Since we are talking about religion so much this week, I was reminded of something. I mentioned that I spent several years in a Christian private school. One of the things that always fascinated me was how so many things in that book captured the human condition.
Nuclear power is the power of the stars. The Chernobyl reactor melted down in 1986. The area, even aquafers with a formation period measured in decades, was heavily contaminated with radionuclides, in some cases more than 100,000 times higher than background radiation.
There is a connection to that in the Christian bible. Let me explain:
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
The Ukrainian word for the common wormwood plant (Artemisia vulgaris) is “Чорнобиль” (chornóbyl).
Striking, isn’t it?
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SoCoRuss · April 16, 2025 at 11:30 am
And that verse also matches the Hopi Blue Star Kachina prophesy. Always wondered what that was? A meteor/comet or Planet X returns, The ISS crashing after being shot down or a Pole shift. It amazes me how so many different religions have so many catastrophe stories that match up when there was no contact between them. At least what we know of.
A planet like this with so many wonders and mystery’s and so many humans who just want to fuck it all up or play God and wipe it clean of life.
wojtek · April 16, 2025 at 12:52 pm
Nice coincidence. But the Book of Apocalypse, as we know it, was written in Greek. The word used there is “apsinthos” – something we now know as absinth, vermouth, or wormwood. Czernobyl (czarna bylica) that’s what you probably know as mugwort. Seems like not much of a difference perhaps. Until you taste them 🙂