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perhaps was a much greater story than has been told. I will assume you are aware of the Biblical story, so
will bring to your attention other, lesser known, stories.
RIVERS OF BLOOD
A. H. Gardiner translated an Egyptian eyewitness account (of what seems to be the same time period as
the Exodus) found in an ancient papyrus, in Admonitions Of An Egyptian Sage From A Hieratic Papyrus
In Leiden, generally called Papyrus Ipuwer. Here are some quotes from the Egyptian sage Ipuwer:
“The river is blood.”
“Men shrink from tasting; human beings thirst after water,” and “That is our water! That is our happiness!
What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin.”
Ipuwer 5:5 tells of the “very grievous murrain” that fell from the sky.
And on the other side of the world during this same time period, the Manuscript Quiche, quoted in
Brasseur, I, 130, tells that the Sun ceased moving, there were great earthquakes, and the water turned to
blood.
A red dust fell on all the Earth, causing all water to turn red and be described as like blood. Apollodorus
tells of the mountain “Haemus” (blood) receiving its name because of the “stream of blood which gushed
out of the mountain.” This was during a battle between Zeus and Typhon, and Typhon was struck by a
thunderbolt. Zeus is the Greek equivalent of the Roman Jupiter (Zeus-piter, Zeus of Peter rank, Peter
coming from the Hebrew PTR which is translated as interpreter. The interpreters in these religions were
called “Peters”.). Typhon was a comet. This comet interacted with the planets Jupiter and Earth, causing
the events of the Exodus and causing myths to be built to explain what happened.
The Finnish epos of Kalevala tells of cosmic upheaval when the Earth was sprinkled with red milk. The
Altai Tartars tells of when “blood turns the whole world red”.
When the Israelites left Egypt, everything was covered with red dust. They passed through the Red Sea,
which received its name because it was blood red, although now it is deep blue. They entered Edom,
which name means red dust.
After the red dust, there was a plague of “small dust” like “ashes of the furnace”. This was followed by a
“very grievous hail”. The word “hail” in Hebrew is “barad” and means “meteorites”.
According to all the other accounts, a comet approached the Earth. The small, hot dust preceded the rain
of meteorites as the Earth entered into the tail of the comet, and red dust fell to the ground. The “thunder”
in Hebrew is “kolot” which means “loud noises”. Hebrew for “thunder” is “raam”. The loud noises were
caused by the crack of high-speed meteorites streaking through the air and crashing into the ground.
Ipuwer said: “Cattle are left to stray, and there is none to gather them together. Each man fetches for
himself those that are branded with his name.”
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