This type of behavior is in fact evident in the periodic rise and decline of Seth worship found in Egyptian records. A former curator of the Egyptian Museum, G.A. Wainwright, discusses this back and forth adherence to Seth worship in his book, The Sky Religion In Egypt , and several other articles he produced on this subject. Interestingly, Seth is associated with redness like many demons in various cultures . It is quite possible for comets to appear red if they contain a good supply of organic molecules. Perhaps this factor can help us to identify actual encounter events more easily.
Several cultures attribute red rains and red dust to sky gods.
The Pawnee, who were sacrificing people as recently as the 19th century due to the appearance of a comet or some other unusual showing in the sky, held that when it was time for the world to end the moon would turn red and stars would fall from the sky. On the 11th of February in 1096 there was also purported to be a lunar eclipse visible in Italy, during which the moon turned red. Pope Urban saw these messages from above as a sure sign that the Judgment Day was soon to come. It is worth emphasizing, as we approach the year 2000, that the concept of the present world coming to an end in some fiery day of judgment was born of actual experience with impact events destroying existing orders. Plato speaks of this in his Timeaus through the voice of an old Egyptian sage who informs the young Greek visitors that they lack knowledge of their ancient history due to periodic episodes of destruction by the gods.