B. Strange Legends and Chronological Clues
The picture becomes
even more unusual when one considers various legends from around
the world, legends that associate creation with wars, catastrophes,
and with giants. The Inca legend of its creator god Viracocha, for
example, not only has him annihilating previous pre-human worlds,
the first by fire and the second by flood, he then takes two of his
servants, who are “sometimes portrayed as a sort of Adam and Eve”
and then
Went to (lake) Tiahuanaco where he sculpted a great piece of stone, forming an image of all the nations he intended to create. When he was finished, he commanded his two servants (to) memorize the names of all the tribes he had depicted. Viracocha then sent the two servants down different roads to tell the various tribes to “go forth and multiply and settle the land.” Viracocha then took another road, doing the same thing. As the god and servants went down the roads calling, people emerged from the springs, valleys, trees and other places and then spread through the countryside and formed the nations of Peru.177
Author Stephen Quayle
rightly notes that this creation account appears to record the
destruction by fire of one civilization that occurred before the
Genesis account, a civilization that obviously would be
“pre-Adamic”, and then recorded the destruction of another
civilization by the Flood. There is even another odd parallel, and
this is the creation of various tribes by Viracocha and his
servants “calling out” to them, like the Genesis 1 account of God
fashioning the world by a series of spoken fiats.178
However, this is not
the most unusual thing about Viracocha. For the Incas, Viracocha
was also a often described as a giant, with very light skin!179
In any case, the
references to a creation and destruction prior to the creation of
the current heaven, earth, and mankind is a clue, as we shall see,
of when the scenario of an ancient war and planetary destruction
took place: somewhere between the creation of all and the creation
of man.
A stranger
creation-flood-destruction account occurs in the legends of the
North American Okanagan Indians.
(In) 1886, historian Hubert Howe Bancroft wrote of the Okanagan myth of their lost island of origin, Samah-tumi-whoo-lah:“Long, long ago, when the sun was young and no bigger than a star, there was an island far off in the middle of the ocean. It was called Samah-tumi-whoo-lah, meaning “hite Man’s Island.” On it lived a race of giants — white giants. Their ruler was a tall white woman called Scomalt.... She could create whatever she wished.For many years the white giants lived at peace, but at last they quarreled amongst themselves. Quarreling grew into war. The noise of battle was heard, and many people were killed. Scomalt was made very, very angry....(S)he drove the wicked giants to one end of the White Man’s Island. When they were gathered together in one place, she broke off the piece of land and pushed it into the sea. For many days the floating island drifted on the water, tossed by waves and wind. All the people on it died except one man and one woman...Seeing that their island was about to sink they built a canoe... after paddling for many days and nights, they came to some islands. They steered their way through them and at last reached the mainland.180
The parallels here
with the Babylonian Enuma Elish and the
destruction of Tiamat are amazing.
If one understands
“island” to mean “planet”, following the suggestion of Alan Alford,
and the “sea” as being surrounding space as he also suggests, then
Scomalt’s destruction of “White Man’s Island” records the
destruction of a planet. Moreover, the parallel is even more exact
in that the apparent “ruler” of both planets is a woman, who
becomes angry and causes great destruction. Here is where Alford’s
“metaphor of exploded planet catastrophism” once again breaks down,
for the Okanagan legend clearly has it that the “island” or planet
is inhabited by intelligent life, a
race of “white giants,” exactly as one would expect if the exploded
planet were a large, solid, life-bearing planet, as has been
previously conjectured! In other words, the Okanagan Legend
records a real war as the cause of the
destruction of a planet, a planet that is
life-bearing.
But there is
more.
The Legend also makes
it clear that the survivors negotiated their way through “some
islands,” braving “waves and wind” after having constructed a
“canoe,” until at last they came to the “mainland.” If one extends
the “islands” equals “planets” metaphor, more details of the story
emerge, for it is clear that the “mainland” differs from the
“islands” the survivors negotiate through in size. In other words, these “islands” might very
well be the asteroid belt itself, the debris field of a previously
exploded planet — shades of Van Flandern’s revised “multiple
exploded planet hypothesis”! Moreover, even the “waves” and “wind”
now take on a new significance, perhaps explaining why only two of
the “white giants” survived, for the waves and wind might very well
be the sheets of a violent plasma “electric wind” that permeated
the “sea” of local space after the catastrophe.
In short, viewed in
this way, the Okanagan Legend is about a war that exploded a
planet, on which dwelt an intelligent race of giants, ruled by a
woman, which race then constructed an “ark” of sorts to undertake a
perilous journey to a new planet home. The detailed parallels to
the Exploded Planet hypothesis and its massive water bearing
planet, and to the Babylonian war-creation epic, the Enuma
Elish, are amazing, and in my opinion,
not coincidental.