As stated in a previous post, there has been a lot of new discussion in the LDS cyber-community over the Noachian Flood due to a recently published article in Dialogue JOURNAL. However, none of this discussion included the plasma science and plasma mythology viewpoint. It is the purpose of this post to show that plasma science throws additional light upon this subject.
Rens van der Sluijs wrote some excellent articles on plasma mythology, which are published on the Thunderbolts.info web site, one of which addressed the Noachian Flood. (See The Flood from Heaven.) According to van der Sluijs, there have now been collected “several hundred versions” of flood myths “from all parts of the world.” Although he admits that not all of these versions are related, the earliest ones all “derive from a common source and form a true literary tradition.”
He explains that some of these stories probably commemorate local floods. (This is a common interpretation of the Noachian Flood among LDS.) Yet, he also says that “the myths that speak of a universal inundation” tend to have a common feature: “the cosmic axis in the center of the world.” Apparently, few researchers have ever explored this feature.
The axis mundi is important in plasma science because Earth and all other celestial objects are charged bodies and can exhibit double layers, or plasma sheaths, as well as plasma columns, connecting one charged body to another charged body. A recent article and photo of a plasma column connecting Jupiter to one of its moons is demonstrative. Plasma exhibits many other types of behavior, all demonstrable in the laboratory.
From plasma mythology, we begin to see a picture of a stack of fixed planets, one on top of another, connected through their poles by visible plasma columns, with the topmost planet (or “most high” planet) exhibiting the wing-like formations of plasma shock. The plasma column connecting Earth to the planet above it (whichever one it was) over time is recounted in the mythology as being a world mountain, a cosmic tree and so on. This reminds me of a scripture:
Abraham said, “And I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees; and I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it; and the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest. And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s time, according to the reckoning of Kolob. And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the night, is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years. And the Lord said unto me: Now, Abraham, these two facts exist, behold thine eyes see it; it is given unto thee to know the times of reckoning, and the set time, yea, the set time of the earth upon which thou standest, and the set time of the greater light which is set to rule the day, and the set time of the lesser light which is set to rule the night. Now the set time of the lesser light is a longer time as to its reckoning than the reckoning of the time of the earth upon which thou standest. And where these two facts exist, there shall be another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet whose reckoning of time shall be longer still; and thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord’s time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest…If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them; therefore Kolob is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam that thou hast seen, because it is nearest unto me. Now, if there be two things, one above the other, and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or a star may exist above it; and there is nothing that the Lord thy God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it. (Abraham 3: 1-9, 16-17)
(It is important to understand that the Egyptians used the word “star” to mean both what we call stars and planet. A planet to us was a star to them. A star to us was also a star to them. So, each time in the above scripture it reads star, it is talking about a planet. In fact, in plasma cosmology, as all celestial bodies are charged bodies moving in a sea of plasma, they are all capable of discharging in glow mode, like stars do, given the right set of circumstances. So, the Egyptian use of the word stars when talking of planets is, technically, correct.)
In the Noachian Flood, the clues of plasma mythology and the existence and destruction of the axis mundi, which “was a stupendous high-energy plasma discharge tube with a semi-permanent character,” paint a picture that the tube’s “existence was terminated amid catastrophic circumstances.” In other words, Earth become cut off from the other planets in the stack, and eventually the other planets also broke away to wander in their current paths around our present Sun.
With the “disruption of this plasma column,” the Flood ensued. Many of the flood myths record that “the flood comes down from the sky.” The water of the flood may have been both water and discharging plasma. Also, according to van der Sluijs, “a significant number of flood myths insist that the water was no ordinary water, but a different substance – hot and fiery. Jewish legend had it that the rain was hot, scalding the skin of the sinners. The Makah of Washington, the Quileute, the Chimakum, the Salinan of California and the Ipurina of Brazilian Amazonia agreed that the earth was overwhelmed by a hot flood coming down from the sky.”
For more information on plasma mythology and the plasma formations that the ancients saw in the sky from their vantage point, read the following articles found on the Thunderbolts.info web site: The Naval Stone, The Mountain of the Gods, The Vortical Tree, The Bifurcated Mountain, The Pedestal of the Sun, Electric Universe: Part IV Plasma and World Mythology, Mystery of the Cosmic Thunderbolt (1), Prediction #5: Plasma Formations in the Ancient Sky, Plasma in the Lab and in Rock Art, Electric Universe: Part III The Nine Steps to Heaven, Mystery of the Cosmic Dragon, Origins of Rock Art.
So, plasma science opens up the possibility that a global flood did occur, since the breakaway of Earth from the rest of the stacked planets would cause world-wide catastrophe. The resulting plasma discharges, which might last a long time, would have very varied effects, but eventually they would die down until the planet settled into its new, free-floating environment. We also learn that the water covering the earth might not have been just the plain, ordinary kind, but might also have been, in fact, plasma.
Now, one of the principal arguments against a global flood is that there isn’t enough water to cover the entire planet. Plasma science solves this problem. I will explain this next.
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Update: When I wrote the above article, I wanted to include the images of a plasma tube connection between Jupiter and its moon Io, but when I attempted to find it on the Internet, I came up blank. Well, not exactly blank, all I could find was the recent photo, which I linked to the words “recent article and photo,” of the footprint that three of the moons of Jupiter were making on its aurora. But the recent photo didn’t show the actual plasma column. Well, this Thanksgiving, I got to talking to a visiting cousin about plasma cosmology and Comet Holmes and we did a quick search on the Internet and lo and behold! I found the pictures of Io connected to Jupiter. So, I’ve included that link in the article, with the words “a plasma column” hyper linked. When you click on that link, be sure to click on the picture to make it larger and read the associated article.
Virtually all ancient events that date to the days of the Patriarchs, before the Flood, have some association with plasma phenomena. The same is true for centuries afterward. Only when this element of Earth’s ancient heavens is considered do the accounts from those epochs become clear. What is described are the “old heavens” the prophets refer to. They are nothing like the skies we see now, the “new heavens.”
If you care to see a plasma column, buy one of those tabletop plasma balls and try this experiment: Once the plasma is active, touch your hand to the top of the glass ball and hold it here. All the filliments will vanish, except for one that will appear to stand vertically between the emitter orb in the center of the glass and your hand. Look closely at the superior hemisphere of the emitter. Notice that it forms a plasma haze around the top of the central ball, which plasma filiment tapers to a single column that rises vertically. Imagen that the central emitter is the Earth and your hand is a companion planet. The plasma filiment is an analog of the polar column that “connected” heaven and Earth anciently. Imagine what that column or filiment would look like if you were standing on the emitter, “Earth.” It would look like a pillar of light standing virtically on the northern horizon. That is only part of what our forefathers saw in their skies.
Found this link that describes a body of water held in place over the North Pole by the plasma column connecting Saturn with Earth — which, when released, caused a cataclysmic flood of water that had previously been held in suspension above the Earth’s surface.
This stuff is so fascinating to me! I am a homeschool mom and my science is a bit unconventional as I try to back it with scriptures. In Genesis we are told that there was an expanse(firmament)in the sky that separated the “waters from the waters” so basically there was a layer of water suspended above the Earth. We’re also told that God did not cause it to rain but that the Earth was watered by a mist that came up from the ground. You could imagine how crazy Noah sounded when he told people water was going to come down and flood the Earth! Then during the flood we read that “the fountains of the great deep broke open” as well as water coming from the sky. My personal belief is that there weren’t any oceans but that our hollow Earth had water which came out during the flood while the canopy of water overhead came down. Also that perhaps the lost tribes are now living in the earth but someday after they come out
The great deep will be driven back into the center of the Earth. The Earth will now be watered by a mist again and basically everything it says in D&C section 133. I’m going to have to study up on this whole plasma thing now and see if it will mesh well with the understanding I already have.