Hans Bellamy insights

This presentation reviews Hans Bellamy's 1931 book Moons, Myths and Mars, which defends Hans Hörbiger's cosmic ice theory. Jason's aim is to establish Bellamy's credibility before examining the "capture flood" — the cataclysm caused when the present moon arrived — which Jason stresses is entirely separate from the later biblical Great Flood of 2239 BC.

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TLDR: The latest Great Flood was the Ogygian Deluge in 1687 BCE. Before that was the Flood of Noah in 2239 BCE, known also as the Day the Sky Fell. And 1200 years before that was the Gihon Flood in 3439 BCE.
But there was a deluge even earlier, in 4039 BCE when Moon first appeared.

Core Theory: Two Moons

The cosmic ice theory (Hörbiger/Bellamy) holds that there were two moons in antiquity, never co-existing.
An earlier "predecessor" moon existed, then fragmented and fell, causing an epic cataclysm.
There followed a period when civilisations recorded no moon in the sky — the gap between the two moons.
Later, the current moon appeared and was captured by Earth, causing the capture flood.

Significant Points

Myths as factual reports. Bellamy argues myths are "matter-of-fact reports of universal events" with "a real material background" — not wild conjectures — describing happenings only geology could otherwise account for.

Dragons and the Phoenix. Bellamy surveys worldwide dragon myths (Thunderbird of the Native Americans, the Armenian feathered monster Van, Greek Typhon, Egyptian Set/Apep — "the dragon of darkness" and "the roarer"), concluding two distinct dragons periodically brought cataclysms. Jason links Typhon/Phoenix/Apep/Set as epithets for the same phenomenon. Notable detail: the Egyptian phoenix, bakhbahu ("to water/to flood"), was hieroglyphically denoted by three wavy lines — the origin of Aquarius.

Red mud fallout. After the old moon broke up, survivors found reddish-brown mud covering the ground, believed to be their dead relatives transformed — Bellamy's explanation of the biblical "loam" from which Adam (and Lilith) were supposedly fashioned. Jason reads this as evidence Genesis 1 is a reset story, not a creation.

Maya calendar. The Maya epic era was established in 3373 BC and measured by heptads of 2,760 years — divisible by 138 and by Jason's 552-year Phoenix cycle. Jason finds it profound that Bellamy, knowing nothing of the Phoenix chronology, independently recorded this number.

Tower of Babel and the Great Pyramid. Bellamy argues the Tower of Babel story masks the real event: the building of the Great Pyramid as a magical/physical means to save descendants from the deluge. He cites the unfinished top of the pyramid as evidence it was never completed, and cites Sagen der Juden (legends of the Jews) that the firmament breaks every 1,656 years — the pre-flood period divisible by 138.

Ancient technology. Bellamy quotes a Jewish myth describing towers fitted with "engines automatically discharging projectiles" — "robot guns with automatic rangefinders" — published in 1931.

Vapour canopy. Bellamy describes a suspended ocean/firmament above; Genesis 1 describes a cataclysm and renovation. Its collapse — not lunar water — explains the polar ice accumulations and risen ocean levels. The Aztec myth of the goddess Metzli (moon goddess, "bright and dark lady of the heavens") burning herself so the sun could appear is read as a canopy-collapse story.

Mediterranean as a young sea. Bellamy claims it was created suddenly, previously being three large lakes/seas; Jason ties this to the 2239 BC flood breaking the Strait of Gibraltar, over 200 submerged stone cities, and the destruction of Malta's megalithic temples by a west-to-east tsunami.

713 BC anomaly. Bellamy notes an Assyrian period ended in 712/713 BC — the year, per Jason, the sun went ten degrees retrograde, 185,000 armoured Assyrians were destroyed by a sky blast, and calendars changed from 360 to 365 days while celestial periodicities held.

Sons of God. Bellamy rejects the angelic interpretation of Genesis 6: the "sons of God" were survivors of an earlier deluge, probably of superior race, who took local wives — matching Jason's view of the Anunnaki as human, technologically sophisticated survivors.

Lilith. Made of the same loam as Adam, refusing subordination ("Are we not both made of the same substance?"), then demonised into a vampire — evidence to Jason of a patriarchal transposition of older goddess beliefs.

Many arks, not one. Anti-diluvian shore dwellers foresaw the disaster; many built vessels on high ground and survived — repopulation came from whole fleets, not Noah's eight souls. Jason also links refuge-in-caverns myths (e.g. the Arawak of British Guiana) to Turkey's ~60 underground cities and the legend of King Annos.

The Capture Flood Passage (quoted at length)

Bellamy's vivid reconstruction of Luna's capture: a brilliant star growing night after night until a dazzling disc, then suddenly doubling to at least one degree in apparent diameter — twice today's width — followed by terror, a thundering voice, houses crashing, hills reeling, fire from the earth, dust storms, then mountain-high waves from north and south burying all; "a man perhaps out of many thousands" escaped. He follows with the "London/New York" thought experiment: survivors reduced to hammering raw flesh with stones — a total infrastructure collapse in which knowledge survives but tools, metallurgy and civilisation cannot be rebuilt quickly. Jason links this to why elites retreat to underground facilities.

Revelation and the Loop

Bellamy interprets Revelation as describing a past cosmic event projected into the future — making both preterist and futurist scholars "correct."
"A new heaven and a new earth... no more sea" begins the loop again at Genesis 1, year one annus mundi.
Jason's 3895 BC date for year one of the annus mundi calendar is the Phoenix appearance that caused that reset.
The phrase "like unto" / "as it were" recurs throughout Revelation, masking the true referents.
"Come out of her, my people" (Babylon = the world) is, for Jason, the Exodus event — the window in the loop when the prepared escape the simulation.

Closing Assessment

Jason praises Bellamy as a genius who, writing in 1931 (before Sitchin, before computers), assembled the picture of a technologically advanced pre-lunar civilisation destroyed by the moon's capture — contradicting the evolutionary narrative of gradual human advancement. He notes both authors framed their work in uniformitarian language to be read at all, yet the evidence throughout is catastrophist.