Hercolubus

Not to be confused with Helatrobus.
Artist's impression of 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]

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

References

  1. "Nacionales de El Diario de Hoy:". archivo.elsalvador.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  2. 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/
  3. Samael Aun Weor, Closing Speech at the 1975 Gnostic Congress
  4. 1 2 Samael Aun Weor, The End of the Kali Yuga, a lecture delivered in 1976.
  5. 1 2 http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta335.htm
  6. "Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet | Caltech". The California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
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