Loading ...Virtually all ancient cultures worldwide suddenly and inexplicably lengthened their calendars from 360-days to 365+ days after 701 BC. In addition, there is undisputable documented literary proof that apparently someone somewhere in history had been able to observe exactly how the moons of Mars work in incredible detail before Jonathan Swift wrote about them in 1726 and before Asaph Hall “discovered” them in 1877, 151 years later. Here is where it really starts getting interesting.
The ancients worshipped the planets, but especially Mars. The name the blood-red planet bears today is the name of the ancient Roman god of war, and the ancient Greeks called it Ares, after their god of war. It was also called Baal by the ancient Semitic peoples. The ancients deeply feared the Red Planet. We laugh today at the quaint notion of being scared of the planets, but the ancients were absolutely terrified of them. This strong cultural fear of Mars handed down through the ages was even so well known millennia later that Mars’ two moons were christened with the Greek words for “Fear” and “Panic” even in 1877 when scientists first gained the technology to see them.
There is one fantastic hypothesis that explains all these facts and coincidences. It involves a theory of orbital resonance, of near pass-bys between Mars and Earth due to slightly different orbital mechanics in ancient times.
Recently a couple American scientists were able to plug detailed orbital data from precise NASA observations into NASA supercomputers and run the known Earth and Mars orbits back in time. Provocatively, the computer models calculated that Mars and Earth were once on resonant orbits, with Mars taking 720 days to revolve around the sun and Earth 360 days. This potential discovery in and of itself is extremely interesting as it helps shine some light on the millennia-old question of why the ancients all had 360-day calendars originally and why they all changed them after 701 BC.