Ancient myth and esoteric lore from around the world tell frightening tales of humanity's suffering through destruction by fire and flood, legends of catastrophe so extreme and so pervasive that now we tend to discount them as imaginative exaggerations. Paul La Violette thought so too, until he discovered an ancient time-capsule cryptogram written in the constellations that related the galactic cause of these events. In this book he explains how this scientifically advanced message combines with ancient esoteric lore to alert us to a cyclical cosmic disaster -- one that could recur today virtually without warning. In this book, Dr LaViolette elegantly weaves sobering accounts from ancient legends together with recent scientific data to reconstruct the details of a tragedy that plagued mankind for endless generations with periods of persistent darkness, frigid cold, searing heat, and mountainous floods, from which only a few survived. Unravel the mysterious riddle of the Sphinx; Learn t Ancient myth and esoteric lore from around the world tell frightening tales of humanity's suffering through destructions by fire and flood, legends of catastrophe so extreme and so pervasive that now we tend to discount them as imaginative exaggerations. Paul LaViolette thought so too, until he discovered an ancient time-capsule cryptogram written in the constellations that relates the Galactic cause of these events. In Earth Under Fire he explains how this scientifically advanced message combines with ancient esoteric lore to alert us to a cyclical cosmic disaster-one that could recur today virtually without warning.- Unravel the mysterious riddle of the Sphinx. Learn the memorial significance of the Orion constellation, the Pleiadian rites, and the Minoan bull-leaping ceremony. Understand what caused the mammoths to suddenly die and freeze in the Arctic and what caused the extinction of the ice age mammals. Discover the relevance of the tragic dates encoded into the Giza Pyramid complex and the Temple of Dendera. Decipher the Galactic zodiac of the South American Barasana. Find out what Plato's allegorical story of Atlantis and the Flood was really trying to convey.Paul LaViolette elegantly weaves sobering accounts from ancient legends together with recent scientific data to reconstruct the details of a tragedy that plagued mankind for endless generations with periods of persistent darkness, frigid cold, searing heat, and mountainous floods, from which only a few survived.Earth Under Fire is capitivatingly written and illustrated with more than 110 photos and diagrams. It demonstrates how ancient myths and lores have preserved an accurate record of a missing era in human history, knowledge of which may be crucial for our own future survival. The story related in Earth Under Fire will be something you will teach your children and your children's children. -- Book Description In his latest book, Paul LaViolette unearths fascinating evidence of the scientific advancement of an antediluvian culture that met with an untimely demise. Page by page and chapter by chapter, he takes us through a keen analysis of ancient myth, legend, and lore to discover the amazing lost history of our race. We are led to understand the intelligence and ingenuity of a people who, while faced with extinction, found the means to communicate over the millennia to warn us that the apocalypse that destroyed their race could occur again. -- Laura Lee, from the Laura Lee Show PAUL A. LaVIOLETTE, PH.D, is author of Earth Under Fire , Beyond the Big Bang , Subquantum Kinetics , editor of A Systems View of Man , and has published many original scientific papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, and psychology. He holds degrees in systems science and physics and is president of the Starburst Foundation, an institute that conducts interdisciplinary research in physics, astronomy, geology, climatology, and systems theory. Recognized in the Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering , he is the first to predict that high intensity volleys of cosmic ray particles travel directly to our planet from distant sources in our Galaxy, a phenomenon now confirmed by scientific data. He is also the first to discover evidence of interstellar dust in ice age polar ice indicating the occurrence of a global cosmic catastrophe. Based on this work he made predictions about the entry of interstellar dust into the solar system ten years before its confirmation in 1993 by the Ulysses spacecraft. In 1986, Dr. LaViolette was the first to cast doubt on the big bang theory by showing that an alternative non-expanding universe cosmology made a much better fit to existing astronomical data. Dr. LaViolette is also the co-developer of the Gray-LaViolette feeling tone theory of thought formation. He has also written about electrogravitic aerospace propulsion and theorized on the application of this technology to the B-2 bomber. His work has been published in Earth