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Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
By Ignatius Donnelly
Length13h 39m
About this audiobook
First published in 1883, "Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel" is a book by U.S. Congressman, populist writer, amateur scientist and Catastrophist Ignatius Donnelly. It is a companion to the more well-known work "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World."
In "Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel," Donnelly argues that an enormous comet hit the earth 12,000 years ago, resulting in widespread fires, floods, poisonous gases, and unusually vicious and prolonged winters. The catastrophe destroyed a more advanced civilization, forcing its terrified population to seek shelter in caves. As cave-dwellers, they lost all knowledge of art, literature, music, philosophy, and engineering...
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.
Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics, Dystopia
Length13 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 21, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART 1. THE DRIFT
2Chapter 1. The Characteristics Of The Drift
3Chapter 2. The Origin Of The Drift Not Known
4Chapter 3. The Action Of Waves
5Chapter 4. Was It Caused By Icebergs?
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6Chapter 5. Was It Caused By Glaciers?
7Chapter 6. Was It Caused By Continental Ice-Sheets?
8Chapter 7. The Drift A Gigantic Catastrophe
9Chapter 8. Great Heat A Prerequisite
10PART 2. THE COMET
11Chapter 1. A Comet Caused The Drift
12Chapter 2. What Is A Comet?
13Chapter 3. Could A Comet Strike The Earth?
14Chapter 4. The Consequences To The Earth
15PART 3. THE LEGENDS
16Chapter 1. The Nature Of Myths
17Chapter 2. Did Man Exist Before The Drift?
18Chapter 3. Legends Of The Coming Of The Comet
19Chapter 4. Ragnarok
20Chapter 5. The Conflagration Of Phaeton
21Chapter 6. Other Legends Of The Conflagration
22Chapter 7. Legends Of The Cave-Life
23Chapter 8. Legends Of The Age Of Darkness
24Chapter 9. The Triumph Of The Sun
25Chapter 10. The Fall Of The Clay And Gravel
26Chapter 11. The Arabian Myths
27Chapter 12. The Book Of Job
28Chapter 13. Genesis Read By The Light Of The Comet
29PART 4. CONCLUSIONS
30Chapter 1. Was Pre-Glacial Man Civilized?
31Chapter 2. The Scene Of Man's Survival
32Chapter 3. The Bridge
33Chapter 4. Objections Considered
34Chapter 5. Biela's Comet
35Chapter 6. The Universal Belief Of Mankind
36Chapter 7. The Earth Struck By Comets Many Times
37Chapter 8. The After-Word
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