RE: Significant Find by the Israel Antiquities Authority
April 9, 2014 at 11:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2014 at 11:16 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Well, as far as I know, no ash from Tambora fell on egypt at all, the eruption being 12000 miles away, still the aerosol the eruption put into the air changed the weather in egypt enough to kill several million egyptians.
Tambora and Krakatau also caused dramatic and unsettling visual effects to occur in the sky around the globe for several years after the eruptions has ended. For example it can create sun sets where half the sky turns blood red while sun itself turns green or blue. It can also keep the horizon glowing bright red long after sunset, like a huge forest fire is burning just beyond the horizon. These effects would undoubtedly have also attended the Santarini eruption, which was easily larger than Krakatau and at least as large as Tambora.
I think direct experience or collective memory these kind of stunning, and for the time inexplicable, visual effects in the heavens, coupled with dramatic changes to long accustomed seasonal temperature, rainfall, and nile flood patterns, could certainly inspire superstitious chattering yokels to concoct memorable, and opportunistically self-serving and self-justifyin, superstitious explanations like Moses' plague.
It is deeply depressing that 3000 years later, so much of humanity is still beholden to some yokel's fancy from 3000 years ago.
Tambora and Krakatau also caused dramatic and unsettling visual effects to occur in the sky around the globe for several years after the eruptions has ended. For example it can create sun sets where half the sky turns blood red while sun itself turns green or blue. It can also keep the horizon glowing bright red long after sunset, like a huge forest fire is burning just beyond the horizon. These effects would undoubtedly have also attended the Santarini eruption, which was easily larger than Krakatau and at least as large as Tambora.
I think direct experience or collective memory these kind of stunning, and for the time inexplicable, visual effects in the heavens, coupled with dramatic changes to long accustomed seasonal temperature, rainfall, and nile flood patterns, could certainly inspire superstitious chattering yokels to concoct memorable, and opportunistically self-serving and self-justifyin, superstitious explanations like Moses' plague.
It is deeply depressing that 3000 years later, so much of humanity is still beholden to some yokel's fancy from 3000 years ago.
