1) I assign the planets in a more traditional order -- it's the same as yours, except that the Polarian civilization cycle was lunar and the Atlantean was solar. (The Moon rules infancy as Saturn rules old age, and the Sun corresponds more precisely to the golden Atlantean zenith.) But it's a matter of symbolism, rather than anything stricter.
2) Yes, exactly -- the 19th-century clairvoyants responsible for much of this had no way to check their perceptions and got a lot of stuff jumbled up hopelessly. One of the uses of modern paleontology is that it helps sort out which visions belong where.
3) The Hopi had a prophecy, going back a very long ways, that someday white people would come to their land, bearing one of two sacred symbols. If they brought the circle, everything would be fine, but if they brought the cross, that meant horrible events and ultimately the end of the Fifth World. As I see it, there was a struggle on the physical and spiritual levels alike to determine which way things would go. We know who won.
Re: Occult & astrological history, part II
2) Yes, exactly -- the 19th-century clairvoyants responsible for much of this had no way to check their perceptions and got a lot of stuff jumbled up hopelessly. One of the uses of modern paleontology is that it helps sort out which visions belong where.
3) The Hopi had a prophecy, going back a very long ways, that someday white people would come to their land, bearing one of two sacred symbols. If they brought the circle, everything would be fine, but if they brought the cross, that meant horrible events and ultimately the end of the Fifth World. As I see it, there was a struggle on the physical and spiritual levels alike to determine which way things would go. We know who won.