Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets
by Mike Baillie
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Author: Mike BaillieEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-06-30
ISBN: 0713486813
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Batsford
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Summary: 5 Stars
Comets, asteroids, fireballs, stones fall from the ancient skies, and plagues have generated a great impact on people's mind and writings since the beginning of time. Stories of towns and cities being destroyed, myths of the battles of the gods in the sky, and the legends of the great Flood. What if they were describing the real events of destruction in the ancient times?
Mike Baillie is a scientist of dendrochronology and an authority on the tree-ring records which brings to light of new evidences on what happened in the past. In the first part of the book, he discussed what dendrochronology is, and he helps the reader on an understanding of the tree-ring records as well the ice cores. From studying the tree-ring records, the author discovered the disturbing patterns to which seems to tell a story of the events that were considered to be myths or legends.
In this book, the author pointed out that the tree-ring records revealed the global environmental disturbances on specific time periods, such as 2354-2345 BC, 1628-1623 BC, 1159-1141 BC, 208-204 BC, and AD 536-545. These periods also known to coincide with the times of the Biblical flood, the Exodus event, plagues during King David's reign and the Ch'in dynasty, and the death of legendary King Arthur. And, the author goes further to discuss that there were number of cometary impacts, similar to the Tunguska event of 1908, that caused great environmental disasters including earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, and outgassing from ocean floor. These disasters were recorded by the trees.
A 270-page work, Exodus to Arthur would considered to be an outrage and controversial because it almost can be read as a "catastrophe theory." However, this book gave strong evidence to support the fact that there were cometary impacts in the historical times, and they were evidently recorded in tree growth rings and written down through the ages as myth or legends. It also aimed toward the general audience instead of scientists, and it is not written in a technical style.
Personally, I have enjoyed reading Baillie's book as it gave me a strong understanding of how important to know what really happened in our past, and how it would affect our future. Along with this book, I would recommend other works to support the fact of cometary impacts, including Mike Baillie's recent work: New Light on the Black Death, Victor Clube's The Cosmic Serpent (ISBN: 057111816X) and "Cosmic Winter," and Firestone's The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture.
This book also support the fact that trees really do remembered and have a great deal of stories to tell.
Summary of Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets
This intriguing challenge to traditional views of history, provides explanations for many of the myths and legends that continue to haunt humankind. In particular, it argues that, in the last five millennia, the Earth has undergone several catastrophic encounters with comets and their debris--and that mythology has preserved these events better than so-called "factual" records.
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