>>2639562People have no idea how fucked things are going to be and just how variable and powerful these events actually are. The climate was hotter than today during the Viking warm period which set off the northern migrations and population boom, and much colder during both the early medieval "dark ages" which was due in part to the 536 AD eruption and set off the Germanic and Slavic migrations westward and southward to their current homes. The climate on Earth is extremely variable on both the micro and macroscale timelines.
You want the red pill. Most religions today encode information on these cycles and the disasters that came with them, including modern Christianity in the tradition of Christmas and the new testament, the more obvious one is Halloween (the global day of the dead) which occurs in every culture on Earth around the end of October and early November (when the Taurid meteor stream peaks as the Earth crosses the stream during this time, and occasionally at intervals on the order of thousands of years, gets hit by a meteor or meteors larger than 800 ft in diameter). In the old Roman calendar December (deca means "10" was originally what is now the month of October, hence pagan tradition of Christmas was originally the day of the dead around October 25th). There is no dispute over the evidence for these impacts, they happen, and they ended the last ice age in two major impact proxies during the Bolling-Allerod transition and the Younger Dryas in no less than 3 global impact events in the last 16kya. Which undoubtedly and with good evidence, annihilated human and animals populations on a scale that is still unfathomable. And those (events on the scale of only thousands of years or less) are the microcycles. Some of the legends of folklore hold truth and some were preserved as seemingly innocuous traditions until you look at the bigger picture, then they stop being coincidences. Man is at the mercy of nature, not the other way around.
