Uluru & The Furies
A Great Australian Mystery of Velikovsky Dimensions
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Deep in the very heart of Australia, amid a vast, arid, featureless plain, now known as the Amadeus Basin, you will discover a great wonder of the world and a great mystery.
Abruptly, out of the flat waste, a great red edifice of rock stands sheer into the sky for 350 meters; its base is an astonishing 9.6 kilometers in diameter.
This is the most spiritually important place in the world to the aboriginal Australians. The Anangu people who live here, named this place Uluru, and their culture, blood and mythology have been bonded with this land for sixty thousand years.
Just as Mount Olympus was the very Seat of the Gods to the great Ancient Greeks, so is Uluru the spiritual center of the Aboriginal Gods that shaped Australia’s lands and is the stage of Anangu Creation lore.
There are so many legends and Gods associated with Uluru, they are beyond my knowledge and the scope of this essay. But perhaps the most well-known is the Story of Lungkata, a wicked and deceitful Blue Tongue Lizard God who was defeated in battle by two paṉpaṉpalala (Bellbird hunters).
Readers familiar with Velikovsky or the Thunderbolts Project will note the similarity here of the ubiquitous Terrible Reptile Monster defeated by Great Heroes that occurs as Dragon myth in almost every known culture.
But even if you are a diehard materialist, indifferent to cultural traditions and the myths of Gods, the geology of Uluru is just as mystifying and has never been adequately explained. For Uluru is not a hill or a mountain, it is what geologists call an “Inselberg”, or a vast great Rock; an anomaly, seemingly dropped on to the land and separate from the bedrock in which it is embedded.
Like an Iceberg, this Inselberg is largely hidden beneath the surface. The visible part is 350 meters high, but seismic evidence suggests it extends over 6 kilometres beneath the surface. Look again carefully at the title picture of Uluru and you will see another anomaly, the strata of this vast Inselberg points almost 90 degrees up into the sky, completely on it’s side like some impossibly vast ball tossed on a beach.
The official explanation of this geological formation is that vast amounts of erosion and weathering over hundreds of millions of years have removed most of Uluru and all the rock that must have filled the void around it. Afterwards, unexplained geological folding forces somehow then turned it on its side. This sounds to me like a desperate Uniformitarian explanation to prop up a flawed theory.
Where are the vast canyons, river systems and alluvial deposits to support this erosion hypothesis? This region, the Amadeus Basin, despite appearing as flat as a billiard table is actually a depression in the land, thought to have once been an inland sea. How then did all these trillions of tons of rock become washed away uphill out of the basin, leaving the basin as a depression?
It doesn’t convince me for a moment. Are there any better explanations for what may have caused this?
Erratic Boulders
One possible explanation is a phenomenon that Immanuel Velikovsky wrote about in Earth In Upheaval, being Erratic Boulders. These are, in most cases, huge chunks of rock sheered off by advancing glacial ice, often carried along embedded in it for hundreds of kilometres until deposited after the ice melted away. There are some however that do not support a glacial ice explanation owing to their bizarre type or impossible locations.
This is a short video that explores these strange wondering boulders in greater depth.
Earth in Upheaval #3: Erratic Boulders - The Key to a Violent Past
While this explanation is correct for many smaller anomalous rocks, I don’t think it is adequate to explain an Inselberg of this great size and, as with the erosion hypothesis, we do not see a landscape carved by great glaciation or indeed the millions of other boulders that must have been dragged along and deposited by the same flow of ice.
The Hoba Meteorite
If Uluru was not carved out by erosion, nor deposited by some prodigious glacier, is it possible that it fell there?
I had considered this a long while ago but dismissed the idea as very unlikely. Where is the huge crater that must have been gouged out of the ground by such a huge impact? Uluru sits in what is clearly a flat waste, even though it lies within a depression, the depth is so shallow and the gradient barely noticeable, it does not resemble a crater. Even if we imagine it impacting on a thick icesheet or in deep ocean, the explosion caused by an impact of that size would have left vast scars on the surrounding bedrock for hundreds of kilometres and would be very discernible.
But there is always a damned exception to throw doubt into the equation.
Recently I read about a discovery in 1920, the chance find of a mysterious rock in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia, Africa, that turned out to be the largest known intact meteorite in the world.
This huge lump of metallic rock is estimated to weigh 60,000 kilograms. It is classified as an ataxite meteorite, composed of around 82% iron and 16% nickel, plus trace elements. It is not only unusual for it’s great size, it’s shape is very peculiarly square, like a thick tile. It is believed that this particular meteorite, based on it’s composition, would have originated in the region of Mars or Jupiter.
But perhaps the most perplexing feature of this meteorite is that despite it’s high density and great weight, it did not leave a crater.
Impact and Landing
Interestingly, Hoba shows no signs of an impact crater, a phenomenon attributed to its unusual shape and probable low-velocity entry. Some scientists theorize that its flat, plate-like structure and high mass caused it to skip across the atmosphere before gently settling on Earth’s surface. This “glancing blow” impact may have allowed it to land almost intact without forming a visible crater, a rare occurrence among meteorites.
The lack of a crater and the limited weathering suggest that Hoba may have landed relatively recently in geological terms, potentially within the last 80,000 years. Its preservation in Namibia’s stable environment further supports this theory, allowing Hoba to remain accessible and in a near-original state for study.
I’m not particularly sold with the idea that this meteorite could “skip across the atmosphere before gently settling on Earth’s surface” but clearly somehow this great hunk of iron did manage a sort of soft landing.
In Electric Universe theory, what we know as Gravity is really an electro-magnetic effect, and like an electro-magnet, it’s force of attraction or repulsion is dependent on the electric current. If the region were subjected to some kind of huge electro-magnetic discharge, the scale of which Velikovsky describes in Worlds In Collision, perhaps local apparent Gravity could have been distorted enough to have allowed a less dramatic impact, but it seems a stretch to me and in the case of Uluru, even harder to imagine.
Geologic Clues
Uluru is composed of a type of rock called arkose, a type of plagioclase-bearing feldspar very rich in iron that gives its distinctive red appearance. In fact most of Australia’s geology and soil shows a similar mineral composition, rich in iron but curiously low in other minerals that we find elsewhere on Earth, like phosphorus.
As a land mass, it is rather an oddity compared with the rest of Earth’s surface. Although this type of iron-rich red rock is found in other locations on Earth, there are other properties of this rock which are almost unique to Australia as we shall see shortly.
Another oddity about Uluru that brings me back to a possible electro-magnetic event having played some part in it’s formation are the curious crater-chains that are seen dotted along the strata lines. In some cases these little crater shapes overlap without distorting one another as if they were electrically sculpted rather than blasted or eroded.
These strange little crater-chains and overlapping edges remind me very much of similar formations observed on the Moon. Cosmologists don’t have much of an explanation for these, but in the Thunderbolts Project these are well known as a product of electrical discharges across the surface.
The Furies
One of the other peculiar attributes of Australian geology is the abundance of a mineral called opaline silica. As its name suggests this is the principle mineral that is found in opals. Almost all the world’s opals (over 90%) are found in Australia, and it is the presence of this unusual mineral and the geologic environment that allows them to form here.
Recent scientific discoveries have revealed one other location where iron-rich arkose rock is found that also contains opaline silica, but not on Earth.
The other location is in fact Valles Marineris, the gigantic canyon on Mars like a great scar across it’s face, carved out by processes that are not understood by science, but are mentioned frequently in ancient mythology and writings such as The Iliad.
In Worlds In Collision (P. 281), Velikovsky desribes how after an ancient near collision between Mars and Venus, a terrible train of meteoric debris was torn from the planet and hurled into space causing a long and terrifying period of impacts and near misses to the traumatized inhabitants of Earth.
The Terrible Ones
Venus had a tail, considerably shortened since the time it was a comet, but still long enough to give the impression of a hanging flame, or smoke, or attached hair. When Mars clashed with Venus, asteroids, meteorites, and gases were torn from this trailing part, and began a semi independent existence, some following the orbit of Mars, some other paths.
These swarms of meteorites with their gaseous appendages were newborn comets; flying in bands and taking various shapes, they made an uncanny impression. Those which followed Mars closely looked like a troop following their leader. They also ran along different orbits, grew quickly from small to giant size, and terrorized the peoples of the earth. And when, soon after the impact of Venus and Mars, Mars began to threaten the earth, the new comets, running very close to the earth, added to the terror, continually recalling the hour of peril.
Ares of Homer, going into battle, is accompanied by never resting horrible creatures, Terror, Rout, and Discord. Terror and Rout yoke the gleaming horses of Ares, themselves dreadful beasts, also known by these names; Discord, "sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares, rageth incessantly; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth."
Similarly, the Babylonians saw the planet Mars-Nergal in the company of demons, and wrote in their hymns to Nergal: "Great giants, raging demons, with awesome members, run at his right and at his left."
These "raging demons" are pictured also in the Nergal-Eriskigal poem; they bring pestilence and cause earthquakes. It appears that the mythological figures of the Furies of the Latins or the Erinyes of the Greeks, with serpents winding about their heads.
If perhaps Mars (Ares) in some ancient epoch, was the source of Australia’s unique geology, it might not have occurred as some singular, great world-shattering impact.
Rather I think that in a singular prolonged Thunderbolt of the Gods, or several strokes in swift succession, great energy and matter transference occurred in the target region, matter stolen by the larger Earth rained down in exchange for huge energy and destruction inflicted on smaller Mars.
If you consider again the Lunar image with the crater chains above, you will notice that the much larger crater at the top is huge but almost completely flat-bottomed; at its centre is also a strange bulls-eye mountain peak. This is very hard to explain as an impact crater formation, but it is exactly what we expect in rock that has been sculpted by a huge electro-magnetic discharge, where some matter is ripped apart and thrown up into space and other surrounding matter is drawn in and fused into a rocky fulgerite.
And this is what I think perhaps sculpted the great mysterious Uluru. This region of devastated Earth, with untold trillions of tons of Martian debris raining down upon it to form an unearthly new red continent, was later subjected to a great Thunderbolt of the Gods that flattened and sculpted out a huge depression in the ground and magnetically drew in some of the surrounding sandstone to form a central fused-peak, layered and pock-marked not by erosion or crustal folding but by electric discharge.
Afterword
It occurs to me after considering my title for this writing, that it would also make an ideal name for an Australian Punk Rock band. If you are an Australian Punk Rock band in need of a name, feel free to use this one and share me your work as I will gladly buy the album and advertise your music for free!
I read Uluru and Thunderbolts Project and immediately thought "vitrified rock from a stupendous bolt" and Andrew Hall. Haven't seen that See the Pattern yet but his work is usually neat. Great you're writing on these subjects. :)