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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

the sun that followed it. Another passage states, ‘many were the days
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between the first beams of the dawn and actual sunrise’.
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Are these eyewitness accounts of polar conditions?
Although we can never be sure, it may be relevant that in Indian
tradition the Vedas are believed to be revealed texts, passed down from
the time of the gods. It may also be relevant that in describing the
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processes of transmission, all the traditions refer to the pralayas
(cataclysms) which occasionally overtake the world and claim that in each
of these the written scriptures are physically destroyed. After each
destruction, however, certain Rishis or ‘wise men’ survive who
repromulgate, at the beginning of the new age, the knowledge inherited by them
as a sacred trust from their forefathers in the preceding age ... Each manvantara
or age thus has a Veda of its own which differs only in expression and not in
sense from the antediluvian Veda.
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An epoch of turmoil and darkness

As every schoolboy geographer understands, true north (the North Pole)
is not quite the same thing as magnetic north (the direction compass
needles point). Indeed the magnetic north pole is presently situated in
northern Canada, about 11 degrees from the true North Pole. Recent
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advances in the study of palaeomagnetism have proved that the earth’s
magnetic polarity has reversed itself more than 170 times during the past
80 million years ...
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What causes these field reversals?
While he was teaching at the University of Cambridge the geologist S. K.
Runcorn published an article in Scientific American which made a
pertinent point:

There seems no doubt that the earth’s magnetic field is tied up in some way to the
rotation of the planet. And this leads to a remarkable finding about the earth’s
rotation itself ... [The unavoidable conclusion is that] the earth’s axis of rotation
has changed also. In other words, the planet has rolled about, changing the
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location of the geographical poles.
Runcorn appears to be envisaging a complete 180-degree flip of the
poles, with the earth literally tumbling—although similar palaeomagnetic
readings would result from a slippage of the crust over the geographical
poles. Either way, the consequences for civilization, and indeed for all
life, would be unimaginably dreadful.

35 Arctic Home in the Vedas, p. 81.
36 Ibid., p. 85.
37 Ibid., pp. 414, 417.
38 Ibid., p. 420.
Pole Shift, p. 9.
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40 Ibid.
41 Ibid., p. 61.

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