Thus it seems clear that the 500 A.D. event was so similar to the 3300 BC event that it likely revived the memory of the older 3300 BC event, which then inspired the Maya to create a hieroglyphic text of this earlier catastrophe.
Just as in the 500 AD event[121], the Earth experienced rapid global cooling in the 3300 BC event as well.[122] (Coincidentally, the famous Otzi the Ice Man who was discovered in the Alps frozen to death died around 3300 BC and his stomach contents showed this occurred sometime in Spring making him a likely victim of this rapid global cooling.) Victor Clube and Bill Napier, authors of The Cosmic Serpent, theorized in their second book, The Cosmic Winter, that comet impact events would lead to a global winter much like a nuclear winter as dust from the impacts would block out the sun. Thus the similarities between the 3300 BC event and 500 AD event likely explain why the 3300 BC event was recorded at Palenque so soon after the 500 AD event.
Supernova or Galactic Core Explosion?
So far we have discussed the possible astronomical basis of the “main event” recorded in the Mayan Flood Myth; namely, the flood caused by multiple meteor impacts into the world’s oceans. Yet this was not the first event mentioned in the myth.
The hieroglyphic text begins with the enthronement of God GI in the heavens on March 10, 3309 BC, overseen by a deity named Yax Naah Itzamnaaj. Curiously, the myths surrounding God GI have him being born and enthroned multiple times. This has confused scholars but makes sense when one realizes that his enthronement in the sky is best explained as the appearance of a supernova in the sky. Supernova can brighten, becoming visible, and dim, becoming invisible, multiple times before they finally explode. Thus, GI’s multiple births become explicable via an astronomical interpretation.
The fact that God GI was enthroned on March 10, 3309 BC suggests he was not in the sky before this date. Most stars are always in the sky night after night thus they do not “come to power.” They are simply always there. Only a supernova appears out of nowhere and takes its position in the sky, i.e., is “enthroned.” The fact that supernovae are usually so bright they are even visible during daylight hours is likely another reason they are said to be “enthroned,” since they are the “king” of the stars during their short reign in the sky.
Is there any physical evidence for a supernova in 3300 BC? In fact, there is. Scientists have noted that a Beryllium-10 spike appears in the east Antarctic ice core record around the year 3300 BC. Beryllium-10 spikes are associated with increased cosmic rays reaching earth. This has been shown to have two causes: increased solar activity and supernova outbursts.
As was noted previously, the decapitation event is consistent with a tail disconnection event caused when a coronal mass ejection slams into a comet. Coronal mass ejections occur during periods of heightened solar activity thus the Mayan Flood Myth suggests these events took place during such a period. This, alone, could explain the Beryllium-10 spike in the ice core record. Yet if God GI was really a supernova then this could also help explain the spike in Beryllium-10.
What are the odds that a supernova, super solar storm, and comet impact event would all happen so closely in time? Could there be some other underlying cause to all of these rare events just as there was for the 10,500 BC event discussed in Part 2, Chapter 14?
Once again, just like with the 10,500 BC event, a galactic core explosion and associated superwave appear to be the root cause behind these rare events. Physicist Paul LaViolette, Ph.D. noted in his book Earth Under Fire that the Beryllium-10 spike in 3300 BC was likely the result of a minor Magnitude 1 superwave.[123] Though not as severe as the Magnitude 4 galactic superwave that struck the solar system in 10,500 BC, this superwave was still able to pack a powerful punch. It was able to obliterate comets in the Oort cloud in the outer reaches of the solar system and push this dust, gas and debris into the inner solar system where it collided with the earth and sun. The massive amount of dust and debris falling into the sun caused it to become more active shooting off super solar flares and coronal mass ejections. One of these superflares or CMEs caused a tail disconnection event as well as a violent outgassing of the comet that led to a fragmentation. Four large fragments then slammed into four of the world’s oceans sending mega-tsunami with wave heights likely 2000 feet or more racing towards shore.
The shock wave produced by these meteor impacts would have reached land before the tsunami wave in the form of greater-than-hurricane-force winds. These winds would have been so hot that most organic matter would have burst into flames. A second blast wave would have soon followed. Any survivors of the initial blast would have been pelted by a rain of rocks, trees and other debris. Soon afterwards a mountain of water would have appeared and crashed down on any remaining survivors. The fact that eyewitness accounts of these events were preserved so accurately within Mayan religious texts proves that, miraculously, some people who witnessed these events actually survived them!
Additionally, the appearance of God GI in the heavens may have been an eyewitness account of the blue ‘star’ that would have appeared in the galactic center when the light from this eruption reached an observer on earth. When the tail disconnection event
