The Iron Age of Mars

Author: Alfred de Grazia Year: 2009 Series: Quantavolution & Catastrophe (Volume XVI — final volume)

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Note: No plain text version is available on grazian-archive.com. This is a later (2009) synthetic work, not part of the original 15-volume series from the 1980s.

Source: https://grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/IRON_AGE_OF_MARS.pdf

Synopsis

The Iron Age of Mars is de Grazia’s final and most comprehensive synthesis of the Mars catastrophe hypothesis. Written 25 years after the core Quantavolution volumes, it incorporates subsequent research from the entire catastrophist community — Talbott, Cardona, Cochrane, Ginenthal, van der Sluijs — into a coherent account of Mars as the dominant near-Earth planetary body during the 8th–7th centuries BCE.

The “Iron Age of Mars” refers to the period when Mars repeatedly approached Earth closely, causing the disasters recorded in the Hebrew prophets, Hesiod, Homer, and other contemporaneous sources. De Grazia argues this is the origin of iron-working (meteoritic and electrical smelting), Mars-worship, and warrior-culture across the ancient world.

This is the definitive single-volume statement of the Mars catastrophe position, written for a reader already familiar with catastrophist literature. It draws on archaeology, mythology, plasma physics, and ancient astronomy.

Jno Cook’s Note

“Most noteworthy resource for that era” — cited as the primary reference for the 8th–7th century BCE catastrophe period and Mars’s role in it (Cook’s top recommendation among de Grazia’s works, in his annotated bibliography at saturniancosmology.org/books.php.html)

Key Themes

Mars as a near-Earth body during the 8th–7th centuries BCE
The origin of iron culture (meteoritic iron, electrical smelting in Mars encounters)
Warrior religion and Mars-worship as direct response to the visible planet
Integration of Talbott, Cardona, Cochrane into a unified catastrophist chronology
The close of the catastrophist era and the stabilization of the solar system

Related Authors

This work synthesizes and cites:

David Talbott — The Saturn Myth
Dwardu Cardona — God Star series
Ev Cochrane — Martian Metamorphoses
Charles Ginenthal — Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky
Martinus van der Sluijs — plasma mythography