Abstract
Most human cultures have doomsday myths, ranging from Biblical stories of Armageddon to the Scandinavian tales of Ragnarok - the “Twilight of the Gods”. Hindu cosmology holds that the Universe ends in fire and regenerates from water. Andent Persian Zoroastrians believed along lines similar to Judea-Christians- that an ultimate savior would be born and rid the world of evilalthough for the Zoroastrians this involved the Earth and its inhabitants perishing in a flow of molten metal before renewal, just as Aztec cosmology proposed cyclic annihilation and renewal.
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Smith, C. M., & Davies, E. T. (2012). A Choice of Catastrophes: Common Arguments for Space Colonization. In Emigrating Beyond Earth (pp. 113–149). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1165-9_4
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