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heaven.”
II Kings 17: 16: “And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten
images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.”
Also see Deut. 4:19; 17:3; II Kings 21:3; 21:5; 23:4-5; II Chron. 33:3; Jere. 8:2; 19:13; Zeph. 1:5,
etc.
Acts 7:42: “Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven....”
I used to wonder why the ancients were so strongly into worship of the stars and planets. Now I understand
that the planets were interacting with Earth and causing terrible catastrophes, causing humans to
consider them as gods and causing humans to go even so far as to practice human sacrifice in order to try
to placate these “gods”.
Let’s review some more quotes from the ancients:
“There are also stars that suddenly come to birth in the heaven itself.... The Greeks call them comets”
(Pliny 2:22:89)
“Athena sprang from the skull of Zeus with an earth-shattering battle-cry, so that the heavens shook and
the mother Earth [shook]” (Pindar, Olympia 7:36).
Athena is the Greek name for the Roman Venus, and Zeus is the Greek name for the Roman Jupiter (Zeuspiter).
Scholars studying Greek and Roman mythology have debated what the meaning is of Venus springing
from the head of Jupiter and have come up with all kinds of “possible” explanations. It never occurred
to them that this so called mythology might be an explanation of real events observed by eye-witnesses!
Perhaps there was an explosion on Jupiter, which hurled out a chunk of flaming material that became a
comet, called Venus, Athena, etc., in the various languages. This comet interacted with Earth and Mars,
causing tremendous damages. It eventually might have been thrown into its current orbit and lost its tail and
is now known as the planet Venus.
The Homeric Hymn of Athena says: “And before Zeus the aegis-holder she sprang swiftly from his
immortal head, brandishing a sharp-pointed spear [comet with tail, described as a sharp-pointed spear].
Great Olympos quaked dreadfully under the might of the gray-eyed goddess, as the Earth all about resounded
awesomely, and the sea moved and heaved with purple waves [earthquakes and tidal waves].”
Meteor showers occurred as Earth passed through the tail of the comet, and the meteorites were worshiped
as sacred objects. For instance, the Arab Dome of the Rock near the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem has
a large, black meteorite as the sacred object in the middle of the room. (See H. Newton, “The Worship of
Meteorites,” in the American Journal Of Science, 3:13, pp. 1-14.) The sacred object at Mecca is a
meteorite.
On the other side of the world, the Iroquois Indians reported that the goddess Nokomis—the famed
grandmother of Hiawatha—fell from heaven as a comet. Favorite Poems Of Henry Longfellow, p. 165,
“From the sky a star is falling” and just before she fell she was swinging from a long vine.
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