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ATLANTIS: SETTING THE STAGE FOR UNDERSTANDING
The main point of this book is that we can no longer deny that a very
advanced civilization existed at least 12,500 years ago, and possibly much
farther into the mists of remote antiquity than that as well. The
unequivocal proof for this case is now emerging in so many different
directions simultaneously that to give even a brief overview of all the
major pieces of sheer physical / archeological evidence would fill at least
another entire book all by itself. For those who are interested in pursuing
this knowledge and research further, the following contemporary books are a
brief sampling of some of those that have demonstrated themselves as being
quite academic, reputable and enlightening:
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The Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited by
Edgar Evans Cayce
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Fingerprints of the Gods by
Graham Hancock
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When the Sky Fell by
Rand and Rose Flem-Ath
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The Orion Mystery by
Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert
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Message of the Sphinx by
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval
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From Atlantis to the Sphinx by
Colin Wilson
SPHINX WATER WEATHERING
The most common argument that one will encounter when reading the above
books and others like them has been commonly dubbed as the "smoking gun" of
the case for Atlantis. We are hereby referring to the observable fact that
the
Great Sphinx of Egypt, situated directly next to the three main pyramids
on the Gizeh plateau, shows unmistakable signs of having been weathered by
water. And since we all know that Egypt is now a desert, the Sphinx simply
must have been built at a time when a lush, green jungle climate with
abundant rainfall was in existence.
And even the most outrageously
conservative geological estimates for these conditions existing in Egypt
date back to at least 7,000 BC, and most would agree that 9,000 BC is a far
more realistic figure - and that is simply the most recent time that there
was any rainfall at all. You must then also factor in exactly how long it
would take for such advanced water weathering to occur - certainly not a few
hundred years but potentially many thousands.
This intriguing fact was originally pointed out by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz,
a brilliant scholar and thorough researcher who completely redefined
humanity’s understandings of ancient Egypt and Atlantis through the
mid-1900’s. A majority of his work focuses on the importance of
understanding how the Ancients used symbolism to convey ideas and
philosophies, through such things as hieroglyphics and architectural
creations. And even though his work is not widely known, its effects
continue to trickle down into modern society.
Contemporary author John
Anthony West re-discovered this information, which was rather casually
mentioned in de Lubicz’s book The Temple of Man, and realized that it was
clearly something that was testable and provable that had been almost
miraculously overlooked in the past. And after many, many failed attempts to
gain the support of myriad geologists, West was able to find cooperation
with Robert Schoch, a young but well-respected expert in the field, having
already written four published books on archeology by his late 20’s.
Schoch was reluctant to investigate the matter until he was certain that he
had secured tenure at his academic organization, but by the beginning of the
1990’s he was ready to proceed. West and Schoch then finally traveled to
Egypt and realized that the case was even more powerful than had been
previously thought- there were overwhelmingly redundant signs of water
weathering everywhere they looked, both on the Sphinx and nearby temples
made of huge stone blocks as well. Indeed, every "null hypothesis" or
skeptical denouncement of the water weathering argument has been artfully
dodged by West and Schoch as it has arisen. One simply cannot argue with
nature. The Sphinx was carved out of limestone, which is a conglomerate of
sandy particles that have fused together into a solid. Wind erosion produces
stratified, horizontally ribbed surfaces in limestone that look like the
pages on the side of an old book, as certain layers of the conglomerate rock
will be thinner and weaker and certain layers thicker and stronger. The
thicker areas of limestone will resist the power of the wind more strongly
and thus erode less, whereas the thinner layers will disappear more quickly,
thus producing an uneven surface.
On the other hand, water erosion produces smooth, sensuous curves that cut
directly down into the rock regardless of its thickness, forming rounded
corners, snakelike rivulets and crevices. The signs of this erosion are so
obvious that when West disguised the Sphinx out of the pictures with tape,
all geologists who he showed the images to could agree that it was a picture
of a rock outcrop with water erosion. However, once West removed the tape
and showed them where the picture was from, they immediately grew agitated
and did not want to discuss it any further, for simple fear of losing their
reputation. Schoch was the first geologist to face the facts and stake his
own reputation on the obvious.
And so, even if one was to throw away the multitudes of other solid evidence
that exists in support of an advanced ancient civilization, we can still
come back to the Sphinx. Once we know what we are looking for, we will
realize that this is only one of the more obvious means of proving that the
historical "Atlantean" culture had a precedent in fact - and we will gather
more and more of these clues as the book progresses.
ROBERT BAUVAL AND THE "GIZA ALIGNMENT"
The next major argument from recent history that is invariably discussed
with the "Atlantis question" comes from Robert Bauval. The three main
Pyramids of Egypt at Giza are arranged in close proximity to each other, and
Bauval was curious about the apparent lack of symmetry or geometry in their
layout. He knew that there had to be some reason for why they were aligned
in the way that is now seen, but try as he might to draw different diagrams
or connect them together with straight lines, nothing seemed to fit.
Inspiration finally struck as he looked up at the constellation of Orion,
which has three main stars that form the middle section, referred to as the
"belt."
He realized that the Pyramids of Giza were configured in precisely
the same manner as the "belt" of Orion, and he quickly proved his point by
overlaying the site maps of the Pyramids and the star maps of Orion’s belt
on top of each other. Not only was each Pyramid in the proper position, but
even the relative sizes and colors of the Pyramids were directly
proportional to the magnitudes and colors of the stars in Orion’s belt. (The
Cheops and Khefren pyramids were both originally covered in
white limestone
and are approximately the same size, like the two main stars in the belt,
whereas the Menkaure pyramid is significantly smaller and was originally
encased in red granite, like the dimmer and redder third star.)
As Bauval continued to investigate the matter, he realized that the
architects of Giza had created a perfect duplication of the starry heavens
on Earth - an idea that fit in perfectly with their concept of the
connection between the physical world and the Duat, or spiritual world. All
of the land, including the nearby Nile River, seemed to have been
harmoniously factored into the design. In other words, the position of the
Nile River relative to the Pyramids was identical to the position of the
Milky Way relative to Orion’s belt in the starry night sky. Further Pyramids
near Giza seemed to suggest that several other significant stars of Orion
and the nearby Hyades constellation were immortalized in stone on the Earth
as well.
Robert Bauval’s Comparison of Orion/Milky Way with Giza/Nile
By far, though, the most important aspect of Bauval’s entire argument was
that the Giza complex was obviously built to be time-encoded, utilizing a
natural, slow movement of the Earth known as precession. Later in the book
we will be discussing the phenomenon of Earth’s precession quite
extensively, which ultimately is nothing more than a long-term wobble in the
Earth’s north-south axis that takes 25,920 years to complete.
The precession
is observable here on Earth as an apparent shift of the positions of the
stars in the sky by one degree every seventy-two years. What this means is
that if you were to choose a set night each year such as the Equinox, when
the Sun is perfectly aligned with the Earth’s equator, and measure the
positions of all the stars in the sky for that night, after 72 years they
will have drifted one degree out of alignment. Over a much longer period of
time this creates an apparent circular motion in the heavens, which will
gradually change the location of the North Star as well as all other
constellations.
And so, by using a program known as Skyglobe, Bauval realized that the only
"recent" time that the Milky Way would be perfectly aligned with the Nile
River was roughly 12,500 years ago. At that time, and only at that time,
(unless you were willing to go back to over 30,000 years ago,) one could
stand on Earth and observe the Pyramids and Nile River at a distance, and
watch the Nile connect directly into the Milky Way and the stars of Orion’s
belt perfectly reflect the positions of the terrestrial pyramids. It was
clear that Bauval had found a time capsule, an encoded matrix of information
designed to show the exact time that the entire complex was first designed
and planned.
SUPER-ADVANCED DRILLING
Another recent breakthrough in the argument for a lost civilization with
high technology comes from Christopher Dunn, whose main expertise is in
drilling. He has definitively proven that certain artifacts, including the
empty coffin or "Granite Coffer" that is featured in the
King’s Chamber of
the Great Pyramid, show signs of super-advanced drilling techniques that
surpass anything now in our possession.
Dunn analyzed the Granite Coffer and
found unmistakable evidence that indicated that it had been hollowed out
with some form of tube-shaped drill that would core out a piece at a time.
Even more amazingly, the spiraling patterns that were left behind in the
granite showed that this drill was capable of boring through 1/10th of an
inch of rock per second. However, granite is such a hard stone that even our
most modern diamond-tipped drilling systems can do no better than 1/100th of
an inch per second.
Another area of Dunn’s investigation which was also noted by Graham Hancock
was the presence of carved vases and statues of diorite, which is
dark-colored and considered to be one of the hardest forms of stone on
earth. These vases have very long and thin necks, and are carved out from
one single piece of diorite. The openings on some vases are not even large
enough for a child’s finger to fit inside, and yet their inner contents were
hollowed out perfectly. So now we must not only visualize a drill that puts
our current designs to shame, but a drill that must have flexibility as
well, in order to produce a tiny hole and then move around inside.
Dunn’s
conclusion is that the Ancients must have been in possession of a drilling
technique that far outstrips anything that we now possess. He goes on
further to suggest that these ancient drills might have utilized ultrasonic
sound somehow, thus working in a similar fashion to how the repetitive
vibration of a jackhammer carves up concrete streets and sidewalks. But even
then, he is at a loss to explain how they could have carved the diorite
vases.
ANCIENT AIRCRAFT
Another relatively new and interesting development in the proof for a lost
technological society was recently pointed out by frontier scientist
Richard
Hoagland’s research team
The Enterprise Mission. Among other things
in this
article, Hoagland et al. discuss the recent findings of German scientists
Dr. Algund Eeboom and Mr. Peter Belting. Their discoveries concern several
small gold trinkets that were recovered from tombs of the Incas that date
back thousands of years. These trinkets clearly depict structures that
appear to be workable flying airplanes.
In order to prove that these tiny models represented real airplanes,
Eeboom
and Belting collaborated together to design perfect schematic diagrams of
the objects. They then expanded the proportions of these blueprints large
enough to build workable scale models.
And to their amazement, they found
that by simply putting a propeller at the front and stabilizers on the
wings, the planes not only flew but were capable of performing complex
aeronautical maneuvers via remote control. See the above link for more
details and photographs of their prototype in action.
Hoagland et al. also point out the far more well-known fact that working
bird-shaped gliders have been found within tombs in Egypt. Since these
gliders also possess remarkable similarity to working airplanes and are
capable of long flights when thrown, we must assume that the ancient
Egyptians were also well aware of this technology. With the evidence now
seen from the Incan tombs above, we may suppose that the bird gliders were
simply children’s toy models of systems that were in much more common use at
one time.
And so, if we are seeing workable airplane models being built as small gold
statuettes and wooden models in two different ancient cultures separated by
the Atlantic, we certainly must assume that a large-scale technological
society with full-sized, working aircraft was in existence at one time as
well. And after a hypothesized 12,500 years of time passing, we should
expect that any such structures made of wood or metal would have long since
deteriorated.
The Atlantean lore states that almost the entire concentration
of that society was on an island in the Atlantic that subsided under ocean
waters. And if the modern toys of our society were suddenly subjected to a
vast cataclysm and promptly left unattended for 12,500 years, the savage
action of tidal waves, land subsidence, rust, tornadoes, hurricanes, rising
sea levels, glaciers, natural disasters and all other forms of growth and
decay would most likely completely wipe out all remnants of things such as
wooden houses, hollow buildings and skyscrapers of glass, and metallic
automobiles, trains or airplanes.
So therefore, despite their toy-like appearance, these tiny statuettes could
well have been considered very sacred objects - some of the sole remaining
fragments of a culture destroyed in the seas of Time. These precious models
were held onto and possibly copied over and reduplicated for thousands of
years by the survived "Atlantean" cultures of the Incas and Egyptians before
being buried in their tombs. These were the direct symbols of a lost "time
of the Gods" when humankind had conquered the skies and could fly around at
will, with the gifts of advanced technology.
ATLANTEAN LITERATURE
Contrary to what many might believe, even those who have been studying the
subject for a long time, there do appear to be certain sources of literature
that have survived from the time of Atlantis. The most informative material
to provide an explanation for the airplane models that we discussed above
comes from the Vedic scriptures of India. According to David Hatcher
Childress in the book
Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis,
The India of 15,000 years ago is sometimes known as the
Rama Empire, a land
that was contemporary with Atlantis. A huge wealth of texts still extant in
India testify to the extremely advanced civilization that is said by these
texts to go back over 26,000 years. Terrible wars and subsequent earth
changes destroyed these civilizations, leaving only isolated pockets of
civilization.
The devastating wars of the (Hindu scripture known as the)
Ramayana and
particularly of the Mahabrata are said to have been the culmination of the
terrible wars of the last Kali Yuga, (or cosmic cycle of time.) The dating
process is difficult, in that there is no exact way to date the yugas
because there are cycles within cycles and yugas within yugas. A
greater yuga cycle is said to last 6000 years while a smaller yuga cycle is only 360
years in the theory expounded by Dr. Kunwarlal Jain Vyas. His papers said
that Rama belongs to the twenty-fourth small yuga cycle and that there is an
interval of 71 cycles between Manu and Mahabrata period, which comes out to
be 26,000 years.
Clearly, if the smaller Hindu cycle of time is 360 years and their
scriptures have diligently counted at least 71 of them, we are dealing with
a civilization that is far older than we are currently willing to
acknowledge. More importantly, within the voluminous Vedic scriptures are
repeated references to
vimanas, or
flying craft, as well as the usage of
what appear to be
devastating nuclear weapons. Indeed, some of the Vedic
descriptions of the vimana so perfectly match our modern concept of an
airplane that scholars invariably use this word when translating them into
English.
To elaborate a bit further on this point, we will cite a quotation from Dr.
Richard L. Thompson’s book Alien Identities. Thompson is a Cornell graduate
whose Ph.D. is in mathematics, and who also has a deep interest in Vedic
studies and UFOlogy.
His book actually stands fast as one of the few genuine
breakthrough texts in UFOlogy today, where an author made significant new
discoveries instead of simply rehashing second-hand accounts of events such
as the purported crash at Roswell. And so, from Chapter 7, pgs. 260-261, we
read the following, with underlines and comments that we inserted:
[The ancient author] Bhoja’s [text, called]
Samarangana-sutradhara, states
that the main material of a flying machine [or vimana’s] body is light wood,
or laghu-daru. The craft has the shape of a large bird with a wing on each
side. The motive force is provided by a fire-chamber with mercury placed
over a flame. The power generated by the heated mercury, helped by the
flapping of the wings by a rider inside, causes the machine to fly through
the air. Since the craft was equipped with an engine, we can speculate that
the flapping of the wings was intended to control the direction of flight
rather than provide the motive power...
[Note: The idea of the "flapping of the wings" could simply be an error in
translation by successive Vedic authors, initially referring to the pilot’s
utilization of the ailerons and stabilizers to steer the plane as it flew.]
I would suggest that the vimanas described by Bhoja are much more similar to
conventional airplanes than to UFOs. Thus they are made of ordinary
materials like wood, they have wings, and they fly like birds…
However these vimanas were actually powered, it seems likely that they
relied on some conventional mechanical method that extracted energy from
burning fuel and used it to produce a flow of air over wings. We can
contrast this with the flight characteristics of UFOs which don’t have
wings, jets or propellers, and seem to fly in a manner that contradicts
known physical principles.
The Vedic description of
a possible nuclear blast, culled directly from page
677 of the transcription of
the ancient
Drona Parva text
itself, is enough
to give us chills even now. Despite its horrific contents, we have inserted
it here to remind ourselves of what we have done to each other in our own
past:
The valiant Adwatthaman, then staying resolutely on his (vimana) touched
water and invoked the Agneya weapon, incapable of being resisted by the very
Gods. Aiming at all his visible and invisible foes, the preceptor’s son,
that Slayer of hostile heroes, inspired with mantras a blazing shaft of the
effulgence of a smokeless fire and let it off on all sides, filled with
rage. Dense showers of arrows then issued from it in the welkin. Endued with
fiery flames those arrows encompassed Parthie on all sides. Meteors flashed
down from the firmament. A thick gloom suddenly shrouded the (Pandava) host.
All points of the compass also were enveloped by that darkness… Inauspicious
winds began to blow. The Sun himself no longer gave any heat…
The very
elements seemed to be perturbed… The Universe scorched with heats seemed to
be in a fever. The elephants and other creatures of the land scorched by the
energy of that weapon, ran in fright, breathing heavily and desirous of
protection against that terrible force. The very water being heated, the
creatures residing in that element, O Bharata, became exceedingly uneasy and
seemed to burn…
Huge elephants burnt by that weapon, fell down on the Earth all around,
uttering fierce cries loud as those of the clouds. Other huge elephants,
scorched by that fire, ran hither and thither, roared aloud in fear, as if
in the midst of a forest conflagration. The steeds, O King, and the cars
also burnt by that weapon looked, O Sire, like the tops of trees burnt in a
forest fire.
Indeed, if this is not a terrifying description of
the usage of a nuclear
device in anger, then how do we explain all the connections that are so
easily seen? Is it for this reason that Robert Oppenheimer, one of the
fathers of the nuclear bomb, was quoted as saying upon the first test of a
modern prototype,
"This is not the first time that mankind has exploded a
nuclear device?"
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