West stepped past them, walking out the door.
‘If you’re going to talk about her,’ he said, ‘please stop calling her “the girl”. She has a name, you know.’
‘You named her?’ Saladin said, surprised.
‘Yes,’ West said. ‘I named her Lily.’
They commenced their journey to the safehouse.
It was in Africa, in Kenya, but for secrecy’s sake they took a long circuitous route to get there, taking several flights over several days.
On one of these flights, Saladin said to Epper, ‘At the meeting we were given an extract from a book. It told of the Capstone and the Tartarus Sunspot. What is this Tartarus Sunspot and what relationship does it bear with the Great Pyramid and its Capstone?’
Epper nodded. ‘Good question. It is a most curious relationship, but one that takes on a new level of importance at this time.’
‘Why?’
‘Because in ten years’ time, in March 2006, we will see the second great turning of the Sun in modern times, a solar event that has not occurred in over 4,500 years.’
The big-bearded Arab frowned. ‘The second great turning of the Sun? What is that?’
‘Although you can’t see it, our Sun actually spins on its own axis, much like the Earth does. Only it doesn’t turn in a flat, even rotation as we do. Rather, it rocks slowly up and down as it spins. As such, every 4,000–4,500 years, a certain section of the Sun—a sunspot known as the Tartarus Sunspot—comes into direct alignment with our planet. This is a bad thing.’
‘Why?’
‘Because the Tartarus Sunspot is the single hottest point on the surface of the Sun,’ Zoe Kissane said, coming over and sitting down. ‘The ancient Greeks named it after one of the two realms of their Underworld. The nicer realm was the Elysian Fields: it was a place of eternal happiness. The nasty one, a cursed land ofscreaming, flames and punishment, was known as the Tartarus Plains.’
‘Global temperatures have been rising steadily for twenty years now,’ Epper said,’because the Tartarus Sunspot is approaching. When it shines directly upon the Earth, as it has done before, for about two weeks, temperatures will rise to unbearably high levels, around 110° Celsius.
‘Rainforests will shrivel. Rivers will boil. Humankind will have to move indoors for that time. It will be a literal scorching of the Earth, but it is survivable.
‘The problem is: the polar ice caps will melt, causing massive global floods. The oceans will rise by perhaps 15 metres. Many coastal cities worldwide will be severely damaged. But as I say, this is survivable, given due warning.’
‘Okay . . .’ Saladin said.
Epper wasn’t finished. ‘Now, we have geological records of similar mass global water-risings in the past—specifically in the years 15,000 BC, 10,500 BC and 6,500 BC.
‘The flood of 15,000 BC is believed to have been the giant oceanic movement that flooded the Persian Gulf; while the flood of 10,500 BC is widely acknowledged as the "Great Flood" mentioned in religious texts worldwide: Noah’s flood in the Bible, the floods mentioned in ancient Sumerian texts; even the Australian Aborigines refer to a Great Flood in their Dreamtime folklore.
‘The most recent global flood, that of 6,500 BC, broadly correlates with the worldwide episode of water-rise known as the Flandrian transgression, where entire coastlines were submerged by about twenty metres.’
Epper leaned forward to make his point: ‘All three of these major global floods occurred during a Tartarus Rotation.
‘The thing is,’ he raised a finger, ‘in 2,570 BC, during the most recent Tartarus Rotation,
no such mass global flooding took place.’
Saladin frowned. ‘You’re saying that something stopped the cataclysm? Something to do with the pyramids?’
‘Yes,’ Epper said. ‘It’s complicated but, you see, prior to KingDjoser in 2,660 BC the Egyptians
never
built pyramids. And after Menkaure in 2,503 BC they stopped building giant ones.
‘If you’re going to talk about her,’ he said, ‘please stop calling her “the girl”. She has a name, you know.’
‘You named her?’ Saladin said, surprised.
‘Yes,’ West said. ‘I named her Lily.’
They commenced their journey to the safehouse.
It was in Africa, in Kenya, but for secrecy’s sake they took a long circuitous route to get there, taking several flights over several days.
On one of these flights, Saladin said to Epper, ‘At the meeting we were given an extract from a book. It told of the Capstone and the Tartarus Sunspot. What is this Tartarus Sunspot and what relationship does it bear with the Great Pyramid and its Capstone?’
Epper nodded. ‘Good question. It is a most curious relationship, but one that takes on a new level of importance at this time.’
‘Why?’
‘Because in ten years’ time, in March 2006, we will see the second great turning of the Sun in modern times, a solar event that has not occurred in over 4,500 years.’
The big-bearded Arab frowned. ‘The second great turning of the Sun? What is that?’
‘Although you can’t see it, our Sun actually spins on its own axis, much like the Earth does. Only it doesn’t turn in a flat, even rotation as we do. Rather, it rocks slowly up and down as it spins. As such, every 4,000–4,500 years, a certain section of the Sun—a sunspot known as the Tartarus Sunspot—comes into direct alignment with our planet. This is a bad thing.’
‘Why?’
‘Because the Tartarus Sunspot is the single hottest point on the surface of the Sun,’ Zoe Kissane said, coming over and sitting down. ‘The ancient Greeks named it after one of the two realms of their Underworld. The nicer realm was the Elysian Fields: it was a place of eternal happiness. The nasty one, a cursed land ofscreaming, flames and punishment, was known as the Tartarus Plains.’
‘Global temperatures have been rising steadily for twenty years now,’ Epper said,’because the Tartarus Sunspot is approaching. When it shines directly upon the Earth, as it has done before, for about two weeks, temperatures will rise to unbearably high levels, around 110° Celsius.
‘Rainforests will shrivel. Rivers will boil. Humankind will have to move indoors for that time. It will be a literal scorching of the Earth, but it is survivable.
‘The problem is: the polar ice caps will melt, causing massive global floods. The oceans will rise by perhaps 15 metres. Many coastal cities worldwide will be severely damaged. But as I say, this is survivable, given due warning.’
‘Okay . . .’ Saladin said.
Epper wasn’t finished. ‘Now, we have geological records of similar mass global water-risings in the past—specifically in the years 15,000 BC, 10,500 BC and 6,500 BC.
‘The flood of 15,000 BC is believed to have been the giant oceanic movement that flooded the Persian Gulf; while the flood of 10,500 BC is widely acknowledged as the "Great Flood" mentioned in religious texts worldwide: Noah’s flood in the Bible, the floods mentioned in ancient Sumerian texts; even the Australian Aborigines refer to a Great Flood in their Dreamtime folklore.
‘The most recent global flood, that of 6,500 BC, broadly correlates with the worldwide episode of water-rise known as the Flandrian transgression, where entire coastlines were submerged by about twenty metres.’
Epper leaned forward to make his point: ‘All three of these major global floods occurred during a Tartarus Rotation.
‘The thing is,’ he raised a finger, ‘in 2,570 BC, during the most recent Tartarus Rotation,
no such mass global flooding took place.’
Saladin frowned. ‘You’re saying that something stopped the cataclysm? Something to do with the pyramids?’
‘Yes,’ Epper said. ‘It’s complicated but, you see, prior to KingDjoser in 2,660 BC the Egyptians
never
built pyramids. And after Menkaure in 2,503 BC they stopped building giant ones.
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