PART ONE.
THE DEEP FREEZE.
Chapter 1 The Frigid Earth.
The Glacial Theory.
2
The Pleistocene Ice Age.
3
The Interglacials.
6
Previous Ice Ages.
7
Gondwana.
8
Snowball Earth.
11
Chapter 2 The Milankovitch Theory.
The Birth of the Milankovitch Theory.
14
The Distressed Life of the Milankovitch Theory.
18
The Death of the Milankovitch Theory.
20
The Resurrection of the Milankovitch Theory.
21
The Devils Hole Controversy.
22
Summing Up.
25
Chapter 3 Alternative Hypotheses.
In Search of a Better Proposal.
27
A Simple Matter of Severe Winters.
27
Ice as its Own Cause.
28
Cold Versus Heat.
29
Uplift of Land.
30
The Volcanic Theory.
31
Pole Shifts and Tilts.
33
Magnetic Field Collapse.
34
Meteoric and Asteroidal Impacts.
35
Comets and Cometary Tails.
36
Mini Snow Ball Comets.
40
Solar Cycles.
43
Sun Spots and Nebular Dust.
45
Superflares.
45
Supernovae and Cosmic Rays.
46
Lack of Consensus.
47
Chapter 4 Unorthodox Schemes.
Dislocated Polar Caps.
51
The Ice Dump.
53
The Tippe-Top Model.
55
Water Versus Ice.
62
An expropriated Scenario.
64
Diastrophism.
65
Striations and Erratic Boulders.
68
Moraines.
74
The Glacial Hecatombs.
76
The Ice-Free Arctic.
80
PART TWO.
THE SATURN THESIS.
Chapter 5 Reiteration.
Myths and Legends.
90
The Planetary Deities.
102
Ancient Astronomical Lore.
108
The Saturnian Sun.
113
Chapter 6 The Concept of Deity.
The Solomonic Sun.
116
The God of the Midianites.
118
From Ya to Yahweh.
122
The Moon and Jupiter.
124
The Case For and Against Ea.
125
Yahweh’s Sun-Wheeled Chariot.
126
The Dionysiac Yahweh.
127
Yahweh-Elohim.
129
Chapter 7 The Boreal Locus.
The Sun of Night.
137
The Solitary Deity.
137
The Immobile God.
137
The Polar Station.
139
Chapter 8 Proto-Saturn.
Linear Systems.
146
Plasma Streams and Birkeland Currents.
147
Dwarf Stars.
148
Saturn as a Sub-Brown Dwarf.
149
The Age of Darkness.
150
The Habitable Zone.
153
The Nocturnal Environment.
155
The Proto-Saturnian Plasmasphere.
158
Varves and the Sunspot Cycle.
160
The Boreal Cradle.
164
PART THREE.
THE PRIMORDIAL MILIEU.
Chapter 9 Paleolithic Man.
Frigid Emergence.
167
Arctic Survival.
168
The Neanderthals.
170
The Cro-Magnons.
180
Paleoart.
184
The Great Bear.
186
Lunar Notations.
193
Interbreeding: Pro et Con.
195
Catastrophic Signatures.
200
Glacial Clemency.
202
Chapter 10 Setting the Stage.
Ancient Man in Arctic Regions.
205
The Mytho-Historical Connection.
207
The Lord of Time.
209
The Highest Antiquity.
209
Man in Darkness.
214
Chapter 11 The Circumstellar Disk.
Chaos.
217
Tao.
218
The Nebular Cloud.
218
The Waters of Chaos.
219
The Whirl of Creation.
223
Planetars.
224
Chapter 12 Lord of the Lingam.
The Axis Mundi.
227
Shiva.
228
One Thousand and Eight Epithets.
233
Aja Ekapad.
236
The Maha Linga.
236
Phallic Worship.
239
Adoration of the Linga.
241
Modern Quirks.
244
Conceptual Degeneration.
245
Brown Dwarf Jets.
249
The End of an Era.
252
PART FOUR.
THE FLARE-UP.
Chapter 13 Prelude to Creation.
The Astronomical Background.
255
Predetermined Encounter.
259
Contact.
261
Columnar Instabilities.
264
The Pictographic Evidence.
265
The Magdalenian Primacy.
267
The Mirror Image.
274
The Plasma Experience.
276
The Retraction.
279
Intense Charged Particle Beam Dispersals.
280
Backlash.
285
Chapter 14 Let There Be Light.
The Fiat Lux.
290
The Birth of a Theory.
293
Adoil.
298
Gnostic Mysticism.
299
The Terrifying Splendor.
302
The Birth of Ra.
303
Philo’s Illuminated Air.
304
As Bright as a Thousand Suns.
305
P’an-Ku.
306
Half a World Away.
306
Further Light from the Primitive World.
307
Final Words from Oceania.
309
Chapter 15 Exploding Stars and Planets.
Velikovsky’s Original Scenario.
313
Novae and Supernovae.
315
Recurring Novae.
317
Survivability of Partners.
317
The Exploding Planet Theory.
319
The Trouble With Aztex.
321
Van Flandern’s Modification.
322
A Comparison of Models.
325
Epochal Adjustment.
326
Multiple Explosions.
326
One Solution to the Problem.
328
Chapter 16 Narrowing the Gap.
Planetary Novae.
331
Cometary Flare-Ups.
332
Brown Dwarf Outbursts.
333
Plasma Discharges.
335
Within the Sun’s Domain.
337
Dating the Event.
339
A Benchmark Figure.
341
The Aluminum Cloud.
342
PART FIVE.
AFTERMATH.
Chapter 17 Magnetospheric Upheaval.
The Star of Evil.
345
Shaitan.
347
Earth’s Diminishing Field.
348
Earth’s Reversing Field.
351
Geomagnetic Retrocalculations.
353
Geomagnetic Excursions.
354
Objections to Barnes’ Exponential Decay.
359
Cosmic Ray Discharge.
360
Proposed Causes.
361
Ex Hypothesi.
366
Chapter 18 Out of the Freeze.
The Heat Wave.
370
X-Rays and Double Layers.
371
Terrestrial Braking.
372
Frictional Heat.
376
Meltdown.
385
Memories.
388
Chapter 19 Global Catastrophism.
The Flooding of the Land.
391
Aquatic Genesis.
395
Sea Level Changes.
397
Aboriginal Recollections.
401
Raised Shorelines.
405
Rebound.
408
Terraced Beaches.
411
Tectonic Upheaval.
413
Ancient Testimony.
419
High and Dry Whales.
425
Mastodons Underwater.
427
Gas and Dust.
428
Diamonds.
429
Bombardment.
435
Alternative Possibilities.
438
Impacts.
440
Chapter 20 Life in the Balance.
Extinctions.
443
The Mammoth Hunters.
446
Mass Slaughter.
454
The Fate of the Overkill Theory.
461
A Change of Band Wagons.
463
Geologists Join In.
467
Radiation Exposure.
470
Aborted Mutations.
473
Creatures New and Strange.
476
Humanity in Crisis.
477
Racial Divergence.
480
Burping Methane.
484
Heaven on Earth.
486
Epilogue.
The Electromagnetic Universe.
490
Brown Dwarf Stars.
491
Planet Formation.
494
Heat Retention and dissipation.
495
Polar Convergence.
497
The Interloping System.
499
Flaring Energy.
500
Havoc at the System’s Edge.
501
Arctic Origins.
505
Future Return of Ice.
505
Behavioral Metamorphosis.
507
End of Act Two.
510
Index.
A to Z.
514