Where did these come from? I looked for impact data several years ago and pulled a blank. suddenly we have two significant impactors that produced real tsunamis. On the other hand, we seem to avoid linkage to any climate change. Thus i do not think either were comets but were asteroids..
Coastal regions are vulnerable for long miles inland and all populations need to rethink their exposure. All examples are unpleasant.
These tsunamis will also show a signature inundation on the Eastern side of the Atlantic. Why has it not been noted. Likely we need all coasts surveyed well inland every one hundred miles or so. This is not a tall order when actual debris leaves a bank. What we need to discover is when the last inundation occurred.
Coastal regions are vulnerable for long miles inland and all populations need to rethink their exposure. All examples are unpleasant.
These tsunamis will also show a signature inundation on the Eastern side of the Atlantic. Why has it not been noted. Likely we need all coasts surveyed well inland every one hundred miles or so. This is not a tall order when actual debris leaves a bank. What we need to discover is when the last inundation occurred.
The Search for Celestial Serpents
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles tell of a horrific catastrophe on the
coasts of Britannia, Ireland and the Low Countries. On St. Michael’s Day
(September 28 in the old Julian calendar) the sea suddenly rose and
swept up estuaries to drown well over a hundred thousand people. The
tsunami destroyed many port cities in northwestern Europe. Between
30,000 and 40,000 people died in Wessex alone. Eyewitness descriptions,
recorded in medieval monastery chronicles, are identical to those of the
2005 tsunami in the Indian Ocean or the 2011 tsunami on the coast of
Japan.
What is even more terrifying is that the most violent effects of this
cosmic event were on the coast of North America. The barrier islands on
the coasts of the Mid-Atlantic States, North Carolina and northeastern
South Carolina were destroyed. The Outer Banks of North Carolina are the
remnants of those islands, which are still rebuilding. The islands off
of Virginia, the Delmarva Peninsula and New Jersey were so thoroughly
destroyed that they have not come back.
Geologists have found evidence of a thin layer of residue of this
comet or comet fragments, which struck the North Atlantic that day
several miles inland in Metropolitan New York City. Along the coast of
the Mid-Atlantic and New England states, the impact would not have been
felt as a tsunami flood, but rather an explosive and very deadly wall of
super-heated sand and steam. All humans living on the coasts of that
region would have been killed.
The indigenous peoples of southeastern North America and Mesoamerica
believed that comets and meteorites were feathered serpents, which came
down from heaven and landed on earth. Some branches of the Mayas
worshiped a Celestial Serpent as their principal deity. One of the many
misconceptions about the Maya civilization held by most North Americas
is that it was a monolithic culture in which all deities, political
systems and architectural styles were the same throughout. That
certainly was not the case.
The 539 AD Extermination Event
Several of the geologists, who studied the effects of the 1014 AD comet impact,
stumbled upon identical evidence for an even larger impact farther
south in the Atlantic around 539 AD. Since all of the academicians
worked at universities in the Northeastern United States or in the UK,
little further study was done. The news of this earlier impact
apparently has not reached most anthropologists in the Americas. The
European anthropologist, who co-authored one of the articles on the 539
AD event in a journal for geologists, merely stated that the impact zone
was “probably somewhere in the northern Caribbean Basin and may have
contributed to the known cultural hiatus that occurred in Maya city
states in the mid-500s AD.
Professional comments following these articles were focused on the
Caribbean Basin. The effect of the impact in the coastal areas of the
Caribbean islands would have been horrific. There would have been an
almost 100% loss of life in coastal areas. Smaller islands would have
been completely inundated. It would have radically changed the
demographics of the Caribbean Basin and possibly wiped out some ethnic
groups, since most villages were near the ocean.
While working on the Fort Caroline study
in 2012 and 2013, I decided to look for possible locations for a large
hill that might have appeared to be a “modest mountain” in the word of
Captain René de Laudonnière. The Coastal Regional Commission in Darien,
GA gave me a copy of their LIDAR scans for the Georgia Coast and
northeast tip of Florida. There was a big surprise.
Although most visitors to the Georgia coast think of it as being
pancake flat, there is an undulating ridge up to 85 feet tall that
snakes its way down the coast. The tallest section of the ridge is also
the farthest inland – 85 feet above sea level and 16 miles inland. This
is the section between the Satilla River and just north of the Altamaha
River. In northeast Florida, the ridge is fragmented, from 25 to 45 feet
high and a maximum of six miles inland. In plan, the coastal ridge
looks exactly like the debris ridges left by the tsunami’s on the coasts
of Sumatra and Japan, except in Georgia the ridge is much higher and
farther inland. The sections of the ridge immediately south of Savannah
and Jacksonville were the closest to appearance scale of these recent
tsunamis.
The size of the wall of water created by the 539 AD comet impact is
mind-boggling. For the debris ridge to still be 85 feet high means that
the wave was in the range of 200 feet high. Super-heated sand and steam
would have ripped across the landscape ahead of the water like an atomic
bomb blast. The ocean water would have penetrated about 75 miles
inland. Rivers, whose flow was blocked by the tsunami would have turned
into lakes all the way to the Fall Line. There would have been an almost
complete extermination of human and animal life in this section of the
Coastal Plain.
I drew a line between the ridge peaks. They created a section of an
ellipse, tilted to the southeast. I then calculated the mathematical
formula of this ellipse and extended it out into the Atlantic Ocean. The
comet of meteorite struck the Atlantic about 170 miles north of the
largest island in the Bahamas and about 100 miles off shore.
Archaeologists have often wondered why all of the Swift Creek
villages on the major rivers in southeast Georgia were suddenly
abandoned sometime around the middle of the sixth century. Now we know.
They were washed away along with their inhabitants by a tsunami from
hell.
At the same time a very large Swift Creek Culture town (Leake Mounds)
on the Etowah River and the Swift Creek village near Macon, GA,
suddenly began losing much of their populations. In contrast, Kolomoki
Mounds in southwest Georgia continued to prosper for awhile.
Perhaps the climatic impact of the cosmic impact caused crop failures
and reductions in natural food resources, but why wasn’t Kolomoki
equally affected? It was closer to the impact.
There could be another explanation. If one extends the central axis
of the ellipse I calculated on the coast with GIS, it extends right over
Macon, GA and Cartersville, GA, where the Leake Mounds town site was
located. Could superheated micro-bullets from the comet have impacted
these towns also? They probably would not have killed everybody, but
would have made a horrific impact on these communities. It is a theory
worth investigating.
The Waka Connection
Very little was known about the El Peru’ Maya city site in
Guatemala, until the Anthropology Department of Southern Methodist
University began excavating the town about 15 years ago. The SMU teams
discovered from reading the stelas that its real name was Waka. That was very significant. Waka was the name that the Creek People called Ocmulgee National Monument. Waka-te
(Waka People) was also the name of the capital of the Lake Okeechobee,
FL kingdom during the exact same time as the acropolis at Ocmulgee was
occupied.
Waka, Guatemala is located on the northeastern edge of the Maya
Highlands. It is the exact same distance from the ocean as Ocmulgee.
Both sites are located on the Fall Lines of rivers and adjacent to
former horseshoe bends that were used as inland harbors. Both towns were
associated with the salt trade. Hundreds of Maya-style ceramic brine
drying trays were found in Ocmulgee, but have not been put on display in
the museum.
Waka, Guatemala was probably the most important trading center in the
northern Maya region. It was strongly associated with the Chontal Maya
merchants, who brought salt and other good up the river and via porters
over a roadway system.
Palenque, Chiapas (Mexico) was located on the western side of the
highlands, on a river that flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. It is the
city where Georgia-mined attapulgite was found in its Maya Blue stucco.
It was also the principal city of the Itza Mayas in Chiapas. Palenque
was barbecued by a volcanic eruption around 800 AD and never reoccupied.
Waka, Guatemala was sacked by an army from Tikal around 800 AD. All
of its aristocracy was sacrificed – men and women – but some commoners
continued live there for awhile. It was permanently abandoned around 880
AD. Construction began on Mound A at Ocmulgee around 900 AD.
Construction also began on several mounds at Wakate, Florida about that
same time.
Archaeologist, Robert Sharer, recently announced that he has
translated a stela that states that the victorious soldiers, who sacked
Waka around 800 AD carried its Celestial Serpent away
and put it on permanent display in their city. The Celestial Serpent
evidently was the principal deity of Waka, in addition to being an
important deity of the Itza Mayas.
There is a Great Serpent Mound in the Ortona town site near Lake
Okeechobee, FL. There are many fieldstone serpent effigies in
northeastern Alabama and northern Georgia. They were probably,
originally coated in clay, as was the customary want of building serpent
effigies in Mesoamerica. Now that we know that Waka also worshiped a
Celestial Serpent like the Itza Mayas, it is highly likely that there
was a serpent effigy at Ocmulgee National Monument. Perhaps it was
destroyed by the railroad cuts in the 1800s, or it may be buried under
the ground of the park, or perhaps has never been recognized
Bit by bit, we are drawing the lines between the dots that become a
tapestry of the past. The history of southeastern North America was far
more complex than anyone dreamed thirty years ago.
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