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Chelsea Noveau
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« on: January 18, 2015, 02:19:05 am »

    Here the evidence takes a fascinating turn. For buried deep in a little known and normally ignored Indonesian chronicle is an extraordinary passage that may well describe the 535 supereruption itself.

    Describing a huge volcanic event in the Sunda Straits area (between Sumatra and java), where Krakatoa is located, the chronicle says that a “mighty roar of thunder” came out of a local mountain (Mount Batuwara, now called Pulosari).

    “There was a furious shaking of the earth, total darkness, thunder and lightning.”

    “Then came forth a furious gale together with torrential rain and a deadly storm darkened the entire world.”

    The chronicle - known as the Pustaka Raja Purwa, or The Book of Ancient Kings, goes on to state that “a great flood then came from Mount Batuwara and flowed eastwards to Mount Kamula (now called Mount Gede).” It then claims that the eruption was so massive that large areas of land sank below sea level, creating the straits that currently separate Sumatra and Java.

    Claiming to describe the dramatic course of events, the chronicle says that “when the waters subsided it could be seen that the island of Java had been split in two, thus creating the island of Sumatra.”

The size of this apparent eruption would have been more than sufficient to produce all of the climatic and other effects of 535. Keys catalogued these effects. They include the “end of the super-cities of the ancient world; the end of ancient Persia; the transmutation of the Roman Empire into the Byzantine Empire; the end of South Arabian civilization; the end of Catholicism's greatest rival, Arian Christianity; the collapse of the greatest ancient civilization in the new World, the metropolis state of Teotihuacan; the fall from power of the great Maya city of Tikal; and the fall of the enigmatic Nasca civilization of South America.”2, p. 3

All of these events were due to the fact that in A.D. 535-536 mankind was hit by one of the greatest natural disasters ever to occur. The disaster suppressed much of the light and heat of the Sun for about 18 months, causing the global climate to cool dramatically. Evidence of super eruptions can be found in layers of acid snow deposition in the arctic and antarctic ice sheets. Because the deposition of acid snow in 535-540 A.D. was roughly twice as long in Antarctica as in Greenland, this is taken as strong evidence that the eruption that darkened the Sun took place in the southern rather than in the northern tropics.
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