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Volume #100, March/2010

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Immanuel Velikovsky

Worlds In Collision

By Immanuel Velikovsky

Rivers of Milk and Honey

The honey-frost fell in enormous quantities. The haggadic literature says that the quantity which fell every day would have sufficed to nourish the people for two thousand years. All the peoples of the East and the West could see it.

A few hours after the break of day, the heat under the cloud cover liquefied the graIns and volatilized them. The ground absorbed some of the liquefied mass, as it absorbs dew. The grains also fell upon the water, and the rivers became milky in appearance.

The Egyptians relate that the Nile flowed for a time blended with honey. The strange appearance of the rivers of Palestine -in the desert the Israelites saw no river- caused the scouts who returned from a survey of the land to call it the land that “floweth with milk and honey” (Numbers 13 : 27). “The heavens rain oil, the wadis run with honey,” says a text found in Ras-Shamra (Ugarit) in Syria.

In the rabbinical literature it is said that “melting of manna formed streams that furnished drink to many deer and other animals.”

The Atharva-Veda hymns say that honey-lash came down from fire and wind; ambrosia fell, and streams of honey flowed upon the earth. “The broad earth shall milk for us precious honey . . . shall pour out milk for us in rich streams.” The Finnish tradition narrates that land and water were covered successively by black, red, and white milk. The first and second were the colors of the substances, ashes and “blood,” that constituted the plagues (Exodus 7 and 9); the last one was the color of ambrosia that turned into nectar on land and water.

A memory of a time when “streams of milk and streams of sweel nectar flowed” is also preserved in Ovid.

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