Hey there. I realized while looking through a book store that I might be looking for a book that doesn't exist. While the concept of an apocalypse is certainly very Judeo-Christian, I know that there are certainly prophecies of doom and bad omens that come from other cultural sources (i.e. I don't just want references to biblical scripture). I want to do some research on bad omens and prophecies of doom from multiple cultures, but couldn't find any good books on the subject.

Any suggestions?

I hope this will help you.

Eschatology

There was a book out awhile back, Omens, Signs and Superstitions by Zolar that was good. An it also gave a brief history of them also.

I remember seeing this book in bookstores...

The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return by author Zecharia Sitchin. I'm not sure if this is even a good book - or if there's any good book on that subject at all - but I would say it fits the description. Did a little research and the ISBN 10 is 0061238236. This will make it easier to look for in bookstores both on and offline.

Just yesterday I also watched a Nostradamus related documentary which pointed some of his alleged prophecies about the end of the world coinciding with the end of the Mayan Calendar in about 2012. It seems as if someone dug up some ancient picture book from a library in Rome which somehow they want to relate to Michel Nostradamus at all cost – including the price of some of the most ridiculous remarks I’ve ever heard concerning iconological and textual interpretations. If you ask me, they're doing their best to install the fear of the end of the world once again, now that we've passed the psychological barrier of the 1999, 2000 and 2001.

It’s great publicity for prime-time TV documentaries and books, now that the Da Vinci Code craze is over. So think about it…

Yeah you make a great point. Da Vinci Code is just pish-posh i think. If doomsday happens then it just happens. By the way has anyone noticed anything different about the stars? There looks like a large amount of bright dust or something like that in the sky? I just noticed it slowly getting larger as the weeks and months goes on? Maybe it's just a cluster of stars or something....I was just curious.

We're in different parts of the world so we see different parts of the Universe. I haven't noticed anything strange with the skies and the stars, but then again, I can hardly see them from where I live.

I know it's safer out there if there's night lights on the streets but... it should also be a given right, the possibility of people to look at the stars from where they live. A steep price I had to pay for moving into a greater city: how I long for those dark nights in my home town where I could easily see the Milky Way.

For an 'alternative thinking' read, try "Slave species of god" by Michael Tellinger