THE EXODUS COMET
Not Venus
SOLAR POWER. A storm came through this morning and the electricity was off all morning, due to a tree that fell on the power lines. So I wasn't able to use my computer or make a phone call or use my blender or my electric burner, so I proceeded to write stuff. First, I wrote that I or we need to get a solar panel so I won't be without my computer or phone in case of future power failures. Second, I started writing about The Exodus.
EXODUS COMET. Yesterday I was reading "Typhon and the Comet of the Exodus: Rockenbach's Lost Source" by Dwardu Cardona from Aeon Journal. He showed that there was likely a large comet in the sky for a spell at the time of the Exodus. Immanuel Velikovsky had concluded in researching for his 1950 book, Worlds In Collision, that the planet Venus was the comet of the Exodus, but Cardona showed pretty convincingly that it was not Venus, but a closer to normal size comet, although it may have been much larger than most comets. Combining that info with what I've learned from David Rohl etc, I reckon that there was a comet during the Exodus, that wasn't Venus. Could that comet have caused the plagues of Egypt during the prelude to the Exodus? And could it have caused the parting of the waters of the Reed Sea (Gulf of Aqaba)? Velikovsky had attributed these events to the comet Venus. Could a smaller comet have accomplished them? (I’m not familiar with the book, The Exodus Comet, by Noel Taylor, but it might be interesting.)
EAST WIND. The Bible says an east wind parted the sea of passage. But if the east wind was powerful enough to push the water aside, I would think it would have been strong enough to push the Israelites backwards, so they wouldn't have been able to cross. Because they were going eastward. A west wind on the other hand would have made them cross the seabed faster than normal. So was it really a west wind? The seabed at the shallowest part of the Reed Sea is now about 2,500 feet deep (where the Egyptian-like chariot wheels have been found), so it would surely take quite a strong wind to push the water aside that deeply. So I'm wondering if the Reed Sea at the crossing spot was a lot shallower at that time. Maybe it was only 100 feet deep. It's ten miles wide now, but maybe at that time it was only 3 to 5 miles wide. (Oops. If it was narrower, then there would likely have been wide shorelines where the Israelites could have gone north or south to try to evade the Egyptians instead of crossing the sea. But maybe the western side has a steep grade.) Anyway, 100 feet of water 3 miles wide would probably have been enough water to drown the Egyptians when the water returned as they were crossing, especially if the water was very turbulent from strong wind etc. They would not have been able to swim well and not long either if it was cold water.
PLAGUES. The Exodus comet was large. It was written about by numerous Greek and I guess Roman authors. They described it as a huge monster. The Bible says it appeared as a column of fire or light by night and a column of cloud or smoke by day. Would it have caused the ten plagues described in the Bible? The first of the plagues I recall is the Nile turning red like blood, maybe from iron dust from the comet, as Velikovsky figured. Water became undrinkable. I think an outbreak of boils was next, probably from the same iron dust. Then the cattle were killed by meteorites from the comet. Then came an outbreak of flies, due to so many dead animals perhaps. Then came a plague of frogs, that devoured many of the flies. I guess I'm missing four plagues, but I think the last one was deaths of many Egyptians, possibly due to carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide from the comet. It seems I read that the younger Egyptians slept on the ground floor, while the older people slept upstairs, which could explain why some died and others did not.
Archeological Evidence For The Plagues In Egypt - Evidence-For-The-Bible (This article discusses the Egyptian Ipuwer papyrus, which may have been testimony of a witness to the plagues.)
COMET VISIBILITY. I wonder if the comet was visible the entire time of the plagues. I think the time period was at least 2 weeks, starting with the first plagues and ending with the Israelites crossing the Reed Sea. I think the pillar of fire and cloud is not mentioned until the Israelites arrive in the desert. But it may have been too cloudy or dusty before that to see the comet. If the comet remained visible for so long, I suspect that it was near geosynchronous orbit around the Earth, which is about 23,000 miles high. At that height a satellite remains over the same spot on Earth with the orbit taking 24 hours, the same as the Earth's spin rate. If the comet at that altitude looked the same size as the moon, it would have been a little over 200 miles in diameter. If it looked half the size of the moon it would have been 100 miles in diameter etc. In order to guide the Israelites across the desert, it would have been farther down in the sky closer to the horizon. It had to be east of the Israelites.
PARTED SEA. The Reed Sea is aligned fairly close to a north-south line. If the comet were close to the equator, it may have attracted the sea waters southward by gravity. But then it wouldn't have guided the Israelites eastward. Would it? Maybe it attracted the waters eastward, which divided them to go northeast and southeast. I think the minimum number of Israelites was 20,000 and the maximum 3 million. People can normally walk a mile in about 20 minutes. If the sea was 5 miles wide it would have taken an hour and a half for everyone to cross.
EVIDENCE FOR THE EXODUS. I wrote a paper by that title last September at cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/evidence-for-the-exodus.
Before I wrote that, I thought the Exodus might have been a myth. But the evidence I found for it there is very persuasive.
The image below is from that paper and it shows where the Israelites very likely crossed the Reed Sea (as evidenced partly by the Egyptian-looking chariot wheels found there).
