Topic: Axial Tilt

The "Golden Age" is described as a period before a physical and spiritual cataclysm caused the Earth's axial tilt. Without this tilt, the planet would have experienced a perpetual equinox and eternal spring, allowing for a high civilization at the North Pole (Hyperborea). As the pole became inhospitable due to cooling, these populations migrated south, leaving echoes of their culture in myths across the globe.

The term Atlantis is defined in the saga as "All Land Ice," referring to a period when the Earth's axis was tilted. The cosmology predicts the planet will eventually self-correct to a vertical position, melting the ice and returning Helsinki to a tropical North Pole paradise, a process linked to modern global warming.

Evidence suggests Earth's 23.5-degree axial tilt may be the result of a massive external impact that disrupted a previously vertical orientation. Such a shift would explain the sudden transformation of temperate regions into Arctic zones and vice versa. Some researchers propose that Antarctica was once a temperate landmass and could be the true location of the legendary Atlantis.

The mechanics of the Earth's 23.5-degree tilt are explained in relation to the changing pole stars over thousands of years. Carlson uses the visual diameter of the moon to explain arc minutes and seconds, showing how the measurement of space correlates with the measurement of time. He notes that the precessional motion moves at a rate of 50 arc-seconds per year, or one degree every 72 years.