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(Rachivel)
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EL ELYON HAD ESTABLISHED the orbits of Ma'adim and Kadur Ha'aretz precisely so the two planets would intersect each other's orbits on a set schedule, and every so often they would experience a near pass. A near pass-by of planets causes an energy transfer through orbital resonance.
The sun did not literally stand still, as the eye witnesses to the event would tell their children and grandchildren. But then, they knew nothing about orbital resonance. What actually happens is the energy transfer causes a polar shift that throws off all the compass points, also affecting orbit and rotation. While all this was happening, the sun appeared to stop and remain fixed in place for a full day, due to relative positions of the sun and the eye witnesses' position on the surface of the planet.
El Elyon worked out the timing of these near passes, knowing how history would unfold and that he could use the effects of the energy transfer to the benefit of his followers...and the confoundment of his enemies.
If you find that level of precision and forward-planning incredible, just consider the accuracy of the meteor storm. Meteors are rocks–inanimate objects. It's ridiculous to suppose they could differentiate between a Yacovim and his enemy, much less alter their own course to strike one and not the other. Yet the meteors fell only on the enemy that day, killing more of them than the soldiers of Yacov were able to kill, at final count. And it is the mother of all understatements to say that the meteor storm was put into motion long before anyone on the battlefield was even born.
Nonetheless, this day marked the closest the two planets would get to each other. From that day on (during the span of everyone alive at the time), Ma'adim shrunk in the sky, and the epidemic of natural disasters would dwindle with its retreat.
The reputation of El Elyon, however, and the fear he inspired, would not dwindle as quickly.
