Atlantis

The Pyramids of Giza symbolize everything that ancient Egypt stands for in the minds of the world today; advanced technology, immerse building capabilities, exact geodesy, precision geometry and astronomical knowledge far exceeding that of any other contemporary culture….

There really did appear to be some justification to link the Egyptian gods with the Watchers…But it seems absurd even to contemplate the idea that organized society , controlled by a succession of God – kings , could have existed in Egypt for tens of thousands of years before the first civilized society appeared in the near east . .

Yet the ancient Egyptians also spoke of something known as Zep teri , or the First Time , a kind of Golden Age that began at the point of the First Creation and was ruled over by the ntr – gods , such as Osiris and his son Horus .

According to the noted Egyptian language scholar, R . T , Rundle Clark , this Golden Age was viewed by the Egyptians as a time of ” absolute perfection – ” before rage or clamour or strife or uproar had come about ” . No death , disease or disaster occurred in this blissful epoch , known variously as ” the time of Re ” , ” the time of Osiris ” , or ” the time of Horus ” .

Not only were the Egyptians sure of the immense antiquity of their race , but Greek philosophers were as well. For example Plato ( 429 -347 B C ) in his Timaeus , tells the story of ” a relative and great friend of my great – grandfather ” , whose name was Solon .

This man had apparently traveled to Egypt and engaged the priests at the temple of the goodness Neith , located within the Nile delta town of Sais , in a rather enlightening conversation that had supposedly taken place some six hundred years before the Christian era . On the subject of the antiquity of the Hellenes , one very ancient priest had lectured Solon , saying :

” O Solon , Solon , you hellenes are but children , and there is never an old man who is an hellene . ” Solon, hearing this said, “What do you mean?” ” I mean to say  , he replied , ” that in mind you are all young ; therein no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition , no any science which is hoary with age .

And I will tell you the reason of this : there have been , and there will be again , many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes …..a great conflagration of thins upon the earth recurring at long intervals of time; when this happened, those who live upon the mountain and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction that those who dwell by rivers or on the sea – shore; and from this calamity the Nile, who is our never failing savior, saves and delivers us .

When, on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge of water, among you herdsmen and shepherds on the mountains are the survivors, whereas those of you who live in cities are carried by the river into the sea, but in the country neither at that time nor at any other does the water come from above on the fields, having always a tendency to come up from below, for which reason the things preserved here are said to be the oldest. “

The old priest at Sais goes on to tell Solon about ” the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived ” , before he recounts the story of how the fables ” island of Atlantis ” , beyond the ” Pillars of Heracles ” , were destroyed by devastating earthquakes and floods 9.000years before their age , giving an approximate date of around 9.600 B.C , exactly the time – frame of the global cataclysms and climatic changes that apparently heralded the end of the last Ice Age .

He also tells Solon that according to the ” sacred registers ” the Egyptian race was founded ” 8.000 years ago ” , in other words 1.000 years after the submergence of Atlantis and the foundation of the Hellenic race by the survivors of this ” noblest ” race :

Hand in hand with the increased popularity in fallen angels during the nineteenth century was the interest shown in the myths and legends surrounding the fabled island of Atlantis, as presented by Plato in his works Gritias and Timaeus .

The idea of an advanced civilizations having once existed in what seemed to have been the Atlantic Ocean appealed to many, especially since the old priest of Sais had informed Solon that Atlantis was lost during violent cataclysms 9.000years before their own day.

Among those who become convinced that Atlantis really had existed was an American named Ignatius Donnelly ( 1831 – 1901 ) , author of a bestselling book entitled ;

Atlantis; the Antediluvian World, first published in 1882.

In spite of its popularity Donnely went beyond simply trying to answer the question of whether or not Atlantis was fact or fantasy , reviewing – in addition to the evidence concerning this lost continent – literally hundreds of unexplained mysteries from both side of the Atlantic . These included everything from a comparison of different flood myths to the study of elongated skulls, the discovery of anomalous artifacts and the mysteries of the Great Pyramid .

At the same time as Ignatius Donnelly was publishing the mysteries of Atlantis into the popular consciousness, the influence of Eastern mysticism from India and Nepal was also beginning to introduce the idea that previously unknown human races had once existed.

One person deeply influenced by such thoughts was the Russian medium, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky . She returned from the East claiming to be in psychic communication with what she described as the Mahatmas, or Hidden Masters, who allegedly provided her with written accounts of primordial “root ” races that existed on earth long before the rise of the modern civilization .

Jegova Witnesses prophecies

The Watch Tower organization claiming to be a “Prophet”

Did any of their prophecies come true?

You will be interested to learn that God has on earth a people, all of whom are prophets, or witnesses for God. In fact, they are known throughout the world as Jehovah’s Witnesses. – Awake, June 8, 1986

It is through the columns of The Watchtower that Jehovah provides direction and constant Scriptural counsel to his people. – The Watchtower, May 1, 1964

“So does Jehovah have a prophet to help them, to warn them of dangers and to declare things to come? These questions can be answered in the affirmative. Who is this prophet? This “prophet” was not one man, but was a body of men and women. It was the small group of footstep followers of Jesus Christ, known at that time as International Bible Students. Today they are known as Jehovah’s Christian Witnesses…Of course, it is easy to say that this group acts as a prophet’ of God. It is another thing to prove it.” The Watchtower, 4/1/72, p. 197.

And in proclaiming the ” second coming , or presence , of Christ as due in 1914 , with the subsequent establishment of Gods kingdom power toward the earth beginning at that date ” .Pastor Russell had no equal , they say . He was Millennium foremost prophet. His successor, J . F . Rutherford, declared: “He did a greater work for the cause of Messiahs Kingdom that did any man that ever lived on the earth”. (The Watch Tower, December 1 1916. p.374)(Jehovah’s Witnesses, The New World Society. Marley Cole 1955 p 51 )

Those who are convinced that The Watchtower is publishing the opinion or expression of a man should not waste time in looking at it at all… Those who believe that God uses The Watchtower as a means of communicating to his people, or of calling attention to his prophecies, should study The Watchtower…” — The Watchtower January 1, 1942, page 5

The Watchtower of July 1st, 1973, page 402,

“Consider too, the fact that Jehovah’s organization alone in all the earth is directed by Gods holy spirit or active force.”

The year 1914

“…the battle of the great day of God Almighty’ (Revelation 16:14), which will end in A.D. 1914 with the complete overthrow of earth’s present rulership, is already commenced.” The Time Is at Hand, page 101 (1908 edition).

1904 “According to our expectations the stress of the great time of trouble will be on us soon, somewhere between 1910 and 1912, culminating with the end of the ‘Times of the Gentiles,’ October, 1914.” (The New Creation, Studies in the Scriptures, Vol. 6, p. 579, 1904)

“We see no reason for changing the figures–nor could we change them if we would. They are, we believe, God’s dates, not ours. But bear in mind that the end of 1914 is not the date for the beginning, but for the end of the time of trouble. We see no reason for changing from our opinion expressed in the view presented in the Watch Tower of January 15, ‘92. We advise that it be read again.”

–Watchtower 7/15/1894, p.1677

(The Truth Shall Set You Free, p. 300) “Christ Jesus came to the kingdom in A.D. 1914, but unseen to men.”

1902 “In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.” (The Time Is At Hand, 1902 edition, p. 99)

“The date of the close of that ‘battle’ is definitely marked in Scripture as October, 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October 1874.” Watchtower Reprints, 1/15/1892, p 1355

(Studies in the Scripture, Vol. 2, pp. 98-99) It was said that “within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved. . . The full establishment of the Kingdom of God will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1814.”

“The present great war in Europe is the beginning of the Armageddon of the Scriptures.”

–SERMONS (C.T. Russell) 1917

1903 “When Uranus and Jupiter meet in the humane sign of Aquarius in 1914, the long-promised era will have made a fair start in the work of setting man free to work out his own salvation, and will insure the ultimate realization of dreams and ideals of all poets and sages in history.” (Watchtower, May 1, 1903, p. 130-131; p3184 Reprints)

Edfu

Throughout the 3000years of their recorded history , the ancient Egyptians honored a tradition which asserted that  no site was sacred unless it had been build upon the foundations of an earlier sacred site .It is a tradition which is richly expressed at the great temple of Horus – the solar deity whose mythical parents were the star – Gods Isos ( Sirius ) and Isiris ( Orion ) – which stands on the west bank of the Nile at Edfu in Upper Egypt …

In the marvelously preserved form in which it survives today , this temple is not old , at any rate not by ancient Egyptian standards , since the building of the central structures did not begin until 237 BC and continued sporadically until 57 BC .
Nevertheless , archaeologists take note of the fact that vestiges of far more ancient engineering works are still in evidence at Edfu . The inner and outer enclosure walls , for example , date from the Old Kingdom ( 2575 – 2134 BC ) and later wall running outside the outer one dates from the first Intermediate period ( 2134 – 2040 BC ) There are remains of other structures that have been dated to the Second Intermediate Period ( 1640 – 1532 BC ) and to the New Kingdom ( 1550 – 1070 BC ) .

In short , archaeology tells us that Edfu was continuously maintained and developed as a sacred site over a period of well over 2000 years – from at least the third millennium BC until around the time Of Christ .

Te evidence confirms the essential accuracy of a vast ” library ” of written information that has come down to us in the form of acres of hieroglyph carved on the towering limestone walls of the temple itself .
These ” Edfu Building texts ” repeatedly describe the temple as a copy of an earlier , pristine original , and speak of the various stages of building ans rebuilding that preceded its present form . Where the texts vary from the archaeological records is in the time – frame thet envisage – a time – frame that steps outside all known history and returns us to a forgotten age thousand of yaers before the first Pharaoh of the First Dynasty sat on the throne of Egypt .

As the late Dr Eve Reymond of Liverpool University has shown , it was believed that :

“the constitution of the historical temple was determined by a pre – existing entity of a mythical nature …The temple is , in a strict sense , the con- creating of its Ancestor…” made like unto that which was made in its plans of the beginning ” .

The texts speak of the sanctuary of the historical temple at Edfu as the god´s ” genuine Great Seat of the First Occasion ” and refer again and again to ancient boks and writings which apparently were used to guide the construction of the temple . These documents , had been handed down from the legendary epoch known to the ancient Egyptians as the ” First Occasion ” ( also referred to as the ” First Time ” – ” Zep Tepi ” – the ” early primeval age ” , the ” time of Osiris ” , the ” time of Horus ” , )

It was an epoch, very far away in the past, in which a group of divine beings known sometimes as the ” Seven Sages ” and sometimes as ” the builders gods ” were believed to have settled in Egypt and to have established ” sacred mounds ” at various points along the NIle . These mounds were to serve as the foundations , and to define the orientation , of temples to be build in the future …

More specifically , and the Edfu texts are very clear on this , it was intended that the development og these sites should bring about nothing less that ” the resurrection of the former world of the gods ” – a world that had been uttery destroyed .

We are told that this lost domain , the Homeland of the Primeval Ones ” , was  ” an island which , in part , was covered with reeds and stood in darkness in the midst of the primeval water … ” We are told that ” the creation of the world begun on this island , and that it was here that ” earliest mansions of the gods were founded ” . At a certain point during the primeval age , how-ever . this blessed ” former world ” was overwhelmed , suddenly and totally , by a great flood , the the majority of its ” divine inhabitants ” were drowned and the ” masions of the gods were inundated ” .

The notion that a temple – or a former world – might be reborn seems strange to us today , since our civilization is accustomed to think of time in a linear rather that in a cyclical fashion .But in ancient Egypt the image of time as an eternal serpent , endlessly swallowing its own tail , conditioned all thought about the past , present and future .  For this reason it was not difficult for people to believe that every living , conscious soul , and every characteristic ” epoch ” of the earth , would return again and again into existence .
Indeed , temples themselves were considered to be living beings , all of which were descended from a common ancestor – ” a temple that once really existed “as Reymond comments , ” in the dim past of pre dynastic Egypt ” . She adds :

The Edfu tradition , and so perhaps the tradition od many other temples , evidently looked on this far – distant temple as the work of the gods themselves in which the creation of the Earth was completed .
It is entirely consistent with the cyclical tone – frame of Edfu texts that the  Far-Distant temple to which Raymond refers should itself have been seen as a copy of an even earlier architecture .

When the goods begin to build it , we are told , theu modelled it upon a place ” that was believed to have existed before the world was created ” .
This place was called the Duat – N – Ba , literally the   ” Netherworld of the Soul ” .

” Hall of Records “

Modern – day phychics , occult societies and new age mystics all believe firmly in the existence at Giza of an underworld labyrinth of concealed corridors and hidden chambers , which they see as having been constracted by survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis , or even an aliens …

Such ideas , although highly fascinating , are , as we have seen , not enitrely new . As early as Roman times , legends abounded in Egypt concerning the existence in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids of ” subterranean fissures and winding passages called syringes ” , build so that they might preserve ” the memory ” of ancient rites ” which it was feared would be destroyed in a coming ” deluge ” .

Similar traditions were also preserved by the coptic Church , and recorded in writing by later Arab historians …

In 1993 these wild ideas suddenly became more than simply the delusions of the new – age community . Not only was a previously unknown chamber found at the end ofthe southern shaft of the Queen´s Chamber incide the Great Pyramid by a tiny high – tech robot , but another , even more enigmatic discovery was made public for the frst time .

During the autumn of that year , it was announced that seismic soundings of the hard bedrock beneah the Shpinxenclosure had revealed the presence , some five metres down , of a large rectangulatr room some nine metres by twelve metres in size .

Dr Thomas L. Dobecki , the geophysicist and consultant in charge of the operations , which were conducted in 1991 , was cautiously optimistic about the discovery , admitting that : ” The regular , rectangular shape of this ( chamber ) is inconsistent with naturally occurring cavaties , so there is some suggestion that it could be man – made . “

Mystics,phychics and new – agers alive believe that a series of concealed chambers awaits discovery beneath the Giza platean .

In 1996 a team of geophysicists , working under the direction of the University of Florida  began a new round of seismic testing in the Sphinx enclosure .The official reason given for the exploration by Dr Zawi Hawass of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt was to examine he limestone bedrock in order to pinpoint faults and cavities that might present a potential hazard to visitors if they were to collapse .

It was , however , clear to anyone with any kinowledge of the subject that the real purpose of this work was to confirm Dobecki´ findings and to see whether an entrance could be found into the ” Hall Of Records ” , which the Egyptian presidential family and the Egyptian authotities firmly believe to exist .

Before they too were ordered to cease their exploration of the Sphinx enclosure in late 1996 , for alleged irregularities in their methods of surveying , team was able to detect the presence of no fewer that nine further tunnels or chambers located beneath the bedrock .

Geophysical sensing equipment also produced reading that strongly suggested the presence in all of them of metal .

What might these teams have actually found ?

Have they detected naturel cavities caused by underground water erosion , or were they man – made structures created either by the Pharaonic Egyotians or by the Sphinx – building Elder culture ?

Until further exploration is permitted by the Egyptian government we must all wait with bated breath for the answer

What seemed more important  , to ascertain exactly what might be contained inside these chambers . Were they in any way linked with Giza´s lost underworld domain , and , if so , who constructed them , and why ?

Heliopolis of Egypt

The earliest non – Jewish source that mentions Moses and the Exodus is the writings of an Egyptian priest and historian named Manetho , who lived c. 320 BC . Manetho seems to have acutely aware of the legends circulating Egypt during his own day concerning a great prophet and leader known to the Jews of Alexandria as Moses.

Manetho tells us …….

It was then that the 80.000 “impure people” elected for themselves a leader” out of the priests of Heliopolis ” named Osarsiph , who afterwards took the name Moses . He instituted many new laws and customs quite opposite to those of Egypt and told his people that they should not “worship the Egyptian gods “. They were also not to abstain from killing those animals sacred to these gods and were to join themselves to nobody but to those that were of this confederacy”.

Manetho records that Osarsiph – Moses then told the “impure people “to stop working in the quarries and instead build walls around their city and make ready for a war against the king.

Manrtho tells us that Osarsiph – Moses belonged to an elite religious group known as the as the priests of Heliopolis. Who exactly were these priests of Heliopolis…?

A Greek grammarian of the first century AD named Apion of Alexandria made some quite remarkable statement about the life of Moses, the biblical Lawgiver. In a quotation taken from his now lost work Aegyptiaca, fortunately preserved by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, tells us:

I have heard of the ancient men of Egypt, that Moses was of Heliopolis, and that he thought himself obliged to follow the customs of his forefathers, and offered his prayers in the open air, toward the city walls: but that he reduced them all to be directed toward the sun – rising, which was agreeable to the situation in Heliopolis…

Apion was writing 1300 year after the Exodus out of Egypt, and yet it is clear that even in his own age the memory of Israel’s great religious reformer was still strong in the minds of the Egyptian people. Like Manetho before him , Apion goes on to strata that this wise man ” of Heliopolis ” united the ” lepers ” and ” impure people “against the might of Egypt before being out of the country by the ruling Pharaoh .

Heliopolis was a great centre of learning, a “university “known throughout the ancient world. Greek writers and travelers would come to spend time with its learned priests, who were apparently versed in the ancient wisdom.

The ancient heritage and wisdom of the Heliopolis priesthood were renowned. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian of the fifth century BC, visited Heliopolis and subsequently recorded that in his opinion its priests had ” the reputation of being the best skilled in history of all the Egyptians “.

Not only were they versed in geometry, medicine, mythology and philosophy, but they were also looked on as “masters of astronomy “.

Herodotus alludes to this in his History by stating that the priests of Heliopolis , along with those of Memphis and Thebes , ” were the first to discover the solar year , and to portion out its course into 12 parts- knowledge , he said they obtained ” from the stars ” .The priests also Informed him that the Egyptians were the first to use the ” names of the 12 gods , which the Greeks adopted from them ” and the first to erect ” altars , images and temples to the gods ” and that ” in most cases they proved to me that what they said was true ” .

The age-old libraries of Heliopolis contained many ancient books hoary with age even in Khasekhemre – Neferhoteps days. It was from Manetho, who was himself a priest there. Undoubtedly obtained much of the material that appear sunsequently in both his king-lists and his how lost three volume history of Egypt

Other writers who are known to have consulted the Libraries at Heliopolis include Pythagoras, Thales,Democritus and Eudoxus . Plato, the noted Greek philosopher and author of various literature works of great importance , wrote that the priests of Egypt had observed the stars ” for 10.000years or so to speak , for an infinite time ” .

God were viewed by the priests of Heliopolis as the true founders of its first physical temple , known as the Mansion of the Princes or the Mansion of the Nobles .

The priesthood would seem to have been convinced that the Divine Souls had ruled from Heliopolis and its environs during a golden age prior to the coming of the mortal kings…..

To these astronomers-priests of great wisdom and understanding, such concepts were not simply myths; they were a tangible reality conveyed in poetic terms within their cosmological doctrine. To them Heliopolis really was the home of the gods, who really had build the first temples both here and at nearby Giza.

Our knowledge of the Giza plateau antiquity, along with its astronomical alignments and high technology, points clearly towards the fact that the astronomer- priests of Heliopolis were somehow preserving the memory of the Sphinx – building Elder culture, who reigned supreme in Egypt during the First Time, the age of the lion, which had passed many thousands of years before the ascension of the first Pharaoh..

It seems plausible that if anyone inherited the advanced technology of the Elder gods, then it was the priesthood of Re at Heliopolis.

Pyramids of Giza

As the pale light of the equinoctial sunrise steadily increases, it lifts the veil of darkness covering the elevated plateau. It picks out the presence of Giza’s most awesome legacies of the past – the tree great pyramids that tower skywards like immortal sentinels marking the achievements of an unknown age we can only just begin to comprehend.

Two and a half million blocks, ranging in size from two to seventy tones apiece, were used in the construction of the Great Pyramid, the largest and perhaps the most enigmatic of the tree matching structures. It covers an aria of five hectares and weighs an incredible six million tones, and until the construction of the Eifel Tower it was the tallest structure in the World. There is more stone in the Great Pyramid than in all the churches, chapels and cathedrals build in England since the time of Christ .Yet this great wonder of the past is more than simply an architectural curiosity, for it embodies a level of sophistication far superior to anything the world has produced in any epoch since.

Over the past 200 years many hundreds of books have been written about the mysteries of the Great Pyramid, most of them are a hard core of evidence which really does show that the pyramid builders were privy to universal knowledge far beyond that accredited to the Ancient Egyptians by scholars today.

The list of strange facts concerning the Great Pyramid is endless. None of this is likely to be coincident. As academics who’d have us believe. It seems more credible to suggest that the pyramid builders purposely created a legacy for the future times.

Through the universal language of science, mathematics and engineering, they were attempting to put on record their vastly superior knowledge and wisdom of geodesy, geometry, metrology and harmonic proportions.

The presence alone of the Great Pyramid tells us that the Ancient Egyptians were no fools. Nothing seems to have been left to coincidence or chance .This monument was build to tell us a story of their past and that past indicates strongly that they were the inheritors of a universal knowledge and wisdom that was the culmination of many thousands of years of evolution and progress in understanding the ways of this world.

If this is true, then the Great Pyramid’s proximity to the Sphinx and its accompanying megalithic temples is also no coincidence. There is a clear message here, and if it could be put into plain language then it would probably read as follows:

What we have embodied in stone and you have now understood

” Is an expression, a celebration, of that which was handed down to us by those who established the sanctity of this elevated plateau during the First Time, the age of the gods? Let this be a monument to their memory…”

To many it might seem so, but ancient sources speak openly of the great knowledge and wisdom preserved in the design of the Great Pyramid. For instance, the so – called Akbar Ezzeman manuscript, attributed to the tenth – century Arab traveler named al-Mas´udi and based on a now – lost Coptic historical work, says it contains:

….the wisdom and acquirements in the different arts and science…the science of arithmetic and geometry , that they might remain as records for the benefit of those who could afterwards comprehend them …the position of the stars and their cycles ; together with the history and chronicle of time of that which is to come .

There is compelling evidence to suggest that the Ancient Egyptians inherited their great wisdom from a much earlier Elder culture which was able to pass on the flame of knowledge before its own apparent demise. As we see, all the indications are that the Elder gods inhabited Egypt some between c. 12,500 and 9500 BC. They build the Sphinx and the earliest megalithic temples of Giza, and they achieved a high level of sophistication later encapsulated in the design of the Great Pyramid…

Archaeological evidence supports the idea that members of an unknown race of unparalleled sophistication emerged in Egypt as early as predynastic times, c. 3500 – 3100 BC. Late predynactic graves in the northern part of Upper Egypt have yielded ” anatomical remains of a people whose sculls were of greater size and whose bodies were larger that those of the natives “.

Sphinx

Thanks to the work of Egyptologist John Anthony West and DR Robert Schoch, Professor of Geology at Boston University, we now know that there are serious scientific objection to the presently accepted dating of the Great Sphinx of Egypt.

There have been an evidence – extensively outlined elsewhere – which cast fatal doubt on the orthodox Egyptological theory attributing the monument to the Forth Dynasty Pharaoh Knafre (ruled 2520 – 2494 BC). It is sufficient to state, as at least one senior member of the profession has been honest enough to admit, that “there is not a single ancient inscription which connects the Sphinx to Knafre “. The monuments, in other words, is anonymous stone. It is carved in one piece out of the bedrock of the Giza plateau, although later patched up with repair blocks ( in both ancient and modern times ) is still recognizable in essence as a gigantic monolith . As such it is not susceptible to carbon – dating, which can measure the age of organic materials only.

Indeed just as there is not a single ancient inscription concerning the Sphinx so also there is not a single test presently in existence which can tell us accurately when the monument was carved. Theoretically that could have happened at any time after the limestone of the Giza plateau was originally laid down by former oceans tens of millions of years ago… Professor Robert Schoch´s work helps to narrow the search by establishing a minimum age for the SPHINX .

But Schoch´s finding s are fiercely controversial because they set that minimum age very high, at 7000 years or older – i.e. deep in predynastic times, at least 2500 years earlier that the date accepted by Egyptologists. The Boston geology professor is, however, unrepentant: I’ve been told over and over again that the people of Egypt, as far as we know, did not have either the technology or the social organization to cut out the core body of the Sphinx in the pre – dynastic times…

However, I don’t see it as being my problem as a geologist. I’m not seeking to shift the burden, but it’s really up to Egyptologists and archaeologists to figure out who carved it. If my findings are in conflict with their theory about the rise of civilization then maybe its time for them to re – evaluate that theory. I’m not saying that the Sphinx was build by Atlanteans , or people from Mars , or extra – terrestrials . I’m just following the science where it leads me, and it leads me to conclude that the Sphinx was build much earlier than previously thought.

Schoch, a world expert on the weathering of limestone, bases this conclusion on a careful study of the erosion of the Sphinx. He believes (and hundred of other geologists have endorsed his view) that the great monument could not possibly have been carved as late as 2500 BC . This is so because it bears the unmistakable marks of “precipitation – induced weathering”, deep vertical fissures and undulating, horizontal coves that could only been caused by thousands of years of heavy rain.

Rain that must have fallen on the Sphinx after it was carved. The problem is that in 2500 BC Egypt was as bone dry as it is today, getting less that an inch of rain a year. Palaeoclimatologist , however , are able to tell us , very accurately , when the weather was wetter . Their conclusion is that the last time sufficient rain fell in the eastern Sahara to have caused characteristic weathering of the Sphinx was between 7000 and 5000 BC .

It is because of the evidence, choosing the most recent and conservative date possible, that Professor Shoch arrives at his minimum age for the Sphinx of 7000 years. His colleague John Anthony West, on the other hand, thinks that the monument may be much older (a possibility by no means ruled out by the weathering studies) . My conjecture is that the whole riddle is linked in some way to the legendary civilizations spoken of in all the mythologies of the world.

You know, that there were great catastrophes, that a few people survived and went wandering around the earth and that a bit of knowledge was preserved here, a bit there… My hunch is that the Sphinx is linked to all that. If I were asked to place a bet I’d say that the end of the Last Ice Age and is probably older that 10.000 BC, perhaps even older that 15.000 BC . My conviction – actually it´s more that a conviction.

It that it’s vastly old … The granite stela between the paws of the Sphinx in not contemporary with the monument but was inscribed to commemorate a trestoration campaign undertaken by Pharaoh Thutmosis 4 ( ruled 1401 – 1391 BC ) . The stela states enigmatically that the Sphinx marks “The Splendid Place of the First Time “.

Heavenly chariots

Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile, the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.)

Ezekiel 1:1:3

As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.

Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form. Each of them had four faces and four wings.

Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies. And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire.

And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning. Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.

The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.

Ezekiel 1 .1:17

Usually without any trouble you can understand that scripture of Ezekiel. What’s wrong with it…. probably you’ll ask…but open your eyes and look at things clearly Ezekiel gives precise details of the landing of these vehicles. He describes a craft that comes from the north, emitting rays and gleaming and raising a gigantic cloud of desert sand. How the God of the Old Testament was supposed to be omnipotent. Then why does this almighty God have to come hurling up from a particular direction?
Cannot he be anywhere he wants without all this noise and fuss?

As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.
Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.
Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.

Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.
I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.
And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.
Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man.
Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.
As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.

Ezekiel 1:17:27

In addition to his precise description of the vehicle, Ezekiel also noted the noise the novel monstrosity made when it left the ground .He likens the din made by the wings and the wheels to a “great rushing “. Surely this suggests that this is an eye – witness account?

The “Gods ” spoke to Ezekiel and told him that it was his task to restore law and order to the country. They took him with them in their vehicle and confirmed that they had not yet forsaken the country .This experience made a strong impression on Ezekiel, for he never tires of describing the weird vehicle.

On three more occasions he says that each wheel was in the middle of a wheel and that the four wheels could go “on their four sides ….and turned not as they went “. And he was particularly impressed by the fact that the whole body of the vehicle, the backs, the hands, the wings and even the wheels were “full of eyes “.

The “gods ” reveal the purpose and goal of their journey to the chronicler later when they tell him that he is living in the midst of a ” rebellious house ” which has eyes to see and sees not and ears to hear and hears not .

Once he has been enlightens about his countrymen, there fellow, as in all descriptions of such landings. Advice and directions for law and order, as well as hints for creating a proper civilization. Ezekiel took the task very seriously and handed on the instructions of the “gods “.

Who spoke to Ezekiel? What sort of beings were they? They were certainly not “gods” in the traditional sense of the word, or they would not have needed a vehicle to move from one place to another. This kind of locomotion seems quite incompatible with the idea of an almighty God

Once I asked Jehovah Witnesses about this scripture from the Bible, at first they didn’t get the question, it was kind of clear to them (the question was. Why the Almighty God should use a vehicle to move from place to place? )

The answer was ….the God wanted to show his almighty Organization to Ezekiel…

Once again, in the Apocryphal books of Abraham and Moses, we hear about heavenly chariots with wheels, which spits fire, whereas similar references are lacking in the Ethiopian and Slavic book of Enoch.

” Behind the being I saw a chariot which had wheels of fire , and every wheel was full of eyes all around , and on the wheels was a throne and this was covered with fire jet flowed around it ” ( Apocryphal Book of Abraham 11: 12. )

The religious legends of the pre – Inca people say that the stars were inhabited and that the “gods ” come down to them from their constellation of the Pleiades . Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Egyptian cuneiform inscriptions constantly present the same picture:

“Gods” came from the stars and went back them, they traveled through the heavens in fire ships or boats , possessed terrifying weapons and promised immortality to individual men .

Let us try to see by an example:

A helicopter lands in African bush for the first time. None of the natives has ever seen such machine. The helicopter lands in a clearing with a sinister clatter ; pilots in battle – dress , with crash – helmets and machine-guns , jump out of it .The savage in his loincloth stands stupefied and uncomprehending in the presence of this thing that has come down from heaven and the unknown ” gods ” who came with it . After a time the helicopter takes off again and disappears into the sky.

The Feathered Serpent

The Aztecs reported that the source of this doctrine of non-violence and cosmic synopsis was a God-King known as Quetzalcoatl – «the plumed serpent ” .He had ruled they said , in a remote Golden Age , having come to Mexico from a far-off land with a group of companions .

He had taught, quite specifically, that living things were not to be harmed and that human beings were never to be sacrificed, but only «fruits and flowers of the season «.

His cult was absorbed with the mysteries of life beyond death and he was said to have made a journey to the underworld and to have returned to tell the tale. »

Could there have been a real historical figure behind the Quetzalcoatl story? During the two or three hundred years before the Aztecs rise to prominence in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries AD a number of kings , particularly amongst the Toltec’s of the Valley of Mexico , are known to have called themselves ” Quetzalcoatl ” . However, they did not claim to be the Quetzalcoatl, but rather to be his successors, and used his name in the manner of a title honorific.

For earlier that the Toltec’s ,the distinctive symbolism of Quetzalcoatl was known to the Olmecs of the Gulf of Mexico .Their culture flourished 3500 years ago . Later, although still more that 2000 years ago, work begun at Gholula in central Mexico on a gigantic monument, named in honor of the same god, which continued to be extended and increased in size by all subsequent cultures occupying the site until finally being halted for ever by the firestorm of the Conquest .The result of this amazingly sustained project of engineering and sacred architecture is the pyramid-mountain of Quetzalcoatl.

Today spiritually ” capped-off ” by a Roman catholic chapel , its base area of 18 hectares and height of almost 70 meters make it three times massive than the Great Pyramid of Egypt .

Also around 2000 years ago the mysterious culture of Teotihuacán, 35 kilometers to the north-east of modern Mexico City, was strong in its veneration of Quetzalcoatl, constructing pyramids and other monuments in his honor. And from at least 1500years ago until the time of the Conquest , the Maya of the Yucatan , Chiapas and Guatemala worshipped him under the names Kukulkan and Gucumatz ( both of which , in different dialects , mean ” feathered serpent ” ) . Between AD 900 and AD 1200, a nine -tiered pyramid of Quetzalcoatl was completed at Chichen Itza.

Like many of the monuments dedicated to this deity it was constructed on top of an earlier sacred mound that had occupied the same site.

So the Aztecs , who only declared their empire in the 1320s AD were merely passing on an ancient tradition picked up from their processors when they spoke of the ” feathered serpent ” and described him , most unambiguously , as :
a fair and ruddy-complexioned man with a long beard …A mysterious person…a white man with strong formation of body , broad forehead , large eyes , and s flowing beard , who came from across the sea in a boat that moved by itself without paddles . He condemned sacrifices, except of fruits and flowers, and was known as the god of peace.

It is one of the great unexplained puzzles of Central American history that the murderous Aztecs worshipped and honored this benign figure in all manner of rituals, and always spoke with awe oh his peaceful and life-giving ways.

They believed that he and his followers been driven out of Mexico long ages previously , but they would one day return , coming form the west , by boat .

They also believed the Quetzalcoatl would punish them for having reverted to human sacrifice that would put an end to evil and fear , and that he would restore the golden age of peace and plenty over which he had presided in the mythical past .

As it well known this tradition of the white-skinned, bearded god-king worked greatly to the advantage of the Spaniards when they arrived in Mexico in 1519, in boards that moved by themselves without paddies, suffering from that «disease of the heart ” for which the looted gold was the only specific remedy…

The well-known physical description of this ” once and future king ” which the myth relay – tall, white-skinned, yellow-haired and bearded – make him sound like a Caucasian. Yet no Caucasians are supposed to have visited the New World before the time of Columbus, and Quetzalcoatl is far older than that.

Scholars therefore for a long while played down the deity’s distinctly Caucasian features , which did not accord with prevailing theories about the peopling of the Americas and were also felt by some parts of the native American lobby to be politically incorrect .

Starting mew evidence has recently emerged which calls for a complete reevaluation of such thinking:

Washington Post, Final Edition, Tuesday April 15 1997:

Skeletons unearth in several western states and as far west as Minnesota are challenging the traditional view that the earliest Americans all resembled today’s Asians. The skeletons skulls bear features similar to those of Europeans, suggesting that Caucasoid people were among the earliest human to migrate into the Mew World more than 9000 years ago.

Anthropologists have known of such bones for years, but did not fully appreciate their significance until reappraising them over the last few months. The new analyses were prompted by the discovery last summer of the newest addition to the body of evidence – the unusually complete skeleton of an apparently Caucasoid man who died about 93000 years ago near what is now Kennewick , Washington …The man’s head and shoulders were mummified , preserving much of the skin in that aria… Those who examined (him at first though the bones) were the remains of a European settler (until radiocarbon dating revealed their great age).

«It’s an existing time , and I think we’ve going to see some real changes in the history about the peopling of North America ” , said Dennis Stanford , an authority at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History .

How old are the myths of Quetzalcoatl?

Could they go back to these prehistoric Caucasians, «similar to Europeans», who were in the Americas in the Stone Age, at least 9000 years ago?

Incas Lost Civilization

The initial Spanish avarice for gold and treasure obscured their amazement at encountering in Peru, this unknown land at the world’s end, an advanced civilization with cities and roads, palaces and temples, kings and priests – and religions .

The first wave of priests accompanying and conquerors was bent on destroying everything that had to do with the Indians «idolarity «, But the priests that followed – at that time their country scholars – found themselves exposed to explanations of the natives´ rites and beliefs through Indian noblemen who had converted to Christianity.

The realization that the Andean Indians believed in Supreme Creator and that their legends recalled a deluge, increased the curiosity of the Spanish priests. It then transpired that many details of those local tales were uncannily similar to the biblical tales of Genesis.

It was therefore inevitable that among the early theories regarding the origin of the «Indians» and their beliefs, an association with the lands and the people of the Bible emerged as the leading theory.

As in Mexico , after various other ancient people have been considered , the Israelites of the Ten Lost Tribes seemed the most plausible explanation not only for the similarity of native legends to biblical tales , but also to such customs among the Peruvian Indians as the offering of the first fruits , an Expiation feast at the end of September that corresponded to the nature and time of the Jewish day of Atonement , and other biblical commandments such as the rite of circumcisions , abstaining from the blood of animal meat , and the prohibition against the eating of fish without scales .

In the feast of First Fruits, the Indians chanted the mystic words Yo meshica , va meshica ; and some of the Spanish savants discerned in the word mehica the Hebrew term ” mashi´ach ” – the Messiah .

The discovery of the story of Genesis, in its original Mesopotamian version, depicted on the Inca temple´s Holy of Holies, raises a host of question. The first obvious one is , How – how did the Incas come to know these tales , not just in the general manner in which they have become known universally ( the creation of the first Epic of Creation including knowledge of the complete Solar System and the orbit of Niburu ?

One possible answer is that the Incas had possessed this knowledge from time immemorial, bringing it with them to the Andes. The other possibility is that they had heard it from others whom they met in these lands.

In the absence of written records as one finds in the ancient Near East, the choice of an answer depends to some extend on how one answers another question: Who, indeed, were the Incas?

Interestingly, the two customs are in line with biblical commandments from the time of the Exodus. The prohibition against making and worshiping idols was included in the Ten Commandments. And on the eve of the Day of Atonement, a priest had to sacrifice a «sin- goat «in the desert.

No one has ever pointed out that the quipos used by the Incas to recall events – strings of different colors that had to be of wool, with knots at different position – were in make and purpose akin to the tzit-zit, « fringes on the corner of a blue thread, ” that the Israelites were commanded to attach to their garments as a way to remember the Lord’s commandments.

And there was the custom of circumcisions in the Inca royal family .

Official Brazilian teams have visited many sites . At one site near the mouth of the Amazon , pottery urns decorated with incised patterns that remind one of the designs on earthenware jars from Ur ( the Sumerian birthplace of Abraham ) have been found ,

Similarly decorated urns and vases ” of superior qality ” have been found farther up the Amazon

Everyone equally wondered who had build this unique sity and how , and puzzled over its untold antiquity .Yet the greatest puzzle of all is the location itself : a barren , almost lifeless place some 13,ooo feet – four kilometers -up among the highest Andean peaks that are permanently show – covered .

Why would anyone expend incredible efford to erect colossal edifices out of stone that had to be quarried and brought over from many miles away in this treeless, windswept desolate place?

Still it is uncertain that the Incas themselves came this way. One of their ancestry versions attributes their beginnings to a landing on the Peruvian coast. Their language, Quechua, bears Far Eastern resemblances both in word meaning and dialect. And they clearly belong to the Amerindian stock – the fourth branch of mankind that, we have ventured to suggest, stemmed from the line of Kain.

(A guide in Cuzco , asked whether In-ca might stemmed from Ca- in by reversing the syllables . )

The evidence at hand indicates that the Near Eastern tales and beliefs, including knowledge of the story of Niburu and the Annunaki who had come from there to Earth – the pantheon of twelve – were brought to the predecessors of the Incas from overseas. It took place in the days of the Ancient Empire; and the bearers of these tales and beliefs were also Strangers from across the Seas .

Machu Pichu, or Great Pichu, is the Quichua name of a sharp peak which rises ten thousand feet above the sea and four thousand feet above the roaring rapids of the Urubamba River.