The End of Eden: The Comet That Changed Civilization

In 2024, 12P/Pons-Brooks is due to pass near Earth again for the first time in 3,500 years.

The End of Eden: The Comet That Changed Civilization 

by Graham Phillips —

Phillips presents compelling evidence that civilizations worldwide became warlike and monotheistic (the worship of a single god) after Earth passed through the tail of a comet. In 2024, 12P/Pons-Brooks is due to pass near Earth again for the first time in 3,500 years.

In 1500 B.C., Earth passed through this comet’s tail, and in the decade following, cultures the world over began to exhibit significant aggressive tendencies. They suddenly abandoned their peaceful ways and devoted themselves with uncharacteristic fervor to making war on their neighbors and fighting among themselves.

But this was not the only effect linked to this celestial event. Sudden outbreaks of monotheism, a new idea at the time, occurred simultaneously in locales throughout the world. Most of these monotheistic religions represented their god symbolically as a circle with a series of lines extending below — resembling a simple drawing of a comet.

Phillips chronicles these sudden shifts in social demeanor and religious philosophy, and contends that debris in the comet’s tail contaminated the atmosphere with a chemical known to cause aggressive behavior, and that after little more than a decade, worldwide hostility abruptly abated.

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Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 27, Number , December 2008/January 2009.