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The Destruction of Baalbek
Ancient Destructions DVD Series Episode 4

Mankind has been repeatedly, significantly destroyed and reborn. Civilizations are everywhere buried under rubble. Ruins lie abandoned in the middle of deserts and rainforests. What happened? Modern scientific studies combined with research in archaeology and mythology are revealing dramatic new facts. The ascent and demise of nations are controlled by nature’s chaotic whims and does not lie under mankind’s own hand. Each episode visits an ancient site revealing the shattering events that altered the destiny of empires and nations. We will witness massive cataclysmic destructions unknown in modern times. Will they occur again? Can we prevent them?

The citizens of Baalbek feared the sky god Jupiter, but why? And who were the mysterious people the Dejanon who built Baalbek? Legend has it that they were half demon, half angel working under king Solomon. Yet this amazing citadel, built with massive one thousand ton blocks, repeatedly succumbed to ruination. Was Jupiter responsible for the earthquakes that laid it waste on numerous occasions? We investigate this amazing scenario.

All around the world I investigate ancient cataclysmic destructions. Our world is a hotbed of archaeological mystery .The ancient Syrian plains. The Central American plateaus, home of the Maya and Aztecs. The Indian subcontinent and the jungles of Asia. Everywhere we find cities buried under rubble and sand or abandoned in the middle of deserts. You’ve got to ask yourself what happened to these civilizations. Why were they abandoned? Now some say tsunamis. Volcanoes such as Santorini or Krakatau. Massive continent wide earthquakes. Harvey Weiss, the eminent archaeologist working in Syria, blames sudden vicious climate change. Even comets and meteors are mentioned. Certainly the massive Chixolub impact is blamed for the extinction of the Dinosaur. But what about only four thousand years ago. Did similar but smaller events devastate mankind? We’re going to dig right in and find out. We’re going to take a fresh look at archaeology. The first case is Baalbek, city of the Gods. It’s been devastated by earthquakes many times. We’ll talk to the locals about their legends. Mankind’s legends such as the Trojan wars are often ignored by modern archaeologists. We speculate they hide massive bones of truth.

Lebanon is a country that has seen a lot of conflict throughout history. For the last 40 years it has hampered modern archeological investigation in this area. I want to find out more about the Lebanese people. Have these people always been the same? Have they always meandered through these bazaars with its lively chatter and smell of sweet spices? Lebanon's history is both fascinating and chaotic.

David Roberts, the English artist arrived here in 1854, after painting the ruins of Egypt and the Holy land. He was staggered by the mystery of these immense shattered ruins. The Bedouin tribesman who camped amongst the ruins also pondered over its mysteries. Ildrizzi, the Arab geographer, claims it was built by Giants under the legendary King Nimrod after the Deucalion flood. Other mythology talks about King Solomon, even Genies.

Apart from the ravage of earthquakes, Baalbek has at various times suffered damage due to the deposition of rubble, till and clay over its area. When Roberts reached Baalbek he portrayed a site partially obscured by rubble. In this regard it is like the Egyptian monuments, most of which were buried by sand. Witness here the gateway to the Temple of Bacchus, which in Roberts’s day was buried some six meters up its ramparts. It was the German archaeologists under Wilhelm II who first revealed the depth of the damage. This was certainly not placed by the occupiers so what agent caused it to be dumped over and beyond the entire huge megalithic site. In nearby Byblos, some seventy kilometers away we again see Phoenician sites buried under many meters of rubble. In fact a Tsunami around 500 AD ravaged the whole of the Lebanese coastline, burying Beirut and other cities. This was accompanied by extremely destructive earthquakes. But this was merely the last of a devastating series that have ravaged this area. Certainly rubble and muck may have been washed down from the Lebanese mountain range that Baalbek nestles under. In the close of the early Bronze Age Harvey Weiss notes extreme flooding in the local Syrian rivers despite drought and winds that persisted for some three centuries. Erratic and chaotic weather conditions led to unusual flooding and earth deposits.

Today we see the Acropolis of Baalbek in ruins. Many civilizations have had their influence here. Our only definitive knowledge is from the time of the Romans who rebuilt it around 100AD under the emperors Nero and Trajan. They consulted it as an oracle. In these days it had three temples dedicated to three deities. Baal king of the Gods we now recognize as the Roman god Jupiter. Secondly came Bacchus also known as Mercury, was worshipped with full Bacchanalian rites. The third deity was the mysterious Athena, or as we now know her, Venus.

These citizens were petrified of Baal, for he was god of the dark cloud, king of the Gods.

All these deities were sky gods or planets with real influence over the peoples’ daily lives. Eventually these sky gods were anthorpomorphized, taking on human forms and personalities.

Baalbek’s history certainly reaches back beyond the Romans. The Phoenicians, Israelites and probably other conquerors played their part in the history of this mighty Acropolis. Delving back before these civilizations, Baalbek was inhabited by a mysterious race of Megalith builders who employed those massive blocks to make BAALBEK EARTHQUAKE PROOF.

Who could have moved and carved these massive blocks? Were they the mythical race of giants under King Nimrod who have faded into obscurity? The remains of these huge base stones were used by later civilizations to rebuild Baalbek. Recorded history from Roman times relates that Baalbek was devastated by earthquakes many times. One in 570 AD. Three more in crusader times around 1100 AD. A further one in 1759 AD when Baalbek was abandoned by the Turkish garrison. The last earthquake was in 1870 AD when thee more massive columns collapsed.

Homer told how Mighty Zeus cast thunderbolts on the earth and tumbled the walls of Troy with his earthquakes. The inhabitants of Baalbek feared Baal. They even sacrificed humans in an attempt to pacify him and prevent huge destructive earthquakes. But these earthquakes of roman times were nothing compared to the continent wide earthquakes that had shattered the Middle East in earlier times.

In the mysterious tablets of Ugarit, discovered by Claude Schaeffer, Baal is the god of rain, thunder, and extraordinary bolts of lightning. The worship of Baal extended in this region to the Jews, Canaanites and the Phoenicians. But Herodotus informs us the God was also known under many other names such as Jupiter of the Romans. Zeus of the Greeks, Mazda of the Persians and Amon of the Egyptians. Priests instructed the people that the bright sky god Baal was responsible for droughts, plagues, earthquakes and other calamities. People were often worked up into great frenzies at the prospects of displeasing Baal. In times of great turbulence human sacrifices, particularly children, were made to this father of the gods!

Since the Phoenicians also were superb ship builders, the religion and cults of Baal spread throughout the Mediterranean world. The cult was put down at times, but was never permanently stamped out. Kings and other royalty of the ten Biblical tribes worshiped the god. The god's images were erected on many buildings. The religion spawned numerous priests and priestesses with their ceremonies, including the burning of incense and offering burnt sacrifices, occasionally consisting of human victims. The officiating priests danced around the altars, chanting frantically and cutting themselves with knives to inspire the attention and compassion of the god. The Bible identifies Baal as Beelzebub, one of the fallen angels of Satan.

King Ahab was one of the most notoriously wicked kings of the bible. Under the influence of his wife, Jezebel, Ahab built altars to Baal. In the Old Testament we read of king Heels rebuilding of Jericho wherein he sacrificed his first born son Abiram and his youngest son Segub. This is an explicit reference to what are called foundational sacrifices. Common enough in the Canaan of biblical times, these rituals sacrificed humans, typically children, to the patron god of the city. The bodies of these victims were placed under the foundations or in the walls of the structure.
Beginning with the founding of the Phoenician colony of Carthage in about 814 B.C., mothers and fathers buried their children who were sacrificed to Baal. The practice was apparently distasteful even to Carthaginians, and they began to buy children for the purpose of sacrifice or even to raise servant children, instead of offering up their own. However, in times of crisis or calamity, like war, earthquakes, drought, or famine, their priests demanded the flower of their youth. Special ceremonies during extreme crisis saw up to 200 children of the most affluent and powerful families slain and tossed into the burning pyre. During the political crisis of 310 B.C., some 500 were killed. On a moonlit night, the body was placed on the arms of an effigy of Baal made of brass. The Priests lit fires that heated the effigies from its lower parts. The victims were placed on the burning hot outstretched hands. As they were burned alive they vehemently cried out. The priests beat a drum, sounded flutes, lyres, and tambourines. This drowned out the cries of the anguished parents. The father could not hear the voice of his son, and his heart might not be moved.

Then later, the remains were collected and placed in special small urns. The urns were then buried in the funerary Acropolis. Recent excavations discovered a great number of these urns, proving the accusation of child sacrifice true. The area covered by the funerary Acropolis was probably over an acre and a half by the fourth century B.C., with nine different levels of burials. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of child sacrifice also in Sardinia and Sicily. The ritual of burning was called "the act of laughing" perhaps because when the flames are consuming the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seemed almost to be laughing. Causing a child to "pass through fire" was the standard euphemism for child sacrifice in the ancient world. The "high places" were sacrificial cults that had grown up in the countryside. Since human sacrifice was the most horrendous of the religious perversions that occurred at these shrines, the term "high places" became a synonym for shrines to Baal engaged in human sacrifice. Baalbek was just such a place.

Now, allow me to turn your attention to Nimrod as Baal was also known. It is important that you know that Nimrod incorporated into his worship system the grisly practice of human sacrifice and cannibalism. Our authority Hislop says, "the priests of Nimrod or Baal were necessarily required to eat of the human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass that ‘Cahna-Bal’ (cahna meaning priest & Bal referring to Baal) is the established word (cannibal) in our own tongue for a devourer of human flesh.

After the Romans finally defeated Carthage and totally destroyed the city, they engaged in post-war propaganda to make their arch enemies seem cruel and less civilized. This doubtless happened at Baalbek which was also a Phoenician city conquered by Rome. The Roman scholar Diodorus relates that in their midst stood a bronze statue of Baal its hands extended over a bronze brazier, the flames of which engulf the child. When the flames fall upon the body, the limbs contract and the open mouth seems almost to be laughing until the contracted body slips quietly into the brazier. Thus it is that the 'grin' is known as "sardonic laughter," since they die laughing.

Holy Prostitution in the Service of Baal

The most prevalent religious system in the immediate Canaanite context was the worship of Baal. Amongst numerous sources we have the Old Testament and the sacred scripts of Ugarit. Baal religion revolved around the cycles of nature necessary for survival and prosperity in the ancient world, primarily growing crops or raising livestock, as well as the growth of human populations. For a variety of reasons human fertility was an important concern. Lack of fertility in times of stress was widespread. Egyptian texts support these curious phenomena. Stress was the result of conflict and dissatisfaction between the sky Gods of the Cosmos. The Babylonian creation hymn, Enuma Elish, describes a great battle among the gods. However out of this battle between the Sky Gods order returned from chaos. The astral deities returned to their rightful place in the heavens and re-established the cycles of nature. To the Babylonians the Cosmos was an ongoing struggle between order and chaos. Fertility of humans, growth of crops, and the abundant supply of productive weather fell under the influence of Baal. The ancients firmly believed that by their actions they could manipulate and control the gods. In other words, rather than the gods' being sovereign in control of people, people were in control of the gods. Furthermore, rather than the gods' always initiating relationships with people, the people had to initiate relationships with the gods. This way of thinking no doubt related to the uncertainties of life in the ancient world.

In particular the Ugarit tablets are explicitly concerned with fertility, cast in terms of human sexuality. Worship of Baal involved imitative magic, the performance of rituals, including sacred prostitution. Sexual acts by both male and female temple prostitutes were understood to arouse Baal who then brought rain to make Mother Earth fertile when crops were abundant; Baal was praised and thanked for his abundant rain. It is in this context that drought had such impact throughout the biblical traditions. Not only was lack of rain a threat to survival, it was also a sign that the gods of the Baal myth were unhappy. Which actions were understood to bring vitality to Baal in his struggle with the other Gods? It takes little imagination to see the connection between the human sexual act and rain watering the earth to produce fruit. The religion gives assurance of some stability in the physical world, assisted by humans.

Let me introduce you to the remarkable French archaeologist Claude Schaeffer. He excavated Enkomi in Cyprus and Ugarit along the Syrian coastline. He also examined over forty sites in the Middle East that were established around the period from three thousand to six thousand years ago. What amazed him was that of six civilizations laid down, each was separated by a vast destruction layer of up to thirty meters of ash. What could have caused this massive damage? Certainly no conquering hoard would have left such fearful devastation. Conventional explanations would not work. A hundred forest fires could not lay down such a fearful evidence of destruction. Ugarit and Byblos, mere kilometers from Baalbek, had been ravaged by earthquake, fire, Tsunamis and inexplicable devastation numerous times. Ugarit was totally covered in debris and the coastline changed dramatically. The city was totally abandoned never to be rebuilt. What agent could totally wipe out a civilization? Not just one city was destroyed, but an entire network stretching from Troy to ancient Egypt. Claude Schaeffer ultimately investigated over one hundred sites in the Middle East and was amazed that each and everyone told the same story. The demise of a civilization followed by a clear cut gap that allowed no interplay or influence from the preceding one. And not just once but at least six times this massive destruction occurred, across eras separated by two thousand years, from the close of the early Bronze age to the opening of the Iron Age.

Let us be clear. These were not slow geologic events! This was sudden and dramatic destruction, flying totally in the face of gradualism’s theory of slow uniform changes on the face of the Earth. Schaeffer called these massive destruction areas “zones de tremblement”. He was bold enough, to assign catastrophic natural events as the agent of mankind’s rise and fall concerning civilizations.

Having for the first time established in Stratigraphy Comparee those successive crises during the IInd and IIIrd millennium from the Caucasus down to Egypt, I was tempted to look for the causes among which were earthquakes, tidal waves, climatic changes and other natural catastrophic agents.

Schaeffer believed that warfare and politics had little overall effect when compared to the chaotic whims of nature. These affairs of mankind were but mere trifles when compared to natures’ dramatic and deadly cataclysms.

For with the new confirmations, those crises could no longer be questioned by the great number of skeptical, short-sighted archaeologists among which I live now in some sort of scientific isolation, so striking are the proofs and so accurate the dates established by the new discoveries. When their testimony will have been shown, those great crises will explain, better than before, the historical development of the most ancient civilizations and its mechanism, and they will definitely take out of the hands of man the command of the great historical happenings we thought he possessed.

Schaeffer saw these events as the cause of race movements. It clearly explained the theme behind the collapse of nations. This was the cause of subsequent dark ages when mankind lost its ability to write and cooperate in complex societies. Observations of modern Volcanoes and earthquakes only offered a partial explanation. The ancient events were extraordinarily more numerous than recent history describes. According to classical sources, such as the historian Pliny, ancient Earthquakes were far more numerous.

During the Punic wars of 217BC between Rome and Carthage, fifty seven earthquakes were recorded in Rome in one year alone. Nowhere in the modern world is this concentration seen. Schaeffer also noted the ancient volcanoes were incredibly powerful!

He observed that a volcano on the island of Santorini had erupted in July 1956. There, under our eyes, on a smaller scale, is happening what happened in earlier times on a gigantic scale.

He struggled to explain the cause for these amazing phenomena. But one man knew the answer.

Immanuel Velikovsky – scientific heretic

Immanuel Velikovsky

Let me introduce you to Immanuel Velikovsky a man who caused incredible controversy in his time. In the 1950’s he wrote a book called Worlds in Collision, which had as its main theme the cataclysmic destruction on Earth by planets and comets in the Solar System. He believed mythology and legend should be interpreted literally.

This included the malignant forces attributed to Baal/Jupiter, father of the gods. He earned the wrath of the scientific world. Yet most of his Predictions made in 1960 were absolutely proved by NASA. Jupiter did emanate radio waves and was an electromagnetic body. The surface of Venus was 800 degrees centigrade not the same as Earth. He was right. Conventional science was badly wrong. He claimed the solar system is unstable. Both the Moon and Mars have been ravaged by celestial bodies. Part of his theory was that Venus was once a comet expelled from Jupiter.

Hesiod the ancient Greek philosopher portrayed this in his ancient book ‘Theogeny’. Homer in his book the ‘Iliad’ describes the destructive war between the planets as the major factor governing the destruction of Troy in the Trojan wars. Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision proposed that many myths and traditions of ancient peoples and cultures are based on actual events: worldwide global catastrophes of a celestial origin actually had profound effects on the lives, beliefs and writings of early mankind.

Professor Emilio Spendicato recently commented:
"Worlds in Collision is a book of wars in the celestial sphere that took place in historical times. In these wars the planet earth participated too. The historical-cosmological story of this book is based on the evidence of historical texts of many people around the globe, on classical literature, on epics of the northern races, on sacred books of the peoples of the Orient and Occident, on traditions and folklore of primitive peoples, on old astronomical inscriptions and charts, on archaeological finds, and also on geological and paleontological material."

After reaching the number 1 spot in the best-sellers list, Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision was banned from a number of academic institutions, and created an unprecedented scientific debacle that became known as The Velikovsky Affair. In 1956 Velikovsky wrote a sequel, Earth in Upheaval, to present conclusive geological evidence of terrestrial catastrophism.

"I have excluded from [these pages] all references to ancient literature, traditions, and folklore; and this I have done with intent, so that careless critics cannot decry the entire work as "tales and legends". Stones and bones are the only witness."

However for forty years these highly controversial theories remained an anathema to the academic world. Then in June 1994 an event occurred that radically changed scientific thought and gave credibility to Velikovsky’s theories. Myth and legend, once dismissed, had to be reexamined. What was this catastrophic event?

Shoemaker Levy 9 collides with Baal-Jupiter-Zeus

In June 1994 a rogue comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 approached Jupiter. Observers on Earth soon realized that it was on a collision course. But what happened next was totally unexpected. Without warning it split into twenty three large pieces. Then one by one these pieces plummeted into Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. It tore huge craters into this massive planet; the size of each crater was four times the size of earth. These craters persisted for months afterwards on the unstable surface of Jupiter. Simultaneously a gaseous cloud was released that went on to envelope the surface of the planet. This toxic cloud persisted for months. For the first time modern man had witnessed a comet collide with a planet! What was thought to be a stable solar system, was now a place where the unexpected could happen! Could this have occurred on Earth? Had mankind actually witnessed such an event? Could it happen to Earth in the future? No one could now deny any of these possibilities. Perhaps Baal, alias Jupiter, does have an effect on Earth. The proof is not final, but no longer is it a wild heretical theory based on fantasy. Velikovsky could be taken seriously.

Interview with Physicist Wal Thornhill regarding Velikovsky and the development of the Electric Universe

Peter: As a Plasma physicist what is your view on Velikovsky’s books.
Wal: I think he nailed some important truths. Certainly I think he nailed the planets as the cause of cataclysmic events on Earth. But as importantly he perceived the truth of the electrical universe which touches on all parts of the solar system down to mankind’s history and evolution. Modern research is now revealing the dramatic electronic connection between volcanoes, earthquakes, the weather and the sun. This research at the plasma level offers a tool to understanding those calamities that devastated mankind in his early history.
Peter: So do we have evidence of electric discharges between Earth and other planets or comets? If we do, were they connected to massive earthquake damage and electrical re-sculpting of the Earth? Wallace Thornhill is a physicist who has come to some highly controversial conclusions. Wal, have thunderbolts from planets or comets struck Earth in mankind’s early history?
Wal: What happens on earth today is but a tame shadow of mankind’s earlier history. “The evidence suggests that only a few thousand years ago planets moved close to Earth, producing electrical phenomena of intense beauty and terror. Ancient sky worshippers witnessed these celestial wonders and far-flung cultures recorded the events in great myths, symbols and ritual practices of antiquity”. I think they witnessed celestial bodies immersed in the charged particles of the solar system’s dense plasma. These bodies, including Earth, spoke electrically to each other and produced heaven spanning electrical discharges. These planets were the gods. Mankind at once feared and worshipped them .During chaotic restructuring of the solar system cosmic lightning evolved violently from one discharge configuration to another. They followed patterns observed in high energy plasma experiments. These electric phenomena have also been recently observed in deep space.
Peter: Wal, you say mankind witnessed these cosmic displays. What evidence do we have for that?
Wal: Throughout the world our early ancestors carved pictures of these electric formations upon rocks. They bear a close similarity to each other whether from the Americas, Australia, Europe or Asia. In their myths they called them, “Thunderbolts of the gods”. More incredibly they bear a remarkable resemblance to plasma discharges produced in laboratories or on super computer modeling.
Peter: This seems to fly in the face of conventional interpretations of mythology. Why the resistance to these ideas?
Wal: I think for two reasons. Firstly the idea of a solar system that is electrically driven flies directly in the face of conventional cosmology. This is firmly bound up in a gravitational model even though NASA, day by day reveals facts that cannot be explained by gravity alone. Cosmology is the Queen of the sciences yet electrical theory and plasma science is rarely touched on by its disciples. Physicists and electronic scientists are familiar with the force of electricity which is a billion, billion, billion times stronger than gravity. Cosmologists need to radically rethink their gravitational bias. Secondly, I believe the doctrine of uniformitarianism is universally preached in many of the scientific disciplines. That is, by and large, nothing has occurred on Earth that doesn’t occur today. Slow gradual change is the rule. In particular this dogma holds that the Solar System has been stable for millions of years and has barely changed. I believe this is totally incorrect. A mere look at the changing universe as NASA witnesses it today makes us aware that the stars are continually evolving and responding to an electrical universe.
Peter: So much of Mythology and the ancient cataclysmic destructions start to make sense when we interpret them with the aid of the Electrical Universe model. The effect of electromagnetism in all walks of our life will be explored.

Summary

Jupiter-Baal-Zeus-the driver of the Solar system?

So what is Baalbek all about? If the people of Baalbek feared Baal alias Jupiter could this sky god have driven their destiny? Both myth and legend go much further to support the malignant role of Jupiter and other planets in Mankind’s affairs. Remember Jupiter goes by many names. In ancient Phoenicia he is Baal of our Baalbek. In Israel he is Zedek. In Egypt Amon. In Iran he is Mazda. In Babylon Enlil. In India he is Shiva. In Greece the mighty Zeus king of the Gods. Jupiter in all cases is the supreme sky god. The supreme planet. In all these cases he is blamed for hurling massive thunderbolts against the Earth and causing earthquakes. Could this of happened? Today Jupiter/Baal hurls thunderbolts at its moon Io. Thus interplanetary discharges do occur. In a near approach of Jupiter perhaps Earth too was subject to the sky god’s wrath? The ancient Greek historian, Homer in the Odyssey, specifically blames Baal / Zeus / Jupiter for hurling thunderbolts and destroying Troy with earthquakes. Baal shattered the Earth. That is why the citizens of Baalbek feared and worshipped this Sky God. They trembled under his destruction and even offered human sacrifice to calm him.

In another ancient text from the Greek Hesiod, we find Baal / Zeus responsible for giving birth to the planets Mercury and Venus. Is this at all possible? Let us investigate. What do we know about Jupiter? Certainly next to the Sun it is the largest mass in the Solar System. But Jupiter’s’ most salient driver is its great red spot, four times the size of Earth. This constantly swirls as a giant vortex sucking up all clouds that are in its way. Moreover it spits them out. If Jupiter can absorb comets such as shoemaker levy 9, can it in its turn spit them out as it does the clouds on its surface? Remember the scientific principle “to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Hesiod claimed Jupiter gave birth to Venus and Mercury. Is Jupiter about to regurgitate shoemaker levy 9 as a new comet or indeed as Velikovsky claims a pre planet? Is it only a matter of time until mankind suffers another cosmic attack? Jupiter even now has captured a smaller comet. Will this in its turn disintegrate and be swallowed. In fact does Earth have the power like Jupiter to attract comets and have them impact on our surface? In the past we have had massive extinctions due to cosmic events. Do we live in a fool’s paradise that denies such bazaar possibilities even though our ancestors lived in fear of just such an event? In the first century of the present era the Romans at one time counted fifty comets in their skies. This is unheard of today. Were the skies over Rome the end of a bloody era that only in recent centuries has become stabilized? Can there be bones of truth in this mythology?

So here is our challenge. How do we explain these dreadful cataclysms that decimated mankind? Conventional science is a lost puppy. It rejects mythology. It clings to outmoded scientific concepts. It is bogged down in theory laden ideas. Come with us as we reveal the truth. What happens on planet Earth today is nothing compared to events of the recent past. It is time to challenge some of the fundamentals of science. Darwin’s concept of uniformitarianism or slow adaptive evolution is plainly wrong. New paradigms are needed. The age of cataclysmic evolution and the mechanics of the chaotic electric solar system have arrived. As we develop our arguments in the next episodes we will reveal the glaring truth. How could we have been so blind?
 (Approximately 45 minutes.)

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