Phaeton, son of Apollo, begged his father to lead one single day the chariot of the Sun. Apollo gave in and it was a disaster. Ovid told us Phaeton's road leaving, when the Sun has burned the Earth:Click >

« The Earth firstly catches fire in its hills; the heat opens them, and dries up the juices that feed the plants. The dry meadows whiten, the trees burn with their leaves ... The cities perish with their walls; the fire consumes and burns forests and mountains, nations and peoples ... Lybia,It means whole of North Africa. The flood would have changed the climate of this area, that allow to date it around -10.000. See Le Déluge losing all its moisture, becomes a barren land ... The Don fumes in the middle of its waves; the Euphrates burns in Babylon, the Ganges, the Phase and the Danube boil; the banks of Sperchios are in flames. (source)Ovid Metamorphoses

The golden sands of Tagus melt under the heat, and the swans burn. The Nile, terrified, runs away to the ends of the world ... Its seven dry mouths form deep valleys where water no longer flows. The Earth opens up on all sides ... The sea shrinks, and what was once the bottom of the ocean becomes nothing more than a plain of arid sands. Mountains previously hidden inside suddenly appear, and increase the number of the Cyclades. »  (source)Ovid Metamorphoses

We can object that Ovid is a poet. The episode he tells us is just a myth, and myth is not history. Except that Plato will show us it is: to the great philosopher, a myth is the echo of a real event.See L'histoire d'avant l'histoire

Formerly in Egypt, a priest said to Solon: « Your country, like ours, tells the story of Phaeton, son of the Sun, who harnessed his father's chariot, but could not keep it in its usual way, and burned therefore everything on Earth and perished himself struck by lightning. This story looks like a legend, but it is in fact the echo of a real event: the overthrow of the celestial bodies that revolve around the Earth and the destruction of earthly things by a wild fire which occured within long intervals of time. » (source)Plato, Timaeus

An Arrow of Fire in the Sky

The world's blazing-up is a constant motif. In the Bible, Psalm 105 evokes 'a river of fire' and the Book of Daniel, 'a blazing torrent'. Other passages suggest a general blazing that would have occured in a distant past: the Gehenna of fire, the flames of Hell, consuming the whole Earth, maybe the original myth of the Burning Bush.See L'Arche retrouvée The Aztecs believed that one of the past ages of humankind, also called Sun,See Le Cinquième Soleil ended with a total furnace.

« At that time, everything was destroyed by a rain of fire falling from the sky and a flood of lava. All houses were burned. The men were turned into birds to survive the disaster. » A cette époque, tout fut détruit par une pluie de feu tombant du ciel et un déluge de lave. Toutes les maisons furent brûlées. Les hommes furent changés en oiseaux pour survivre à la catastrophe."

According to the Indians from the Pacific coast of North America, 'the shooting star'Click > and 'the arrow of fire' lit the fire on the Earth: « We could only see a sea of flames; the rocks burned, the ground burned, everything was burning; the smoke rose in columns, in huge curls; the flames, with jets of sparks, rose towards the glowing sky. The big fire was raging, burning rocks, land, trees, people, burning everything. Then the water rushed,See De l'eau partout it rushed like a thousand rivers, covered the Earth and extinguished the fire by flowing towards the South. It was raising to the height of mountains. »

The Chinese mythology makes the same description: « During the reign of Yao,See YHVH they say, occured a miracle: for ten days, the sun did not lie down, the forests burned and the whole country was flooded. » A huge wave,It is coming in a few pages. If you are too impatient, you may click here « which rose to heaven », descended to the Chinese land. « The waters rushed to the assault on high mountains, and the hills were invisible. » It reminds of the Bible:Psalms 104 and 107, quoted by Velikovsky « The waters covered the mountains », and « waves of the sea raised to heaven ». 

A huge hurlyburly, nothing looks like what it was anymore. We put dead men at the table. Fenrir the Wolf was taken for a dog. (source)Thanks to Louis Aragon! The world sees the return of the chaos: it is the end of cosmic order.Click + below