Hercolubus
Hercolubus, in both professional astronomical terms (Carlos Ferrada and Percival Lowell both devoted significant portions of their lives to studying it)[1] and pseudoscience, is a giant planet that supposedly will approach the Earth with catastrophic results, similar to the Nibiru/Planet X claims.
Its most recent pseudoscience promoter is the Colombian New Age author V.M. Rabolu (real name: Joaquin Enrique Amortegui Valbuena, 1926-2000). According to (a promotional video of) his free book, Hercolubus or Red Planet:[2]
- on a previous approach, it wiped out Atlantis and a civilization that inhabited it, which inspired all global flood myths
- its proximity will cause volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and ultimately - a pole shift
- it will also cause a deadly epidemic that "official science" will be powerless to stop
- the only escape is... "the elimination of psychological defects" and... astral projection
- Those "who work on their spiritual regeneration" will be "taken to a safe place".
Hercolubus or Red Planet was written in 1998/1999, but Rabolu apparently picked the idea from his "teacher" - Samael Aun Weor, who in the 1970s preached about Hercolubus being the end of the world in religious terms, as a punishment for the "shameful humanity that deserves the karma that approaches" and that "did not want to listen to the voice of the prophets".[3] Being the founder of a theosophy/anthroposophy-influenced New Age "gnostic" church, he also threw Atlantis and the Kali Yuga into the mix.[4] In his version, Hercolubus is a part of the "distant solar system of Tylo", which he identifies[4] as Barnard's Star. Needless to say, despite his claims to the contrary, Hercolubus is not an accepted scientific fact.
ZetaTalk quotes a Hercolubus prophecy to bolster its claims about "Planet X", though they cite another origin - the channeled prophecies of other South Americans.[5] In the Brazilian version, the planet is orbiting an invisible star called Tia and enters the Solar System every 6666 years.[5]
In recent times, some of the 2012 supporters have outright conflated it with the already conflated pair Planet X/Nibiru. It's not that they have a great choice of actions - it's either that, or claiming that there are multiple incoming planets, as Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown did with their 2016 discovery dubbed "Planet Nine," which fits the Planet X / Hercolubus model of a member of our solar system with an extreme elliptical orbit and an accompanying cluster of companion bodies.[6]
See also
- Science and Technology in Chile
- Percival Lowell
- Astronomy in Chile
- Planet Nine
- Conspiracy theory
- Pseudoscience
- Immanuel Velikovsky
- Nibiru cataclysm
- Planet X
References
- ↑ "Nacionales de El Diario de Hoy:". archivo.elsalvador.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
- ↑ HERCOLUBUS : THE PLANET OF THE END OF THE WORLD, video at DailyMotion, uploaded on 7 February 2009. It's embedded on the front page of http://www.hercolubus.tv/
- ↑ Samael Aun Weor, Closing Speech at the 1975 Gnostic Congress
- 1 2 Samael Aun Weor, The End of the Kali Yuga, a lecture delivered in 1976.
- 1 2 http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta335.htm
- ↑ "Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet | Caltech". The California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2016-11-19.