end of the fault line is 150 to 200 years. Though dormant for more than 300 years, the southern end of the San Andreas Fault is long overdue for a giant upheaval
However, the last earthquake struck the area back in 1680.
[link to news.nationalgeographic.com]
[link to www.earthquakecountry.info]
bubonic plague,
The city was crippled by the epidemic, which recurred fitfully into the early 1680s, losing an estimated 76,000 residents. [link to en.wikipedia.org]
1680, when the Yellow River changed its course, merged with the Huai River, and the Hongze Lake appeared…
The eruption of 1680 of Tongoko volcano was a one of the major explosive eruptions in the past centuries.
Evidence of the release of aerosols high into the stratosphere has been found in Greenland Ice cores. In the year following the eruption, sunsets all over the world have been more colorful because of the dust [link to www.volcanodiscovery.com]
Large Krakatoa Eruption May 1680 [link to www.drgeorgepc.com]
1680 The last moai sculptors put down their tools.
Famine-
• 1669 famine in Bengal
• 1680 famine in Sardinia[25]
• 1680 famine in Japan
• 1680s famine in Sahel
1680 Ague (hot) epidemic
England 1681 Ague (hot) epidemic, smallpox
Oct. 9, 1680, in Malaga. Magnitude: 6.9
Took the lives of at least 200 people and destroyed 20 percent (800) of the city's houses, leaving even more inhabitable. The epicenter was located in the city of Malaga, which is located in the province of Andaluci¬a.
Based on geologic evidence, scientists think that a massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake rocked the Cascadia Subduction Zone region off Oregon and Washington sometime between 1680 and 1720 The waves reached as high as 12 feet and flooded rice paddies, washed away buildings and damaged fishing shacks and salt kilns. Sleeping villagers awoke startled and wet and had to hastily scramble to high ground. The waters knocked down oil lamps and started a fire in one village and destroyed 20 houses in another.
The waves pounded the villages all through that night and into the late morning of the next day.
They swept through Miho, a village about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of what is now Tokyo, about seven times.
The tsunami struck not only without warning, but without an apparent cause. Normally, tsunamis are preceded by earthquakes: the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia last December, for example, was foreshadowed by a magnitude-9.3 undersea temblor.
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