Canopus and Churning of the Ocean of Milk -

The Indian myth of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk is one of the best known stories of eastern mythology in the West.

The central piece of the story goes like this:

After fighting for a thousand years the Gods realized there would never be a winner in this war between Asuras (demons) and Devas (Gods) unless a different strategy were used. They went to heaven and approached their father, the creator God Brahma. Brahma agreed with the Gods about the futility of the struggle with the demons but could not provide a course of action. Together with the Gods, Brahma went to a higher heaven and approached the great God Vishnu.

Upon hearing of their struggles, Vishnu instructed the Gods to go to the center of the universe and churn the ocean of milk (Kshira Sagara) they found there, with a serpent as the rope. Instead of butter, the nectar of immortality (Amrita) would rise out of that ocean. If the Gods drank that Amrita they would become immortal and could not be killed by the demons. Then they could fight with abandon and force the demons into the underworld and free the earth from their influence.

Of curse many people consider stories like this just as pure fantasy. Others are more cautious, in particular because these tales appear in different forms in many cultures around the earth, almost as they came from the same source. More and more evidence is coming up that what we know of our human history is at the best partial. How to tell and record history? Books perish after a while. Stone steles are good, but men forget old languages quickly. Encoding messages in the stars would resolve the problem, if mankind is evolved enough to read them. Maybe we are just starting to wake up.

The story of the ocean of milk has been associated with the succession of the four Yugas (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali), a concept that describes the decay of humanity from the Golden age (Satya) to the downfall of men in Kali yuga and a successive start over. Many researchers in the West consider the myth a poetical narration of the precession of the equinoxes, a cycle of ca. 26.000 years after which the earth and the stars line up again. However, the concept of different “trials” in humanity, their destruction and the following new beginning can be found in many cultures around the world, for example in Egypt or Perù.

While the churning of the ocean of milk is an Indian image, the rope appears in other tales in different cultures and epochs. The Babylonian God Enlil tends a rope with a weight fixed on it downward to the water to measure the depth of the southern heaven, the abyss, a place envisioned as a reservoir of fresh water that feeds rivers and seas .

The weight has been identified with the star-arrow mul.Kak.SI.DI, (Sirius), while the depth has its celestial correspondence in Canopus (in arabic al-Suhayl, in Latin Canopus ponderosus, the “heavy” star) which can be found in the constellation of Argo, Mul.NUN for the Mesopotamians, also identified with Eridu. One of Canopus names was Kahi Nub, the golden earth. It was the home of Enki, who is also known by many names, such as Ea, Chronos, Ptah, Yama, Varuna and Saturn.

If Canopus describes the lowest point of the celestial ocean, where is the rope? Who is holding it and which time is indicated in the myth?

Ankhor Wat in Cambodia is believed to be the physical representation of the churning of the ocean of milk and its celestial orientation towards Draco is well known as well as its link to the equinoxes and solstices. But the churning of the ocean of milk needs a vertical rope so to say, in order to link the two different moving spheres together and give an indication of time.

This is why I have searched for a time when Canopus was exactly on the solstitial colure. Since it needed to be in the center of the universe, I searched for a time on which the solstice colure passed right through the southern pole of the equator (depth of the ocean) AND the northern pole of the ecliptic, linking two different moving planes together.

I found a time when Canopus was exactly aligned in this way and it was actually the only star so positioned. Its counterpart is the North pole of the ecliptic. The date of the exact alignment of the South pole of the equator, the north pole of the ecliptic and Canopus dates back to ca. 12.000 BCE when Vega was the north star. If this is correct, then the Indian myth points indeed to a period well before the flood, which would confirm that at least some of the Indian epics are indeed history rather than tale.

The image below shows Canopus exactly on the solstice colure which passes through the north pole of the ecliptic (in blue) and the south pole of the equator (in orange).

The next image shows that Canopus together with Vega could indeed be visualized as a rod that measures the depth of the ocean.

Impossible? Consider that Gobelki Tepe is at least 10.000 years old. The Sphynx has been dated to the same time period due to her massive water erosion. On the famous Palermo Stone the lists of pharaos starts long before the flood. There are countless information that point in the same direction: there is a time machine and our history dates far ore back than we are used to believe.[:]