Conventional wisdom says that our Solar system only has eight planets. Those of you who follow such things are already aware of the fact that Pluto was demoted to a minor planet some time ago. Well, if my scholarship is correct, we may soon find another one.
According to the SkyPath Scrolls, Our ancestors (Persians, Romans, etc…) sailed into space a long time ago on ether streams and inhabited the other planets. This was before the holocaust of 1454 made them uninhabitable. These ancient adventurers told stories of a large, green planet the same size as Earth, hiding on the other side of the sun. According to the bits and pieces from the SkyPath Scrolls, it had three large moons. Unfortunately not much is known about this world, because at the time it could not be accessed by SkyPaths.
Meanwhile, in 1453 AD something horrible happened. The last of the ancient empires on Earth (Byzantium) was destroyed by the Ottoman Turks. As a result the spell of the ether streams was broken, and they ceased to exist. One by one the planets were cut off from each other, and their surface conditions–which had supported life for thousands of years–slowly changed into what they are today. By 1700 all these civilizations on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Pluto, Tritan, Titan, Ganeymede, Our moon, Io, Europa, and Callisto were destroyed.
But that is not the end of the story. There were times, for weeks on end, when the ether streams would temporarily reappear, allowing travelers to once again move from planet to planet. As far as I can tell from the few scroll fragments we have from the 16th century, some humans escaped from their planets to a “safe place.” I believe that this “safe Place” is Earth’s twin planet on the otherside of the sun. I believe that it and two if it’s moons are not only habitable, but they still have active ether streams that allow our long lost human cousins to move between the 3 worlds. As far as aliens are concerned, I do not know if there are intelligent species native to this planet or not. The SkyPath Scrolls do not say.
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