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Here is the trailer for an Irish television “documentary<\/a>,” (in Irish with English subtitles), “Gods from the Sky,” which argues that celestial events changed ancient Irish religion.<\/p>\n

And if that sounds a bit familiar, perhaps you are remembering Immanuel Velikovsky’s<\/a> (1895\u20131979) somewhat similar thesis that the planet Venus entered our solar system twice<\/a>: “Periodic close contacts with a ‘cometary<\/a> Venus<\/a>‘\u00a0 (which had been ejected from Jupiter) had caused the Exodus<\/a> events (c. 1500 BCE) and Joshua<\/a>‘s subsequent “sun standing still” (Joshua 10:12 and 13) incident.”<\/p>\n

Other planets caused catastrophes on Earth as well, he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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