There are thirty-three astronomic events recorded in the biblical Samson story. That astronomy adds a profound new understanding to our early religious and scientific endeavors.
You may be aware of how much our understanding of our religious roots has changed throughout the past few decades. For instance, it is now commonly known among scholarly circles that biblical stories like Abraham and Moses are not records of actual events. Instead, they seem to have been created sometime closer to 400 BC, rather than the the traditional birthdates given for those characters (approximately 2000 BC and 1400 BC, respectively). The stories are creations, much more than they are autobiographies, although there may be aspects of historic figures buried deep in the tales. This knowledge of our fabricated historic roots is becoming much more mainstream, thanks to people like Dan McClellan, Monte Mader, and others who have shared that scholarship in interesting ways.
My own contribution to our deepening historic understanding is to have figured out the astronomic investigations buried in the Samson story. That astronomy shines a new light on the intellectual thoughts of our ancestors three-thousand years ago, and illuminates the celestial investigations of our Near-Eastern ancestors back then.
I was drawn to these investigations because I was indoctrinated into a fundamentalist Catholic cult in my childhood, and the problems I faced caused me to slowly investigate my religious ideas. Laughing At The Devil: One Man’s Religious Discoveries shares the groundbreaking results of my efforts, and reveals the forgotten thoughts of our early priests as they struggled to understand their deities – the stars and planets.
My greatest discovery is the astronomic investigations our early Judeo-Christian intellectuals recorded in an ancient biblical myth: the Samson story. Over five-hundred years before scientific language came into existence, our investigators grasped for ways to understand and explain their observations. The thirty-three celestial events recorded in Samson’s tale are clearly illuminated within its pages.
My work shines a new light on the roots of our Bible. Hopefully, that light helps us understand our history – and ourselves – better. Whether you are religious or atheist, you are certain to learn something new within its pages.
The forgotten history I’ve discovered is summarized in the following two YouTube videos. I hope you find them interesting and enlightening:
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