Scientists doubt the CME caused the breakup and believe that, instead, it was caused by the sun’s gravitational pull and the CME just happened to hit at the same time. Regardless, to an eyewitness on earth the comet’s tail being ripped off followed by a fragmentation that led to impacts and mega-tsunamis would have seemed connected regardless of the true physics behind the event. (Interestingly, another Mesoamerican crocodile known as Cipactli was always represented as the disembodied head of a crocodile missing its lower jaw. Could this missing lower jaw have been meant to represent the fragmentation of the comet nucleus?)
The fact that a CME was involved in this event likely explains the description of this flood as being “a flood of blood.” When a CME hits earth it can cause the sky to turn blood red via intense auroras. For instance, in 1859 during the strongest solar storm in recorded history known as the Carrington Event, red auroras were seen as far south as the Caribbean. The New York Times noted, “At that time almost the whole southern heavens were in a livid red flame, brightest still in the southeast and southwest.” The New York Herald reported that the sky appeared “blood red.”[103] The Sydney Morning Herald noted, “the spectacle presented by the southern heavens at this time was very impressive, the sky being of a deep, blood-red colour.”[104] Interestingly, the ancient Greeks referred to aurora as ‘red rain.’[105]
Coincidentally, immediately preceding the red auroras, exploding meteors were also reported in Australian eyewitness accounts:
“…a brilliant meteor was seen to shoot through the sky…and when near the horizon, burst like a rocket. Almost immediately afterwards the rays of an aurora Australis were most brilliantly visible in the N.E.”
“A very brilliant meteor was seen towards the south, which fell in a curve from about 45 deg. elevation, standing to the eastward. Almost immediately following this the glancing rays of a vivid aurora shot up the sky, at first more fully developed to the west, but afterwards stretching across the whole of the south from the hills to the sea.”[106]
Interestingly, these accounts give a close approximation for the events that were recorded in Mayan Flood Myth: first, meteor impact(s) followed by the sky turning blood red.
Yet this flood of blood may not have been purely a flood of red auroral light in the sky. A phenomenon known as blood rain has consistently been associated with comets and meteors throughout the ages. For instance, astronomers believe an impact event was the cause of the severe weather event of 536-541 AD in which temperatures plummeted across the globe. Eyewitness accounts from this time period record,
“In the year of grace 541, there appeared a comet in Gaul, so vast that the whole sky seemed on fire. In the same year there dropped real blood from the clouds, and about the same time…a dreadful mortality ensued.”[107]
This red rain is thought to be the result of dust-laded rain although other theories exist.[108] Yet the flood recorded in this Mayan myth was much more devastating and catastrophic than a simple flood of red auroral light and red rain. This flood was said to have brought one world age to an end. As suggested previously, the only way a comet could have caused a flood is if a sizeable fragment crashed into the ocean creating an impact tsunami. Coincidentally, evidence suggests earth really did experience multiple high-energy mega-tsunamis in the year 3300 BC.
Mayan flood caused by impact mega-tsunami?
Edward Bryant in his book Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard, found evidence in southeastern Australia of “six separate tsunami events…over the past 8,000 years, with peaks at 7500 B.C., 5000 B.C., 3300 B.C., 500-2000 B.C., A.D. 500, and A.D. 1500.”[109] He also noted in another paper that the “North Atlantic region has additional evidence for at least seven major tsunami…[that] occurred in 60 BC, 218-216 BC, 1763 BC, 1862 BC, 2153 BC, 3309 BC, and 4000-5000 BC.”[110] He also noted that three more tsunami events happened in the northern British Isles in “AD 500, 3250-3150 BC, and 3300 BC.”[111] Additionally, Baille has noted that the 3200 BC event was “a prime candidate of an impact event that affected more than one ocean.”
The hypothesis that the flood recorded in the Mayan Flood Myth was caused by an impact event is further supported by an account of the same event in the Chilam Balam of Chumayel. This Mayan book of prophecy and history described the events surrounding the flood that ended the last age. These descriptions sound remarkably like an eyewitness account of an impact event:
Then it was that fire descended, then the rope descended, then rocks and trees descended. Then came the beating of <things> with wood and stone.…After that the fatherless ones, the miserable ones, and those without husbands were all pierced through; they were alive though they had no hearts. Then they were buried in the sands, in the sea. There would be a sudden rush of water… Then the sky would fall, it would fall down upon the earth, when the four gods, the four Bacabs, were set up, who brought about the destruction of the world.[112]
Another version of this event was recorded in the Chilam Balam of Mani:
…the days and night that fell without order, and pain was felt throughout the land….[Ah Mesencab] turned the sky and the Peten upside down, and…there was a great cataclysm, and the ages ended with a flood….fire, stones, and clubs came down…After that the evil sons and daughters were buried, although alive [they had no hearts], and those who were on the beach were buried between the waves of the sea….an avalanche of water came and…everything came to an end. It was said that four gods, four Bacabs, were the ones who destroyed the earth.[113]
Any doubt as to the true nature of the
